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Augustus Moore

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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.

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January 1822 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 MooreSearch 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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Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 3 collections naming Augustus Moore State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 7 Orange County pages naming Augustus Moore DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Augustus Moore NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
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