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■ Collection: CHARLES CHRISTOPHER CRITTENDEN, SR., PAPERS
1889-1903, 1967, n.d. "
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Physical Description: 85 items; correspondence, photographs, telegrams,
obituary, news release, miscellaneous items.
Acquisition: Gift of Dr. Christopher Crittenden, Raleigh, N. C., son of
Charles Christopher Crittenden, Sr. Accessioned October 4, 1967.
Description: Charles Christopher Crittenden, Sr. (1872 £23 - 1903) was
the oldest son of Dr. and Mrs. H. H. W. Crittenden of Burk.eville and
later Crewe, Virginia. After doing his undergraduate work at Richmond
College, he received his M. A. Degree from JohnsHopkins University. He
taught school in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, and North Carolina, before
becoming Professor of Pedagogy at Wake Forest College, a position he
held at his death in April, 1903. Married in 1901 to Ethel Taylor,
daughter of Wake Forest President and Mrs. Charles E. Taylor, he had
one child, Christopher Crittenden, the present Director of the North .
Carolina Department of Archives and History and donor of the letters.
The letters of Crittenden give a picture of the life of a student •
and young school teacher in the "gay nineties." From October 24, 1889,
to March 27, 1903, and from Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, and North
Carolina, he tells of the customs and events of the day. The papers
are mainly letters written by Charles Crittenden to a younger brother,
Newbill. There are however, two letters to his father, one to his
mother, and five by Newbill to his brother.
1 As stated above, the letters originated from various places. From
1889 to 1893, he was a student at Richmond College. After leaving
college he taught school in Churchland, Virginia, 1893-1896, in Murfrees¬
boro, Tennessee, 1896-1898, in Wilson, North Carolina, 1898-1899, in
Campbell, Texas, 1899, in Concord, North Carolina, 1900, and finally at
Wake Forest College as Professor of Pedagogy, 1900-1903. In addition
to the above locations, there are two letters written while he was at
Johns Hopkins University (1896), one from Weldon, North Carolina (1898),
four from his home in Crewe, Virginia (1899), one from Wake Forest while
lecturing there in the summer of 1899, one from Lexington and Louisville,
Kentucky, and two from Texarkana, Texas, The last four letters were
written while he was on his way to Texas by bicycle and steamer in
August, 1899. . . V.
