| Scope and content |
The collection includes personal correspondence, financial papers, and church-related material. Papers regarding Louisburg College concern the tremendous debt the school suffered in the 1930s, including a debt settlement statement, a redeeming bond in Person's name, and several financial statements. The financial papers contain a list of recorded sales on the Richmond Stock Exchange, a price report for tobacco in eastern North Carolina, and a U.S.D.A. statement of special allotment crops. Church-related material includes lists of stewards of Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church, a letter about that church's building fund and some general church correspondence. An interesting item is a letter discussing the movement of and additions made to the church owned by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Conetoe, N.C. Other materials include: personal correspondence, Person's obituary, financial papers, annual statements, proxy statements, letters to shareholders, and pamphlets. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Thomas A. Person Papers (#303), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Sam B. Underwood, Jr.. |
| Biographical note | Thomas Arrington Person (1874-1943) was a prominent Greenville, N.C. tobacconist. He moved to Greenville in 1906, where he founded T.A. Person and Company, a subsidiary of JP Taylor Tobacco Company. In 1915 he became president of the Person-Garrett Tobacco Company; he retained this post until his retirement in 1921. Person served as a steward of Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church from 1933 to 1935, and as a trustee of Louisburg College from 1939 to 1942. |
