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| Size | 5.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5,230 items) |
| Abstract | Thomas Settle Junior (1831-1888), of Greensboro, N.C., was a North Carolina Supreme Court justice, 1868-1871, chairman of the Republican National Convention, 1872, and United States district judge at Jacksonville, Fla., 1877-1888. Also represented in the collection is his son, Thomas Settle III (1865-1919), lawyer in Rockingham county and Guilford county, N.C., state district solicitor, 1886-1893, and Republican United States representative, 1893-1897. The collection includes political, personal, legal, and business papers of Thomas Settle Junior, and his son, Thomas Settle III. Correspondence with many individuals concerns the establishment of the Republican Party in North Carolina during Reconstruction, and thereafter party organization, activities, patronage, conventions, factions, finances, and campaigns and elections in North Carolina and nationally; political issues in North Carolina, Florida, and the nation, mainly 1872-1897, including amendments to the North Carolina state constitution of 1876, charges of election fraud, election law reform, taxes, tariff, currency, banking regulations, prohibition, suffrage, state and national activities of the Populist Party; federal legislation, 1892-1897; and African Americans. Also included are papers concerning personal business, finances, lands, and legal cases. Judge Settle's Florida letters concern both his interest in North Carolina politics and cases he tried in northern Florida involving railroads, shipping, and homestead entries. The papers of Thomas Settle III date from 1884 to 1897. Also included are four political scrapbooks, 1866- 1912, and clippings and scattered papers relating to the political activities of Mary Settle (Mrs. B. C.) Sharpe, 1902-1904. |
| Creator | Settle, Thomas, 1831-1888. |
| Language | English |
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Thomas Settle Junior (1831-1888), of Greensboro, N.C., was a North Carolina Supreme Court justice, 1868-1871, chairman of the Republican National Convention, 1872, and United States district judge at Jacksonville, Fla., 1877-1888. Also represented in the collection is his son, Thomas Settle III (1865-1919), lawyer in Rockingham and Guilford counties, N.C., state district solicitor, 1886-1893, and Republican United States representative, 1893-1897.
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The collection includes political, personal, legal, and business papers of Thomas Settle Junior, and his son, Thomas Settle III. Correspondence with many individuals concerns the establishment of the Republican Party in North Carolina during Reconstruction, and thereafter party organization, activities, patronage, conventions, factions, finances, and campaigns and elections in North Carolina and nationally; political issues in North Carolina, Florida, and the nation, mainly 1872-1897, including amendments to the North Carolina state constitution of 1876, charges of election fraud, election law reform, taxes, tariff, currency, banking regulations, prohibition, suffrage, state and national activities of the Populist Party; federal legislation, 1892-1897; and African Americans. Also included are papers concerning personal business, finances, lands, and legal cases. Judge Settle's Florida letters concern both his interest in North Carolina politics and cases he tried in northern Florida involving railroads, shipping, and homestead entries. The papers of Thomas Settle III date from 1884 to 1897. Also included are four political scrapbooks, 1866-1912, and clippings and scattered papers relating to the political activities of Mary Settle (Mrs. B. C.) Sharpe, 1902-1904.
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Thomas Settle Papers, 1784, 1850-1924 and undated.
Correspondence, 1850-1860, is primarily letters to Thomas Settle from other young North Carolinians, relating chiefly to state and sectional politics, party machinery and campaigns, personal ambitions and careers, and matters before the legislature. Papers, 1861-1864, include scattered items related to Settle's service in the Confederate Army and correspondence concerning the calling of a state convention to protest actions of the Confederate Government and to protect the interests of the people of North Carolina. Between 1865 and 1871, Settle's correspondence relates to the establishment of the Republican Party in North Carolina; alignment of political allies; patronage; efforts to get representatives to the U. S. Congress accredited; politcal rallies and activities; control of the University of North Carolina; U. S. loyalty oaths; claims for property damage against the U. S. government by loyal citizens; homestead act; corruption in legislature; events in district court; personal business in regard to finances, lands, and legal practice; and comments on public matters and mention of family and religious matters. Settle was a member of the state senate in 1865 and became an associate justice of the North Carolina supreme court in 1868. Correspondence, 1872-1876, relates almost entirely to political matters, and letters often requested favors and appointments. In January 1877 Settle was appointed as U. S. District Judge for Northern Florida, and served in this position until December 1888. Correspondence during this period was concerned with National Party matters, patronage, his personal influence, and with cases in the Northern Florida district court, especially cases relating to railroads, shipping, and homestead entry. Papers documenting the period from 1890 to 1898 are almost entirely letters received by Thomas Settle III during the period when he was solicitor for the 9th judicial district of North Carolina, was a Republican member of Congress (1893-1897), a practicing attorney in Rockingham and Guilford counties, and a campaigner and leader in the Republican Party at the state and regional levels. These letters relate to party organization and work, requests for political patronage, and political issues of the time. Scattered personal and family letters, as well as letters about court cases, are also present.
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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2010
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