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• Maaske, Roben J. 1 entry, 1939
  • by February 3, 1939: University student volunteers begin evening classes for prisoners at the county prison camp
• Maben, Alexander 1 entry, 1752
  • 1752: The act creating Orange County names James Watson a boundary commissioner and vestryman
• Mabson, G. L. 1 entry, 1871
  • November 23, 1871: The state House rejects a New Hanover petition to expel F. Strudwick and two other members
• MacCarthy, Mrs. Gerald 2 entries, 1959–1962
  • December 15, 1959: Chapel Hill Public Library marks its first year with more than 7,500 books
  • by January 11, 1962: Chapel Hill Public Library wins a Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
• MacDonald, Donald 1 entry, 1776
  • February 1776: Orange County militia under James Thackston hold Cross Creek during the Loyalist rising
• MacDonald, Susan 1 entry, 1975
  • fall 1975: Chapel Hill High's women's tennis team ties for the state championship
• MacDuffie, J. F. 1 entry, 1897
  • June 1897: Cane Creek Baptist Church gives part of its lot for an academy
• Mace, Robert 1 entry, 1960
  • about 1960: Don Stewart designs a Japanese-influenced house for Robert and Ruth Mace
• Mace, Mrs. Robert 1 entry, 1962
  • September 4, 1962: Chapel Hill Housing Authority applies for a planning loan for 200 low-rent apartments
• Mace, Ruth 2 entries, 1960–1962
  • about 1960: Don Stewart designs a Japanese-influenced house for Robert and Ruth Mace
  • April 9, 1962: Mayor McClamroch names Chapel Hill's first public housing authority members
• MacIntyre, Alan 1 entry, 1953
  • September 30, 1953: The FCC grants the University a permit to build an educational television station on Channel 4
• Mack, B. A. 1 entry, 1963
  • early November 1963: Black parents petition the county school board over the site of a new elementary school in Hillsboro
• Mack, E. E. 2 entries, 1942
  • March 24, 1942: The Navy opens the first Pre-Flight School offices in Swain Hall
  • December 7, 1942: Pre-Flight School personnel pledge $38,811 in war bonds on Pearl Harbor Day
• Mack, Edward 1 entry, 1935
  • by August 2, 1935: Susan G. Akers becomes director of the University's School of Library Science
• Mack, Edward, Jr. 1 entry, 1935
  • by June 28, 1935: Edward Mack Jr. is named head of the University's chemistry department
• MacKenzie, Hillary 1 entry, 2020
  • July 16, 2020: Orange County Schools votes to open the school year online
• MacKinney, L. C. 1 entry, 1931
  • May 23, 1931: Battle Park Association volunteers begin clearing Battle Park

  May be the same person as MacKinney, Loren C.

• MacKinney, Loren C. 2 entries, 1940–1941
  • week of June 3, 1940: A Chapel Hill chapter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is organized
  • May 24, 1941: Chapel Hill's Committee to Defend America polls its members, 210 to 10, for armed convoys to Britain

  May be the same person as MacKinney, L. C.

• Macklin, Harry 1 entry, 1954
  • September 1954: Harry Macklin comes back to Chapel Hill to reopen Harry's Grill in the old Campus Cafe
• Maclaine, Archibald 1 entry, 1788

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• MacLamroc, James G. W. 1 entry, 1961
  • November 29, 1961: State highway commissioner refuses Orange's request to review its road plan
• Macnair, E. D. 1 entry, 1854
  • October 26-27, 1854: Orange County holds its first agricultural fair at Hillsborough
• MacNair, Ralph 1 entry, 1770
  • April or June 1770: William Few conveys his home place near Hillsborough to John Butler
• MacNelly, Jeff 7 entries, 1968–1992

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• MacNider, Sophia 1 entry, 1929
  • 1929: Sophia MacNider, who kept a boarding house and preparatory school on Franklin Street, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• MacNider, William 1 entry, 1918
  • 1918: Trustees name the first five Kenan professors
• MacNider, William de Berniere 19 entries, 1905–1947

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• Macomson, Mike 1 entry, 1976
  • 1976: The idle Carrboro depot is converted into The Station
• Macon, Nathaniel 1 entry, 1825

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• MacPhee, Jack 2 entries, 1940–1941
  • September 17, 1940: Chapel Hill's new Recreation Commission organizes and names a town superintendent of recreation
  • March 24, 1941: Carrboro softball players start a drive to light a softball field
• MacRae, Cameron 1 entry, 1925
  • by November 6, 1925: Mrs. Dora MacRae Elliott opens the MacRae Realty and Insurance Company

  May be the same person as MacRae, Cameron F.

• MacRae, Cameron F. 1 entry, 1925
  • 1925: Cameron MacRae builds the MacRae building at Franklin and Henderson streets

  May be the same person as MacRae, Cameron

• MacRae, James 1 entry, 1899
  • by August 24, 1899: The university elects Judge James MacRae professor of law

  May be the same person as MacRae, James C.

• MacRae, James C. 2 entries, 1883–1890
  • October 7 to 10, 1883: An Orange jury convicts Tony Borland of manslaughter after a confused verdict
  • early August 1890: The state drops charges against three of five revenue men accused of killing Henry McMannen

  May be the same person as MacRae, James

• MacRae, Mary 1 entry, 1897
  • September 1897: Women enroll at UNC for the first time
• MacRae, R. S. 2 entries, 1888–1920
  • June 27, 1888: Chapel Hill Democrats organize a Cleveland, Fowle and Bunn Club
  • by January 10, 1920: Chapel Hill's new federal post office opens on Franklin Street

  May be the same person as MacRae, Robert S.; MacRae, Robert Strange

• MacRae, Robert S. 1 entry, 1921
  • by August 4, 1921: R. L. Strowd becomes acting postmaster of Chapel Hill after Robert S. MacRae's death

  May be the same person as MacRae, R. S.; MacRae, Robert Strange

• MacRae, Robert Strange 2 entries, 1884–1893
  • 1884: Robert Strange MacRae buys Dr. Harris's drugstore and its building
  • 1893: Dr. Richard H. Whitehead buys Robert Strange MacRae's drugstore

  May be the same person as MacRae, R. S.; MacRae, Robert S.

• Madden, David 1 entry, 1967

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• Madden, George 1 entry, 1793
  • August Term 1793: The court releases George Madden from his apprentice Hugh Phillips, who has become crippled
• Madden, John 1 entry, 1830
  • February 1830 (court term): The court finds John Madden not the father but makes him pay the costs
• Maddock, Joseph 2 entries, 1757–1767
  • 1757: Joseph Maddock builds Hillsborough's first prison
  • November 1767: Thomas Hart buys Joseph Maddock's mill on the Eno
• Maddox, Charles 1 entry, 1929
  • by April 26, 1929: Black Chapel Hill committee organizes to pay its share of the nurse's salary
• Maddox, Charlie 2 entries, 1931–1941
  • by May 22, 1931: Black veterans in Chapel Hill organize the John Allen Post of the American Legion
  • by October 31, 1941: Boy Scout Troop 107 is organized at the Orange County Training School
• Maddry, Abel 2 entries, 1869–1870
  • August 5, 1869: Orange County holds its first township elections
  • 1870: Mount Sinai Baptist Church is organized
• Maddry, Avery 1 entry, 1963
  • March 10, 1963: Jayne Mansfield rides in the pace car at Orange Speedway

  May be the same person as Maddry, Avery Charles

• Maddry, Avery Charles 1 entry, 1959
  • by August 20, 1959: Sheriff Buck Knight appoints a Black part-time deputy and two other deputies

  May be the same person as Maddry, Avery

• Maddry, Charles 2 entries, 1902–1953
  • October 12, 1902: Caldwell asks for an election on a rural graded school
  • February 1, 1953: The Rev. Robert C. Masterton retires as rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
• Maddry, Charles Edward 47 entries, 1891–1962

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• Maddry, Emma Parker 1 entry, 1906
  • May 2, 1906: Charles E. Maddry marries Emma Parker at Hillsborough Baptist Church
• Maddry, Frank 2 entries, 1938–1940
  • June 4, 1938: Roland McClamroch and Sheriff S. T. Latta Jr. win the Orange Democratic primary
  • January 1940: Frank Maddry is appointed deputy sheriff for Chapel Hill township

  May be the same person as Maddry, Frank C.

• Maddry, Frank C. 4 entries, 1954–1956
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  • May 29, 1954: Orange Democrats nominate four men for the newly enlarged five-member Board of Commissioners
  • June 26, 1954: Odell H. Clayton wins the Democratic runoff for sheriff over Frank Maddry
  • March 6, 1954: Sheriff S. T. Latta Jr. announces he will not run again
  • August 6, 1956: County commissioners put the deputy sheriffs in uniform

  May be the same person as Maddry, Frank

• Maddry, John 1 entry, 1928
  • 1928: John Maddry builds a bungalow on his Airport Road dairy farm
• Maddry, W. A. 3 entries, 1894–1900
  • June 4, 1894: Justices and commissioners hold their last joint meeting
  • by September 29, 1898: Orange Democrats name their 1898 county ticket with S. M. Gattis for the House
  • June 2, 1900: Orange Democrats nominate Samuel M. Gattis and the 1900 county ticket
• Madhubuti, Haki 1 entry, 1992
  • February 17, 1992: Haki Madhubuti lectures at the Black Cultural Center
• Madison, D. Soyini 1 entry, 1996
  • 1996: Allan Gurganus is a visiting scholar at UNC's Institute for the Arts and Humanities
• Madry, Robert 1 entry, 1928
  • By June 1928: A model law office and courtroom are fitted out in Manning Hall
• Madry, Robert W. 1 entry, 1923

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• Madry, Robert W. 45 entries, 1923–1955

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• Madry, W. Dennis 1 entry, 1944
  • November 7, 1944: Orange County votes Democratic in the 1944 general election
• Maeda, Nobuyo 2 entries, 1988–2016
  • 1988: Oliver Smithies and Nobuyo Maeda join the UNC faculty
  • April 2016: Smithies and Sancar give replica Nobel medals to UNC
• Mager, Wilhelm 1 entry, 1880
  • by January 10, 1880: Chemist Wilhelm Mager joins the state experiment station at Chapel Hill
• Magnuson, Harold J. 1 entry, 1946
  • late 1940s (by summer 1949): The Public Health Service moves its Syphilis Experimental Laboratory to the School of Public Health
• Mahew, Sam 1 entry, 1870
  • August 1870: Students of the Pool university board chiefly with Black families
• Makin, Arthur 1 entry, 1957
  • December 1, 1957: The Hillsboro Exchange Club gives Sydney Green its Book of Golden Deeds
• Makins, J. L. 1 entry, 1948
  • early August 1948: Hillsboro's Black veterans of the Lewis Mayo American Legion post elect their officers
• Malcom, R. W. 1 entry, 1918
  • Fall 1918: A Black county committee raises $525 for the United War Work drive
• Mallard, Raymond 4 entries, 1960–1964
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  • September 29, 1960: An Orange County jury convicts four men of arson and conspiracy in the Reverie plant fire
  • November 18, 1964: Defense lawyers file State Supreme Court appeals for eleven Chapel Hill civil rights defendants
  • by April 23, 1964: More than 100 Chapel Hill demonstrators plead no contest in Orange Superior Court
  • March 2, 1964: A special Superior Court session opens at Hillsborough to try the Chapel Hill civil rights cases

  May be the same person as Mallard, Raymond B.

• Mallard, Raymond B. 1 entry, 1964
  • April 23 to 24, 1964: Judge Mallard sentences fasters Pat Cusick and John Dunne to a year in jail

  May be the same person as Mallard, Raymond

• Mallet, Sally 1 entry, 1858
  • 1858: The General Assembly lets Emily Hooper, a citizen of Liberia, return to slavery in Chapel Hill
• Mallett, Baker 1 entry, 1863
  • January 17, 1863: Cornelia Phillips Spencer begins teaching boys from refugee families
• Mallett, Charles P. 2 entries, 1858–1865
  • by 1858: Charles P. Mallett keeps the University Bookstore on Franklin Street
  • April 30, 1865: Charles P. Mallett wrote that federal troops had held Chapel Hill for fourteen days
• Mallett, Daniel 1 entry, 1788
  • September 4, 1788: Daniel Mallett buys the West King Street lots where Twin Chimneys stands
• Mallett, E. J. 1 entry, 1857
  • by April 18, 1857: E. J. Mallett serves as intendant of Chapel Hill over five commissioners
• Mallett, Edward 4 entries, 1852–1857
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  • 1852: The legislature charters the Chapel Hill and Raleigh Plank Road Company
  • February 1855: The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County
  • July 13, 1857: Chapel Hill's commissioners enter resolutions on the death of their fellow commissioner Elisha Mitchell
  • July 1857: Chapel Hill citizens hold a town meeting in the University Chapel to mourn Elisha Mitchell
• Mallett, John 2 entries, 1878–1879
  • June 15, 1878: Burglars break into Mrs. Hendon's house in Chapel Hill and wound her with an axe
  • May 16, 1879: Three men hanged for a string of Chapel Hill burglaries
• Mallett, Peter 1 entry, 1863

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• Mallett, William P. 8 entries, 1856–1889

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• Mallett, William P. 2 entries, 1881–1885

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• Malone, C. C. 1 entry, 1964
  • November 18, 1964: Defense lawyers file State Supreme Court appeals for eleven Chapel Hill civil rights defendants
• Malone, David 1 entry, 1800
  • 1800: The court places James Revill, a youth of color said to have been sold by his master, with Robert Eaton
• Malone, Henry 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court orders the children of Sally Heath brought in to be bound out
• Malone, John 1 entry, 1862
  • March 8, 1862: The Orange Light Artillery organizes at Hillsborough under Capt. William Cameron
• Malone, Mollie Holmes 1 entry, 1917
  • October 1917: Robert and Mollie Malone open Orange County Training School on the old Hackney campus
• Malone, R. E. 2 entries, 1917–1919
  • by November 29, 1917: State and General Education Board agents visit R. E. Malone's school for Black pupils at Chapel Hill
  • November 13, 1919: Orange County Training School holds a farmers' conference and community fair

  May be the same person as Malone, Robert E.

• Malone, Robert E. 1 entry, 1917
  • October 1917: Robert and Mollie Malone open Orange County Training School on the old Hackney campus

  May be the same person as Malone, R. E.

• Malone, Squire 1 entry, 1869
  • September 6, 1869: Wright Malone is abducted and lynched near Little River
• Malone, Wright 3 entries, 1869–2023

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• Manakin, Mary 1 entry, 1777
  • August Term 1777: The court orders Michael Riley returned to his mother, Mary Manakin
• Mandela, Maki 1 entry, 1986
  • November 10, 1986: Maki Mandela speaks on apartheid in Memorial Hall
• Maness, W. L. 1 entry, 1951
  • early November 1951: Charles S. Hubbard leaves the Hillsborough Methodist charge for Trinity Methodist Church in Raleigh
• Mangom, William 1 entry, 1794
  • July 1794: A called court discharges Moses, a man enslaved by William Mangom, when no one proves the charge
• Mangum, Addison 3 entries, 1846–1868
  • June 20, 1846: Volunteers of the 47th Regiment draw lots and organize John Cameron's company
  • March 18, 1864: Orange voters elect John Berry to the state Senate and Addison Mangum to the Commons
  • February 25, 1868: Orange Conservatives hold a county meeting at the courthouse and name an executive committee
• Mangum, Adolphus Williamson 15 entries, 1855–1922

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• Mangum, B. C. 1 entry, 1959
  • June 20, 1959: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation holds its twentieth annual meeting in the new Hillsboro High gym
• Mangum, Charles S. 1 entry, 1917

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• Mangum, Mrs. Charles S. 1 entry, 1925
  • March to May 1925: Clubwomen and Boy Scouts clear advertising signs from the Chapel Hill-Durham road
• Mangum, Charles S., Jr. 4 entries, 1931–1952

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• Mangum, Charles Staples 24 entries, 1888–1940

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• Mangum, Clarence 3 entries, 1951–1956
  • August 6, 1951: The Hillsboro Exchange Club opens a public tennis court on Tryon Street
  • April 29-30, 1955: The Hillsboro Exchange Club stages a blackface minstrel show to raise money for its park
  • May 15, 1956: The Hillsboro Exchange Club formally opens its community park
• Mangum, D. C. 1 entry, 1896
  • by October 22, 1896: Eighteenth District Populists endorse E. S. Parker and name their own Senate candidate
• Mangum, Ellison Goodloe 1 entry, 1863

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• Mangum, Fred 1 entry, 1944
  • October 21, 1944: The Caldwell Educational Association votes to build a school and community gymnasium
• Mangum, Marvin 2 entries, 1946–1956
  • July 1946: Poe-Mangum Auto Service finishes a showroom and parts wing at its West Franklin Street station
  • 1956: Poe and Mangum move their DeSoto-Plymouth dealership out of a West Franklin Street filling station
• Mangum, Maynard 1 entry, 1919
  • October 11, 1919: The New Hope Valley farm east of Chapel Hill is auctioned off as sixteen farms
• Mangum, P. H. 2 entries, 1839–1841
  • January 1839: Maria L. Spear heads the Hillsborough Female Seminary
  • by June 24, 1841: Hillsborough's female seminary engages Moses Ashley Curtis as superintendent
• Mangum, Priestley H. 4 entries, 1834–1850
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  • May 27, 1834: An Orange County internal improvement meeting at Hillsborough asks the state to fund a steam route to the coast
  • September 1843 (fall superior court): Andrew M. Steel is convicted of manslaughter in the shooting of his mother
  • November 25, 1850: The county court elects Henry K. Nash solicitor for Orange County
  • September 17, 1850: Lawyer Priestley H. Mangum dies at Hillsborough
• Mangum, Priestly H. 2 entries, 1823–1834
  • July 4, 1823: Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with a procession, oration and toasts
  • March 11, 1834: An Orange County meeting takes up the internal improvement convention's plan

  May be the same person as Mangum, Priestly Hinton

• Mangum, Priestly Hinton 1 entry, 1817
  • 1817: John Motley Morehead serves as a tutor at the university

  May be the same person as Mangum, Priestly H.

• Mangum, W. C. 1 entry, 1958
  • March 28-29, 1958: The Hillsboro Exchange Club stages its annual minstrel show for its recreation park
• Mangum, William 2 entries, 1867–1878
  • August Term 1867: The court binds Lewis B. Collins, bound in 1864 as a minor of color, to John B. Leathers
  • May 6, 1878: Durham elects D. C. Parrish mayor and a new board of commissioners
• Mangum, William P. 1 entry, 1808
  • May to November 1808: Patsy Crowder attaches Joseph Brittain's property and wins her suit
• Mangum, William Preston 1 entry, 1861

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• Mangum, Willie 1 entry, 1810
  • November 1810 (court term): The court orders Willie Mangum's administrators to pay Nancy Dunnagan for two children
• Mangum, Willie P. 40 entries, 1792–1922

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• Mangum, Willie Person, Jr. 1 entry, 1922
  • 1922: Mangum Dormitory opens, named for three members of the Mangum family
• Manire, G. Phillip 1 entry, 1985
  • spring 1985: UNC starts the Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Program
• Manire, Ruth 1 entry, 1960
  • September 1960: The Chapel Hill Cooperative Pre-School opens to children of every race
• Manley 1 entry, 1955
  • February 7, 1955: A Black delegation asks the commissioners for a gymnasium-auditorium at Lincoln High
• Manley, E. A. 1 entry, 1953
  • by May 28, 1953: Black pastors in Orange County organize a ministerial alliance
• Manley, J. R. 14 entries, 1950–1963
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  • July 24, 1950: Commissioners cut the auditorium-gymnasium from Chapel Hill's new Black high school
  • September 27, 1953: Rock Hill Baptist, renamed First Baptist, holds its first services on North Roberson Street
  • April 4-11, 1954: The Baptist Church of Chapel Hill celebrates its centennial
  • December 19, 1957: Black home demonstration clubs hold their achievement program at Central High School
  • October 5, 1959: Chapel Hill school board asks the town to annex the Estes Hills, Northside and Lincoln school areas
  • May 5, 1959: Chapel Hill district voters elect the Rev. J. R. Manley to the city school board
  • May 23, 1960: The Chapel Hill school board keeps its pupil assignment policy and rejects the Quaker Plan
  • March 6, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board hires John D. Latimer and Associates to design a new junior high
  • February 6, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board puts a Smith Level school and a new junior high at the top of its building list
  • September 26, 1961: Chapel Hill school board recommends a Pearsall Plan tuition grant
  • July 10, 1961: Thirteen Chapel Hill ministers publicly back the school board's desegregation plan
  • July 7, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board admits a Black eighth grader to the white junior high and fixes first-grade districts
  • January 1, 1962: Black churches of Chapel Hill hold their Emancipation Day service
  • May 28, 1963: Mayor McClamroch's Integration Committee adopts a four-point program
• Manley, John R. 1 entry, 1983
  • by April 1983: First Baptist Church of Chapel Hill completes its Educational Building
• Manly, Basil 1 entry, 1837
  • June 1837: The university graduates nine seniors and makes Basil Manly a Doctor of Divinity
• Manly, Charles 26 entries, 1830–1922

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• Manly, M. E. 1 entry, 1862
  • December 6, 1862: Hillsborough meeting resolves to erect a monument to Col. Charles C. Tew
• Manly, Matthias E. 5 entries, 1850–1922
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  • week of September 9, 1850: Orange Superior Court sentences an enslaved man named Ellick to hang
  • September 1857: Orange Superior Court sentences Alves, an enslaved youth, to hang for a killing at the Chapel Hill polls
  • December 18, 1860: Trustees allow students to be excused from chapel worship
  • February 4, 1863: Justice Manly binds the Rev. R. J. Graves over for trial on a treason charge
  • 1922: Manly Residence Hall is completed and named for Charles and Matthias Manly
• Mann, Edward 1 entry, 1952
  • October or early November 1952: Carrboro Methodists lay the cornerstone of a new church on the Hillsboro road

  May be the same person as Mann, Edward N.

