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T. L. (Thomas Lanier) Clingman

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  1. Thomas L. Clingman lectures the Normal School on the follies of the positive philosophers Former Senator Thomas L. Clingman spoke to the Normal School and a crowd of visitors in Gerrard Hall on "The Follies of the Positive Philosophers", attacking Darwin, Tyndall and materialism. President Kemp P. Battle introduced him. People: Kemp Plummer Battle Place: Gerrard Hall, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, June 29, 1878, p. 2

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Thomas Lanier Clingman

Cameron, J. D. (John Donald), 1820-1897 · 1889 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Thomas Lanier Clingman, the western North Carolina congressman and senator for whom Clingmans Dome is named, is the subject of this sketch by John Donald Cameron, signed at the end. It was detached from the North Carolina University Magazine of 1889 and printed at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Clingman, T. L. (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897.

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