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词条 Charles Wilson Harris
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  1. Biography

     Early life  Career  Personal life  Death 

  2. References

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| birth_place = Concord, North Carolina
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| death_place = Anson County, North Carolina, United States
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Charles Wilson Harris (1771 – January 15, 1804) was briefly presiding professor (equivalent of a modern-day university president) of the University of North Carolina during 1796.

Biography

Early life

Charles Wilson Harris was born in 1771. He was the son of Col. Robert Harris (1737-1803) of Poplar Tent and Mary Wilson. His elementary education was at a classical school conducted in association with the Poplar Tent Presbyterian Church, of which his father was a presiding elder. He then attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and was awarded the Mathematical Oration at his 1792 graduation.

Career

Harris was a close associate of William Richardson Davie. He was Davie's law clerk and assumed Davie's legal caseload during the latter's absences from Halifax, North Carolina when he was governor and ambassador to France.

He served as the second presiding professor (now known as university president) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1796.

Personal life

He was a freemason. He never got married.

Death

He died of consumption on January 15, 1804.

References

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6 : 1771 births|1804 deaths|People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Princeton University alumni|American Freemasons|Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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