Record #:

10716

Author(s):

Jones, Joe

Abstract:

James Phillips, an Englishman who taught mathematics at the University of North Carolina from 1826 to 1867, is the ancestor of several North Carolinians who have made distinguished contributions to the life of their state. His daughter Cornelia Phillips Spencer, for whom UNC's Spencer Hall is named, was instrumental in the 1875 reopening of the university after it had been closed during the Reconstruction era. His son Charles was a mathematics professor at UNC and his other son, Samuel, was a lawyer who went on to become speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons, auditor in Governor Zebulon Vance's Civil War cabinet, and United States solicitor under President Grant.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 37 Issue 14, Dec 1969, p14, 28-29, por

Subject(s):

Phillips, James, 1792-1867; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Study and teaching--Mathematics