Solomon Pool (April 21, 1832 – April 8, 1901) was the fourth president of the University of North Carolina. His father was a wealthy slave-holding planter of English descent, his mother was descended from French Huguenots.[1] Pool entered the University of North Carolina in 1849 and graduated in 1853.[1] Pool became president of the university in 1869.[2]
Solomon Pool | |
|---|---|
 | |
| President of the University of North Carolina | |
| In office 1869–1872 | |
| Preceded by | David Lowry Swain |
| Succeeded by | Charles Phillips |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 21, 1832 Elizabeth City, North Carolina |
| Died | April 8, 1901 (aged 68) Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Profession | Educator |
Notes
editFurther reading
edit- Alumni Files (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas (1892);
- Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina (1912);
- Chapel Hill Newspaper, 15 July 1973; Thomas N. Ivey, ed., Handbook of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, In North Carolina and Almanac for 1902 (1901);
- Journal of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1900);
- Ralph I. Pool, "Pool Family of Pasquotank, North Carolina" (no date); Raleigh News and Observer, 3 Sept. 1950;
- Van Noppen Papers (Manuscript Department, Duke University Library, Durham).
External links
edit
  | This biography of an American academic administrator born in 1830–1839 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |