McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906

Charles Duncan McIver was born on September 27, 1860 in Moore County, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1881 and began teaching school in Durham and Winston. In 1886 he went to Peace Institute in Raleigh. In 1889, McIver and Edwin A. Alderman were chosen by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to hold teacher institutes across the state. An advocate of higher education for women, he was chosen President of the State Normal and Industrial School, which opened in 1892. He was married to Lula V. Martin and they had four children. He died on Sept. 17, 1906. For more biographical information see Rose Howell Holder, McIver of North Carolina. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1957.