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Lawyers and Poetry

Richard Don Wilson

(1819-1883)
North Carolina

R. Don Wilson was from Caswell County, North Carolina. He began his studies at the University of North Carolina in 1840 and graduated in 1842. He taught for a while and then became a lawyer. From 1868 to 1883 he served on the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina. [Sources: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina 798 (Raleigh, North Carolina: Printed for the author by Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1907-1912) & Bio, Documentating the American South]

"On the Influence of Women"
Commencement Address of R. Don Wilson [June] 1841