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Key events from Orange County history: 100 highlights to start, then the full chronology of 6,531 dated events and 63 storylines, each connected to the index. A storyline gathers many dated events into one history, such as the Regulator crisis.

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1868Reconstruction and the New South
  1. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
  2. Henry B. Pratt, a missionary to South America, supplies New Hope

    Appointment, election or service · New Hope

    Pratt preached at New Hope for six months with the Hillsborough church. On May 24, 1868, D. I. Craig, John T. Hogan and three women were received and baptized as members.

    People: John T. Hogan

    Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

  3. J. T. Hogan serves as an Orange County commissioner

    Orange County

    J. T. Hogan signed the county records as one of Orange County's commissioners from 1870 to 1872. In 1872 he sat with W. N. Patterson and Jones Watson on the county Board of Education, which in March elected Samuel W. Hughes county examiner of teachers.

    People: Jones Watson · Samuel Wellwood Hughes

  4. John T. Hogan and Samuel D. Blackwood are ordained elders at New Hope

    Appointment, election or service · New Hope

    The two men were ordained and added to the session. Hogan descended from the early elder John Freeland, and Blackwood from John Craig.

    People: John T. Hogan

    Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

  5. Orange County names a three-man Board of Education and a panel of teacher examiners

    Appointment, election or service · Orange County

    Under the Reconstruction school law the county had a Board of Education of W. N. Patterson, J. T. Hogan and Jones Watson in 1872. Samuel W. Hughes and Charles Curtis were among the county examiners who licensed teachers that year.

    People: Samuel Wellwood Hughes · Jones Watson · John T. Hogan

  6. John T. Hogan is chosen school committeeman for Hillsborough Township

    Hillsborough

    When Alexander Dickens resigned as school committeeman for Hillsborough Township, the county Board of Education unanimously elected John T. Hogan in his place. At the same meeting it accepted Dr. Clop's resignation for Chapel Hill Township and chose John Hutchins.

  7. William A. Graham defeats Washington Duke for a seat in the 1875 convention

    Appointment, election or service · Orange County

    Orange elected Graham over Duke, 1,908 to 1,528, and Josiah Turner Jr. over John T. Hogan. Graham died before the convention met, and William N. Patterson beat Duke again in a special election, 2,000 to 1,297.

    People: Josiah Turner Jr. · Washington Duke · John T. Hogan

  8. Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope

    Law, policy or court · New Hope

    Member David A. Claytor had carried a petition, which most of the members signed, calling on the active elders to resign; three agreed and three refused. Meeting at the church, the presbytery heard the parties, dissolved all six elders' relation to the church and ordered a new election.

    People: John T. Hogan

    Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

  9. New Hope re-elects three of its removed elders

    Appointment, election or service · New Hope

    With the Rev. F. H. Johnston presiding, the congregation chose Charles W. Johnston, John T. Hogan and William C. Claytor again, and they were reinstalled before a large congregation.

    People: John T. Hogan

    Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church

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