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Finding Aid for the Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection (MUM00743) University of Mississippi eGrove Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids Library November 2020 Finding Aid for the Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection (MUM00743) Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids Recommended Citation Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection (MUM00743), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by the Library at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. University of Mississippi Libraries Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection MUM00743 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY INFORMATION Summary Information Repository University of Mississippi Libraries Biographical Note Title Scope and Content Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection Administrative Information ID Related Materials MUM00743 Controlled Access Headings Date [inclusive] Collection Inventory 1827-2014 Series 1: Chronological Extent Files 12.0 Linear feet 9 boxes Series 2: Subject Files Abstract Series 3: Jacob Research files and unpublished manuscripts of Dr. M. Thompson Manuscript Carolyn Ross on the subject of Jacob Thompson Drafts (1810-1885). Series 4: Subject Files Preferred Citation Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection (MUM00743), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi Return to Table of Contents » BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Jacob Thompson: Jacob Thompson was born in Leasburg, North Carolina in 1810 and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1831. He was admitted to the bar in 1834 and opened a law practice in Pontotoc, Mississippi. In 1839, voters elected Thompson to the U.S. House of Representatives where he remained until 1851 when he lost a reelection contest. President James Buchanan appointed Thompson U.S. Secretary of the Interior in 1857. He resigned from the office in January 1861 to become Inspector General of the Confederate States Army. Later, he joined the army as an officer, served as an aide to General P.G.T. Beauregard, and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thompson was present at the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Corinth, and Tupelo. In 1864, President Jefferson Davis asked Thompson to head a secret delegation to Canada where he appears to have led Confederate Secret Service operations. Thompson’s name arises in connection to many anti-Union plots and allegations of involvement with Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth. After the Civil War, Thompson fled for while to England and Canada, eventually returning to Memphis, Tennessee to manage his holdings. He served on the board of the University of the South at Sewanee. Thompson died on 24 March 1885 and is buried in Memphis at Elmwood Cemetery. Carolyn Jones Ross: Carolyn Jones Ross was born on 18 March 2014 to parents L. Bruce Jones and Mary Jones of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She earned bachelor and master degrees from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A speech- language pathologist, Dr. Ross worked in Iberville Parish, Louisiana public schools, and Louisiana State University Medical School before entering private practice in New Orleans. She was an early pioneer in the use of Cued Speech, a phoneme-based system of hand shapes and positions that clarifies ongoing speech. In addition to her professional career, Dr. Ross performed community service, especially in the field of arts and heritage. She participated in the New Orleans Symphony Chorus and served on the board of the Symphony Volunteers Inc. For over a quarter century, Dr. Ross was a volunteer reader for WRBH-FM’s Radio Reading Service. The recipient of many New Orleans honors, she received a Special Certificate of Appreciation from the mayor in 1987. After the death of her husband Raphael Ross Jr, M.D., she moved to Oxford, Mississippi. Dr. Ross served on the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council board and the Oxford- Lafayette Heritage Foundation board. She researched the life of Oxford resident and politician Jacob Thompson (1810-1885) with the intent of writing a biography but died away on 18 March 2014 before completing the project. Prior to her passing, her research helped to develop the historic marker at the Jacob Thompson Home Place site as well as interpretive materials at the L.Q.C. Lamar House. Return to Table of Contents » SCOPE AND CONTENT The collection contains Dr. Ross’s research files on Jacob Thompson. The archive has preserved the original folders and labels (although the container list spells out abbreviations). The files are arranged into four series. Series 1 preserves the integrity of a section of Dr. Ross’s files that reflect the chronological sequence