- Title
- Papers of William Alexander Graham [1866-1868, v.7]
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- Date
- 1984
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- Creator
- ["Graham, William A. (William Alexander), 1804-1875."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Papers of William Alexander Graham [1866-1868, v.7]
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122
Division of Archives and History
ever to have thought of making him a Judge — they ought to have
made him a Bishop.”
I felt, my dear Sir, that I was called upon to write thus to you, &
you have my permission to use every thing I have written as you
please. Since Badger’s death, I feel that the world has almost closed
upon me. A great indisposition to appear in any way before the pub¬
lic has come over me, & if you find any thing of value in it, 1 pray you
to use it as your own, & keep me in the back ground.
Mrs. D. joins me in asking to be called to the kind recollections of
Mrs. G. & yourself. Believe me,
Very' sincerely Yours,
‘Thomas Pollock Devereux (1793-1869), son of Frances Pollock and John Devereux, Sr.,
was graduated by Yale in 1813 and received an honorary master’s degree from the Univer¬
sity of North Carolina in 1818. He was a prominent lawyer and served as a United States
district attorney and reporter for the state supreme court before he decided to abandon the
practice of law and devote his full time to the management of the very large Devereux es¬
tate, part of which lay in Raleigh and part in the northeastern part of the state, Bertie and
Halifax counties. His first wife was Catherine Ann Johnson of Connecticut by whom he
had one son and six daughters; his second wife was Ann Mary Maitland of New York. The
Civil War brought devastation and financial ruin to Devereux, so that he was forced to de¬
clare bankruptcy in 1868. Unable to recoup their prewar fortune, the family members even¬
tually lost most of their property. In his early career, Devereux had been a Whig leader, a
close friend of George Badger, and a supporter of William A. Graham in his bid for the of¬
fice of governor. Beth G. Crabtree and James W. Patton (eds.), “Journal of a Secesh Lady":
The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston, 1861-1866 (Raleigh: Division of Archives and
History, 1979), xxi-xxiv.
William A. Graham to David L. Swain A&H: swain
Hillsboro’,
June 1st., 1866.
... I am much obliged also for your notes this morning, containing
some memorials of Mr. Badger, which are new to me. I do not
remember to have heard of the conversation of Judge Marshall1 at the
close of the trial of Latimer vs. Poteat,2 to which you refer; and must
beg you to furnish it. Nor was I aware that [Thomas] Badger had
married in this State, or ever resided here. Mr. McGehee3 in a note
received yesterday thinks Thomas Badger, the Father, died in 1799, his
birth is recorded as in 1766.
I did not know that Mr. Badger had gone to the Supreme Court
U.S. as early as the case Gideon vs. Plummer,4 as you suggest. I
remember his visit there in the land case above named.
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