Inventory of the Thomas Settle Papers, 1784, 1850-1924
Collection Number 3345
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Settle, Thomas, 1831-1888.
- Title
- Thomas Settle Papers, 1784, 1850-1924.
- Call Number
- 3345
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 5,230 items (5.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Thomas Settle Papers, #3345, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Florida--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Greensboro (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Guilford County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Jacksonville (Fla.)--History--19th century.
- Judges--Florida--History--19th century.
- Judges--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- North Carolina.
- Patronage, Political--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Populist Party (N.C.)
- Railroads--Florida--History--19th century.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--North Carolina.
- Republican Party (Fla.)--History--19th century.
- Republican Party (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Rockingham County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- Scrapbooks--North Carolina.
- Settle, Thomas, 1831-1888.
- Settle, Thomas, 1865-1919.
- Sharpe, Mary Settle, fl. 1902-1924.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.
- Women in politics--North Carolina.
Related Material
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Thomas Settle (1789-1857) Papers (#656), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.
Biographical Note
Thomas Settle Junior, 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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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.