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• Eric A. Abernethy

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Early twentieth century

  Eric A. Abernethy, an alumnus, served as the University of North Carolina's physician from 1919 to 1933. In 1945 the campus infirmary building completed in 1907 was… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life, Wars & Military Service

• Milton Abernethy

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century

  Milton "Ab" Abernethy and his wife Minna published the journal Contempo and ran the Intimate Bookshop on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, until allegations that they were… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Yusor Abu-Salha

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Newcomers & Changing Communities Recent decades

  Yusor Abu-Salha had been admitted to UNC's School of Dentistry for the fall of 2015. She had married Deah Barakat, a dental student, about six weeks before her death. On… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Newcomers & Changing Communities, UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• William Hayes Ackland

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  William Hayes Ackland (1855–1940), a Nashville native, left his fortune to found an art museum at a southern university. Duke refused the bequest, and after nine years… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Arts, Music & Performance, Buildings & Preservation

• Charlotte Adams

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Civil rights era

  Charlotte Adams was a founder and former president of the Chapel Hill branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She organized literacy classes… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Community & Civic Organizations, Politics & Government

• Susan Grey Akers

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Susan Grey Akers came to UNC's new School of Library Science in 1931, became acting director and the university's first woman full professor in 1932, director in 1935… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Women's Lives & History

• Albert

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  Albert, an enslaved bricklayer and plasterer, was sent to Chapel Hill in May 1846 to help his brother Osborne plaster the halls in the lengthened Old East and Old West… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Edwin Anderson Alderman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Edwin A. Alderman, an 1882 graduate, returned to teach at UNC in 1893 and was its president from 1896 to 1900, when the trustees opened postgraduate courses to women and… Source ↗

  6 indexed works · 19 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Eben Alexander

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Eben Alexander moved to Chapel Hill in 1886 as the University of North Carolina's professor of Greek. President Cleveland made him minister to Greece, Romania and Serbia… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Will W. Alexander

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Will W. Alexander gave the University’s Weil Lectures in 1929 and, after retiring, lived in the country near Chapel Hill. In December 1949 he was to address the Chapel… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Community & Civic Organizations

• Hilda C. Allen

  Connected to an institution · Efland · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Hilda C. Allen was superintendent of the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls near Efland from 1935 to May 1937. She asked the state for a mental health… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History, Law, Courts & Justice

• J. Stuart Allen

  In a named event · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  J. Stuart Allen, a McGill graduate and twice-wounded captain of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, came to Chapel Hill in 1917 at President Edward Kidder… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, UNC & Campus Life, Carolina Sports

• Joseph Allison

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  Gen. Joseph Allison was elected many times to represent Orange County in the legislature and served eight years as clerk of the county court before poor health led him… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 21 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Walter Alves

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Walter Alves of Orange County was a trustee of the University of North Carolina from 1795 to 1813 and treasurer of its board from 1795 to 1799. Born in Scotland, he… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 10 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Hank Anderson

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Henry "Hank" Anderson III directed the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department from 1969 to 1977, served on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen from 1993 to 1998, twice… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations

• Walker Anderson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Walker Anderson (1801–1857) was born in Petersburg, Virginia, a nephew of Judge Duncan Cameron, and graduated from the University of North Carolina with highest honors… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation

• Charles M. Andrews

  Wider story · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Charles M. Andrews, a Chapel Hill native, ran the West End Drug Store on Nash Street in West Hillsboro from about 1908; its soda fountain served the mill village. In… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Community & Civic Organizations, Churches & Faith

• Roberta C. Andrews

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Calvander · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Roberta C. Andrews (1900–1991), known as Robin, built a Modernist house designed by the Swiss architect Franc Sidler with her husband Troy on his family's farm near… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Farms & Rural Life

• Samuel Weldon Andrews

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  S. W. Andrews, known across Orange County as "Sheriff Andrews," served six years as the county's sheriff and twelve as its register of deeds, and was known for his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 39 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Troy Monroe Andrews

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Calvander · Farms & Rural Life

  Troy Monroe Andrews (1893–1982) was a research chemist from a farm family near Calvander, about seven miles northwest of Chapel Hill, who earned three degrees at UNC… Source ↗

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Buildings & Preservation, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Wilton V. Andrews

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  Wilton V. Andrews taught school in Orange and Alamance counties for more than half his life and served for many years as chairman of the Orange County board of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Farms & Rural Life

• Herbert Aptheker

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Herbert Aptheker, a radical historian, was one of the two banned speakers UNC student leaders invited to Chapel Hill in March 1966. He addressed students beside the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 15 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• John Armstrong (active 1764)

  Wider story · Orange County · Work, Labor & Industry Revolution and early republic

  John Armstrong of Orange County made a contract in 1764 with Henry McCulloh of Halifax County about the operation of a mill on the Haw River. The small collection of his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Colonial Orange County, Business, Shops & Commerce

• John Ashe

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Alamance County (neighboring) · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  John Ashe, a New Hanover County assemblyman, was a major general in the force Governor Tryon gathered at Hillsborough in September 1768 to guard the superior court from… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Samuel Ashe

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Revolution and early republic

  Ashe was one of the trustees who met in December 1792 and ratified the commissioners' unanimous choice of New Hope Chapel Hill, in Orange County, as the seat of the… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County

• Lester Asheim

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Civil rights era

  Lester Eugene Asheim (1914–1997) was William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1984, after serving as dean of the University… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life

• Daphne Athas

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Literature & Publishing Civil rights era

  Daphne Athas taught creative writing at UNC from 1968 until 2009 and is best known for her 1971 novel Entering Ephesus, set in Carrboro and Chapel Hill during World War… Source ↗

  6 indexed works · 5 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing

• Smith D. Atkins

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Wars & Military Service Antebellum and Civil War

  Smith D. Atkins commanded the Union troops that occupied Chapel Hill in the last days of the Civil War. He courted Eleanor Swain, daughter of university president David… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, UNC & Campus Life

• Matthew Atwater

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Matthew Atwater represented Orange County in the state House of Representatives, where he and Joseph W. Latta were among the members who voted to give the University… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life

• Thomas C. Atwood

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Buildings & Preservation Early twentieth century

  Thomas C. Atwood (1874–1943), a Massachusetts engineer known for the Yale Bowl, took charge of the University of North Carolina's building campaign in Chapel Hill in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life

• Waightstill Avery

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Avery was a delegate to the provincial congress that met at Hillsborough in 1775 and to the congress at Halifax in 1776, where he served on the committee that drew up… Source ↗

  10 indexed works · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Charles B. Aycock

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Charles Brantley Aycock studied at the University of North Carolina from 1877 to 1880 and edited a weekly, the Ledger, in Chapel Hill. In 1899 he worked with legislators… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 15 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• William B. Aycock

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Aycock taught in the law school at Chapel Hill and was chancellor from 1957 to 1964. In 1961 he suspended a basketball player who had taken money from a gambler, saying… Source ↗

  15 indexed works · 23 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Carolina Sports

• Dick Baddour

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Dick Baddour, a UNC alumnus, spent more than four decades on the university's staff. He began in 1967 as assistant dean of men and became director of athletics in 1997.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• George E. Badger

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  George Edmund Badger served on the University of North Carolina's board of trustees from 1818 to 1844, introduced the resolution calling for a chair of modern languages… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 10 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Nathaniel D. Bain

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Nathaniel D. Bain was secretary of the Orange County Court of Wardens of the Poor in 1845, when he signed its order that every application for county relief be made in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Robert D. Bain

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Robert D. Bain lived for a number of years in Hillsboro, where he was a merchant and served three terms as sheriff of Orange County. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce, Health, Medicine & Care

• Herman G. Baity

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Herman G. Baity headed sanitary engineering at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1928, was dean of its School of Engineering from 1930 to 1936, and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 22 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Quinton Baker

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Quinton Baker was a student at North Carolina College in Durham, president of the state NAACP Youth Council and an organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. In 1963… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• Laura Ballance

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Laura Ballance moved to Chapel Hill to study anthropology at the University of North Carolina, where she met Mac McCaughan. In 1989 the two founded the band Superchunk… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Business, Shops & Commerce, Women's Lives & History

• John P. Ballard

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  John P. Ballard served as Orange County supervisor for the Farm Security Administration from June 1941 until he moved to the Soil Conservation office in Hillsboro in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Politics & Government, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Deah Barakat

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Newcomers & Changing Communities Recent decades

  Deah Barakat was a second-year student at UNC's School of Dentistry. He gave free dental supplies to homeless people and was working with his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, on a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Newcomers & Changing Communities, UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• Alfred David Barbee Sr.

  Wider story · Carrboro, University Lake · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Alfred David Barbee Sr. (1909–1993) was an African American stonemason and bricklayer from Carrboro. He learned the trade from his father, Fred Barbee, and his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Algernon S. Barbee

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Algernon S. Barbee, a Civil War veteran, clerked for his brother-in-law David McCauley until 1876, when he opened his own general store on Franklin Street in Chapel… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life

• Christopher Barbee

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Christopher Barbee (about 1738–1832), called Old Kit, gave 221 acres for the University of North Carolina in 1792, the largest of the original land gifts. He farmed a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Families, Land & Genealogy, Farms & Rural Life

• William Barbee

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Families, Land & Genealogy Antebellum and Civil War

  William Barbee (1777–1857) was the son of Christopher Barbee, the largest donor of land for the university. He built a house on Columbia Street after his marriage in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Families, Land & Genealogy, Farms & Rural Life, Business, Shops & Commerce

• William J. Barber II

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  William J. Barber II gave UNC's 2017 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship in Moeser Auditorium, Hill Hall, in Chapel Hill. He was then pastor of Greenleaf Christian… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith

• Charles Baskerville

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Charles Baskerville was the first editor of the student newspaper, the Tar Heel, and played fullback for Carolina's football teams of 1892 to 1894. He taught chemistry… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Carolina Sports

• Fred Battle

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Fred Battle graduated from Chapel Hill's segregated Lincoln High School in 1962, took part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and directed the Hargraves Center… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations, Politics & Government

• Kemp Plummer Battle

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Kemp Plummer Battle led the reorganization that reopened the university in 1875 and was its president from 1876 to 1891, then returned to the faculty as Alumni Professor… Source ↗

  12 indexed works · 102 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Richard H. Battle

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Richard H. Battle (1835–1912), a Raleigh lawyer and brother of Kemp Plummer Battle, taught mathematics and Greek at the University of North Carolina from 1854 to 1858… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith

• William Horn Battle

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  William Horn Battle moved his family to Chapel Hill in 1843 and in 1845 became the university's professor of law, teaching until 1868 and again from 1876 until his death… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 31 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Schools & Education

• Jeffery Beam

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Jeffery Beam, a poet born and raised in Kannapolis, worked as assistant to the biology librarian in the Botany Library at UNC-Chapel Hill and performed Winter Stories… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life

• L. E. Beard

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Work, Labor & Industry Civil rights era

  L. E. Beard succeeded Shepperd Strudwick and Norfleet Webb as president and treasurer of the Bellevue Manufacturing Company, the cotton mill in West Hillsborough, in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Schools & Education, Churches & Faith

• Oscar Carver Beasley

  Wider story · Cedar Grove · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Oscar Carver Beasley was an African American parent and community leader in the Sartin and Cedar Grove neighborhoods of northern Orange County. He sat on the Sartin… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Farms & Rural Life

• Harvey E. Beech

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  Harvey E. Beech (1923–2005) was one of five students who in 1951, after a lengthy court battle, became the first African Americans admitted to the UNC law school in… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 5 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• James Munsie Bell

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  James Munsie Bell taught physical chemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1910, became Smith Professor of Chemistry in 1919, and was dean of the School of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Health, Medicine & Care, Community & Civic Organizations

• Tom Bello

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Tom Bello was president of the UNC student body during the May 1970 student strike over the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State killings. He led a march of 4,000 to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• Thomas Benbury

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Thomas Benbury presided as speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons when the General Assembly opened its second session of 1778 at Hillsborough on August 8, 1778… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service

• Richard Bennehan

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Durham County (neighboring) · Business, Shops & Commerce Revolution and early republic

  Richard Bennehan came to Orange County in late 1768 or early 1769 as a one-third partner in William Johnston's Little River Store on the Snowhill plantation near… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 14 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Farms & Rural Life

• Harvey Bennett

  Wider story · Carrboro, Hillsborough · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Harvey Bennett was a part owner of Bennett and Blocksidge, Chapel Hill's leading coal, fuel and appliance dealers. Elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 22 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Roads, Rail & Transportation, Politics & Government

• John S. Bennett

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, University Lake · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  J. S. Bennett held the title of superintendent of the University Consolidated Service Plants, electric and water division, in 1926, and was probably the first… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 36 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Eno & Environment, Business, Shops & Commerce

• James Bennitt

  Wider story · Orange County · Wars & Military Service Antebellum and Civil War

  James Bennitt was a farmer who settled in 1846 with his wife Nancy and their three children on a 325-acre place on the Hillsborough Road, then in Orange County. He also… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Farms & Rural Life, Politics & Government

• Jesse Benton

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Law, Courts & Justice Revolution and early republic

  Jesse Benton, a lawyer, moved from Granville County to Orange County, where he had a plantation on the banks of the Eno River, and sat in the assembly in 1781. He was… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 11 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Families, Land & Genealogy

• William Stanly Bernard

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  William Stanly Bernard was appointed University librarian when he graduated from the University in 1900, began teaching Greek there in 1901 and held its chair of Greek… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Arts, Music & Performance

• Harriet Morehead Berry

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Roads, Rail & Transportation Early twentieth century

  Harriet Morehead Berry (1877–1940) was born in Hillsborough and worked in Chapel Hill for the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey from 1901, rising to acting… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Roads, Rail & Transportation, Women's Lives & History, Politics & Government

• Job Berry

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Job Berry, enslaved in Hillsborough until emancipation, painted for the builder John Berry and preached to the county's Black people. In September 1865 he advertised a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Churches & Faith, Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education

• John Berry

  Featured profile · Hillsborough · Buildings & Preservation Antebellum and Civil War

  John Berry (1798–1870), born near Hillsborough, was a self-taught builder-architect whose Orange County work includes the Masonic Hall, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 60 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Politics & Government, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Lisbon P. Berry

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Lisbon Payne Berry (1850–1935) was born enslaved in Hillsborough, son of Rev. Job Berry and Rebecca Nash. He read law in Hillsborough and in 1882 became Orange County's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Law, Courts & Justice, Schools & Education

• Mary E. Strayhorn Berry

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Reconstruction and the New South

  Mary Elizabeth Strayhorn Berry grew up in Hillsborough, the daughter of William F. Strayhorn, a storekeeper and enslaver. Her recollections of the town before the Civil… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Women's Lives & History, Families, Land & Genealogy

• W. P. Berry

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Little River · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  W. P. Berry, a farmer of Little River township near the Person County line, was serving his third term on the Orange County Board of Commissioners when he entered the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life

• W. Reece Berryhill

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Early twentieth century

  Berryhill was physician-in-chief at the University infirmary and director of the student health service in Chapel Hill from 1933 to 1941, then professor of medicine and… Source ↗

  6 indexed works · 17 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Thomas W. Bickett

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Thomas W. Bickett, who had studied law at the university, was governor of North Carolina when he backed the 1917 state bond issue that gave Chapel Hill $500,000 for new… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service

• Robert Bingham

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  Robert Bingham (1838–1927), born in Hillsborough, taught at his father's school at the Oaks from 1857, served as a Confederate captain, and from 1873 headed the Bingham… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 28 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Wars & Military Service, UNC & Campus Life

• Robert Worth Bingham

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Robert Worth Bingham, son of the Bingham School headmaster Robert Bingham, studied at the University of North Carolina from 1888 to 1891, winning its Representative… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• William Bingham (1835-1873)

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Mebane · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  William Bingham (1835–1873), son of William James Bingham, was running his father's school at the Oaks by 1864, incorporated it that year as the Bingham School, a… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education

• William James Bingham

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  William James Bingham (1802–1866) ran the Hillsborough Academy from 1827 and in 1845 moved his school to the Oaks, twelve miles southwest of Hillsborough. The 1830… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 15 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Irving E. Birdseye

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Civil rights era

  Irving E. Birdseye became pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church in 1947. During his pastorate the congregation raised the money to start its educational… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Community & Civic Organizations

• O. E. Bivins

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Efland · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  O. E. Bivins of Hillsboro owned the Bivins Basket Factory with C. A. Bivins. The plant stood just east of the town on the Durham-Greensboro highway and was being used… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Work, Labor & Industry, Churches & Faith

• Thomas Blount

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Thomas Blount was one of the university commissioners who laid out the campus and the village of Chapel Hill in 1793. With William R. Davie, Alfred Moore and Alexander… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Growth, Land & Planning

• Carl Boettcher

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  Carl Boettcher, a German-born woodcarver, worked six years in the University's buildings department in Chapel Hill. In 1948 he carved the redwood Circus Parade, nearly… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life

• Cora Paul Bomar

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Efland · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Cora Paul Bomar was instructional supervisor of the Orange County schools from 1949 to 1951, with organizing school libraries as her chief task. At Efland Elementary… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Women's Lives & History

• John M. Booker

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  John M. Booker, a Baltimore native with a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg, joined the English department of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Growth, Land & Planning, Buildings & Preservation

• Daniel Boone

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  A tablet on a Boone Trail Highway monument at the site of Hillsborough’s Old State House says a party under Richard Henderson set out from there for Kentucky on March… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Colonial Orange County

• Frederick O. Bowman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  F. O. Bowman, a former judge of the Chapel Hill recorder's court who had served several years on the town board of aldermen, returned to the board in January 1946 to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Adam Boyd

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  The Rev. Adam Boyd was elected secretary of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati when former officers of the state's Continental line founded it on October 23… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 2 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Churches & Faith, Wars & Military Service

• Bruce L. Bozeman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Bruce L. Bozeman, an Alabama native and Hampton Institute graduate with ten years of teaching behind him, became principal of the Colored County Training School of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, Farms & Rural Life

• H. S. Bradshaw

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, New Hope · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  H. S. Bradshaw was pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church from August 1894 to December 1900 and again from April 1905 to July 1938, thirty-nine years in all and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith

• Henry P. Brandis Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Henry P. Brandis Jr. (1909–1989), a Salisbury native, was the first full-time staff member of the university's Institute of Government and joined the UNC law faculty in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• John Lewis Brandon

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  John Lewis Brandon attended his first class at UNC in the fall of 1955, one of the university's first Black undergraduates. A chemistry major, he left after his third… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Eugene Cunningham Branson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Eugene Cunningham Branson came to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1914 to lead its new department of rural social economics, which he ran for nearly… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Farms & Rural Life, Politics & Government

• Gustave M. Braune

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Gustave M. Braune came to the University from the University of Cincinnati in 1921, was made dean in 1922 and organized its School of Engineering, and served on the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning

• Fannie Breeze

  Wider story · Orange County, Eno River · Black Life & Civil Rights Antebellum and Civil War

  Fannie Breeze (1832–1912), born enslaved by the farmer Samuel H. Breeze, worked as a midwife in Orange County and was known for helping any woman who needed her at a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Health, Medicine & Care

• Kenneth M. Brinkhous

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Civil rights era

  Kenneth M. Brinkhous (1908–2000) chaired the Department of Pathology at the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill from 1946 to 1973. A leading researcher on bleeding and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• James Brittian

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  James Brittian, born and raised in Chapel Hill, was expelled from the segregated Lincoln High School for joining a civil rights march and then chaired the Student… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations, Politics & Government

• Molly Corbett Broad

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Molly Corbett Broad was president of the University of North Carolina System from 1997 to 2005, the first woman in the job, and afterward taught as a professor at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Samuel Jackson Brockwell

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Samuel Jackson Brockwell was a Chapel Hill businessman who brought movies to the town. In 1902 he put up a three-story brick building at Franklin and Columbia streets… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Elizabeth Brooks

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Elizabeth Brooks worked in the Pine Room at UNC's Lenoir Dining Hall and, with her cousin Mary Smith, planned and led the campus foodworkers' strike that began on… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 14 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Work, Labor & Industry

• Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Frederick P. Brooks Jr. founded UNC's computer science department, the country's second free-standing doctorate-granting one, chaired it for two decades and led its… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Joe Bethel Brooks

  Connected to an institution · Cedar Grove, Orange County · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  Joe Bethel Brooks, an African American farmer whose family lived in the Cedar Grove area, organized Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church with John William Jones on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Black Life & Civil Rights, Farms & Rural Life

• J. Melville Broughton

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  As governor, Broughton offered the welcome when the Naval Aviation Pre-Flight School was commissioned at Chapel Hill on May 23, 1942. The school trained 18,700… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 16 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Wars & Military Service, Health, Medicine & Care

• Joal Hall Broun

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Joal Hall Broun is a district court judge for Orange and Chatham counties, appointed by Governor Roy Cooper in June 2021 to the seat Judge Beverly Scarlett vacated. She… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Schools & Education

• Charlotte Hawkins Brown

  Connected to an institution · Efland · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Charlotte Hawkins Brown, head of Palmer Memorial Institute at Sedalia and president of the North Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, led the campaign begun in… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History, Law, Courts & Justice

• Grady A. Brown

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Grady A. Brown spent forty years in Hillsborough's public schools, first as teacher and coach, then as principal, and finally as assistant superintendent of the Orange… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 22 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Community & Civic Organizations

• Harold W. Brown

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Harold W. Brown, a parasitologist, joined the University's public health faculty in 1937 and was made dean of the School of Public Health in 1941. He resigned the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• N. W. Brown

  Wider story · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Community & Civic Organizations Early twentieth century

  N. W. Brown was a Hillsborough businessman and civic leader in the early twentieth century. In 1907 he was serving as United States commissioner at Hillsboro, and in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 23 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Community & Civic Organizations, Wars & Military Service, Business, Shops & Commerce

• William H. Brown

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  William H. Brown was a Hillsborough man who served for years as chairman of Orange County's Board of Superintendents of Common Schools. In December 1860 he chaired the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Politics & Government

• Dixie Lee Bryant

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Reconstruction and the New South

  Dixie Lee Bryant was one of four women who registered at the University of North Carolina in September 1897, the session The Tar Heel called the beginning of its history… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Women's Lives & History, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Victor Silas Bryant

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Victor Silas Bryant, a Durham lawyer and University trustee, was one of the defense attorneys when four students were tried at the Orange County Courthouse in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• James Buchanan

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  James Buchanan, then President of the United States, came to Chapel Hill for the University of North Carolina commencement of June 1859, arriving on June 1 with Governor… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• John Bunting

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  John Bunting, a 1972 graduate of the University of North Carolina, became the university's head football coach in December 2000 and was told in October 2006, his sixth… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 4 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Peter L. Burch

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, University Lake · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Peter L. Burch sat on Chapel Hill's board of aldermen for 28 consecutive years and was the town's mayor pro tem when he announced in April 1955 that he would not run… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 46 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• William H. S. Burgwyn

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Burgwyn entered the University of North Carolina in 1860, left in 1861 because of illness and that year became a cadet at the Hillsborough Military Academy. He returned… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Wars & Military Service

• Mary “Polly” Burke

  Featured profile · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Mary "Polly" Burke (1782–1869), only child of Governor Thomas Burke, taught Hillsborough children from about 1818 to 1834 in a log schoolhouse beside her East Queen… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Thomas Burke

  In a named event · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Thomas Burke (about 1744–1783) settled on a farm near Hillsborough in 1772 and sat in the provincial congresses from 1775. While governor he was captured at Hillsborough… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 40 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• Alethea Anne Arrington Burt

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Alethea Anne Arrington Burt (1902–1986), a Hampton Institute graduate, moved to Hillsboro in 1935 and taught the fifth through seventh grades and served as principal at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History

