Trinity College student John H. Gaylord, of Pitt County, N.C., died of pneumonia at age 20.
Carr and Gannaway were professors and college leaders; Johnson was the first graduate of Trinity College when it was a Normal School (teacher training institute), 1853.
Pegram was chair of the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Physics at Columbia University, and played a critical role in the establishment of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb.
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The Trinity Cemetery on Rockford Drive in Trinity, North Carolina, was established in 1859 on property owned by prominent area resident Wiley W. Andrews (1825-1910). It became the resting place for many of the educators who shaped Trinity College into the institution that became Duke University, including college founder Braxton Craven (1822-1882), as well as many members of the Trinity community.
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