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| state = North Carolina |
| state = North Carolina |
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| district = [[North Carolina's 4th congressional district|4th]] |
| district = [[North Carolina's 4th congressional district|4th]] |
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| term_start = 1813 |
| term_start = March 4, 1813 |
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| term_end = 1817 |
| term_end = March 3, 1817 |
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| predecessor = [[William Blackledge]] |
| predecessor = [[William Blackledge]] |
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| successor = [[Jesse Slocumb]] |
| successor = [[Jesse Slocumb]] |
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1778|09|19}} |
| birth_date = {{birth date|1778|09|19}} |
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| birth_place = [[New Bern, North Carolina]] |
| birth_place = [[New Bern, North Carolina]], US |
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1844|01|23|1778|09|19}} |
| death_date = {{death date and age|1844|01|23|1778|09|19}} |
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| death_place = [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] |
| death_place = [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], US |
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| residence = [[Coor-Gaston House]]<br>[[Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina)|Elmwood]] |
| residence = [[Coor-Gaston House]]<br>[[Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina)|Elmwood]] |
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| education = [[Georgetown University]] |
| education = [[Georgetown University]] |
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| alma_mater = [[Princeton University]] |
| alma_mater = [[Princeton University]] |
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| party = [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]], [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] |
| party = [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]], [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] |
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| spouse = {{marriage|Susan Hay<br>|September 4, 1803|1804|reason=her death}}<br>{{marriage|Hannah McClure<br>|October 6, 1805|1813|reason=her death}}<br>{{marriage|Eliza Ann Worthington<br>|September 3, 1816|1819|reason=her death}} |
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* {{marriage|Susan Hay|September 4, 1803|1804|reason=her death}} |
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* {{marriage|Hannah McClure|October 6, 1805|1813|reason=her death}} |
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* {{marriage|Eliza Ann Worthington|September 3, 1816|1819|reason=her death}} |
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'''William J. Gaston''' (September 19, 1778 – January 23, 1844) was a jurist and [[United States Representative]] from [[North Carolina]]. |
'''William J. Gaston''' (September 19, 1778 – January 23, 1844) was a jurist and [[United States Representative]] from [[North Carolina]]. He was the author of the official state song of North Carolina, [[The Old North State (song)|"The Old North State"]]. [[Gaston County, North Carolina]], created just after his death, was named for him, as later were the city of [[Gastonia, North Carolina]], artificial [[Lake Gaston]], and the [[Gaston Hall]] auditorium at his alma mater, [[Georgetown University]]. |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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He entered [[Georgetown Preparatory School|Georgetown Academy]], a Roman Catholic school in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1791 at the age of thirteen, becoming its first student. Due to illness shortly thereafter, he also became its first dropout. After Georgetown and some education in North Carolina, he studied law at the College of New Jersey (today [[Princeton University]]), graduating in 1796. |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Gaston was admitted to the bar in 1798 and commenced practice in New Bern. He was a member of the [[North Carolina General Assembly]] in 1800, served in the [[North Carolina House of Representatives|State House of Commons]] (now known as the House of Representatives) from 1807 to 1809, and as its [[Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives|Speaker]] in 1808. He was a member of the [[North Carolina State Senate]] in 1812. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, on the [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]] ticket, serving from March 4, 1813 to March 3, 1817 (the [[13th U.S. Congress|13th]] and [[14th U.S. Congress]]es). While in Congress, he obtained a federal charter for Georgetown College (today Georgetown University). In 1814, Gaston was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistg American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref> |
Gaston was admitted to the bar in 1798 and commenced practice in New Bern. He was a member of the [[North Carolina General Assembly]] in 1800, served in the [[North Carolina House of Representatives|State House of Commons]] (now known as the House of Representatives) from 1807 to 1809, and as its [[Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives|Speaker]] in 1808. He was a member of the [[North Carolina State Senate]] in 1812. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, on the [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]] ticket, serving from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1817 (the [[13th U.S. Congress|13th]] and [[14th U.S. Congress]]es). While in Congress, he obtained a federal charter for Georgetown College (today Georgetown University). In 1814, Gaston was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]].<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistg American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref> In 1817, he was elected a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1817&year-max=1817&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-02|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> |
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Gaston did not run for Congress in 1816, returning to serve in the North Carolina Senate in 1818–1819. He again served in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1824, 1827, 1828, 1829, and 1831. |
Gaston did not run for Congress in 1816, returning to serve in the North Carolina Senate in 1818–1819. He again served in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1824, 1827, 1828, 1829, and 1831.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}} |
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In 1832, Gaston delivered the annual graduation address at the University of North Carolina. Although he owned slaves,<ref name=Faulkner2016/> his speech included what was the last public statement in North Carolina urging the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolition of slavery]]: |
In 1832, Gaston delivered the annual graduation address at the University of North Carolina. Although he owned slaves,<ref name=Faulkner2016/> his speech included what was the last public statement in North Carolina urging the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolition of slavery]]: |
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{{blockquote|As your country grows in years, you must also cause it to grow in science, literature, arts and refinement. It will be for you to develope and multiply its resources, to check the faults of manners as they rise, and to advance the cause of industry, temperance, moderation, justice, morals and religion, all around you. On you too, will devolve the duty which has been too long neglected, but which cannot with impunity be neglected much longer, of providing for the mitigation, and (is it too much to hope for in North-Carolina?) for the ultimate extirpation of the worst evil that afflicts the Southern part of our Confederacy. Full well do you know to what I refer, for on this subject there is, with all of us, a morbid sensitiveness which gives warning even of an approach to it. Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is Slavery which, more than any other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement. It stifles industry and represses enterprize—it is fatal to economy and providence—it discourages skill—impairs our strength as a community, and poisons morals at the fountain head. How this evil is to be encountered, how subdued, is indeed a difficult and delicate enquiry, which this is not the time to examine, nor the occasion to discuss. I felt, however, that I could not discharge my duty, without referring to this subject, as one which ought to engage the prudence moderation and firmness of those who, sooner or later, must act decisively upon it.<ref>{{cite book |
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|pages=115–145, at pp. 133–134}}</ref> Gaston was offered but declined a nomination for election to the [[United States Senate]] in 1840, and he turned down an offer to be [[U.S. Attorney General]] under President [[William Henry Harrison|Harrison]].<ref name="Faulkner2016">{{cite web |last1=Faulkner |first1=Ronnie W. |title=William J. Gaston (1778-1844) |url=http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/45/entry |website=northcarolinahistory.org |publisher=North Carolina History Project | |
|pages=115–145, at pp. 133–134}}</ref> Gaston was offered but declined a nomination for election to the [[United States Senate]] in 1840, and he turned down an offer to be [[U.S. Attorney General]] under President [[William Henry Harrison|Harrison]].<ref name="Faulkner2016">{{cite web |last1=Faulkner |first1=Ronnie W. |title=William J. Gaston (1778-1844) |url=http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/45/entry |website=northcarolinahistory.org |publisher=North Carolina History Project |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref> |
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Gaston won elective office on several occasions, even though the Constitution of North Carolina before 1835 seemed to prohibit it, because Gaston was a [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name="Weeks">{{cite book|last=Weeks|first=Stephen Beauregard|title=Church and State in North Carolina|publisher=The Johns Hopkins Press|location=Baltimore, Md.|year=1893|chapter=V}}</ref> The young Rev. [[Andrew Byrne]], later bishop of the [[Diocese of Little Rock]], having contracted a serious illness during the course of his lengthy missionary labors, recuperated under the hospitable roof of Judge Gaston.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z79LiSQC8YEC |
