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Jonathan Worth

“Governor, 1865-1868. State Treasurer, 1862-1865. Home stood one block south.”

State historical marker: K-2: Jonathan Worth

3 works in the index name this person.

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Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this person. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Civil War Collection

Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina

The Civil War Collection, 1860-1965, contains petitions for pardon, bounty payrolls, quartermaster department records (express receipts, vouchers, pay records, and supply and requisition records), disabled veterans' cla…

Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick papers,

Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood · 1848

Collection consists chiefly of letters to Hedrick. The early correspondence is between Hedrick and Mary Ellen Thompson, his future wife. Other correspondence concerns life at the University of North Carolina, Hedrick's …

Papers,

Scott, William Lafayette · 1847

Correspondence, speeches, and other papers (chiefly 1854-1871), relating to Scott's student days at the University of North Carolina, his legal and teaching career, his service in the state legislature (1850s), his diff…

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