Virgil Francis Payne papers, 1828-1950 1838-1888 (bulk dates).

Kentucky School of Medicine (Louisville, Ky.)

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Transylvania University. Medical Dept.

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Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830

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Transylvania University. Chemistry Dept.

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Peter, Robert, 1805-1894

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Chemist, physician, teacher. Robert Peter was born in England but emigrated to America in 1817. He lived for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After attending the Rensselaer School, in Troy, New York and lecturing on chemistry at Western University of Pennsylvania, Peter moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he became a professor of chemistry at Transylvania University. He also studied medicine at Transylvania, and received his medical degree in 1834. He only practiced m...

American chemical society. Division of the history of chemistry

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University of Kentucky.

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed ...

Payne, Virgil Francis, 1893-

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Virgil Francis Payne was born in 1893 near Fulton, MO. He served as head of the Chemistry Department at Transylvania College, where he first became acquainted with the letters and papers of Robert Peter, an illustrious forebear at Transylvania. From 1942 to 1957 he was an employee of the U.S. Signal Corps, working out of their Fort Monmouth laboratories in New Jersey. Upon retirement he returned to teaching at Monmouth County Community College and became active in the affairs of the ACS Division...