The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-01-18
The Up8nInQ Of Inc
university in I'z90
K-aP P BATTLE, ~. in University aagsz.ns.

tant 70 Chief Engineer I-nltaI U#. ~.
: .foasAt from Scotland at a salary of |
>o'V'O 2 year, payable III gold. 10 in |
prove tie navigation Of oar rivers. III |
passing lrom Wilmington down the hear |
iul cane Fear, | was shown by M |
friend the late Henry Nutt
some oI James works for deepening fLn
chahheI which had WitIstood Tie floods
ana tides Of fifty years lie was like
"lse caIed INTO the service Of his coun-
Y as Legislator for three terms he
ginning with 1907; for two Of them hn;p,
The colleague Of lawyer of great REM
fatlon IN the old days, William Watts
Jones
We learn from letter written i,
afr James IN $50 that the next arrivals
were fortnight later, Maurice and ~
IIed Moore Of Brunswick. Their cousin
richard Eagles, Of New Hanover. John
d!lor, Of Orange. and from Granville
v lllIam NJ. Sneed. and three sons of
Robert IL. Burton. then treasurer Of fla
University, namely. Hutchire. Francis
and Robert II. Burton, Junior. 1t i
pleasant to announce that all these turn
ed out to be good men The two NToores
were sons Of Attorney General Moore
afterwards Judge of the Supreme colrf
OF the United States. Maurice served
BRUNSWICK county in the General As
sembIy and then became planter IN
LOUISIANA. He it was who had the mis-
fortune to be eHbroiled III Il quarrel with
the choIeric general. afterwards Govern
er. benjamin Smith, and IN tie duel
which resulted the bullet from his pistol
was lodged in the body Of the general.
aTd was found among his bones when
Trey were eAhumed for removal many
years afterwards. Alfred Moore. whose
btet may be seen IN Gerard Hall. was 4
popular politician. reaching the dignity.
once considered as second to that of
Governor, the Speakership Of the House
Of Commons. His name and talents are
FreFetuated in those Of his scholarly
grandson. Alfred Moore WadlelI. The
father of I;ichaId Eagles gave the name
70 La@lt : Island opposite Wilmington
/ ae son, Ike the father was Il man Of
wealth ana high standing III a cult
waited community. John Taylor. son of
the first steward Of the University was
for many years CLERK Of tie Superior
court Of Orange and was 9randfatEer of
orr Professor Ralph ii. Graves OIL
tile GrasyiIle men VIM. Morgan Sncei
WAS scyel times Senator and twice Com
Roner: : the three Burta4. ItJtct-4s
Il. became thrice Governor oil tire State.
AFTER beng COngrt esIuau Francs Nusl
y lIIIalns Burton WAS a lawyer u large
practice IN Lincoln and the adjoining
counties, while Robert, his partner. was
1t one time Judge Of the superior court.
: daughter Of Judge Burton married
al eminent lawyer, Michael Hoke, and
N;s the mother Of one OF General Lees
best major generals, Robert L. Hohe,
and grandmother OF Secretary H0ke
Smith, ana Of late victorious captain
OF our football tcAln Mike HOke,
NOW an NJ. u.
The numbers reached forty-one in the
first term-during the second term they
rose to one hundred nearly but such
was the dearth of good schools in the
State that at least half of them were un-
prepared to enter the University classes
1t became necessary to inaugurate a
Preparatory department., or Grammar
School,, for the benefit of those juye-
niles, many Of them belonging to the
Small Boy" genus. The profession of
teach was then, and years afterwards,
1T such a low ebb that obtaining profess
eors was most Troublesome problem.
Among the earliest students besides
those above named we find men after
wards notable for good works; such for
example as Ebenezer Iettigrew, a mem
Der Of Congress, father Of General }.
Johnston PettigreW, Z still more emf
nent son of the University; Thomas -.
Bennehan, famed for bounteous hospl-
tality, long a trustee Of the institution,
which his father Richard Bennehan, as
sisted in its young days; James Me
bane. Speaker Of the House Of Com
mons, father of another University
graduate and Speaker of the Senate,
Giles Mebane | could name many 9th
erS.
The increased of numbers led to the
election of q Tutor of Mathematics IN
spring of 1875 The choice fell on one Of
the family Of Harris Of Cabarrus Of
which in later days VIM. Sha ka~Uor
Harris was q most worthy nlemrer. 1hls
was Charles Wilson Harris. a recent
graduate Of Princeton with highest hon
ors. young man of great promise, OF
big brains, of literary tastes, Of courtly
manners. and weight Of character 1heSe
two. Ker and Harris. sustained the bur
+ den of instruction and discipline. during
the first year of the University Gfe-aH !
sustained it with conspicuous faithfulness
and ability 1t was Il great misfortune
that Ker the next year went off into II
fidelity ana poItics, being rewarded by
jefferson when he reached the PreSl-
Dental chair, with the jugdeship Of the
Mississippi Territory, and Harris two
wears afterwards into law in which he
was winning q high name when. under
the exposures incident TO a heavy prac-
tice in an extensive circuit, he fell a
victim. only thirty-one years old. TO pull
m0narv consEms,tion.-Nalde deflendus
est.
II is not an uncommon thing. accord
ing to a traveller in Russia, to meet a
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