Jane Ross Hammer and Otho Bescent Ross collection, 1871-1987.

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Jane Ross Hammer and Otho Bescent Ross collection, 1871-1987.

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Papers documenting the lives of Otho B. Ross, his wife Lucy Harris Ross, and her parents, Eugene and Lena Foust Harris. The Charlotte Philosophy Discussion Group and The Horace Williams Philosophical Society, both founded and sustained by Otho Ross are particularly stongly documented. There also is a collection of material relating to Williams himself, including letters from him, lectures by him, and a 1927 travel diary he kept. Ross's strong ties to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his wife Lucy's long affiliation with her alma mater, Queens College in Charlotte, N.C., are also well documented. Lucy and Otho's courting days and early relationship are documented by substantial correspondence, as are the courtship and marriage of Lucy's parents, Eugene and Lena Foust Harris. Also notable are pocket diaries, with sketches, that Eugene Harris kept as an art student in New York in early 1882, and a book of sketches by Harris including scenes from the University of North Carolina campus, perhaps from the 1890s. Otho Ross's medical career and Lucy Harris Ross's experiences as a music teacher are less well documented.

ca. 5000 items (10.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

Harris, Eugene F.

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Queens College (Charlotte, N.C.)

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Charlotte Philosophy Discussion Group.

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Hammer, Jane Ross

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Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940

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Henry Horace Williams was professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, 1890-1940. From the description of Henry Horace William papers, 1861-1948. WorldCat record id: 23907217 Henry Horace Williams (1858-1940) was born in Gates County, N.C., and educated in the public schools of that area. He attended college at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1883, when he was awarded the first earned advanced degree (a Master of Arts) in the coll...

Ross, Lucy Harris.

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Ross, Otho B. (Otho Bescent), 1884-1982

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Horace Williams Philosophical Society.

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Harris, Lena Foust.

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