Charles A. Webb speeches, 1889-1947 [manuscript].

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Charles A. Webb speeches, 1889-1947 [manuscript].

Manuscript speeches delivered by Webb on civic and patriotic occasions while he was a student at the University of North Carolina and later while he was a lawyer, politician, and newspaper publisher in Asheville, N.C. Speeches include "Washington Birthday Address," "The Political Crisis of our Country," "The World's Buddhas," and an address opposing woman's suffrage.

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Webb, Charles A. (Charles Aurelius), 1866-1949

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Charles Aurelius Webb (1866-1949) of Asheville, N.C. was a lawyer, United States marshal, North Carolina state senator, associate publisher of the Asheville Citizen, and graduate of the University of North Carolina. Webb was born in Warrenton, N.C., to Alexander S. Webb and Annabelle Moore Webb. He married Belle Bruce Bankes in 1913. From the guide to the Charles A. Webb Speeches, ., 1889-1947, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. 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...