• Mann, Edward N. 1 entry, 1953
  • August 2, 1953: Carrboro Methodist Church holds its first service in its new $75,000 building

  May be the same person as Mann, Edward

• Mann, Edward N., Jr. 1 entry, 1987
  • January 24, 1987: OWASA breaks ground for the Cane Creek dam
• Mann, Ernest 1 entry, 1955
  • April 23-24, 1955: The Carrboro Lions Club breaks ground for a Boy Scout hut beside its ball park
• Mann, Esther Covington 1 entry, 1926
  • October 1926 to April 1941: J. Walter Mann, a son of Hawfields Church, is ordained and installed pastor of Eno
• Mann, Mrs. Ira 1 entry, 1945
  • May 11, 1945: A Carrboro club for town improvement and beautification organizes
• Mann, Mrs. J. I. 1 entry, 1932
  • February 5, 1932: Carrboro school pupils give a music recital to a packed auditorium
• Mann, J. N. 1 entry, 1877
  • July 25-28, 1877: The Methodist Hillsboro District Conference meets at Durham and forms a missionary society
• Mann, Mrs. J. W. 1 entry, 1927
  • 1927: Women of Little River Presbyterian Church organize
• Mann, J. Walter 2 entries, 1926–1927
  • October 1926 to April 1941: J. Walter Mann, a son of Hawfields Church, is ordained and installed pastor of Eno
  • 1927: Eno Church holds what it believes was Orange County's first daily vacation Bible school
• Mann, John 1 entry, 1829
  • 1829: Thomas Ruffin issues the State v. Mann decision
• Mann, Knute 2 entries, 1910–1920
  • late 1910s: Luther Sturdivant and Knute Mann plat Partridge Field for houses
  • early 1920s: Merchant Luther Sturdivant builds a house in Partridge Field
• Mann, T. N. 4 entries, 1910–1925
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  • 1910: Carrboro Methodist Church is organized
  • May 7, 1917: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor over two rivals
  • May 7, 1923: Carrboro elects Seaton Lloyd mayor
  • May 5, 1925: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor
• Mann, T. Newton 1 entry, 1946
  • January 25, 1946: T. Newton Mann, Carrboro postmaster and former mayor, dies
• Mann, Thomas N. 1 entry, 1816
  • September 18, 1816: Senior William B. Shepard speaks forbidden political passages and sets off a student revolt
• Mann, W. Robert 6 entries, 1940–1952

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• Mann, William 1 entry, 1940
  • by September 20, 1940: UNC buys four airplanes and widens its pilot training at the new airport
• Manning, Howard 1 entry, 1940
  • by November 1, 1940: The Manning brothers finish the Manning Building at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane
• Manning, Mrs. I. H. 2 entries, 1917
  • 1917-1919: The Chapel Hill Red Cross gathers country women into auxiliaries across southern Orange County
  • October 4, 1917: Chapel Hill's Third Line Defence stages a play for war relief

  May be the same person as Manning, Mrs. Isaac; Manning, Mrs. Isaac H.

• Manning, Mrs. Isaac 6 entries, 1917–1939
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  • October 13, 1917: Eugene C. Branson urges county teachers to back the food conservation drive
  • August 1, 1917: Orange County women organize the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense
  • October 27 to November 4, 1917: Orange County women sign the food pledge at their school houses
  • by June 17, 1932: A relief committee seeks easier paving payments for Black homeowners on West Franklin Street
  • January 17, 1933: Citizens call in the Duke legal clinic for Black owners facing loss of homes over West Franklin Street paving assessments
  • December 22, 1939: R. M. Grumman and Mrs. Grumman receive the Carolina Theatre's most-valuable-citizen trophy

  May be the same person as Manning, Mrs. I. H.; Manning, Mrs. Isaac H.

• Manning, Isaac 1 entry, 1932
  • by November 18, 1932: The Chapel Hill Game Club is organized to aid game conservation
• Manning, Mrs. Isaac H. 2 entries, 1927–1929
  • March 30, 1927: United Daughters of the Confederacy hold their district convention in Chapel Hill
  • January 10, 1929: Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is organized in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Manning, Mrs. I. H.; Manning, Mrs. Isaac

• Manning, Isaac H., Jr. 1 entry, 1940
  • by November 1, 1940: The Manning brothers finish the Manning Building at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane
• Manning, Isaac Hall 19 entries, 1885–1946

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• Manning, James 1 entry, 1887
  • March 30-April 2, 1887: Three Black men are convicted of manslaughter in the killing of student Jacob Freeze

  May be the same person as Manning, James S.; Manning, James Smith

• Manning, James S. 2 entries, 1879–1899
  • August 16, 1879: The trustees accept Charles Phillips's resignation from the mathematics chair
  • March 23, 1899: The Orange bar meets to honor the late Calvin E. Parish

  May be the same person as Manning, James; Manning, James Smith

• Manning, James Smith 1 entry, 1913
  • March 1913: Three students are convicted in Hillsborough in Isaac William Rand's death

  May be the same person as Manning, James; Manning, James S.

• Manning, John 20 entries, 1874–1949

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• Manning, John 4 entries, 1940–1976

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  • by November 1, 1940: The Manning brothers finish the Manning Building at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane
  • by January 24, 1941: Chapel Hill aldermen seek authority to issue bonds to refund over-assessed West Franklin Street owners
  • April 26, 1949: The League of Women Voters holds a candidates' meeting for Chapel Hill's town election
  • January 12, 1976: Chapel Hill aldermen adopt ordinances creating a historic district and commission

  May be the same person as Manning, John T.

• Manning, John T. 9 entries, 1941–1964
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  • March 12, 1941: Chapel Hill aldermen vote bonds to refund West Franklin Street over-assessments
  • June 10, 1942: Chapel Hill aldermen elect Henry A. Whitfield judge of the recorder's court
  • May 6, 1947: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor R. W. Madry and Recorder's Court Judge Henry Whitfield
  • by August 4, 1949: Judge John T. Manning protests a new Chapel Hill school site outside town
  • by August 25, 1949: Judge John T. Manning challenges Chapel Hill's sewer terms for Muirhead's Raleigh Road apartments
  • June 23, 1956: Edwin S. Lanier and Donald Stanford win the Democratic runoffs
  • May 26, 1956: Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff
  • February 14, 1958: The Orange County Bar Association elects John T. Manning and opposes cameras in court
  • July 7, 1964: Neighbors protest a public housing site on North Columbia Street

  May be the same person as Manning, John

• Manning, Mary 1 entry, 1966
  • 1966: The Mary Manning house on East Franklin Street, where Arthur Nash boarded, is torn down
• Manning, Sallie Carlton 1 entry, 1884
  • November 3, 1884: Francis P. Venable marries Sallie Manning at the Chapel of the Cross
• Mansfield, Jayne 1 entry, 1963

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• Manuel 1 entry, 1851
  • March Term 1851: The court binds James and William Mayo to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, to be hired out for their blind grandfather
• Marchant, Preston S. 1 entry, 1945
  • May 14, 1945: Orange County opens the Seventh War Loan drive with a $574,000 quota
• Marcom, Charles 1 entry, 1855
  • February 1855: The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County

  May be the same person as Marcom, Charles G.

• Marcom, Charles G. 1 entry, 1863
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund

  May be the same person as Marcom, Charles

• Marcom, Jane Pearson 1 entry, 1859
  • September 1859: Nathan and Jane Marcom sue Thomas S. Vickers for saying she had a child before her marriage
• Marcom, Nathan 1 entry, 1859
  • September 1859: Nathan and Jane Marcom sue Thomas S. Vickers for saying she had a child before her marriage
• Marey, Charles 1 entry, 1838
  • August 1838: Trustees split ancient languages into separate chairs of Greek and Latin
• Mariakakis, Efthimios 1 entry, 1950
  • November 1950: The Terrace View Supper Club is advertised for foreclosure sale
• Mariakakis, Virginia E. 1 entry, 1950
  • November 1950: The Terrace View Supper Club is advertised for foreclosure sale
• Markham, John L. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 6, 1879: University Railroad corporators open subscription books for a line from Chapel Hill to Durham
• Markham, John W. 1 entry, 1917
  • October 30, 1917: Carrboro businessman John W. Markham dies
• Marks, R. H. 3 entries, 1920–1925
  • about 1920: R. H. Marks builds Carrboro's first brick commercial building on East Main Street
  • May 5, 1925: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor
  • about 1925: A narrow brick store goes up at 106 East Main Street
• Marks, Mrs. R. H. 1 entry, 1934
  • by July 27, 1934: Orange County women organize under the Reporter Plan to study New Deal agencies
• Marks, Sallie B. 2 entries, 1927
  • September 12, 1927: The Chapel Hill school opens as a training school of the University's school of education
  • late October 1927: E. R. Mosher resigns as superintendent of the Chapel Hill school

  May be the same person as Marks, Sallie Belle

• Marks, Sallie Belle 1 entry, 1927
  • June 1927: Trustees appoint Sallie Belle Marks and Cecilia Hatrick Bason, the first women on the faculty

  May be the same person as Marks, Sallie B.

• Marlette, Doug 4 entries, 1988–2002

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• Marley, Adam 1 entry, 1797
  • May 25, 1797: The court orders Jethro Pettiford, a free boy of color offered for sale as though enslaved, returned to his mother
• Marley, Willard 1 entry, 1984
  • July 31, 1984: The Upper Deck closes after the Porthole building owner ends its lease
• Marsalis, Wynton 1 entry, 1992
  • March 16, 1992: Wynton Marsalis plays Memorial Hall
• Marsh, O. C., Jr. 1 entry, 1936
  • by September 25, 1936: The University Cleaners open a new dry-cleaning plant in Carrboro
• Marsh, William A., Jr. 1 entry, 1961
  • August 4, 1961: Federal court rules Chapel Hill denied Stanley Vickers a junior high transfer because of his race
• Marshall, Elaine 1 entry, 2021
  • July 16, 2021: Joal Broun is sworn in as a district court judge
• Marshall, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1828
  • June 1828 (6th month): Cane Creek women Friends disown Elizabeth Marshall for having a child while unmarried
• Marshall, John 3 entries, 1768–1934
  • May 21, 1768: Regulators meeting at George Sally's appoint a committee of eight to petition Governor Tryon
  • November Term 1796: The court orders John Marshall to produce Sarah Jones on Hannah Jones's petition
  • by February 16, 1934: The Rockefeller Foundation grants the Carolina Playmakers $7,500
• Marshall, M. M. 1 entry, 1887
  • July 17, 1887: Bishop Lyman ordains William L. Reaney a priest at St. Matthew's
• Marshall, Maynard 1 entry, 1917
  • May 5, 1917: A Chapel Hill mass meeting sends off the men leaving for Fort Oglethorpe
• Marshall, Ralph T. 1 entry, 1959
  • October 18, 1959: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church dedicates its new student center and educational wing
• Marshall, Randy 2 entries, 1990–1995
  • December 18, 1990: Carrboro adds sexual orientation to its equal employment opportunity policy
  • June 6, 1995: Carrboro votes to pay for domestic partner coverage in its employee health plan
• Marshall, Roger 2 entries, 1963–1967
  • October 22, 1963: Orange Democrats elect Roger Marshall of Eno to the county school board
  • March 6, 1967: Charles W. Stanford resigns from the county school board after 26 years
• Marshall, Roy K. 1 entry, 1949
  • by February 24, 1949: Roy K. Marshall is named director of the Morehead Planetarium
• Marshall, Shirley 1 entry, 1974
  • November 27, 1974: Vandals break or topple forty to fifty monuments in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Marshall, Thomas Riley 1 entry, 1913
  • June 1913: Vice President Thomas R. Marshall gives the commencement address
• Marshbanks, Mae 1 entry, 1959
  • March 11, 1959: Women educators organize the Alpha Pi chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma at Chapel Hill
• Marshbanks, May 1 entry, 1958
  • fall 1958: May Marshbanks becomes principal of Chapel Hill High School
• Martin, Alexander 16 entries, 1770–1792

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• Martin, Annie 3 entries, 1930–1935
  • by January 10, 1930: Annie Martin leases the Carolina Inn from John Sprunt Hill
  • by April 4, 1930: A private dining room is added to the Carolina Inn
  • January 30, 1935: Chapel Hill's President's Birthday party raises more than $100 for infantile paralysis work
• Martin, C. E. 1 entry, 1931
  • January 10, 1931: Durham Dairy Products opens a dairy store and delivery route in Chapel Hill
• Martin, Charles 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: The First Pentecostal Holiness Church of West Hillsborough is organized
• Martin, D. L. 1 entry, 1975
  • 1975: Botanists list Occoneechee Mountain as a potential ecological natural landmark
• Martin, E. W. 2 entries, 1891
  • April 13, 1891: Students organize the University German Club
  • April 15, 1891: Students form the University Minstrels and give their first show
• Martin, Everett Dean 1 entry, 1935
  • March 31 to April 6, 1935: University holds its third Human Relations Institute
• Martin, Flossie 1 entry, 1911
  • by September 14, 1911: N. E. West becomes principal of the Hillsboro High School
• Martin, J. B. 2 entries, 1874–1879
  • October 7, 1874: Orange County Granges form a county council of the Patrons of Husbandry
  • early December 1879: The Methodist conference returns J. F. Heitman to Chapel Hill and names Orange appointments

  May be the same person as Martin, Joseph B.

• Martin, J. M. 1 entry, 1896
  • 1896: Ebenezer Baptist Church is organized
• Martin, Jim 1 entry, 1989
  • March 1989: James Freeland is buried after a funeral at Fairview Baptist Church
• Martin, Jimmy 1 entry, 1971
  • June 13, 1971: Junior Samples and Jimmy Martin play the Daniel Boone Amphitheater
• Martin, Joseph B. 1 entry, 1875
  • between 1875 and 1885: Joseph B. Martin builds an I-house on East Rosemary Street

  May be the same person as Martin, J. B.

• Martin, Josiah 10 entries, 1767–1776

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• Martin, Minnie Berry 1 entry, 1919
  • July 16, 1919: Black women of Hillsborough serve the homecoming dinner for Black soldiers and sailors
• Martin, Professor 1 entry, 1861
  • September 10, 1861: Professor Martin's volunteer company leaves Chapel Hill for camp at High Point
• Martin, Sally 2 entries, 1832–1833
  • August 1832 (court term): Sally Martin is indicted for keeping a disorderly house
  • August 1833 (court term): The court fines Sally Martin
• Martin, Sam 1 entry, 1900
  • About 1900: The Texas community builds Jeffries Cross Church and Martin's Chapel Baptist Church
• Martin, Sam F. 1 entry, 1868
  • July 1868: Freedpeople at Cedar Grove put up a school house and win Bureau rent for it
• Martin, Samuel H. 1 entry, 1868
  • November 17, 1868: A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee
• Martin, Vance 2 entries, 1951–1952
  • March 1951 (reported March 22): Grand jury relays a warning about Eno River pollution and the Eno Mill village sewers
  • April 19, 1952: William B. Umstead opens his Orange County campaign for governor at a rally at Occoneechee Speedway
• Martin, William Joseph 4 entries, 1858–1861

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• Martindale, Charles 8 entries, 1923–1934
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  • by May 17, 1923: Jack Sparrow and Charles Martindale let a contract for an electric light line out the Durham road
  • by June 1, 1925: Durham Hosiery Mill No. 7 in Carrboro gets a brick and concrete addition
  • April 1927: W. B. Sorrell begins building a moving-picture theatre on Franklin Street
  • by May 20, 1927: Water line is laid down Strowd's hill on the Durham road
  • by July 27, 1928: Aviators lease Martindale's field and begin carrying passengers
  • August 1930: Chapel Hill votes $35,000 in bonds to enlarge its sewage disposal plant
  • January 25, 1934: Civil Works crews begin improving Chapel Hill's streets and sidewalks
  • late April 1934: Pilot I. M. Tull opens the University Airport on the Ray farm
• Martindale, Charlie 1 entry, 1920
  • about 1920: Dr. Brack Lloyd has Charlie Martindale build a bungalow with Carrboro's first central heating
• Martindale, Charlie Lee 11 entries, 1920–1931

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• Martling, James A. 1 entry, 1868
  • 1868: Solomon Pool's new faculty move into the old professors' houses
• Mary, Free 1 entry, 1799
  • May Term 1799: The court binds James and John, sons of a woman called Free Mary, to learn carpentry
• Maryanov, Sada 2 entries, 2024–2025
  • November 20, 2024: Student groups hold a memorial for James Cates in the Pit
  • November 20, 2025: Students and residents mark 55 years since the killing of James Cates
• Masekela, Hugh 1 entry, 1991
  • January 22, 1991: The touring company of Sarafina! performs in Memorial Hall
• Masket, A. V. 1 entry, 1954
  • August 1954: Two forgotten graves in a Noble Street backyard come to light
• Masket, Victor 1 entry, 1957
  • October 1957: State civil defense planners shift Orange County from a reception area to an evacuation area
• Mason, A. 2 entries, 1820
  • February 1820: A. Mason opens the Eagle Hotel at Mason Hall
  • by April 10, 1820: A. Mason and William Clifton buy a Hillsborough tavern stand and open it as the Traveller's Inn
• Mason, Beryl 1 entry, 1943
  • by February 12, 1943: Junior Service League runs well-baby clinics in Carrboro and at the Training School
• Mason, Carolina Varina 1 entry, 1881
  • 1881: Typhoid kills the two surviving Mason daughters, and their father sets aside a family burial ground
• Mason, Charles 1 entry, 1962
  • April 9, 1962: Mayor McClamroch names Chapel Hill's first public housing authority members
• Mason, Charlie 2 entries, 1954–1957
  • May 1954: The Pride of Orange Elks lodge clears ground for its hall on South Merritt Mill Road
  • By December 1957: Charlie Mason's motor court on West Rosemary Street was lodging Black travelers
• Mason, David, Jr. 2 entries, 1960–2020

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• Mason, H. D. 1 entry, 1888
  • March 17, 1888: Farmers' Alliance lecturer G. B. Pickett speaks at Hillsborough
• Mason, James 2 entries, 1799–1809
  • February Term 1799: The court binds Joseph Wilkinson, seven, to learn gunpowder making
  • January 1809: Grammar school under William Paisley opens west of Hillsborough
• Mason, James B. 19 entries, 1869–1896

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• Mason, James Pleasant 7 entries, 1854–1894

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• Mason, Jerry 1 entry, 1897
  • March 4, 1897: Jerry Mason, who served university students for more than fifty years, dies
• Mason, John Y. 2 entries, 1842–1847
  • 1842: Mitchell demonstrates electromagnetic motion at commencement
  • 1847: Alumni start a fund for a marble monument to Caldwell
• Mason, Martha 1 entry, 1894
  • July 17, 1894: The Masons leave their farm and a scholarship fund to the university

  May be the same person as Mason, Martha James

• Mason, Martha James 1 entry, 1881
  • 1881: Typhoid kills the two surviving Mason daughters, and their father sets aside a family burial ground

  May be the same person as Mason, Martha

• Mason, Mary Elizabeth Morgan 2 entries, 1854–1894
  • 1854: Baptist minister James Pleasant Mason marries Mary Elizabeth Morgan
  • July 17, 1894: The Masons leave their farm and a scholarship fund to the university
• Mason, R. B. 1 entry, 1913
  • 1913: R. B. Mason's land west of the Bellevue mill is platted as the West Hill Property
• Mason, Rebecca 1 entry, 1894
  • June 1894: Cornelia Phillips Spencer leaves Chapel Hill to join her daughter in Cambridge
• Mason, Susan 1 entry, 1849
  • May 1849: A jury finds William S. Moore the father of Susan Mason's child after an earlier mistrial
• Mason, Varina 1 entry, 1894
  • July 17, 1894: The Masons leave their farm and a scholarship fund to the university
• Mason, W. 1 entry, 1857
  • June 4, 1857: The university gives Postmaster General Aaron V. Brown an honorary LL.D. and William Hooper a D.D.
• Mason, Wilton 1 entry, 1961
  • January 14, 1961: Everett Thomas sings in the chorus of UNC's La Traviata
• Mason-Hogans, Danita 7 entries, 2018–2024

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• Masset, William 1 entry, 1766
  • 1766: A Deep River meeting drafts Regulator Advertisement Number Two
• Massey, C. Knox 1 entry, 1994
  • 1994: Douglass Hunt receives a C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award
• Massey, C. W. 1 entry, 1888
  • May 18, 1888: Orange Academy closes its session with prize speaking and an address by Professor Henry
• Massey, J. W. 1 entry, 1895
  • by April 27, 1895: G. E. Thurston succeeds J. W. Massey as the Southern Railway agent at Hillsborough
• Massey, P. H. 1 entry, 1894
  • September 8, 1894: The Orange County People's Party nominates its county ticket
• Masters, John F. 1 entry, 1868
  • July 1868: Freedpeople at Cedar Grove put up a school house and win Bureau rent for it
• Masterton, Elizabeth W. 1 entry, 1948
  • by October 14, 1948: Hillsboro Garden Club asks the town to build a sewage disposal plant and clean up
• Masterton, Meta 1 entry, 1948
  • by October 14, 1948: Hillsboro Garden Club asks the town to build a sewage disposal plant and clean up
• Masterton, R. C. 2 entries, 1945–1954
  • November 8, 1945: The Orange County Red Cross chapter elects Rev. R. C. Masterton chairman
  • December 6, 1954: Commissioners call an April vote on a fire district around Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Masterton, Robert; Masterton, Robert C.

• Masterton, Robert 1 entry, 1955
  • April 12, 1955: Voters around Chapel Hill approve a fire protection district

  May be the same person as Masterton, R. C.; Masterton, Robert C.

