Research Catalog

Title

The Dukes of Durham, 1865-1929 / Robert F. Durden.

Author

Durden, Robert Franklin.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1975.

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Details

Description

xiv, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Chiefly a record of the life and descendants of Washington Duke. He was born 20 Dec 1820 to Taylor Duke and Dicey Jones. He married Mary Caroline Clinton in 1842. They were the parents of two children. She died in 1847. He married Artelia Toney in Dec 1852. They were the parents of three children. She died in 1858. He died 8 May 1905.

Subject

• Duke family
• Duke
• Duke Endowment

Note

• Continued by: Lasting legacy to the Carolinas : the Duke Endowment, 1924-1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Yeoman Farmer Home From the War -- 2. Beginning Anew in 1865: The Early Phase of W. Duke, Sons and Company -- 3. James B. Duke, The Bonsack Cigarette Machine, and the Origins of the American Tobacco Company -- 4. Building a Commercial Empire: The American Tobacco Company, 1890-1904 -- 5. "Durham is on the way to heaven rejoicing": Early Philanthropy of the Dukes -- 6. "Trinity College is the best institution of learning in the South": The Philanthropic Pattern Takes Shape -- 7. New Myths for Old: The Dukes and the Textile Industry of North Carolina -- 8. A Time of Troubles-And Splendor on Fifth Avenue -- 9. Electric Power for the Piedmont Region of the Carolinas -- 10. The Philanthropic Culmination: The Establishment of The Duke Endowment -- 11. The Launching of Duke University and the Deaths of the Duke Brothers.

ISBN

• 0822303302
• 9780822303305
• 9780822307433
• 082230743X

LCCN

74083785

OCLC

• ocm01363656
• 1363656
• SCSB-173469

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library