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384:, the patriarch of a prominent North Carolina political dynasty. When the land came up for sale, Martin Tupper raised $ 13,000 for its purchase, mostly from private donors solicited personally by Tupper. The largest single donor was Elijah Shaw, a resident of Wales, Massachusetts, who donated $ 5,000.
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University. He used the class as an opportunity to teach the freedmen to read and write, encouraging them to become Baptist ministers, and start their own congregations. In March 1866, Sarah Tupper began teaching
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Cabarrus streets in Raleigh, he constructed a two-story timber building to serve as both a school and church. He
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Collegiate Institute. Tupper and his students and faculty moved into their new location in 1871. Expansion proceeded quickly, as the first men's dormitory opened in 1872, and the first
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