• Moses Cimuel Burt

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Moses Cimuel Burt was Orange County's agricultural extension agent for African American farmers from 1935 until he retired in September 1958, and he backed vocational… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 26 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Farms & Rural Life, Schools & Education

• Frances Armistead Burwell

  In a named event · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Frances Armistead (Fanny) Burwell (1838–1856) of Hillsborough studied to teach music at her parents' school. She died on board a steamer while returning home from music… Source ↗

  17 indexed works · 2 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Margaret Anna Burwell

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell founded a girls' school in Hillsborough after her husband, Robert Burwell, became the town's Presbyterian minister in 1835. The couple… Source ↗

  24 indexed works · 11 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Women's Lives & History

• Robert Armistead Burwell

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Robert Burwell became minister of the Presbyterian Church in Hillsborough in 1835 and moved there with his wife, Anna, and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly, whom his father had… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Churches & Faith

• John Butler

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Revolution and early republic

  Butler settled on the Haw River in the Hawfields of Orange County before May 1763 and was sheriff of the county in 1770. He became colonel of the Orange County militia… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 20 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Marion Butler

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Marion Butler, agrarian leader and U.S. senator from Sampson County, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1885 and served as a university trustee and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• William Butler (Regulator)

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  William Butler, a farmer living near Sandy Creek in Orange County, was appointed a county tax collector in 1768 and a deputy sheriff in 1770 as he became a principal… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Woodward Byars

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Early twentieth century

  Woodward Byars was Orange County's home demonstration agent from 1939 until September 1945, when she resigned to become an assistant dietitian at Indiana University… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Farms & Rural Life

• Barnaby Cabe

  Wider story · Eno River, Orange County · Wars & Military Service Colonial and Regulator years

  Barnaby Cabe, first written McCabe, settled on the Eno River in Orange County in the late 1750s, buying 330 acres of William Few's tract and farming there with his wife… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Families, Land & Genealogy, Farms & Rural Life

• William Cabe

  Wider story · Eno River · Farms & Rural Life Antebellum and Civil War

  William Cabe was a planter on the north side of the Eno River, a son of Barnaby Cabe. He took over his father's homeplace tract after 1777 and built it into a corn and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Families, Land & Genealogy, Black Life & Civil Rights

• William Cain Sr.

  Connected to an institution · Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Revolution and early republic

  William Cain owned Pleasant Grove, a plantation beside the Indian Trading Path in Orange County, from 1779 until his death in 1834, and by 1800 was the county's largest… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Families, Land & Genealogy, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• David Caldwell

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Alamance County (neighboring) · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  David Caldwell, Presbyterian minister of the Buffalo and Alamance congregations, visited Governor Tryon's camp on May 15, 1771, with Alexander Martin to urge mild… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Churches & Faith, Politics & Government

• David Caldwell Jr.

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Caldwell moved to Chapel Hill's Rogers Road neighborhood in the third grade in the 1960s, when his family sought a place it could own. A retired Orange County deputy… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Community & Civic Organizations

• Edwin Caldwell (1867-1932)

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Dr. Edwin Caldwell (1867–1932), a son of Wilson Caldwell, took his medical degree at Shaw University in Raleigh and practiced for many years in Chapel Hill, where he was… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Health, Medicine & Care

• Helen Hogg Caldwell

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Helen Hogg Caldwell was a daughter of James Hogg of Hillsborough and the widow of William Hooper, son of the signer, when she married university president Joseph… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Schools & Education

• Hilliard Caldwell

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Hilliard Caldwell (1937–2025) grew up in the Pottersfield section of Chapel Hill's Northside and in 1960, at 23, advised the Lincoln High School students who held the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 87 dated events · 15 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• John L. Caldwell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  John L. Caldwell was Chapel Hill's town manager when he died in June 1944; he had come to Chapel Hill in 1928. A native of Statesville and a 1905 engineering graduate of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 22 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Joseph Caldwell

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Joseph Caldwell came to Chapel Hill in October 1796 to teach mathematics, became presiding professor in 1797 and was elected the university's first president in 1804. He… Source ↗

  13 indexed works · 60 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Lucille Caldwell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Lucille Caldwell became the first paid director of Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center, now the Hargraves Community Center, in February 1951 and served twelve years… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations

• Wilson Swain Caldwell

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Wilson Swain Caldwell (1841–1898), enslaved by UNC president David L. Swain, was the university's head janitor and helped persuade the Union Army not to burn the campus.… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Annie Sutton Cameron

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Annie Sutton Cameron had taught first grade at the Hillsboro elementary school since 1916 when The News of Orange County profiled her in 1944, also noting her work as… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Women's Lives & History

• Bennehan Cameron

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Bennehan Cameron, son of Paul C. Cameron, was born in 1854 at Fairntosh Plantation in what was then Orange County and was a trustee of the University of North Carolina… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Families, Land & Genealogy

• Duncan Cameron

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Cameron built a successful law practice at Hillsborough after his admission to the bar in 1798, became a trustee of the University of North Carolina in 1802, and was a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 39 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Paul C. Cameron

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Reconstruction and the New South

  Paul C. Cameron (1808–1891) lived at Burnside in Hillsborough and, from 1837 to 1856, at Fairntosh, managing the Cameron plantations; on the eve of the Civil War he and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 65 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Families, Land & Genealogy, Farms & Rural Life

• John Wesley Campbell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  John Wesley Campbell (about 1888–1968), a Black stonemason and builder, worked on UNC buildings and campus rock walls. In the 1940s he and his five sons designed and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Robert Campbell

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Campbell moved to the Rogers Road neighborhood of Chapel Hill in the early 1970s, as the county landfill was being built beside it, and he and his wife helped start… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Community & Civic Organizations

• John William Canada

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  John William Canada took his A.B. at the University of North Carolina in 1896 and that fall opened a preparatory school in Chapel Hill, which the student paper welcomed… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Business, Shops & Commerce, Health, Medicine & Care

• Katherine Kennedy Carmichael

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Carmichael was an English professor and the University of North Carolina's first dean of women at Chapel Hill, serving from 1946 to 1972 as the number of women students… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 11 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History, Schools & Education

• William D. Carmichael Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Carmichael graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1921 and returned to Chapel Hill in 1940 as finance officer of the consolidated university, later… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Andrew Carnegie

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Andrew Carnegie, the steel industrialist and philanthropist, paid for the Carnegie Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He offered $50,000 in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Brodie S. Carr

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Brodie S. Carr was a Hillsboro grocer. Out of work after losing his job in the office at Eno Cotton Mills, he opened a grocery in January 1925 in a filling-station… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Food, Drink & Local Culture

• G. Paul Carr

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Gabriel Paul Carr (born 1907), a Duplin County native and UNC graduate, was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1951 to 1969. He led the system through… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 74 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Schools & Education

• George Watts Carr Sr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement Civil rights era

  George Watts Carr Sr. (1893–1975) was a Durham architect, in practice there from the mid-1920s to 1961, and a lifelong champion of the Colonial Revival. In Chapel Hill… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Buildings & Preservation

• John Wesley Carr

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  John W. Carr was one of the two principal merchants of Chapel Hill about 1845, a quiet and prosperous citizen in Kemp Battle's account. His son Julian S. Carr became one… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 18 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Julian S. Carr

  Wider story · Carrboro · Work, Labor & Industry Early twentieth century

  Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845–1924), a Durham tobacco and textile industrialist whose Carr Mill stood in Carrboro, the town renamed for him in 1913 at his request, was… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 65 dated events · 11 storylines

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry

• Dudley Dewitt Carroll

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Dudley Dewitt Carroll was dean of the University of North Carolina's School of Commerce in Chapel Hill for thirty-one years from 1919, and Carroll Hall is named for him.… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 45 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, Churches & Faith

• Eve Carson

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Eve Carson was student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill and a Morehead-Cain Scholar. She was killed in 2008. The student-run Eve Carson Scholarship, which grew from her… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• H. D. Carter

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  H. D. Carter was an architect who practiced in Chapel Hill from the 1920s into the 1940s and designed many of the town's houses. He directed Civil Works Administration… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 43 dated events · 7 storylines

  Themes Schools & Education, Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Hodding Carter III

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  In January 2006 Hodding Carter III became University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had earlier been a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Joel Carter

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  Joel Carter (1913–2000), a member of the University of North Carolina Music Department faculty, was musical director of the Chapel Hill Choral Club from 1949 to 1963.… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Community & Civic Organizations

• Lula M. Cassidy

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Lula M. Cassidy was Orange County's rural school supervisor and canning club agent from 1915 to 1917. She helped Superintendent S. P. Lockhart set up township teachers'… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Food, Drink & Local Culture, Women's Lives & History

• Richard Caswell

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  In 1753 Caswell served a few weeks as the first clerk of the Orange County court, when that county was formed from upper Johnston. After the defeat at Camden in 1780 he… Source ↗

  53 indexed works · 18 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service

• Kemp S. Cate

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Kemp S. Cate of Chapel Hill was a long-time member of the Orange County Board of Education and had chaired it until 1951. In March 1952 he announced that he would not… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• James L. Cates Jr.

  In a named event · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  James L. Cates Jr., a young Black man who grew up in Chapel Hill, was killed on the UNC campus early on November 21, 1970. He had gone to an all-night dance meant to… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 15 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• Hope Summerell Chamberlain

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century

  Hope Summerell Chamberlain wrote and illustrated Old Days in Chapel Hill, in which she presented the letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer. When she turned 77 in June… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Women's Lives & History, Arts, Music & Performance

• Julius L. Chambers

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  Chambers graduated first in his class from the University's School of Law in Chapel Hill in 1962, practiced civil rights law in Charlotte, and returned to Carolina in… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Robert Hett Chapman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, New Hope · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Robert Hett Chapman, a Presbyterian minister from New Jersey, was the second president of the University of North Carolina, from 1812 to 1816. A Peace Federalist whose… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith

• Yonni Chapman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Yonni Chapman worked at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill from 1975 to 1985, co-founded the Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience in 1982, and as a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Harry Woodburn Chase

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Chase joined the University of North Carolina faculty at Chapel Hill in September 1910, taught education and then psychology, and was elected president in June 1919. In… Source ↗

  13 indexed works · 115 dated events · 7 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Elfreda A. Chatman

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Recent decades

  Elfreda A. Chatman taught for more than a decade at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, which gives a student research award in her name.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life

• James A. Cheek

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  James A. Cheek of Hillsborough won one of the two Orange and Durham seats in the state House in November 1882, running as a Liberal and beating Democrat Matthew Atwater… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 41 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Kennon Cheek

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Cheek grew up in Chapel Hill's Northside neighborhood and worked as a janitor in UNC's Venable Hall from about 1920. When Black campus workers founded the Janitors'… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Merritt Cheek

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Merritt Cheek was a former mayor of Chapel Hill and a leading cotton dealer in the town when the Orange County Observer noted his 80th birthday in November 1891. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Reconstruction and the New South

  Cheshire read law under William K. Ruffin of Hillsborough before taking his license in January 1872. Ordered deacon in 1878, he was assigned to the Chapel of the Cross… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 19 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Law, Courts & Justice

• Samuel Child

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Col. Samuel Child was one of the three leaders, with the Revs. Elisha Mitchell and Elijah Graves, who organized Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Orange County in 1822… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Business, Shops & Commerce, Work, Labor & Industry

• Mark Chilton

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Chilton was elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council in 1991 at the age of 21, later served as a Carrboro alderman, and was mayor of Carrboro until 2013. In 2014 he won… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 49 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning, Law, Courts & Justice

• John Christmas

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  John Christmas was mayor of Hillsboro from October 5, 1911, to May 6, 1915, following Charles A. Whitaker and followed by John T. Johnston. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• William Churton

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  William Churton (active 1749 to 1767), a surveyor for Earl Granville's land office, staked out the lots of the town that became Hillsborough in 1754 on 663 acres he held… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Henry T. Clark Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Henry T. Clark Jr. was administrator of the University of North Carolina's Division of Health Affairs, later titled vice chancellor for health affairs, from 1950 to… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Rebecca Clark

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Rebecca Clark (about 1915–2009) moved to Chapel Hill in 1932 and worked in the University Laundry, where as shop steward from 1942 she won raises and safer conditions… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 11 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Thomas Clark (Carrboro carpenter)

