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Scarborough, John Catre

soldier, educator, college president, was born Sept. 22, 1841, in Wake county, N. C.

During 1877-85 he was state superintendent of public instruction for North Carolina, and again filled that office during 1893-97. He is now president of the Chowan Baptist Female institute of Murfreesborough, N. C. SCARBOROUGH, WILLIAM SAUND- ERS, educator, author, was born Feb. 16, 1852, in Macon, Ga. He is an educator of African descent, professor of ancient languages in Wilberforce university, Ohio, from 1877; and the author of First Lessons in Greek; and Theory and Functions of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb.

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