Gaston won elective office on several occasions, even though the Constitution of North Carolina before 1835 seemed to prohibit it, because Gaston was a [[Roman Catholic]].<ref name="Weeks">{{cite book|last=Weeks|first=Stephen Beauregard|title=Church and State in North Carolina|publisher=The Johns Hopkins Press|location=Baltimore, Md.|year=1893|chapter=V}}</ref> The young Rev. [[Andrew Byrne]], later bishop of the [[Diocese of Little Rock]], having contracted a serious illness during the course of his lengthy missionary labors, recuperated under the hospitable roof of Judge Gaston.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z79LiSQC8YEC&q=Francis+Garcia+Moreno&pg=PA264 Clarke, Richard Henry. "Rt. Rev. Andrew Byren, D.D.", ''Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States'', Vol. 2, P. O'Shea, 1872, p. 265]{{PD-notice}}</ref> |
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Gaston was largely responsible, as a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1835, for removing official discrimination against Catholics from North Carolina law.<ref name="newadvent">{{cite web |title=William Gaston |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392c.htm |website=www.newadvent.org |publisher=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]] | |
Gaston was largely responsible, as a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1835, for removing official discrimination against Catholics from North Carolina law.<ref name="newadvent">{{cite web |title=William Gaston |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06392c.htm |website=www.newadvent.org |publisher=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]] |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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[[File:Coor-Gaston House.JPG|thumb|[[Coor-Gaston House]], which he bought in 1818]] |
[[File:Coor-Gaston House.JPG|thumb|[[Coor-Gaston House]], which he bought in 1818]] |
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[[File:Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina).jpg|thumb|[[Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina)]]]] |
[[File:Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina).jpg|thumb|[[Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina)]]]] |
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Gaston married (first) on September 4, 1803 Susan Hay, who died in 1804. He married (second) on October 6, 1805 Hannah McClure, who died in 1813, and with whom he had three children:<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
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* Alexander Gaston (1807-1848), who married Eliza W. Jones and then Sarah Lauretta Murphy.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
* Alexander Gaston (1807-1848), who married Eliza W. Jones and then Sarah Lauretta Murphy.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
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* Susan Jane Gaston (1808-1866), who married [[Robert Donaldson Jr.]]<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
* Susan Jane Gaston (1808-1866), who married [[Robert Donaldson Jr.]]<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
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* Hannah Margaret Gaston (1811-1835), who married Matthias E. Manly.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
* Hannah Margaret Gaston (1811-1835), who married Matthias E. Manly.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
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Gaston married (third) on September 3, 1816 Eliza Ann Worthington, who died in 1819, and with whom he had two daughters:<ref name="WGPunc">{{cite web |title=William Gaston Papers, 1744-1950 (bulk 1791-1844) |url=https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00272/ |website=finding-aids.lib.unc.edu |publisher=Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. |access-date=3 April 2019}}</ref> |
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* Elizabeth Gaston (1817-1874), who married George W. Graham.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
* Elizabeth Gaston (1817-1874), who married George W. Graham.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
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* Catherine Jane Gaston (1819-1885), who did not marry.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
* Catherine Jane Gaston (1819-1885), who did not marry.<ref name="WGPunc"/> |
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[[File:Gravestone of William Gaston.jpg|thumb|Tombstone of William Gaston]] |
