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James B. Mason came to the university from Davie County as a student in 1867–1868 and stayed in Chapel Hill through Reconstruction, serving as clerk to the town commissioners in 1870 and as a trustee of the university. When the trustees suspended the university, his motion on December 1, 1870, fixed February 1, 1871, as the day faculty salaries ended. He later served as a state senator.
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Fifteen diary volumes kept by James Pleasant Mason (1827-1893) from 1876 to 1893, one linear foot in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 495. The diaries describe farm life and agriculture in nineteenth century North Carolina, the work of Baptist clergy under the Baptist State Convention, and social life and customs in Orange County, which is the diary's local tie.
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