• Masterton, Robert C. 2 entries, 1953–1954
  • February 1, 1953: The Rev. Robert C. Masterton retires as rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
  • by August 12, 1954: Suburban residents circulate petitions for a Greater Chapel Hill Fire District

  May be the same person as Masterton, R. C.; Masterton, Robert

• Matear, Robert 1 entry, 1771
  • June 19, 1771: Regulators are tried and executed at Hillsborough
• Mathabane, Mark 1 entry, 1991
  • February 19, 1991: Mark Mathabane gives a Race Relations Week keynote in Hill Hall
• Matheson, Don S. 129 entries, 1928–1964

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• Matheson, Elizabeth 1 entry, 2007
  • November 30, 2007: Lee Smith, Randall Kenan and Allan Gurganus gather with other authors at Brick Alley Books
• Mathus, Jim 2 entries, 1993–1996
  • Summer 1993: Squirrel Nut Zippers form near Chapel Hill
  • 1996: Squirrel Nut Zippers release Hot on Mammoth Records
• Matson, Erin 6 entries, 2018–2023

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• Matsumoto, George 7 entries, 1952–1970

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• Matteson, Mrs. Eldon 1 entry, 1950
  • March 18, 1950: About sixty Hillsboro girls sign up for a new Girl Scout troop
• Matthews, Andy 1 entry, 1939
  • by July 7, 1939: The Soil Conservation Service nursery on the Mason farm ships about 7,000,000 seedlings
• Matthews, Martin Luther 1 entry, 1903
  • May 7, 1903: The university confers its first Doctor of Medicine degrees
• Matthews, Stuart 5 entries, 1966

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• Mattox, Mrs. W. T. 1 entry, 1940
  • January 18, 1940: The Leonidas Polk chapter of the U.D.C. gives a portrait of Lee to the Carrboro school
• Mattox, William T. 17 entries, 1937–1951

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• Mauer, Charles 1 entry, 1992
  • July 9, 1992: Orange County jury finds three former UNC officials discriminated against police officer Keith Edwards
• Maultsby, Jack 1 entry, 1971
  • May 4, 1971: Howard Lee is re-elected mayor over Jack Maultsby
• Maultsby, John A. 1 entry, 1838
  • November 1838 to January 1839: Seceders try to form a third literary society, the Delphian
• Maupin, Armistead 1 entry, 1969
  • 1969: The class of 1966 unveils a bronze Thomas Wolfe memorial beside Person Hall
• Maurer, Maureen 1 entry, 2002
  • May 7, 2002: UNC public health students complete a community study of Fairview
• Mauroner, N. L. 3 entries, 1953–1956
  • by July 23, 1953: Two young doctors open the Hillsboro Clinic in the former Forrest Clinic building
  • January 17, 1956: Hillsboro businessmen move to build a new plant for Reverie Lingerie
  • by March 8, 1956: Hillsboro merchants take telephone complaints to the State Utilities Commission

  May be the same person as Mauroner, Norman L.

• Mauroner, Norman L. 1 entry, 1956
  • January 4, 1956: Marshall Cates Jr. and Dr. N. L. Mauroner buy Bivins Furniture Company

  May be the same person as Mauroner, N. L.

• Maury, Matthew Fontaine 1 entry, 1847
  • May 31 to June 3, 1847: President James K. Polk returns to Chapel Hill for the university commencement
• Maxwell, Allen J. 1 entry, 1934
  • April 1934: Coates moderates a debate on proposed constitutional amendments and keeps the Institute neutral
• Maxwell, Henry 1 entry, 1777
  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• Maxwell, L. L. 1 entry, 1875
  • by April 7, 1875: The Orange House in Hillsborough stops serving as a hotel after the Civil Rights Act
• May, Mrs. F. L. 1 entry, 1934
  • by July 27, 1934: Orange County women organize under the Reporter Plan to study New Deal agencies
• May, Samuel 1 entry, 1897
  • 1897-98 session: The university Dramatic Club takes its plays on tour
• May, Sean 1 entry, 2005
  • April 4, 2005: UNC men’s basketball wins the 2005 NCAA national championship
• Mayer, Henry 1 entry, 1963
  • April 19, 1963: Floyd McKissick and Malcolm X appear together at UNC's Memorial Hall
• Mayes, William Fred 3 entries, 1963–1972
  • 1963: W. Fred Mayes becomes dean of the School of Public Health
  • 1970 or 1971: Black public health students issue a statement of concerns to the school
  • 1972: Bernard G. Greenberg becomes dean of the School of Public Health
• Mayho, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1836
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho
• Mayho, Faddis 2 entries, 1836–1855
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho
  • February 1855: A jury finds Faddis Mayho the father of Eliza Taburn's daughter
• Mayho, Green 1 entry, 1836
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho
• Mayho, Litha 1 entry, 1828
  • February Term 1828: The court releases Alfred Shambley from Litha Mayho's indenture and binds her to Joseph Laycock
• Mayho, Malinda 1 entry, 1843
  • May Term 1843: The court binds William Mayho, a boy of color, to Henry Evans to learn cabinetmaking
• Mayho, Molly 1 entry, 1836
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho
• Mayho, Richard 2 entries, 1835–1836
  • November Term 1835: The court cancels Richard Mayho's indenture to Samuel Child and binds him to Josiah Turner
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho
• Mayho, William 1 entry, 1843
  • May Term 1843: The court binds William Mayho, a boy of color, to Henry Evans to learn cabinetmaking
• Mayhoe, Samuel 1 entry, 1850
  • May Term 1850: The court takes Samuel Mayhoe from John Watson and binds him to Josiah Turner Sr.
• Maynard, William 2 entries, 1814–1857
  • about 1814: A log house, later the Maynard farm kitchen, is built in southwest Orange
  • 1857: Brick mason William Maynard builds his frame farmhouse
• Maynor, Clyde 1 entry, 1950
  • July 1950: The Carrboro Church of God is organized
• Maynor, Dorothy 1 entry, 1947
  • January 19, 1947: Dorothy Maynor sings to a capacity audience in Memorial Hall
• Mayo, Anderson 2 entries, 1841
  • mid-September 1841: Anderson Mayo, a free Black man, is convicted at Hillsborough of murdering his wife
  • October 9, 1841: Anderson Mayo is executed at Hillsborough for the murder of his wife
• Mayo, Caroline 1 entry, 1991
  • by February 1991: Caroline Mayo becomes director of the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program
• Mayo, George 2 entries, 1925–1936
  • March 1925: The Mayo family's quarry land near Hillsborough is sold to Duke's land agent for $500
  • March 2, 1936: The county school board buys land for a new Black school in Hillsboro
• Mayo, James 2 entries, 1851–1853
  • March Term 1851: The court binds James and William Mayo to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, to be hired out for their blind grandfather
  • February Term 1853: The court finds James Mayo of age and frees him from his indentures as two men claim his services
• Mayo, Knox 1 entry, 1963
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting
• Mayo, Mahala 1 entry, 1850
  • May Term 1850: The court takes Samuel Mayhoe from John Watson and binds him to Josiah Turner Sr.
• Mayo, Richard 3 entries, 1845–1868
  • 1845: Richard Mayo, a free cabinetmaker of color, buys three town lots
  • September to December 1868: Chapel Hill's freedmen's school gets Bureau money for repairs and desks
  • October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's
• Mayo, William 1 entry, 1851
  • March Term 1851: The court binds James and William Mayo to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, to be hired out for their blind grandfather
• Mays, Amelia Ann 1 entry, 1868
  • May Term 1868: The court binds Amelia Ann Mays to John W. Graham and Ellen Mays to William A. Graham
• Mays, Ellen 1 entry, 1868
  • May Term 1868: The court binds Amelia Ann Mays to John W. Graham and Ellen Mays to William A. Graham
• McAdams, A. K. 10 entries, 1944–1956

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• McAdams, Charlie, Sr. 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: Charlie McAdams and George Crawford Amick open the A & M Grill in Mebane
• McAdams, D. C. 1 entry, 1908
  • November 1, 1908 or 1909: Efland Presbyterian Church is organized
• McAdams, David 1 entry, 1867
  • 18 December 1867: Holly Carrington, a freedwoman, names Samuel Tilley, a freedman, as her child's father
• McAdams, Mrs. George 1 entry, 1955
  • September 1955: The county board deeds the old Gravelly Hill School ground to Mrs. George McAdams
• McAdams, J. 1 entry, 1891
  • 1891: J. McAdams runs a mill and a country store near Border
• McAdams, J. F. 2 entries, 1892
  • June 11, 1892: Orange People's Party holds its county convention and votes to nominate a full county ticket
  • April 16, 1892: People's Party holds township meetings across Orange County
• McAdams, J. G. 1 entry, 1934
  • by September 7, 1934: Commissioners name J. G. McAdams superintendent of the county home
• McAdams, J. H. 2 entries, 1948–1959
  • August 21, 1948: Farmers Mutual opens its new farm supply warehouse on Margaret Lane
  • about 1959: J. H. and Pauline McAdams build a Ranch house on Revere Road
• McAdams, J. P. 1 entry, 1906
  • April 2, 1906: Orange County's commissioners decide to buy a road machine and order a bridge over Back Creek
• McAdams, J. S. 1 entry, 1896
  • February 15, 1896: Several hundred attend an Alliance rally at the State Alliance headquarters
• McAdams, John F. 18 entries, 1904–1926

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• McAdams, Pauline 1 entry, 1959
  • about 1959: J. H. and Pauline McAdams build a Ranch house on Revere Road
• McAden, Hugh 9 entries, 1753–1770

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• McAden, S. Y. 1 entry, 1949
  • November 1, 1949: The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study
• McAdoo, Ervin 1 entry, 1955
  • August 1955: The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown
• McAdoo, George 1 entry, 1832
  • May 1832: White Cross Church, later an AME congregation, is organized
• McAdoo, William Gibbs 1 entry, 1916
  • Commencement 1916: Julian S. Carr endows a scholarship on his class's fiftieth anniversary
• McAfee, Lee M. 1 entry, 1871
  • November 23, 1871: The state House rejects a New Hanover petition to expel F. Strudwick and two other members
• McAlester, Berry 1 entry, 1929
  • by August 16, 1929: Phi Gamma Delta lets the contract for a new house on Cameron Avenue
• McAllister, A. C. 1 entry, 1948
  • October 1948: Kenneth Jones heads the Community Chest drive among Chapel Hill's Black residents
• McAllister, B. P. 1 entry, 1955
  • June 10-11, 1955: Carr and Jordan Grove families open their farms and homes for improvement tours
• McAllister, Berry 1 entry, 1929
  • by May 10, 1929: Pi Kappa Phi and Phi Delta Theta begin houses on the Pittsboro highway
• McAnally, Charles W. 1 entry, 1928
  • June 1928: Men of the Summer School adopt student government
• McAndless, John 1 entry, 1850
  • 1850: A free man is jailed in Hillsborough for giving his free papers to an enslaved man
• McAndrews, Gordon L. 1 entry, 1966
  • 1966: The Presbyterians sell their East Franklin manse to Gordon L. McAndrews
• McBane, D. L. 1 entry, 1946
  • September 20, 1946: Orange County Republicans name a ticket and adopt a five-point platform
• McBroom, A. W. 1 entry, 1866
  • August Term 1866: The court binds A. W. McBroom to James R. Harris and Margaret Jane McBroom to S. S. McBroom
• McBroom, Margaret Jane 1 entry, 1866
  • August Term 1866: The court binds A. W. McBroom to James R. Harris and Margaret Jane McBroom to S. S. McBroom
• McBroom, S. S. 1 entry, 1866
  • August Term 1866: The court binds A. W. McBroom to James R. Harris and Margaret Jane McBroom to S. S. McBroom
• McBroom, Sam 1 entry, 1878
  • about 1878: Mount Zion AME Church is organized at Martinsville
• McBroom, Samuel 2 entries, 1811–1844
  • 27 June 1811: Sally Riggs names Samuel McBroom as the father of her son
  • March 1844 term: Superior Court sentences Green and Dick, two enslaved men, to hang
• McBroom, Willis 1 entry, 1815
  • November Term 1815: The court binds Willis McBroom to his own mother, Sally Riggs
• McCabe, John 3 entries, 1776
  • October 15, 1776: Crowds force the Orange County polls to close four times in the election for the fifth Provincial Congress
  • December 10, 1776: Orange County votes again after the Halifax Congress voids its October return
  • December 18, 1776: The new state constitution provides for public schools and a university
• McCabe, William 1 entry, 1789
  • May Term 1789: Jesse Benton wins Jean Latta a support order against William McCabe
• McCadams, Lytle 1 entry, 1851
  • February Term 1851: The court binds James Stewart, three-year-old son of Martha Stewart, a free woman of color, to Lytle McCadams
• McCaddam, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1806
  • May 1806 (court term): The court binds William McCaddam to Edward Faucett, the man his mother named as his father
• McCaddam, William 1 entry, 1806
  • May 1806 (court term): The court binds William McCaddam to Edward Faucett, the man his mother named as his father
• McCain, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1816
  • December 1816: Spring Friends disown James Jackson after he is charged as the father of a child
• McCain, Franklin 1 entry, 1989
  • by January 24, 1989: Greensboro sit-in leader Franklin McCain speaks at UNC
• McCain, N. H. 1 entry, 1838
  • May 19, 1838: A meeting at George Foust's votes that Orange County should be divided
• McCall, Adeline Denham 5 entries, 1931–1957

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• McCall, F. B. 1 entry, 1940
  • by April 12, 1940: University law professors agree to staff the reopening law school of the North Carolina College for Negroes

  May be the same person as McCall, Fred B.

• McCall, Fred B. 3 entries, 1942–1946
  • September 23, 1942: Dynamite blasts at the University's new athletic field shower stones on nearby homes
  • by August 22, 1946: Chapel Hill appoints a Veterans Housing Commission to bring in surplus houses for student veterans
  • by September 5, 1946: Chapel Hill's new Veterans Housing Commission offers 24 surplus houses to veterans

  May be the same person as McCall, F. B.

• McCall, S. H. 1 entry, 1956
  • March 16, 1956: Patriots of North Carolina hold a mass meeting in Hillsborough and form an Orange County unit
• McCalla, Deidre 2 entries, 1987–1989
  • October 24, 1987: Lucie Blue Tremblay and Deidre McCalla give a women's music concert in Carroll Hall
  • April 9-15, 1989: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association holds its eleventh Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week
• McCallister, Margaret 1 entry, 1962
  • 1962: Quakers from the Chapel Hill and Durham meetings found Carolina Friends School
• McCandless, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1830
  • February 1830 (court term): The court finds John Madden not the father but makes him pay the costs
• McCandless, Thomas 1 entry, 1841
  • August 12, 1841: Hezekiah Terry advertises a five-cent reward for his runaway apprentice Thomas McCandless
• McCanless, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1841
  • August 12, 1841: Hezekiah Terry advertises a five-cent reward for his runaway apprentice Thomas McCandless
• McCartny, Daniel 1 entry, 1790
  • May 29, 1790: The court pays the coroner for an inquest on the body of Daniel McCartny
• McCaughan, Mac 9 entries, 1989–2024

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• McCauley, Albert 1 entry, 1933
  • March 13, 1933: Relief families of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are told to grow gardens
• McCauley, Catherine 1 entry, 1836
  • 30 April 1836: John Thompson marries Catherine McCauley four months after she names him as her child's father
• McCauley, D. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 6, 1879: University Railroad corporators open subscription books for a line from Chapel Hill to Durham
• McCauley, David 12 entries, 1854–1910

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• McCauley, George 5 entries, 1920–1943
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  • February 1, 1920: Black residents of Chapel Hill rally to pay the Training School's debt and build anew
  • October 3, 1923: Parents reorganize the Parent-Teacher Association at the Orange County Training School
  • September 14, 1925: Orange County Training School opens its year with its largest attendance and a drive for auditorium chairs
  • February 4, 1930: George McCauley, longtime janitor of the University pharmacy building, dies
  • May 5, 1943: Pharmacy students and friends set a gravestone for George McCauley
• McCauley, Herbert 1 entry, 1875
  • about 1875: Herbert McCauley builds an I-house off Old Greensboro Road
• McCauley, J. A. 2 entries, 1926
  • October 18, 1926: Orange commissioners rescind their vote to pave the old Raleigh road
  • November 2, 1926: Chapel Hill's write-in campaign for John T. Fowler fails in the county election

  May be the same person as McCauley, John A.

• McCauley, John 11 entries, 1791–1938
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  • May 24, 1791: The justices elect John Sloss high sheriff of Orange County
  • November 28, 1793: The county pays John Taylor and John McCauley for rooms where the court sat
  • by 1803: John McCauley builds a store on Franklin Street
  • March 26, 1927: McCauley and Shields open an M-System self-service grocery
  • April 6, 1928: The Orange County Civic Association takes up the county's roads
  • March 9, 1928: The Orange County Civic Association looks into the cost of school buses
  • February 10, 1928: Citizens organize the Orange County Civic Association
  • by August 21, 1931: John McCauley and his wife sell their Carrboro mayonnaise business to a Gastonia firm
  • by June 26, 1931: John and Mrs. McCauley start a mayonnaise plant in Chapel Hill
  • March 18, 1934: Fire damages the M System store on Franklin Street
  • October 29, 1938: Bowling Carolina opens a four-lane alley in the former Lyon Hardware store
• McCauley, John A. 2 entries, 1926
  • by April 16, 1926: John A. McCauley of Eno Township is named county commissioner
  • June 5, 1926: Orange County Democrats nominate A. W. Kenion for clerk and a new board of commissioners

  May be the same person as McCauley, J. A.

• McCauley, John W. 1 entry, 1896
  • November 3, 1896: Orange County voters elect township magistrates and constables
• McCauley, M. A. 3 entries, 1883–1903
  • June 29, 1883: Fire destroys M. A. McCauley's mill on Morgan Creek west of Chapel Hill
  • August 16, 1902: Orange Democrats name their 1902 county ticket
  • September 7-9, 1903: M. A. McCauley resigns as county treasurer and Ed. A. Dickson is elected
• McCauley, Manly 8 entries, 1869–2024

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• McCauley, Martha 3 entries, 1825–1843
  • second quarter of the 1800s: Burials begin in the Matthew and Martha McCauley family cemetery
  • May 26, 1838: Matthew McCauley Jr. deeds five enslaved people to his mother, Martha McCauley
  • January 2, 1843: Matthew McCauley Jr.'s assignee in bankruptcy sells his land and six enslaved people to John W. Carr
• McCauley, Matthew 12 entries, 1792–1939

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• McCauley, Matthew, Jr. 3 entries, 1838–1843

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• McCauley, Maude 2 entries, 1957–1958
  • September 25, 1957: Hillsboro Business and Professional Women's Club names Maude McCauley its Woman of the Year
  • June 11, 1958: Superintendent Carr names new principals for Murphey, Efland and West Hillsboro schools
• McCauley, Robert 1 entry, 1888
  • April 16, 1888: Magistrate Robert McCauley dies near Hillsborough
• McCauley, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1925
  • March 1925: E. A. Brown sells his Chapel Hill furniture and hardware business to Pendergraft and McCauley
• McCauley, William 20 entries, 1778–1885

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• McCauley, William 5 entries, 1825–1938

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  • August 11, 1825: Orange County voters return Willie P. Mangum to Congress and send William Montgomery to the state Senate
  • July 4, 1826: Chapel Hill celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of independence
  • March 1855: William McCauley takes charge of the Hillsborough House
  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • October 30, 1938: Nunn's Chapel Baptist Church is organized
• McCaulley, Robert H. 1 entry, 1834
  • October 1834: Hillsborough's primary school closes for want of pupils
• McCawley, William 1 entry, 1787
  • March 1, 1787: The court orders a bridge over the Eno at the ford near Hillsborough
• McClain, Jasmine 1 entry, 2013
  • 2013–2014: Neighbors form the Rogers Road Community Unity Board
• McClammy, C. W. 1 entry, 1857
  • June 2 and 3, 1857: Freshman and sophomore declaimers compete at commencement, and Governor Bragg gives a composition prize
• McClamroch, Clara L. 1 entry, 1960
  • July 1960: Roland and Clara McClamroch deed the Nash house to their daughter Anna McClamroch McFall
• McClamroch, Roland 6 entries, 1938–1956
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  • November 8, 1938: Orange County Democrats sweep the county offices
  • May 25, 1940: Orange Democrats choose John W. Umstead Jr. for the state House and keep their county commissioners
  • May 4-9, 1942: Chapel Hill canvassers seek war bond pledges house to house
  • June 30, 1942: Clyde Eubanks becomes president of the Bank of Chapel Hill
  • June 25 to August 11, 1947: Orange County revalues its real property and hears taxpayers' complaints
  • November 5, 1956: County commissioners stand by their request to limit the board to two members from any township
• McClamroch, Mrs. Roland 3 entries, 1949
  • May 3, 1949: Mrs. Roland McClamroch and the Rev. J. H. Jones run for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
  • March 2, 1949: Chapel Hill holds a public hearing on a new zoning ordinance
  • April 26, 1949: The League of Women Voters holds a candidates' meeting for Chapel Hill's town election
• McClamroch, Roland P. 21 entries, 1934–1960

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• McClamroch, Roland, Sr. 1 entry, 1956
  • June 4, 1956: County commissioners ask the legislature to allow no more than two commissioners from one township
• McClamroch, Sandy 37 entries, 1953–1979

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• McClellan, John 1 entry, 1777
  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• McClinton, Hortense 5 entries, 1966–2022

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• McCollum, Levi 1 entry, 1845
  • 1845: Richard Mayo, a free cabinetmaker of color, buys three town lots
• McCollum, M. W. 5 entries, 1887–1890
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  • by January 8, 1887: Hedgpeth and McCollum open a store on the corner north of the court house
  • July 3, 1888: Hillsborough Township Democrats organize a Cleveland and Fowle Club
  • by September 1, 1888: M. W. McCollum leases the Occoneechee Hotel from D. C. Parks
  • May 6, 1889: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over Devereux Turner
  • May 10, 1890: Hillsboro's finance committee reports the town's accounts for the year to May 1
• McConnel, Earll 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Fletcher M. Green receives the Thomas Jefferson Award
• McConnell, Peter 1 entry, 1876
  • by November 8, 1876: Pioneer dairyman Peter McConnell sells his farm to a Pennsylvania dairyman
• McCorkel, Jim 1 entry, 1966
  • February 1966: Gary Waller becomes chairman of the UNC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society
• McCorkle, Jill 8 entries, 1967–1998

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• McCorkle, Samuel Eusebius 6 entries, 1791–1795

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• McCorkle, T. Smith 2 entries, 1929–1933
  • December 16, 1929: Chapel Hill's new community chorus sings Handel's Messiah
  • by September 22, 1933: T. Smith McCorkle becomes acting head of the University music department
• McCormick, Charles T. 2 entries, 1931
  • June 9, 1931: UNC trustees elect M. T. Van Hecke dean of the law school
  • June 9, 1931: UNC trustees require three years of college for admission to the law school

  May be the same person as McCormick, Charles Tilford

• McCormick, Charles Tilford 1 entry, 1927
  • 1927: Charles T. McCormick becomes dean of the law school

  May be the same person as McCormick, Charles T.

