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James Welch Patton directed the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1948, succeeding J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, and taught North Carolina history in the university's history department until 1973. His funeral was held at the Chapel of the Cross and he is buried in Chapel Hill.
Source: NCpedia: Patton, James Welch
1900–1973 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Papers of the historian James Welch Patton (1900-1973), covering 1948 to 1973, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3971. Patton taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His papers concern the Southern Historical Association, the Episcopal Church in North Carolina, Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges and the Civil War.
Manuscripts Department records from the library at Chapel Hill, 1926 to 2014 with the bulk dated 1926 to 1996, approximately 25,200 items in 36 linear feet, University Archives 40052. Topics include archives and archival resources in North Carolina, audiovisual archives, and the Southern Historical Collection and Southern Folklife Collection. People represented include Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, James Welch Patton, and Carolyn Andrews Wallace.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Patton, James Welch, 1900-1973.
Papers concerning a Montgomery Ward catalog competition, dated 1915 and again 1962 to 1966, carrying the name of Kemp P. Battle, 1831 to 1919. Topics include writings by college students at Chapel Hill and the intellectual life of students at the university, and include the historian James Welch Patton. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1972.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Patton, James Welch, 1900-1973.
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