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Henry Armand London

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“Lawyer, state senator. Author of 1901 "London Libel Law." Editor of Chatham Record, 1878-1918. Home was here.”

State historical marker: H-88: Henry A. London 1846-1918

1846–1918 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineThe University's centennial and the Alumni Building, 1895–19011895–1901 · 6 events · The University's hundredth anniversary in June 1895 brought both a look back at its history and a new building. Alfred Moore Waddell gave the oration, printed that year as The Ante-Bellum University, and Stephen B. Weeks spoke on the University in the Civil War. At the centennial banquet alumni and classes pledged gifts toward an Alumni Hall, led by Julian S. Carr. With about $7,000 of the $20,000 in pledges in hand, the trustees began its foundation in 1897, to a design by Frank Pierce Milburn modeled on the Boston Public Library. Its cornerstone was laid with Masonic ceremony in 1898, and the Alumni Building was finished in 1901 with fourteen lecture rooms and the University's administrative offices.

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  1. Stephen B. Weeks speaks on the university in the Civil War at its centennial At the centennial anniversary exercises Weeks gave a long prepared address, 'The University of North Carolina in the Civil War,' in Memorial Hall on the evening of June 5, after Henry A. London; Alfred Moore Waddell and Adolphus H. Eller had reviewed earlier periods of the university's history that morning. People: Stephen B. Weeks, Alfred Moore Waddell, Henry Armand London Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Adolphus Hill Eller, Henry A. London · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 518 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 6, 1895, p. 1

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By Henry Armand London

Henry Armand London (1846-1918) Diary and Paper

London, Henry Armand, 1846-1918 · 1864

Henry Armand London, later a Pittsboro lawyer and journalist, kept this diary as a senior at the university from July to November 1864. He records church and literary society meetings, recitations, reading law, visits with Chapel Hill friends, and fights between freshmen and sophomores and the faculty's discipline. A paper dated 1867 to 1877 comes with it. State Archives of North Carolina, MfP.21.

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Henry Armand London papers, 1862-1877 ; 1887.

London, Henry Armand, 1846-1918 · 1862

Eight items from Henry Armand London (1846-1918), dated 1862 to 1877 and 1887, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 868-z. Includes diaries and other primary sources. Topics include service with the Thirty second North Carolina Infantry of the Confederate army, recruiting and military life, Confederate Memorial Day addresses, people who escaped slavery in North Carolina, and student life at the university in Chapel Hill.

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

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