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Charles Harris

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Charles Wilson Harris papers, 1765-1924

Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804 · 1765

Charles Wilson Harris, 1771 to 1804, is the figure behind papers dated 1765 to 1924. The papers concern his eighteenth century faculty service at Chapel Hill and later legal career, along with Charles and Robert Wilson Harris, Presbyterians and Poplar Tent Church in Cabarrus County, and the history of Concord and Chapel Hill. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 315.

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June 1, 1795 Harris sets up a small store of medicine for students and neighbours Writing from the university on June 1, 1795, Harris told his uncle, a physician, that with no doctor nearer than Hillsborough he would keep a small stock of medicine for students and the neighbourhood, at cost. He enclosed a plan of the university lands and village. People: David Ker, Charles HarrisSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, June 1, 1795
October 1796 Joseph Caldwell arrives in Chapel Hill as professor of mathematics Joseph Caldwell, a Princeton graduate and tutor, moved to Chapel Hill in October 1796 to teach mathematics at the new university. He became presiding professor the next year. People: Charles HarrisSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Joseph Caldwell, 1773-1835 (biography)

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Read contemporary evidence: Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, June 1, 1795 Documenting the American South
Read contemporary evidence: Joseph Caldwell, 1773-1835 (biography) Documenting the American South
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Charles Harris NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

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