Albert R. Ledoux

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1877-1881 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 Kerr, Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 136 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1928, p. 5
2. early September 1878 Assistant chemist George Warnecke joins the Fertilizer Control Station at Chapel Hill George Warnecke, a German chemist who had first come to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at Middletown, arrived in Chapel Hill as the new assistant at the state Fertilizer Control Station run by Dr. Albert R. Ledoux. His hiring was part of preparations for wider experimental work by the Department of Agriculture. People: Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, September 7, 1878, p. 2
3. October 5, 1878 Sunday schools organize an Orange County Sunday School Convention at Orange Church Delegates from Sunday schools around the county met in the grove at Orange Church and organized an Orange County Sunday School Convention, electing J. W. Gattis of Durham president, L. Turner of Chapel Hill vice president and I. D. Hutchins secretary. Schools reporting included New Hope, Bethel, Damascus, Mount Moriah, Orange, Iron Mine, the Chapel Hill Presbyterian and Methodist schools and the Durham Methodist school, and the convention named New Hope Church as its next meeting place. People: Solomon Pool, Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, October 12, 1878, p. 4
4. April 24, 1879 The State Experiment Station at Chapel Hill offers coroners its chemists for suspected poisonings Under the new state health law, A. R. Ledoux of the Experiment Station wrote to coroners and county superintendents of health explaining how to send material from suspected poisoning cases to the station. With the Board of Agriculture's leave he arranged for Prof. A. F. Redd of the university to make the analyses. People: Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 10, 1879, p. 1
5. by August 23, 1879 Dr. Ledoux's report on the Chapel Hill experiment station is published The Agricultural Experiment Station at Chapel Hill published a report of about 200 pages on its first two years under Dr. Ledoux: 378 analyses of fertilizers, soils, ores, mineral waters and seeds, replies to 1,924 letters in one year, and field trials of fertilizers by half a dozen Orange County farmers. The station also did the analyses for the State Geological Survey, the State Board of Health and poisoning cases. People: Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, August 23, 1879, p. 2
6. September 1879 University faculty start Sunday Bible classes that every student must attend President Kemp P. Battle, Dr. A. R. Ledoux and Professors Redd, Mangum and Hooper each organized a Sunday Bible class, and students were required to attend one of them. The topics ran from the evidences of Christianity to the geography of Palestine and readings in the Greek Testament. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, September 20, 1879, p. 3
7. January 20, 1880 Albert R. Ledoux resigns as head of the state experiment station at Chapel Hill The State Board of Agriculture accepted, with thanks, the resignation of Dr. A. R. Ledoux, state chemist and director of the experiment station at Chapel Hill. The resignation took effect April 15 so he could finish the season's fertilizer analyses. People: Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, February 7, 1880, p. 2
8. by January 10, 1880 Chemist Wilhelm Mager joins the state experiment station at Chapel Hill Wilhelm Mager arrived as the new assistant to Dr. A. R. Ledoux at the agricultural experiment station, chosen after the Board of Agriculture sent Ledoux to examine candidates in Baltimore and New York. People: Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, January 10, 1880, p. 3
9. June 1882 The University gives Albert R. Ledoux an honorary Master of Science At its 1882 commencement the University conferred an honorary Master of Science on Albert R. Ledoux, the former director of the state experiment station that had worked in its laboratory.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 256
10. June 1890 Alumni pledge an endowment for a chair of history At the 1890 commencement banquet, alumni answered a call to endow a chair of history: Julian S. Carr pledged $10,000 and Judge James Grant offered to make up the balance. Battle then visited alumni in the larger towns to complete the fund. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert W. Winston, Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 448
11. 1911 Albert R. Ledoux endows a research fellowship in chemistry Albert R. Ledoux, the first director of the state Agricultural Experiment Station when it was at the university, sent $5,000 in 1911 to set up a research fellowship in chemistry. People: Albert R. LedouxSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 727