Baddour Family Papers

Lebanese--United States

Letters of condolence

Newspapers

Poetry

Biographical/Historical Note

The Baddour family of Goldsboro, North Carolina descends from Shickrey Baddour, who immigrated to the United States from Hammana, Lebanon in 1893, and Victoria Alkazin, his second wife, a Lebanese immigrant who grew up primarily in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Shickrey and Victoria had six children together: Evelyn, Philip, Isabelle, Mary, Mitchell, and Lorraine. Shickrey aslo had two children from his previous marriage, twins Seef Charles and Joseph.

Shickrey and Victoria moved from Atlantic City to Goldsboro in 1915. Shickrey worked as a peddler until 1926, when he co-founded the Mt. Olive Pickle Company. Both Victoria and Shickrey were active members of North Carolina’s Lebanese American community. They belonged to the Hammana Club of North Carolina and Shickrey served as president of the Syrian American Association of North Carolina. He died in an automobile accident in 1938. The family had close ties with the family of Rose Alkazin Reyes, Victoria's sister, who moved from Atlantic City with her husband George and their children around 1917, and the Farfour family, neighbors whose daughter Lousie married Philip Augustine Baddour, Sr.

Philip Augustine Baddour, Sr. owned a clothing shop on John Street in Goldsboro, and served as a City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem of the city. His son, Philip Augustine Baddour, Jr., served in the North Carolina House of Representatives between 1993 and 2002. Philip's other son, Dick Baddour, directed the athletics department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for fourteen years.

Scope/Content Note

This collection contains studio portraits and family photographs of members of the Baddour and Farfour families. It also contains early twentieth century newspaper clippings in Arabic as well as letters and documents relating to the memorialization of Shickrey Baddour.

Philip Augustine Baddour, Jr. and Richard Allen Baddour

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

circa 1905-2007, undated

Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 December.

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