Joseph LeConte letter, 10 September 1852.

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Joseph LeConte letter, 10 September 1852.

The collection consists of one letter from Joseph LeConte to Judge Eugenius A. Nisbet regarding LeConte's desire to apply for Dr. Jones' professorship at the University of Georgia as Dr. Jones is retiring.

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Nisbet, Eugenius Aristides, 1803-1871

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Lawyer, U.S. Representative and Confederate representative, of Macon, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1804-1934. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019322 Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-1871), lawyer, Georgia House of Representatives (1827-1829), Georgia Senate (1830-1835), U.S. House of Representatives (1837-1841), Georgia Supreme Court (1845-1853), born in Greene County, Georgia, married Amanda Malvina FitzAlan Battle in 1825. From the descri...

LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901

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Joseph LeConte, born in 1823, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841. He enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844 and received an M.D. in 1845. He married Elizabeth Caroline Nisbet in 1847 and established a medical practice in Macon. Because his first love was geology, however, he enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1850 to study with the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz. Upon completing his studies in 1851 he returned to Georgia and became...

University of Georgia. International Student Life Office

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The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, approximately 70 miles northeast of Atlanta, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States. In 2005 U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked UGA 19th in its list of the top 50 public universities for a sixth year in a row. UGA also ranks 58th overall (public and private) in the nation. Today, it is the largest university of the University Syste...