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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the E. V. Howell Papers, #1060, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from James K. Kyser and Emily Royster Howell Kyser of Rocky Mount, N.C., 1946.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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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.

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• Avery County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Boylan family.
• Burton family.
• Confederate States of America--History.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Orange County Light Infantry (N.C.)
• Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--North Carolina--Orange County.
• Drugstores--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Folk music--North Carolina--Avery County.
• Folk songs, English--North Carolina.
• Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.
• Henderson, Richard, 1735-1785.
• Howell, E. V. (Edward Vernon), 1872-1931.
• Kentucky--History--To 1792.
• Land companies--Kentucky--History--18th century.
• Lewis family.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History.
• Moore family.
• North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Militia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Pharmacy--Law and legislation--United States--History.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History.
• Transylvania Land Company.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Pharmacy--History.
• Williams and Haywood (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Williams family.

• Ernest Haywood Collection (#1290); Robert Burton Papers (#3973); Henry Harrisse Papers (#3518).

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.

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.

• Photographs (PF-1060/1-9)
• Oversize papers (OPF-1060/1b, X-OPF-1060/1a)