John Rogers

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1819 The university closes its grammar school and makes Hillsborough Academy its preparatory school When Abner W. Clopton gave up the grammar school the university dropped it. Caldwell arranged for Hillsborough Academy, under John Witherspoon with John Rogers teaching, to prepare boys for the university, whose faculty could attend its examinations and admit its top pupils on certificate. People: Abner Wentworth Clopton, John Knox Witherspoon, Joseph Caldwell, John Rogers Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Hillsborough AcademyDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 283
2. 1822 to 1826 John Rogers runs Hillsborough Academy John Rogers ran Hillsborough Academy from 1822 to 1826, when W. J. Bingham succeeded him. People: William James Bingham, John Rogers Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsborough AcademyLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 133
3. June 1823 Hillsborough Academy pupils are examined before the university faculty At an examination held in the presence of the university faculty, fifteen Hillsborough Academy pupils were approved for the freshman class and six for the sophomore class. Principal John Rogers also announced an assistant who had taught for several years at a Maryland classical school. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsborough AcademySearch the index · Internet Archive: Charles L. Coon, North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840: A Documentary History (1915), p. 284 (Raleigh Register, June 20, 1823)
4. June 15, 1825 John Rogers and William Hooper take joint charge of Hillsborough Academy The trustees put the academy under Rogers and the Rev. William Hooper as a classical school preparing boys for the university's sophomore class, at thirty dollars a year. When Hooper was made a university professor that July, the trustees kept him on as joint manager while Rogers taught. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William HooperSearch the index · Internet Archive: Charles L. Coon, North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840: A Documentary History (1915), p. 285 (Raleigh Register, June 21 and July 12, 1825)
5. 1827–1844 William James Bingham becomes principal of Hillsborough Academy After John Rogers resigned, the trustees engaged William James Bingham as principal of Hillsborough Academy, where he taught until he moved his school to the country in 1844. He had carried on his father's Mount Repose school since February 1826. People: William James Bingham, John Rogers Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsborough AcademyInternet Archive: Charles L. Coon, North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840: A Documentary History (1915)