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Tod Robinson Caldwell

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John Caldwell papers, 1766-1917 (bulk 1810-1850)

Caldwell, John, 1779-1857 · 1766

John Caldwell, 1779 to 1857, was a merchant and banker at Morganton, and his papers cover 1766 to 1917 with the bulk from 1810 to 1850. Subjects include account books, the Bank of Cape Fear and the Bank of the United States, and bills of sale for enslaved people in North Carolina. Student life at Chapel Hill and Tod Robinson Caldwell are also named. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 329.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Caldwell, Tod Robinson, 1818-1874.

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late 1868 or early 1869 Trustees vote to found a university branch for Black students near Raleigh On Victor C. Barringer's motion the Reconstruction trustees called for a school for Black students near Raleigh equal to the one at Chapel Hill, and on Albion W. Tourgee's motion made it a branch of the university, with Tod R. Caldwell moving that at least 100 acres be bought. Nothing came of it, nor of a later proposal to give Black students a third of the land-scrip money or of Tourgee's request for equal white and Black departments under one board. People: Tod Robinson Caldwell, Albion W. TourgeeDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 8
January 28 to February 18, 1874 The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer By an act of January 28, 1874, the legislature elected sixty-four university trustees by joint ballot, only two of them from the Reconstruction board, and fourteen of them men removed in 1868. The new board first met on February 18, 1874, in the Citizens National Bank in Raleigh, elected William A. Graham of Hillsborough its president and Kemp P. Battle its secretary and treasurer, named an executive committee, and the next day sent a committee to inspect Chapel Hill, after Governor Tod R. Caldwell declined to preside because he held the legislature had no power to elect trustees. People: William A. Graham, Kemp Plummer Battle, Paul C. Cameron, John Manning, Tod Robinson Caldwell, William L. SaundersInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
July 11, 1874 Governor Tod R. Caldwell dies at Hillsborough Governor Tod R. Caldwell died at Hillsborough on July 11, 1874, while in town on official business. On Sunday a special train brought fifty or sixty men up from Raleigh, among them former governor W. W. Holden, Treasurer Jenkins, Attorney General Hargrove and Judge Reade, and a delegation of Hillsborough men was named to escort the remains. People: William W. HoldenSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 15, 1874, p. 3

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Albion W. Tourgee 1 entry: Trustees vote to found a university branch for Black students near Raleigh (late 1868 or early 1869)
John Manning 1 entry: The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer (January 28 to February 18, 1874)
Kemp Plummer Battle 1 entry: The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer (January 28 to February 18, 1874)
Paul C. Cameron 1 entry: The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer (January 28 to February 18, 1874)
William A. Graham 1 entry: The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer (January 28 to February 18, 1874)
William L. Saunders 1 entry: The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer (January 28 to February 18, 1874)
William W. Holden 1 entry: Governor Tod R. Caldwell dies at Hillsborough (July 11, 1874)

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