James Lawrence Dusenbery diary and clipping, 1841-1842, 1940.

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James Lawrence Dusenbery diary and clipping, 1841-1842, 1940.

Notebook of James Lawrence Dusenbery consisting of irregular diary entries, 1841-1842, made during his senior year at the University of North Carolina, and including poems, most of which seem to be by other authors, and apparent transcriptions of letters to Dusenbery from "Miss Mary S." The diary entries include exceptionally lengthly narratives about campus social events in Chapel Hill, N.C., and some describe social events in Lexington, N.C., Dusenbery's hometown. Also included is a 1940 clipping about Dusenbery.

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Dusenbery, James Lawrence, 1821-

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James Lawrence Dusenbery (b. 1821) of Lexington, N.C., was a student at the University of North Carolina. Upon leaving the University of North Carolina, Dusenbery studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. Sometime after the Civil War, he returned to Lexington, where he died a bachelor. From the guide to the James Lawrence Dusenbery Diary and Clipping, 1841-1842, 1940, (Southern Historical Collection) Jame...

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...