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RICHMOND MUMFORD PEARSON PAPERS, #584, 1796-1877

Pearson, who lived successively in Rowan, Davie, and Surry (later Yadkin) Counties, North Carolina, was a lawyer, legislator, Superior and Supreme Court judge, chief justice of North Carolina, noted teacher of law, Unionist Whig, and postbellum Republican. His papers include documents concerning slave sales (1855, 1859); the purchase of slaves (1859); and a Federal investigation of the Ku Klux Klan (1871).