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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Judge Papers, #390, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jane Judge, prior to 1940.

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Businessmen--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Commission merchants--South Carolina.
• Factories--Design and construction--History--19th century.
• Industries--Confederate States of America.
• Industries--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Industries--North Carolina--Wilmington--History--19th century.
• Industries--South Carolina--Columbia--History--19th century.
• Industries--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Judge, John, 1830-1885.
• Lumber trade--Wisconsin--History--19th century.
• Machine design--History--19th century.
• Maryland--Politics and government--1861-1865.
• Naval stores--History--19th century.
• Paper industry--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Secession.
• Southern States--Economic conditions.
• Textile industry--South Carolina--History--19th century.

John Judge (1830-1885) was an owner of a paper mill, Wilmington, N.C.; an operator of a yarn and sock factory in Columbia, S.C.; and a commission merchant. Judge also had other business interests. Before the Civil War, Judge, of South Carolina, was in the lumber business in Wisconsin and attempted to operate a paper mill in Wilmington, N.C. He later founded and operated a knitting mill in Columbia, S.C., which supplied goods to the Confederate government. Judge also had interests in the naval stores industry and was a commission merchant.

The collection includes business correspondence and papers, chiefly 1860-1873, including specifications for factories and machinery, bills, receipts and other business records of John Judge. These papers provide extensive records of his various enterprises, including his work in textiles, lumber, paper, and naval stores, and including those undertaken during the Civil War period. Personal correspondence, including a series of letters from a Baltimore associate describing opinions and events in Maryland during the secession crisis, is also included.

• Oversize volume (SV-390/15)