Person in the county’s record
From the state marker“Free black abolitionist & conspirator in 1859 with John Brown in attack on U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Killed in assault. Lived in Fayetteville.”
State historical marker: I-88: Lewis Leary 1835-1859
1906–1990 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Critical and teaching papers of Lewis Leary, who lived from 1906 to 1990, covering 1920 to 1985, 625 items in one and a half linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4110. Topics include American poetry and its criticism, faculty life at Duke, Miami, Columbia and Chapel Hill, the Columbia student strike of 1968, and figures such as Ezra Pound, Lionel Trilling and Robert Penn Warren.
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