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Andrew Henry Patterson, an 1891 graduate of the University of North Carolina, was its professor of physics from 1908 until his death in 1928 and, from 1911, dean of its School of Applied Science. He was for a time senior warden of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill.
Source: NCpedia: Patterson, Andrew Henry (William S. Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
1870–1928 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Andrew Henry Patterson.
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Five typescript leaves written in 1925 by Andrew Henry Patterson, 1870 to 1928, at the request of Mrs. Patrick Henry Winston. They give the history of the Alexander place, a house that stood where the Spencer building was later put up, and they draw on notes of a talk Dr. Battle gave in the chapel around 1911. Part of the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
Weather observations set the Andrew Henry Patterson papers apart: 52 items in half a linear foot, dated 1902 to 1925 and 1964, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1419. The papers include climate observations for Chapel Hill, meteorology in North Carolina and the United States Weather Bureau, alongside the university faculty, several Patterson relatives, and Confederate social conditions during the Civil War.
Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Patterson, Andrew Henry, 1870-1928.
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