University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC was chartered in 1789. Many of its founding trustees lived in Hillsborough, NC. Although women were not permitted to study at the university, there are Burwell School connections including Eliza N. Mitchell , whose father was a prominent professor, and Mary Anne Primrose whose son Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble was considered the premier educator at UNC in the late nineteenth century.

List of Students

A

Thomas Samuel Ashe

B

Rufus Barringer

C

Collier Cobb

E

Thomas R. Emery

H

Thomas Michael Holt

M

Calvin Newton Morrow

R

Frederick Cox Roberts

S

Alfred Moore Scales; Charles Biddle Shepard; Archibald Aaron Tyson Smith; Richard Ivy Smith; Samuel Henry Smith; James Owen Stedman; John Madison Stedman; William S. Strudwick

W

Hugh Waddell; Clement Gillespie Wright