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George Howard

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Ferebee, Gregory, and McPherson family papers, 1816-1913, Camden and Granville Counties, North Carolina : also Virginia

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection · 1993 · University Publications of America

A 1993 microfilm edition from University Publications of America in Bethesda, Maryland, reproducing family papers of the Ferebees, Gregorys and McPhersons, 1816 to 1913, from Camden and Granville counties in North Carolina and from Virginia. A printed reel guide accompanies it. Topics include Confederate army surgeons, navy sea life, medical education, and student life and riots at the University of North Carolina in the nineteenth century.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Howard, George, 1829-1905.

UNC

Ferebee, Gregory, and McPherson family papers, 1816-1913

Ferebee family; Gregory family; McPherson family · 1816

Three connected families, the Ferebees, Gregorys and McPhersons, are represented in papers running from 1816 to 1913. Topics include physicians and medical education, a Confederate army surgeon with the Twelfth North Carolina Infantry, naval service, travel in the Caribbean, Hong Kong and Uruguay, the education of women, and social life in Camden and Granville counties. Student life and riots at Chapel Hill also appear. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3374.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Howard, George, 1829-1905.

UNC

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