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Collection: ALDERMAN, JACOB OLIVER, Paper a P.C
Chowan County
1907-1954
Physical Description: 8 Items; 1 essay, 1 program, 1 scrapbook, 5 pamphlets.
Acquisition: Gift of Portia Alderman Banks [Mrs. Paul] of Garner, N. C.,
daughter of Jacob Alderman, July 19, 1972. "Memories to Keep" purchased
from Broadfoot's Bookmark, Wendell, N. C.
Description: Jacob 0. Alderman (1862-1953) an educator and Baptist minis¬
ter, attended Wake Forest College (1886) and the University of Richmond.
He was a school superintendent In Chowan County. The collection contains
three Items concerning Moonlight schools, a state-wide program for ill¬
iterate adults. There is an essay on Moonlight schools, 1915-1916, by
Katie Fleetwood, a teacher; samples of students' work In a scrapbook;
and a program for a county school's commencement, March 31, [1916?], in
which a prize is offered for the best essay on Moonlight schools.
Pamphlets concerning the Baptist Church include "Minutes of the
First Annual Session of the West Chowan Baptist Association," Cashie
Baptist Church, Windsor, Bertie County, October, 1883; "Minutes of the
Sixty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Caro¬
lina," Charlotte, December, 1894; "Centennial Monograph Celebrating the
First 100 Years of the Baptist Church at Chapel Hill," 1954.
Miscellaneous items are "Memorial Addresses in Honor of Dr. Booker T.
Washington," Carnegie Hall, February, 1916, an occasional paper [No, 17]
published by the trustees of the John F. Slater Fund; included are the
titles of occasional papers, No. 1-17 concerning Negroes, 1894-1916. "The
Golden Treasure of the Albemarle" by Dr. Richard Dillard (Edenton: Tran¬
script Printery, 1907) is a story of a treasure hidden in Albemarle Sound
during the Spanlsh-American War, reprinted from the Charlotte Observer.
"Memories to Keep" is a pamphlet of poems by J. 0. Alderman with an
Introductory biographical sketch, published in 1953.
