Greensboro College is a private college in Greensboro,North Carolina. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and was founded in 1838 by Rev. Peter Doub. The college enrolls about 1,000 students from 32 states,the District of Columbia,and 29 countries.
Lake Norman is the largest man-made body of fresh water in North Carolina. It was created between 1959 and 1964 as part of the construction of the Cowans Ford Dam by Duke Energy. Located in Iredell County 40 miles north of Charlotte,Lake Norman State Park boasts the region's popular mountain biking trail system.
Daniel Harvey Hill,commonly known as D. H. Hill,was a Confederate general who commanded infantry in the eastern and western theaters of the American Civil War.
Omar ibn Said was a Fula Islamic scholar from Futa Toro in West Africa,who was enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807. There,while enslaved for the remainder of his life,he wrote a series of Arabic-language works on history and theology,including a short autobiography.
William H. Cabell was a Virginia lawyer,politician,plantation owner,and judge aligned with the Democratic-Republican party. He served as a Member of the Virginia House of Delegates,as Governor of Virginia,and as a judge on what later became the Virginia Supreme Court. Cabell adopted his middle initial in 1795—which did not stand for a name—to distinguish himself from other William Cabells,including his uncle,William Cabell Sr.
Moses Waddel was an American educator and minister in antebellum Georgia and South Carolina. Famous as a teacher during his life,Moses Waddel was author of the bestselling book Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt.
Solomon Williams "Doc" Newton was a minor league baseball player as well as an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Davidson College (1932–1935),North Carolina State University (1937–1943),the University of South Carolina (1944),and Guilford College (1945–1948),compiling a career college football record of 59–77–14. Newton was also the head baseball coach at Howard College,now Samford University in 1926 and 1930 and at North Carolina State from 1940 to 1944,tallying a career college baseball mark of 29–67–2.
Paul Brandon Barringer was an American physician and college administrator,the sixth president of Virginia Tech,serving from September 1,1907 through July 1,1913. He was also chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia from 1895 through 1903. He made major changes to the medical curriculum at U.Va,adding requirements for clinical training,as was common in Europe.
Harriet Abigail Morrison Irwin was an American architect and the first American woman to patent an architectural design. On August 24,1869,she submitted a patent,categorized under the Improvement in the Construction of Houses,for a residential design proposal of a hexagonal house. Her husband and brother-in-law would go on to form a company to construct houses based on her design in the Charlotte area.
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans was an American heiress,activist,politician,and philanthropist. She was the granddaughter of Benjamin N. Duke and the great-granddaughter of Washington Duke,both tobacco and energy tycoons who helped start Duke University. Semans is remembered for her support and work towards promoting the arts and humanities through various philanthropic entities.
Drury Lacy Jr. was the third president of Davidson College. A native of Virginia,he was a Presbyterian pastor at a church in New Bern,North Carolina and then in Raleigh,North Carolina before becoming president.
Samuel Williamson was the second president of Davidson College. After graduating from the University of South Carolina,Williamson entered the ministry. He arrived at Davidson in 1839 as a professor and then was appointed as president in 1841,becoming the longest serving president of the college during the 19th century. While president,Williamson steered the college through financial uncertainty while also building the Eumenean and Philanthropic Halls.
John Bunyan Shearer (1832–1919) was the eighth president of Davidson College.
Henry Louis Smith (1859–1951) was the ninth president of Davidson College and the first president to not be an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Robert 'Bobby' Vagt was the 16th president of Davidson College. Vagt,originally from Connecticut,graduated from Davidson in 1969. Vagt worked in the ministry and in healthcare until he became the executive director of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for New York City,aiding in efforts to save the city from bankruptcy. Later,Vagt moved to Houston,Texas to work in the energy sector.
John Hervey Wheeler was an American bank president,businessman,civil rights leader,and educator based in North Carolina. Throughout his life,Wheeler was recognized for his accomplishments by various institutions across the country. John H. Wheeler started as a bank teller at Mechanics and Farmers Bank,and worked his way up to become the bank's president in 1952. In the 1960s,Wheeler became increasingly active in United States politics,carrying several White House positions appointed by Presidents John F. Kennedy,Richard Nixon,and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1,1863,when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Prior to statehood,there were 41,000 enslaved African-Americans in the Province of North Carolina in 1767. By 1860,the number of slaves in the state of North Carolina was 331,059,about one third of the total population of the state. In 1860,there were nineteen counties in North Carolina where the number of slaves was larger than the free white population. During the antebellum period the state of North Carolina passed several laws to protect the rights of slave owners while disenfranchising the rights of slaves. There was a constant fear amongst white slave owners in North Carolina of slave revolts from the time of the American Revolution. Despite their circumstances,some North Carolina slaves and freed slaves distinguished themselves as artisans,soldiers during the Revolution,religious leaders,and writers.
Dixie Lee Bryant (1862–1949) was a geologist and educator.
Margaret Rose Sanford was an American civic leader,teacher,and philanthropist who,as the wife of Terry Sanford,served as First Lady of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965. Prior to entering public life,she worked as a teacher in North Carolina and Kentucky. As first lady,Sanford hosted the first annual North Carolina Symphony Ball in 1961,established a library of North Carolinian books at the North Carolina Executive Mansion,and planted a rose garden on the mansion's grounds. She was the first governor's wife to decorate the Governor's Western Residence in Asheville. Sanford sent her children to the first racially integrated public elementary school in Raleigh,North Carolina,while the family lived in the executive mansion. She served on the board of the Methodist Home for Children,the North Carolina School of the Arts,the Stagville Plantation Restoration Board,and East Carolina University. She was also a member of the Education Commission of the States and the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. While Sanford's husband served as president of Duke University,she was appointed by Governor Jim Hunt to serve on a delegation of university faculty and administrators to China in 1975.
