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 | | Personal and business papers of McRae and his family, and of Joshua A. Wright and James G. Burr, businessmen of Wilmington, N.C. The McRae papers are primarily letters between McRae and his sons Alexander (1829-1862), Duncan K. (1820-1888), Thomas (1831-1896), and James Cameron (1838-1909), concerning the men's personal lives and careers. |
 | | James Cameron McRae (1838-1909) was first a teacher in Little River, S.C., and then studied law in New Bern, N.C. He became a lawyer in Fayetteville, judge of the Superior and Supreme Courts of N.C.; and dean of the Law School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
 | | The correspondence series is divided into two subseries: John McRae family correspondence; and the James G. Burr and Joshua Wright correspondence The first subseries contains correspondence between John McRae, postmaster of Fayetteville and businessman at Mangum, with his sons and daughters. |
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