William Kennedy Blake recollections, 1893-1895 [manuscript].

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William Kennedy Blake recollections, 1893-1895 [manuscript].

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Recollections of Blake's family and boyhood in Fayetteville, N.C.; education at the University of North Carolina; teaching and frontier life in Leon County, Tex., 1848-1850; teaching at schools in Fayetteville, Greensboro, and Ansonville, N.C., in the 1850s; and serving as president of a Methodist women's college in Spartanburg, S.C., from 1859 until shortly after the Civil War. He described life in Spartanburg during the Civil War and briefly mentioned his mercantile business in Spartanburg after the war.

1 v. (90 p.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

Blake, William Kennedy, 1824-1897.

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Teacher in Texas, 1848-1850, and in North Carolina, 1850-1859. President of a Methodist women's college in Spartanburg, S.C., from 1859 until shortly after the Civil War. Merchant in Spartanburg, S.C., after the Civil War. From the description of William Kennedy Blake recollections, 1893-1895 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23045568 William Kennedy Blake (1824-1897) was born in Fayetteville, N.C., where he spent most of his childhood. He attended Randolph Macon College in ...