Bonnie Ethel Cone (June 22, 1907 - March 8, 2003) was an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Bonnie Ethel Cone was born in Lodge, South Carolina, June 22, 1907, into what was to become a family of teachers. She was the youngest of four children (two sons, two daughters) born to Addie Harter and Charles Jefferson Cone. Three of the four children entered the teaching profession, as did three...
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Bonnie Ethel Cone (June 22, 1907 - March 8, 2003) was an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Bonnie Ethel Cone was born in Lodge, South Carolina, June 22, 1907, into what was to become a family of teachers. She was the youngest of four children (two sons, two daughters) born to Addie Harter and Charles Jefferson Cone. Three of the four children entered the teaching profession, as did three of the grandchildren.
Her father was a farmer and businessman who also served as the mayor of Lodge, a community of about 200 people near Walterboro in Colleton County, South Carolina, just off present-day Interstate 95 in what is known in South Carolina as the Low Country. Her father also ran a dealership and garage for Hudson automobiles and was a distributor of Singer sewing machines. Bonnie Cone's mother, Addie, was a talented seamstress and needleworker who made most of her children's clothes. She also was a gracious and resourceful...
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