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The Alexander W. McAlister Family Papers consist primarily of materials pertaining to the McAlister/Little families, the Church by the Side of the Road, and Pilot Life Insurance Company. Also of note are items relating to Edgeworth Female Seminary and Greensboro High School. Alexander Worth McAlister Sr. was instrumental in the founding of Pilot Life Insurance Company, the Greensboro Country Club, Irving Park, and Sedgefield. He was also an elder in the Church by the Side of the Road and closely involved in its split from the Presbyterian denomination. Researchers interested in churches, educational institutions, businesses, or neighborhoods in Greensboro may find items of use in this collection. Genealogists may be interested in materials tracing the Little family line back to ancestor John Howland's immigration on the Mayflower and following the McAlister/Worth family lineage back to the American Revolution.