This Day in the History of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An organizational meeting of the "Journal Club" was held. The club met to discuss chemistry-related topics such as "electrical conductivity of double salts" and "smokeless powder."

Standard Oil Trust executive and Florida developer Henry M. Flagler married Mary Lily Kenan at her ancestral home, Liberty Hall, in Kenansville, North Carolina. Flagler died in 1913, and the bulk of his estate was left to his widow. After her death in 1917, the fortune would become the basis of the Kenan Professorship Fund.