N. W. Walker papers, 1830-1926.

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N. W. Walker papers, 1830-1926.

Collection of sample standard intelligence and other tests; scrapbooks of clippings, one on general literary subjects, 1908-1912, and one on schools, 1914-1915; and accounts and other items of George Wesley Johnson, a general merchant of Farmington, Davie County, N.C., 1837-1855, and of members of his family, including two letters from Francis Marion Johnson (b. 1837), a student at the University of North Carolina, 1856-1857, discussing college life and family matters.

About 70 items.

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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...

Walker, N. W. (Nathan Wilson), 1875-1936

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Professor of education, dean of the School of Education, and director of the summer school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the description of N. W. Walker papers, 1830-1926. WorldCat record id: 23443737 Nathan Wilson Walker (1875-1935) was a professor of education, dean of the School of Education, and director of the summer school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Walker was a graduated from the University of North Caro...

Johnson, George Wesley, fl. 1837-1855.

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George W. Johnson was a postmaster in Farmington, North Carolina from 1838-1856. He also served the public as a justice of the peace, general merchant, and farmer. His brother and business partner was James M. Johnson. Another brother, Hiram, also had a financial interest in the mercantile establishment. George W. Johnson's son, Francis Marion Johnson, was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the guide to the George Wesley Johnso...

Johnson, Francis Marion, b. 1837.

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