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Gaston died at his office in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] on January 23, 1844,<ref name="Faulkner2016"/> and was buried in [[Cedar Grove Cemetery (New Bern, North Carolina)|Cedar Grove Cemetery]], New Bern, N.C.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author =Survey Planning Unit Staff| title =Cedar Grove Cemetery| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =September 1972| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/CV0007.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = 2014-08-01}}</ref> His home at New Bern, the [[Coor-Gaston House]], was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1972.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> [[Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina)|Elmwood]], his home at [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], was listed in 1975.<ref name="nris"/><ref name = nrhpinv1>{{Cite web |author1=John Baxton Flowers, III |author2=Mary Alice Hinson |name-list-style=amp | title = Elmwood | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = July 1975 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA0013.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = 2015-05-01}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Gaston,William.html William Gaston Papers], [[Southern Historical Collection]], Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. |
* [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Gaston,William.html William Gaston Papers], [[Southern Historical Collection]], Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. |
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* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/bios/pn0000574_bio.html Entry in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography], William S. Powell, University of North Carolina Press. |
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/bios/pn0000574_bio.html Entry in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography], William S. Powell, University of North Carolina Press. |
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Revision as of 03:54, 22 December 2023
William Gaston | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 4th district | |
In office March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817 | |
Preceded by | William Blackledge |
Succeeded by | Jesse Slocumb |
Personal details | |
Born | New Bern, North Carolina, US | September 19, 1778
Died | January 23, 1844 Raleigh, North Carolina, US | (aged 65)
Political party | Federalist, Whig |
Spouses | Susan Hay
(m. 1803; died 1804)Hannah McClure
(m. 1805; died 1813)Eliza Ann Worthington
(m. 1816; died 1819) |
Children | 5 |
Residence(s) | Coor-Gaston House Elmwood |
Bildung | Georgetown University |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
William J. Gaston (September 19, 1778 – January 23, 1844) was a jurist and United States Representative from North Carolina. He was the author of the official state song of North Carolina, "The Old North State". Gaston County, North Carolina, created just after his death, was named for him, as later were the city of Gastonia, North Carolina, artificial Lake Gaston, and the Gaston Hall auditorium at his alma mater, Georgetown University.
Early life
Gaston was born in New Bern, North Carolina, on September 19, 1778. He was the son of Dr. Alexander Gaston and Margaret Sharpe.[1]
He entered Georgetown Academy, a Roman Catholic school in Washington, D.C. in 1791 at the age of thirteen, becoming its first student. Due to illness shortly thereafter, he also became its first dropout. After Georgetown and some education in North Carolina, he studied law at the College of New Jersey (today Princeton University), graduating in 1796.
Career
Gaston was admitted to the bar in 1798 and commenced practice in New Bern. He was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1800, served in the State House of Commons (now known as the House of Representatives) from 1807 to 1809, and as its Speaker in 1808. He was a member of the North Carolina State Senate in 1812. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, on the Federalist ticket, serving from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1817 (the 13th and 14th U.S. Congresses). While in Congress, he obtained a federal charter for Georgetown College (today Georgetown University). In 1814, Gaston was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.[2] In 1817, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.[3]
Gaston did not run for Congress in 1816, returning to serve in the North Carolina Senate in 1818–1819. He again served in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1824, 1827, 1828, 1829, and 1831.[citation needed]
In 1832, Gaston delivered the annual graduation address at the University of North Carolina. Although he owned slaves,[4] his speech included what was the last public statement in North Carolina urging the abolition of slavery:
As your country grows in years, you must also cause it to grow in science, literature, arts and refinement. It will be for you to develope and multiply its resources, to check the faults of manners as they rise, and to advance the cause of industry, temperance, moderation, justice, morals and religion, all around you. On you too, will devolve the duty which has been too long neglected, but which cannot with impunity be neglected much longer, of providing for the mitigation, and (is it too much to hope for in North-Carolina?) for the ultimate extirpation of the worst evil that afflicts the Southern part of our Confederacy. Full well do you know to what I refer, for on this subject there is, with all of us, a morbid sensitiveness which gives warning even of an approach to it. Disguise the truth as we may, and throw the blame where we will, it is Slavery which, more than any other cause, keeps us back in the career of improvement. It stifles industry and represses enterprize—it is fatal to economy and providence—it discourages skill—impairs our strength as a community, and poisons morals at the fountain head. How this evil is to be encountered, how subdued, is indeed a difficult and delicate enquiry, which this is not the time to examine, nor the occasion to discuss. I felt, however, that I could not discharge my duty, without referring to this subject, as one which ought to engage the prudence moderation and firmness of those who, sooner or later, must act decisively upon it.[5][6]
