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Collection: DAVID s.- REID PAPERS ’ ■ U ,>>'
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Rockingham County, North Carolina
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... .1803 - 1880 ••
p ’ £. 820 items; letters, summons, resolution, reports,
petitions, election returns, poem, bet, inaugural address, invitations,
telegrams* bill, newspaper clippings, ' minutes, advertisements, price
lists. ... ;
Acquisition: ^ron Biennial Reports; I9llt-19l6, 562 letters and other doc¬
uments; 1916-1918,
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items, both acquisitions from David S. Reid’s
granddaughter, Miss Henrietta S. Reid, Reidsville, North Carolina.
Description: Correspondence of David Settle Reid, (1813-1891), [for bio¬
graphical sketch see Dictionary of American Biography, XV, p.
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b.
. near Reidsville, Rockingham County, .1813; educated in common schools
and Middleton (Connecticut) Academy; postmaster, Reidsville, 1829-1835;
admitted to bar. 1833: served in state senate,
1836-18Ц2;
Democratic
congressman, I8U1-I8I4.8; married Henrietta Settle, daughter of Thomas
Settle, Sr., when governor-elect, December 12, 1850 [both Reid and his
wife were first cousins of Martha D. Martin, first wife (I8h7-l853) of
Stephen A. Douglas]; governor, I85l-l85b; U. S. Senator, I85h-1859
(elected by legislature; Warren Winslow, speaker of the senate com¬
pleted his term as governor). Delegate to peace conference in Wash¬
ington, Dt< C., 1861 ; member state secession convention, 1861 and state
constitutional convention, 1875.
Correspondence and documents deal with many prominent political
issues, state and national, and most election campaigns, gubernatorial
. and presidential; for period
1835-1859»
as well as issues of the state
constitutional convention of 1875. •
Letters and reports from Reid include postmaster's receipts, gover¬
nor's inaugural address (l85l), reports to constituents, recommendations
for appointments. The few personal letters are to his wife, father, fa¬
ther-in-law, brother-in-law (Thomas Settle, Jr.), sister-in-law (Caroline
Settle), and son Thomas S. Reid at Wake Forest College, 1873..
Documents of 1803 and 1809 refer .to court actions in Vfake and Rock¬
ingham counties. A letter (1829) from John M. Morehead indicates no'
available clerkships at the latter's Leaksville store. Other items per-
tain to orders from Reid's Store and quarterly reports to th,e Post Office
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Department through 1835.
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