Manuel Fetter

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 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: Manuel Fetter, John DeBerniere HooperSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 451
2. 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 FetterSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 545
3. 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: Manuel Fetter, Elisha Mitchell, Jones WatsonSearch the index · Laws of the State of North Carolina, session of 1850-51 (1851), chapter 330, pp. 730-731
4. 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: Manuel Fetter, David L. Swain, William Horn BattleDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 740