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Charles Harris

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  1. 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: Charles Wilson Harris, David Ker, Charles Harris Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, June 1, 1795
  2. 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: Joseph Caldwell, Charles Harris, Charles Wilson Harris Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Joseph Caldwell, 1773-1835 (biography)

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Harris, Charles, 1762-1825.

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