Local figure
Margaret Berry Street, born in 1892 into the Berry family of Orange County, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1913 and from its law school in 1915, the first woman to do so. She practiced law in Charlotte and Asheville and later worked for the Home Owners' Loan Corporation.
Source: UNC Wilson Library: Margaret Berry Street Papers, 1910-1930
2 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Margaret Berry Street.
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The papers of Margaret Berry Street, 1892 to 1967, cover 1910 to 1930. Topics include her from the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro, and its Adelphian Literary Society, Chapel Hill, where they note women students at the University of North Carolina and at its School of Law, along with drama and social life. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5537-z.
Research papers of Mary Claire Engstrom, 1906 to 1997, dated 1963 to 1984 and filling 13.75 linear feet with roughly ten thousand items, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4684. Her subjects were Hillsborough's historic buildings and districts, John Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Burwell's Female School, county cemeteries, Quakers, and local history. Correspondence with other genealogists belongs to the group.
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Picture: Margaret Berry Street, Yackety Yack, 1913. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1913 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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