Walter Eugene Daniel Papers  MS4     Finding aid prepared by Paige Horton       Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives   PO Box 7777   Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109   336 758-5755   2014         This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit  2016-10-24T16:23-0400     Describing Archives: A Content Standard           Walter Eugene Daniel Papers   MS4     Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives             0.21 linear feet   1 half-document box     1878-1912   Walter Eugene Daniel (1859-1942) was a native of Halifax County, N.C., a lawyer, Wake Forest College alumnus (1878), and trustee of Wake Forest College (1889-1931). The collection is comprised of various manuscripts and images dated 1878-1912.     Daniel, Walter Eugene, 1859-1942        Biographical/Historical Note
Walter Eugene Daniel (1859-1942) was a native of Halifax County, N.C. He was a lawyer, a Wake Forest College alumnus, class of 1878, and a trustee of Wake Forest College from 1889-1931.
  Conditions Governing Access Note
Collection is open for research.
  Immediate Source of Acquisition Note
Gift from the Alumni Office.
  Scope and Contents Note
The Walter Eugene Daniel Papers is comprised of materials that document Daniel's life, particularly as it pertains to Wake Forest College. Daniel's letter to his wife was written from Wake Forest College, June 13, 1894, after Daniel had delivered the alumni address at the 1894 commencement. He mentions Edwin McNeill Poteat (1861-1937) who delivered the baccalaureate sermon; Fernando Coella McConnell (1856-1929) who delivered the literary address; Reverend William Cornelius Tyree (1860-1928); and Professor William Louis Poteat. The collection also contains a typescript of Daniel's address delivered before the literary societies of Wake Forest College, February 14, 1878. There are seventeen cartes-de-visites (7 unidentified), 3 tintypes, and 11 photographs of students, ca. 1878-1912 have been added to the collection. Other additions include a poem read at the Daniel family reunion in 1992 and 'Highlights in the Life of Walter Eugene and Jeannette Snead Daniel' by Kate Barrow and an undated ink drawing of the Daniel home in Weldon, N.C.
  Arrangement note
This collection is arranged into two series: Series 1. Family and other images, and Series 2. Writings.
  Preferred Citation Note
Walter Eugene Daniel Papers, MS4, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
   Daniel, Walter Eugene, 1859-1942   Wake Forest College--Alumni and alumnae.   Wake Forest College. Board of Trustees.           Family and other images         Daniel home in Weldon, NC, ink sketch   1   5           Edwin Ferebee Aydlette tintype   1   6   Class of 1879           John Calhoun Caddell carte de visite   1   6   Class of 1878           Charles S. Farriss carte de visite   1   6   Class of 1880           Edwin Boushall Ferebee carte de visite   1   6   1878-1880           Jesse Newton Holding cartes de visite (2), Class of 1880   1   6   circa 1880           John F. Johnson carte de visite   1   6           Wesley N. Jones carte de visite, Class of 1879   1   6   circa 1879           Edwin McNeill Poteat carte de visite, Class of 1881   1   6   circa 1881           Emma James Purefoy Poteat carte de visite   1   6           Benjamin Franklin Sledd carte de visite and negative   1   6   circa 1884-1940           Mrs. Swift carte de visite   1   6           Arthur Edwin Walters carte de visite   1   6   Class of 1878           Unidentified cartes de visite (5)   1   7           Unidentified tintypes (2)   1   7           James W. Mullen photograph and cabinet card   1   8           George H. Brown, Jr., photograph   1   8           William Harvey Vann photograph   1   8           Wake Forest College students photograph   1   8   circa 1911-1913      Scope and Contents note
Pictured in photo: James Allison McDowell (Scotland Neck, NC); Eugene Allen Daniel (Weldon, NC); Seddon Goode, Jr.; William Alwyn Darden; Newton Jackson Shepherd (Weldon, NC).
     Charles Aurelius Webb photograph   1   8   1866-1949           Edwin Boushall Ferebee cabinet card   1   8           Mary B. Caddell photograph   1   8           Peter Stainback photograph   1   8           Foy Johnson cabinet card (2)   1   8             Writings         Biographical Information   1   1   1879-1912           Wake Forest Literary Society Address   1   2   Feb. 15, 1878           Poem read by Kate Barrow at Daniel Reunion   1   3   July 22, 1979           "Highlights in the Life of Walter Eugene and Jeannette Snead Daniel"   1   4