History

Edmund Fanning

selected president of Queen's College

selected president of Queen's College

In the record (1)

  1. 1771

    Queen's College opened operating out of a building erected by Thomas Polk at the southeast corner of South Tryon and Third Streets in Charlotte, with advertisements for the college appearing in newspapers beginning July 1771; the college operated through 1771-1772 without final royal approval of its charter, with Edmund Fanning (Yale 1757, Harvard 1764) nominally selected as president, though he likely never served due to his role suppressing the Regulator Movement.

    Queen's CollegeElizabeth CollegeThomas PolkWilliam Tryon

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