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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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| Size | 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,600 items) |
| Abstract | E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell (1872-1931) was the founder of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy and its dean for 33 years. The collection includes Howell's personal and professional correspondence, 1900-1929, relating to pharmacy standards and legislation and University of North Carolina affairs, together with historical materials, 1725-1871 (originals and copies), largely connected with North Carolina. The latter includes items relating to Richard Henderson (1735-1785), and the Transylvania (Ky.) Land Company; the Revolutionary War in North Carolina; the Confederacy (letters tax returns, army reports and rolls); Williams and Haywood, wholesale and retail druggists in Raleigh, N.C., 1858-1869; and members of the Burton family, Williams family, Lewis family, Boylan family, and Moore family in 18th-century and 19th-century North Carolina. Included also are copies of folk ballads collected in Avery County, N.C., 1917-1918; accounts, 1784-1922, of physicians and merchants; deeds, bills, and wills; real estate papers from Raleigh, N.C.; copies of papers written by and articles concerning Henry Harrisse (1829-1910), a French scholar who taught at the University of North Carolina, 1853-1857; and the court martial book of the Orange County (N.C.) Light Infantry, 1861. |
| Creator | Howell, E. V. (Edward Vernon), 1872-1931. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Biographical Information
E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell (1872-1931) was the founder of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy and its dean for 33 years. He was born in Raleigh, N.C., and educated at Salem and Wake Forest and the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy. He practiced pharmacy in Rocky Mount, N.C., with his sister, until he came to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1897. Howell was also a collector and amateur historian interested in North Carolina history, the history of pharmacy and medicine, and North Carolina folklore.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes E. V. Howell's personal and professional correspondence, 1900-1929, relating to pharmacy standards and legislation and University of North Carolina affairs, together with historical materials, 1725-1871 (originals and copies), largely connected with North Carolina. The latter includes items relating to Richard Henderson (1735-1785), and the Transylvania (Ky.) Land Company; the Revolutionary War in North Carolina; the Confederacy (letters tax returns, army reports and rolls); Robert Burton and his descendants; Williams and Haywood, wholesale and retail druggists in Raleigh, N.C., 1858-1869; and members of the Williams, Lewis, Boylan, and Moore families in 18th- and 19th-century North Carolina. Included also are copies of ballads collected in Avery County, N.C., 1917-1918; accounts, 1784-1922, of physicians and merchants; deeds, bills, and wills; real estate papers from Raleigh, N.C.; copies of papers written by and articles concerning Henry Harrisse (1829- 1910), French scholar who taught at the University of North Carolina, 1853- 1857; and the court martial book of the Orange County (N.C.) Light Infantry, 1861.
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Series 1. Historical Manuscripts, 1725-1871 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Includes correspondence, accounts, orders, invoices, indentures, deeds, plats, contracts, wills, and other documents chiefly related to the legal and business affairs of Richard Henderson in connection with his colonizing project westward from North Carolina beginning in 1775. Henderson's company, also known as the Transylvania Company, consisted of Henderson, Thomas Hart, Nathaniel Hart, John Williams, John Luttrell, William Johnston, James Hogg, David Hart, and Leonard Hendley Bullock. The earliest papers include several Revolutionary War letters concerned with political and military events. There are also papers relating to the Confederate Army, and a group of papers of the firm of Williams and Haywood, wholesale and retail druggists of Raleigh, N.C., which includes records from before, during, and after the Civil War.
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Series 2. Personal and Professional Papers, 1900-1929 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Includes miscellaneous letters, papers, and records of E. V. Howell. Some correspondence relates to pharmacy standards and legislation and University of North Carolina affairs.
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Series 3. Notes, Studies, and Collections
Arrangement: by subject and type.
Series contains material on various subjects of interest to E. V. Howell. Also includes ballads collected in Avery County, N.C., 1917-1918.
| Folder 19 |
Notes on history of pharmacy and medicine #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" Folder 19 |
| Folder 20 |
Genealogy #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" Folder 20 |
| Folder 21 |
The Regulators, 1770-1771 #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" Folder 21 |
Folder 22-24
Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24 |
Ballads, 1917-1918 #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" Folder 22-24Includes collected ballads from the North Carolina mountains with notes of Maud Minish Sutton. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-1060/1b |
Printed ballad, "Jim Crow" #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" OPF-1060/1b |
Folder 25-26
Folder 25Folder 26 |
Transylvania #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" Folder 25-26 |
| Folder 27 |
Newspaper clippings #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" Folder 27 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-1060/1b |
Newspaper clipping #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" OPF-1060/1b |
Image Folder PF-1060/1-9
PF-1060/1PF-1060/2PF-1060/3PF-1060/4PF-1060/5PF-1060/6PF-1060/7PF-1060/8PF-1060/9 |
Photographs #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" PF-1060/1-9Includes a few personal pictures and snapshot negatives of E. V. Howell. There are also engravings of United States army and naval officers and a few Confederate Army officers and statesmen; five colored lithographs of Native Americans; and small photographs of P. G. T. Beauregard, John Wilkes Booth, Simon Bolivar Buckner, John C. Calhoun, James Chesnut, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Elliott, A. P. Hill, Robert F. Hoke, Benjamin Huger, Albert Sidney Johnston, J. E. B. Stuart, John Rhett, and others. |
| Extra Oversize Paper Folder X-OPF-1060/1b |
Yale College catalog, 1812 #01060, Series: "3. Notes, Studies, and Collections" X-OPF-1060/1b |
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Series 4. Volumes, 1784-1897 and undated.
Arrangement: roughly chronological.
Includes personal notebooks of E. V. Howell and also volumes belonging to his collection of historical manuscripts relating to Robert Burton; early physicians; Granville County, N.C.; and other matters.
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Series 5. Henry Harrisse Material, 1853-1931 and undated.
Arrangement: by type.
Includes biographical and bibliographical data, copies of articles, autobiographical excerpts, photographs, research notes, and correspondence related to Henry Harrisse (1829-1910), French author, scholar, and lawyer, who taught at the University of North Carolina, 1853-1857. The items chielfy pertain to Harrisse's career as a teacher and to his activities in research and publishing in early American history.
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Series 6. Robert Burton Material, 1768-1799.
Arrangement: chronological.
Includes material related to Robert Burton (1747-1825), a native of Mecklenburg County, Va., who moved to Granville County, N.C., and to his descendants. Items are similar and related to those in the Historical Manuscripts series. Early papers concern Burton's business as a merchant and tobacconist in Virginia. There are also some letters discussing the progress of the Revolutionary War and one letter to Burton from Daniel Boone.
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Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, February 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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