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STERLING, Richard, educator, born in County Down, Ireland, in 1812; died in Mocksville, North Carolina, 3 October, 1883. He was brought to the United States at the age of twelve by his parents, who settled in Newburg, New York He was graduated at Princeton in 1835, taught in Fredericksburg and Richmond, Virginia, till 1848, was professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at Hampden Sidney college for the next three years, and then had charge of the Edgworth female seminary, Greensborough, North Carolina, till 1864. While there he prepared a series of school-readers and spelling-books that came into general use throughout the southern and southwestern states. In 1870 he became principal of the female seminary at Paris, Tennessee In 1873 he opened a boarding-school in Evansville, Indiana, and in 1875 removed to Mocksville, North Carolina, where he kept a similar school till 1880, when he was elected superintendent of the public schools of the county.
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