Edmund DeBerry Covington diary, 1841-1843 [manuscript].

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Edmund DeBerry Covington diary, 1841-1843 [manuscript].

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Diary kept by Covington during his student days at the University of North Carolina, 1841-1843, contains scattered diary and other entries, including original compositions, extracts, a list of books read, and a prophecy concerning his classmates.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Covington, Edmund DeBerry, 1823-1845.

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Edmund DeBerry Covington was the son of Benjamin Hamilton and Jane Wall Covington, born 25 September 1823 in Rockingham, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and graduated in 1844. He died of pneumonia on 25 December 1845. From the description of Edmund DeBerry Covington diary, 1841-1843 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23848788 From the guide to the Edmund DeBerry Covington Diary, 1841-1843, (Southern Historical Collection) ...

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...