Rufus Lawrence Coffin album, ca. 1861.

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Rufus Lawrence Coffin album, ca. 1861.

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Autograph book belonging to Rufus Lawrence Coffin of Pontotoc, Miss., listing information about his fellow students at the University of North Carolina. Coffin and most of the students signing this book were members of the class of 1861. Some pages were later annotated with information about how these students fared during the Civil War.

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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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Coffin, Rufus Lawrence, b. 1841.

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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...