George Wimberly Arrington papers, 1877-1885 [manuscript].

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George Wimberly Arrington papers, 1877-1885 [manuscript].

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Letters received by George W. Arrington of Nash County, N.C., during his teenage years when he was at school at Castalia, 1878-1879, Louisburg, 1879-1880, and the Bingham School at Mebane, 1880-1882, all in North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina, January-July 1883, written by many relatives and friends in Hilliardston (Nash County), Goldsboro, Rocky Mount, and other locations in eastern North Carolina and at several schools and colleges; and a few other items. Letters discuss family and social life and activities at the University of North Carolina and other schools in the late 1870s and early 1880s. An essay written by Arrington at the University of North Carolina in 1883 also is included.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Arrington, George Wimberly, 1864-1885.

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George Wimberly Arrington (1864-1885) was the son of Archibald Hunter Arrington (1809-1872) and Kate Wimberly Arrington of Hilliardston, Nash County, N.C. George W. Arrington was educated at schools in various North Carolina locations including Castalia, 1878-1879; Louisburg, 1879; Bingham School at Mebane, 1880-1882; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1883. From the guide to the George Wimberly Arrington Papers, ., 1877-1885, (University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Bingham School (Orange County, N.C.)

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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...

Arrington family.

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