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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

#1060
EDWARD VERNON HOWELL PAPERS
Summary

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Howell, Edward Vernon, 1872-1931.
Papers, 1725-1929.
1,600 items (3.0 linear feet).

Founder of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy and its
dean for 33 years.

Howell's personal and professional correspondence, 1900-1929, relating to
pharmacy standards and legislation and University of North Carolina
affairs, together with historical materials, 1725-1871 (originals and
copies), largely connected with North Carolina.  The latter includes items
relating to Richard Henderson (1735-1785), and the Transylvania (Ky.)  Land
Company; the Revolutionary War in North Carolina; the Confederacy (letters
tax returns, army reports and rolls); Williams and Haywood, wholesale and
retail druggists in Raleigh, N.C., 1858-1869; and members of the Burton,
Williams, Lewis, Boylan, and Moore families in 18th and 19th century North
Carolina.  Included also are copies of ballads collected in Avery County,
N.C., 1917-1918; accounts, 1784-1922, of physicians and merchants; deeds,
bills, and wills; real estate papers from Raleigh, N.C.; copies of papers
written by and articles concerning Henry Harrisse (1829- 1910), French
scholar who taught at the University of North Carolina, 1853- 1857; and the
court martial book of the Orange County (N.C.) Light Infantry, 1861.

Gift, 1946.

SEE ALSO:  Ernest Haywood Collection (#1290); Stephen Moore Papers (#2205);
Henry Harrisse Papers (#3518) in the Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
   Avery County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
   Boylan family.
   Confederate States of America--History.
   Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--North Carolina--Orange County.
   Drugstores--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--19th century.
   Folk music--North Carolina--Avery County.
   Folk songs, English--North Carolina.
   Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.
   Henderson, Richard, 1735-1785.
   Howell, Edward Vernon, 1872-1931.
   Kentucky--History--To 1792.
   Land companies--Kentucky--History--18th century.
   Lewis family.
   Merchants--North Carolina--History.
   Moore family.
   North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
   Orange County Light Infantry (N.C.).
   Orange (County)--Militia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Pharmacy--Law and legislation--United States--History.
   Physicians--North Carolina--History.
   Transylvania Land Company.
   University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Pharmacy--History.
   Williams and Haywood (Raleigh, N.C.).
   Williams family.

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