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Edward K. Graham

Also found in catalogs as Edward K (Edward Kidder) Graham.

1911–1976 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase

Covington, Jr., Howard E. · 2018

Howard E. Covington Jr.'s history of how the University of North Carolina took shape under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham (1876 to 1918) and Harry Woodburn Chase (1883 to 1955), published by the University Library in 2018. The 528-page account covers campus history in the early twentieth century and includes portraits.

Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2020).

NC Cardinal UNC Chapel Hill PL DPLA Library of Congress CH Historical Society

Louis and Mildred Graves papers, 1814 ; 1876-1992.

Graves, Louis, 1883-1965 · 1814

Louis Graves (1883-1965) and Mildred Moses Graves left roughly 7,700 items in eleven linear feet, a single 1814 document and then a run from 1876 to 1992, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4010. Graves edited the Chapel Hill Weekly, and topics include North Carolina newspapers and their editors alongside family photographs, travel diaries and the social life of the Graves and Moses families.

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Life and Orange County connections

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by 1895 The Alpha Theta Phi honor society enrolls the best scholars Dr. Tolman, who taught at the University in 1893-94, introduced Alpha Theta Phi, a society open only to the best scholars; by spring 1895 nine members of the class of 1896 belonged. In 1898 Archibald Henderson was its president and E. K. Graham its secretary, and a few years later it merged into Phi Beta Kappa. People: Archibald Henderson, Edward K. GrahamSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 783
May 1911 commencement The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement. People: Edward K. Graham, Julian S. Carr, Walter ClarkSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717

Research sources

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Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time

State Archives catalog: 8 collections naming Edward K Graham State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
DigitalNC newspapers: 252 Orange County pages naming Edward K Graham DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Grave recorded at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery (white sections 1-4) Cemetery Census Listed in the county cemetery survey, grave by grave, at Cemetery Census

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Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) 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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