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[Identification of item], in the Jesse R. Siler Book, #1985, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Erwin Smith and Co. (Asheville, N.C.)
• Franklin (Macon County, N.C.)--History.
• Methodist Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Siler family.
• Siler, Harriette Dorothy Patton, fl. 1818.
• Siler, Jesse R., 1793-1876.
• Siler, Jesse Weimar, 1838-1862.

MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections by Siler, written about 1832; a few letters, 1830- 1832, concerning Methodist Church matters and Siler family data; a biographical sketch of Jesse Weimar Siler; and tributes to Jesse Weimar Siler in letters and newspaper notices. The recollections concern Jesse R. Siler's clerking for Erwin Smith and Co., Asheville, N.C., beginning in 1814, his marriage in 1818 to Harriette Dorothy Patton, his settling in Franklin, Marion County, N.C., in 1821, and his joining the Methodist Church in 1829 and building a church shortly thereafter.