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Collection Number: 01928-z

Collection Title: Herndon Haralson Papers, 1837-1847.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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Size 3 items
Abstract Herndon Haralson was a native of North Carolina, Revolutionary War soldier, North Carolina legislator, merchant at Petersburg, Va., and settler in Tennessee. The collection contains a diary (122 pages) kept by Haralson, 1837-1847, while he was a planter in Haywood County, Tenn., and Tennessee state bank agent; a four-page autobiography; and a letter, August 1843, from son John to Haralson, discussing local news in Jackson [Tenn.?] and family affairs. The diary deals with weather, health, church and community events, elections, political rallies, and other matters, and is accompanied by a name index (on microfilm).
Creator Haralson, Herndon, 1757-1847.
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.
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 Herndon Haralson Papers, #1928-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
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: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011

Updated by: Laura Hart, May 2021

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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Herndon Haralson was a native of North Carolina, Revolutionary War soldier, North Carolina legislator, merchant at Petersburg, Va., and settler in Tennessee.

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The collection contains a diary (122 pages) kept by Haralson, 1837-1847, while he was a planter in Haywood County, Tenn., and Tennessee state bank agent; a four-page autobiography; and a letter, August 1843, from son John to Haralson, discussing local news in Jackson [Tenn.?] and family affairs. The diary deals with weather, health, church and community events, elections, political rallies, and other matters, and is accompanied by a name index (on microfilm).

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Contents list

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3 items.
Folder 1

Diary, 1837-1847 and letter, August 1843

Reel M-1928/1-2

M-1928/1

M-1928/2

Index to names in diary

Access restriction: The original paper index is not stored in Wilson Special Collections Library.

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