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Richmond Mumford Pearson

1805–1878 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Scott, William Lafayette · 1847

Papers of William Lafayette Scott, Greensboro lawyer, teacher, Confederate officer and politician, 1,017 items mostly from 1854 to 1871. They follow him from his student years at the University of North Carolina through law and teaching, a legislative term in the 1850s, a troubled Confederate service that ended in resignation, and Reconstruction politics. Kemp P. Battle, David L. Swain, Albion W. Tourgée and Jonathan Worth are among the names in the papers.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Pearson, Richmond Mumford, 1805-1878.

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February 1, 1873 Alumni meet in Raleigh to plan the university's revival At the invitation of trustees led by Superintendent Alexander McIver, fifty-five alumni met in the state Senate chamber with B. F. Moore in the chair. Their committee proposed that the alumni association nominate a new board for the Board of Education to appoint, but most of the 1868 trustees did not resign and the plan lapsed. People: Alexander McIver, William A. Graham, William Horn Battle, Richmond Mumford PearsonDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 46

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Alexander McIver 1 entry: Alumni meet in Raleigh to plan the university's revival (February 1, 1873)
William A. Graham 1 entry: Alumni meet in Raleigh to plan the university's revival (February 1, 1873)
William Horn Battle 1 entry: Alumni meet in Raleigh to plan the university's revival (February 1, 1873)

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Background context: NCpedia: Richmond Mumford Pearson NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
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