Charles H. Herty

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1896 Chemistry professor Charles Baskerville builds a Queen Anne house at 524 East Franklin Street Charles Baskerville's house on East Franklin Street, going up in March 1896, hides two full stories behind a large polygonal entrance bay with a pyramid roof, trimmed with a turret, a balconied dormer and a gabled vent. Little calls it the most playful Queen Anne house in town. Baskerville bought the lot outright in 1905 and sold the house that year to chemist Charles Herty. People: Charles H. HertySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 40 · Also: The Tar Heel, March 21, 1896, p. 3
2. 1905–1916 Charles H. Herty teaches chemistry at the university Charles H. Herty, a Georgia chemist who had already devised a new way of gathering turpentine from pine trees, came to UNC in 1905 as Smith Professor of General and Industrial Chemistry. He stayed until 1916, serving as dean of the School of Applied Science from 1908 to 1911 and on the athletics committee.Search the index · NCpedia: Herty, Charles Holmes (Maury York, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1988)
3. 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. HertySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 658
4. 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. HertySearch the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, January 16, 1908, p. 1
5. February 26, 1909 The legislature creates the Chapel Hill Graded School District An act ratified February 26, 1909 created the Chapel Hill Graded School District, with a special school tax and six trustees, among them Charles H. Herty and N. W. Walker, who ran its schools free of the Orange County board. Voters had to approve it in May; the city school system dates its founding to 1909. People: Charles H. Herty, N. W. WalkerSearch the index · Private Laws of the State of North Carolina, Session of 1909, chapter 2, pp. 7-11 (Internet Archive)
6. 1914 The 1914 Yackety Yack is dedicated to chemistry professor Charles H. Herty The editors of the university yearbook dedicated the 1914 Yackety Yack to Herty because he stood for service to his region. Colleagues recalled that he urged students to use chemistry to do something for the state or the country.Search the index · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: Charles Holmes Herty (1867-1938)
7. 1933 The university gives Charles H. Herty an honorary Doctor of Laws UNC conferred an honorary LL.D. on Charles Holmes Herty in 1933, seventeen years after he left its chemistry faculty to work in industrial chemistry.Search the index · UNC Libraries, North Carolina Miscellany: Honorary Degrees Awarded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1799 to present