Thomas Miles Garrett diary, 1849-1850.

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...

Waddill, John Robert, b. 1831.

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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:...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Philanthropic Society

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The Philanthropic Society was the second of two literary societies formed in 1795, the year the University of North Carolina opened. Throughout the nineteenth century, nearly all students were members of one of these societies. Students from the eastern portion of the state tended to belong to the Philanthropic Society and those from the western portion to the Dialectic Society. The societies provided literary and oratorical training, and exercised many of the functions of student government. Th...

Manning, Joseph Alonzo, 1832-1860.

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Garrett, Thomas Miles, 1830-1864.

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Thomas Miles Garrett (1830-1864), of Hertford County, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina in the class of 1851. He practiced law at Windsor, N.C., then, serving as colonel in the 5th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War, was killed at Spottsylvania, 12 May 1864. From the guide to the Thomas Miles Garrett Diary, 1849-1850, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Thomas Miles Garrett of Hertford and Bertie cou...

Moore, John W. (John Wheeler), 1833-1906

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John W. Moore (1833-1906), historian, author, lawyer, and Confederate officer was born at Mulberry Grove Plantation, Hertford County, N.C. An 1853 graduate of the University of North Carolina, he married Ann James Ward and practiced law in Murfreesboro, N.C. During the Civil War, Moore served with the 2d Regiment of North Carolina Cavalry and later commanded the 3d North Carolina Battalion. At war's end, he returned to Murfreesboro and later moved to Maple Lawn Plantatio...