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Washington Caruthers Kerr

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A sketch of Professor Washington Caruthers Kerr

Holmes, J. A. (Joseph Austin), 1859-1915 · 1887 · Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society

Joseph Austin Holmes on Washington Caruthers Kerr, the state geologist of North Carolina who died in 1885, delivered as a lecture before the Mitchell Society at the University of North Carolina on January 24, 1887. Printed at Chapel Hill from the society's journal, it includes a bibliography of Kerr's writings on pages 21 to 24.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Kerr, Washington Caruthers, 1827-1885.

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  1. Kemp Battle's subscription drive raises $20,167 and Paul Cameron repairs the campus for the reopening After the trustees on May 5, 1875, appointed a committee to seek gifts for the revival, Kemp P. Battle canvassed Raleigh, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount and Tarboro in person and the rest of the state by letter, reporting $18,787 in six weeks and $20,167 in twelve, at a total expense of $62.66; Zebulon B. Vance and Charles W. Broadfoot collected in Charlotte and Fayetteville, and women's groups sent scientific apparatus through Cornelia Phillips Spencer. Paul C. Cameron, without contractor or pay, spent the summer at Chapel Hill directing the repairs and reported on August 31 that he had spent $10,677.76 on the buildings and $2,249.09 on gas works and apparatus. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Paul C. Cameron, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Zebulon B. Vance, Washington Caruthers Kerr, Rufus Lenoir PattersonInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
  2. State experiment station opens at Chapel Hill After Kemp P. Battle pressed for it with the State Grange and farm societies, the legislature created a Board of Agriculture, taxed commercial fertilizers and placed an experiment station at the university, whose trustees elected Albert R. Ledoux its chemist in 1877. Working in Smith Hall it analyzed fertilizers, seeds, soils and waters until it moved to Raleigh in 1881. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Washington Caruthers KerrSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 136

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