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Hubert Ashley Royster

1871–1959 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The university confers its first Doctor of Medicine degrees On the evening of May 7, 1903, Dean Hubert A. Royster presented four graduates of the Medical Department, and the M.D. degree was conferred for the first time in the university's history. People: Hubert Ashley Royster Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 621
  2. Orange County physicians reorganize the county medical society Meeting at the court house in Hillsborough on August 27, 1903, with Dr. Hubert A. Royster of Raleigh explaining the state society's plan, the county's physicians organized the Orange County Medical Society, with Dr. Isaac H. Manning president and Dr. C. D. Jones secretary, to meet quarterly. A county medical society had already petitioned the legislature in 1897. People: Isaac Hall Manning, Clarence Dupre Jones, Hubert Ashley Royster Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 10, 1903, p. 3

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By Hubert Ashley Royster

Selection of correspondence to and from H. H. Brimley.

Royster, Hubert Ashley, 1871-1959 · 1902

Correspondence of 1902 and 1903 to and from museum curator H. H. Brimley about founding the North Carolina Academy of Science, with Hubert A. Royster among the writers. Other scientists named include C. S. Brimley, W. W. Ashe, T. Gilbert Pearson, Franklin Sherman and H. V. Wilson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 16 images.

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