E. V. Howell Papers, 1725-1929

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E. V. Howell Papers, 1725-1929

E. V. Howell Papers, 1725-1929

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E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell (1872-1931) was the founder ofthe University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy and its dean for 33 years. Thecollection includes Howell's personal and professional correspondence, 1900-1929,relating to pharmacy standards and legislation and University of North Carolinaaffairs, together with historical materials, 1725-1871 (originals and copies),largely connected with North Carolina. The latter includes items relating to RichardHenderson (1735-1785), and the Transylvania (Ky.) Land Company; the RevolutionaryWar in North Carolina; the Confederacy (letters tax returns, army reports androlls); Williams and Haywood, wholesale and retail druggists in Raleigh, N.C.,1858-1869; and members of the Burton family, Williams family, Lewis family, Boylanfamily, and Moore family in 18th-century and 19th-century North Carolina. Includedalso are copies of folk ballads collected in Avery County, N.C., 1917-1918;accounts, 1784-1922, of physicians and merchants; deeds, bills, and wills; realestate papers from Raleigh, N.C.; copies of papers written by and articlesconcerning Henry Harrisse (1829-1910), a French scholar who taught at the Universityof North Carolina, 1853-1857; and the court martial book of the Orange County (N.C.)Light Infantry, 1861.

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