Manuel Fetter

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1. December 1837 Manuel Fetter is elected professor of ancient languages The trustees chose Manuel Fetter of New York to succeed William Hooper as professor of ancient languages. President Swain had first favored Henry Tutwiler of Alabama, but when Tutwiler withdrew he named Fetter over William E. Anderson of Hillsborough. People: David L. Swain Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry Tutwiler, William E. Anderson, William HooperSearch the index · NCpedia: Fetter, Manuel (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
2. August 1838 Trustees split ancient languages into separate chairs of Greek and Latin In August 1838 the professorship of ancient languages was abolished and separate chairs of Greek and Latin created, with Manuel Fetter in Greek and John DeBerniere Hooper in Latin, while modern languages became a chair of French taught by Charles Marey. The faculty were also told to introduce civil engineering, which was not done. People: John DeBerniere Hooper, Manuel Fetter Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles MareySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 451
3. 1844 Juniors hold a mock funeral for Euripides's Medea After Professor Manuel Fetter failed all but three of the junior class on the Medea, the class dressed the book in black crape, marched past his house and buried it near the Davie Poplar under a sandstone slab carved Hic Jacet Medea. People: Manuel Fetter Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Davie PoplarSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 545
4. January 29, 1851 The General Assembly passes an act incorporating Chapel Hill under five commissioners Chapter 330 of the 1850-51 session laws, ratified January 29, 1851, made Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade, Elisha Mitchell and Jones Watson the commissioners of Chapel Hill, with five commissioners to be elected each February after. They were to choose a magistrate of police, treasurer, constable and clerk and fix the town's bounds. People: Elisha Mitchell, Jones Watson, Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Laws of the State of North Carolina, session of 1850-51 (1851), chapter 330, pp. 730-731 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952; The Daily Tar Heel, October 12, 1993, p. 18
5. by July 25, 1857 Professors Fetter and Kimberly and tutor Charles Mitchell take over Elisha Mitchell's teaching Under the trustees' arrangement after Elisha Mitchell's death, Professor Manuel Fetter, Professor John Kimberly of the scientific school and tutor Charles A. Mitchell, the late professor's son, were appointed to carry his professorial duties for the time being. People: John Kimberly, Manuel Fetter Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles A. Mitchell, Elisha MitchellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Gazette, July 25, 1857, p. 3
6. May 14 to 17, 1862 The Episcopal diocesan convention meets at the Chapel of the Cross The forty-sixth annual convention of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina met in the Chapel Hill church during the war. The rector, Francis W. Hilliard, and the parish's lay delegates William H. Battle, W. P. Mallett, A. Mickle and Manuel Fetter all attended. People: William Horn Battle, William P. Mallett, Andrew Mickle, Manuel Fetter Place: Chapel of the Cross, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Francis W. Hilliard, A. MickleArchibald Henderson, The Church of the Atonement and the Chapel of the Cross at Chapel Hill (1938), scan p. 52
7. 1864 to 1865 Wartime woodcutting strips the university forests To ease the faculty's hardship the trustees let professors, and the widow of tutor George B. Johnston, cut firewood from university land, extending the privilege in December 1864 with Bursar Fetter to mark trees. Neighbors cut freely as well, and many acres near the village were stripped of oaks and hickories. People: David L. Swain, William Horn Battle, Manuel Fetter Place: Chapel HillDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 740
8. January 27, 1869 Manuel Fetter and his daughters leave Chapel Hill at midnight for Durham Turned out with the old faculty, professor Manuel Fetter crossed the street at midnight to give Spencer the key of his empty house and a last candle, then drove off to Durham with his three daughters. People: Cornelia Phillips Spencer Place: Fetter house, Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Hope Summerell Chamberlain, Old Days in Chapel Hill (1926), scan p. 167