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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Edward Victor Zoeller Papers, #1780, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Bequest 1948

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, November 2010

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Cottonseed oil mills--North Carolina--History.
• Farmers' Oil Mills (Tarboro, N.C.)
• Hancock, Frank W. (Franklin Wills), 1894-1969.
• Pharmacists--North Carolina--History.
• Pharmacy--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History.
• Pharmacy--United States--Societies, etc.--History.
• Simpson, William.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Pharmacy--History.
• Venable, F. P. (Francis Preston), 1856-1934.
• Zoeller, Edward Victor, 1857-1944.

Edward Victor Zoeller (1857-1944) was a manufacturer and pharmacist of Tarboro, N.C. and secretary-treasurer of Farmers' Oil Mills of Tarboro.

The collection contains the business papers of Zoeller, consisting chiefly of correspondence and a production record, all related to the Farmers' Oil Mills, manufacturer of cottonseed oil products in Tarboro, N.C., 1891-1912. Other correspondence pertains to Zoeller's drug business, state and national pharmacists' organization, and the origins of pharmacy education at the University of North Carolina. Correspondents include Franklin Wills Hancock of Oxford, N.C., William Simpson, and Francis Preston Venable at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.