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Braxton Craven was born on August 22, 1822, in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States.
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Braxton Craven was born on August 22, 1822, in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States.
Braxton's education was secured mainly by self-help. He attended two sessions at New Garden School (now Guilford College) and in 1850 he passed the examinations on the entire course of study at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
In 1841 Craven became assistant teacher at Union Institute, Randolph County, a local school organized in 1838 by a group of Quakers and Methodists, and in 1842 he was made principal. Desiring to make the institution more than an academy, he undertook the training of teachers for the common schools of North Carolina, and in 1850 he published his Theory of Common Schools, the first comprehensive program of teacher training formulated in North Carolina. The same year he began the publication of the Southern Index, an educational journal, which was soon converted into a literary magazine, the Evergreen.
He sought aid from the legislature and in 1851 Union institute was rechartered as Normal College, those students holding a certificate from the institution being authorized to teach in the common schools without further examination. This was the first college for teacher training in North Carolina; but the experiment was not a success and Craven turned to the Methodist Church for aid.
In 1856 an agreement was made by which Normal College was transferred to the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The Conference agreed to raise $20, 000 for the institution, but never fulfilled its promise. In 1859 the name of the institution was changed to Trinity College. Braxton Craven remained its president until his death, with the exception of an interval during the Civil War.
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Craven married Irene Leach on September 26, 1844.