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Although there are very fine institutions of learning for young women throughout the state, most of the private schools are not designed to prepare young women for a profession other than teaching or nursing.
Postcard with the banner of Elizabeth College. Founded in 1896 by the Lutheran Church, the school attracted young women from across the state. It was well-known for its music conservatory.
October 28, 1972 - Police beat student at East Mecklenburg.
J. E. Grigsby, principal of Second Ward High School, 1931 - 1957.
MIRIAM GRIGSBY BATES.
John Taylor Williams (1859-1924), the man who would become an educator, physician, businessman and diplomat, was born in Cumberland County, N.C., the son of free blacks during the time of slavery.
Marriage: Reverend Bennett Smedes and Miss Henrietta Harvey
Location: Raleigh, Wake County,NC
Rev. Smedes is principal of St. Mary's School, Raleigh.Frederick Harvey, resident of Louisiana.
Family Information: Mr. Frederick Harvey
The church building was formerly a Rosenwald School. The church was founded in 1865. This is not a complete list of burial records. Mary Beth Gatza abstracted this list of burials, which may be incomplete. The cemetery is to the side of the church and is visible from the street.
March 9, 1877 - First called Craighead in honor of an early Mecklenburg patriot, today the town of Huntersville is incorporated.
Joe Cornelius never actually lived in the town named for him. As a resident of neighboring Davidson, he lent money in 1903 to the people who built the mill in the north Mecklenburg town that would bear his name. By next year, there will be a school in Cornelius.
A private hospital begun by a group of Charlotte doctors becomes Presbyterian Hospital when its founders give the facility to the church in 1903. A nursing school will be part of the hospital as well.
Other suburbs spring up around Charlotte's center city. Elizabeth is named for Ann Elizabeth Watts, whose husband was a Durham tobacco executive. Western Heights grows near the school that will one day become Johnson C. Smith University.Elizabeth College
A failed school becomes home to 100 neglected or orphaned children. Thompson's Orphanage, organized by St. Peter's Episcopal Church, is only the second such facility in North Carolina. Cattle graze on 40 acres of pasture that surround the home.
The school board has failed to devise an acceptable busing plan, but the Citizens' Advisory Group has their own ideas. These parents, educators and concerned citizens have met many times. They convince the skeptics that their strategy can work.