1889: Dr. Charles Phillips, b. 1822, NC; d. NC

REPORT OF SECRETARY FOR 1889.

NECROLOGY.

CHARLES PHILLIPS, D. D., L.L.D.

Dr. Charles Phillips was born at Chapel Hill in 1822. He graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1841 and was tutor there from 1844 to 1854. In 1854 he wus elected to the Professorship of Engineering, and in 1861 to that of Mathematics. He was a professor in Davidson College from 1869 to 1875, when he returned to the University. He was Professor Emeritus uf Mathematics at the time of his death. The study of his life was mathematics, and he was widely known as a mathematician and a preacher of the Gospel of Christ. The Journal of the Society shows many articles from his pen, and he was one of its most loved and respected members. He died May 10th, 1889, at the age of sixty-seven.

Source: Journal Of The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina Academy of Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Volume VI, Part I, January-June, 1889; Pg. 151