University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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Joshua Walker Gore JOSHl ' A WALKEIl gore, eii.i iiieer, iilnsieist. Inventor, and professor of physics in tin- I ' nivfi-sity of ' oi-tIi Carolina, l)orn in Frederick C ' onnty, Virginia, on the 10th of Jannarv, 1852, was the son of ]Mahlou Gore and Sidney Sophia (Gather) Gore. His earliest ancestor in America was his paternal great-grandfather, John (ioro. who came from England as one of a colony of Friends and setrk ' d in London ( ' oiuity. X ' irginia, ahont 1778. His grandfather was Thomas Gore and his grandmother Sarah Walker. His maternal great-grandfather came from jSTorthern Ireland shortly after the Revo- lutionary Yar and settled in Frederick County, Virginia. The family had originally gone from Scotland, and were of the Covenanters. His maternal grandfather, James Gather, was liorn in Glasgow: and his matei ' ual grand- mother, Nancy Howard, was a native of Belfast, Ireland. James Gather enlisted in the War of 1812; he represented his county in the State Legislature in the early forties, and was a mendier of the Secession Convention of 1801, voting against that measure. ri)on the fir-;t rumor of invasion by Federal siddiers, however, he raised a company of home guartls. S ich is the family hist(]ry of the breed, a stock that has given to the country some if its strongest men. Mr. Gore ' s father, who was a farmer and merchant, died in 18()0, when ilr. Gore was but eight years old, and he was deprived of a father ' s guidance; but the devoted mother was both father and mother to the boy. He was prepared for college at Loudon N ' alley Academy, was a student at Richmond College for two years, and spent two yeai-s at the Fuiversity of A ' irginia, making his degree of Civil Engineer there in 1875. He then spent two years at Johns Hopkins (1870-78) as fellow in nuithematics, paying espe- cial attention also to physics. From his fellowship at Johns Hopkins Ir. (xore went to a professorship of physics and chemistry in Southwestern Bajjtist I ' niversity, and in 1881 became associated with Colonel Venable in the department of mathematics in the University of Virginia. From ' irginia ]Mr. Gore was called to the I ' ni- versity of North Carolina in 1882, as j)rofessor of jjhysies. At the University of North Carolina he made an en iable reputation as a teacher, and, as dean of the L ' niversity, helped to bear the burdens of four admin- istrations. He was wholly responsible for the electric light plant, and in large measure for the heating and water plants. He was greatly interested in and ' .