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James Sprunt

James Sprunt paid for most of the 1919–1920 remodeling of the Presbyterian church on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill as a memorial to his wife, Luola Murchison Sprunt. The church was dedicated as the Sprunt Memorial Presbyterian Church on November 28, 1920.

Source: Open Orange: 209 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church (original)

1846–1924 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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James Sprunt, engraving, 1916
James Sprunt, engraving, 1916

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Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton papers, 1895-1961.

Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac, 1878-1961 · 1895

Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961) taught history at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1895 to 1961, amount to roughly 9,500 items in 25.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1743. Diaries sit among the material. Topics include the collecting of archival materials and the Southern Historical Collection itself, Reconstruction, the nineteenth century Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, the state Democratic Party, and figures such as R. D. W. Connor and Albert Ray Newsome.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sprunt, James, 1846-1924.

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  1. James Sprunt endows a fund for historical monographs at UNC By the fall of 1899 James Sprunt had set up a fund at the university for publishing yearly historical monographs, known after 1910 as the James Sprunt Historical Publications. The first monograph appeared in June 1900.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News and Observer (Raleigh), October 1, 1899, p. 14
  2. UNC gives James Sprunt an honorary doctor of laws The university, where Sprunt served as a trustee, awarded him an honorary LL.D.Search the index · NCpedia: Sprunt, James
  3. The rebuilt Presbyterian church on Franklin Street is dedicated as Sprunt Memorial The Presbyterian church at 209 East Franklin Street, remodeled in 1919-1920 mostly at the expense of James Sprunt as a memorial to his wife, Luola Murchison Sprunt, was dedicated as the Sprunt Memorial Presbyterian Church. William D. Moss was its pastor. People: James SpruntSearch the index · Open Orange: 209 E. Franklin St. / Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church (original)

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Picture: James Sprunt, engraving, 1916. Public domain. James Sprunt, Chronicles of the Cape Fear River (1916); via the Internet Archive

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