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Collection Number: 03252

Collection Title: Goodwin and Morriss Family Papers, 1815-1897.

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 150 items)
Abstract Dr. Beverly Preston Morriss (born 1822) of Amherst County, Va., was a physician and partner in Coons and Morriss, a tanning business, 1863-1865, which supplied the Confederate army. John W. Goodwin (fl. 1875-1896), of Lynchburg, Va., was an agent with the Norfolk and Western and other railroads. The collection chiefly contains papers and family correspondence of Dr. Beverly Preston Morriss, relating to the Coons and Morriss tanning business, and the settling of family property in Virginia and West Virginia. Business papers include bills, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Also included are scattered papers, 1875-1897, of John W. Goodwin consisting of business papers related to the Norfolk and Western railroad and some family letters. The volume contains the names of popular nineteenth century novelists and lists of their novels.
Creator Goodwin (Family : Goodwin, John W. (John Wallingford), 1825-1911)



Morriss (Family : Amherst County, Va.)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Goodwin and Morriss Family Papers, #3252, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Purchase 1956
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, December 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Dr. Beverly Preston Morriss (born 1822) of Amherst County, Va., was a physician and partner in Coons and Morriss, a tanning business, 1863-1865, which supplied the Confederate army. John W. Goodwin (fl. 1875-1896), of Lynchburg, Va., was an agent with the Norfolk and Western and other railroads.

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The collection chiefly contains papers and family correspondence of Dr. Beverly Preston Morriss (born 1822), relating to the Coons and Morriss tanning business, and the settling of family property in Virginia and West Virginia. Business papers include bills, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Also included are scattered papers, 1875-1897, of John W. Goodwin (fl. 1875-1896), consisting of business papers related to the Norfolk and Western railroad and some family letters. The volume contains the names of popular nineteenth century novelists and lists of their novels.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1815-1848

Folder 2

1850-1859

Folder 3

1860-1869

Folder 4

1870-1891

Folder 5

1896-1897

Folder 6

Undated and Volume 1

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