Person in the county’s record

Charles H (Charles Holmes) Herty

1867–1938 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

The index holds 2 works for Charles H (Charles Holmes) Herty so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

Search these 2 works Research sources View indexed works ↓

Indexed works

Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.

Patterson's General Store Ledger

Store, Patterson's General · 1910

Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.

DPLA

Crusading for chemistry : the professional career of Charles Holmes Herty

Reed, Germaine M., 1929- · 1995 · Forest History Society ; University of Georgia Press

Germaine M. Reed wrote this biography of the chemist Charles Holmes Herty, 1867 to 1938, whose career included work in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published in 1995 at Durham by the Forest History Society with the University of Georgia Press, xiii and 474 pages with six pages of plates.

UNC Library of Congress

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 4 dated events in the chronology →

1898 Chemist Charles H. Herty buys Charles Baskerville's new house Charles Baskerville, who had built a house on the southwest corner of Boundary and Franklin streets in 1897, sold it the next year to Dr. Charles H. Herty, later known for a process that made newsprint from southern pine. People: Charles BaskervilleSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 169
1906 The new chemistry building is completed and Person Hall goes to medicine The university spent $45,000 of the state grant on a chemistry building that held three times as many students as the old one. The rest refitted Person Hall, the old chemistry building, for the Medical Department and New East for biology. People: Charles H (Charles Holmes) HertySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 658
January 1908 Faculty members organize the Chapel Hill Country Club About forty-five people, mostly university faculty, organized a country club and rented a house and several acres at the edge of Chapel Hill, laying out golf links and tennis courts. Joseph Hyde Pratt chaired its board of governors. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Archibald Henderson, Charles H (Charles Holmes) HertySearch the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, January 16, 1908, p. 1
June 2, 1908 The university creates a School of Applied Science with Charles H. Herty as dean At the 1908 commencement President Venable announced that the trustees had made Charles H. Herty dean of the School of Applied Science and James E. Latta professor of electrical engineering. People: Francis Preston VenableSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 681

Places in this person’s story

Buildings, schools, churches and other sites named in the dated events on this page, the most often named first. The map shows the 1 with a known location.

Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange and OpenStreetMap; town and community pins mark the middle of their mapped buildings.

Person Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
UNC School of Medicine University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

All places and the county map →

Research sources

Additional research sources

Other catalogs to search and local organizations that can help.

Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 1 collection naming Charles Holmes Herty State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 8 Orange County pages naming Charles Holmes Herty DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Charles H (Charles Holmes) Herty NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
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
Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

More to discover

Keep Reading Local

The Friends connect people with new library materials, local writers and publishers, and resources documenting Orange County.

Browse New Arrivals → Meet Local Authors → Explore Local Publishers →