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Charles Lewis Hinton

1793–1861 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineFraternities come to the University despite the trustees’ ban, 1842–18591842–1859 · 9 events · In 1842 the University trustees declared secret societies harmful to the literary societies and to good morals, ordered the faculty to suppress them and barred any student who would not pledge not to join one. Greek-letter fraternities began entering the University in 1851 without any trustee or faculty vote admitting them. Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Gamma Delta came that year, Beta Theta Pi in 1852, and Phi Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Zeta Psi followed by 1858; Battle also learned of a Delta Psi chapter no Chapel Hill record mentions. Many Phi Kappa Sigma members served as Confederate officers. Beta Theta Pi's chapter lapsed in 1859 as war approached, and the others had disbanded before the war ended.

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  1. Trustees outlaw secret societies at the university On Charles L. Hinton's motion the board declared secret societies and clubs harmful to the literary societies and to good morals, ordered the faculty to suppress them and barred admission to any student who would not pledge not to join one. The Dialectic and Philanthropic societies agreed to fine members who broke the rule. People: Charles Lewis Hinton Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 476
  2. The trustees' executive committee rules that Hedrick has destroyed his usefulness to the university Meeting under Governor Thomas Bragg, the committee resolved that Hedrick's letter broke the rule against professors agitating party politics, approved the faculty's stand, and found he could no longer serve the university. The resolutions were sent to Chapel Hill but not published. People: Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, Thomas Bragg, Charles Lewis Hinton, Bartholomew F. Moore, Romulus M. (Romulus Mitchell) Saunders Place: Raleigh, for the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSearch the index · J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick (1910), scan p. 25

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By Charles Lewis Hinton

Charles L. Hinton Papers

Hinton, Charles Lewis, 1793-1861 · 1838

Papers of Major Charles L. Hinton of Wake County, state treasurer from 1839 to 1843 and 1845 to 1851, dated 1838 to 1850. The earliest are letters to Samuel F. Patterson, commissioner for selling Cherokee lands, on arranging the sale and on Whig politics. Other items touch on the Bingham School, William J. Bingham, Chapel Hill and enslaved people who escaped. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.248.

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About Charles Lewis Hinton

Willie Person Mangum papers,

Mangum, Willie Person,; Mangum, Arthur,; Mangum, Charity Alston Cain

Personal and political papers of Willie Person Mangum, the Whig senator from Orange County, together with papers of Arthur Mangum and Charity Alston Cain Mangum. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, John Chavis and Abraham Lincoln, and other topics include plantations at Hillsborough, the estate called Walnut Hill, state politics, agriculture and education.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Hinton, Charles Lewis, 1793-1861 -- Correspondence.

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