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Lee S. Overman

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“United States Senator, 1903-30, a leading supporter of Wilson's war policies, Speaker of House of Representatives. His home is here.”
State historical marker: L-27: Lee S. Overman

1854–1930 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Worth family papers,

Worth (Family) · 1844

Worth family papers, about 694 items beginning in 1844: letters, business papers and other material on family affairs, opposition to secession, North Carolina politics, fertilizer and textile businesses, Zebulon B. Vance, and federal patronage early in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Correspondents and subjects include Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Edwin A. Alderman, George T. Winston, Josephus Daniels and Robert Bingham of the Bingham School, with UNC students among them.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Overman, Lee S. -- 1854-1930.

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1885 The General Assembly adds $15,000 a year to the university's support An Act for the Maintenance of the University, introduced by Lee S. Overman and passed by the House 58 to 32, added $15,000 a year, payable quarterly. Because the $2,000 normal school grant was moved to other schools, the net gain was $13,000, and the act also ended the rule that county scholarship students must teach. People: Lee S. Overman, Kemp Plummer BattleSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 307
June 5, 1918 A subdued wartime commencement honors the governor, Senator Overman and the Rev. W. D. Moss With about a third of the class of 1918 already in camps, the university gave honorary degrees to Governor Bickett, Senator Lee S. Overman, Edwin Mims and the Presbyterian pastor W. D. Moss. Frederic C. Howe, immigration commissioner at New York, gave the address. People: William Dygnum Moss, Thomas W. BickettSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 166

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

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Kemp Plummer Battle 1 entry: The General Assembly adds $15,000 a year to the university's support (1885)
Thomas W. Bickett 1 entry: A subdued wartime commencement honors the governor, Senator Overman and the Rev. W. D. Moss (June 5, 1918)
William Dygnum Moss 1 entry: A subdued wartime commencement honors the governor, Senator Overman and the Rev. W. D. Moss (June 5, 1918)

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Background context: NCpedia: Lee Slater Overman NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
Background context: Historical marker L-27: Lee S. Overman NC Highway Historical Marker United States Senator, 1903-30, a leading supporter of Wilson's war policies, Speaker of House of Representatives. His home is here.
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 48 Orange County pages naming Lee S Overman DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Lee S. Overman 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
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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