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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the P. C. Henkel Letter, #3106-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1955.

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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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2009

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.

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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• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Henkel, Ambrose, 1786-1870.
• Henkel, P. C. (Polycarp Cyprian), 1820-1889.
• Lutheran Church--Customs and practices.
• Lutheran Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Religion--19th century.
• North Carolina--Religious life and customs.

• David Hinkle Papers (#338-z).

P. C. (Polycarp Cyprian) Henkel (1820-1889), Lutheran minister and son of Reverend David Henkel, was born in Lincoln County, N.C. He entered the ministry in 1843, under the Tennessee Synod, and served for 46 years as Lutheran pastor, missionary, organizer, and educator. He was one of the founders of Concordia College at Conover, N.C., and became its first president in 1878.

The collection is a letter, 1849, from P. C. Henkel to his uncle, Ambrose Henkel, Lutheran minister in Virginia, asking his uncle's views on various church practices and commenting on the conflict between the two Lutheran synods in North Carolina, the North Carolina Synod and the Tennessee Synod, and difficulties between persons in the two camps.