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• Umstead, Frank 4 entries, 1954–1961
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  • October 2, 1954: Orange District Boy Scouts hold a 'Gold Rush' field day at the old iron mines
  • March 7, 1955: More than 115 people crowd the final hearing on Chapel Hill's suburban zoning ordinance
  • August 1, 1955: County commissioners fill the Greater Chapel Hill zoning boards
  • June 27, 1961: Chapel Hill's district planning board resigns en masse
• Umstead, Frank G. 2 entries, 1953–1957
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
  • August 1957: John W. Umstead and his family offer land for a Chapel Hill recreation center
• Umstead, Frank O. 1 entry, 1959
  • early June 1959: City planners form the North Carolina Planning Association at the Institute of Government
• Umstead, J. W. 1 entry, 1944
  • October 21, 1944: The Caldwell Educational Association votes to build a school and community gymnasium
• Umstead, J. W., Jr. 1 entry, 1944
  • November 7, 1944: Orange County votes Democratic in the 1944 general election
• Umstead, John 8 entries, 1795–1962
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  • May 27, 1795: John Estes is appointed register of Orange County
  • February Term 1798: The court pays for the register's books and has John Estes's indexing valued
  • 1813: Hillsborough men organize a company to build a cotton and woolen factory
  • February 25, 1930: Rotary and Kiwanis clubs launch a buy-at-home campaign as Chapel Hill stores fail
  • 1933: State senator John Umstead buys the Royster house on East Franklin Street
  • January 1945: Chapel Hill teachers protest the legislature's plan to fix their salaries
  • July 15, 1962: Exchange Pools opens its new swimming pool off Umstead Drive
  • May 12, 1962: Orange County Democrats hold their convention and begin Distinguished Democrat citations
• Umstead, John W. 33 entries, 1939–1960
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  • by March 3, 1939: The legislature lets Chapel Hill reduce the West Franklin Street paving assessments
  • December 28, 1939: University trustees put off admitting local women to the freshman and sophomore classes
  • May 4-9, 1942: Chapel Hill canvassers seek war bond pledges house to house
  • by April 24, 1942: Orange County's officers face no opposition in the Democratic primary
  • by January 29, 1943: John W. Umstead, Jr., buys the 1,000-acre Thompson place near Orange Grove
  • 1946 (results reported December 19, 1946): Farmers in the Bank of Chapel Hill corn contest average 76.6 bushels an acre
  • May 25, 1946: Sheriff S. T. Latta defeats R. R. Thomas in the Democratic primary
  • November 5, 1946: Orange County Democrats sweep the 1946 general election
  • November 2, 1948: Orange County casts its largest presidential vote and returns the Democratic ticket
  • January 3, 1949: County commissioners ask the legislators for a lien on welfare recipients' property
  • February 4, 1950: Senator Frank Graham addresses Piedmont Electric's annual meeting at Hillsboro
  • January 14, 1952: Rural residents fight the proposed Chapel Hill perimeter zoning ordinance at a hearing
  • April 7, 1952: Rural residents again oppose Chapel Hill's proposed zoning of the four-mile area around the town
  • October 13, 1952: William B. Umstead opens the Orange County Democrats' fall campaign at Schley Grange
  • February 18, 1952: Teachers and parents organize a county unit of the United Forces for Education
  • April 1953: The legislature drops Collier Cobb Jr. from the university trustees
  • by March 19, 1953: The legislature enlarges Carrboro's town board to six and ends jury trials in its mayor's court
  • by March 26, 1953: The legislature enlarges the Orange County Board of Commissioners from three members to five
  • April 4, 1955: Carrboro's town board asks to be left out of the proposed Chapel Hill recreation district
  • April 14, 1955: County commissioners seek authority to run water and sewer lines to a prospective electronics plant
  • by April 4, 1955: The legislature lets Carrboro run water and sewer lines beyond the town limits
  • May 9, 1955: Rep. Umstead introduces a bill to let the Chapel Hill school district vote its own school building bonds
  • May 1955: Rep. John W. Umstead tells the Chapel Hill Rotary Club the race issue ran through the whole legislative session
  • November 6, 1956: Orange County gives Adlai Stevenson a narrow margin as Eisenhower carries nine precincts
  • August 28, 1956: Rep. John W. Umstead urges the Hillsboro Lions Club to back the Pearsall Plan
  • by September 20, 1956: Rep. John W. Umstead proposes a biracial advisory committee for every school unit
  • April 1, 1957: County commissioners drop their requests for township limits on county boards
  • April 29, 1957: County commissioners reverse themselves and back limited Sunday racing
  • May 8, 1957: The General Assembly bans Sunday racing in Orange County
  • August 1957: John W. Umstead and his family offer land for a Chapel Hill recreation center
  • March 2, 1959: The county school board asks the legislature to enlarge it from three members to five
  • April 15, 1960: John W. Umstead draws no opposition for an eleventh House term
  • November 8, 1960: Orange County voters back Kennedy and the Democratic ticket in a heavy turnout
• Umstead, John W., Jr. 42 entries, 1930–1963

