Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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This Day in NC History: New Hanover Co. man first student at UNC Chapel Hill

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On February 12, 1795, Hinton James became the first student to enter the University of North Carolina. James, who had walked to Chapel Hill from his home in New Hanover County, was the only student for the first two weeks of the school year. Academically gifted, James helped organize the first literary club and debating society on campus. He was awarded a bachelor’s degree as one of the seven students in the university’s first graduating class in July 1798.
After graduation, James became an assistant to Hamilton Fulton, a Scottish engineer hired by the state to make navigation improvements on the eastern rivers. He was put in charge of operations along the Cape Fear River, but left in 1807 upon his election to the state legislature. He served three terms in Raleigh, before serving as mayor and treasurer of Wilmington and as a magistrate of New Hanover County.
James died in 1847 and was buried at Hopewell Presbyterian Church near Burgaw. A dormitory at the University of North Carolina is named in his honor.
For more about North Carolina’s history, arts and culture, visit Cultural Resources online atwww.ncdcr.gov.
Disclaimer: Comments posted on this, or any story are opinions of those people posting them, and not the views or opinions of WWAY NewsChannel 3, its management or employees. You can view our comment policy here.
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What Hinton James Really Exemplifies

Submitted by Southern Child (not verified) on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 2:06pm.
The University was the first university in the country supported with public funds. Hinton James walked from what is now Pender county. So sad that our current Republican legislature has forgotten the proud NC tradition of public education that began with forward thinking North Carolinians realizing education is the right of the public, not the select. Natives who understand our proud tradition of public education cannot continue to allow outsiders to destroy this tradition with vouchers, racially identifiable charter schools, frozen teacher pay, and continued major cuts to university academic programs. Maybe we all need to walk a few miles with Hinton James.
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Tar Heel tradition

Submitted by Revrighton (not verified) on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 5:55pm.
The current leadership has no understanding of the proud tradition of public education in our state of North Carolina because they are not from around here!
Pat McCrory-home state:OHIO
Thom Tillis-home state:FLORIDA
Phil Berger-home state:NEW YORK
They don't care that they're dismantling education for OUR children. Time to vote them out and send them back to their own states!
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Here is the leader of the FIRST University in World History to be publicly founded: one of my distant Kenan cousins, of course  (please pardon me if I repeat myself):



This Day in NC History: New Hanover Co. man first student at UNC Chapel Hill

Submitted by WWAY on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 12:42pm.READ MORE: 

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hinton.jpg
On February 12, 1795, Hinton James became the first student to enter the University of North Carolina. James, who had walked to Chapel Hill from his home in New Hanover County, was the only student for the first two weeks of the school year. Academically gifted, James helped organize the first literary club and debating society on campus. He was awarded a bachelor’s degree as one of the seven students in the university’s first graduating class in July 1798.
After graduation, James became an assistant to Hamilton Fulton, a Scottish engineer hired by the state to make navigation improvements on the eastern rivers. He was put in charge of operations along the Cape Fear River, but left in 1807 upon his election to the state legislature. He served three terms in Raleigh, before serving as mayor and treasurer of Wilmington and as a magistrate of New Hanover County.
James died in 1847 and was buried at Hopewell Presbyterian Church near Burgaw. A dormitory at the University of North Carolina is named in his honor.
For more about North Carolina’s history, arts and culture, visit Cultural Resources online atwww.ncdcr.gov.
Disclaimer: Comments posted on this, or any story are opinions of those people posting them, and not the views or opinions of WWAY NewsChannel 3, its management or employees. You can view our comment policy here.
» 

What Hinton James Really Exemplifies

Submitted by Southern Child (not verified) on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 2:06pm.
The University was the first university in the country supported with public funds. Hinton James walked from what is now Pender county. So sad that our current Republican legislature has forgotten the proud NC tradition of public education that began with forward thinking North Carolinians realizing education is the right of the public, not the select. Natives who understand our proud tradition of public education cannot continue to allow outsiders to destroy this tradition with vouchers, racially identifiable charter schools, frozen teacher pay, and continued major cuts to university academic programs. Maybe we all need to walk a few miles with Hinton James.
»

Tar Heel tradition

Submitted by Revrighton (not verified) on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 5:55pm.
The current leadership has no understanding of the proud tradition of public education in our state of North Carolina because they are not from around here!
Pat McCrory-home state:OHIO
Thom Tillis-home state:FLORIDA
Phil Berger-home state:NEW YORK
They don't care that they're dismantling education for OUR children. Time to vote them out and send them back to their own states!
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