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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Story Letters, #694-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from the North Carolina Historical Society.

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

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• Lawyers--Massachusetts--History--19th century.
• Practice of law--Massachusetts--History--19th century.
• Story, Joseph, 1779-1845.

Joseph Story (1779-1845) was a Massachusetts lawyer and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Story was born in Marblehead, Mass., to Elisha and Mehitable Pedrick Story. He was educated at Harvard University and served in the United States Congress, 1808-1809. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1811, serving until 1829 when he resigned to teach at Harvard Law School.

The collection is letters from Joseph Story dealing with business of his clients.