John Kimberly

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1. January 1857 John Kimberly is elected the university's professor of agricultural chemistry The university elected John Kimberly, a Harvard-trained chemist then teaching in eastern North Carolina, to the chair of agricultural chemistry in place of the dismissed Benjamin Hedrick. People: Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick Place: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina · Also named: Benjamin HedrickSearch the index · NCpedia: Kimberly, John
2. by July 25, 1857 Professors Fetter and Kimberly and tutor Charles Mitchell take over Elisha Mitchell's teaching Under the trustees' arrangement after Elisha Mitchell's death, Professor Manuel Fetter, Professor John Kimberly of the scientific school and tutor Charles A. Mitchell, the late professor's son, were appointed to carry his professorial duties for the time being. People: John Kimberly, Manuel Fetter Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles A. Mitchell, Elisha MitchellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Gazette, July 25, 1857, p. 3
3. About 1860 John Kimberly expands laboratory teaching at the university Back in Chapel Hill after a year of study abroad in 1859, John Kimberly expanded laboratory instruction in chemistry and introduced the university's first laboratory fee for supplies. Place: Chapel Hill, University of North CarolinaSearch the index · NCpedia: Kimberly, John
4. January 1860 The Rev. Andrew Hepburn takes up the university chair of rhetoric, logic and metaphysics The Rev. Andrew Hepburn, newly appointed professor of rhetoric, logic and metaphysics, arrived at Chapel Hill and began his duties at the opening of the spring session. About twenty-five new students entered at the same time, and Professor Kimberly returned from a year of study in Germany. People: John Kimberly Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Andrew HepburnSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 1, 1860, p. 3
5. 1868 to May 1878 The Chapel of the Cross nearly empties while the university is closed When the university shut in 1868 most parishioners left Chapel Hill, and for a time the parish had too few men to form a vestry. Lay readers and a monthly visit from R. B. Sutton kept services going; Sutton was still taking the morning service in April 1878. Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr., assigned to the parish, took charge in May 1878. People: Fordyce M. Hubbard, Kemp Plummer Battle, John Kimberly, Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr. Place: Chapel of the Cross, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: R. B. SuttonArchibald Henderson, The Church of the Atonement and the Chapel of the Cross at Chapel Hill (1938), scan p. 54 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, April 18, 1878, p. 3; The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 18, 1878, p. 3
6. 1875–1876 John Kimberly returns as professor of agriculture at the reopened university When the university reorganized and reopened in 1875, John Kimberly was elected professor of agriculture. He resigned the next year to return to his farm in Buncombe County. Place: Chapel Hill, University of North CarolinaSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 1