Helen Hogg Caldwell

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1830 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 Caldwell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Anne Royall, Helen CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 336
2. January 27, 1835 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: Joseph Caldwell, Haywood Williams Guion, Helen Hogg Caldwell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Helen CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 411
3. October 30, 1846 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: Joseph Caldwell, John DeBerniere Hooper, Elisha Mitchell, Helen Hogg Caldwell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Helen CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 502
4. June 2, 1858 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: Joseph Caldwell, Helen Hogg Caldwell Place: McCorkle Place, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Helen CaldwellSearch the index · Documenting the American South, Commemorative Landscapes: Joseph Caldwell monument · Also: Documenting the American South: Battle, History of the University, vol. I