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[Identification of item], in the Alfred Nixon papers #4243, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Peggy Nixon Simmons, of Lincolnton, N.C., in August 1980; and Ward Simmons, August 2014 (Acc. 102084).

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• Battle, Kemp P. (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919.
• College students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Davidson, Allen Turner, 1819-1905.
• Justices of the peace--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lincoln County (N.C.)--History.
• Munday, J. A.
• Nixon, A. (Alfred), 1856-1924.
• Nixon, Joseph R. (Joseph Robert), b. 1887.
• Nixon, Kemp Battle.
• School notebooks--History--19th century.
• School superintendents--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.

Alfred Nixon (1856-1924) was born on 28 May 1856 to Robert Nixon and Millie Womack Nixon in Lincoln County, N.C. He attended Rock Springs Seminary in Denver, N.C., before attending the University of North Carolina, where he was graduated in 1881. Nixon became Sheriff of Lincolnton, N.C., in 1884, and also served as Superintendent of Public Instruction and Clerk of Court for Lincoln County. Over his professional career, he was featured as a speaker at numerous events in Lincoln County, and published extensively on the history of the county and its people. He married Iola Jane Robinson (1862-1937) on 19 October 1882. They had nine children, including Kemp Battle Nixon (1883-1964), Joseph "Joe" Robert Nixon (1887-1952), and Millie Elmyra "Myra" Nixon Turley (1894-1984).

Alfred Nixon died on 25 March 1924.

Kemp Nixon served as an attorney for 57 years. Joseph "Joe" Robert Nixon was a teacher, and served as the Superintendent of Lincoln County Schools from 1931 to 1964. He also published on the history of Lincoln County and its people. Myra Nixon Turley was a teacher.

Correspondence, legal papers, and notes of Alfred Nixon, local historian and attorney of Lincoln County, N.C., and of his descendants, Kemp Battle Nixon and Joseph R. Nixon; and a docket, 1884-1889, kept by James Albert Munday, concerning his work as justice of the peace of Lincoln County. Included are student notebooks kept by Alfred Nixon of lectures by President Kemp Plummer Battle given at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 1878, and notebooks kept by A. T. Davidson, Jr., 1878, and Kemp Battle Nixon, 1900-1903.

The Addition of 2014 includes diaries created by Alfred Nixon, 1874-1898, with brief regular entries; writings by Alfred Nixon primarily concerning Lincoln County, N.C., history; account books; pamphlets; and other items.