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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was the university's professor of analytical and agricultural chemistry from January 1854 until October 1856, when the trustees' executive committee dismissed him after he said he would vote for the Republican John C. Frémont and defended his antislavery views in print. He later worked at the U.S. Patent Office.
Source: NCpedia: Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood
1827–1886 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Papers of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, the UNC chemistry professor dismissed in 1856 for opposing slavery and backing the Republican candidate John C. Fremont. Most of the 6,037 items, from 1848, are letters to Hedrick: early ones exchanged with Mary Ellen Thompson before their marriage, then others on university life at Chapel Hill, his dismissal, and his later career in Washington with the Patent Office. Correspondents include David L. Swain and Kemp P. Battle.
Michael Thomas Smith's biography of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, the University of North Carolina chemistry professor dismissed in 1856 after he declared support for the antislavery presidential candidate John C. Fremont. Published by University of Delaware Press in 2003, 216 pages with illustrations. Topics include abolitionists and dissenters in North Carolina, the antislavery movement in the state, and the university's biography before 1962.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2005).
Benjamin Hedrick, the University of North Carolina professor dismissed in 1856 for backing the antislavery presidential candidate John C. Frémont, is the subject of copied published materials in this undated folder from box 4 of the Individuals and Families series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.
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Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton's 1910 study of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, the professor dismissed from the University of North Carolina faculty in October 1856 after he supported the Fremont ticket and opposed slavery. Forty two pages, issued in a university series and covering antislavery movements in North Carolina and state politics before 1865.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886.
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John Spencer Bassett's study of North Carolinians who opposed slavery, first issued in 1898 in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. An opening chapter on the western counties and the Quakers of Guilford and Randolph is followed by sketches of Hinton Rowan Helper, Daniel Reaves Goodloe, Eli Washington Caruthers, Lunsford Lane, and Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, the Chapel Hill chemistry professor dismissed in 1856 for supporting Frémont. Reprinted in 1971, 74 pages.
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