David Matthew Thompson Papers, 1863-1940

Trinity College (Durham, N.C.)

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The Trinity College (Randolph County) Reference collection materials were compiled from a variety of sources by University Archives staff for reference and research. From the description of Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) Reference Collection, 1889-1992. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 166325766 The Columbia Literary Society was first organized in 1846 at Union Institute. The Society grew with the school, witnessing the founding of Trinity College ...

Phillips, Samuel F.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Winborne, Richard Watson.

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Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918

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Edward Kidder Graham was an author, professor, and president of the University of North Carolina, 1914-1918. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. His son, Edward Kidder Graham, Jr., served as an administrator at Washington University, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Boston University, and Denver University before his death in 1976. From the description of Edward Kidder Graham papers, 187...

Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908

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Cornelia Phillips Spencer, writer and community leader of Chapel Hill, N.C., was the daughter of University of North Carolina mathematics professor James Phillips (1792-1867) and Judith Vermeule Phillips (1796-1881), wife of lawyer James Monroe Spencer (1827-1861), and mother of Julia Spencer Love (b. 1859), who married Harvard University mathematician James Lee Love (1860-1950). From the description of Cornelia Phillips Spencer papers, 1833-1975 (bulk 1839-1942). WorldCat record id:...

Thompson, Holland, 1873-1940

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Thompson, David Matthew, 1844-1925.

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David Matthew Thompson (1844-1925) of Randolph County, N.C., was a Confederate soldier, teacher, principal, and superintendent of schools in Lincoln and Iredell counties, N.C., and Gainesville, Fla. He was educated at Sylvan Academy in Alamance County, N.C., and at Cook County Normal School, Chicago, Ill. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Rice Thompson and their son was Holland McTyeire Thompson Holland Thompson (1873-1940) was a professor of history, scholar, writer, and auth...