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Alfred Moore Waddell

Alfred Moore Waddell was born in Hillsborough in 1834 and attended the Bingham School and the Caldwell Institute before graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1853. A Wilmington lawyer and congressman, he led the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup, the white supremacist insurrection that overthrew the city's elected government, and was installed as mayor.

Source: UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections: Alfred M. Waddell Papers, 1768-1935 (finding aid)

1834–1912 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Alfred Moore Waddell, 1865
Alfred Moore Waddell, 1865

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The University's centennial and the Alumni Building, 1895–19011895–1901 · The University's hundredth anniversary in June 1895 brought both a look back at its history and a new building. Alfred Moore Waddell gave the oration, printed that year as The Ante-Bellum University, and Stephen B. Weeks spoke on the University in the Civil War. At the centennial banquet alumni and classes pledged gifts toward an Alumni Hall, led by Julian S. Carr. With about $7,000 of the $20,000 in pledges in hand, the trustees began its foundation in 1897, to a design by Frank Pierce Milburn modeled on the Boston Public Library. Its cornerstone was laid with Masonic ceremony in 1898, and the Alumni Building was finished in 1901 with fourteen lecture rooms and the University's administrative offices.

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  1. Alfred M. Waddell appeals for the university's full restoration at the first commencement after reopening At the first commencement after the university reopened in 1875, Alfred M. Waddell gave an address urging that it be restored to its old prosperity and standing. He recalled the appeal in his centennial oration nineteen years later. People: Alfred Moore WaddellAlfred M. Waddell, The Ante-Bellum University (1895), scan p. 22
  2. Alfred Moore Waddell gives the oration at UNC's centennial celebration Waddell, a Hillsborough native who studied at the university from 1850 to 1853, delivered the oration at the celebration of the University of North Carolina's centennial. It was printed in Wilmington that year as The Ante-Bellum University.Search the index · Internet Archive (UNC Libraries copy): The ante-bellum university: oration delivered at the celebration of the centennial of the University of North Carolina, June 5th, 1895
  3. Stephen B. Weeks speaks on the university in the Civil War at its centennial At the centennial anniversary exercises Weeks gave a long prepared address, 'The University of North Carolina in the Civil War,' in Memorial Hall on the evening of June 5, after Henry A. London; Alfred Moore Waddell and Adolphus H. Eller had reviewed earlier periods of the university's history that morning. People: Alfred Moore Waddell, Henry Armand LondonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 518 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 6, 1895, p. 1

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Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908) Papers

Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908 · 1857

Letters and papers of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, the Chapel Hill writer and historian and daughter of professor James Phillips, 1857 to 1905. Most of the correspondence, from 1859 to 1895, concerns the university and life in the village, with letters exchanged with Swain, Kemp P. Battle and George T. Winston, successive heads of the university, and with Mrs. Swain and W. C. Kerr. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.7.

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John H. Wheeler (1806-1882) Diaries and Papers

Wheeler, John H. · 1854

Diaries and papers of John Hill Wheeler of Hertford County, historian, legislator, state treasurer from 1843 to 1845 and minister to Nicaragua from 1854 to 1857. The diaries, a broken run from 1854 to 1882, follow his social and political life in Washington, D.C. University commencements at Chapel Hill and his work on North Carolina history also come up. State Archives of North Carolina, MfP.51.

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  • Alumni Building University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
  • Memorial Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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Picture: Alfred Moore Waddell, 1865. Public domain. Photograph by Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. hdl.loc.gov CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 416 <P&P>P&P; via Wikimedia Commons

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