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Edward K. Graham

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

1911–1976 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. 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 Clark, Francis D. Winston, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717
  2. Chapel Hill holds Rally Day with a parade, exhibits and a picnic on the campus Seven to eight hundred people from Orange, Durham, Chatham and Alamance came to M. C. S. Noble's Rally Day on October 29, 1915. About fifty cars paraded through Chapel Hill and Carrboro, farm, garden and needlework exhibits filled Memorial Hall, and the day closed with a picnic dinner, government films, a Sunday school singing contest won by Damascus, and races. People: M. C. S. Noble, Edward K. Graham Place: Memorial Hall and the University campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), November 4, 1915, p. 4
  3. The Chapel Hill Community Club and the university host the state Federation of Women's Clubs More than 200 delegates of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, in convention at Durham, motored to Chapel Hill and were entertained by the Chapel Hill Community Club and the university with a luncheon in Swain Hall and a May fete in Battle Park. Mrs. H. W. Chase, the club's president, welcomed them and President Edward K. Graham spoke. People: Edward K. Graham Place: Swain Hall and Battle Park, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. H. W. Chase · Also mentions: Swain HallSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), May 10, 1917, p. 5
  4. The university grants war leaves to eleven faculty members President Edward K. Graham told the trustees' executive committee that eleven faculty members going into war service, among them Joseph Hyde Pratt, P. H. Winston, T. J. Campbell and Frank P. Graham, had been granted leave for the duration. A partial list already counted 213 lieutenants, 24 captains and 11 majors among university men. People: Edward K. Graham, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Frank Porter Graham Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: P. H. WinstonThe News (Chapel Hill), September 6, 1917, p. 1

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Chapel Hill PL record: Graham, Edward K. 1911-1976.

Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2020).

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

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graham, Edward K. (Edward Kidder), 1911-1976.

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