Local figure
John Kimberly was elected to the University of North Carolina's chair of agricultural chemistry in January 1857, succeeding Benjamin Hedrick, and after a year of study at Heidelberg expanded laboratory teaching in Chapel Hill. He returned for a year when the university reopened in 1875, then left to farm near Asheville.
Source: NCpedia: Kimberly, John
1817–1882 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 indexed work is connected with this person, and the index includes one work by John Kimberly. 1 held at OCPL →
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Letters of the Kimberly family of Chapel Hill, written during the Civil War and issued in 2000 as an electronic edition in the Documenting the American South project of the university library, within its Southern Homefront collection. The sections cover the Union invasion, disease and death, the homefront and morale, with page images of the originals. Kristofer Ray transcribed and annotated the letters.
William R. Burk's history of botany at the University of North Carolina, from its early natural scientists such as Denison Olmsted and Elisha Mitchell through later figures including George Francis Atkinson, Joseph Austin Holmes and Henry Van Peters Wilson, closing with a chapter on the Department of Botany itself. Published in Fort Worth in 2023.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Kimberly, John, 1817-1882.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
William R. Burk's history of botany at the University of North Carolina, from its early natural scientists such as Denison Olmsted and Elisha Mitchell through later figures including George Francis Atkinson, Joseph Austin Holmes and Henry Van Peters Wilson, closing with a chapter on the Department of Botany itself. Published in Fort Worth in 2023.
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People named in the same dated entries as John Kimberly, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.
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Picture: John Kimberly, portrait plate, 1857. Public domain. Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 1 (1907); via the Internet Archive
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