| 词条 | David Ker |
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| name = David Ker | image = David Ker.jpg | caption = | order = | title = Presiding Professor of the University of North Carolina | term_start = 1794 | term_end = 1796 | predecessor = | successor = Charles Wilson Harris | birth_date = 23. february 1758 | birth_place = Downpatrick, Ireland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1805|1|21|1758|2|}} | death_place = Natchez, Mississippi | alma_mater = Trinity College, Dublin | residence = | profession = Educator, Religious Minister | religion = Presbyterian | spouse = Mary Ker | children = David Ker John Ker Sarah Ker Eliza Ker Martha Ker | website = | footnotes = }} David Ker (February 1758 – January 21, 1805), born in northern Ireland, was a minister, educator, lawyer and judge, the first presiding professor (equivalent of a modern-day university president) of the University of North Carolina. Early lifeDavid Ker was born in February 1758 in Downpatrick, Ireland.[1] He was of Scottish ancestry.[2] He graduated from Trinity College in Dublin.[1][2][3][4] Ker became a Presbyterian minister with the Temple Patrick Presbytery.[1] and married Mary. Ker emigrated with his family to the United States in the 1780s and was recorded in Orange County, North Carolina by 1789, when their son was born there.[1] CareerIn 1791, Ker served as a Presbyerian minister in Fayetteville, North Carolina.[1] He was a schoolteacher on weekdays and gave sermons in the courthouse on Sundays.[1] Ker moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1794, where he served as the first presiding professor (now known as university president) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1][4] He resigned two years later, in 1796, after arguing with the trustees and students.[1] Indeed, the trustees had tried to demote him to Professor of Languages, but he refused.[1] After it became evident that they wouldn't budge, he decided to leave.[1] Ker moved to Lumberton, North Carolina.[1] He served as the first president of an academy founded by John Willis, a Brigadier General in the American Revolutionary War who owned a large plantation in Lumberton, in the 1790s.[1] Meanwhile, he passed the Bar exam.[1] Ker moved to Natchez, Mississippi with John Willis in 1800.[1] He established the first public school for women in the Mississippi Territory.[1] His wife and daughters taught at the school.[1] Shortly after, he became the Sheriff and Clerk of the Court of Adams County, Mississippi.[1] Two years later, in 1802, he was made a judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court by President Thomas Jefferson, replacing Judge Daniel Tilton.[1][4] Personal lifeKer married a woman named Mary.[1] They had five children:
Death and legacyKer died on January 21, 1805 in Natchez, Mississippi.[1] His widow burned all his papers after his death, fearing they might inappropriately influence others.[1] Ker's portrait is preserved at the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 William S. Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 3, H-K, pp. 353-354 [https://books.google.com/books?id=gejhoRgwLXwC&pg=PA353] {{University of North Carolina leaders}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ker, David}}2. ^1 Robert Haynes, The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795-1817, Louisville, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2010, p. 54 [https://books.google.com/books?id=PygOrpm2E64C&pg=PA54] 3. ^Franklin E. Court, The Scottish Connection: The Rise of English Literary Study in Early America, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001, p. 100 [https://books.google.com/books?id=X-Nsu3GAzzUC&pg=PA100] 4. ^1 2 Leslie Gale Parr, A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2010, p. 5 [https://books.google.com/books?id=T1CQJVLEhI0C&pg=PA5] 12 : 1758 births|1805 deaths|American people of Scottish descent|Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)|People from Downpatrick|Politicians from Fayetteville, North Carolina|People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina|People from Natchez, Mississippi|Alumni of Trinity College Dublin|American Presbyterian ministers|Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|Mississippi Territory judges |
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