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Helen Hogg Caldwell
Helen Hogg Caldwell was a daughter of James Hogg of Hillsborough and the widow of William Hooper, son of the signer, when she married university president Joseph Caldwell in 1809. She had moved to Chapel Hill so her sons could study at the university, taught in the village Sunday school, and by Kemp Battle's account set the tone of village society. She died at Chapel Hill on October 30, 1846.
Source: NCpedia: Caldwell, Joseph
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- Anne Royall publishes a hostile account of Chapel Hill The traveling writer Anne Royall visited Chapel Hill in 1829 and in her Southern Tour, published in 1830, charged that the president's wife, Helen Caldwell, ruled the university. Battle answers with the faculty's account of the student she defended, who had been dismissed for disorder at a Sunday service. People: Joseph Caldwell, Helen Hogg CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 336
- President Joseph Caldwell dies The university's first president died after years of a painful illness and was buried in the Chapel Hill village cemetery. The trustees' executive committee adopted a tribute on February 6, 1835, and the students resolved to wear badges of mourning. People: Haywood Williams Guion, Helen Hogg CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 411
- Helen Caldwell dies and is buried with her husband at his monument Helen Hogg Caldwell, widow of President Caldwell and a leader of village society, died at Chapel Hill on October 30, 1846 while visiting John DeBerniere Hooper. Caldwell's remains were taken up on October 31 and laid beside hers at the base of his monument, with the president and faculty as pallbearers. People: John DeBerniere Hooper, Elisha Mitchell, Helen Hogg CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 502
- A marble monument to Joseph Caldwell is dedicated in McCorkle Place A marble obelisk to Caldwell was dedicated north of the Davie Poplar. Its inscription names the President of the United States, the Governor and other alumni as donors and praises his advocacy of common schools and internal improvements. Caldwell and his wife still lay by the old sandstone shaft near New West; their remains, with her son's, were moved to the monument's east base in July 1904. People: Helen Hogg CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South, Commemorative Landscapes: Joseph Caldwell monument
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- McCorkle Place (with the Davie Poplar) University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
- Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- Joseph Caldwell 2 entries, including Anne Royall publishes a hostile account of Chapel Hill (1830)
- Elisha Mitchell 1 entry: Helen Caldwell dies and is buried with her husband at his monument (October 30, 1846)
- Haywood Williams Guion 1 entry: President Joseph Caldwell dies (January 27, 1835)
- John DeBerniere Hooper 1 entry: Helen Caldwell dies and is buried with her husband at his monument (October 30, 1846)
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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