Guide to the Neoma Lide paper MSS.0127
Lide, Neoma
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
May 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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- Language Usage:
English
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Neoma Lide paper
- Unit ID:
MSS.0127
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (1 item, 16 pieces)
- Dates:
not dated
- Abstract:
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a paper titled "Franklin K. Beck," by Neoma Lide, a descendant of Beck’s, recounting her ancestor’s life and accomplishments. It is based largely on secondary sources.
- creator
Lide, Neoma
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a paper titled "Franklin K. Beck," by Neoma Lide, a descendant of Beck’s, recounting her ancestor’s life and accomplishments. It is based largely on secondary sources.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Neoma Lide paper, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Biographical/Historical note
Franklin Beck, the subject of this paper, was born in North Carolina but grew up in Wilcox County, Alabama. He attended, but did not graduate from, the University of Alabama, later attending Georgetown University and Yale Law School. He was licensed to practice law in 1841, was elected circuit court judge in 1843, to the Alabama Legislature in 1853, and to the Alabama Secession Convention in 1861, after which he was elected Colonel of the 23rd Alabama Infantry Regiment, serving throughout the Civil War until he was killed in Tennessee.
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Source(s)
Beck, Franklin K. , unknown (local)
Alabama (localbroad)
Confederate States of America--History (lcsh)
Daily Life and Family (localbroad)
Essays (Local)
Memoir and Biography (Local)
Southern Life and Culture (localbroad)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate (lcsh)
War and Military (localbroad)
Women (localbroad)
Paper Box 3881