Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

…[coached] basketball for 20 years.” (4) Laura and Ralph had two daughters, Adora McGlamery Cloer (1939-1982), and Fannie McGlamery Watson.(4) Laura Jarrett McGlamery died at age 82 and is buried…

John Robert Raper

…most frequent collecting locations included Chapel Hill and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and orchids seem to have been his particular interest. Although John Raper was a mycologist, we…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Virginia’s political culture with the large number of university graduates in the state assembly, elites schooled in eugenics had a distinct advantage in affecting social policy. Thus, Virginia and its…

Harry E. Ahles

…ca. 1950, “On dividing road of Indiana and Illinois, Kankakee, background in Indiana” Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.,…

William Battle Cobb

…1915 [Collier] Cobb had used a portion of Mary Know Gatlin Cobb’s dowry to purchase land and build houses on Cobb Terrace [35.917169 latitude, -79.054471 longitude in downtown Chapel Hill]…”5…

Albert Commons

…“coppery St. John’s-wort” Lophiola aurea “golden crest” Minuartia caroliniana “pine barren sandwort” Najas gracillima “thread-like naiad” Paronychia fastigiata “cluster-stemmed nail-wort” Pityopsis graminifolia “grassleaf golden aster” Quercus ilicifolia “scrub oak” Rhynchosia…

Budd Elmon Smith

…Union County, North Carolina. Ethel Smith became the Head Librarian of the college library, and it was named in her honor on 23 January 1959.5, 6 Ethel K. Smith, spouse…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…doubt many more will be found as our cataloging continues. While NCU’s Eggleston specimens are diverse in taxon and locality, they are particularly rich in Crataegus from the southeastern United…

Delzie Demaree

…for he had suffered a serious wound to a foot during action in France during World War I, and had been gassed during the same period of military service.2 He…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…was talking about — and he was extremely pleasant to work with, a very kindly and generous person.” He lived in a Takoma Park house built in 1887 that had