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A Memoir of the Rev. Elisha Mitchell (1858).Open the sourceAll sources
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Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Elisha Mitchell moves from mathematics to the chair of chemistry, mineralogy and geology
When Denison Olmsted resigned in December 1825 to teach at Yale, Mitchell moved from mathematics and natural philosophy to Olmsted's chair of chemistry, mineralogy and geology, and James Phillips took over mathematics. The memoir says the new post widened Mitchell's field trips across the state.
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Chapel Hill's commissioners enter resolutions on the death of their fellow commissioner Elisha Mitchell
The village board recorded its loss of Mitchell, who sat with them as a commissioner, and ordered the resolutions entered in the village journals. Copies went to his family and the Chapel Hill Gazette.
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Chapel Hill citizens hold a town meeting in the University Chapel to mourn Elisha Mitchell
Once word came that Mitchell had died on Black Mountain, the townspeople met in the University Chapel, adopted resolutions on his forty years as a resident and agreed to wear mourning for thirty days. They then walked in procession to his house to give the resolutions to his family, and the town's stores closed for the meeting.
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