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George Wharton Pepper

1867–1961 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Papers,

Staples, Abram Penn · 1787

Papers of Abram Penn Staples, state legislator and clerk of court of Stuart in Patrick County, Virginia, and of his family, 639 items chiefly 1833 to 1913, beginning with a 1787 tax account book. They include his grandson Abram Penn Staples (1858 to 1913), a law professor at Washington and Lee, and great-granddaughter Harris DeJarnette Staples, with love letters, Virginia politics and UNC students among the topics.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Pepper, George Wharton, 1867-1961.

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