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro, Cane Creek · Buildings & Preservation Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas Clark, the earliest carpenter known to have worked in Carrboro, moved in from the Cane Creek area of Orange County at Brodie Lloyd's request while the Alberta… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Work, Labor & Industry

• Walter Clark

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Reconstruction and the New South

  Walter Clark, later chief justice of North Carolina, entered C. C. Tew's Military Academy in Hillsborough in August 1860. After serving as a Confederate officer he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Odell H. Clayton

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  Odell H. Clayton, a Hillsboro native, was sheriff of Orange County from 1954 until his death in office in April 1959. He became a deputy sheriff in 1938, was elected… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• R. H. Claytor

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Robert Hume Claytor (1884–1949), a New Hope native and 1911 UNC graduate, served thirty years as superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1917. He began merging… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 47 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith

• Bill Clinton

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  President Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd of about 45,000 at the University of North Carolina's Bicentennial Convocation in Kenan Stadium on October 12, 1993. After the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Albert Coates

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Coates joined the University of North Carolina law faculty at Chapel Hill in 1923 and founded the Institute of Government there in 1931 with Gladys Hall Coates. It ran… Source ↗

  10 indexed works · 96 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Gladys Hall Coates

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Gladys Hall Coates moved to Chapel Hill after marrying Albert Coates in 1928 and took up the town's civic and cultural life. In 1931 the couple founded the Institute of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Collier Cobb

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Collier Cobb taught geology at UNC for forty years from 1892 and became head of its geology department. In Chapel Hill he chaired the Public School Committee for many… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 17 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Growth, Land & Planning

• Collier Cobb Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Collier Cobb Jr. was elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1938, served seven terms and chaired the board from December 1942 to December 1952. When he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 87 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life

• Arthur Cogswell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Coker Hills · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Arthur Cogswell, a 1952 UNC graduate who trained in architecture at North Carolina State College, opened his own Chapel Hill firm in 1962. With Werner Hausler from 1967… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• R. E. Coker

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Robert Ervin Coker became professor of zoology at Chapel Hill in 1922, chaired his department from 1935 to 1944 and was named a Kenan professor in 1939. After retiring… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 25 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• William Chambers Coker

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  William Chambers Coker joined the UNC faculty in 1902 as a botanist and turned a boggy pasture into a five-acre teaching arboretum. As head of the university's buildings… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 64 dated events · 9 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Eno & Environment, Literature & Publishing

• Isaac J. Collier

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Buildings & Preservation Antebellum and Civil War

  Isaac J. Collier (born about 1810) was a Chapel Hill cabinetmaker, carpenter and contractor. He opened a cabinet shop with Jones Watson in 1833, was contractor for the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith

• Henrietta P. Collins

  In a named event · Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  Henrietta P. Collins was secretary of the Orange County chapter of the American Red Cross, organized in Hillsborough in June and July 1917, after serving on the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Women's Lives & History, Community & Civic Organizations

• Paul C. Collins

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Paul C. Collins was cashier of the Bank of Orange in Hillsborough for its whole independent history, from its opening in May 1904 until the Durham Bank and Trust Company… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Wars & Military Service, Churches & Faith

• Harry F. Comer

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Harry F. Comer was secretary of the University YMCA in Chapel Hill for 26 years until he retired in 1947. He founded its Institute of Human Relations in 1927, and during… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Community & Civic Organizations, Churches & Faith

• James S. Compton

  Connected to an institution · Cedar Grove, Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  James S. Compton of Cedar Grove served ten years on the Orange County Board of Education, six of them as chairman, and chaired the county farm program committee. He was… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Henry Groves Connor

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Henry Groves Connor, a judge from Wilson, lectured in the University of North Carolina law school in the summer of 1923 and was in Chapel Hill to lecture again in 1924… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• R. D. W. Connor

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Connor took his degree at Chapel Hill in 1899, returned in 1921 as Kenan Professor of History and Government, left in 1934 to become the first Archivist of the United… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 23 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Schools & Education

• Joseph G. Cooley

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Roads, Rail & Transportation Reconstruction and the New South

  Joseph G. Cooley was the railroad station agent at Hillsborough in 1888 and that year signed the notices of Eagle Lodge No. 71, the town's Masonic lodge, as its… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes Roads, Rail & Transportation, Politics & Government, Community & Civic Organizations

• J. Isaac Copeland

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Civil rights era

  J. Isaac Copeland headed the documents department of the UNC library in Chapel Hill, where he earned his Ph.D. in history, and from 1967 to 1975 was director of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life

• Kizzmekia Corbett

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Cedar Grove · Health, Medicine & Care Recent decades

  Kizzmekia Corbett was born in Hurdle Mills and raised in Hillsborough, where she attended A.L. Stanback Middle School and graduated from Orange High School, and she… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Schools & Education

• George C. Corbin

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  George C. Corbin was a Hillsborough tobacco man and twice the town's mayor. In 1881 he was traveling for Webb & Co., the Hillsborough tobacco manufacturers, and he was a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Buildings & Preservation, Work, Labor & Industry

• Green Cordal

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Green Cordal, a formerly enslaved minister, joined Benjamin Craig in January 1866 to buy at auction an acre opposite the north west end of Franklin Street in Chapel Hill… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Churches & Faith, Schools & Education

• Charles Cornwallis

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Revolution and early republic

  Charles, Earl Cornwallis, a lieutenant general of the British forces, issued a proclamation at Hillsborough on February 20, 1781, inviting loyal subjects to gather in… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Colonial Orange County

• Oliver K. Cornwell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Oliver K. Cornwell, a Chapel Hill alderman who chaired the board's finance committee, was chosen mayor by his fellow aldermen in November 1954, when Mayor Edwin S.… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 24 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Dabney Cosby

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Buildings & Preservation Antebellum and Civil War

  Cosby, a brick builder who moved from Virginia to Raleigh in 1839, took the masonry subcontract for the lengthening of Old East and Old West at the university in Chapel… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten

  Featured profile · Carrboro · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten was born in 1893 in what became Carrboro and raised on Lloyd Street, near the railroad tracks, where at 11 she wrote "Freight Train," which she… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 3 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History

• Elizabeth Henderson Cotten

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Early twentieth century

  Elizabeth Henderson Cotten moved to Chapel Hill in 1926 after her husband's death and lived there until she died in 1975. From 1932 she helped J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Tressie McMillan Cottom

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Tressie McMillan Cottom joined UNC’s School of Information and Library Science as an associate professor in summer 2020 and became a senior faculty researcher in its… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Literature & Publishing

• John N. Couch

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Laurel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  John Nathaniel Couch taught botany at the University of North Carolina from the early 1920s until 1968, chairing the department from 1944 to 1960 and holding a Kenan… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• William T. Couch

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century

  Couch joined the University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill as assistant director in 1926, directed the press from 1932 until he resigned in August 1945, and… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 15 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Floyd "Dipper Boy" Council

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Floyd Council was born in Chapel Hill in 1911 and in the 1920s performed on the town's streets with two brothers as the Chapel Hillbillies. He later busked with Blind… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Mildred Council

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Food, Drink & Local Culture Recent decades

  Mildred "Mama Dip" Council cooked in Chapel Hill for decades, in the Carolina dining hall, fraternities, faculty homes, the Carolina Inn and UNC Memorial Hospital… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes Food, Drink & Local Culture, Black Life & Civil Rights, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Zeb P. Council

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Zeb P. Council, who worked at the University printery, was elected mayor of Chapel Hill on May 3, 1927, beating J. T. Harris 155 to 21 to succeed W. S. Roberson, who had… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Community & Civic Organizations, UNC & Campus Life

• William Courtney

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  William Courtney, a Quaker or of Quaker family and a fairly recent arrival in Hillsborough, kept a tavern in the town in 1777–1779 and was one of its first town… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Benjamin Craig

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Benjamin Craig, a local farmer, and Green Cordal bought at an estate auction in January 1866 one acre opposite the north west end of Franklin Street in Chapel Hill for… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Churches & Faith

• Charles C. Craig

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Charles Craig was a Black contractor in Chapel Hill, trained in drafting and carpentry at a technical college, who by 1925 had built most of the houses in a new… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Dilsey Craig

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Slavery in Orange County Reconstruction and the New South

  Dilsey Craig (about 1802–1894) was enslaved with her husband, Ben, in the household of mathematics professor James Phillips, who bought the couple soon after he came to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Slavery in Orange County, Black Life & Civil Rights

• James A. Craig

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  James A. Craig, a University graduate of 1816, was the first teacher to try to run a preparatory school at Chapel Hill after the University gave up its own grammar… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Locke Craig

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Locke Craig graduated from the university at Chapel Hill at nineteen, the youngest graduate it had yet had, then briefly taught chemistry there and taught at a private… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Peter Craven

  In a named event · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Peter Craven was a Regulator from the part of Orange County that later became Randolph County, and he is believed to have been a potter. He is counted among the leaders… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Sam Crawford

  In a named event · Cane Creek, Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Recent decades

  Sam Crawford came from a family that had farmed land along Cane Creek in Orange County for generations. He helped lead the Cane Creek Conservation Authority against… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Families, Land & Genealogy, Eno & Environment

• Walter S. Crawford

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement Early twentieth century

  Walter S. Crawford planned Eastwood, a 55-acre lake for fishing, swimming and boating with a colony of homes on about 400 acres along Booker's Creek off the Durham… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Business, Shops & Commerce, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Bubba Cunningham

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Bubba Cunningham became UNC's director of athletics on November 14, 2011, succeeding Dick Baddour as the seventh athletics director in the university's history. He came… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• William Cureton

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  William Cureton, 18, was one of the nine Black high school students the Town of Chapel Hill's Chapel Hill Nine subcommittee identified in 2018 as the participants in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• James L. Currie

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  James L. Currie, a Presbyterian minister who grew up in the Eno congregation, was pastor of Eno Church from 1876 to 1896. From June 1885 to June 1889 he was Orange… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 31 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Schools & Education, Churches & Faith

• Moses Ashley Curtis

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Curtis took up the rectorship of St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough in June 1841 and held it for the rest of his life, apart from 1847 to 1856 at Society Hill, S.C.… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Eno & Environment

• Pat Cusick

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Pat Cusick, a UNC student representing the small Student Peace Union, began a lone picket of the segregated College Cafe on Franklin Street in April 1963. With John… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Pleasant Hunter Dalton

  Wider story · New Hope · Churches & Faith Reconstruction and the New South

  Pleasant Hunter Dalton (1821–1896) was a Presbyterian minister from Rockingham County who joined New Hope Church in 1842 while a student at Chapel Hill. Licensed by… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith

• Josephus Daniels

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Daniels entered the law school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the summer of 1885, joined the university’s board of trustees in 1901 and remained… Source ↗

  9 indexed works · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• Edward G. Danziger

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Edward Danziger, a Viennese confectioner who emigrated in 1939, opened Danziger's Old World Candy Shop on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, which grew into a… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Food, Drink & Local Culture, Newcomers & Changing Communities

• William Richardson Davie

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  William Richardson Davie (1756–1820) introduced the 1789 bill chartering the University of North Carolina and was chiefly responsible for its establishment, building… Source ↗

  11 indexed works · 25 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Alexander Jackson Davis

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Alexander Jackson Davis designed the 1844 additions to Old East and Old West, the university's ballroom and library of 1850 (now the Playmakers Theatre), and a… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation, Churches & Faith

• Archie Royal Davis

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Archie Royal Davis (1907–1980), a Durham architect, became architect for the University of North Carolina in 1940 and designed Colonial Revival store buildings on Chapel… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 61 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life

• Bonnie B. Davis

  Featured profile · Orange County, Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Bonnie B. Davis became Orange County's first Black home demonstration agent in 1950 and worked for the county Cooperative Extension office until she retired in 1990. In… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History, Farms & Rural Life

• James Davis

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Davis sat for the town of New Bern in the provincial congress that met at Hillsborough in August 1775. The congress ordered its proceedings delivered to him to print and… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 1 dated event · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Literature & Publishing