• McCormick, Richard L. 1 entry, 1993
  • October 1993: UNC begins a campuswide diversity training program for employees
• McCown, John 2 entries, 1852–1863
  • by March 10, 1852: The county court names commissioners to value railroad land in Orange
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
• McCown, Moses 1 entry, 1879
  • January 1, 1879: The Durham Light Infantry gives a New Year's ball at Duke's Hall
• McCoy, Algia 1 entry, 1933
  • August 1933: A Hillsborough jury acquits the driver who killed William Strayhorn and his daughter of manslaughter
• McCoy, C. A. 1 entry, 1933
  • March 1933 (suit denied March 28, 1933): Thomas Hocutt sues to enter the University's school of pharmacy and is refused
• McCoy, Donald 1 entry, 1948
  • October 1, 1948: George Esser and Alexander McMahon join the Institute of Government
• McCoy, William 1 entry, 1999
  • October 28, 1999: Trustees vote to raise tuition $1,500 over five years as students protest at Morehead Planetarium

  May be the same person as McCoy, William O.

• McCoy, William O. 2 entries, 1999
  • July 1999: UNC President Molly Broad names William McCoy to lead Chapel Hill after Chancellor Hooker's death
  • June 29, 1999: Chancellor Michael Hooker dies in office

  May be the same person as McCoy, William

• McCracken, J. H. 10 entries, 1877–1897

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• McCracken, John 1 entry, 1890
  • March 19, 1890: Cedar Grove residents vote to build a school building to be called Cedar Grove Academy
• McCrary, Ernest S. 3 entries, 1966
  • February 1, 1966: Dickson, Nicholson and McCrary invite Herbert Aptheker to speak on campus
  • March 31, 1966: Students and the two speakers file Dickson v. Sitterson against the Speaker Ban
  • March 1, 1966: Eight student groups re-invite Frank Wilkinson under the trustees' new speaker rules
• McCuistion, Jesse 1 entry, 1841
  • 18 August 1841: Jesse McCuistion offers to give the Albright boys back to their returning father
• McCullers, A. L. 1 entry, 1948
  • early August 1948: Hillsboro's Black veterans of the Lewis Mayo American Legion post elect their officers
• McCulloch, Alexander 2 entries, 1754–1772

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• McCulloch, Henry Eustace 2 entries, 1794–1804
  • December 1794: The General Assembly grants the university unsold confiscated lands
  • 1804: Court rulings force the university to give up its McCulloch collections
• McCulloh, Henry 1 entry, 1737

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• McCulloh, Henry Eustace 1 entry, 1764
  • 1764: John Armstrong contracts with Henry McCulloh to run a mill on the Haw River
• McCutcheon, John S. 1 entry, 1831
  • November 1831 to November 1832: A year-long revival at New Hope adds at least seventy communicants
• McDade, Alphonso J. 9 entries, 1879–1912

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• McDade, Anne 1 entry, 1894
  • 1894: Alphonso and Anne McDade buy the house later called the McDade House
• McDade, Bill 2 entries, 1931–1936
  • by October 16, 1931: Bill McDade and Charles Craig become custodians of the new Graham Memorial
  • January 18, 1936: Bill McDade, University janitor since 1875, dies
• McDade, C. A. 2 entries, 1924–1937
  • June 7, 1924: Orange Democrats nominate L. B. Lloyd for sheriff over Jug Whitaker
  • by June 4, 1937: Orange County's new Board of Public Welfare says old-age aid is relief, not a pension
• McDade, C. C. 1 entry, 1891
  • June 14 and 15, 1891: Cedar Grove Academy holds its 1891 commencement

  May be the same person as McDade, Carl C.

• McDade, Carl C. 1 entry, 1924
  • 1924: Aycock School is built at Cedar Grove

  May be the same person as McDade, C. C.

• McDade, Charlie 1 entry, 1937
  • July 1937: The county welfare department is reorganized under Social Security
• McDade, Donald 10 entries, 1957–1962
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  • August 27, 1957: Clerk E. M. Lynch appoints Donald McDade to the Board of County Commissioners
  • December 4, 1958: Cedar Grove wins the progress cup at the Rural Progress Night for Black farm families
  • June 30, 1958: Commissioners call a second Carrboro school merger election for August 5
  • August 4, 1958: Commissioners vote down a referendum on ABC liquor stores by one vote
  • December 7, 1959: Orange commissioners keep the courthouse home demonstration kitchen for white use and vote a separate one for Black clubs
  • April 24, 1961: The county welfare board names an acting director after dropping its new superintendent
  • May 26, 1962: Carl Smith leads the Democratic primary for Orange County commissioner
  • November 21, 1962: County commissioner Donald McDade dies
  • November 5, 1962: Orange County commissioners reject county-wide zoning
  • November 6, 1962: Democrats carry Orange County's general election as Republicans gain ground

  May be the same person as McDade, Donald R.

• McDade, Donald R. 3 entries, 1958
  • May 31, 1958: Orange Democrats renominate Sheriff Clayton and Senator Lanier in the primary
  • November 4, 1958: Orange County Democrats sweep a light general election
  • November 6, 1958: Terry Sanford calls for better schools and a farm push at Cedar Grove

  May be the same person as McDade, Donald

• McDade, Fanny 1 entry, 1964
  • 1964: Fanny McDade, laundress to generations of students, is buried at 103 in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• McDade, Green 2 entries, 1926–1932
  • September 19-20, 1926: Orange County Training School opens its fall term with 280 pupils
  • by June 17, 1932: A relief committee seeks easier paving payments for Black homeowners on West Franklin Street
• McDade, H. L. 2 entries, 1886–1890
  • October 31, 1886: A union meeting of four denominations opens at Cedar Grove before about 2,000 people
  • March 19, 1890: Cedar Grove residents vote to build a school building to be called Cedar Grove Academy
• McDade, Hallie Whitted 1 entry, 1989
  • March 12, 1989: Mount Adar Baptist Church celebrates its centennial
• McDade, Henderson C. 1 entry, 1827
  • August 1827 (court term): The court discharges Henderson McDade after Nelly Hanner's infant dies
• McDade, J. B. 2 entries, 1858–1873
  • February 1858: The Chapel Hill post office sends off about four hundred letters a day
  • June 1873: Town commissioners appoint John D. Wilbon mayor of Hillsborough

  May be the same person as McDade, James; McDade, James B.

• McDade, Jack 1 entry, 1958
  • July 29, 1958: The county board names three new members to the Carrboro school committee
• McDade, James 1 entry, 1818
  • February 1818: A jury convicts Polly McDade on an indictment, and the court sets the verdict aside

  May be the same person as McDade, J. B.; McDade, James B.

• McDade, James B. 2 entries, 1859–1871
  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
  • November 1871: John U. Kirkland is appointed a magistrate of Hillsborough township

  May be the same person as McDade, J. B.; McDade, James

• McDade, Jennie Jordan 1 entry, 1897
  • July 15, 1897: The late William H. Jordan's home place in Cedar Grove Township is advertised for auction
• McDade, John H. 1 entry, 1863
  • July 1 to 3, 1863: Chapel Hill counts its dead and wounded from Gettysburg
• McDade, Lucile 1 entry, 1939
  • May–July 1939: A lent library truck carries books to schools and crossroads stores across Orange County
• McDade, Lucy 1 entry, 1937
  • by July 30, 1937: The state lends a book truck to the Orange County Library Association for August
• McDade, Maggie 1 entry, 1925
  • October 13-14, 1925: Mount Adar hosts the Mount Zion Baptist Association for the first time
• McDade, Patterson H. 8 entries, 1829–1857

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• McDade, Thomas 1 entry, 1922
  • June 6, 1922: Thomas McDade, a Black merchant and community leader, dies in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as McDade, Thomas L.

• McDade, Thomas L. 1 entry, 1920
  • February 1, 1920: Black residents of Chapel Hill rally to pay the Training School's debt and build anew

  May be the same person as McDade, Thomas

• McDade, W. L. 1 entry, 1900
  • January 1, 1900: Orange County tobacco growers form a county association

  May be the same person as McDade, Will Lee

• McDade, W. M. 1 entry, 1927
  • September 19, 1927: The Orange County Training School opens its fall term
• McDade, W. P. 1 entry, 1911
  • August 23-24, 1911: Sheriff's officers capture two large stills south of Hillsboro and near University Station
• McDade, Walter 1 entry, 1953
  • March 2, 1953: Black parents from Efland ask the school board to keep an eighth grade at their school
• McDade, Wayne 1 entry, 1963
  • November 16, 1963: The Osbunn Theater closes, leaving Hillsborough without a movie house
• McDade, Wayne H. 1 entry, 1859
  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
• McDade, Will Lee 1 entry, 1905
  • July 29, 1905: A tornado with hail ruins crops across northern Orange County

  May be the same person as McDade, W. L.

• McDade, William 2 entries, 1925
  • by June 26, 1925: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize a Community Fair Association to support the Orange County Training School
  • September 14, 1925: Orange County Training School opens its year with its largest attendance and a drive for auditorium chairs
• McDaniel, Eli 1 entry, 1777
  • May 1777: The Orange County court sits for the first time under the new state
• McDaniel, Henry 1 entry, 1838
  • May Term 1838: The court binds John Weaver, a boy of color whose father had left the family, to Henry McDaniel
• McDaniel, John R. 1 entry, 1832
  • November Term 1832: The court releases John R. McDaniel from Stanford Haithcock's indenture and binds the boy to James Moore
• McDaniel, William P. 1 entry, 1863
  • October 21, 1863: William P. McDaniel advertises for William Haithcock, his runaway bound boy of color
• McDonald, John 1 entry, 1768
  • spring and summer 1768: Orange farmers swear scores of depositions against county officers
• McDonald, Ralph 1 entry, 1940
  • January 14, 1940: The University's new radio studio makes its first broadcast
• McDonald, Ralph Waldo 2 entries, 1936–1944

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• McDonald, Trevy 1 entry, 2020
  • February 24, 2020: David Zucchino discusses Wilmington's Lie in UNC's Nelson Benton Lecture
• McDonald, William J. 1 entry, 1959
  • June 1959: The Hillsboro Exchange Club starts free swimming lessons at Holiday Park
• McDougle, Charles A. 12 entries, 1946–1996

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• McDougle, Lucile 1 entry, 1994
  • November 6, 1994: Charles and Lucile McDougle Middle School is dedicated
• McDougle, Lucille 1 entry, 1996
  • August 20, 1996: McDougle Elementary School opens on the shared McDougle campus

  May be the same person as McDougle, Lucille R.

• McDougle, Lucille R. 1 entry, 1949
  • September 12, 1949: Principal C. A. McDougle opens Lincoln High School's year under its new name

  May be the same person as McDougle, Lucille

• McDowall, Joseph 1 entry, 1788
  • August 1, 1788: Iredell's motion to ratify and recommend amendments afterward is defeated 184 to 84
• McDuffee, Diana 7 entries, 1995–2006

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• McDuffie 1 entry, 1908
  • about 1908: The Carrboro Public School is built on West Main Street
• McDuffie 1 entry, 1924
  • about 1924: Union Chapel is taken down and its materials go into McDuffie Baptist Church
• McDuffie, J. F. 4 entries, 1915–1923
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  • early October 1915: The Mt. Zion Baptist Association meets at Cross Roads church and admits a new church at Efland
  • April 27, 1917: West Hill Baptist Church is organized in West Hillsborough
  • 1922: McDuffie Memorial Baptist Church is organized
  • August 26, 1923: Bethel Baptist Church holds a centennial homecoming
• McEvoy, J. P. 1 entry, 1943
  • October 1943: Reader's Digest profiles Albert Coates and the Institute of Government
• McFall, Anna McClamroch 1 entry, 1960
  • July 1960: Roland and Clara McClamroch deed the Nash house to their daughter Anna McClamroch McFall
• McFarling, Alice Jeffery Pendergrast 1 entry, 1942
  • 1942: James C. McFarling gives up dairying on the Bennett-McFarling farm on Erwin Road
• McFarling, James C. 1 entry, 1942
  • 1942: James C. McFarling gives up dairying on the Bennett-McFarling farm on Erwin Road
• McFarson, William 1 entry, 1770
  • April 23-24, 1770: Orange justices take sworn statements for Herman Husband's defense
• McGalliard, Harry 2 entries, 1935–1938
  • September 1935: The Institute prints 250,000 copies of a highway safety issue of Popular Government
  • 1938: With its money gone, the Institute's first staff leave for state jobs
• McGavran, Edward G. 9 entries, 1946–1990

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• McGavran, Edward Grafton 1 entry, 1950
  • July 1950–August 1965: Henry T. Clark Jr. heads the university's Division of Health Affairs
• McGee, John 1 entry, 1935
  • by November 15, 1935: Chapel Hill becomes headquarters for two Federal Theatre Project regions
• McGee, John W. 2 entries, 1834
  • February 6, 1834: Chapel Hill's new board names its officers and lays the town tax
  • July 4, 1834: Chapel Hill celebrates the Fourth of July with a student oration and a dinner
• McGee, William 1 entry, 1795
  • November 18, 1795: Orange Presbytery holds its earliest recorded meeting at New Hope
• McGehee, Lucius 2 entries, 1922–1923
  • 1922: The law school moves to a three-year course with new entrance rules
  • October 11, 1923: Law dean Lucius McGehee dies

  May be the same person as McGehee, Lucius Polk

• McGehee, Lucius Polk 1 entry, 1924
  • by February 28, 1924: George L. Clark joins the university law school to teach the late Dean McGehee's courses

  May be the same person as McGehee, Lucius

• McGehee, Montford 1 entry, 1873
  • August 1873: A constitutional amendment returns the election of university trustees to the General Assembly
• McGinnis, Roy 3 entries, 1933–1938
  • September 13, 1933: Bonner Sawyer resigns as prosecutor of Chapel Hill's recorder's court
  • May 26, 1937: Chapel Hill aldermen elect C. P. Hinshaw town attorney and Roy McGinnis prosecutor
  • March and April 1938: Chapel Hill police and a state patrolman make 69 traffic arrests in two months

  May be the same person as McGinnis, Roy W.

• McGinnis, Roy W. 1 entry, 1935
  • May 7, 1935: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Foushee and elects R. H. Wettach alderman

  May be the same person as McGinnis, Roy

• McGready, James 1 entry, 1796
  • 1796: Opponents of James McGready burn his pulpit at Stony Creek church
• McGrew, W. R. 1 entry, 1962
  • by November 15, 1962: Western Power and Gas Company takes control of the Morris Telephone Company
• McGuinness, Eugene J. 2 entries, 1942–1943
  • October 18, 1942: Bishop Eugene McGuinness celebrates Chapel Hill's first military field mass in Kenan Stadium
  • September 5, 1943: Bishop McGuinness offers a military pontifical field mass in Kenan Stadium
• McGuire, Frank 5 entries, 1952–1961

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• McGuire, Thomas 1 entry, 1770
  • October 18, 1770: Tryon's Council orders a proclamation against the Hillsborough rioters and defers the Assembly
• McGuire, Trish 1 entry, 2012
  • March 6, 2012: Carrboro aldermen approve criteria for siting a freestanding library
• McIntire, Robert 1 entry, 1787
  • March 1, 1787: The court names four patrollers for the town of Hillsborough
• McIntire, William 1 entry, 1789
  • August 29, 1789: The court orders the apprentice William McIntire back to his master
• McIntosh, Andrew 3 entries, 1939–1941
  • May 2, 1939: Chapel Hill re-elects John M. Foushee mayor over Clarence Pickard
  • late June 1939: The recorder's court acquits liquor defendants because officers had not sworn to the warrants on the Bible
  • May 6, 1941: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor John M. Foushee and elects Fitch, Bowman, and Davis aldermen

  May be the same person as McIntosh, Andrew C.

• McIntosh, Andrew C. 1 entry, 1942
  • June 10, 1942: Chapel Hill aldermen elect Henry A. Whitfield judge of the recorder's court

  May be the same person as McIntosh, Andrew

• McIntosh, Atwell C. 1 entry, 1934
  • by July 20, 1934: Law professor Atwell C. McIntosh is named Kenan professor of law emeritus

  May be the same person as McIntosh, Atwell Campbell

• McIntosh, Atwell Campbell 2 entries, 1923–1939
  • October 11, 1923: Law dean Lucius McGehee dies
  • January 27, 1939: Atwell Campbell McIntosh, Kenan professor emeritus of law, dies

  May be the same person as McIntosh, Atwell C.

• McIntosh, C. E. 1 entry, 1935

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• McIver, A. 1 entry, 1888
  • February 25, 1888: Oaks citizens back a projected Durham-to-Charlotte railroad and name delegates
• McIver, Alex. 1 entry, 1887
  • early June 1887: Bingham Township farmers form a club and call a county farmers' meeting
• McIver, Alexander 14 entries, 1868–1890

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• McIver, Charles D. 6 entries, 1879–1906
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  • June 5, 1879: Robert W. Winston wins the Mangum Medal for oratory at commencement
  • June 17, 1879: The University Normal School opens its third session, with women admitted on equal terms
  • by May 31, 1879: The university YMCA fits up a reading room and asks the public to help furnish it
  • December 1890: The school board rebukes teachers who skipped Charles McIver's institute
  • November 10-14, 1890: Charles D. McIver holds a county institute for white teachers at the court house
  • September 17, 1906: A Hillsboro crowd waiting for Bryan learns that Charles D. McIver has died on his train
• McIver, Duncan E. 1 entry, 1880
  • January 16-17, 1880: University societies elect the 1880 commencement speakers and marshals, leaving the ball to its backers
• McIver, James D. 1 entry, 1896
  • November 5, 1896: The fall term of Orange Superior Court is not held because Judge McIver is ill
• McKay, Felix 1 entry, 1975
  • July 1975 to June 1977: The C.O.E.D. project studies discipline and suspensions in five area schools
• McKay, James J. 1 entry, 1830
  • December 24, 1830 to 1831: Trustees refuse a state loan tied to legislative control of the university
• McKay, Neill 1 entry, 1873
  • July 1873: State educational convention calls for reviving the university
• McKee, Mrs. E. L. 1 entry, 1925
  • October 29, 1925: Clubwomen of District 8 of the state federation hold their annual meeting in Chapel Hill
• McKee, Earl 2 entries, 2011–2015
  • May 17, 2011: Orange County commissioners raised the landfill tipping fee to pay for Rogers Road remediation
  • October 8, 2015: State highway marker honoring Carl T. Durham is dedicated at N.C. 54 and Carl Durham Road
• McKee, H. H. 1 entry, 1882
  • October 21, 1882: Orange Democrats nominate H. H. McKee for sheriff
• McKee, J. W. 1 entry, 1880
  • by May 29, 1880: Census enumerators are named for Orange County's eleven districts
• McKee, Jos. W. 1 entry, 1867
  • September 23, 1867: Freedpeople near White Oak Spring gather 75 children for a school
• McKee, Tom 1 entry, 1939
  • by February 3, 1939: University student volunteers begin evening classes for prisoners at the county prison camp
• McKeever, William A. 1 entry, 1915
  • July 5 to 10, 1915: The University Summer School holds a Rural Life Conference
• McKenna, Richard 1 entry, 1964
  • early November 1964: Chapel Hill writer Richard McKenna dies
• McKenzie, B. S. 1 entry, 1896
  • September 27, 1896: B. S. McKenzie preaches his farewell sermon as rector of St. Matthew's
• McKenzie, Floretta 1 entry, 1988
  • by April 20, 1988: Former Washington schools superintendent Floretta McKenzie speaks in Memorial Hall
• McKerall, John 2 entries, 1807–1838
  • May Term 1807: The court appoints James Webb treasurer of public buildings
  • November Term 1838: The court takes Morris Sharp from saddler Solomon Fuller and binds him to John McKerall
• McKethan, E. R. 1 entry, 1891
  • by February 21, 1891: Alex Stronach and E. R. McKethan are chosen to teach the Chapel Hill public school
• McKethan, E. T. 1 entry, 1884
  • August 1884: Old students start a subscription for a monument over Nancy Hilliard's grave
• McKie, George 5 entries, 1912–1941

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• McKimmon, Jane Simpson 1 entry, 1934

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• McKinnon, Henry A. 1 entry, 1959
  • February 1959: Grand jury calls a new county jail an urgent need
• McKissick, Floyd 9 entries, 1949–1988
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  • October 1949–June 1951: Black law students sue to enter UNC's Law School
  • March 3, 1961: Floyd McKissick represents the White Cross children at a school board hearing
  • June 19, 1961: A white Duke student is charged with trespass for refusing to leave the Black section of the bus station grill
  • September 4, 1962: Chapel Hill school board denies the reassignment appeals of Black pupils represented by Floyd McKissick
  • December 12, 1963: Orange Superior Court convicts Pat Cusick and three others for the Merchants Association sit-in
  • by February 14, 1963: Seven Black pupils refused transfers in 1962 are moved to mostly white Chapel Hill schools
  • January 12, 1986: Floyd McKissick speaks at Alpha Phi Alpha's King celebration in Great Hall
  • January 15-20, 1987: Floyd McKissick gives the King lecture during UNC's sixth annual King celebration
  • November 20, 1988: The Black Cultural Center honors Pauli Murray at the Chapel of the Cross
• McKissick, Floyd B. 9 entries, 1949–1963

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• McKnight, Pete 1 entry, 1981
  • 1981: Vermont Royster is among the first inductees of UNC's North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame
• McKnight, W. A. 1 entry, 1946
  • by August 22, 1946: Chapel Hill appoints a Veterans Housing Commission to bring in surplus houses for student veterans
• McKoy, Judge 1 entry, 1879
  • October 4, 1879: Becky Lyon is acquitted of the Blackwell murders
• McLain, Rachel 1 entry, 1938
  • by May 13, 1938: A Girl Scout troop of 32 is organized in Carrboro
• McLarty, F. S. 2 entries, 1936–1943
  • 1936: The Berry Brick House leaves the Berry family after 131 years
  • 1943: The McLartys sell the Berry Brick House to Mr. and Mrs. F. Ross Porter
• McLauchlin, Muriel 1 entry, 1949
  • early March 1949: Faculty wives and women faculty form the University Woman's Club at Chapel Hill
• McLaughlin, John 3 entries, 1954–1956
  • February 1, 1954: The school board sets the boundary between the Carrboro and White Cross school areas
  • week of November 28, 1955: Carrboro's town officials honor former mayor Roy Riggsbee for 20 years of service
  • March 29, 1956: Carrboro commissioners suspend the police chief for two weeks

  May be the same person as McLaughlin, John F.

