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Original collection received from Louis Round Wilson of Chapel Hill, N.C., prior to 1940. Additions received from Mrs. Louis Graves of Chapel Hill, N.C., in June 1970 (Acc. 82120), and from Julia Graham Lear of Washington, D.C., in May 2000 (Acc. 98616) and August 2000 (Acc. 98712).

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• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Graham family.
• Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.
• Graham, Edward Kidder, 1911-1976.
• Graham, Susan Moses, d. 1916.
• Graves family.
• Graves, Louis, 1883-1965.
• Moses family.
• Moses, Elizabeth.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Presidents.
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro--History.
• Woman's College of the University of North Carolina--History.

• Louis Graves Papers (#4010)

Edward Kidder Graham was born in Charlotte, N.C, in October 1876. He entered the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1894, graduating second in his class four years later. After briefly teaching school in Charlotte, Graham was hired as librarian by the University of North Carolina. Graham became an instructor in English in 1902, rising to the level of full professor in 1907 after years of intermittent graduate study at Columbia University. In 1909, he was appointed chair of the Department of English and dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He served as acting president of the University in 1913 and was elected to succeed Francis P. Venable as president in 1914.

On 25 June 1908, Edward Kidder Graham married Susan Williams Moses. Their son, Edward Kidder Graham Jr. was born on 31 January 1911. Susan Moses Graham died in 1916. Edward Kidder Graham died two years later from influenza and pneumonia during the epidemic of 1918.

After the death of his father, Edward Kidder Graham Jr. was raised by his uncle, Louis Graves. In 1938, Edward Kidder Graham Jr. received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and pursued a career in higher education. He served as an administrator at several institutions, including Washington University, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Boston University, and Denver University. He married Elizabeth Ann McFadyen in 1935, and the couple had three children. He died in Elsmere, N.Y., on 13 March 1976.

Papers of Edward Kidder Graham include family correspondence, 1890-1960 and undated; professional and other papers, 1904-1976; and pictures, undated. Family correspondence includes letters of members of the Graham, Moses, and Graves families. Included is correspondence between Edward Kidder Graham and his wife, Susan Moses Graham, as well as letters written by Edward Kidder Graham to his son, Edward Kidder Graham Jr.. There is also correspondence between Edward Kidder Graham Jr. and his aunt, Elizabeth Moses, and his uncle, Louis Graves. Letters discuss everyday life and family activities, Edward Kidder Graham's trips to New York City, college athletics, and the schooling of Edward Kidder Graham Jr. Professional and other papers are primarily speeches and articles written by Edward Kidder Graham. There are also memorial pieces and newspaper clippings relating to his appointment and inauguration as president of the University of North Carolina, to his death and to the death of Susan Moses Graham, to the appointment of Edward Kidder Graham Jr. as chancellor of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and to the death of Edward Kidder Graham Jr. There is also a scattering of papers relating to the Graham family. Pictures are of members of the Graham, Moses, and Graves families. The Addition of May 2000 includes letters from Edward Kidder Graham to Louis Graves, Susan Moses Graham, and others, circa 1901-1918; a photograph of the University of North Carolina faculty, circa 1903-1904; photographs of the Graham family members, circa 1911-1918; and clippings related to Edward Kidder Graham's inauguration as president of the University of North Carolina in 1915 and his death in 1918.

• Image folders (PF-282/1-4)