of Thompson’s life. Series 2 (letter size folders) and Series 3 (legal size folders) are subject files on Thompson (as well as three folders on the Oxford, Mississippi African American Rosenwald school historic marker project). Series 4 holds drafts of her book manuscript on Thompson. Return to Table of Contents » ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Publication Information University of Mississippi Libraries 2014 Access Restrictions The collection is open to researchers. Additions No further additions are expected to this collection. Acquisition Information Dr. Joyce Sidorfsky donated the collection in September 2014 following the death of her friend Dr. Carolyn Ross. Processing Information Political Papers Archivist Leigh McWhite completed processing the collection in October 2014. Return to Table of Contents » RELATED MATERIALS Related Materials at the University of Mississippi Other Jacob Thompson manuscript material in the Archives & Special Collections: F.A.P. Barnard Collection. Includes letters from Jacob Thompson (2 boxes). Hopson Collection. Material related to the Nicholas Thompson home in Leasburg, North Carolina built in the early 1800s and home of Jacob Thompson (1 box). Willie and Marjorie Lewis Memorial Collection. Contains correspondence, genealogical research, clippings, photographs, and legal documents related to the life and career of Jacob Thompson (3 boxes). Carolyn Jones Ross Memorial Collection of Personal Papers of Jacob Thompson and Catherine Jones Thompson. Original letters, journal, and business documents of the Jacob Thompson family (1 box). Publications by or about Jacob Thompson in the Archives & Special Collections: Arthur Ben Chitty, “Jacob Thompson; He Fought One Union But Built Another – at Sewanee.” Reprint from Sewanee Alumni News (15 February 1956). Call Number: E664 T3 C3. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Address of Com. M.F. Maury, Before the Fair of the Agricultural & Mechanical Soc. Of Memphis, Tenn. Delivered at the Fair Grounds…Oct. 17th, 1871 (Memphis: Appeal Job Office, 1871). Include introductory remarks by Jacob Thompson. Call Number: HD1769 M3. P.L. Rainwater, ed. “Letters to and from Jacob Thompson.” Reprint from Journal of Southern History Vol. 6, No. 1 (February 1940). Call Number: E664 T3 L3. Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil: Hon. Jacob Thompson of Mississippi (1850). Call Number: E415.9 T45 P64. Jacob Thompson, Address, Delivered on Occasion of the Opening of the University of the State of Mississippi: In Behalf of the Board of Trustees, November 6, 1848, by Hon. Jacob Thompson, M.C…. (Memphis: Franklin Board and Job Office, 1849). Call Number: LB41 T5. Jacob Thompson, Address of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, to His Constituents (Washington, DC: J.T. Towers, 1851). Call Number: E423 T47. Jacob Thompson, Address of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, to His Constituents (Jacinto, MS: W.H. Jones, 1851). Call Number: E423 T472 1851. Jacob Thompson, Increase of the Army: Speech of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Miss., Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1847, in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Bill to Raise for a Limited Time an Additional Military Force, and for Other Purposes (Washington, DC: Office of Blair & Rives, 1847). Call Number: E409 T56 1847. Jacob Thompson, Letters from the Hon. Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, and the Hon. Frederick P. Stanton of Memphis District, Tenn., Representatives in Congress, and a Letter from T. Nixon Van Dyke, Esq., on the Subject of the Southwestern Railroad (Richmond: Shepherd and Colin, 1849). Call Number: HE2792 L992 1849b. Jacob Thompson, Speech of Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, on the Civil and Diplomatic Bill, and the Presidential Election. Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 21, 1848 (Washington, DC: Towers, 1848). Call Number: E415.9 T45 S6 1848. Return to Table of Contents » CONTROLLED ACCESS HEADINGS Geographic Name(s) Mississippi -- History -- 19th century Personal Name(s) Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885 -- Archives Return to Table of Contents » COLLECTION INVENTORY Series 1: Chronological Files Box 1 Folder 1: Timothy S. Bottoms, M.A. Thesis “From a Needle to an Anvil…” 1991 Scope and Content Study of Connally General Store in Leasburg, NC 1881- 1895 Folder 2: Caswell County/Leasburg History Folder 3: The Heritage of Caswell County NC 1989 Scope and Content J. Whitlow, Editor Folder 4: 1827 and Earlier Folder 5: Leasburg Area Contacts Scope and Content Regarding the Jacob Thompson Research Folder 6: University of North Carolina 1827-1833, 1859 with President Buchanan, 1860 State Committee to NC Folder 7: Leasburg Material Folder 8: Jacob Thompson 1827-1833 Scope and Content et al. at
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