• McLaughlin, John F. 2 entries, 1953–1954
  • May 4, 1953: Carrboro reelects Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson and fills its first six-member town board
  • December 31, 1954: Carrboro's town board stages a New Year's Eve celebration at the town hall

  May be the same person as McLaughlin, John

• McLean, Angus 1 entry, 1924
  • 1924: Odum's new institute makes county government its first study
• McLean, Angus W. 9 entries, 1924–1927

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• McLean, Jean 1 entry, 1936
  • November 1936: Chapel Hill business women organize a Business Women's Circle
• McLellan, D. M. 1 entry, 1969
  • December 10, 1969: Eight men charged during the cafeteria strike appear in Orange County District Court
• McLendon, L. P. 6 entries, 1918–1940
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  • December 25, 1918: Sgt. Charles Battle Wills of Chapel Hill dies of pneumonia overseas
  • May 10, 1919: Chapel Hill welcomes home its World War soldiers alongside Confederate veterans
  • June 3, 1922: Orange County gives S. M. Gattis a large majority, but he loses the solicitor primary to L. P. McLendon
  • November 22, 1927: John Sprunt Hill buys the block of stores beside the campus at the realty company auction
  • June 17, 1929: Mrs. Thomas F. Lloyd's nieces and nephews settle their suit over her will for $58,000
  • July 3, 1940: Chapel Hill defense committee asks Congress for a national emergency and full mobilization
• McLennan, Brady 2 entries, 1954–1961
  • July 5, 1954: A windstorm damages the Frozen Kustard drive-in across from Brady's on the Durham road
  • August 5, 1961: The Chapel Hill women's curb market opens in a new building on the Durham Road
• McMahon, Alex 1 entry, 1956
  • September 17, 1956: Chapel Hill contracts to answer fire calls in the Greater Chapel Hill Fire District
• McMahon, Betty W. 1 entry, 1952
  • about 1952 (by July 1956; NCModernist gives 1957): The Webb brothers design a house on Whitehead Circle for Alex and Betty McMahon
• McMahon, J. Alex 1 entry, 1952
  • about 1952 (by July 1956; NCModernist gives 1957): The Webb brothers design a house on Whitehead Circle for Alex and Betty McMahon
• McMahon, J. Alexander 2 entries, 1948–1949
  • October 1, 1948: George Esser and Alexander McMahon join the Institute of Government
  • November 1, 1949: The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study
• McMannan, John R. 1 entry, 1859
  • 1859: New Bethel Methodist Church is organized
• McMannen, Henry 3 entries, 1890
  • April 7, 1890: Federal judge Dick discharges the revenue officers who killed Henry McMannen
  • the week of March 17, 1890: An Orange County grand jury indicts five revenue officers for the murder of Henry McMannen
  • February 25, 1890: Revenue officers kill Henry McMannen, a Black man, at his house in Little River township
• McMannen, John A. 1 entry, 1855
  • by March 7, 1855: John A. McMannen pays $4,000 for land at Durham's Depot
• McMannen, W. E. 1 entry, 1862
  • late February 1862: Orange County's militia regiments draft a third of their men for state service
• McMannen, William B. 1 entry, 1860
  • February 4, 1860: Flat River men organize the Flat River Guards
• McMillan, Alexander 2 entries, 1777–1778
  • 1777: Hillsborough gets its first regular Presbyterian services
  • September 1778: The Presbytery removes Alexander McMillan, who had led Presbyterian worship in Hillsborough
• McMillan, Campbell W. 1 entry, 1982
  • by February 23, 1982: UNC physicians begin clinical trials of cetiedil for sickle cell crises
• McMillan, R. L. 1 entry, 1944
  • May 25, 1944: The National Munitions plant at Carrboro receives the first National Security Award given in North Carolina
• McMullan, Harry 1 entry, 1938
  • April 26, 1938: Chapel Hill's Harry McMullan is appointed Attorney General of North Carolina
• McMullan, Patsy 1 entry, 1935
  • May 25 and 27, 1935: The Carolina Playmakers stage Hamlet in the Forest Theatre, with Frederick Koch as Hamlet
• McMullen, Ann 1 entry, 1800
  • 12 September 1800: William Roark marries Ann McMullen eleven days after she names him as her child's father
• McMullen, Robert J. 3 entries, 1952–1953
  • December 14, 1952: Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote 156 to 14 to keep the Rev. Charles M. Jones
  • February 17, 1953: Orange Presbytery's commission removes Charles M. Jones as pastor of the Chapel Hill church
  • January 20, 1953: Orange Presbytery gives its judicial commission final authority over Charles M. Jones

  May be the same person as McMullen, Robert Johnston

• McMullen, Robert Johnston 1 entry, 1952
  • week of October 20, 1952: Robert J. McMullen becomes acting pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church

  May be the same person as McMullen, Robert J.

• McMurray, Joseph B. 1 entry, 1848
  • November 1848: A jury finds Joseph B. McMurray is not the father of Bethany Pender's child
• McNair, John Calvin 2 entries, 1857–1908
  • 1857: John Calvin McNair's will directs the sale of an enslaved family to endow University lectures
  • 1908: The John Calvin McNair lectures on science and religion begin
• McNair, Ralph 8 entries, 1768–1777

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• McNair, Robert 1 entry, 1968
  • February 15, 1968: BSM members march in Chapel Hill to protest the Orangeburg killings
• McNeer, F. A. 1 entry, 1918
  • May 20-27, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross raises $4,294 in its second War Fund drive
• McNeil, Genna Rae 1 entry, 1991
  • 1991–1996: UNC Housekeepers organize for pay and respect
• McNeil, Hector 1 entry, 1781
  • September 13, 1781: Butler's militia ambushes Fanning's Loyalists at Lindley's Mill
• McNeill, H. M. 1 entry, 1950
  • by May 1950: Forty-two veterans are enrolled in Lincoln High's farmer training program
• McNeill, Hector 1 entry, 1781
  • 1781, by tradition: Tradition says parts of the town clock were hidden in the Eno during Fanning's raid
• McNeill, T. A. 1 entry, 1857
  • 1857: John Calvin McNair's will directs the sale of an enslaved family to endow University lectures
• McNeill, Vinson 1 entry, 1955
  • May 19, 1955: Men in Chapel Hill and Carrboro begin organizing a Toastmasters Club
• McNider 1 entry, 1915
  • late April 1915: The federal government acquires the McNider lot as the site of a new Chapel Hill post office
• McPhee, Jack 1 entry, 1940
  • June 24, 1940: Supervised summer playground opens for Chapel Hill children
• McPheeters, William 4 entries, 1833–1837

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• McPherson, D. A. 2 entries, 1930–1931
  • October 1930: Lamar Stringfield becomes conductor of the University's Faculty Orchestra
  • January 30, 1931: Lamar Stringfield gives a chamber music recital of his folk-based works in the Playmakers Theatre
• McPherson, David 3 entries, 1947–1972
  • September 26, 1947: Black veterans organize an American Legion post in Hillsborough
  • early August 1948: Hillsboro's Black veterans of the Lewis Mayo American Legion post elect their officers
  • 1972–1973: Marinda Dunnigan McPherson is recorded singing songs she learned from her family
• McPherson, Marinda 6 entries, 1942–1950
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  • 1942: Marinda McPherson starts a library for Black readers in Hillsborough
  • April 1, 1944: Hillsborough's Red Cross War Fund drive passes its $4,100 goal
  • early August 1948: The county librarian meets with Black leaders to restart the Orange County Negro library
  • October 28, 1948: Black library committee moves to reopen the county's library for Black readers in the Hillsboro Community Center
  • by July 14, 1949: The Black public library's building committee buys a Camp Butner building
  • by June 29, 1950: Work begins on a building for the county library for Black readers beside Central High
• McPherson, Marinda D. 6 entries, 1945–1972

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• McPherson, S. D. 1 entry, 1934
  • October 16, 1934: The PTA reports summer health examinations, including 142 children at the Black school
• McPherson, William 1 entry, 1837
  • July 8, 1837: Orange Whigs meeting at the Cane Creek Cotton Factory back William A. Graham for Congress
• McPherson, William Edward 1 entry, 1947
  • 1947: The William Edward McPherson House is built on Nash Street in West Hillsborough
• McQuarrie, C. K. 1 entry, 1905
  • July 21, 1905: A farmers' institute meets at the Hillsborough court house
• McQueen, Hugh 4 entries, 1834–1840
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  • by January 7, 1834: The legislature elects J. R. J. Daniel, Hugh McQueen and William H. Battle trustees of the university
  • June 18, 1836: The Columbian Repository begins at Chapel Hill
  • September 15, 1836: The Columbian Repository resumes publication after a suspension
  • September 19, 1840: Whigs hold a log cabin festival at Chapel Hill
• McQuisten, Jesse 1 entry, 1841
  • May Term 1841: The court binds Isaac Albright's sons to learn spinning in a cotton factory
• McRae, Carmen 1 entry, 1982
  • by April 29, 1982: Carmen McRae plays four sold-out nights at Stephen's...after all
• McRae, James P. 1 entry, 1949
  • by July 7, 1949: The FHA agrees to insure the loan for the Country Club Apartments outside Chapel Hill
• McRae, R. S. 1 entry, 1922
  • October 1, 1922: Robert L. Strowd resigns as Chapel Hill postmaster
• McRee, James 1 entry, 1810
  • June 29, 1810: The university makes David Caldwell of Guilford a Doctor of Divinity
• McSurely, Alan 5 entries, 1992–1997

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• McSwain, Burgess 1 entry, 1983
  • September 1983: The Carrboro Appearance Commission publishes the town's architectural and historical inventory
• McSween, John D. 1 entry, 1966
  • March 31, 1966: Students and the two speakers file Dickson v. Sitterson against the Speaker Ban
• McVay, John 1 entry, 1765
  • 1765: A deputy sheriff takes John McVay's deer skins for one levy
• McVey, Frank L. 2 entries, 1919–1932
  • February to May 1919: Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president
  • June 13, 1932: The consolidation survey proposes moving State College's engineering and agriculture to Chapel Hill
• McVey, John 1 entry, 1768
  • spring and summer 1768: Orange farmers swear scores of depositions against county officers
• McWhorter, Euclid 4 entries, 1918–1921
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  • October 1, 1918: 750 University students are inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps
  • March 13, 1919: The Chapel Hill Boy Scouts hold a banquet in their new hall over the post office
  • March 16, 1920: Committees of the two Methodist conferences agree to build a new church at Chapel Hill
  • from September 1921: Chapel Hill Methodists enlarge their Franklin Street grounds through purchases and a swap with the university
• Mead, Loren 2 entries, 1959–1963
  • October 5, 1959: Chapel Hill-Carrboro ministers endorse the school board's first-grade desegregation policy
  • July 21, 1963: A Town Hall meeting of civic leaders reaches a truce with the Committee for Open Business

  May be the same person as Mead, Loren B.

• Mead, Loren B. 1 entry, 1961
  • July 10, 1961: Thirteen Chapel Hill ministers publicly back the school board's desegregation plan

  May be the same person as Mead, Loren

• Meade, William 1 entry, 1819
  • 1819: An auxiliary Colonization Society is reported active in Chapel Hill
• Meade, William Hopkins 1 entry, 1925
  • April 2, 1925: The vestry makes the Chapel of the Cross cloister a memorial to William Hopkins Meade
• Means, James 1 entry, 1873
  • December 1873: The Eno Grange is organized at Cedar Grove
• Means, P. B. 1 entry, 1867
  • May 27, 1867: Dialectic Society students ask Governor Worth to help make President Johnson a member

  May be the same person as Means, Paul B.

• Means, Paul B. 1 entry, 1885
  • June 3, 1885: Trustees adopt resolutions thanking Thomas J. Jarvis for Memorial Hall

  May be the same person as Means, P. B.

• Meares, Henry 1 entry, 1977
  • by March 21, 1977: The Chapel Hill YMCA raises most of the money for a building on Airport Road
• Meares, John L. 1 entry, 1842
  • February 22-25, 1842: Students celebrate Washington's birthday, and the faculty punishes the drinking
• Meares, Mary Exum 1 entry, 1906
  • August 21, 1906: The Daughters of the Confederacy hold a benefit to mark Confederate graves in the town cemetery
• Meares, Thomas D. 3 entries, 1838–1843
  • November 1838 to January 1839: Seceders try to form a third literary society, the Delphian
  • June 27, 1839: Faculty appoints the first chief marshal of commencement
  • May 31, 1843: Alumni gather at Chapel Hill and organize the university's Alumni Association
• Meares, Walker 1 entry, 1852
  • May 6 to 21, 1852: Students protest faculty veto of a sub-marshal
• Mears, Walter R. 1 entry, 2022

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• Measamer, E. H. 1 entry, 1945
  • June 10, 1945: The Orange County Council of Churches renews its Bible teacher for the county schools
• Mebane, Abe 2 entries, 1888–1912
  • November 1888 (fall term of superior court): Superior court convicts Abe Mebane of manslaughter for the killing of Charlie Jones
  • July 16, 1912: Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel
• Mebane, Alexander 22 entries, 1752–1794

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• Mebane, Alexander 6 entries, 1752–1844

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  • 1752-1753: Alexander Mebane, the first sheriff, returns 1,113 taxables
  • December 1753: Justices recommend John Gray for sheriff
  • 1755: Alexander Mebane, Josiah Dixon and William Churton lay out Hillsborough's first prison
  • 1755: Lawrence Thompson is appointed sheriff of Orange County
  • Spring 1755: Mark Morgan fails to qualify for his captaincy at the Orange regiment's general muster
  • February 22, 1844: David Mebane, former legislator and Revolutionary partisan, dies
• Mebane, Alexander, Jr. 1 entry, 1777
  • May 1777: The Orange County court sits for the first time under the new state
• Mebane, Anderson 1 entry, 1817
  • May Term 1817: The court licenses James and Anderson Mebane to retail liquor at Mason Hall
• Mebane, Annabelle 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: A Black committee of the women's Liberty Loan organization raises $1,350 in Hillsborough Township
• Mebane, Annie B. 1 entry, 1912
  • July 16, 1912: Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel
• Mebane, B. W. 1 entry, 1906
  • 1906: Hawfields leaves its century-old pairing with Cross Roads and joins Bethlehem in a new pastoral group
• Mebane, Benjamin Franklin 2 entries, 1857–1868

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• Mebane, Colonel 1 entry, 1771
  • May 12-14, 1771: Tryon's army halts at Colonel Mebane's for Sunday worship on the march to Alamance
• Mebane, D. Y. 7 entries, 1888–1890
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  • May 7, 1888: Hillsborough re-elects Joseph A. Harris mayor over Samuel M. Gattis
  • June 7, 1889: Eagle Lodge No. 71 elects Joseph G. Cooley worshipful master
  • April 19, 1889: Hillsborough's town commissioners first meet in the new brick mayor's office and guard house
  • December 10, 1889: Hillsborough holds a public meeting and memorial service for Jefferson Davis
  • by December 9, 1889: Hillsborough's town board puts about forty Town Commons building lots up for bids
  • May 6, 1889: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over Devereux Turner
  • August 16, 1890: D. Y. Mebane and E. A. Rosemond dissolve their firm
• Mebane, David 2 entries, 1797–1844
  • May 23, 1797: The court names poll inspectors for elections at Hillsborough and southwest of Haw River
  • February 22, 1844: David Mebane, former legislator and Revolutionary partisan, dies
• Mebane, David A. 1 entry, 1910
  • August 24, 1910: District Democrats nominate John W. Graham and Dr. Hurdle for the state Senate at Hillsboro
• Mebane, F. C. 1 entry, 1891
  • January 15, 1891: Students and Prof. Gore organize the University Telegraph Union
• Mebane, G. A. 1 entry, 1844
  • February 22, 1844: David Mebane, former legislator and Revolutionary partisan, dies

  May be the same person as Mebane, George A.

• Mebane, George A. 1 entry, 1838
  • April 7, 1838: A Cedar Grove muster-day meeting names the Democratic ticket for Orange

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• Mebane, Giles 20 entries, 1822–1878

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• Mebane, Giles 1 entry, 1889

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  • June 3, 1889: Hillsborough holds the first Orange County cattle show
• Mebane, J. H. 1 entry, 1896
  • April 1896: A gold find near Efland draws the state geologist
• Mebane, James 27 entries, 1787–1898

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• Mebane, James 2 entries, 1817–1842

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  • February 1817 (court term): The court orders John Freeman to pay James Mebane as trustee for Sally Liner's child
  • February 5, 1842: Hillsborough elects Thomas Clancy magistrate of police and chooses its town commissioners
• Mebane, James, Jr. 2 entries, 1797–1799
  • May 25, 1797: The court frees Cicero under James Armstrong's will
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a new road from John McRory's to the Caswell County line
• Mebane, Robert 1 entry, 1781
  • September 13, 1781: Butler's militia ambushes Fanning's Loyalists at Lindley's Mill
• Mebane, W. N. 2 entries, 1911–1912
  • September 28, 1911: Hillsboro citizens form a Law and Order League
  • August 10, 1912: Orange County Democrats nominate George C. Pickard for the House and renominate the county officers
• Mebane, William 2 entries, 1788
  • 1788: Tax lists show the property of Orange County's convention delegates
  • August 1, 1788: Orange County's delegates vote against ratifying the Constitution before amendments
• Mebane, Willie 2 entries, 1845–1973
  • January 8, 1845: Hawfields citizens celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans with Gen. Joseph Allison presiding
  • mid-October 1973: Student body president Ford Runge reinstates the Minority Court
• Mechlin, Leila 2 entries, 1934–1937
  • December 3, 1934: President Graham and Leila Mechlin announce plans for a fine arts center in Person Hall
  • September 26 to October 13, 1937: Person Hall shows Frances Benjamin Johnston's photographs of early North Carolina architecture
• Medford, James A. 6 entries, 1965–1966

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• Meeks, Everett V. 1 entry, 1937
  • January 15, 1937: The University opens the Person Hall Art Gallery
• Mellick, Ellen 1 entry, 1923
  • April 13, 1923: Elizabeth City's girl debaters win the Aycock Memorial Cup at State High School Week
• Melvin, H. J. 1 entry, 1959
  • June 28, 1959: Mars Hill Baptist Church marks its 125th anniversary and burns its parsonage mortgage
• Menache, Jacques 1 entry, 1974
  • August 1974: The ArtSchool is founded
• Mendenhall, Dovie 1 entry, 1893
  • October 16, 1893: The Chapel Hill district public school opens with Dovie Mendenhall as teacher
• Mendenhall, Mary 1 entry, 1818
  • 1818: Mary Mendenhall keeps Union School near Woody's Ferry on the Haw
• Meneely, Chester 1 entry, 1931
  • September 14, 1931: Chester Meneely tests the new Morehead-Patterson chime as the village hears its bells
• Mengel, C. W. 1 entry, 1937
  • by November 12, 1937: The PWA closes its Chapel Hill office and moves its staff to Atlanta
• Mengel, Ruth 1 entry, 1938
  • April 8, 1938: Carrboro's federal community school stages two folk plays at the Carrboro school
• Menser, Jackie 1 entry, 1977
  • spring 1977: Chapel Hill High forms a student relations committee after a racial incident
• Mercer, Forester 1 entry, 1771
  • December 14, 1771: Tryon, now governor of New York, asks the King's free pardon for the six reprieved Regulators
• Merrick, John 1 entry, 1901
  • 1901: Lincoln Hospital opens in Durham for Black patients
• Merrill, Benjamin 1 entry, 1771
  • June 19, 1771: Regulators are tried and executed at Hillsborough
• Merrill, Samuel 1 entry, 1880
  • by February 21, 1880: Durham's commissioners contract for new street lamps
• Merrill, Willie 1 entry, 1859
  • by December 21, 1859: West Orange post office closes as new offices open at Hughes's Academy and Bain's Mills
• Merrimon, A. S. 1 entry, 1881
  • July 9, 1881: A. S. Merrimon and Lisbon Berry speak for prohibition at the courthouse

  May be the same person as Merrimon, Augustus S.

• Merrimon, Augustus S. 2 entries, 1871
  • March 7, 1871: Lucinda Morrow of Hillsborough testifies at Governor Holden's impeachment trial
  • January 23, 1871: William A. Graham of Hillsborough joins the prosecution of Governor Holden

  May be the same person as Merrimon, A. S.

