Patterson and Lenoir Family Papers, 1765-1929

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Patterson and Lenoir Family Papers, 1765-1929

1765-1929

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02662/

The Lenoir family and Patterson family of North Carolina included Thomas Lenoir, Mary Fries Patterson, Andrew Henry Patterson, and others. The collection contains miscellaneous items of the Lenoir and Patterson families of North Carolina including a diary, June-July 1841, kept by an unidentified woman on a trip from Raleigh, N.C., to New Haven, Conn., with particulary detailed descriptions of activity in New Haven and sights of Washington, D.C., with some entries by a child of the diarist; notes, circa 1890, by Andrew Henry Patterson (1870-1928) on lectures on electricity by Prof. J. J. Thomson, presumably at Harvard University; three letters, 1895-1896, to Eben Alexander (1851-1910), United States minister to Greece; and an address, circa 1850, by the president of the Dialectic Society, University of North Carolina.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6628419

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

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Patterson, Andrew Henry, 1870-1928

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Andrew Henry Patterson (1870-1928) was a professor of physics at the University of North Carolina and a cooperative observer for the Weather Bureau, United States Department of Agriculture. From the description of Andrew Henry Patterson papers, 1902-1925; 1964 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26180465 From the guide to the Andrew Henry Patterson Papers, 1902-1925; 1964, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Lenoir family.

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Alexander, Eben, 1851-1910

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Eben Alexander (1851-1910), professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina, 1886-1910; U.S. minister to Greece, Romania, and Serbia, 1893-1897. From the description of Eben Alexander papers, 1828-1968. WorldCat record id: 23738036 Eben Alexander (1851-1910) was the son of Ebenezer Alexander (1805-1857), a Tennessee lawyer and judge, and Margaret White McClung Alexander. He graduated from Yale in 1873, and served at the University of Tennessee, first as professor of a...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dialectic Society

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The Dialectic Society of the University of North Carolina was the first of the university's two student debating and social clubs. It was established as The Debating Society in 1795, but changed its name the following year. The debating societies amassed sizable libraries and functioned as the campus student government for over a century. In 1919 the Philanthropic Society reorganized itself as the Philanthropic Assembly and the Dialectic Society reorganized as the Dialectic Senate in 1924. Membe...

Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940

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English physicist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1927 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572272 Physicist (cathode rays, atomic structure, electrons) and administrator. On the faculty at University of Cambridge (1884-1940): director, Cavendish Laboratory (1884-1918), physics faculty (1894-1919), and master of Trinity College (1918-1940); and on the natural philosophy faculty at the Royal Instituti...

Patterson family.

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Patterson family.

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The Lenoir and Patterson families of North Carolina included Thomas Lenoir, Mary Fries Patterson, Sam F. Patterson, Mary Patterson Fisher, Andrew Henry Patterson, William Lenoir, and others. From the guide to the Patterson and Lenoir Family Papers, 1765-1929, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Lenoir family.

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The Lenoir and Patterson families of North Carolina included Thomas Lenoir, Mary Fries Patterson, Sam F. Patterson, Mary Patterson Fisher, Andrew Henry Patterson, William Lenoir, and others. From the guide to the Patterson and Lenoir Family Papers, 1765-1929, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...