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Edmund Jones

1848–1920 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

The index holds one work for Edmund Jones so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

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  1. A Memorial Hall tablet names the eleven donors of the university's land The trustees placed a tablet in Memorial Hall naming the eleven Orange County landowners whose gifts of land settled the university and the village at Chapel Hill. Cameron called them the sturdy Orange farmers who fixed the seat of the institution. People: Christopher Barbee, Edmund Jones, Matthew McCauley, William McCauley, Mark Morgan Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina, Memorial Hall Inaugural Proceedings, Wednesday, June 3, 1885 (1885), scan p. 15

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By Edmund Jones

Governors' Papers: James Turner, Correspondence, April 1804

Jones, Edmund · 1804

Governor James Turner's correspondence for April 1804, 61 images, with Edmund Jones among the writers. Turner served three terms, 1802 to 1805, before leaving for the United States Senate. Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Burke, Cumberland and Orange counties are named.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

About Edmund Jones

Colin M. Hawkins photographic collection, 1860s (bulk 1866).

Hawkins, Colin M., active 1860-1880 · 1864

Thirty photographs made by Colin M. Hawkins, active 1860 to 1880, dating from the 1860s with most taken in 1866, in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. The photographs depict students of the University of North Carolina and members of the Chi Phi fraternity, with individual sitters named as Edmund Jones, Alonzo Phillips and Thomas Henderson Pritchard. The setting is Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Edmund, 1848-1920.

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  • Memorial Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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