• Nate Davis

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Nate Davis grew up in Chapel Hill and is the retired longtime director of the town's Hargraves Community Center. A first cousin of James Cates, he was working at the UNC… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 4 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Community & Civic Organizations

• Walter Royal Davis

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Walter Royal Davis (1920–2008), a North Carolina-born petroleum businessman, was a UNC trustee from 1972 to 1980 and in the 1970s pressed for the proceeds of the sale of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Thomas Day

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Antebellum and Civil War

  Thomas Day, a free Black cabinetmaker, was hired by the University of North Carolina in 1847 to make woodwork for the libraries of the Dialectic and Philanthropic… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life

• Charles E. Daye

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Charles E. Daye joined the UNC School of Law faculty in 1972 as its first African American tenure-track professor and advised its Black Law Students Association from… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights, Law, Courts & Justice

• John DeBow

  Wider story · New Hope, Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Revolution and early republic

  John DeBow (about 1745–1783) was a Presbyterian minister educated at the College of New Jersey. Ordained in 1776, he took the call to the Hawfields and Eno churches and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith

• Charles F. Deems

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Charles Force Deems, a Methodist preacher, joined the University of North Carolina faculty in 1842, when President David L. Swain wanted a Methodist among the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith

• Samuel Devinney

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Samuel Devinney was one of the Orange County Regulators. At the Hillsborough superior court in September 1768 he and John Philip Hartzo were convicted, fined 25 pounds… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Alexander Dickson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, New Hope · Farms & Rural Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Alexander Dickson, a farmer and businessman, owned from about 1839 the house of about 1790 a mile and a half south of Hillsborough that Generals Wade Hampton and Joseph… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Churches & Faith, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Paul Dickson III

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Paul Dickson III was UNC student body president in March 1966, when he and other student leaders invited the banned speakers Herbert Aptheker and Frank Wilkinson to… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 22 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Annie Dillard

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Writer Annie Dillard was among the prominent writers and artists who made Hillsborough their home in the 1990s, according to a 2001 Greensboro News & Record report that… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing

• Preston Dobbins

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Preston Dobbins was a UNC student who in 1967 moved to replace the campus NAACP chapter with the Black Student Movement and was elected its first chairman. The day after… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• Elias Dodson

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Elias Dodson was a Baptist preacher from Virginia who traveled North Carolina as a missionary and colporteur in the mid-1840s. Around 1844 he held the first Baptist… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Buildings & Preservation, Law, Courts & Justice

• Matt Doherty

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Matt Doherty played basketball for the University of North Carolina from 1980 to 1984, winning the 1982 NCAA championship alongside James Worthy and Michael Jordan, and… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Robert Donaldson Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Robert Donaldson Jr. (1800–1872), a Fayetteville native, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 and moved to New York, where he became a banker and a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Bill Dooley

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Laurel Hill · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Bill Dooley was head football coach at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1977, the longest tenure of any Tar Heel football coach. His teams… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Anson Dorrance

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Anson Dorrance, a 1974 UNC graduate, coached soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 47 years: the men's team from 1977 to 1988 and the women's… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 29 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Patrick Dougherty

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Patrick Dougherty, a sculptor who builds with tree saplings, earned an English degree at UNC and later returned to Chapel Hill to study art history and sculpture. The… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance

• Bill Dow

  Wider story · Carrboro, Chatham County (neighboring) · Farms & Rural Life Recent decades

  Bill Dow, a physician and organic farmer, founded the North Carolina Agricultural Marketing Project with Laura Heise in 1978, work that led directly to the Carrboro… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Food, Drink & Local Culture, Health, Medicine & Care

• Elmer R. Dowdy

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Schley · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  Elmer R. Dowdy taught vocational agriculture at the Hillsboro school for 18 years before resigning in June 1955 to become Southeastern regional manager for a California… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Schools & Education, Wars & Military Service

• Peter Pelham Dromgoole

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Peter Pelham Dromgoole came to Chapel Hill in January 1833, failed the university's entrance examination, studied under a tutor and vanished that spring. Students later… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Washington Duke

  Wider story · Orange County, Durham County (neighboring) · Farms & Rural Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Washington Duke farmed in Orange County, in the part that became Durham County in 1881, where he finished the house now called Duke Homestead in 1852 and turned from… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• John Dunne

  In a named event · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  John Dunne was a leader of the 1963–1964 demonstrations for equal public accommodations in Chapel Hill. A Morehead Scholar at UNC, he gave up the scholarship by December… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Carl T. Durham

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Carl T. Durham (1892–1974) was born at White Cross in Orange County and worked as a pharmacist at Eubanks Drugstore in Chapel Hill. He served as a Chapel Hill alderman… Source ↗

  9 indexed works · 64 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government

• George A. Durham

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  George A. Durham was one of the founders and principal stockholders, with Allen J. Ruffin and James Webb Jr., of the Eno Cotton Mill, chartered by the General Assembly… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Work, Labor & Industry, Politics & Government

• Moody W. Durham

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Moody W. Durham, a Chatham County native, came to Chapel Hill as a university student in 1903, returned to live there in 1917 and ran a car service to Durham. By 1947 he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 21 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government

• Woody Durham

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Woody Durham was the radio play-by-play voice of Carolina football and men's basketball from 1971 to 2011, calling more than 1,800 broadcasts. A 1963 UNC graduate who… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• Kathleen DuVal

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Kathleen DuVal joined the UNC history faculty in 2003 and is the Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History, teaching courses that include Native North America… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology, Literature & Publishing

• Harold S. Dyer

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Harold S. Dyer, head of the University's music department in Chapel Hill, directed the Institute of Folk Music that the University began in 1931 to find and develop… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Arts, Music & Performance

• Sarah Jane Woodson Early

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Sarah J. Woodson Early was called by a freedmen's aid society to be principal of the school for Black children in Hillsborough after teaching at Wilberforce University… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Isaac Edwards

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Isaac Edwards was private secretary and aide-de-camp to Governor William Tryon. He qualified as an attorney at Hillsborough in 1766, and from 1768 bought lots on West… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Mack P. Efland

  Connected to an institution · Efland, Orange County · Work, Labor & Industry Early twentieth century

  Mack P. Efland (1879–1977), of the family the town of Efland is named for, managed the excelsior (wood wool) plant the Eflands founded there in 1906, one of the first in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce, Schools & Education

• John Ehle

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Civil rights era

  John Ehle, a novelist born in Asheville in 1925, graduated from UNC in 1949 and taught in its Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures from 1951 to 1963. His… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Literature & Publishing

• J. C. B. Ehringhaus

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  J. C. B. Ehringhaus, governor of North Carolina from 1933 to 1937, is the namesake of Ehringhaus Residence Hall, a high-rise completed on the University's campus in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Alfred G. Engstrom

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Alfred G. Engstrom, a professor of French at the University of North Carolina, bought the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough with his wife, Mary Claire Engstrom, in 1959… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation

• Mary Claire Engstrom

  Featured profile · Hillsborough · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Mary Claire Engstrom (1906–1997) was a UNC-trained scholar of English literature who bought Hillsborough's Nash-Hooper House in 1959 and turned to documenting and… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 13 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Families, Land & Genealogy, Women's Lives & History

• Eno Will

  In a named event · Hillsborough, Eno River · Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology Colonial and Regulator years

  Eno-Will was a leader of the Eno Indians and related tribes whom John Lawson met on his 1701 journey. Lawson was entertained at Occaneechi, then on the Eno River near… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology, Colonial Orange County

• George H. Esser Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  George H. Esser Jr. was professor of public law and government at the Institute of Government of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1948 to 1963. He… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Community & Civic Organizations

• W. David Ethridge

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  W. David Ethridge was co-editor of The Daily Tar Heel during Chapel Hill's civil rights struggle of 1963 and later worked for former Governor Terry Sanford. Elected to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Politics & Government

• Clyde Eubanks

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Clyde Eubanks (1871–1965) was a Chapel Hill druggist and bank executive who helped found the town's Merchants Association and served as a town alderman for 25 years. He… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 26 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government

• Robert A. Eubanks

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Robert Allen Eubanks kept a general store on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill from the early 1890s until 1933, when he closed it on becoming the town's postmaster. The… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Henry Evans

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Antebellum and Civil War

  Henry Evans (1817–1886) was a free Black cabinetmaker in Hillsborough. In 1840 he paid $265 for a shop lot on Churton Street across from the courthouse then being built… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• David Fanning

  In a named event · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  David Fanning (1755–1825) was a Loyalist militia colonel who led partisan warfare in central North Carolina. On September 12, 1781 he raided Hillsborough, then the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service

• Edmund Fanning

  Featured profile · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Edmund Fanning (1737 to 1818) was a Hillsborough town commissioner, Crown prosecutor, Orange County public register and militia colonel, and assemblyman for Orange and… Source ↗

  15 indexed works · 39 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• John Farrington

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  John Farrington, 17, was one of the nine Black high school students the Town of Chapel Hill's Chapel Hill Nine subcommittee identified in 2018 as the participants in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Joseph A. Felmet

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Joseph A. Felmet of Asheville, a white UNC graduate, was one of four men, two Black and two white, arrested by Chapel Hill police in April 1947 after they sat together… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• William R. Ferris

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  William R. Ferris joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 2002 as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Arts, Music & Performance

• Manuel Fetter

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Manuel Fetter (1809–1889), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was elected professor of ancient languages at the University of North Carolina in December 1837 and taught… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith, Politics & Government

• Robert A. Fetzer

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Early twentieth century

  Robert Allison Fetzer came to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1921 to coach track and football and was its director of athletics from 1923 to 1952… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• James Few

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  James Few (1746–1771) came to Orange County from Maryland as a boy in 1758, when his father, William Few Sr., settled on the Eno east of Hillsborough. He worked as a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• William Few

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Eno River · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  William Few grew up from 1758 on his family's 640-acre farm on the Eno River near Hillsborough, where his father ran a gristmill and tavern, and from 1767 managed a… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Families, Land & Genealogy, Work, Labor & Industry

• Cornelia Smith Fitzgerald

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  Cornelia Smith Fitzgerald was born enslaved in 1844 to Harriet, a woman held by the Smith family of Hillsborough, after James Strudwick Smith's son Sidney raped her… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Families, Land & Genealogy, UNC & Campus Life

• Robert G. Fitzgerald

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Robert G. Fitzgerald came to Hillsborough in January 1868 to teach a new school for Black students for the Friends' Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia. In March 1869… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Fonty Flock

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Fonty Flock, a member of one of racing's most prominent families, won the first race at Occoneechee Speedway near Hillsborough on June 27, 1948, before about 20,000… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Elson S. Floyd

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Elson S. Floyd (1956–2015) spent about fourteen years at UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC system, from General College adviser to the University's first executive vice… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• John Lee Foister

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Community & Civic Organizations Early twentieth century

  John Lee Foister was chief of the Chapel Hill fire department until his death in November 1932, at 50, and the Chapel Hill Weekly credited its organization and growth to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Community & Civic Organizations, Growth, Land & Planning

• Ben Folds

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Ben Folds, a pianist and songwriter from Winston-Salem, formed the trio Ben Folds Five in Chapel Hill around 1993 with bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jessee.… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance

• Carol L. Folt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Folt was installed as the eleventh chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on University Day, October 12, 2013, the first woman to hold the post.… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 16 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Shelby Foote

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Shelby Foote came to Chapel Hill in fall 1935 to study at UNC, following his friends Walker and LeRoy Percy, and returned in fall 1993 as the university's first Morgan… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Christopher C. Fordham III

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Christopher C. Fordham III earned a certificate in medicine at UNC in 1949, was dean of its School of Medicine from 1971 to 1979 and chancellor at Chapel Hill from 1980… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 93 dated events · 16 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• O. J. Forrest

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  O. J. Forrest and his partner B. B. Forrest helped set up Hillsborough's cooperative Alliance Store in 1890 and in 1895 bought out its stockholders. Trading as O. J. &… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith

• Robert O. Forrest

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Robert O. Forrest was for many years chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party and a former member and chairman of the county board of commissioners, and with his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 46 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce, Schools & Education

• Stephen T. Forrest

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Efland · Farms & Rural Life Reconstruction and the New South

  S. T. Forrest, president of the Orange County Farmers' Alliance, wrote from Hillsborough in June 1890 that the Alliance would stay out of partisan politics as an order… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, Schools & Education

• Harold Foster

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Harold Foster was a leader of Chapel Hill's civil rights movement. His sister Esphur Foster recalled that he started the 1960 sit-in, which he and his friends planned at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Sara Foster

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Food, Drink & Local Culture Recent decades

  Sara Foster opened a Chapel Hill branch of her Durham restaurant, Foster's Market, at 750 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in 1998. Its manager Sera Cuni bought the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Food, Drink & Local Culture, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Barbara Foushee

  Featured profile · Carrboro · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Foushee is mayor of Carrboro, the first Black woman in the office and the second Black person to hold it. She was elected to the town council in 2017 and won a second… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Braxton Foushee

  Featured profile · Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Braxton Foushee became Carrboro's first African American alderman in 1969. In 1960 he sat down at the Colonial Drug Store lunch counter in Chapel Hill and asked to be… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 27 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government

• John M. Foushee

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  John M. Foushee was Chapel Hill's town manager from 1928 to 1932, after E. M. Knox, and the town's mayor from 1933 to 1942, after Zeb P. Council. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 77 dated events · 7 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Valerie Foushee

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Foushee worked 21 years as an administrative officer for the Chapel Hill Police Department, served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools board from 1997 to 2004 and on the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Robert Lee Fowler

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Robert Lee Fowler, president of Fowler's Food Stores in Chapel Hill and Durham, was a charter member of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club and a Chapel Hill alderman until… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Mike Fox

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Mike Fox came to Chapel Hill in 1974 as a walk-on, played in the 1978 College World Series for UNC, and returned as head baseball coach for 22 seasons, from 1999 until… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Bill France Sr.

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Bill France Sr., the Daytona Beach promoter who organized NASCAR, and four partners chartered Hillsboro Speedway, Inc. in September 1947 to build Occoneechee Speedway… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, Business, Shops & Commerce

• LeRoy Frasier

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  LeRoy Frasier was one of the first three Black undergraduates at UNC. In Chapel Hill the three lived on their own floor of a dormitory, sat with Black custodial workers… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Ralph Frasier

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Ralph Frasier, his brother LeRoy and John Lewis Brandon became UNC's first Black undergraduates after a federal court ordered their admission. The three lived on their… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• James J. Freeland

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Fairview · Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement Civil rights era

  James J. Freeland moved to Hillsborough from Durham in 1934 and became the town's leading mid-century builder, selling houses in Fairview and other north Hillsborough… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 44 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Business, Shops & Commerce, Buildings & Preservation

• John J. Freeland

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  John J. Freeland was a Hillsborough merchant and town official. In June 1854 the town commissioners appointed him to take the list of Hillsborough's taxables, and the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• William C. Friday

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  William C. Friday, a longtime Chapel Hill resident, earned his law degree at UNC in 1948, was assistant dean of students there until 1951 and was president of the… Source ↗

  24 indexed works · 176 dated events · 16 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Edwin Wiley Fuller

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Edwin Wiley Fuller entered the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1864 and studied two years in Chapel Hill. His novel Sea-Gift (1873) was the first novel set… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• James Galloway

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  James Galloway (also spelled Gallaway), a Rockingham County merchant and state senator, was one of the leading Anti-Federalists at the 1788 convention in Hillsborough.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• O. Max Gardner

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  O. Max Gardner studied law and played football at the university in Chapel Hill. As governor of North Carolina he urged the General Assembly to consolidate the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 26 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• O. David Garvin

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Civil rights era

  Garvin was the health officer for the district covering Orange County from 1944, and by 1959 was health director for Orange, Person, Chatham, Lee and Caswell counties.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 34 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care

• William Gaston

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  William Gaston was a trustee of the University of North Carolina from 1802 until his death in 1844, and in June 1832 he gave an oration at the university urging his… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Law, Courts & Justice

• Horatio Gates

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Revolution and early republic

  Horatio Gates, the general who had stopped the British at Saratoga, commanded the American army defeated at Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780, and in the… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Colonial Orange County

• Samuel Mallett Gattis

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Samuel Mallett Gattis (1863–1931), born in Orange County north of Chapel Hill, practiced law in Hillsborough from 1888, was clerk of the Orange County superior court… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 72 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith

• Sam M. Gattis III

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Sam Gattis had been Orange County's accountant and tax supervisor since 1953 when the commissioners made him County Administrator in July 1963, with a raise. The News of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning

• Earl Geer

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Earl Geer, 16, was one of the nine Black high school students the Town of Chapel Hill's Chapel Hill Nine subcommittee identified in 2018 as the participants in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• W. C. George (Wesley Critz George)

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Wesley Critz George, a University of North Carolina biology professor, led the White Patriots of North Carolina, a segregationist group formed in August 1955 to… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 12 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Roland Giduz

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Civil rights era

  Roland Giduz, a 1948 UNC journalism graduate, worked for newspapers in Chapel Hill and Durham, edited The Chapel Hill News Leader and The News of Orange County, and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 23 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Politics & Government

• Hannah Gill

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Newcomers & Changing Communities Recent decades

  Hannah Gill directs the Latino Migration Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-founded its Building Integrated Communities program, which… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Newcomers & Changing Communities, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• Jacquelyn Gist

  Featured profile · Carrboro · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Gist served 32 years on Carrboro's governing board, until she lost her seat in the 2021 municipal election. The council honored her that December for more than three… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 55 dated events · 9 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism, Arts, Music & Performance

• James L. Godfrey

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  James L. Godfrey was dean of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 to 1965, one of the posts that preceded the office of provost. Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Adolphus J. Gordon

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Adolphus J. Gordon walked to Hillsborough after serving in Company D of the 56th North Carolina from 1862 to Appomattox, farmed there, and died at his home at Churton… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government

• Joshua W. Gore

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Joshua Walker Gore came to the University of North Carolina in 1882 as professor of natural philosophy and engineering and became its registrar. He was responsible for… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Community & Civic Organizations

• John P. Graff

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  John Packard Graff served two years at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill from March 27, 1942, latterly as its commanding officer, and turned the command… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, UNC & Campus Life

• Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham (1890–1977) was born in Hillsborough, a grandson of Governor William A. Graham. He was elected chair of the Orange County Democratic Party in… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 61 dated events · 7 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• Augustus Washington Graham

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Augustus Washington Graham, born in Hillsborough in 1849, a son of Governor William A. Graham, practiced law in Hillsborough for about sixteen years, chaired the county… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 34 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Edward Kidder Graham

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Graham entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1894, returned as librarian in 1899, and in 1909 became head of the English department and dean of the… Source ↗

  13 indexed works · 71 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Frank Porter Graham

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Frank Porter Graham graduated from UNC in 1909, taught history at Chapel Hill from 1914, and became the university's president in 1930 and the first president of the… Source ↗

  73 indexed works · 151 dated events · 15 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• James Augustus Graham

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Wars & Military Service Reconstruction and the New South

  James Augustus Graham, a son of Governor William A. Graham, was born at Hillsborough in 1841. He joined the Orange Guards when the company was organized there in April… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Wars & Military Service, UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• John W. Graham

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  John Washington Graham (1838–1928), son of Governor William A. Graham, sat on the UNC board of trustees from 1876 until his death, and the trustees named Graham… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 83 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• Joseph Graham (1759-1836)

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Eno River · Wars & Military Service Revolution and early republic

  Joseph Graham, a Patriot militia officer, led about forty-five dragoons and mounted riflemen in a dawn attack on February 18, 1781, on the British detachment grinding… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Colonial Orange County

• William A. Graham

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  William Alexander Graham practiced law in Hillsborough from 1828 and represented Orange County in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1836, 1838 and 1840, serving as… Source ↗

  9 indexed works · 132 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Elijah Graves

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, New Hope · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Elijah Graves, a Presbyterian minister who taught at Hillsborough, preached at New Hope Church as stated supply from November 1818 to April 1820 and again from November… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Ernest Graves

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Reconstruction and the New South

  Ernest Graves was born in Chapel Hill, the son of a University of North Carolina mathematics professor, and grew up in the boardinghouse his mother ran on the site of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Louis Graves

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Early twentieth century

  Louis Graves, born in Chapel Hill in 1883, became the university's first journalism professor in 1921 and published the first issue of his Chapel Hill Weekly on March 2… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 39 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Ralph H. Graves (1878-1939)

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Ralph Henry Graves (1878–1939) took his A.B. at the University of North Carolina in 1897 and a master's degree the next year, then worked as a university librarian for… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Ralph Henry Graves (1851-1889)

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Ralph Henry Graves (1851–1889) returned to Chapel Hill in 1875 as professor of engineering at the newly reopened university and was a professor of mathematics there when… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Bowman Gray Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Bowman Gray Jr., a 1929 graduate of the University of North Carolina, gave the university his large collections on the First and Second World Wars in the 1960s, now the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Politics & Government

• Gordon Gray

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Gray was installed as president of the University of North Carolina on October 12, 1950 and served until 1955. Under him the Chapel Hill health affairs division expanded… Source ↗

  18 indexed works · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care, Schools & Education

• John Gray

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  John Gray was one of the first officers of Orange County. The 1752 act creating the county named him a vestryman of St. Matthew's Parish and set its first court at his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Churches & Faith

• Fletcher Melvin Green

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Fletcher Melvin Green taught history at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for most of the years from 1922 to 1968, chaired its history department from 1953… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Paul Green

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Paul Green studied at UNC under Frederick Koch, whose Carolina Playmakers staged many of his folk plays, graduated in 1921, and taught philosophy there from 1923 and… Source ↗

  16 indexed works · 48 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Philip P. Green Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Philip P. Green Jr. (1922–2003), a North Carolina native educated at Princeton and Harvard Law School, joined the staff of the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning

• William Mercer Green

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  William Mercer Green (1798–1887) went to St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough in 1825, where he also directed the Hillsborough Female Seminary, and later returned to the… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 39 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• John E. Greenbacker Jr.

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Greenbacker was president of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Society. In 1966 he joined eleven other… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Sally Greene

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Sally Greene is a lawyer and scholar who has held local office in Orange County almost continuously since 2003. In three terms on the Chapel Hill Town Council she worked… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations, Politics & Government

• Edwin Greenlaw

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Edwin Greenlaw came to the University of North Carolina in 1913, chaired its English department from 1914, and in 1918 became one of the first five Kenan professors and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Literature & Publishing

• C. B. Griffin

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  C. B. Griffin was cashier of the Peoples Bank of Chapel Hill and, in 1915, also the town clerk and clerk to the Board of Aldermen, certifying the aldermen's call for the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Andy Griffith

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Andy Griffith entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1944, starred in several Carolina Playmakers productions, was president of the Glee Club and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life

• Allan Gurganus

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Hillsborough resident Allan Gurganus, author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and White People, was a visiting scholar at UNC's Institute for the Arts and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Literature & Publishing

• Kevin M. Guskiewicz

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Kevin M. Guskiewicz led the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as chancellor from 2019 until January 12, 2024, when he left to become president of Michigan… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Health, Medicine & Care

• Hugh B. Guthrie

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Hugh B. Guthrie was a Chapel Hill hotel keeper and Orange County officeholder of the Civil War era. He paid $10,000 for Nancy Hilliard's interest in the old Eagle Hotel… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Cyrus Guy

  In a named event · Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Cyrus Guy was a 24-year-old Afro-Indigenous farmer from a free family of color. Around December 1, 1869, masked Klansmen seized him and hanged him on the High Rock Road… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• J. Minor Gwynn

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  J. Minor Gwynn taught at the Chapel Hill school from 1927 and was its superintendent from 1932 to 1937, with two years' leave for graduate study at Yale, while keeping… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life

