Bingham School
Oft' E of Iho
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private edurational
institutions that ever existed in ftorth Car¬
olina. More than 3,000 graduate* received
their training there.
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cal plant Car
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of Bingham Militarv
k * Bingham Hr
■ag the arrpratinr valley of the
French Broad l!iw i»f Aahcville,
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rapidly falliag into dee.,. the h.gb
pun— r and l— I tradition of thi.
oldr*t military «bool in tbr 1'nitrd
State. live in gradual» who have
riartl to pin.» of influence and po
aitioil.
Itol.n Worth Bingham, publisher
of the Louiarillr (Ky.) Courier-
Journo! and the l/miirlllt Timn, and
United State. auibauador to
Court of St. Jam». i> one of tbra
gradual» who drew inspiration from
the school*. la-t great bcadma.trr,
CoL Rohe* Bingham. hi. father. The
lair Waller Hmw fair, another am
mention ju.t a
Thr ranine of thr Bingham family
to Anrrira date. bark to 17 W when
a party of wealthy planter, from thr
Cano
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region of North Carolina
vi.itod the I'nivenily of Glasgow,
Scotland, where they unit to wo atom
ntnldubing a private acbool in their
homo aettloinent of Wilmington.
They ronaulted thr Cnivcr.ity fac¬
ulty and a.krd that thr graduate hr.1
auitol to take charge of the pro¬
pped school he rrcofnmrnded. Thr
A Presbyterian Minister
Young Bingham, then ordained a
Prr.bvtrrian minuter, wa* already
looking across the Atlantic to the
great continent in trhoae devrlopmont
and liberation hi* fellow Scots had
played ao prominent a part; and he
•rt forth with high hope, u|>on hi.
long and dangrron. journey. After
a moat truipntnotu voyage, hating
.^ly^mthshe «a«, by mu
By thi. time hi. fuel, hid tern
It., finanri
rno.1 remarkable
oog a hourly road,
be thru.! thr md of hi. walking rane
into a valuable rin_
droptwd by a pirate captain. Thr
pro. red. -cured from the .ale of
thU jewel were nflmal to provide
food and lo.|ging to the end of bi-
journey, which he completed on fool,
only to find that hia ahip had been
reported hut at wa and hi. position
had Ikcii given to another.
“The Napoleon of School
outbreak of the War
Во
State*. hia two
ома.
W.l-
Robert, were teacher, in
Robert at on.
the Another Piece of Good Luck
He wa. at hi. wit’a end. and un
cei tain «here to turn. But. in a»k-
mg for . drink of water, be ga.e thr
Ma~n.c .ign. which wa, imuwdi
airly re'cmiei and rr»f->odrd to by
a fellow Maum. .la a mult of tku
friendahip. Young Bingham waa again
offered the position. the
hating provr-l uiualufarlory.
After teaching at the wbool in the
Cape Fear oeet ion for icvcral year.,
he accepted the chair of ancient lan¬
guage. at the newly organized Uni-
vcralty of North Carclinii. There he
aoun discovered that the majority of
atudrnta cauae poorly equip|*d for
and lie decided to open
bool of hi.
The sAool
college work.
the fortune* of it, great leader. Rob¬
ert K. low, until the surrender at
Appomattox. William Bingham, on
account of delicate health, wa. not ad¬
mitted to the army and remained nt
homo to a»i.t hia father, who wa. ill
ileclining health. It wa, during thin
time that the school introduced mili¬
tary training, and teacher, became
When William J. Bingham
Isdi, hr wa. «ucecedcd by William
and Robert Bingham, but William
died in I *73. and Col. Robert lliag-
hnni became headmaster. Seeking a
more ndvantagrou. location for the
achool, he move.) it to Bingham
Height., on the A.heville plateau, in
the uiid.l of 210 aern. There, for
at hi. minion, which was to carry
boy. through the .do Went period of
their lire*, and to fit them for their
but. in rapon- to an invitation from
the town of llill.boro, then the .tale
capital, il wa. moved there.
In than favorable .oil of culture
and education, the —bool became mi
»»ful that candidate* for admia-
far excelled facilities and atu-
were enrolled five year, in ad¬
vance of entrance.
In 1*25. William Bingham died,
and wa* .uerveded by hu oon. Wil
liain J. Bingham, who, not deairing
to rear hi. children in town, morel
the school to Oak., where it remained
until the War
William J.
of Gr
More than 1.000 boy. .tudied under
hia .upem.ion, each an object of
anxiuua care and each receiving the
imprvM of the headmaitcr’a Mund
mind, In 1920, borne down by yean,
he reliliqui.hcd active management,
but .till continued a lively inten-.t
in tlie in.titution that wa. hi. heri¬
tage and hi. career.
r«l'. mv f.
hi, aou. “aU lior. of thought lead to
am General be— the • ‘
he railed him. He I the
the mea.ure of a
(tWisurd on poye f.enfy-aw)
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