E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell

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1. March 1897 UNC sets up a chair of pharmacy under Edward V. Howell In March 1897 the trustees set up a chair of pharmacy and elected Edward Vernon Howell, beginning the department that became the School of Pharmacy. An earlier College of Pharmacy under Dr. T. W. Harris, begun in 1880, had been short-lived. In 1953 the school's dean was E. A. Brecht. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: T. W. Harris · Also mentions: School of PharmacySearch the index · The Tar Heel, March 27, 1897, p. 2, Chair of Pharmacy · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
2. between 1899 and 1903 Hoot Patterson's house is the first in Chapel Hill with indoor plumbing Bryant lists merchant Henry H. "Hoot" Patterson's home as the first in Chapel Hill to have indoor plumbing, one of several local firsts of these years, along with Eben Alexander's telephone and Edward Vernon Howell's automobile. People: Henry Houston Patterson, Eben Alexander, E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 179
3. 1901 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) Howell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 610
4. By November 24, 1904 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, which he brought over from Durham. A New York Times despatch from Chapel Hill dated November 24, 1904, reprinted in the Weekly in 1931, told how it set Dr. Charles S. Mangum's horse bolting, how neighbors begged him to keep it off the street, and how the university president passed on a petition asking him not to drive it by day. Howell later told Louis Graves he brought it in 1905, and Bryant gives 1903; both are later accounts. The car so frightened horses and mules that he got rid of it and went several years before buying another. Place: Old Fetter house, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Louis Graves, Charles S. Mangum · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 179 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 10, 1928, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1931, p. 3
5. by January 1915 Lueco Lloyd serves as first vice-president of the Peoples Bank of Chapel Hill The Peoples Bank's notices in the News listed Lueco Lloyd as first vice-president under president E. V. Howell, with R. H. Ward second vice-president and C. B. Griffin cashier. He had been one of the bank's directors by 1912. People: Lueco Lloyd, E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell, Ralph H. Ward, C. B. Griffin Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News (Chapel Hill), January 14, 1915, p. 6
6. September 1916 Women register in every department of the university, including pharmacy In fall 1916 women were registered in all of the university's departments and professional schools, which the News called a first. Pharmacy was the last to admit them, with Margaret Lynch of Chapel Hill and Minerva Bingham of Rutherfordton. By early October fourteen women were enrolled. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Margaret Lynch, Minerva BinghamSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), September 28, 1916, p. 1
7. by August 16, 1923 F. O. Bowman and the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company open the North Street tract for lots F. O. Bowman and the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company bought E. V. Howell's land on the north side of North Street for $10,000 and laid it out in about a dozen lots on two new streets, with water, light and sewer lines promised; four lots sold at once. People: Frederick O. Bowman, E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: North Street, Hillsboro road to the Buice place, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1923, p. 1
8. January 14 and 15, 1925 Peoples Bank officers cover a shortage overnight and open on time On the night of January 14, 1925, after the death that morning of assistant cashier Ralph Andrews, a shortage was found in the books of the Peoples Bank in Chapel Hill. President Vernon Howell pledged his own property and with W. S. Roberson borrowed the missing sum from the First National Bank of Durham before breakfast, so the bank opened as usual the next morning; the state bank examiner then posted a notice that the shortage had been made good and the bank was solvent. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell, W. S. Roberson Place: Peoples Bank, Chapel Hill · Also named: Vernon HowellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1925, p. 1
9. June 17, 1929 Judge Devin throws out S. Berman's suit over the sale of the People's Bank building On June 17, 1929, in Superior Court at Hillsborough, Judge Devin nonsuited S. Berman's damage suit against the trustees of the People's Bank of Chapel Hill. Berman said he had been the highest bidder for the bank's building in 1926 and was refused a deed; the judge ruled his case too weak to go to the jury. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: S. BermanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1929, p. 4
10. February 14, 1931 Pharmacy dean Vernon Howell dies in Chapel Hill E. Vernon Howell, who had come to Chapel Hill in the 1890s and was founder and dean of the University's pharmacy school, died after seventeen days of pneumonia. The Weekly's editor, his neighbor, wrote of the Halloween parties he gave the village children and of his collections of old furniture, books and papers; former students came from across the state during his illness. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 20, 1931, p. 4
11. March 19, 1931 J. Grover Beard becomes dean of the University's pharmacy school After Vernon Howell's death J. Grover Beard, a 1909 graduate long on the pharmacy faculty and a past president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, was named acting dean; the executive committee of the trustees, meeting in Raleigh, ratified his appointment along with that of Ira Rose of Rocky Mount as a teacher of pharmacy. People: John Grover Beard, E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: School of Pharmacy, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ira RoseSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 20, 1931, p. 1

After their death in 1931

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1. by January 1946 Kay Kyser and his mother give Dean Edward Vernon Howell's library to UNC Bandleader Kay Kyser and his mother, Mrs. Emily Royster Howell Kyser of Rocky Mount, gave the university library the private library of Edward Vernon Howell, the first dean of the School of Pharmacy, who had served thirty-four years. The collection held more than 3,500 items, many on North Carolina and the South during the Civil War. People: Kay Kyser, E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell Place: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina library · Also named: Emily Royster Howell Kyser · Also mentions: School of PharmacySearch the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 23 (1946), p. 114