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Augustus Moore

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  1. Faculty send ten new students out of Chapel Hill in a smallpox scare Word that ten arriving students had spent a night in Tarboro, where smallpox was spreading, set off a panic. The faculty ordered them to stay five miles from Chapel Hill until the danger passed. People: Augustus Moore Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 287

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Reminiscences and anecdotes of the North Carolina bar

Cowper, Pulaski · 1895 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Pulaski Cowper's recollections of the North Carolina bar, including biographical sketches of the lawyers Gavin Hogg and Augustus Moore. The piece was detached from the April 1895 North Carolina University Magazine and printed at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. Anecdotal in form, it covers North Carolina lawyers and judges in biography.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Moore, Augustus, 1803-1851.

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