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Robert Bingham (1838–1927), born in Hillsborough, taught at his father's school at the Oaks from 1857, served as a Confederate captain, and from 1873 headed the Bingham School at Mebane, moving it to Asheville in 1891. He campaigned for public schools, including free schools for Black children as early as 1870, while supporting segregation.
Source: NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert
1838–1927 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
7 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Robert Bingham.
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Single-sheet circular that Robert Bingham issued for the Bingham School on May 31, 1879, measuring 27 by 21 cm and printed at Mebane. W. B. Lynch is named with Bingham and the school, which stood in Orange County.
Robert Bingham's address at the University of North Carolina on June 3, 1907, marking fifty years since the graduation of the class of 1857 and looking over the half century that followed. Twelve pages, printed at Chapel Hill by the university. At least three separate printings of the speech are known. This copy has a cancel on page 4 covering three lines of text.
Robert W. Winston's 1939 address on Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina and the memorial tablets set in its walls, given when tablets honoring Colonel Robert Bingham, Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham and Senator Matt W. Ransom were accepted. Printed at Chapel Hill, it records how those tablets came to be placed in the hall.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Bingham, Robert, 1838-1927.
Broadside advertising the Bingham School at Mebaneville, announcing that its 166th session would open on 10 January 1877 under Major Robert Bingham as superintendent, with a fuller circular available on request. The school, founded in 1793, was an Orange County secondary school. A single sheet measuring 28 by 21 centimeters, printed in 1876.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
March 1946 number of The State (2 March, volume 13, number 40). Orange County appears through the Bingham School and its head Robert Bingham, and the issue also covers Sequoyah and the Cherokee syllabary, the long life of Civil War soldier Alden G. Howell, road history and the Coast Guard.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Bingham, Robert, 1838-1927.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Two volumes from the Bingham Military School at Asheville, covering 1872 to 1876 and 1890 to 1919, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The volumes concern the earlier Bingham School in Orange County, Robert Bingham, 1838 to 1927, debating societies and the history of schools in North Carolina.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Bingham, Robert, 1838-1927.
Worth family papers, about 694 items beginning in 1844: letters, business papers and other material on family affairs, opposition to secession, North Carolina politics, fertilizer and textile businesses, Zebulon B. Vance, and federal patronage early in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Correspondents and subjects include Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Edwin A. Alderman, George T. Winston, Josephus Daniels and Robert Bingham of the Bingham School, with UNC students among them.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
About 600 family letters of Thomas Lynch, a Presbyterian minister in the Orange Presbytery, and his wife Mary Bingham Lynch, with dates beginning in 1794. There is material on their son W. B. Lynch, who ran an academy at High Point, and on Major Robert Bingham, head of the Bingham School in Orange County. Topics also include Lemuel Lynch and silversmith and jewelry work. At Duke's Rubenstein Library.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bingham, Robert, 1838-1927.
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Buildings, schools, churches and other sites named in the dated events on this page, the most often named first. The map shows the 2 with a known location.
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People named in the same dated entries as Robert Bingham, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.
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Picture: Robert Bingham, portrait plate, 1907. Public domain. Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. VI (1907); via the Internet Archive
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