• Merritt, A. H. 2 entries, 1880–1889
  • by February 21, 1880: University trustees name a committee to examine the university's organization
  • 1889: The university offers Mary Ruffin Smith's Jones Grove tract for sale in lots
• Merritt, Bishetta 1 entry, 1974
  • fall 1974: Bishetta Merritt becomes the first Black faculty member in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures
• Merritt, Clarence, Jr. 1 entry, 1960

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• Merritt, Dewey 1 entry, 1925
  • late December 1925: Dewey Merritt opens a filling station at Rosemary Lane and Columbia Street
• Merritt, E. S. 2 entries, 1885–1898
  • by November 7, 1885: Dr. Thomas J. Wilson and E. S. Merritt open a drugstore in Chapel Hill
  • about 1898: Chapel Hill forms a volunteer fire company with two borrowed hand reels

  May be the same person as Merritt, Edward S.

• Merritt, Eben 1 entry, 1955
  • mid-October 1955: The new Greater Chapel Hill Fire District Commission organizes with E. A. Cameron as chairman
• Merritt, Eben G. 4 entries, 1929–1954

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• Merritt, Edward S. 1 entry, 1936
  • May 17, 1936: Former Chapel Hill and Carrboro druggist Sampy Merritt dies

  May be the same person as Merritt, E. S.

• Merritt, George 1 entry, 1879
  • July 3, 1879: Two Black men put out a roof fire at Col. Guthrie's house in Chapel Hill
• Merritt, Henry 3 entries, 1810–1818
  • February 27, 1810: The court gives Henry Merritt leave to build a grist mill on Morgan's Creek
  • February 28, 1811: The court makes Henry Merritt's bridge over Morgan Creek a toll bridge
  • May 29, 1818: The court pays Henry Merritt for a bridge across Morgan Creek
• Merritt, J. C. 1 entry, 1917
  • May 7, 1917: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor over two rivals
• Merritt, J. E. 1 entry, 1912
  • 1912: Alphonso McDade sells the McDade House to his daughter and son-in-law
• Merritt, J. Edgar 1 entry, 1949
  • 1949: Miltos Tassos buys J. Edgar Merritt's West Franklin property and opens the Cafe Mouza
• Merritt, J. S. 1 entry, 1894
  • by March 3, 1894: The law firm of Merritt, Bryant & Merritt opens an office in Hillsborough
• Merritt, J. Y. 3 entries, 1889–1926
  • April 1889: Julian S. Carr's carload of meal is given out to Orange County's destitute
  • July 5, 1889: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance elects S. T. Forrest president and keeps W. V. Andrews as secretary
  • September 30, 1926: Confederate veteran J. Y. Merritt dies at his home south of Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Merritt, James Y.

• Merritt, Jack 2 entries, 1924–1960
  • November 8, 1924: Rameses, the live ram mascot, makes his debut for Carolina
  • November 2, 1960: Fire damages the University's Tin Can athletic building
• Merritt, James 2 entries, 1960–2020

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• Merritt, James Y. 4 entries, 1887–1890
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  • October 3, 1887: County commissioners order a new bridge at Purefoy's mill near Chapel Hill
  • June 4, 1888: Magistrates elect a new board of county commissioners and set the 1888 county tax
  • December 3, 1888: A new board of county commissioners takes office with H. P. Jones as chairman
  • December 1, 1890: The Orange County commissioners begin a new term and swear in the county officers

  May be the same person as Merritt, J. Y.

• Merritt, Johnson 2 entries, 1925
  • by June 26, 1925: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize a Community Fair Association to support the Orange County Training School
  • September 14, 1925: Orange County Training School opens its year with its largest attendance and a drive for auditorium chairs
• Merritt, Minnie McDade 1 entry, 1912
  • 1912: Alphonso McDade sells the McDade House to his daughter and son-in-law
• Merritt, Ruby 1 entry, 1929
  • 1929: Eben and Ruby Merritt open a gas station on the Pittsboro Road
• Merritt, Samply 1 entry, 1925
  • from the mid-1920s: A two-story brick store block rises in stages at 114 to 120 East Main Street
• Merritt, Sarah 1 entry, 1926
  • August 10, 1926: Chapel Hill aldermen authorize $50,000 in street improvement bonds
• Merritt, Thomas 1 entry, 1941
  • by March 7, 1941: Three Black University dining hall workers volunteer for the Army
• Merritt, W. C. 1 entry, 1917
  • by July 19, 1917: Joseph Hyde Pratt sells the 489-acre Berry place east of Hillsboro
• Merritt, Wes. 1 entry, 1886
  • November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
• Merritt, William 5 entries, 1802–1894
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  • May Term 1802: The court takes a fourteen-year repair bond for the New Hope bridge at Captain Collier's
  • February Term 1803: The court pays William Merritt for the New Hope Creek bridge on the Raleigh road
  • February 25, 1808: The court pays William Merritt for building and keeping up the Ben's Creek bridge
  • March 19-22, 1894: The grand jury refuses to indict William Merritt on a charge of trying to wreck a train
  • October 2, 1894: Populist district conventions at Hillsborough nominate William Merritt for Congress and W. P. Bynum Jr. for solicitor
• Merritt, William D. 1 entry, 1894
  • by March 3, 1894: The law firm of Merritt, Bryant & Merritt opens an office in Hillsborough
• Merritt, William H. 2 entries, 1840–1850
  • September 19, 1840: Whigs hold a log cabin festival at Chapel Hill
  • July 3, 1850: Baptist preacher William H. Merritt dies near Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Merritt, William Henry

• Merritt, William Henry 2 entries, 1854–1855
  • March 6, 1854: Chapel Hill Baptists contract for a brick church
  • May 6, 1855: The Baptist Church of Chapel Hill opens its first church

  May be the same person as Merritt, William H.

• Metcalf, Anne 1 entry, 1926
  • April 6, 1926: Nearly 600 children stage a pageant at the Orange County schools commencement
• Metzenthin, Ernest Christian 1 entry, 1936
  • July 22, 1936: German professor E. C. Metzenthin dies in Chapel Hill
• Mewborne, James M. 1 entry, 1896
  • May 23, 1896: The State Alliance buys a shoe factory plant for its Hillsborough headquarters
• Meyer, Harold D. 20 entries, 1924–1964

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• Meyer, Philip 1 entry, 1981

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• Meyer, Thomas 1 entry, 1989
  • April 9-15, 1989: Poets Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer give a reading in the Biology Department's Coker Room
• Meyjes, Greg 1 entry, 1986
  • September 25, 1986: Jill McCorkle reads To Kill a Mockingbird at a Banned Books Week protest in the Pit
• Michaux, Anna Meade 1 entry, 1911
  • July 17, 1911: The county teachers' institute opens at the Hillsboro High School
• Michaux, Mickey 1 entry, 1985
  • February 23, 1985: The BSM holds Discovery, a day of Black History Month seminars, with Justice Henry Frye at the banquet
• Michaux, Richard 1 entry, 1885
  • September 27, 1885: The Chestnut Ridge camp meeting draws its largest crowd
• Michie, Sallie Markham 2 entries, 1919–1995
  • 1919: Sallie Hemphill, later Sallie Markham Michie, buys the house at 121 South Columbia Street
  • November 27, 1995: UNC razes the Michie House, the last private home on campus, for parking
• Mickle, A. 4 entries, 1863–1870
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  • September 30, 1863: Orange farmers begin delivering the Confederate tax in kind at Hillsborough and Durham's Depot
  • April 1867: Chapel Hill farmers organize the Chapel Hill Agricultural Society
  • July 8-9, 1868: Professor Charles Phillips certifies aged Chapel Hill residents for Bureau rations
  • March 30–April 1, 1870: Rival claimants to Chapel Hill's town offices are told to stand down
• Mickle, Andrew 27 entries, 1835–1882

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• Mickle, E. D. 1 entry, 1925
  • April 9, 1925: Orange County's Black schools hold their county commencement at the Orange County Training School
• Mickle, Norwood 1 entry, 1863
  • July 1 to 3, 1863: Chapel Hill counts its dead and wounded from Gettysburg
• Micklejohn, George 10 entries, 1752–1776

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• Micou, B. H. 1 entry, 1942
  • March 24, 1942: The Navy opens the first Pre-Flight School offices in Swain Hall
• Midgett, John B. 4 entries, 1943–1945
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  • 1943: Hillsborough raises $3,000 in the 1943 Red Cross War Fund
  • April 1, 1944: Hillsborough's Red Cross War Fund drive passes its $4,100 goal
  • by April 29, 1944: The American Red Cross honors the Orange County chapter for its 1944 War Fund
  • February 20, 1945: Fire damages the main room of Eagle Lodge's Masonic Hall in Hillsborough
• Midgette, Judge 1 entry, 1927
  • May 24, 1927: Judge halts the Orange sheriff's advertising of land for unpaid taxes
• Miers, William 1 entry, 1752
  • September 1752: The county court contracts for a courthouse and prison near Piney Ford
• Milburn, Frank P. 1 entry, 1923
  • 1923: Chapel Hill Baptists build a Neoclassical church at Franklin and Columbia streets

  May be the same person as Milburn, Frank Pierce

• Milburn, Frank Pierce 1 entry, 1897
  • Summer 1897: Work begins on the foundation of the Alumni Building

  May be the same person as Milburn, Frank P.

• Miles, Nelson A. 1 entry, 1868
  • February 27, 1868: The Bureau assigns agent Charles B. Whittemore to Hillsborough in charge of Orange and Person counties
• Miller, Bertha 1 entry, 1927
  • December 27, 1927: The Church of God of Carrboro is organized
• Miller, C. R. 1 entry, 1883
  • March 3, 1883: Tenant farmer Jessa Buttler mortgages his horse and crop to landowner C. R. Miller
• Miller, C. S. 1 entry, 1925
  • June 20, 1925: The county board merges Little River Township's schools into a new Caldwell School
• Miller, D. S. 4 entries, 1896–1908
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  • September 23, 1896: Orange County Republicans nominate B. E. Teague for the House and a county ticket
  • November 8, 1904: Democrats carry Orange County, and S. W. Andrews is elected sheriff
  • July 23, 1904: Republican county convention nominates P. Tinsley Cheek and D. S. Miller
  • August 11, 1908: Orange County Republicans nominate Thomas Sparrow for the House
• Miller, Frank 1 entry, 1959
  • March 16, 1959: Commissioners name Hortense Copeland Dickson tax collector and create a property appraiser post
• Miller, H. E. 1 entry, 1926
  • May 1926: Chapel Hill lays a sewer system through the Black neighborhood around Church Street
• Miller, Henry 2 entries, 1944–1946
  • October 21, 1944: The Caldwell Educational Association votes to build a school and community gymnasium
  • June 3, 1946: Caldwell loses its high school when the state allots it no teachers
• Miller, Henry W. 4 entries, 1837–1857
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  • June 1837: The university graduates nine seniors and makes Basil Manly a Doctor of Divinity
  • October 9-10, 1844: Whigs hold a two-day mass meeting on the Alamance battleground
  • September 17, 1852: Whigs hold a Scott and Graham mass meeting and barbecue at Hillsborough
  • June 3, 1857: Henry W. Miller of Raleigh addresses the two literary societies at commencement
• Miller, J. L. 1 entry, 1930
  • May 15, 1930: Chapel Hill firemen receive state service certificates at their hut
• Miller, J. S. 5 entries, 1933–1938
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  • August 3 and 4, 1933: The Durham district conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church meets in Chapel Hill
  • by June 9, 1933: Cotton Chapel, a Black Methodist church, loses its building to foreclosure
  • by May 3, 1935: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize the Colored Civic Club
  • by August 13, 1937: Eighty-eight Black families enter a health department garden contest in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
  • summer 1938: Black families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro raise gardens and put up 2,000 quarts in a nurse-led contest

  May be the same person as Miller, Joseph S.

• Miller, James 1 entry, 1790
  • February Term 1790: The court has Mary Combs's child brought in by habeas corpus and gives it to her
• Miller, Jay 1 entry, 2008
  • March 2008: Jay Miller buys the empty Murphey School and begins restoring it
• Miller, John A. 1 entry, 1834
  • February 28, 1834: The Methodist conference sends George W. Dye to the Orange circuit
• Miller, Joseph S. 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: St. Joseph CME builds its first church on West Rosemary Street

  May be the same person as Miller, J. S.

• Miller, May 1 entry, 1930
  • by May 16, 1930: Carolina Magazine publishes its annual issue of Black writers
• Miller, O. L. 1 entry, 1925
  • February 23, 1925: A state orthopedic surgeon holds a free clinic for crippled children in Chapel Hill
• Miller, Paul 1 entry, 1971
  • 1971: John Bunting co-captains Carolina's ACC championship football team
• Miller, Phil 1 entry, 1963
  • August 22, 1963: Fire breaks out in the Rathskeller and spreads through its East Franklin Street building
• Miller, Robert Lee 1 entry, 1925
  • May 4, 1925: The old Caldwell schoolhouse is sold as a new consolidated school is built
• Miller, Robert M. 1 entry, 1967
  • 1967–1968: Carolyn Kizer is a visiting writer-in-residence at UNC
• Miller, Simeon 1 entry, 1866
  • November Term 1866: The court binds Simeon Miller, a boy of color aged eleven, to Albert F. Faucett
• Miller, T. M. 1 entry, 1927
  • December 27, 1927: The Church of God of Carrboro is organized
• Miller, William J. 1 entry, 1933
  • by September 8, 1933: The federal Public Works office for North Carolina opens in Phillips Hall under Herman G. Baity
• Millican, Elias 2 entries, 1817–1818
  • May Term 1817: The court orders land valued for Samuel Child and Richard Ashe's proposed mill on Cain Creek
  • August Term 1818: The court decrees that James and Elias Millican may build a grist mill and pay the petitioners eight dollars
• Millican, James 2 entries, 1817–1818
  • May Term 1817: The court orders land valued for Samuel Child and Richard Ashe's proposed mill on Cain Creek
  • August Term 1818: The court decrees that James and Elias Millican may build a grist mill and pay the petitioners eight dollars
• Mills, Cone 1 entry, 1952
  • 1952: Eno Mill becomes part of Cone Mills
• Mills, L. R. 1 entry, 1878
  • August 27-29, 1878: The Mount Zion Baptist Association meets at Bethel Church west of Chapel Hill
• Mills, Mary 1 entry, 1854
  • May Term 1854: The court orders Robert Laws to take Sam and Mary Mills, children of color, to be bound to him
• Mills, R. H. 2 entries, 1948–1953
  • May 24, 1948: Carrboro adds a full-time policeman to assist its police chief
  • November 18, 1953: Carrboro officials honor R. H. Mills as he leaves town service after 18 years
• Mills, Sam 1 entry, 1854
  • May Term 1854: The court orders Robert Laws to take Sam and Mary Mills, children of color, to be bound to him
• Millspaugh, Mrs. C. F. 1 entry, 1944
  • early February 1944: Carrboro's Girl Scout troop is reorganized
• Milner, Charles 5 entries, 1949–1965
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  • August 28-30, 1949: Chapel Hill hosts the Carolinas District convention of Kiwanis International
  • November 27, 1956: Hillsborough dedicates the new Cameron Park School
  • May 23, 1960: The Chapel Hill school board keeps its pupil assignment policy and rejects the Quaker Plan
  • March 6, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board hires John D. Latimer and Associates to design a new junior high
  • 1965: Albert Coates starts the Institute of Civic Education in the University's Extension Division

  May be the same person as Milner, Charles F.

• Milner, Charles F. 1 entry, 1955
  • May 3, 1955: Chapel Hill voters elect members of their school board for the first time

  May be the same person as Milner, Charles

• Milner, Charlie 1 entry, 1954
  • October 2, 1954: Orange District Boy Scouts hold a 'Gold Rush' field day at the old iron mines
• Milner, James 2 entries, 1769–1770
  • September 1769: Abner Nash and James Milner sue Herman Husband for their legal fees
  • March 1770: Juries reject Herman Husband's plea of duress in the lawyers' fee suits
• Milton, Eunice H. 5 entries, 1965–1966

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• Mims, Edwin 1 entry, 1918
  • June 5, 1918: A subdued wartime commencement honors the governor, Senator Overman and the Rev. W. D. Moss
• Mincey, L. 1 entry, 1944
  • July 1, 1944: L. Mincey closes Hillsborough's only dry cleaning and laundry business
• Minis, Hal 1 entry, 1976
  • March 24 to April 8, 1976: County planners hold community meetings across rural Chapel Hill Township
• Minnis, Albert 1 entry, 1900
  • early 1900s: Arch Cates's I-house goes up on what became Arthur Minnis Road
• Minnis, James 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965 to 1967: Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm
• Minnis, Lois Dodson 1 entry, 1900
  • early 1900s: Arch Cates's I-house goes up on what became Arthur Minnis Road
• Minor, Charles 1 entry, 1877
  • September 28, 1877: Hickory Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Minor, Charlie 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Charlie and Sophie Minor, Black farm owners, build a pyramidal cottage on NC 54
• Minor, Frank 1 entry, 1863
  • by February 18, 1863: Farmers of the Oaks neighborhood pledge to sell food to soldiers' families at fixed prices
• Minor, James F. 1 entry, 1869
  • summer 1869: Three barns burn on one night after a Black tenant family is evicted in southwestern Orange
• Minor, Julia A. 2 entries, 1861–1866
  • August Term 1861: The court binds Fanny Taborn, a free girl of color, to Julia Minor
  • May Term 1866: The court rescinds a girl's binding to Julia A. Minor
• Minor, Paul 1 entry, 1962
  • June 30-July 1, 1962: Two Chapel Hill patrolmen are elected officers of the state association of Black law officers
• Minor, Sophie 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Charlie and Sophie Minor, Black farm owners, build a pyramidal cottage on NC 54
• Miscall, Frances K. 2 entries, 1961
  • June 1961: Chapel Hill church women ask the county for a welfare office in Chapel Hill
  • April 24, 1961: The county welfare board names an acting director after dropping its new superintendent
• Misenheimer, Kay 1 entry, 1955
  • May 10, 1955: The Cedar Grove community gets its first Boy Scout troop
• Mitchell 1 entry, 1846
  • February 9, 1846: Mitchell asks the Burwells to sell his wife Mary Ann with him
• Mitchell, A. S. 2 entries, 1914–1949
  • 1914: The Ruffin-Hill tract on St. Mary's Road is sold to A. S. Mitchell, who divides it
  • February 15, 1949: A. S. Mitchell, founder of Hillsboro's Mitchell hardware firm, dies
• Mitchell, Adaline 1 entry, 1851
  • March Term 1851: The court binds William Mitchell, son of Adaline Mitchell, a free woman of color, to cabinetmaker Henry Evans
• Mitchell, Adeline 1 entry, 1855
  • February Term 1855: The court binds Mary Mitchell, a free girl of color, to Thomas Webb
• Mitchell, Alex 1 entry, 1918
  • 1918: The Temple of Truth is organized
• Mitchell, Ann 1 entry, 1850
  • August Term 1850: The court has Chapel Hill children of color brought in and binds Jack Evans to John Turner
• Mitchell, Charles A. 2 entries, 1857
  • by July 25, 1857: Professors Fetter and Kimberly and tutor Charles Mitchell take over Elisha Mitchell's teaching
  • June 4, 1857: Ten senior orators, John W. Graham and the valedictorian speak on commencement day
• Mitchell, Clarence 1 entry, 1972
  • February 11-12, 1972: An NAACP youth conference on politics meets at UNC
• Mitchell, E. L. 1 entry, 1894
  • September 8, 1894: Democrats of the 18th Senatorial District meet at Hillsborough and nominate R. H. Boone and E. L. Mitchell
• Mitchell, Elijah 1 entry, 1850
  • August Term 1850: The court has Chapel Hill children of color brought in and binds Jack Evans to John Turner
• Mitchell, Elisha 58 entries, 1818–1961

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• Mitchell, Elisha 2 entries, 1819–1833

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  • Fall 1819: Denison Olmsted begins teaching chemistry at Chapel Hill
  • 1833: James Phillips is licensed to preach and later serves New Hope Presbyterian Church
• Mitchell, Eliza 1 entry, 1850
  • February Term 1850: The court binds Henry Mitchell, son of Eliza Mitchell, to William Barton
• Mitchell, Ella 1 entry, 1974
  • February 5, 1974: The Howard Roberts Chorale performs a history of Black music in Memorial Hall
• Mitchell, H. F., Jr. 1 entry, 1938
  • August 18, 1938: Chapel Hill lets the contract for its town hall
• Mitchell, Henry 1 entry, 1850
  • February Term 1850: The court binds Henry Mitchell, son of Eliza Mitchell, to William Barton
• Mitchell, James 2 entries, 1793–1850
  • May Term 1793: The court grants leave for three mills on New Hope Creek in one term
  • week of September 9, 1850: Orange Superior Court sentences an enslaved man named Ellick to hang
• Mitchell, Jemima 1 entry, 1836
  • May Term 1836: Jemima Mitchell arranges for her son William Barton, a boy of color, to be bound to Aquilla Compton
• Mitchell, John 1 entry, 1793
  • May Term 1793: The court grants leave for three mills on New Hope Creek in one term
• Mitchell, Maria North 1 entry, 1857
  • July 1857: The trustees' executive committee votes Elisha Mitchell's widow his salary and divides his duties
• Mitchell, Mary 1 entry, 1855
  • February Term 1855: The court binds Mary Mitchell, a free girl of color, to Thomas Webb
• Mitchell, O. B. 1 entry, 1915
  • between March 20 and May 6, 1915: Farmers of the Goreville school district organize a Farmers' Betterment Association
• Mitchell, Polly 1 entry, 1850
  • August Term 1850: The court has Chapel Hill children of color brought in and binds Jack Evans to John Turner
• Mitchell, William 1 entry, 1851
  • March Term 1851: The court binds William Mitchell, son of Adaline Mitchell, a free woman of color, to cabinetmaker Henry Evans
• Mize, Carlton 2 entries, 1963
  • about New Year's Day, 1964: Sit-in demonstrators at the Rock Pile are doused with ammonia
  • September 6, 1963: A tobacco truck crashes into Carlton Mize's Rock Pile store
• Mize, Edd 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: A Church of God congregation is organized in West Hillsborough
• Modrich, Paul 1 entry, 2015
  • October 7, 2015: Aziz Sancar wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Moe, Doug 1 entry, 1961
  • 1961: Aycock suspends a basketball player in the betting scandal and makes Dean Smith head coach
• Moeller-Peiffer, Kathleen 1 entry, 1983
  • 1983: Orange County Public Library refers overdue cases to the Dispute Settlement Center
• Moeser, James 16 entries, 2000–2006

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• Moffitt, Bill 1 entry, 1957
  • November 1957: Four families hold the first study meeting toward a new Baptist church in Chapel Hill
• Moffitt, William 2 entries, 1768
  • May 21, 1768: Regulators meeting at George Sally's appoint a committee of eight to petition Governor Tryon
  • October 3, 1768: Tryon pardons the 1768 protesters except thirteen named leaders
• Mogan, William 1 entry, 1855
  • February 15, 1855: The Chapel Hill Baptist Church hangs its first bell
• Mohler, E. L. 1 entry, 1940
  • by May 10, 1940: Soil Conservation Service reports on erosion in the University Lake watershed
• Mohler, Robert L. 12 entries, 1929–1952

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• Moize, Frederick 1 entry, 1835
  • April 25, 1835: A Red Mountain meeting nominates Thomas Ruffin and Frederick Nash for the constitutional convention
• Monk, J. M. 2 entries, 1893–1900
  • June 5, 1893: Orange justices and commissioners elect a new county Board of Education
  • June 2, 1900: Orange Democrats nominate Samuel M. Gattis and the 1900 county ticket

  May be the same person as Monk, James; Monk, James M.

