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Charles William Dabney

1885–1945 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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mid-July 1880 (by July 24) University trustees elect Charles W. Dabney to the faculty in place of Professor Redd Meeting in Raleigh, the trustees of the University of North Carolina elected Charles William Dabney to fill the faculty vacancy left by the resignation of Professor Redd. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (trustees met in Raleigh)Search the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, July 24, 1880, p. 3
by November 17, 1880 Professor Dabney arrives at Chapel Hill to direct the state experiment station Professor Charles W. Dabney arrived at Chapel Hill as director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment and Fertilizer Control Station, then housed at the university. Place: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 20, 1880, p. 3

Indexed works

Works about or by Charles William Dabney. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton papers, 1895-1961.

Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac, 1878-1961 · 1895

Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961) taught history at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1895 to 1961, amount to roughly 9,500 items in 25.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1743. Diaries sit among the material. Topics include the collecting of archival materials and the Southern Historical Collection itself, Reconstruction, the nineteenth century Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, the state Democratic Party, and figures such as R. D. W. Connor and Albert Ray Newsome.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945.

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Background

NCpedia: Charles William Dabney Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry

Records of the time

DigitalNC newspapers: 4 Orange County pages naming Charles William Dabney Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers

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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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