Sarah A. Jarrett papers, 1846-1852 [manuscript].

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Sarah A. Jarrett papers, 1846-1852 [manuscript].

Letters to Sarah A. Jarrett of Habersham County, Ga., from relatives, especially her cousin Leonidas Fidelis Siler (1830-1870), who wrote from Franklin, Macon County, N.C., and, 1849-1851, from the University of North Carolina, where he was a student. Letters deal chiefly with family affairs and news of romances among friends and relatives.

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Jarrett, Sarah A., fl. 1849-1851.

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Siler, Leonidas Fidelis, 1830-1870.

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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...