first public university in the United States. Among items on display were the 18th- and 19th-century papers from Eagle Lodge No. 19 in Hillsborough documenting the applications, or “petitions,” of UNC's first President Joseph Caldwell to receive the first and second degrees of Masonry. Gallery References External links Autobiography and Biography of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D., L.L.D., First President of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, [N.C.]: J.B. Neathery, 1860. Joseph Caldwell Papers at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Caldwell Monument 1773 births 1835 deaths 18th-century American mathematicians 19th-century American mathematicians 19th-century astronomers Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill