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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Alfred Houghton Stubbs Diary #3263, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Original diaries placed on deposit by the Right Reverend Matthew George Henry of Asheville, North Carolina, in February 1957. They were withdrawn by William G. Weinhauer, bishop of the Diocese of Western North Carolina, for placement in the Diocesan Library in June 1987. Microfilmed copies of the diaries were subsequently received from the Diocese of Western North Carolina in February 1988.

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Revised by: Dawne Howard Lucas, July 2020 (updated container list and abstract).

This inventory is adapted from an inventory compiled by Jane Adkins in May 1958.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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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• Asheville (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Episcopal Church--Missions--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Episcopal Church. Diocese of Western North Carolina.
• Griffith, John Hammond.
• Home missions--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Horner, Junius M.
• Ravenscroft Associate Mission (Asheville, N.C.)
• Stubbs, Alfred Houghton, 1841-1924.

Alfred Houghton Stubbs was born 22 August 1841 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the son of Alfred Stubbs and Emilia Stebbins Houghton. He received a B.A. from Rutgers College in 1861 and an M.A. from the General Theological Seminary in 1864. In 1865, he was ordained, and, in 1867, married Ella V. Hunt Weiser of Davenport, Iowa.

From 1865 to 1881, he held ecclesiastical posts in New Jersey, Connecticut, Iowa, Mississippi, and New York. His first post in North Carolina was in Greensboro, where he served from 1881 to 1894. Starting in 1894, he held various committee appointments and offices in the Missionary District of Asheville and later the Diocese of Western North Carolina. He was also warden of the Ravenscroft Associate Mission, which served mission congregations in the region surrounding Asheville.

MICROFILM ONLY: Entries in Stubbs's diaries tend to be cryptic and impersonal. They provide brief acccounts of the incidents of each day, of Stubbs's journeys to minister to churches in western North Carolina (such as those in Murphy and Haw Creek), and of theological or practical problems encountered in his work. He frequently mentioned Bishop Junius Horner of the Diocese of Western North Carolina and his family, and also the Reverend John Hammond Griffith, archdeacon of the Diocese. Episcopal families in western North Carolina, particularly in Asheville, are mentioned in connection with various meetings, fund drives, and social activities. From time to time, Stubbs included his instructions to deacons and priests under his direction and as well as notes of meetings with various church committees.

Volumes of the diaries are arranged on the microfilm in the order noted below. Please note that volumes 1 and 2 have not been filmed nor were they included in the material originally on deposit at the Southern Historical Collection. No diaries exist for the years 1911 and 1914.