• Joe Hackney

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Joe Hackney has practiced law in Chapel Hill with Bob Epting since 1974, after serving as an assistant district attorney in Orange and Chatham counties from 1971 to… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 13 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Louis H. Hackney

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Chatham County (neighboring) · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Louis H. Hackney (1854–1937), a Chatham County native and Baptist minister in Chapel Hill by 1880, was pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church and principal of the town's… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 13 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Churches & Faith

• Joseph (Joe) Hakan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Growth, Land & Planning Recent decades

  Joe Hakan came to work for UNC as an engineering planner after Navy service and study at Duke, contributing to Manning Drive and the Morehead Sundial. He left the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Growth, Land & Planning, Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life

• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Recent decades

  Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall founded UNC's Southern Oral History Program and led it from 1973 to 2011, building a collection of more than 7,500 recordings now kept in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Nelson Parrish Hall

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Nelson Parrish Hall (1817–1902), a farmer, bought 267 acres of the Rev. Ira Ellis's land on the Eno River west of Hillsborough, with the brick Ellis house, in 1878, and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 21 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life, Work, Labor & Industry

• J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Hamilton spent 43 years at UNC-Chapel Hill and gathered, on collecting trips across the South in his Ford, the papers that became its Southern Historical Collection.… Source ↗

  6 indexed works · 19 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Politics & Government

• Mia Hamm

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Mia Hamm played for Anson Dorrance at UNC, where the Tar Heels won NCAA women's soccer championships in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993, and graduated in 1994 with a political… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 5 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Bonnie Hammersley

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Carrboro · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Recent decades

  Bonnie Hammersley was Orange County's manager for ten years, from June 2014 to July 2024, after five years as county administrator in Muskegon County, Michigan, and two… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Everyday Life & Traditions

• Wade Hampton

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Antebellum and Civil War

  Confederate general Wade Hampton and General Joseph E. Johnston used the Alexander Dickson house at Hillsborough as a temporary headquarters in April 1865, while… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes Wars & Military Service

• Samuel Hancock

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Buildings & Preservation Antebellum and Civil War

  Samuel Hancock was a Hillsborough brickmason and brickmaker who gave John Berry his first paid work, on the Presbyterian church in 1815, and then worked with him on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Churches & Faith, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• John Hodge Hanner

  Connected to an institution · Efland, Orange County · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  John Hodge Hanner, a farmer of the Efland section, was a member and chairman of the Orange County Board of Commissioners and also served on the county welfare board. He… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 22 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Paul Hardin III

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Hardin was chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1995. His administration covered the university's bicentennial and… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 4 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• O. B. Hardison Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  O. B. Hardison Jr., a Renaissance scholar with two UNC degrees, joined the university's English department in 1957 and was named by Time magazine in 1966 as one of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Schools & Education

• Jesse Hargrave

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Jesse Hargrave came to Chapel Hill from Davidson County in 1835 and became one of the village's leading merchants, with a general store on Franklin Street by 1840. The… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Frances Hargraves

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Frances Hargraves (1914–2002) attended Orange County Training School and came back to teach there after college. She was the first Black teacher of an integrated… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Cornelius Harnett

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Cornelius Harnett, a delegate for the town of Wilmington, sat in the Provincial Congress that met at Hillsborough from August 20 to September 10, 1775. The congress… Source ↗

  9 indexed works · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• Charles Wilson Harris

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Charles Wilson Harris joined the new university as professor of mathematics in March 1795, organized the student debating club that became the Dialectic and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Joseph A. Harris

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Reconstruction and the New South

  Joseph A. Harris was a printer and newspaper editor in Orange County. In 1878 he began publishing the Chapel Hill Ledger from a small wooden shop on the south side of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 53 dated events

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Community & Civic Organizations, Churches & Faith

• Thomas West Harris

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas West Harris (1839–1888) was a Chatham County native who graduated from the university, studied surgery in Paris and took his M.D. in New York. He settled in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation, Health, Medicine & Care

• Tyree Harris

  Wider story · Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Colonial and Regulator years

  Tyree Harris served as sheriff of Orange County during the Regulator movement. In August 1768 the justice James Thackston reported to him that the Regulator William… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• James Hart

  Wider story · New Hope · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  James Hart was a ruling elder of New Hope Presbyterian Church and the husband of Nancy, eldest daughter of the church's founding elder Gilbert Strayhorn. He was already… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith

• Thomas Hart

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Thomas Hart (about 1730 to 1808) came to Orange County in 1755 and served as its sheriff, a militia captain and commissary; Regulators severely whipped him in 1770. He… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 27 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Sylvia Hatchell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Sylvia Hatchell coached the University of North Carolina women's basketball team for 33 seasons, from 1986 to 2019, winning 751 games and the 1994 NCAA championship. She… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, Women's Lives & History

• Werner Hausler

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Coker Hills · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Werner Hausler (about 1935–1999), an East German-born architect trained at North Carolina State College, formed Cogswell/Hausler Architects in 1967 with Arthur Cogswell… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Randee Haven-O'Donnell

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Haven-O'Donnell was first elected to Carrboro's Board of Aldermen, later renamed the Town Council, in 2005, and served five consecutive terms, the last won in 2021. In… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Schools & Education, Eno & Environment

• Benjamin Hawkins

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Benjamin Hawkins of Warren County, one of North Carolina's first two United States senators, was named a trustee in the University of North Carolina's 1789 charter and… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Francis L. Hawks

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Francis Lister Hawks lived in Hillsborough while he was reporter to the state supreme court (1820–1826) and bought a house there in 1825. In Hillsborough he decided to… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life

• John Haywood

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  John Haywood (1755–1827), North Carolina's state treasurer for forty years, was one of the university's original trustees in 1789 and stayed on the board until his… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Dennis Heartt

  Featured profile · Hillsborough · Literature & Publishing Antebellum and Civil War

  Dennis Heartt (1783–1870) was a Connecticut-born printer who founded the weekly Hillsborough Recorder in February 1820 and edited it for nearly fifty years, making it a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 55 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Frank Heath

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Frank Heath has owned the Cat's Cradle since 1986, when he and Richard Fox bought the Chapel Hill club from David Robert, and he has been its sole owner since 1987. The… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Business, Shops & Commerce, Everyday Life & Traditions

• Jim Heavner

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  Jim Heavner began running Chapel Hill's WCHL radio in 1961 and became its majority owner in the 1970s. Through the Village Companies he made the station the flagship of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Business, Shops & Commerce, Carolina Sports

• Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was the university's professor of analytical and agricultural chemistry from January 1854 until October 1856, when the trustees' executive… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Pam Hemminger

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Pam Hemminger served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board from 2004 to 2008 and on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2008 to 2012, where she sat on the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Growth, Land & Planning

• Archibald Henderson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Archibald Henderson taught in UNC's mathematics department at Chapel Hill for fifty years, heading it from 1920 until he retired in 1948. George Bernard Shaw's… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 33 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Arts, Music & Performance

• Barbara Bynum Henderson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Early twentieth century

  Barbara Bynum Henderson lived in Chapel Hill, where her husband Archibald Henderson taught at the university. In 1913 she organized the Equal Suffrage League of North… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Politics & Government, Literature & Publishing

• Lula B. Henderson

  Connected to an institution · Efland, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Lula B. Henderson was hired in April 1935 as matron of the Efland Home, the reformatory for Black girls in rural Orange County, and by the summer of 1937 was the only… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History, Law, Courts & Justice

• Pleasant Henderson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Pleasant Henderson moved to Chapel Hill in 1797 and on 9 December was chosen steward of the University of North Carolina. He built a large home on Franklin Street for… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Richard Henderson

  Connected to an institution · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Richard Henderson (1735–1785) was an associate justice of the colonial Superior Court. In September 1770 he was holding court at Hillsborough when Regulators besieged… Source ↗

  11 indexed works · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice

• Caroline Lee Hentz

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Antebellum and Civil War

  Caroline Lee Hentz lived in Chapel Hill from 1826 to 1831, while her husband Nicholas Hentz taught languages at the university, and befriended the enslaved poet George… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Women's Lives & History, UNC & Campus Life

• Nicholas Marcellus Hentz

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Nicholas Marcellus Hentz held the university's chair of modern languages at Chapel Hill from about 1827 to 1831, studying spiders in the surrounding woods and publishing… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Charles H. Herty

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Charles Holmes Herty (1867–1938), a chemist born in Milledgeville, Georgia, taught at UNC from 1905 to 1916 as Smith Professor of General and Industrial Chemistry, was… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Carolina Sports

• Joseph A. Herzenberg

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · LGBTQ+ Life & Activism Recent decades

  Joe Herzenberg was elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council in 1987, the first openly gay elected official in North Carolina. He served until 1993, when it was revealed… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 4 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes LGBTQ+ Life & Activism, Politics & Government

• Joseph Hewes

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Hewes sat at Hillsborough as a delegate for Edenton in the Provincial Congress of August and September 1775, serving on its Committee of Secrecy for procuring arms and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County

• Addison Hibbard

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Addison Hibbard (1887–1945) taught English at the University of North Carolina from 1918 to 1930 and was dean of its College of Liberal Arts from 1926 to 1930. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Arts, Music & Performance

• Thomas Felix Hickerson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Laurel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Thomas Felix Hickerson taught at the University of North Carolina from 1905, first as an instructor in mathematics and then as professor of civil engineering, joining… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 16 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Growth, Land & Planning

• George Watts Hill

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, City of Durham (neighboring) · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  George Watts Hill, a UNC graduate of 1922 and 1924, was appointed to the university's Board of Trustees in 1955 and stayed on it, and later on the Board of Governors… Source ↗

  10 indexed works · 14 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• George Watts Hill Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  George Watts Hill Jr. served on the board of visitors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, carried on his family's giving to the university, and died at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Growth, Land & Planning, Buildings & Preservation

• John Sprunt Hill

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, City of Durham (neighboring) · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  John Sprunt Hill, a Durham banker and 1889 graduate, endowed the university's North Carolina Collection in 1906 and built the Carolina Inn in 1924. As a trustee he… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 55 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Buildings & Preservation

• Thomas Blount Hill

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Buildings & Preservation Antebellum and Civil War

  Thomas Blount Hill of Halifax County bought the old Phillips estate on East Tryon Street in Hillsborough in 1853 and enlarged the house with a west wing, a central tower… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Business, Shops & Commerce, Churches & Faith

• Nancy Hilliard

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  Nancy Ann Segur Hilliard, whose family moved from Granville County to Chapel Hill in 1817, kept the inn near today's Graham Memorial known as the Hilliard Hotel and then… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Clarence P. Hinshaw

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Clarence Preston Hinshaw was judge and later solicitor of Chapel Hill's recorder's court and for many years the town attorney of Chapel Hill. He died of a heart attack… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 22 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service

• Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Growth, Land & Planning Civil rights era

  Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs taught economics and then business law at the University of North Carolina from 1929. He served on Chapel Hill's board of aldermen in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 76 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Growth, Land & Planning, Churches & Faith, Politics & Government

• S. H. Hobbs Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  S. H. Hobbs Jr. taught rural social economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1916 to 1968 and edited the University of North Carolina Newsletter… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Farms & Rural Life

• John C. Hocutt

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro, Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  John C. Hocutt, a Baptist minister, led the organization of the congregation that became Carrboro Baptist Church on October 30, 1902, and was its first pastor. He was… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education

• Luther H. Hodges

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Hodges worked his way through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was president of the student council and of his senior class before graduating in… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, Growth, Land & Planning

• Henry S. Hogan

  Connected to an institution · Calvander, Chapel Hill · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  Henry S. Hogan, who farmed near Calvander, was one of the principal sponsors of the three-mile CWA power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander in 1933, the first rural… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Growth, Land & Planning, Politics & Government

• Colonel John Hogan

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  John Hogan was proprietor of the paper mill a mile and a half northeast of Hillsborough that advertised for rags in November 1777. In August 1777 he was one of two… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 18 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government

• John T. Hogan

  Connected to an institution · New Hope, Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Reconstruction and the New South

