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Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Smith (1756 1826) was a Revolutionary War veteran, one of the original appointees to the UNC board of trustees, and the 16th Governor of North Carolina where he focused on reforming the states criminal codes and penitentiary system. Smith donated his payment for war service, 20,000 acres in Tennessee, to the new university system, making him the first donor to the new school.
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David Lowry Swain
Archibald De Bow Murphey
Elisha P. Mitchell
Mitchell, born in 1793, was a UNC professor from 1818 until he died in 1857. His main field was geology. He found that a North Carolina mountain, now called Mount Mitchell, is the highest in the eastern US. He was a minister and slaveholder and preached on the morality of slavery. Mitchell Hall is named after him.