Solomon Pool

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1. 1849–1853 Solomon Pool studies at the university in Chapel Hill Solomon Pool entered the University of North Carolina in 1849 at the age of seventeen and graduated in 1853 as the second honor student in a class of fifty-nine. He was a member of the Philanthropic Society while in Chapel Hill.Search the index · NCpedia: Pool, Solomon
2. December 1853 Solomon Pool becomes tutor of mathematics at the university Pool was appointed tutor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina in December 1853, months after his own graduation. He received an honorary alumni master of arts degree in 1856.Search the index · NCpedia: Pool, Solomon
3. 1855 Caldwell Lodge No. 180 is chartered at Chapel Hill Members of the defunct University Lodge took out a new charter as Caldwell Lodge No. 180, honoring the late university president Joseph Caldwell. People: Joseph Caldwell, Solomon Pool, Adolphus Williamson MangumSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 320
4. 1861–1867 Solomon Pool is promoted to adjunct professor of mathematics Pool was promoted to adjunct professor of mathematics in 1861 and held the position for six years. In 1866 he took leave to become a United States deputy appraiser in North Carolina on the understanding that the university need not reemploy him until it had need of him.Search the index · NCpedia: Pool, Solomon
5. 1868 Solomon Pool's new faculty move into the old professors' houses With Swain and the old faculty gone, the professors Pool brought in took over their Franklin Street homes: Fisk P. Brewer the Tom Taylor house, David Settle Patrick Swain's house, and James A. Martling the late James Phillips's house. People: Fisk P. (Fisk Parsons) Brewer, James Phillips, Solomon PoolBernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 115
6. July 1868–March 1869 Reconstruction Republicans reshape UNC governance The 1868 constitution gave the choice of university trustees to the state Board of Education, controlled by Governor William W. Holden. In July 1868 the new trustees removed President David L. Swain and his faculty, and a Republican faculty under Solomon Pool reopened classes in March 1869 amid strong partisan opposition. People: William W. Holden, Solomon Pool, David L. SwainDocumenting the American South, The First Century of the First State University: Civil War and Reconstruction
7. autumn 1869 A Chapel Hill town meeting passes resolutions against Solomon Pool's administration Townspeople met and adopted resolutions against Pool's running of the university, an outburst of a year of pent-up anger. Shaken, Pool told the merchant Andrew Mickle that he had bought property and settled in the village and would find it hard to move. People: Solomon Pool, Andrew MickleHope Summerell Chamberlain, Old Days in Chapel Hill (1926), scan p. 197
8. 1869 Alexander McIver joins the reorganized faculty as professor of mathematics McIver, a Moore County native who had graduated first in the class of 1853 and taught briefly as a tutor, came from Davidson College to teach mathematics on the Republican faculty that reopened the university under Solomon Pool. People: Solomon PoolSearch the index · NCpedia: McIver, Alexander
9. early 1869 Great oaks are cut down in the faculty yards under the Pool administration After the Reconstruction faculty took over the old professors' houses, old oaks in their yards were felled for firewood, among them a large tree at the Swain house that Mrs. Swain said she would not have sold for $2,000. Timber cutting later spread to the woods behind the college. People: Solomon PoolHope Summerell Chamberlain, Old Days in Chapel Hill (1926), scan p. 182
10. 1869 Solomon Pool accepts the presidency of the university Pool accepted the presidency of the University of North Carolina in 1869 at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars and was permitted to keep his federal appraiser post at the same time. Governor William W. Holden had taken charge of the board of trustees to secure a president with Republican affiliations. People: William W. HoldenSearch the index · NCpedia: Pool, Solomon
11. 1869 Solomon Pool buys Nancy Hilliard's house, the Crystal Palace, at a sheriff's sale When the hotel keeper Nancy Hilliard went bankrupt, university president Solomon Pool bought her Franklin Street home, known as the Crystal Palace, at a sheriff's sale for $150. He let Col. Hugh B. Guthrie and his wife Jane, a daughter of Hudson Cave, move in, which Bryant reads as a way of forcing Hilliard out. People: Solomon Pool, Nancy Hilliard, Hugh B. GuthrieBernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 125
12. June 1869 The Pool faculty holds its first commencement After a first term that began March 3, the university reported on June 10, 1869 three sophomores and seven freshmen and gave an A.B. to Abdel Kader Tenney. At the thinly attended commencement Governor William W. Holden argued for educating both races in one university, whites at Chapel Hill and Black students elsewhere. People: Solomon Pool, William W. HoldenDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 19