Timeline extended for launch of Wilson Library facilities work.

Collection Number: 04117

Collection Title: Joseph E. Pogue Papers, 1905-1972

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 rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Collection Overview

Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3500 items)
Abstract Joseph Ezekiel Pogue, born in Raleigh, N.C., 1906 graduate of the University of North Carolina, was a geologist with particular interest in the petroleum industry, and a banker, serving, 1936-1949, as vice- president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Pogue and his wife, Grace Needham Pogue (1889- ), whom he married in 1919, were also philanthropists, dispensing funds to various organizations, particularly educational institutions, from the sizeable trusts they held. Correspondence, financial and legal materials, reports, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to the personal lives of Joseph and Grace Pogue. Most items document the financial side of their lives, including records of the trusts they administered and investments they made in such areas as Venezuelan oil, but there are also many folders containing routine products of daily living--instructions to gardeners and other workers at their residences, particularly in Mountain Lake community in Lake Wales, Fla.; inquiries about social security payments; health concerns; and other personal issues. In addition, there are a few documents relating Joseph Pogue's interest in the petroleum industry and its impact on the general business climate. Among these materials are several reports Pogue wrote, some of them dating from World War II when he served on the Petroleum Industry War Council and others from the 1950s, about the industry in the Middle East.
Creator Pogue, Joseph E. (Joseph Ezekiel), b. 1887.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Information For Users

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 Joseph E. Pogue papers #4117, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from the estate of Joseph and Grace Pogue in 1976 and 1977 (Acc. 76167, 77064), transferred from the Property Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July 1988 (Acc. 88076), and transferred from the Historic Properties Office of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in September 2000 (Acc. 98743).
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.
Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Processing Information

Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, February 1992 with subsequent additions

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subject Headings

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.

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Biographical Information

Joseph Ezekiel Pogue, born in Raleigh, N.C., 1906 graduate of the University of North Carolina, was a geologist with particular interest in the petroleum industry, and a banker, serving, 1936-1949, as vice- president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Pogue and his wife, Grace Needham Pogue (1889- ), whom he married in 1919, were also philanthropists, dispensing funds to various organizations, particularly educational institutions, from the sizeable trusts they held.

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Scope and Content

Note that original folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.

Back to Top

Contents list

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Joseph E. Pogue Papers, 1905-1972.

Folder 1

Account summaries, 1960s-1970s. Summary sheets of activity on various personal and trust accounts. See also: Banks; Custodial accounts; Trusts.

Folder 2

Awards and certificates, 1905-1960s. Awards from banks and other companies to Joseph Pogue; 1963 honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina. See also: University of North Carolina.

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4117/1

Awards and certificates, 1905-1960s. (Oversize)

Folder 3

Banks, 1950s-1970s. Correspondence and other materials relating to the various banks where the Pogues maintained accounts. See also: Account summaries; Custodial accounts; First National Bank of Lake Wales; First National City Bank; Lake Wales Bank and Trust Company; Trusts.

Folder 4

Biographical materials. Clippings and other items.

Folder 5

Bonds. Correspondence and accounts relating to bonds held by the Pogues. See also: Stocks.

Folder 6

Boylan, Andrew, 1970. Correspondence and other items relating to the Pogues's dealings with lawyer Boylan of Boylan & Riley, Port Jefferson, N.Y., particularly about the sale of their Port Jefferson property. See also: Residences.

Folder 7

Clubs, 1960s-1970s.

Folder 8

Conference of Business Economists, 1958-1971. Includes Pogue's notes on the 1958 meeting.

Folder 9-10

Folder 9

Folder 10

Correspondence, 1960s-1971. General correspondence of Joseph and Grace Pogue and various business associates and friends. Included are a few letters of condolence to Grace Pogue upon Joseph's death in 1971.

Folder 11

Correspondence and related materials, 1919-1920. Letters and other material sent to Grace by Joseph Pogue while traveling on business before and immediately after their April 1919 marriage.

Folder 12

Cost inventory. Lists of possessions and their values.

Folder 13

Curtin, Thomas, 1971-1972. Correspondence and other materials relating to Curtin, trust officer at the Chase Manhattan Bank. See also: Trusts.

Folder 14

Custodial accounts, 1966-1968.

Folder 15

Fees, 1950s-1960s. Records of fees charged by Pogue, chiefly for trustee work. See also: Rockefeller Trust.

Folder 16

First National Bank of Lake Wales, 1961-1963.

Folder 17

First National City Bank, 1960s-1970s.

Folder 18

Health. Reports on the health of both Pogues. Also included is a diet devised for Joseph Pogue.

Folder 19-20

Folder 19

Folder 20

Insurance.

Folder 21

Lake Wales Bank and Trust Company, 1960s.

Folder 22

Landscaping, 1960s-1970s. Chiefly instructions to landscape engineers for work to be done at various Pogue residences. See also: Residences.

Folder 23

Manor, Blanche B., 1965-1966. Correspondence and other materials relating to the estate of Blanche B. Manor, apparently a relative of the Pogues.

Folder 24-25

Folder 24

Folder 25

Mountain Lake Corporation, 1958-1971. Correspondence and other materials relating to the Mountain Lake community in Lake Wales, Fla., where the Pogues owned residential and citrus grove property. See also: Phosphate industry; Residences.

Folder 26

Moynihan, Richard J., 1960s-1971. Correspondence and other materials relating to Moynihan, trust officer at the Chase Manhattan Bank. See also: Trusts.

Folder 27

Petroleum industry, 1940s-1970s. Correspondence, notes, and other materials.

Folder 28-30

Folder 28

Folder 29

Folder 30

Reports.

Folder 31

Philanthropy, 1960s. Chiefly acknowledgments from some of the beneficiaries of the Pogues's generosity.

Folder 32

Phosphate industry, 1963-1964. Chiefly materials relating to Pogue's proposal that the Mountain Lake community become involved in the fertilizer industry.

Folder 33

Folder number not used

Image Folder PF-4117/1

Photographs. Two undated passport-style photographs of Joseph Pogue and three of Grace Pogue. Two color slides, probably taken at Mountain Lake.

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4117/1

Photographs. Ten oversize pictures include one of Joseph Ezekiel Pogue, Sr.; eight of Joseph Ezekiel Pogue, Jr.; and one mounted poster of the Old Well, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, given "with appreciation for ten years in support of the alumni annual giving program," March 1963.

Folder 34-36

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

Residences, 1950s-1970s. See also: Mountain Lake.

Folder 37

Rockefeller Trust, 1957-1959. Materials relating to Joseph Pogue's activities as trustee for the Rockefeller Trust.

Folder 38

Social Security, 1950s-1971. Correspondence and accounts relating to payment of social security taxes for the Pogues's domestic employees and the collection of social security payments by Grace Pogue.

Folder 39

Stocks, 1960s-1971. Correspondence and other materials chiefly relating to the buying and selling of stocks.

Folder 40

Story, Bradford F., 1962-1972. Business and personal correspondence between the Pogues and Story of Brundage, Story, and Rose, N.Y., N.Y., investment counsellors.

Folder 41

Tax reform, 1960s-1970s. Materials about the impact of changes in tax law on the Pogues's tax liability.

Folder 42-44

Folder 42

Folder 43

Folder 44

Taxes, 1950s-1960s. Chiefly correspondence and accounts relating to personal income taxes paid by the Pogues.

Folder 45-46

Folder 45

Folder 46

Trust funds. Chiefly account statements from the Joseph E. Pogue Trust and the Grace N. Pogue Trust on deposit at the Chase Manhattan Bank.

Folder 47

University of North Carolina, 1963-1970. Correspondence and other materials relating to alumni affairs and awards bestowed upon Joseph Pogue. See also: Awards and certificates.

Folder 48

Venezuelan oil royalties, 1950s-1960s. Chiefly accounts relating to the Pogues's investments in the Venezuelan petroleum industry.

Folder 49

Warshaw, David, 1967-1971. Chiefly correspondence between the Pogues and lawyer Warshaw of Warshaw, Sylvester, Burstein, Franks & Lebow, N.Y., N.Y., about taxes owed by the Pogues.

Photograph Album PA-4117/1

Photograph album containing photographs of an unknown Latin or South American town and surrounding countryside, undated.

Photograph Album PA-4117/2

Photograph album titled "Caribbean Inspection Trip, 1939."

Back to Top

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Items Separated

Back to Top