Alex Daye and Maronite Patriarchate Letters
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Alex Daye (As'ad al-Dayyeh) immigrated in 1889 from Tripoli, Lebanon. From the 1900s-1930s, he resided in Winston-Salem, NC with his wife, Farida (Ridda), and son, Louis. Alex was the proprietor of A. Daye & Co., a wholesale and retail store on Liberty Street which primarily sold ladies ready-to-wear clothes, novelties, and art goods along with dry goods and furnishings. The store also hosted a millinery.
Although Alex was the proprietor of A. Daye & Co., the business included Assad, Salim, and Chas Daye, presumed relatives. Salim immigrated in 1891 and his brother, Annis (also spelled as Annies and Anise), immigrated in 1896. Annies worked for A. Daye & Co. until the 1910s, when he opened a confectionary and fruit business on Liberty Street called The Sweet Shop. Around 1921, Alex was left with A. Daye & Co., the others having gone into candymaking, ice cream, and confectionary at various other businesses.
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This collection contains letters sent from Alex Daye (Dayyeh) in North Carolina to the Maronite Patriarchate in Lebanon, dated May-June 1921. The letters were written in response to a call from the Maronite Patriarchate in Lebanon to enumerate Lebanese immigration around the world. Daye wrote about the immigrant communities in three North Carolina cities: Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Burlington. He includes names, place of origin, and date of immigration.
Materials include scans of the original letters in Arabic as well as an English-language translation of the documents.
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