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Alfred G. Engstrom, a professor of French at the University of North Carolina, bought the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough with his wife, Mary Claire Engstrom, in 1959, after which she turned her research to the history of Hillsborough and its surroundings.
Source: NCpedia: Engstrom, Mary Claire
1907–1990 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Alfred G. Engstrom (1907-1990) wrote this address on classical studies and a university teacher of literature, dated 1965 and kept as a ten leaf photoreproduced typescript. Topics include college teachers, addresses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the history of the Department of Classics there. It belongs to UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Research papers of Mary Claire Engstrom, 1906 to 1997, dated 1963 to 1984 and filling 13.75 linear feet with roughly ten thousand items, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4684. Her subjects were Hillsborough's historic buildings and districts, John Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Burwell's Female School, county cemeteries, Quakers, and local history. Correspondence with other genealogists belongs to the group.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Engstrom, Alfred G., 1907-1990.
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