Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#3227 950 items (1.5 linear feet).
Family correspondence, chiefly 1870-1900, of Frances (Kerr) Mebane
(1840-1912), of Mebaneville, N.C., wife of Benjamin Franklin Mebane
(1823-1884), physician and originator of the Taraxacum tonic. Letters are
from her husband and from her five children while away at schools,
including the Nash and Kollock School in Hillsborough, N.C., the University
of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, and the Bingham School in
Orange County, N.C.; and while travelling and raising their own families in
North Carolina, Virginia, and New York. Also included are some business
papers of a son-in-law, James Edwin Scott (d. 1888), tobacco manufacturer;
and 20th-century business letters concerning the tonic originally prepared
by Dr. Mebane. Volumes include physicians' daybooks, 1849-1882; student
notebooks; and a brief woman's journal, ca. 1881.
