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Matt W. Ransom

From the state marker
“Confederate General, United States Senator, 1872-95, and Minister to Mexico. Home stands 800 yards south.”
State historical marker: E-10: Matt W. Ransom

1826–1904 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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1846 Dialectic and Philanthropic societies draw lots for the east and west buildings The trustees had the society presidents, William M. Howerton and Matt W. Ransom, cast lots before Governor Graham, President Swain and Charles Manly; the Philanthropic won the east side and the Dialectic the west, and South Building rooms facing north went to the Phis and those facing south to the Dis. The arrangement lasted until 1868. People: Matt W. Ransom, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, Charles Manly Place: Old East · Also named: William M. HowertonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 513
June 1847 Pettigrew graduates first in his class and is offered a post at the Naval Observatory Pettigrew finished at the head of the class of 1847, sharing first distinction with Matt W. Ransom. Struck by his graduating oration, President Polk, Navy Secretary Mason and Lieutenant Maury invited him to become an assistant at the observatory in Washington, where he worked for six or eight months. People: James Johnston Pettigrew, Matt W. Ransom, James K. Polk Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Cornelia Phillips Spencer, The Last Ninety Days of the War in North-Carolina (1866), scan p. 288 · Also: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I

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Charles Manly 1 entry: Dialectic and Philanthropic societies draw lots for the east and west buildings (1846)
David L. Swain 1 entry: Dialectic and Philanthropic societies draw lots for the east and west buildings (1846)
James Johnston Pettigrew 1 entry: Pettigrew graduates first in his class and is offered a post at the Naval Observatory (June 1847)
James K. Polk 1 entry: Pettigrew graduates first in his class and is offered a post at the Naval Observatory (June 1847)
William A. Graham 1 entry: Dialectic and Philanthropic societies draw lots for the east and west buildings (1846)

Indexed works

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Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present

Ashe, Samuel A. · 1905 · C.L. Van Noppen

Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Ransom, Matt W. -- 1826-1904.

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Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
Old East University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
Old West University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
South Building University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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Background

Historical marker E-10: Matt W. RansomNC Highway Historical Marker Confederate General, United States Senator, 1872-95, and Minister to Mexico. Home stands 800 yards south.

Records of the time

DigitalNC newspapers: 12 Orange County pages naming Matt W Ransom Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers

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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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