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• Umstead, R. P. 1 entry, 1933
  • by January 27, 1933: The Chapel Hill Scout district reports a Carrboro troop house and plans a troop for Black boys
• Umstead, S. D. 1 entry, 1866
  • October 18, 1866: Orange elects John Berry to the state Senate and S. D. Umstead and W. W. Guess to the Commons
• Umstead, William B. 16 entries, 1935–1954

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• Umsted, Jethro D. 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Umsted, Squire D. 1 entry, 1863
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
• Underhill, Emily 1 entry, 1816
  • August Term 1816: The court takes Emily Underhill from her master pending a hearing and gives her to her guardian
• Underwood, Benjamin 1 entry, 1807
  • February 26, 1807: The court writes reading, writing and schooling into three apprentice bindings
• Underwood, Jean 1 entry, 1792
  • February Term 1792: The court grants Mary Underwood's petition to bind out her two children
• Underwood, Joseph 1 entry, 1792
  • February Term 1792: The court grants Mary Underwood's petition to bind out her two children
• Underwood, Mary 1 entry, 1792
  • February Term 1792: The court grants Mary Underwood's petition to bind out her two children
• Upchurch, Bedie 1 entry, 1909
  • 1909: Estelle Ray builds a two-story house on Oak Avenue and takes in boarders
• Upjohn, Hobart 1 entry, 1927
  • by January 28, 1927: Hobart Upjohn's design for Chapel Hill's Episcopal church wins a diploma at Turin

  May be the same person as Upjohn, Hobart B.

• Upjohn, Hobart B. 2 entries, 1921
  • 1921: Under rector Alfred Lawrence, the Chapel of the Cross asks Hobart Upjohn to design a new church
  • May 1921: The diocesan convention votes to enlarge the Chapel of the Cross

  May be the same person as Upjohn, Hobart

• Utley, Benton 5 entries, 1832–1880
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  • 1832: Benton Utley buys the Hogg house and opens a dry goods store
  • November 18, 1833: Benton Utley sells off his Chapel Hill stock and offers his store and house for sale
  • May Term 1848: The court binds James and Prince Shaw, sons of Cassander Shaw, a free woman of color, to Benton Utley
  • May Term 1850: The court has Keziah Huckabee, a free girl of color, arrested and bound out at seventeen
  • August 29, 1880: Benton Utley, who kept hotel for Nancy Hilliard, dies near Chapel Hill
• Utley, Foster 7 entries, 1859–1894
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  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
  • April 3 to 9, 1874: Walter Steele and Paul Cameron inspect the derelict campus and Solomon Pool refuses to surrender the keys
  • late March 1875: A storm unroofs the university's New East building
  • August 6, 1878: Methodist trustees buy a Franklin Street lot from Thomas A. and Zoa A. Long
  • September 19, 1885: Chapel Hill Methodists vote to build a second church
  • March 8, 1889: Methodist trustees sell the old Rosemary Street church to the American Missionary Association
  • by June 16, 1894: Foster Utley, the university's superintendent of repairs, dies at Chapel Hill
• Utley, Lewis 1 entry, 1895
  • 1895: The University's first electric plant brings electricity to the campus and village
• Utley, Louis 1 entry, 1894
  • by June 16, 1894: Foster Utley, the university's superintendent of repairs, dies at Chapel Hill
• Utley, Mrs. Marvin 2 entries, 1928–1934
  • November 11, 1928: Daughters of the Confederacy give Crosses of Military Service to two Chapel Hill veterans
  • October 9 to 11, 1934: The United Daughters of the Confederacy hold their state convention in Chapel Hill
• Utley, Marvin 3 entries, 1930–1934
  • November 12, 1930: Aldermen set up a citizens' committee and job bureau for the unemployed
  • by February 26, 1932: Chapel Hill and Carrboro men reorganize Boy Scout work under a district committee
  • by March 30, 1934: Marvin Utley is appointed to the Orange County board of elections

  May be the same person as Utley, Marvin B.

• Utley, Marvin B. 1 entry, 1936
  • by April 3, 1936: The state board names the Orange County board of elections

  May be the same person as Utley, Marvin

• Utley, Merrill 1 entry, 1852
  • May Term 1852: The court binds Currie Chavers, a youth of color, to carriage maker Merrill Utley
• Uzzel, Louisa 1 entry, 1917
  • By September 1917: Walter W. Pickard sells the Pickard Hotel to William and Louisa Uzzel
• Uzzel, William 1 entry, 1917
  • By September 1917: Walter W. Pickard sells the Pickard Hotel to William and Louisa Uzzel
• Uzzell, Colonel 1 entry, 1928
  • January 7, 1928: Fire destroys the Pickard Hotel on Franklin Street