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E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell

1872–1931 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell

Pharmaceutical review

Cox, C. L. (Charles Lea), 1892-; Howell, E. V. (Edward Vernon), 1872-1931 · 1916 · University of North Carolina

Review questions in pharmacy set by C. L. Cox and Edward Vernon Howell and printed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1916. Even numbered pages carry the questions while the odd numbered pages are left blank and unnumbered for students to write their answers. Topics include the study and teaching of pharmacy at Chapel Hill.

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E.V. Howell papers, 1725-1929.

Howell, E. V. (Edward Vernon), 1872-1931 · 1725

Family and personal papers associated with Edward Vernon Howell (1872-1931), spanning 1725 to 1929, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1060. Subjects include the American Revolution, the Civil War and Confederate army, North Carolina merchants, family social life, and the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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About E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell

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.

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  1. The pharmacy department is made part of the university The department of pharmacy, run by Dean Edward V. Howell, was formally incorporated into the university in 1901. Its laboratory and lecture space was then doubled. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) HowellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 610
  2. Edward Vernon Howell owns Chapel Hill's first automobile Pharmacy dean Edward Vernon Howell, then living in the old Fetter house on East Franklin Street, became the first in town to own a car, a one-cylinder Oldsmobile.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 179

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