Inventory of the George Monro Yoder Papers, 1868-1920
Collection Number 3426
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- 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
- Yoder, George Monro, 1826-1920.
- Title
- George Monro Yoder Papers, 1868-1920.
- Call Number
- 3426
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 21 items (0.5 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 George Monro Yoder Papers, #3426, 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.
- Catawba County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Farm life--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Farm life--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Lutherans--North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Climate--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Climate--History--20th century.
- Yoder family.
- Yoder, George Monro, 1826-1920.
Biographical Note
Catawba County, N.C., farmer, teacher, merchant, coroner, surveyor, county commissioner, census taker, justice of the peace, postmaster, and elder in the Lutheran church.
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Yoder's papers include a diary, 1868-1920, with brief entries concerning weather, farm work, church and court attendance, neighborhood activities, trips, funerals, and other matters. Also present is a volume with descriptions of lots and lands surveyed and bought or sold, presumably in Catawba County; a history of the Yoder family; and George M. Yoder's autobiography.