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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles S. Green Papers #5330, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Ernest Dollar in April 2007 (Acc. 100648).

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Processed by: Amy Johnson, September 2007

Encoded by: Amy Johnson, September 2007

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• Agricultural inventions--History--19th century.
• Davidson County (N.C.)--History.
• Farmers--North Carolina.
• Green, Charles S., fl. 1880-1910.
• Lexington (N.C.)--History.
• Lexington (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims.

Charles S. Green flourished from about 1880 to about 1910. He listed his residence as Jimes or Lexington, N.C., and paid his taxes, 1892-1907, in Thomasville Township, Davidson County. Based on an undated inventory of taxable property--which included 40 acres of land, one mule, two milk cows, one calf , and three pigs--he was probably a farmer, though his papers indicate that he also had some business interests, invented a device called Green's Horse Detachers, and formally represented several former Civil War soldiers to the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Some of these claimants granted him power of attorney.

The collection includes materials, 1838-1910, bulk 1880-1910, relating to the life of Charles S. Green of Davidson County, N.C., particularly legal and business papers. These papers include Civil War pension applications to the federal government for claims of former Union soldiers; a large collection of receipts, including tax and post office receipts; correspondence and other papers related to his patent for Green's Horse Detachers; letters from the Texas firm Duffie and Duffie attempting to locate a missing heir; other business and legal papers; and newspaper clippings.