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Albion W. Tourgée

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“Writer, judge, & Union army officer. Member, constitutional convention, 1868. Lived 2 blocks S.”
State historical marker: J-78: Albion W. Tourgee 1838-1905

1838–1905 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: Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905.

Duke

Miscellaneous letters, 1786-1982

1786

Single letters dated 1786 to 1982, brought together under one number, with many items described more fully in paper finding aids kept with their units. Topics include southern plantations and slavery, the Civil War and the siege of Fort Fisher, commerce and migration, and writers and public figures from Washington Irving and Daniel Webster to Margaret Mitchell. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 516.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905.

UNC

Life and Orange County connections

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late 1866 to August 1867 The Union League organizes Black voters in Orange County The Republican Union League, organized in Orange, Alamance and Guilford by Albion W. Tourgee, its first state president, recruited nearly every Black man who would vote before the 1867 election. It had faded by the end of 1870. People: Albion W. Tourgée, William W. HoldenLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 114-115
late 1868 or early 1869 Trustees vote to found a university branch for Black students near Raleigh On Victor C. Barringer's motion the Reconstruction trustees called for a school for Black students near Raleigh equal to the one at Chapel Hill, and on Albion W. Tourgee's motion made it a branch of the university, with Tod R. Caldwell moving that at least 100 acres be bought. Nothing came of it, nor of a later proposal to give Black students a third of the land-scrip money or of Tourgee's request for equal white and Black departments under one board. People: Albion W. Tourgée, Tod Robinson CaldwellDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 8
May 1874 to January 1875 The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court At the May 1874 term of Orange Superior Court the new board brought one action against Superintendent Alexander McIver, who held the university's seal and books and had agreed to a friendly test suit, and another against Solomon Pool for the buildings. Judge Albion W. Tourgee ruled against the trustees; John W. Graham and James A. Graham of Hillsborough argued for them without fee, as did B. F. Moore and William H. Battle on appeal in June 1874. At its January term 1875 the state Supreme Court decided for the university on every point, and possession passed to Andrew Mickle, the board's agent, with the seal, books and papers going to Treasurer Kemp Battle. People: Solomon Pool, Albion W. Tourgée, Kemp Plummer Battle, Alexander McIver, James Augustus Graham, John W. Graham, Andrew MickleInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text

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People named in the same dated entries as Albion W. Tourgée, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.

Alexander McIver 1 entry: The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court (May 1874 to January 1875)
Andrew Mickle 1 entry: The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court (May 1874 to January 1875)
James Augustus Graham 1 entry: The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court (May 1874 to January 1875)
John W. Graham 1 entry: The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court (May 1874 to January 1875)
Kemp Plummer Battle 1 entry: The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court (May 1874 to January 1875)
Solomon Pool 1 entry: The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court (May 1874 to January 1875)
Tod Robinson Caldwell 1 entry: Trustees vote to found a university branch for Black students near Raleigh (late 1868 or early 1869)
William W. Holden 1 entry: The Union League organizes Black voters in Orange County (late 1866 to August 1867)

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Background context: Historical marker J-78: Albion W. Tourgee 1838-1905 NC Highway Historical Marker Writer, judge, & Union army officer. Member, constitutional convention, 1868. Lived 2 blocks S.
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Albion W. Tourgée NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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