Julia Wetherington, 1892-1978, daughter of Oliver Hazard and Nannie (Daughtery) Wetherington, was born at Tuscarora, Craven County, N.C. She was educated in Louisburg College Preparatory School (1909-1913) the University of North Carolina (summer sessions, 1920-1924), Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. (1924-1925), Columbia University (MA, 1934), and the University of. Chicago (summer sessions, 1944-1945). She began her career as an elementary school teacher in 1913, teaching in schools in eastern North Carolina until 1925. From 1926 until 1931 she was supervisor of the elementary school program in Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky, and from 1931 to 1938 was supervisor of elementary classroom instruction in Ann Arundel County, Maryland. In 1938 she began work as a state elementary school supervisor in the Division of Instructional Services, N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction.

During 1949 Miss Wetherington, having been granted a leave of absence by the N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction, worked as an education advisor in the program under the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany to reform the school system of post-war Germany. She was assigned to the Education Service Center at Wiesbaden in Hesse and given duties not dissimilar to those she had performed with the N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction. She procured books, office materials, and equipment for servicing the program, visited and worked with the local committees for school reform in the Wiesbaden area, planned and assembled exhibits on the teaching of basic elementary school subjects, and consulted (when invited) with principals and teachers on objectives, methods, and procedures of teaching. Miss Wetherington completed her work in Germany toward the end of 1949, returned to Raleigh, and resumed her work in the N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction. She retired in 1958.