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…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

Dr. Elizabeth Henry Bellmer, S. N. D.

…small episode of the 19th century Darwinian debate. Annals of Science 56: 25-45. Resume, Elizabeth H. Bellmer. Archives, Trinity University, Washington, D. C. Obituary “Elizabeth Bellmer” The Washington Post. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/elizabeth-bellmer-obituary?id=5613615…

Ernest Gibbes Patton

…and retired from that institution in 1987.1 Patton’s thesis advisor at UCN-Chapel Hill was J. E. Adams, and the title of his Master’s Thesis was “Influence of flax root byproducts…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. 2. Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Virginia Department…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…studied medicine at the Berkshire Medical Institution in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a school which was founded in 1821 and had its last commencement in 1867. He graduated from this school in…

Robert M. Downs

…Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. 5. tributesNH; Publication Place: City, New Hampshire, USA; URL: http://www.shellyfuneralhomes.com/book-of-memories/2706151/Learn-Betty/service-details.php. Ancestry.com. U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT,…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…

Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

…tents, prepares camp meals, and canoes thru the Okefenokee wilderness and the adjoining Suwanee River.” (4) “For many years she taught a course in the wildflowers of western North Carolina…