The library of the University of North Carolina
Fisk P. Brewer's 1870 account of the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering the history of that library. Brewer lived from 1832 to 1890. Published in North Carolina.
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- Solomon Pool's new faculty move into the old professors' houses With Swain and the old faculty gone, the professors Pool brought in took over their Franklin Street homes: Fisk P. Brewer the Tom Taylor house, David Settle Patrick Swain's house, and James A. Martling the late James Phillips's house. People: Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer, James Phillips, Solomon Pool Place: East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: David Settle Patrick, James A. Martling, Tom Taylor · Also mentions: Tom Taylor house, Franklin StreetBernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 115
- Fisk Brewer's sister comes to Chapel Hill to teach the Black school A sister of Fisk P. Brewer, the new professor of Greek and an outspoken supporter of Black education, came to Chapel Hill to take charge of the village school for Black children. People: Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer Place: Chapel HillHope Summerell Chamberlain, Old Days in Chapel Hill (1926), scan p. 192
- Professor F. P. Brewer of the University is appointed U.S. consul at Piraeus F. P. Brewer of the University was appointed United States consul at Piraeus in Greece and was to leave for his post in a few days. People: Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer Place: Chapel HillHillsborough Recorder, November 29, 1871, p. 2
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By Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer
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Sketch of Fisk Parsons Brewer
W. F. Brewer, born 1870, wrote this typescript memoir of his father, Fisk Parsons Brewer (1832 to 1890), who taught Greek at the University of North Carolina and served as its librarian from 1869 to 1871. The title is added in a manuscript hand. No place of production is given.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Brewer, Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons), 1832-1890.
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- Tom Taylor House (later President Swain's house) Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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