• Monk, James 1 entry, 1897
  • June to July 1897: A new state act restores the Orange County Board of Education under C. P. Burch

  May be the same person as Monk, J. M.; Monk, James M.

• Monk, James M. 2 entries, 1898–1900
  • by September 29, 1898: Orange Democrats name their 1898 county ticket with S. M. Gattis for the House
  • January 1, 1900: Orange County tobacco growers form a county association

  May be the same person as Monk, J. M.; Monk, James

• Monk, Margaret 1 entry, 1945
  • July 1945: Hillsborough girls form a Girl Scout troop
• Monro, James 2 entries, 1770–1777
  • September 30, 1770: Hillsborough's leading men write to Governor Tryon for protection after the riot
  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• Monroe, James 3 entries, 1768–1778
  • 1768: Nathaniel Rochester goes to work for a Hillsborough merchant
  • 1773–1775: Rochester becomes a partner in a Hillsborough store
  • May 1778: Orange magistrates tender the state oath across the county
• Monroe, Kevin 1 entry, 1983
  • by February 24, 1983: Kevin Monroe and James Exum become the first Black students to hold student government's top two posts together
• Montgomery, D. A. 1 entry, 1849
  • early October 1849: Alamance physicians meet at Graham to organize a county medical society

  May be the same person as Montgomery, Daniel A.

• Montgomery, Daniel A. 1 entry, 1850
  • August 1, 1850: Democrats win the Orange and Alamance Senate seat and all four Commons seats

  May be the same person as Montgomery, D. A.

• Montgomery, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1954
  • April 1954: Sophie Livas is installed as Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star chapter in Chapel Hill
• Montgomery, H. Alan 1 entry, 1919
  • 1919 to 1920: The university hires Aberthaw and McKim, Mead and White for its expansion
• Montgomery, H. P. Alan 1 entry, 1921
  • 1921: The trustees' building committee names Durham engineer Thomas C. Atwood its executive agent
• Montgomery, John A. 1 entry, 1986
  • October 12, 1986: UNC gives Jeff MacNelly its Distinguished Alumnus Award
• Montgomery, W. 1 entry, 1832
  • September 15, 1832: Willie P. Mangum declines a public dinner offered by his Orange County supporters
• Montgomery, Wanda 1 entry, 1980
  • March 1980 (ended March 23): The Black Student Movement holds its 1980 Black Arts Festival
• Montgomery, William 18 entries, 1822–1842

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• Montjoy, E. D. 1 entry, 1941
  • October 1941: Chapel Hill grocers report sharp rises in food prices
• Moon, Jacob 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Col. and Mrs. Jacob Moon buy the Ruffin-Hill House
• Moon, Mrs. 1 entry, 1879
  • March 9, 1879: Quaker evangelist Mrs. Moon begins revival meetings at the Chapel Hill Methodist church
• Mooneyhan, Mildred 2 entries, 1943–1947
  • August 9, 1943: W. J. Boger resigns as principal of the Chapel Hill elementary school
  • September 1947: Cora Bomar joins the Chapel Hill elementary school faculty
• Moore 1 entry, 1877
  • early September 1877: Federal revenue officers raid illicit stills across Orange County
• Moore, Aaron McDuffie 1 entry, 1901
  • 1901: Lincoln Hospital opens in Durham for Black patients
• Moore, Adolphus G. 1 entry, 1876
  • May 1876: George W. Swepson's murder trial is moved out of Orange
• Moore, Alfred 16 entries, 1782–1934

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• Moore, Alfred 4 entries, 1833–1837

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  • February 6, 1833: Commissioners open a subscription book for the Bank of North Carolina in Hillsborough
  • July 4, 1834: Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with an oration and a dinner at the Masonic Hall
  • by July 16, 1836: Sculptor Waugh's busts of William Gaston, Joseph Caldwell and Alfred Moore are placed in a university society hall
  • July 25, 1837: Alfred Moore the younger dies and leaves Moorefields to Francis Nash Waddell
• Moore, Ann 1 entry, 1796
  • August 1796: The court has the sheriff bring in Mary and Ann Moore, children of James Moore, reported in want
• Moore, Augusta 1 entry, 1847
  • 1847: The Moorefields estate is divided and the house goes to Augusta Moore
• Moore, Augustus 1 entry, 1822

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• Moore, Bartholomew F. 13 entries, 1846–1915

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• Moore, C. W. 1 entry, 1890
  • September 20, 1890: Black Republicans of Orange form their own county executive committee and back Berry and London A. Whitted
• Moore, Clifton L. 1 entry, 1954
  • September 3, 1954: Superior Court hears its last case in the 1845 Orange County courthouse
• Moore, Dan K. 5 entries, 1927–1968

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• Moore, David 1 entry, 1860
  • 1860: David Moore, a free Black barber in Chapel Hill, holds property worth $4,400
• Moore, Don K. 1 entry, 1957
  • October 28, 1957: Judge Clawson Williams upholds the Orange County racing law against Orange Speedway
• Moore, Empson 4 entries, 1868–1871
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  • October to November 1868: A freedmen's school opens at Cotton Run and closes when its teacher resigns
  • August 1868: Freedpeople at Durham's Station buy land and build a school house
  • August 1869, the morning after the jail raid: Orange sheriff's posse tracks the Hillsborough jail raiders' horses toward Alamance
  • March 8, 1871: Three Black witnesses from Orange testify at Holden's trial on the Morrow hanging and the jail raid
• Moore, George 2 entries, 1841–1857
  • 1841: Drs. Johnston Blakeley Jones and George Moore open a medical practice and teach medicine
  • March 1857: Dr. George Moore dies at Chapel Hill
• Moore, H. W. 7 entries, 1921–1964
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  • 1921: Alexander H. Graham acquires the Hasell-Nash House on West Queen Street
  • about 1943: Dr. H. W. Moore restores the Hasell-Nash House with architect Archie Royal Davis
  • January 2, 1951: Hillsboro's town board ends rent control
  • August 30, 1953: Hillsboro parents organize a Parent Traffic Safety Club after teenage traffic deaths
  • early April 1960: Hillsboro's town board orders fluoride added to the town water
  • February 17, 1961: The Hillsboro Lions Club marks its 25th anniversary
  • December 7, 1964: Hillsborough town board approves the return to the spelling Hillsborough
• Moore, Mrs. H. W. 3 entries, 1942–1963
  • November 22-28, 1942: Orange County women sell $22,775 in War Bonds in Women at War Week
  • October 11, 1963: Mrs. Alfred G. Engstrom is elected president of the Hillsborough Historical Society
  • April 27-28, 1963: Hillsborough opens its historic houses for a spring pilgrimage
• Moore, Hight C. 1 entry, 1906
  • May 2, 1906: Charles E. Maddry marries Emma Parker at Hillsborough Baptist Church
• Moore, J. H. 2 entries, 1911–1912
  • October 1, 1911: The Rev. J. H. Moore baptizes ten converts in the Eno at the town bridge
  • August 13, 1912: The Wake Baptist Association of Black churches convenes at Mount Bright in Hillsboro
• Moore, James 4 entries, 1775–1835
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  • September 1, 1775: Congress at Hillsborough names Francis Nash lieutenant colonel of the 1st North Carolina Regiment
  • August 1796: The court has the sheriff bring in Mary and Ann Moore, children of James Moore, reported in want
  • November Term 1832: The court releases John R. McDaniel from Stanford Haithcock's indenture and binds the boy to James Moore
  • May 29, 1835: James Moore advertises for Stanford Haithcock, his runaway bound boy
• Moore, John 1 entry, 1863
  • by February 18, 1863: Farmers of the Oaks neighborhood pledge to sell food to soldiers' families at fixed prices

  May be the same person as Moore, John A.

• Moore, John A. 1 entry, 1869
  • December 1869–January 1870: Klansmen from Hillsborough ride to kill Senator T. M. Shoffner and turn back

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• Moore, Joseph 2 entries, 1809–1833
  • May Term 1809: The court orders an inquiry into the wardens of the poor's money
  • September 27, 1833: Joseph Moore, a soldier of the Revolution, dies in Orange County
• Moore, Ken 2 entries, 1970–1996
  • 1970: Azalea Hill, designed by William Lanier Hunt, is planted at the Botanical Garden
  • September 11, 1996: UNC suspends afternoon classes for a campuswide Hurricane Fran cleanup
• Moore, London 2 entries, 1868
  • February 1868: Bureau agent James Carle reports five freedmen's day schools and fifty districts without schools in Orange
  • October 1868: New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers
• Moore, M. W. 5 entries, 1890–1900
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  • October 15, 1890: Senator Zebulon Vance speaks to Orange County voters at Hillsborough
  • June 4, 1894: Justices and commissioners hold their last joint meeting
  • November 3, 1896: The Democratic-Populist fusion ticket carries Orange County
  • early January 1898: County commissioners vote to borrow $5,000 to pay off the county's 8 per cent notes
  • January 1, 1900: Orange County tobacco growers form a county association
• Moore, Maria 1 entry, 1888
  • January 20, 1888: Hillsborough's Black Independent Literary Society installs its officers at the A.M.E. church
• Moore, Mary 1 entry, 1796
  • August 1796: The court has the sheriff bring in Mary and Ann Moore, children of James Moore, reported in want
• Moore, Maurice 12 entries, 1753–1775

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• Moore, Maurice 1 entry, 1805

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  • 1805: The General Assembly restores the university's escheats
• Moore, Peyton P. 5 entries, 1838–1849
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  • February 15, 1838: A temperance convention at Green Spring takes aim at treating by candidates
  • March 14, 1848: Hillsborough meeting of both parties backs Zachary Taylor for president
  • November 18, 1848: Hugh Waddell contests John Berry's election to the state Senate
  • June 4, 1849: Alamance County court holds its first session and elects county officers
  • by July 19, 1849: Commissioners sell the first fifty lots in Graham, the new Alamance seat
• Moore, Ralph M. 1 entry, 1928
  • by April 20, 1928: The Moore-Johnson Hardware Company takes over the Chapel Hill Hardware Company
• Moore, Sampson 1 entry, 1816
  • March 1, 1816: The court names commissioners to repair or rebuild the Ben's Creek and New Hope bridges
• Moore, Samuel P. 1 entry, 1861
  • February Term 1861: The court cancels William Stowers's binding to Daniel D. Phillips and binds him to Samuel P. Moore
• Moore, Stephen 15 entries, 1821–1850

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• Moore, Stephen 4 entries, 1839–1849

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  • 1839: Job is sold with 25 other enslaved people to Hillsborough merchant Stephen Moore
  • January 1839: Maria L. Spear heads the Hillsborough Female Seminary
  • 1841: Hugh Waddell buys Job at auction as Stephen Moore's business fails
  • February Term 1849: The court binds three children of Jinney Chaves, a free woman of color, to Stephen Moore
• Moore, Stephen P. 1 entry, 1852
  • February 1852: Orange County seats a Board of Superintendents for its common schools
• Moore, T. C. 1 entry, 1954
  • October 1954: Bayard Wootten sells her Chapel Hill studio and returns to New Bern
• Moore, Tom 1 entry, 1869
  • between 1869 and 1873: Black families make homes on Lot 16 on East Franklin Street
• Moore, Tyra 1 entry, 2000
  • by October 11, 2000: The BSM, the campus NAACP and two Black fraternities run a voter registration drive
• Moore, Valentine 1 entry, 1795
  • August Term 1795: The court issues a habeas corpus for Sarah Rickets's daughter Polly, held by Absalom Roach
• Moore, Verlie 1 entry, 1969
  • February 23 – March 21, 1969: UNC food workers' strike
• Moore, W. S. 1 entry, 1851
  • 1850-51 session: The Assembly confirms the line between Orange and Alamance
• Moore, William 5 entries, 1775–1811
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  • August or September 1775: The Provincial Congress names Orange County's minutemen and militia officers
  • October 15, 1776: Crowds force the Orange County polls to close four times in the election for the fifth Provincial Congress
  • April 22, 1776: The Provincial Congress divides the Orange County militia into Northern and Southern regiments
  • April 1782: William Moore is named commissioner of confiscated Loyalist estates for the Hillsborough District
  • 1811: A student outbreak leaves the university with no graduates
• Moore, William S. 1 entry, 1849
  • May 1849: A jury finds William S. Moore the father of Susan Mason's child after an earlier mistrial
• Moracco, Beth 1 entry, 2023
  • September 8, 2023: UNC's Faculty Council adopts a resolution in memory of Zijie Yan
• Moran, J. Sterling 1 entry, 1915
  • by June 24, 1915: Orange County women form a Sanitation League to back the health survey
• Moran, James P. 1 entry, 1943
  • April 5, 1943: Pre-Flight cadets put out a forest fire near Horace Williams Airport
• Mordecai, Isaac 1 entry, 1804
  • 1804: Suit by William Kirkland and others leads to the sale of Hannah and her children
• Mordecai, Margaret 1 entry, 1892
  • Christmas 1892: A brass altar rail is given to St. Matthew's in memory of Mildred Cameron
• Morehead, J. Lathrop 1 entry, 1909
  • 1909: Cyrus Clifford Frazier and J. Lathrop Morehead open a law practice at Chapel Hill
• Morehead, James T., Jr. 1 entry, 1860
  • October 1 to 2, 1860: The Orange Guards celebrate their fifth anniversary with visiting companies
• Morehead, John Lindsay 5 entries, 1925–1960

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• Morehead, John Motley 9 entries, 1817–1854

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• Morehead, John Motley 4 entries, 1930–1947

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  • by December 12, 1930: Chime and clock are ordered for the Morehead-Patterson tower
  • June 1930: Trustees' committee chooses the site for the Morehead-Patterson bell tower
  • by February 13, 1931: The University lets the contract for the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Tower
  • November 29, 1947: The cornerstone of the Morehead Planetarium and art gallery is laid
• Morehead, John Motley, III 6 entries, 1931–1956

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• Morgan, Daniel 1 entry, 1780
  • September 1780: South Carolina's Governor John Rutledge takes refuge in Hillsborough
• Morgan, Douglas 1 entry, 2008
  • 2008: UNC opens the Center for Latino Health for Spanish-speaking patients
• Morgan, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1794
  • May Term 1794: The court orders a jury inquest into John Morgan's sanity on his wife's motion
• Morgan, Elizabeth Seydel 1 entry, 1998
  • April 4, 1998: Annie Dillard joins the Rubin writers panel at the North Carolina Literary Festival
• Morgan, Esther 1 entry, 1828
  • February 25, 1828: Lucy Morgan, a free woman of color, asks the court to bind her children to William Chamblee
• Morgan, Gabriel 1 entry, 1828
  • February 25, 1828: Lucy Morgan, a free woman of color, asks the court to bind her children to William Chamblee
• Morgan, Hardy 4 entries, 1792–1885
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  • December 5, 1792: Trustees fix the university at Chapel Hill and list its Orange County land donors
  • 1793: The building committee buys Hardy Morgan's 80-acre tract beside the university site
  • August Term 1794: The court orders a road laid off from the east end of Franklin Street in the University village
  • by June 1885: A Memorial Hall tablet names the eleven donors of the university's land
• Morgan, Henry H. 2 entries, 1948–1954
  • first Sunday in May 1948: Mount Adar holds its first service in a new auditorium
  • June 1954: Mount Adar dedicates its completed church
• Morgan, J. L. 1 entry, 1946
  • July 21, 1946: Lutherans organize Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill
• Morgan, John 2 entries, 1794–1805
  • May Term 1794: The court orders a jury inquest into John Morgan's sanity on his wife's motion
  • August Term 1805: The court jails four men for gaming
• Morgan, Lucy 3 entries, 1828–1951
  • February 25, 1828: Lucy Morgan, a free woman of color, asks the court to bind her children to William Chamblee
  • August Term 1851: The court binds Sarah Morgan, a free girl of color of about eighteen, to B. L. Durham
  • April 9, 1951: Commissioners name county members to Chapel Hill's enlarged zoning commission
• Morgan, Lucy S. 2 entries, 1942–1946
  • fall 1942: Lucy Morgan starts the health education program at the School of Public Health
  • 1946: Black and white health education students from North Carolina College and UNC train together
• Morgan, Mark 7 entries, 1747–1885

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• Morgan, Ralph 5 entries, 1957–1964
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  • June 25, 1957: Carrboro commissioners appoint a zoning board of appeals
  • October 11, 1960: Carrboro gives its library a room in the new town hall
  • May 7, 1963: Carrboro re-elects Mayor C. T. Ellington in a record turnout
  • June 9, 1964: Carrboro's town board endorses Community Action, Inc.
  • October 13, 1964: E. O. Hardee resigns from the Carrboro board after twenty years
• Morgan, Samuel 1 entry, 1843
  • between 1843 and 1849: An armed posse captures Tom, a freedom seeker who had hidden for months in the woods east of Chapel Hill
• Morgan, Sarah 2 entries, 1851–1854
  • August Term 1851: The court binds Sarah Morgan, a free girl of color of about eighteen, to B. L. Durham
  • February Term 1854: The court binds William, the four-year-old son of Sarah Morgan, to Bartlett L. Durham
• Morgan, Thomas 1 entry, 1805
  • August Term 1805: The court jails four men for gaming
• Morgan, Mrs. W. G. 1 entry, 1939
  • May 23, 1939: Faculty wives organize the Newcomers' Club and elect Mrs. Harl Douglass president
• Morgan, William 2 entries, 1854–1942
  • February Term 1854: The court binds William, the four-year-old son of Sarah Morgan, to Bartlett L. Durham
  • by June 26, 1942: A draft medical examining board is set up in Chapel Hill
• Moring, Christopher 1 entry, 1817
  • May Term 1817: The court licenses two Chapel Hill stores and a house to retail liquor
• Moring, J. M. 1 entry, 1879
  • October 4, 1879: Becky Lyon is acquitted of the Blackwell murders
• Moring, John 1 entry, 1884
  • September 30, 1884: Candidates for governor Scales and York debate at Hillsborough
• Morisey, Thomas J. 1 entry, 1842
  • February 22-25, 1842: Students celebrate Washington's birthday, and the faculty punishes the drinking
• Morris, Charles Satchell, Jr. 1 entry, 1924
  • February 23, 1924: Charles Satchell Morris Jr. urges a Black audience at Shiloh Baptist Church to stay in the South
• Morris, Chester 3 entries, 1948
  • March 1948: An Orange County Superior Court jury convicts Felmet and the other three Chapel Hill bus defendants
  • March 30, 1948: Governor Cherry orders an SBI inquiry into a thirty-year sentence given a Black fourteen-year-old in Orange County
  • May 10, 1948: Two Black men serve on an Orange County Superior Court civil jury
• Morris, Clark 1 entry, 1948
  • by January 15, 1948: The Daily Tar Heel and a run of new businesses move into Carrboro
• Morris, Edward W. 1 entry, 1866
  • September 1, 1866: R. F. Morris & Son form a partnership to make Durham smoking tobacco at Durham's Station
• Morris, Ellerton P. 1 entry, 1886
  • January 28, 1886: Dickerson's Chapel trustees buy the old courthouse from the Philadelphia Friends
• Morris, John D. 1 entry, 1905
  • June 23, 1905: Hillsboro grants John D. Morris a franchise to build a telephone exchange
• Morris, Joseph Monroe 1 entry, 1898
  • April 1898: University students in the National Guard await orders as war with Spain begins
• Morris, Max 1 entry, 1958
  • March 28-29, 1958: The Hillsboro Exchange Club stages its annual minstrel show for its recreation park
• Morris, Robert F. 5 entries, 1847–1868
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  • January 16, 1847: The Orange Volunteers dine at the Hillsborough House and elect John Cameron captain
  • January 1847: Robert F. Morris buys the Hillsborough House from James Jackson
  • September 1, 1866: R. F. Morris & Son form a partnership to make Durham smoking tobacco at Durham's Station
  • August 5, 1868: Orange County's first elected board of commissioners takes office
  • early October 1868 (by October 7): An injunction charges four elected Orange commissioners with usurping office
• Morrison, Bob 1 entry, 1946
  • May 7, 1946: Judge Whitfield orders a taxi driver and the Tar Heel editor to explain a letter criticizing his court
• Morrison, Cameron 6 entries, 1922–1965

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• Morrison, Cameron 2 entries, 1923–1924

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• Morrison, Fred 1 entry, 1922
  • November 1922: Piney Mountain parents get the commissioners to repair their school truck road
• Morrison, Fred W. 14 entries, 1914–1977

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• Morrison, James E. 1 entry, 1812
  • 1812 to 1816: Robert H. Chapman leads the organizing of a Presbyterian church at Chapel Hill
• Morrison, Joseph L. 1 entry, 1951

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• Morrison, Lelia 1 entry, 1946
  • February 21, 1946: Orange County school principals form the United Principals Association
• Morrison, Pearl P. 1 entry, 1951
  • 1951: James Webb designs a house on Whitehead Circle for Joseph and Pearl Morrison
• Morrison, W. F. 1 entry, 1917
  • by June 7, 1917: Chapel Hill High School graduates twelve with E. C. Branson as speaker
• Morrison, William 1 entry, 1816
  • December 1816: Spring Friends disown James Jackson after he is charged as the father of a child
• Morriss, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1938
  • week of October 31, 1938: Eighty volunteers go out across Orange County to teach adults to read
• Morrissey, F. J. 1 entry, 1939
  • September 10, 1939: Catholic services move into the rebuilt Gerrard Hall

  May be the same person as Morrissey, Francis J.

