William Alphonso Withers Papers 1868-1926

North Carolina Academy of Science

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Founded in 1902 by William W. Ashe and Franklin Sherman, the North Carolina Academy of Science's first president was William L. Poteat. The NCAS is now a three-tiered organization that includes Senior (faculty and graduate students), Collegiate (undergraduates), and Student (middle and high school students) academies. The Senior Academy provides awards for deserving students, plans the annual meeting, supports the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (JEMSS), and serves as the scien...

National Pure Food and Drug Congress.

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First Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Witherspoon, Susanna Tweed

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Caldwell, G. C.

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American Chemical Society. North Carolina Section

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Royal Arch Masons of North Carolina.

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Davidson College

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Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889

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Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889), soldier and educator, was born in York District, S.C., to Solomon Hill and Nancy Cabeen Hill. He graduated from West Point in 1842. As a United States army officer, he participated in all the major battles of the Mexican War. Hill resigned from the military in 1849 to become professor of mathematics at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). In 1854, he accepted the chair of the mathematics department at Davidson College, a position he held unti...

Riddick, W. C. (Wallace Carl), 1864-1942

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Wallace Carl Riddick (1864-1942). Professor of engineering (1892-1916), Head of Civil Engineering Department (1895-1908), Vice President of the College (1908-1916), President of North Carolina State University (1916-1923), first Dean and organizer of the Engineering School (1923-1937), and a professor of Hydraulics after his 1937 retirement. Riddick graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. degree (1885) and received his C.E. degree from Lehigh University (1890)....

Withers, William Banks

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William Alphonso Withers was born on May 31, 1864 in Riverview, North Carolina, near Davidson College. Withers was the son of William Banks Withers and Sarah L. Rutledge. He had seven siblings: Ida who married a Sloan, J.R., Jamie, Banks, Rosa, Victoria, and Mary B. who went by "Mamie". He received his A.B. degree from Davidson College in June of 1883, and his A.M. from Davidson in 1885. From 1884 through 1888, he served as Assistant Chemist at the North Carolina Agricul...

Dabney, Charles W.

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Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (N.C.)

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North Carolina State College

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Rutledge, Sarah L.

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North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.

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North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts

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Hugh Williams Primrose was one of six sons born to William Stuart Primrose and Ella Williams Primrose. He was born January 21, 1878 and died January 27, 1904. He was a member of the graduating class of 1897. His father, William Stuart Primrose, was a member of the original Watauga Club which helped found the college. William Stuart also served twenty years on the Board of Trustees, acting as chairman from 1887-1895 and 1897-1901. Primrose Hall was named for him From the description o...

Rotary Club (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Daniel, Eugene W.

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Young Men's Christian Association (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Holladay, Alexander Quarles, 1839-1909.

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Alexander Quarles Holladay (1839-1909) was a Civil War veteran, lawyer, educator, Virginia state senator, and college president. He was named the first president of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) upon its opening in 1889 and remained so for ten years until his retirement in 1899. After his retirement in 1899, he spent time in Delaware, New York, and Virginia until failing health brought him back to his daughter's home in Raleigh, N...

North Carolina State University

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Currently, there are 24 University Standing Committees. Members of each of the University Standing Committees are appointed by the chancellor at the beginning of each academic year. The Committee on Committees provides the chancellor with recommendations concerning the composition and charge for each committee, its chair, and its faculty, staff, and student members. These recommendations are in part based on voluntary expressed preferences, on a general principle of rotation, and, whenever appro...

Daniel, Elizabeth (Bessie) Witherspoon

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Raleigh Chamber of Commerce (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Withers, Banks

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Cornell University

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