Solomon Pool

Solomon Pool
President of the University of North Carolina
In office 1869–1872
Preceded by	David Lowry Swain
Succeeded by	Charles Phillips
Personal details
Born	(1832-04-21)April 21, 1832 Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Died	April 8, 1901(1901-04-08) (aged 68) Greensboro, North Carolina
Profession	Educator

Solomon Pool (April 21, 1832 – April 8, 1901) was the fourth president of the University of North Carolina. His father was a wealthy slave-holding planter of English descent, his mother was descended from French Huguenots.^[1] Pool entered the University of North Carolina in 1849 and graduated in 1853.^[1] Pool became president of the university in 1869.^[2]

Notes

Further reading

• Alumni Files (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas (1892);
• Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina (1912);
• Chapel Hill Newspaper, 15 July 1973; Thomas N. Ivey, ed., Handbook of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, In North Carolina and Almanac for 1902 (1901);
• Journal of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1900);
• Ralph I. Pool, "Pool Family of Pasquotank, North Carolina" (no date); Raleigh News and Observer, 3 Sept. 1950;
• Van Noppen Papers (Manuscript Department, Duke University Library, Durham).

External links

• Official UNC Biography

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