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[Identification of item], Tomlinson Store Ledger B, University Archives, Duke University.
The Tomlinson Store Ledger B was received by the University Archives as a purchase in 1990.
Processed by Archives Staff, September 2007
Encoded by Kimberly Sims, September 2007
Accession A94-77 is described in this finding aid.
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Tomlinson Store was a steam tanning works, shoemaking establishment and general store run by Allen U. Tomlinson in Bush Hill in Randolph County, NC.
Tomlinson was a prominent Quaker, a community leader (especially in support of education) and a successful entrepreneur.
Ledger B contains accounts of the Methodist and Quaker families that formed Union Institute and later supported Normal College and Trinity College. There are accounts for Brantley York, for all of the signers of the constitution of the Union Institute Society, and for the faculty of the school. The bulk of the entries date from the 1830s.
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