Local figure
Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble (1855–1942) came to the University of North Carolina in 1898 as professor of pedagogy, became dean of the School of Education in 1913, and retired from teaching in 1934. He was a director of the Bank of Chapel Hill for thirty-three years and died at his home in Chapel Hill.
Source: NCpedia: Noble, Marcus Cicero Stephens
Also found in catalogs as M. C. S. (Marcus Cicero Stephens) Noble.
1855–1942 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 indexed work is connected with this person, and the index includes one work by M. C. S. Noble.
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Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble drew this 1915 map to show how Orange County's original territory was divided, tracing the formation of Caswell, Person, Alamance, Durham, Chatham, Randolph, Guilford and Rockingham counties out of it. Topics include county boundaries and the history of political divisions in the Piedmont. Surviving as a photocopy on a sheet 31 by 23 centimeters.
Collier Cobb (1862-1934) taught at the University of North Carolina and made photographs there from the 1890s into the 1920s. Approximately 500 items in seven linear feet, P0013 in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC. Subjects include campus buildings, the Old Well, alumni, employees, and faculty, with portraits including Wilson Caldwell, Harry Woodburn Chase, R. D. W. Connor, and Frederick H. Koch.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Noble, M. C. S. (Marcus Cicero Stephens), 1855-1942.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
M. C. S. Noble, dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina, traces the state's public schools from colonial apprenticeship of orphans and chartered academies through the Literary Fund of 1825, the common school law of 1839, Calvin H. Wiley's superintendency, Reconstruction, and the graded schools and the white and Black normal schools of the late 1800s. Published at Chapel Hill in 1930; 463 pages with portraits and an index.
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Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange and OpenStreetMap; town and community pins mark the middle of their mapped buildings.
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Picture: M. C. S. Noble, Yackety Yack, 1921. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1921 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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