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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John E. Smith Papers, #3707-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Willetta Moore (Mrs. John E.) Smith of Corvallis, Or., February 1965.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Bradford descendants, 1542/3, through Smith families, 1963.
• Bradford family.
• Geologists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Geology--North Carolina--Surveys.
• Mines and mineral resources--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey--History.
• North Carolina--Surveys.
• Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942.
• Smith family.
• Smith, John E. (John Eliphalet), b. 1878.

• John E. Smith Papers, Oregon State University.

John Eliphalet Smith (1878-1963) of Polk County, Or., was an instructor in geology at the University of North Carolina, 1912-1917, and during that period also did surveys and reports for the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey and for Carolina and Northwestern railroad. He was educated in Oregon, Kansas, Iowa, Chicago, and Missouri. He taught at Iowa State University, 1917-1937, and in his later years lived in Corvallis, Or., where he studied and wrote in the field of local history.

The collection is chiefly letters, 1913-1917, to John E. Smith, while he was a geology instructor at the University of North Carolina, from Joseph Hyde Pratt about field surveys of mineral deposits carried out for the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey with instructions and letters of introduction. There are also some miscellaneous communications from other members of the university staff. Also included is a volume of family history entitled, "Bradford Descendants, 1542/3, Through Smith Families, 1963" (85 pages). The history was written by John E. Smith and Willetta M. Smith and includes charts, pictures, biographical and genealogical data, as well as memorial material added after the death of John E. Smith in 1963.