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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the LeConte and Furman Family Papers, #2564-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift and purchase 1943 and 1963

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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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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• Agriculture--Experimentation--History--19th century.
• Agriculture--Georgia--History--19th century.
• California--Description and travel.
• Chemists--California--History--19th century.
• College teachers--California--History--19th century.
• Cotton growing--Experimentation--History--19th century.
• Cotton growing--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Family--California--Social life and customs.
• Furman family.
• Furman, Farish C. (Farish Carter), 1846-1883.
• Geologists--California--History--19th century.
• LeConte family.
• LeConte, Emma.
• LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901.
• Soil fertility--Experimentation--History--19th century.
• Soil fertility--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Stevens family.
• Stevens, W. LeConte (Walter LeConte), 1847-1927.
• University of California, Berkeley--Faculty--History--19th century.
• Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--Description and travel.

• Emma LeConte Diary (#420)

Joseph LeConte (1823-1901) of South Carolina, was a geologist, chemist, author, and professor at Franklin College, the University of Georgia, Oglethorpe University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of California at Berkley. Emma LeConte (Furman) was the daughter of Josephs LeConte and wife of Farish Carter Furman, a Milledgeville, Ga., agriculturist who conducted experiments on soil and fertilizer.

This collection chiefly contains family letters, 1869-1897, of Joseph LeConte (1823-1901) of South Carolina, geologist, chemist, and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, to his daughter Emma (1847-1932), wife of Farish Carter Furman, a Milledgeville, Ga., agriculturalist. Letters relate to scientific work, teaching, university life, family life, and travels to Yosemite and other California and mountain areas. Also included are correspondence, 1870-1894, of Furman regarding his agricultural experiments with cotton and soil fertilization, and histories (photocopies) of the LeConte and Stevens families by Walter LeConte Stevens, 1880-1910.