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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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By Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer
About Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Brewer, Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons), 1832-1890.
Life and Orange County connections
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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) BrewerBernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 115
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- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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