• Morrissey, Francis J. 2 entries, 1934–1949
  • September 8, 1934: Catholics organize a congregation in Chapel Hill
  • by March 19, 1949: Father Francis J. Morrissey, pastor of Chapel Hill's Catholic church, dies

  May be the same person as Morrissey, F. J.

• Morrow, Anderson 1 entry, 1871
  • March 8, 1871: Three Black witnesses from Orange testify at Holden's trial on the Morrow hanging and the jail raid
• Morrow, Anne May 1 entry, 1950
  • June 1950: Principal E. M. Stanfield reports on the one-room school for Black children at Cedar Grove
• Morrow, Annie 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: A Black committee of the women's Liberty Loan organization raises $1,350 in Hillsborough Township
• Morrow, D. E. 1 entry, 1890
  • June 2, 1890: County justices choose D. E. Morrow for the board of commissioners
• Morrow, D. F. 8 entries, 1877–1885
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  • August 1877: The county commissioners cut Orange County's tax rate
  • December 6, 1880: Newly elected county commissioners take office and re-elect Jones Watson chairman
  • 1883–1888: Nelson P. Hall chairs the Orange County Board of Commissioners
  • June 2, 1884: Orange County magistrates enlarge the board of commissioners from three to five
  • November 4, 1884: Orange County votes for Cleveland and Scales and re-elects Sheriff Hughes over the Democratic nominee
  • August 23, 1884: Orange County Democrats nominate their legislative and county ticket
  • September 7, 1885: County commissioners levy a tax to fence in the stock-law townships
  • November 19, 1885: Commissioners order the stock-law fence built around Chapel Hill Township
• Morrow, Dan 1 entry, 1980
  • by April 1980: Gay students challenge UNC Housing's roommate listing rules
• Morrow, Daniel 4 entries, 1869–2023

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• Morrow, E. G. 1 entry, 1862
  • May 27, 1862: Company G of the 28th Regiment loses its captain and much of its strength near Hanover Court House
• Morrow, E. Graham 2 entries, 1863
  • between July 3 and August 12, 1863: Capt. E. Graham Morrow of Orange dies of a wound received at Gettysburg
  • July 1 to 3, 1863: Chapel Hill counts its dead and wounded from Gettysburg
• Morrow, F. A. 1 entry, 1893
  • April 1893: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance condemns legislators who voted to repeal the State Alliance charter
• Morrow, Frank 1 entry, 1958
  • January 6, 1958: County commissioners adopt a new electrical ordinance
• Morrow, George B. 1 entry, 1837
  • January 1837 to January 1844: Orange County citizens gather at Mount Willing each January to celebrate Jackson's New Orleans victory
• Morrow, George W. 1 entry, 1829
  • 1829: Bethlehem School on Cane Creek offers college preparation under George W. Morrow
• Morrow, J. 1 entry, 1867
  • late 1860s to early 1870s: J. Morrow and Sons grind flour and corn at Oaks
• Morrow, J. C. 1 entry, 1969
  • August 1969: Fiber Industries withdraws its New Hope Creek rezoning request; commissioners chairman Carl Smith blames opponents
• Morrow, J. S. 1 entry, 1893
  • April 1893: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance condemns legislators who voted to repeal the State Alliance charter

  May be the same person as Morrow, John S.

• Morrow, Jeff 1 entry, 1869
  • summer 1869: Three barns burn on one night after a Black tenant family is evicted in southwestern Orange
• Morrow, Jefferson 4 entries, 1869–2023

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• Morrow, Jesse 1 entry, 1947
  • 1947: Bethsada Baptist Church builds a 500-seat church
• Morrow, Jesse W. 1 entry, 1869
  • summer 1869: Three barns burn on one night after a Black tenant family is evicted in southwestern Orange
• Morrow, John S. 1 entry, 1888
  • February 25, 1888: Oaks citizens back a projected Durham-to-Charlotte railroad and name delegates

  May be the same person as Morrow, J. S.

• Morrow, Lacy 1 entry, 1947
  • August 18, 1947: Lacy Morrow is sworn in on the grand jury, by the News's account the first Black juror in the county
• Morrow, Lee 1 entry, 1935
  • January 30, 1935: Chapel Hill's President's Birthday party raises more than $100 for infantile paralysis work
• Morrow, Lieutenant 1 entry, 1861
  • September 10, 1861: Professor Martin's volunteer company leaves Chapel Hill for camp at High Point
• Morrow, Lucinda 1 entry, 1871
  • March 7, 1871: Lucinda Morrow of Hillsborough testifies at Governor Holden's impeachment trial
• Morrow, Rachel 1 entry, 1861
  • August 2, 1861: Women of southwest Orange form a Soldiers' Relief Society
• Morrow, Robert 1 entry, 1808
  • November Term 1808: The court makes Henry Berry pay for the keep of Robert Alves Pinkerton
• Morrow, Shurman 1 entry, 1906
  • about 1906: Gains Chapel AME Church is organized at Efland
• Morrow, T. A. 1 entry, 1949
  • by June 30, 1949: Hillsboro's Odd Fellows offer a lot for the Black public library
• Morrow, Thomas Jefferson 4 entries, 1869–2023

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• Morrow, W. Jesse 1 entry, 1892
  • May 7, 1892: Orange Democrats hold county convention and bar two People's Party delegates
• Morrow, Washington 3 entries, 1869–2023

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• Morton, David V. 1 entry, 1982
  • February 1982: A Mount Adar member begins the Baptist association's chaplaincy at the Orange County prison unit
• Morton, Hugh 2 entries, 1997–2004
  • July 1997: Charles Kuralt is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
  • November 5, 2004: A Charlie Justice monument is dedicated at UNC's Kenan Football Center
• Moseley, R. E. 1 entry, 1919
  • June 1919: The university's School of Education publishes a study of the Orange County public schools
• Moseley, William Dunn 2 entries, 1800–1818

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• Moser, T. G. 1 entry, 1919
  • by November 27, 1919: State inspectors give the Carrboro mill village a top sanitary rating
• Moses 1 entry, 1794
  • July 1794: A called court discharges Moses, a man enslaved by William Mangom, when no one proves the charge
• Moses 1 entry, 1798
  • August 31, 1798: The court binds Moses, a free Black boy, to potter John Bullock
• Moses, Bernadine 2 entries, 1976–1977
  • summer 1976: Afro-American Studies teaches its first course on the history of the Black press
  • by February 1977: Afro-American Studies wins a Rockefeller grant for a Black press institute
• Moses, Susan Williams 1 entry, 1908
  • June 25, 1908: Edward Kidder Graham marries Susan Williams Moses at the Chapel of the Cross
• Mosher, E. R. 5 entries, 1924–1927
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  • by June 13, 1924: Isaac W. Pritchard and six others give land for a Chapel Hill park and playground
  • September 13, 1926: The Chapel Hill school opens under its cooperative plan with the University's school of education
  • September 12, 1927: The Chapel Hill school opens as a training school of the University's school of education
  • September 21, 1927: Chapel Hill parents and the school board settle the dispute over double sessions
  • late October 1927: E. R. Mosher resigns as superintendent of the Chapel Hill school
• Mosher, Mrs. E. R. 2 entries, 1932
  • May 23, 1932: The Carrboro Night School closes its third term
  • March 1, 1932: The state League of Women Voters meets in Chapel Hill and backs a test case on women jurors
• Moss, William Dygnum 10 entries, 1904–1932

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• Moton, Robert Russa 1 entry, 1921
  • March 1921: Tuskegee principal Robert Russa Moton speaks in Gerrard Hall
• Motz, Charles 1 entry, 1880
  • about April 5, 1880: Railroad overseer Charles Motz is bound over in a convict's whipping death

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• Motz, Charles H. 1 entry, 1880
  • 1880-1882: State convicts build the University Railroad

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• Moulton, George C. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 6, 1948: George Moulton leaves the Wootten-Moulton photography partnership
• Moulton, Mrs. J. F. 1 entry, 1950
  • March 18, 1950: About sixty Hillsboro girls sign up for a new Girl Scout troop
• Moyer, James A. 1 entry, 1927
  • April 25-27, 1927: National University Extension Association meets in Chapel Hill
• Muhammad, Khalid Abdul 1 entry, 1992
  • September 18, 1992: Spike Lee speaks to more than 7,000 at a Black Cultural Center rally in the Smith Center
• Muirhead, Alastair L. 1 entry, 1951
  • April 9, 1951: Commissioners name county members to Chapel Hill's enlarged zoning commission
• Muirhead, William 7 entries, 1942–1953

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• Mulkern, Michael 1 entry, 1957
  • June 17-30, 1957: A Catholic motor chapel holds a two-week mission in Hillsboro
• Mull, Odus M. 1 entry, 1938
  • by December 9, 1938: A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill
• Mulliken, Elise 1 entry, 1929
  • by May 14, 1929: Kiwanis Club and Red Cross complete a dental clinic for Chapel Hill schoolchildren
• Mulliken, Elsie 1 entry, 1928
  • late July 1928: Chapel Hill charities agree to keep the nurse serving the Black community
• Munch, H. F. 5 entries, 1927–1934
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  • September 12, 1927: The Chapel Hill school opens as a training school of the University's school of education
  • late October 1927: E. R. Mosher resigns as superintendent of the Chapel Hill school
  • by September 1, 1933: Chapel Hill's school board sets an 18.5-cent tax for the October 12 vote and names H. F. Munch acting superintendent
  • by September 8, 1933: Harold M. Holmes becomes principal of the Orange County Training School
  • by July 13, 1934: George Howard becomes principal of the Chapel Hill school
• Munch, H. L. 1 entry, 1926
  • September 13, 1926: The Chapel Hill school opens under its cooperative plan with the University's school of education
• Mundy, Frank 1 entry, 1951
  • April 1951: Fonty Flock wins the spring race at Occoneechee
• Munger, Lucinda 5 entries, 2009–2022

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• Munn, G. A. 6 entries, 1944–1947
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  • November 1944: The Orange County Council of Churches hires a Bible teacher for four county schools
  • February 17, 1944: Eagle Lodge No. 19 gives the Hillsborough Boy Scouts a permanent meeting room
  • July 19, 1945: The community cannery at Hillsboro High School opens for the season
  • October 22, 1946: The first Kiwanis Junior Dairy Calf Show is held at White Cross
  • by April 18, 1946: Orange County churches pay for Bible teaching in four county schools
  • by July 1947: A community cannery is set up at Aycock School
• Murchison, W. S. 2 entries, 1946–1948
  • July 24, 1946: Raleigh buyers purchase the Occoneechee Farm tract at auction
  • January 27, 1948: Hillsboro Speedway, Inc. buys the Occoneechee Farm racetrack tract
• Murdock, A. 1 entry, 1851
  • February 22, 1851: Hillsborough hires two paid patrollers and widens the patrol's powers
• Murdock, A. C. 11 entries, 1850–1876

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• Murdock, Andrew 3 entries, 1790–1868
  • 1790: The county tax list counts 36 white polls and 82 taxable enslaved people in Hillsborough town
  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • June 21 to July 13, 1868: The Hillsborough Bureau office sends freedpeople's assault complaints to the magistrates, one against Pride Jones
• Murdock, Henry 2 entries, 1907–1911
  • March 9, 1907: Commissioners call a $40,000 road bond election in Hillsborough Township
  • May 2, 1911: Hillsboro elects Charles A. Whitaker mayor
• Murdock, James W. 1 entry, 1888
  • May 18, 1888: Orange Academy closes its session with prize speaking and an address by Professor Henry
• Murdock, Mamie 1 entry, 1906
  • by March 22, 1906: The Morris telephone exchange opens in Hillsboro
• Murdock, Margaret 1 entry, 1840
  • December 26, 1840: James A. Craig and Joseph Holt offer an enslaved girl from Margaret Murdock's estate for sale at Hillsborough
• Murdock, R. T. 1 entry, 1918
  • August 1918: Palmer Grove Methodist Church is organized
• Murdock, W. H. 2 entries, 1906–1947
  • by March 22, 1906: The Morris telephone exchange opens in Hillsboro
  • August 18, 1947: Superior court continues the Journey of Reconciliation bus seating case

  May be the same person as Murdock, William H.

• Murdock, William 1 entry, 1957
  • December 9, 1957: Commissioners name Roy Cole assistant solicitor for Orange County Superior Court
• Murdock, William B. 1 entry, 1952
  • March 21, 1952: A Superior Court jury acquits the man tried for the murder of Rachel Crook
• Murdock, William H. 1 entry, 1960
  • December 1960: The grand jury declines to indict the prison guard who shot Walter Kincaid

  May be the same person as Murdock, W. H.

• Murfree, J. M. 13 entries, 1949–1964
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  • July 1, 1949: Hillsboro's high school for Black students opens a vocational agriculture department
  • January 30, 1950: Jordan Grove farm families organize a neighborhood farm and home improvement program
  • October 16-20, 1951: Orange County's Black 4-H council wins first place with its State Fair exhibit
  • April 17-18, 1953: Central High hosts a Kellogg Project leadership conference for Black educators of three counties
  • March 12, 1954: Central High's New Farmers chapter wins the Cotton Merrick Federation livestock judging contest
  • April 1954: Planting begins on the old courthouse grounds with the county's Rural Progress prize money
  • February 8, 1954: Orange is named North Carolina's County of the Year in Rural Progress among Black farm families
  • February 25, 1954: County of the Year prizes are presented to Orange farm leaders at the courthouse
  • November 22, 1954: Orange farm families close the 1954 Rural Progress program at Hillsboro
  • June 10-11, 1955: Carr and Jordan Grove families open their farms and homes for improvement tours
  • January 14, 1957: Central School's new activity bus arrives after a community fund drive
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting
  • for the 1964-65 school year (named by August 20, 1964): J. M. Murfree becomes principal of Central High School
• Murphey, Alsey 4 entries, 1795–1802
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  • November 26, 1795: William Nash gives a bastardy bond for Alsey Murphey's child
  • August Term 1798: The court orders Samuel Benton, as reputed father, to support Alsey Murphey's child
  • 27 June 1799: Samuel Benton deeds Hillsborough lot 86 to Alice Murphey
  • August 1802 (court term): The court orders William Nash to pay Alsey Murphey the whole support award at once
• Murphey, Archibald D. 22 entries, 1789–1903

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• Murphey, Martin 1 entry, 1821
  • January 24, 1821: Martin Murphey and Levi Whitted dissolve their partnership
• Murphey, V. M. 1 entry, 1832
  • September 15, 1832: Willie P. Mangum declines a public dinner offered by his Orange County supporters

  May be the same person as Murphey, Victor M.

• Murphey, Victor M. 1 entry, 1823
  • July 4, 1823: Citizens near Murphey's mills hold a Fourth of July muster, oration and dinner

  May be the same person as Murphey, V. M.

• Murphy, C. A. 1 entry, 1941
  • October 10, 1941: Chapel Hill opens a Soldiers' Center in the Graham Memorial for troops on the Carolina maneuvers
• Murphy, Charles 1 entry, 1939
  • July 9, 1939: The Burch family holds a reunion at the Cedar Grove Methodist church
• Murphy, Francis 1 entry, 1958
  • October 23, 1958: Chapel Hill marks United Nations Day by planting a tree at the elementary school
• Murphy, George 1 entry, 1942
  • November 13, 1942: Kate Smith broadcasts her network radio hour twice from Memorial Hall

  May be the same person as Murphy, George H.

• Murphy, George H. 1 entry, 1924
  • November 24, 1924: George H. Murphy, U.S. consul general at Zurich, is buried at St. Matthew's in Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Murphy, George

• Murphy, H. J. 1 entry, 1890
  • March 19, 1890: Cedar Grove residents vote to build a school building to be called Cedar Grove Academy
• Murphy, J. D. 1 entry, 1879
  • by May 31, 1879: The university YMCA fits up a reading room and asks the public to help furnish it
• Murphy, Joseph W. 15 entries, 1880–1900

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• Murphy, Mark 1 entry, 1981
  • October 1981: Stephen's...after all opens as a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza
• Murphy, R. J. 2 entries, 1957–1963
  • by July 17, 1957: A virus flu epidemic strikes the Hillsboro area
  • October 12, 1963: The new Historic Hillsborough Commission holds its first meeting at the courthouse

  May be the same person as Murphy, Robert J.

• Murphy, Robert Hulin, Sr. 1 entry, 1950
  • July 17, 1950: Dr. Robert Hulin Murphy, dentist of the Carr community, dies
• Murphy, Robert J. 4 entries, 1954–1961
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  • June 1954: Dr. Robert Murphy and his wife move into the Peter Taylor house on King Street
  • early April 1960: Hillsboro's town board orders fluoride added to the town water
  • late January 1960: An influenza outbreak sweeps the Hillsboro area and its schools
  • May 2, 1961: Hillsboro voters elect teacher Fred Claytor mayor over 13-term Mayor Ben Johnston

  May be the same person as Murphy, R. J.

• Murphy, Samuel W. 1 entry, 1900
  • 1900: St. Matthew's receives a brass alms basin in memory of Rev. Joseph W. Murphy
• Murphy, W. E. 1 entry, 1895
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships
• Murphy, Walter 5 entries, 1917–1935
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  • March 5, 1917: The legislature passes a $3 million bond issue that funds university buildings
  • June 11-14, 1922: The University holds its 127th commencement and confers 192 degrees
  • February 1925: The state House defeats the Poole antievolution resolution
  • October 12, 1932: University Day exercises honor Presidents Winston and Alderman and dedicate memorial tablets
  • June 11, 1935: UNC trustees vote to move the engineering school from Chapel Hill to State College
• Murray, Ellen Ann 1 entry, 1863
  • summer 1863: A Sabbath school starts at the Orange Factory
• Murray, Pauli 12 entries, 1844–1988

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• Murray, Robert E. 1 entry, 1955
  • April 1955: Caldwell neighbors finish their community house
• Murray, Thomas 3 entries, 1952–1953
  • by September 18, 1952: A labor board examiner finds Carrboro Mills fired three workers for union activity
  • late January 1953: Labor board finds Carrboro Mills guilty of unfair labor practices
  • February 1953: The Textile Workers Union files a new unfair-labor charge against Carrboro Mills
• Murray, Tom 1 entry, 1956
  • October 8, 1956: Carrboro Mills raises wages about ten cents an hour
• Murray, W. H. 1 entry, 1957
  • by August 1, 1957: Morris Telephone Company spends about $75,000 enlarging its Hillsboro system
• Murray, W. R. 1 entry, 1953
  • August 1953: Morris Telephone Company asks the Utilities Commission for a general rate increase
• Murray, W. T. 1 entry, 1955
  • August 1955: The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown
• Murray, Walter 5 entries, 1952–1962
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  • August 12, 1952: Hillsboro merchants vote a second protest against the Morris Telephone Company's repair service
  • February 5, 1957: Hillsborough grants Morris Telephone a 30-year franchise under protest
  • January 1958: Morris Telephone wins approval to sell stock and readies a Prospect Hill exchange
  • June 1958: The Utilities Commission grants Morris Telephone a rate increase for Hillsboro
  • by November 15, 1962: Western Power and Gas Company takes control of the Morris Telephone Company
• Murray, William 2 entries, 1776–1844
  • summer 1776: Orange County militia join Griffith Rutherford's campaign against the Cherokee
  • by April 4, 1844: Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry
• Murrin, Valentine 1 entry, 1780
  • early December 1780: Civil authorities hold four Maryland soldiers for robbing a house south of Hillsborough
• Muscio, Inga 2 entries, 2005
  • March 9, 2005: The GLBT-SA's drag show Body Language closes Celebration Week in a sold-out Great Hall
  • March 8, 2005: Author Inga Muscio speaks at Bull's Head Bookshop during Celebration Week
• Muse, William P. 1 entry, 1838
  • August 6, 1838: Navy captain Jesse D. Elliott gives Greek and Egyptian antiquities to the university
• Myers, Charles F., Jr. 2 entries, 1964–1970
  • October 13, 1964: Burlington Industries gives $650,000 toward Memorial Hospital's expansion
  • February 8, 1970: The J. Spencer Love Clinics open in Memorial Hospital's new outpatient building
• Myers, W. R. 1 entry, 1874
  • July 9, 1874: North Carolina Railroad stockholders meet at Hillsborough and accept the charter amendment
• Myers, William Starr 1 entry, 1897
  • June 2, 1897: The Glee Club first sings the song that became Hark the Sound
• Myrick, Thomas 1 entry, 1898
  • November 6, 1898: Manly McCauley's body is found hanging from a tree three miles west of Chapel Hill