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Joseph Caldwell (April 21, 1773 – January 27, 1835) was a U.S. educator, Presbyterian minister, mathematician, and astronomer. He was the first president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , holding the office from 1804 until 1812, and from 1816 until his death in 1835.
- 1st President of the University of North Carolina
- April 21, 1773, Lamington, New Jersey
21 Apr. 1773–27 Jan. 1835. See also: Numbers of Carlton. Joseph Caldwell, mathematician, Presbyterian minister, and first president of The University of North Carolina, was born at Lamington, N.J., in northeastern Hunterdon County, the youngest of three children of Joseph and Rachel Harker Caldwell. His father died two days before Caldwell's ...
Feb 21, 2020 · When challenged by a friend in the 1960s about why he didn’t take his church’s peace teachings more seriously, the playwright and author Joseph Caldwell called his friend’s bluff and dragged ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Joseph was born to Joseph and Rachel (Harker) Caldwell, April 21, 1773, in Lamington, New Jersey. His father was a physician who emigrated from Ulster in the north of Ireland; his mother’s father was a Presbyterian minister and her grandfather, surnamed Lovel, had been a Huguenot refugee from France. Joseph began practicing medicine in ...
Joseph Caldwell's Autobiography of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D. (1860) begins with a discussion of his ancestry. Caldwell then traces his childhood experiences at the Princeton grammar school and describes his education at Princeton. He discusses his move to North Carolina and his travels throughout the state during his life.
Joseph Caldwell, (21 April 1773-27 January 1835), mathematician, Presbyterian minister, and first president of the University of North Carolina, was born at Lamington, N.J., in northeastern Hunterdon County, the youngest of three children of Joseph and Rachel Harker Caldwell. His father died two days before Caldwell's birth, and the family ...
Autobiography and Biography of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D., L.L.D., First President of the University of North Carolina. by Joseph Caldwell, 1773-1835
