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James Lee Love taught mathematics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1885 to 1889, then taught at Harvard until 1911, where he was dean of the Lawrence Scientific School. In 1923 he joined his son James Spencer Love in founding Burlington Mills Corporation.
Source: UNC Libraries: James Lee Love Papers, 1880-1954
1860–1950 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 5 works by James Lee Love.
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James Lee Love's recollections, written at the Library of Congress in 1920 and 1921. The 320 pages touch on his Gaston County roots, the University at Chapel Hill, Harvard and its Lawrence Scientific School, and his wife, Julia Spencer Love.
James Lee Love's short account of the University of North Carolina in the 1880s, a 55-page book from the University of North Carolina Press in 1945, looking back sixty years to Chapel Hill in that decade.
A two leaf typescript by James Lee Love (1860-1950) on the University of North Carolina library in the years 1875 to 1889, issued in Burlington, North Carolina, in 1944. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.
James Lee Love's note on the first college observatory in the United States, detached from The Nation for August 16, 1888 and signed at Chapel Hill by an associate professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina. It deals with Joseph Caldwell and with the observatory that stood among the college buildings at Chapel Hill.
James Lee Love's article arguing that the University of North Carolina built the first college observatory in the United States, detached from the December 1888 number of The Sidereal Messenger and printed at the Carleton College Observatory in Northfield, Minnesota. It concerns Joseph Caldwell, the university's first president, and the observatory building at Chapel Hill.
Report by Edmond A. Boudreaux III on archaeological work at the James Lee Love House on the University of North Carolina campus, issued in 2004 by the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at Chapel Hill. It runs to vi and 109 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits. Topics include Chapel Hill antiquities, university buildings and town history, so the report documents what the excavation found.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), the Chapel Hill writer, is the subject of papers running 1833 to 1975 with the bulk from 1839 to 1942, about 6,700 items in ten linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 683. Diaries and albums are named among the material. Topics include James and Judith Vermeule Phillips, Julia Spencer Love and James Lee Love, mothers and daughters, Reconstruction in North Carolina, and American women authors of the nineteenth century.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Love, James Lee, 1860-1950.
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