William Mercer Green papers, 1843-1887.

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William Mercer Green papers, 1843-1887.

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Diary entries William Mercer Green made on a trip in 1818 from Wilmington, N.C., to Wilmington, Del., with especially detailed comments on sites in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.; diary entries made by Mary Sheppard on trip from Warren County, N.C., to Bedford County, Tenn., in 1822; a record, 1843, of subscribers for the erection of a church at Chapel Hill, N.C.; a memorandum book Green kept while he was a professor at the University of North Carolina, 1848-1849; two letters to Green from Charles Phillips in Chapel Hill, 1887, reminiscing and giving news of Chapel Hill; and articles about Green.

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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...

Green, William Mercer, 1798-1887

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Sheppard, Mary, fl. 1822.

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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889

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Charles Phillips (1822-1889) was the son of James and Julia Vermeule Phillips of Chapel Hill, N.C. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1841; a tutor, 1844-1854; professor of mathematics, 1854-1868 and 1875-1879; and professor emeritus, 1879-1889. He taught at Davidson College, 1868-1874. Cornelia Phillips (1825-1908) daughter of James and Julia Vermeule Phillips, married James Munroe Spencer in 1855 and went with him to Alabama. At his death in 1861, s...