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Carolina's Early Benefactors

Role of early benefactors in strengthening the university from its founding during the 1790s to the critical donation by Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham in 1917 that established the Kenan Professorships.

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  1. Contiguous land donations to the University
  2. William R. Davie (1756-1820) by Charles Willson Peale, 1826, based on an engraving by Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1800.
  3. Joseph Caldwell (1773-1835)
  4. Benjamin Smith (1756-1826)
  5. Paul C. Cameron (1808-1891)
  6. Charles F. Deems (1820-1893)
  7. James Strudwick Smith (1787-1852) father of Mary Ruffin Smith (1814 -1885)
  8. Smith Building, 1901
  9. Francis Preston Venable (1856-1934) in 1900
  10. John Sprunt Hill (1869-1961) and George Watts Hill (1901-1993)
  11. Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924)
  12. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867-1917)
  13. Bingham with Henry Flagler (1830-1913)
  14. William Rand Kenan, Jr. (1872-1965)
  15. Sarah Graham Kenan (1876-1968)
  16. Frank Hawkins Kenan (1912-1996)
  17. John Motley Morehead, III (1870-1965)
  18. J. Harold Lineberger and Joseph Lineberger (seated center, right)
  19. Robert March Hanes (1890-1959) and Frank Borden Hanes (1920- )
  20. William Hayes Ackland (1855-1940)
  21. J. Spencer Love (1896-1962)
  22. James Martin Johnston (1895-1967)
  23. Joseph Ezekiel Pogue (1887-1971)

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