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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the W. W. Ashe Papers #28, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. William W. Ashe prior to 1940, and transferred from the U.N.C. Botany Department, 1959, 1960, and 1963.

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• Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932.
• Botanists--United States.
• Forest products--United States.
• Forests and forestry--United States.
• Natural resources--North Carolina.
• North Carolina. Geological Survey Section--Officials and employees.
• United States. Forest Service--Officials and employees.

• William Chambers Coker papers (#3320), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

William Willard Ashe, son of Samuel A'Court and Hannah Emerson Willard Ashe, was an active forester and botanist. He was forester for the the North Carolina Geological Survey, 1898 1905, and served with the United States Forest Service in Washington, D.C., 1905-1932.

For further biographical information consult folder 41 of this collection and the 1936 sketch by William A. Dayton, available in the North Carolina Collection.

The collection documents Ashe's work chiefly through correspondence between Ashe and other foresters, botanists, and timber industrialists. Also included are field notes, personal and professional pictures, and writings by Ashe.

• P-28/Folders 1-10