History of Moore County North Carolina United States of America

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Benjamin Williams, governor of North Carolina, was born in 1754. He served as a captain in the Revolutionary army, winning promotion to the rank of colonel for gallantry at Guilford, March 15, 1781; was for several years a representative in the state legislature; a representative from North Carolina in the 3d congress, 1793-95; governor of North Carolina, 1799-1802, and 1807-08, and a state senator, 1808-09. He died in Moore county, N.C., July 20, 1814.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Alexander McIver, educator, was born in Moore county, N.C., Feb. 7, 1822; son of Daniel and Margaret (McLeoud) McIver; grandson of Alexander and Effie McIver, and a descendant of Duncan McIver. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856; was tutor in mathematics in the university, 1850-53; principal of Anson institute, Wadesboro, 1853; law student with Judges Battle, Pearson and Phillips, 1854-55; lawyer at Carthage, N.C., 1855-59; professor in Davidson college, 1859-69; professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina, 1869-71; state superintendent of public instruction, 1871-75; principal of the Greensboro graded schools, 1875-80, and in 1880 engaged in farming at Oaks, N.C. He was chairman of the Mecklenburg county board of magistrates and delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1865.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles Duncan McIver, educator, was born in Moore county, N.C., Sept. 27, 1860. He was a descendant of Scotch Presbyterians, early settlers of Cape Fear district, North Carolina. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1881, and adopted the profession of teaching. He assisted in organizing the public schools of Durham, and Winston, and in 1886 joined the faculty of Peace Institute, Raleigh. As state institute conductor, elected in 1889 by the state board of education, he organized and conducted during his three years' term of service, teachers' institutes in nearly every county in the state. Among the important positions held by him are the following: superintendent of summer normal schools, president of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina; chairman of various committees of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly to petition the state legislature for improvements in the school laws, and chairman of the committee of the Teachers' Assembly whose efforts secured from the state legislature in 1891 the establishment of the North Carolina Normal and Industrial college and an annual appropriation therefor. In 1892 he was elected first president of this institution, the only college in North Carolina for the liberal education of white women receiving an annual appropriation from the state. In 1893 the University of North Carolina conferred upon President McIver the honorary degree of Litt. D.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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