Inventory of the Cyrus Thompson Papers, 1830-1931
Collection Number 715
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
- Thompson, Cyrus, 1855-1930.
- Title
- Cyrus Thompson Papers, 1830-1931 (bulk 1876-1931).
- Call Number
- 715
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 1,000 items (1.0 linear foot).
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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 Cyrus Thompson Papers, #715, 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.
- Medicine--Study and teaching--Louisiana--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Physicians--North Carolina--Political activity.
- Public health--Southern States--History.
- Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
- Thompson, Cyrus, 1855-1930.
- United States. Army--Military life.
- United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1914-1918.
- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
- University of Virginia--Students--History--19th century.
Biographical Note
Cyrus Thompson (1855-1930) was a physician of Onslow County, N.C., and a leader of the Populist Party, serving in the General Assembly in 1883 and 1885 and as North Carolina Secretary of State, 1897-1901.
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The collection, chiefly from 1876, consist of letters received by Cyrus Thompson about state and national politics, family matters, and the medical profession and public health (from prominent men over the southeast). Among the family correspondence are letters received while he was at the University of Virginia and studying medicine in Louisiana in the 1870s, and letters from his son with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Also included are papers pertaining to the military draft of doctors in North Carolina in World War I.