UNCSA Archives - The library, located in the Workplace Building, was named in honor of Dr. James H. Semans (1910 - 2005) and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920 - 2012), longtime
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Heiress to the Duke tobacco fortune and Durham benefactor, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans dies at 91 | Died and Yet ...
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Bonhams : Bonhams MagazineCharity Began at Home: The Dukes were a family of extraordinary wealth – and exceptional generosity. Jack Pickering relives the high life of the early 1900s
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