Gaston was appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1833; as a legislator in 1818, he had introduced the bill that established the Court as a distinct body. He held the position until his death. He wrote a decision that limited the control that slave-owners could exercise over enslaved humans.[7][8] Gaston was offered but declined a nomination for election to the United States Senate in 1840, and he turned down an offer to be U.S. Attorney General under President Harrison.[4]
Gaston won elective office on several occasions, even though the Constitution of North Carolina before 1835 seemed to prohibit it, because Gaston was a Roman Catholic.[9] The young Rev. Andrew Byrne, later bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock, having contracted a serious illness during the course of his lengthy missionary labors, recuperated under the hospitable roof of Judge Gaston.[10] Gaston was largely responsible, as a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1835, for removing official discrimination against Catholics from North Carolina law.[11]
Personal life
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Gaston married (first) on September 4, 1803 Susan Hay, who died in 1804. He married (second) on October 6, 1805 Hannah McClure, who died in 1813, and with whom he had three children:[12]
- Alexander Gaston (1807-1848), who married Eliza W. Jones and then Sarah Lauretta Murphy.[12]
- Susan Jane Gaston (1808-1866), who married Robert Donaldson Jr.[12]
- Hannah Margaret Gaston (1811-1835), who married Matthias E. Manly.[12]
Gaston married (third) on September 3, 1816 Eliza Ann Worthington, who died in 1819, and with whom he had two daughters:[12]
- Elizabeth Gaston (1817-1874), who married George W. Graham.[12]
- Catherine Jane Gaston (1819-1885), who did not marry.[12]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Gravestone_of_William_Gaston.jpg/220px-Gravestone_of_William_Gaston.jpg)
Gaston died at his office in Raleigh, North Carolina on January 23, 1844,[4] and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.[13] His home at New Bern, the Coor-Gaston House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[14] Elmwood, his home at Raleigh, North Carolina, was listed in 1975.[14][15]
See also
References
- ^ Battle, Richard H. (1905). "William Gaston". In Ashe, Samuel A; Weeks, Stephen B.; Van Noppen, Charles L. (eds.). Biographical history of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. Vol. 2. Greensboro, North Carolina: Charles L. Van Noppen. pp. 99–107.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ a b c Faulkner, Ronnie W. "William J. Gaston (1778-1844)". northcarolinahistory.org. North Carolina History Project. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Gaston, William (1832). Address delivered before the Philanthropic and Dialectic Societies, at Chapel-Hill : June 20, 1832. This was the annual graduation address. Raleigh, North Carolina. p. 14.
- ^ Alfred L. Brophy, The Republics of Liberty and Letters: Progress, Union, and Constitutionalism at Graduation Addresses at the Antebellum University of North Carolina, North Carolina Law Review (2011).
- ^ Brophy, Alfred L. (June 2013). "The Nat Turner Trials". North Carolina Law Review. 91: 1817–1880.
- ^ Brophy, Alfred L. (2015). "Anti-Slavery Women and the Origins of American Jurisprudence" (PDF). Texas Law Review. 94: 115–145, at pp. 133–134.
- ^ Weeks, Stephen Beauregard (1893). "V". Church and State in North Carolina. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press.
- ^ Clarke, Richard Henry. "Rt. Rev. Andrew Byren, D.D.", Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, Vol. 2, P. O'Shea, 1872, p. 265
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "William Gaston". www.newadvent.org. Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "William Gaston Papers, 1744-1950 (bulk 1791-1844)". finding-aids.lib.unc.edu. Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Survey Planning Unit Staff (September 1972). "Cedar Grove Cemetery" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ John Baxton Flowers, III & Mary Alice Hinson (July 1975). "Elmwood" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
External links
- United States Congress. "William Gaston (id: G000096)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- William Gaston Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Entry in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, University of North Carolina Press.
- 1778 births
- 1844 deaths
- Princeton University alumni
- Georgetown University alumni
- Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
- North Carolina state senators
- Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court
- Politicians from New Bern, North Carolina
- Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
- Members of the American Antiquarian Society
- 18th-century American politicians
- 19th-century American legislators
- 19th-century American judges
- Catholics from North Carolina
- American abolitionists