Person in the county’s record
From the state marker“Confederate General, United States Senator, 1872-95, and Minister to Mexico. Home stands 800 yards south.”
State historical marker: E-10: Matt W. Ransom
1826–1904 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
The index holds one work for Matt W. Ransom so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.
Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 1 dated event in the chronology →
Buildings, schools, churches and other sites named in the dated events on this page, the most often named first. The map shows the 3 with a known location.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange and OpenStreetMap; town and community pins mark the middle of their mapped buildings.
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