Archibald McLauchlin correspondence, 1846-1860.

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Archibald McLauchlin correspondence, 1846-1860.

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The collection includes correspondence, 1846-1860, between Archibald McLauchlin and his friends and family. Most of the letters are from McLauchlin's time at the University of North Carolina. McLauchlin's letters describe a geology walk with Professor Elisha Mitchell, student mischief, the shortage of lodging for students, the student code, and the election of student officers. Included are two letters written to McLauchlin by his fellow student H. G. Livingston. There is also correspondence between McLauchlin and his cousins and siblings.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857

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Elisha Mitchell was a native of Connecticut, student and tutor at Yale College, Presbyterian minister, and professor of geology and chemistry and bursar at the University of North Carolina, 1818-1857. From the description of Elisha Mitchell papers, 1816-1905. WorldCat record id: 23658466 Elisha Mitchell (19 August 1793-27 June 1857) of Connecticut was a graduate of Yale who taught at Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y. and at New London, Conn., and was a tutor at Yale be...

McLauchlin family.

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McLauchlin, Archibald, -1861

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Archibald McLauchlin was born circa 1835. He was a student at the University of North Carolina from 1853 to 1856. After graduation, he returned to his hometown of Elizabethtown, Bladen County, N.C., to teach. A private in the Confederate Army, he died of typhoid fever in 1861. From the description of Archibald McLauchlin correspondence, 1846-1860. WorldCat record id: 317504209 From the guide to the Archibald McLauchlin Correspondence, 1846-1860, (University of North Carolina...

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...