H. V. Wilson

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 7 dated events in the chronology →

During their lifetime

1. 1918 Trustees name the first five Kenan professors The trustees adopted President Edward Kidder Graham's recommendations for the new Kenan professorships, funded under the will of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham. Venable was named Kenan Professor of Chemistry, with H. V. Wilson, Edwin Greenlaw, William MacNider and William Cain. People: Francis Preston Venable, Edward Kidder Graham, H. V. Wilson, Robert Worth Bingham, Edwin Greenlaw, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William MacNider, William Cain, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler BinghamSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Chronological List of Events
2. May 12, 1936 The University faculty votes to send the trustees resolutions against moving the engineering school On Tuesday afternoon, May 12, 1936 the University faculty voted 80 to 19 to ask President Graham to lay before the trustees resolutions opposing removal of the engineering school from Chapel Hill to State College, offered as the view of a considerable number of the faculty. The resolutions proposed a single engineering school with divisions at Chapel Hill and Raleigh, and the faculty also thanked Graham for encouraging open debate. People: John M. Booker, Frank Porter Graham, H. V. Wilson Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 15, 1936, p. 1
3. by December 11, 1936 Black West Franklin Street owners stay on by indulgence in homes the town took for paving assessments Louis Graves reported that the Black owners along West Franklin Street, assessed $7.70 a front foot for paving and curbing eight or ten years before, had been sold out for nonpayment: the town held certificates of sale whose time for redemption had run out and let the families stay only by indulgence. Painter Rick Taylor's 1936 bill showed $2,508 in street assessments on property valued at $3,600. Recorder L. J. Phipps answered by proposing a special act to let the town carry the cost by a general tax, and H. V. Wilson urged the town to act. People: Luther James Phipps, H. V. Wilson, Louis Graves Place: West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Rick TaylorThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1936, p. 1
4. April 1938 Dr. William deB. MacNider is elected to the National Academy of Sciences Dr. William deB. MacNider, dean of the University medical school, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining H. V. Wilson as the second member of the faculty in the Academy. People: William de Berniere MacNider, H. V. Wilson Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University medical schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 29, 1938, p. 1
5. October 24-26, 1938 The National Academy of Sciences holds its fall meeting at Chapel Hill The National Academy of Sciences met for three days in Venable Hall, its first meeting in the South, the Weekly said, with about thirty of the nation's leading scientists reading papers; the University gave a dinner at the Carolina Inn and Duke a luncheon and campus tour. William deB. MacNider and H. V. Wilson, the only Academy members in North Carolina, took part with many other faculty members, and MacNider's paper on how kidney cells change their structure with age drew an Associated Press story. People: William de Berniere MacNider, H. V. Wilson, R. E. Coker Place: Venable Hall, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 28, 1938, p. 1
6. January 4, 1939 Zoologist Henry Van Peters Wilson dies after 47 years on the University faculty H. V. Wilson, Kenan professor of zoology, died of septicemia in Duke Hospital a month short of his 76th birthday. He had come from Johns Hopkins in 1891 to head biology, took charge of zoology when it was split off, became one of the first five Kenan professors in 1917, helped Joseph A. Holmes found the U.S. Fisheries Laboratory at Beaufort, and only weeks before had announced a finding on how animal cells divide; he was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery. People: H. V. Wilson Place: Duke Hospital, Durham; Chapel Hill cemetery · Also mentions: Chapel Hill cemeterySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 6, 1939, p. 1

After their death in 1939

Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.

1. November 20, 1941 The University dedicates its new zoology building as the Wilson Zoology Laboratory On Thanksgiving morning President Graham dedicated the University's new zoology building, built with help from a federal grant on the rise west of the Bell Tower, and named it the Wilson Zoology Laboratory for Henry Van Peters Wilson, who had taught at the University for 47 years until his death in 1939. R. B. House presided, Robert E. Coker, Kemp D. Battle, Ivey F. Lewis and C. D. Beers spoke, and a portrait of Wilson by Alice Kent Stoddard was shown for the first time. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House, R. E. Coker, H. V. Wilson Place: Zoology building (Wilson Hall), UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice Kent Stoddard, Kemp D. BattleThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1941, p. 3