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Alfred G. Engstrom

Alfred G. Engstrom, a professor of French at the University of North Carolina, bought the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough with his wife, Mary Claire Engstrom, in 1959, after which she turned her research to the history of Hillsborough and its surroundings.

Source: NCpedia: Engstrom, Mary Claire

1907–1990 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Alfred G. Engstrom joins the UNC French faculty Alfred G. Engstrom began teaching at the University of North Carolina as an instructor in French in the 1935-36 year and became an assistant professor in 1942. He later held a Distinguished Alumni Professorship of French.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Register of the Officers and Faculty of the University of North Carolina, 1795-1945 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 2, 1935, p. 1
  2. Mary Claire Engstrom and her husband buy the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough In 1959 Mary Claire Engstrom, who had earned a UNC doctorate in English literature in 1939, and her husband, UNC French professor Alfred G. Engstrom, bought the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough. From then on she turned her research to the history of Hillsborough and its surroundings. People: Alfred G. EngstromSearch the index · NCpedia: Engstrom, Mary Claire · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 20, 1959, p. 1

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By Alfred G. Engstrom

Classical studies and a university teacher of literature

Engstrom, Alfred G., 1907-1990 · 1965

Alfred G. Engstrom (1907-1990) wrote this address on classical studies and a university teacher of literature, dated 1965 and kept as a ten leaf photoreproduced typescript. Topics include college teachers, addresses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the history of the Department of Classics there. It belongs to UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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About Alfred G. Engstrom

Mary Claire Engstrom papers, 1963-1984.

Engstrom, Mary Claire, 1906-1997 · 1963

Research papers of Mary Claire Engstrom, 1906 to 1997, dated 1963 to 1984 and filling 13.75 linear feet with roughly ten thousand items, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4684. Her subjects were Hillsborough's historic buildings and districts, John Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Burwell's Female School, county cemeteries, Quakers, and local history. Correspondence with other genealogists belongs to the group.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Engstrom, Alfred G., 1907-1990.

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  • Nash-Hooper House Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Hillsborough · 1 event here

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