Edward Kidder Graham Papers, 1844-1992

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Edward Kidder Graham Papers, 1844-1992

1844-1992

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00282/

Edward Kidder Graham was an author, professor, and president of the University of North Carolina, 1914-1918. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. His son Edward Kidder Graham Jr. served as an administrator at 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 before his death in 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, 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.

About 1250 items (3.5 linear feet)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6626835

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Graham, Edward K. (Edward Kidder), 1911-1976

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Graham, Edward Kidder, Jr. (1911-1976) was an educator and college administrator. In 1950 he was appointed chancellor of North Carolina Woman's College, which is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro....

Moses family.

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Graham family.

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Graves family.

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Moses, Elizabeth.

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Graham, Susan Moses, d. 1916.

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Graves, Louis, 1883-1965

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Louis Graves (1883-1965) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a writer, journalist, and founder of the Chapel Hill (N.C.) Weekly . Graves was born in Chapel Hill, N.C. to Ralph Henry Graves (died 1889), a professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina, and Julia Charlotte Hooper Graves (1856-1944). He was educated in Chapel Hill at the schools of Miss Loula Herndon and J. W. Canada and attended the Bingham School in Asheville, N.C., 1898-1899. He entered the University of North C...

Woman's College of the University of North Carolina

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918

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Edward Kidder Graham was an author, professor, and president of the University of North Carolina, 1914-1918. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. His son, Edward Kidder Graham, Jr., served as an administrator at 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 before his death in 1976. From the description of Edward Kidder Graham papers, 187...