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Julia Spencer Love

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“Founder of Burlington Mills, 1924; success of rayon propelled world's largest textile company. "Pioneer Plant" 3/4 mi. S.”

State historical marker: G-126: J. Spencer Love 1896-1962

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Recollections : written in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Love, James Lee, 1860-1950 · 1921 · [S.l. : s.n.

James Lee Love's recollections, written at the Library of Congress in 1920 and 1921. The 320 pages touch on his Gaston County roots, the University at Chapel Hill, Harvard and its Lawrence Scientific School, and his wife, Julia Spencer Love.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Love, Julia Spencer, 1859-.

Cornelia Phillips Spencer papers, 1833-1975 (bulk 1839-1942).

Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908 · 1839

Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), the Chapel Hill writer, is the subject of papers running 1833 to 1975 with the bulk from 1839 to 1942, about 6,700 items in ten linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 683. Diaries and albums are named among the material. Topics include James and Judith Vermeule Phillips, Julia Spencer Love and James Lee Love, mothers and daughters, Reconstruction in North Carolina, and American women authors of the nineteenth century.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Love, Julia Spencer, 1859-.

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