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Lee S. Overman

Lee S. Overman, a Trinity College graduate who later became a United States senator, introduced the bill in the General Assembly of 1885 that added $15,000 a year to the University of North Carolina's income. Kemp P. Battle, the university president who had sought the increase, watched its first reading from the lobby.

Source: Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 304

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

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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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  1. 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: Kemp Plummer Battle, Lee S. OvermanSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 307

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