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Ernest Graves

Ernest Graves was born in Chapel Hill, the son of a University of North Carolina mathematics professor, and grew up in the boardinghouse his mother ran on the site of the present Carolina Inn. At the university he played fullback on the undefeated 1898 football team and captained the 1900 baseball team before becoming an army engineer.

Source: NCpedia: Graves, Ernest (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1986)

1880–1953 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Ernest Graves, portrait plate, 1919
Ernest Graves, portrait plate, 1919

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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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graves, Ernest, 1880-1953.

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  1. Ernest Graves plays fullback on the undefeated 1898 Carolina football team Graves, a Chapel Hill native, played fullback for the university and was a member of its undefeated, untied team of 1898. He scored 131 points in his Carolina football career.Search the index · NCpedia: Graves, Ernest
  2. Ernest Graves captains the Carolina baseball team Graves, the team's catcher, captained the university baseball team in 1900, the year he graduated.Search the index · NCpedia: Graves, Ernest
  3. Ralph H. Graves is buried in Chapel Hill Ralph H. Graves, a New York editor and newspaper syndicate agent born in Chapel Hill, died at his home in Garden City, Long Island, on December 1, 1939. After a funeral there, a burial service was held at the Chapel Hill cemetery on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 5. People: Louis Graves, Ernest GravesSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, page 2 (Ralph Henry Graves)

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Picture: Ernest Graves, portrait plate, 1919. Public domain. Charles D. Daly, American Football (1921); via the Internet Archive

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