  John T. Hogan, a descendant of New Hope Church's early elder John Freeland, joined the church in May 1868 and was ordained a ruling elder in June 1871. When Orange… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Milton E. Hogan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Milton E. Hogan was cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill and worked at the bank for more than 25 years. He was president of the Orange County Building and Loan… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 54 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning

• William S. Hogan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Community & Civic Organizations Early twentieth century

  William S. Hogan worked in the Chapel Hill post office from 1918, became assistant postmaster in 1934 and was the town's postmaster from August 1939 until he died in May… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events

  Themes Community & Civic Organizations, Wars & Military Service, Business, Shops & Commerce

• James Hogg

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  James Hogg (1729 to 1804), a merchant, settled at Hillsborough in 1775, served on its Committee of Safety and town board, and was a chief benefactor and trustee of the… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 31 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Robert F. Hoke

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Roads, Rail & Transportation Reconstruction and the New South

  Robert F. Hoke, a Confederate general, owned most of Iron Mountain, a mile north of Chapel Hill, and was the prime mover of the State University Railroad, built under an… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Roads, Rail & Transportation, Business, Shops & Commerce, Work, Labor & Industry

• Grace E. Holcombe

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Women's Lives & History Early twentieth century

  Grace E. Holcombe restarted home demonstration work in Orange County in September 1935, when Orange and Chatham counties hired her jointly. Within a year she had… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Farms & Rural Life, Food, Drink & Local Culture

• A. L. Holden

  Connected to an institution · Little River, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Reconstruction and the New South

  A. L. Holden was a justice of the peace in Little River Township. In February 1890 he issued warrants for the arrest of the federal revenue officers who had killed Henry… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life

• William W. Holden

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  William Woods Holden (1818–1892) was born near Hillsborough and apprenticed at age ten to Dennis Heartt of the Hillsborough Recorder. As governor he ordered the 1870… Source ↗

  10 indexed works · 30 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• John Dee Holeman

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  John Dee Holeman was born in Hillsborough in 1929 and at six moved with his family to a farm in northern Orange County. As a teenager he played house parties… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Black Life & Civil Rights, Farms & Rural Life

• Arthur R. Hollett

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Growth, Land & Planning Early twentieth century

  Arthur R. Hollett, the University engineer at Chapel Hill and a former lieutenant colonel with Army health missions in South America, was elected commander of the newly… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events

  Themes Growth, Land & Planning, UNC & Campus Life, Wars & Military Service

• C. Hugh Holman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  C. Hugh Holman taught English at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1946, chaired the English department from 1957 to 1962, and served as dean of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Harold M. Holmes

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Harold M. Holmes became principal of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black children, for the term that opened in September 1933. He had… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations

• John Simcox Holmes

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Community & Civic Organizations Early twentieth century

  John Simcox Holmes, born in 1868, became North Carolina's first State Forester in 1915 and served the state until 1945. He and his wife, Emilie Rose Smedes Holmes, made… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes Community & Civic Organizations, Wars & Military Service, Schools & Education

• Allison W. Honeycutt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Allison W. Honeycutt was elected superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools in July 1937, succeeding J. Minor Gwynn. A Yancey County native and 1902 Wake Forest graduate… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 41 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Community & Civic Organizations

• J. W. Hooker

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  J. W. Hooker kept the livery, feed and sale stable on Churton Street in Hillsborough and sat on the town board of commissioners, as the 1886 North Carolina Tobacco Belt… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Roads, Rail & Transportation, Politics & Government

• Michael Hooker

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Hooker was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 1, 1995 until his death on June 29, 1999. He started online courses… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• John DeBerniere Hooper

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  John DeBerniere Hooper graduated from the university in 1831 and taught there as tutor and professor of modern languages and Latin until 1848. When it reopened in 1875… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• William Hooper

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  William Hooper (1742–1790), one of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, attended the 1775 Provincial Congress at Hillsborough and moved to… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 21 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• Samuel Hopkins

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Samuel Hopkins (1769–1839) was a Virginia-born builder who settled at Chapel Hill about 1793, buying one of the first village lots. He was the contractor for the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Everyday Life & Traditions, Farms & Rural Life

• Cal Horton

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Cal Horton was Chapel Hill's town manager from 1990 to 2006, the longest tenure in that post in the town's history. When he retired he asked that money raised in his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 95 dated events · 12 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning

• George Moses Horton

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Antebellum and Civil War

  George Moses Horton (about 1797-about 1880), enslaved by William Horton and later his son James and grandson Hall, walked eight miles to the University of North Carolina… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Literature & Publishing

• R. B. House

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  House became executive secretary of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1926 and dean of administration in 1934. In 1945 he became the Chapel Hill… Source ↗

  12 indexed works · 76 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• George Houser

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  George Houser, with Bayard Rustin, headed the Congress of Racial Equality's Journey of Reconciliation, whose interracial riders reached Chapel Hill in April 1947. As the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• B. J. Howard

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  B. J. Howard was for several years pastor of the Christian church in Chapel Hill and was Orange County's representative in the legislature when the governor named him to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Churches & Faith, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Martin Howard

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Colonial and Regulator years

  Martin Howard, chief justice of North Carolina from 1767, presided over the Regulator trials of fall 1768 and, in spring 1771, the trials of rebel leaders taken at the… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Colonial Orange County

• George Howe

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Laurel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  George Howe taught Latin at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1903 to 1936 and was dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1919 to 1922. A Princeton… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Community & Civic Organizations

• Robert Howe

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Alamance County (neighboring) · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Robert Howe, a planter who represented Brunswick County in the colonial assembly, served in Governor William Tryon's expedition against the Regulators. On September 1… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government

• A. C. Howell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  A. C. (Almonte Charles) Howell taught English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1920 to 1968, specializing in seventeenth-century English… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Rednap Howell

  In a named event · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Rednap Howell (died 1787), a New Jersey man known as the poet of the Regulators, was indicted after the Regulators kept the court from sitting at Hillsborough in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Literature & Publishing

• Jonathan Howes

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Jonathan Howes came to UNC in 1959 to study city and regional planning and later directed the university's Center for Urban and Regional Studies for 23 years. He sat on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 175 dated events · 34 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning, UNC & Campus Life

• Charles S. Hubbard

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Civil rights era

  Charles S. Hubbard was pastor of the Hillsborough Methodist Church for six years, and in 1953, after two years at Trinity Methodist Church in Raleigh, the Methodist… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Community & Civic Organizations

• Fordyce M. Hubbard

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard, an Episcopal clergyman born in Massachusetts, held the University of North Carolina's chair of Latin from 1848 through 1868 and served as… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Vic Huggins

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Leonard Victor "Vic" Huggins entered UNC in 1920, led its cheerleaders and is credited with creating the Rameses mascot. He and his wife Rebecca opened Huggins Hardware… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Hatcher Hughes

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Hatcher Hughes entered the University of North Carolina in 1901, edited the student annual, and while a senior became an instructor in English, holding the post until he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Arts, Music & Performance

• John Knox Hughes

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Cedar Grove · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  John Knox Hughes was sheriff of Orange County, an office his father had also held, and died in April 1905 after a long illness. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 47 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Farms & Rural Life

• Langston Hughes

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century

  Langston Hughes came to Chapel Hill in 1931 for a public reading, timed just after the local magazine Contempo printed his poem "Christ in Alabama" and an essay on the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Samuel Wellwood Hughes

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Work, Labor & Industry Antebellum and Civil War

  Samuel Wellwood Hughes (1815–1884), born near Cedar Grove in northern Orange County, opened a classical school for boys in January 1845 that became Hughes' Academy, and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Thomas Hume

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas Hume taught literature at the University of North Carolina from 1885, gathered students in his Chapel Hill home at night to study Shakespeare and preached in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Churches & Faith

• Douglass Hunt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Douglass Hunt, a 1946 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, was its Vice Chancellor for Administration from 1973 to 1980 and then Special… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 27 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Memucan Hunt

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Hunt was appointed treasurer of the Hillsborough district in 1777, one of six district treasurers in the new state, and sat for Granville County in the provincial… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 1 dated event · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• William Lanier Hunt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Eno & Environment Civil rights era

  William Lanier Hunt studied botany under W. C. Coker at UNC, graduating in 1931, and helped develop the Coker Arboretum and the university's grounds. He led the creation… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Eno & Environment, UNC & Campus Life, Community & Civic Organizations

• James Hunter

  Featured profile · Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  James Hunter (about 1735 to about 1783) came to Orange County as a young man, received a 200-acre grant in its western part in 1757, and became a Regulator leader who… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 18 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County

• William Huntington

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  William Huntington (1792–1874) was a Hillsborough silversmith and engraver, trained by his father, the silversmith Roswell Huntington. He opened his own shop in the town… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• Herman Husband

  Featured profile · Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Herman Husband (1724 to about 1795) acquired more than 10,000 acres in Orange and Rowan counties and settled on Sandy Creek. He was the Regulators' spokesman and… Source ↗

  14 indexed works · 40 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• John R. Hutchins

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  John R. Hutchins was a deacon of the Chapel Hill Baptist church who built and fitted up the room where the new congregation held its services in 1854 and 1855, and he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Churches & Faith, Politics & Government

• James Iredell

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  James Iredell led the case for the federal Constitution at the convention that met at Hillsborough in July 1788. He was named to its committee on rules and to its… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Colonial Orange County

• Blyden Jackson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Blyden Jackson (1910–2000) joined the UNC-Chapel Hill English department in 1969 and became the university's first tenured Black professor. He retired from teaching in… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights, Literature & Publishing

• Jesse Jackson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Jesse Jackson, the former presidential candidate, came to Chapel Hill on April 15, 1993, while students were occupying South Building to press for a free-standing Black… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Marian Cheek Jackson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Marian Cheek Jackson (1925–2017) was the historian of St. Joseph C.M.E. Church in Chapel Hill from the early 1950s. The daughter of Kennon Cheek, who founded the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, UNC & Campus Life

• Roberta Bowles Hodges Jackson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Roberta Jackson became the first Black tenure-track faculty member in UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Education in 1970, taught education, and later became the first tenured… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education

• William Picard Jacocks

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  William Picard Jacocks, a 1904 graduate of the University of North Carolina, settled in Chapel Hill after retiring from the Rockefeller Foundation's public health work… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Health, Medicine & Care

• Hinton James

  In a named event · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  The first student to reach the new university at Chapel Hill, Hinton James arrived on 12 February 1795 and was the only student for two weeks. He belonged to the first… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Durham County (neighboring) · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  In his last year as governor of North Carolina and president of the university's trustees, Thomas Jordan Jarvis received an honorary doctor of laws at the 1884… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• John Blackfeather Jeffries

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Eno River · Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology Recent decades

  John Hayles Blackfeather Jeffries (1939–2023), born to a Hillsborough family and a 1957 graduate of Orange County's Central High School, played leading roles in the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology

• Richard H. Jenrette

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Buildings & Preservation Recent decades

  Richard Jenrette, a UNC graduate and Wall Street financier, bought Ayr Mount in Hillsborough in 1985 and paid for its restoration, staying there while he served on the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Carolina Sports

• Andrew Johnson (Journey of Reconciliation)

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Andrew Johnson, a Black college student on the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, was arrested with Joseph Felmet at the Chapel Hill bus station in April 1947 for keeping a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Gerald W. Johnson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Gerald W. Johnson joined the University of North Carolina faculty in 1924 as professor of journalism. He helped President Harry Woodburn Chase in a successful campaign… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• Guion Griffis Johnson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Women's Lives & History Early twentieth century

  Guion Griffis Johnson worked at UNC’s Institute for Research in Social Science from 1924 and held a string of Chapel Hill civic posts: PTA president in 1937–1938… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Community & Civic Organizations, UNC & Campus Life

• Guy Benton Johnson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science and joined the university's faculty in 1927, becoming… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• S. A. Johnson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  S. A. Johnson was cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Hillsborough, and when the Durham Bank and Trust Company absorbed that bank in June 1939 he took charge of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Community & Civic Organizations

• Charles W. Johnston

  Wider story · New Hope · Churches & Faith Reconstruction and the New South

  Charles W. Johnston was a ruling elder of New Hope Presbyterian Church and a grandson of Mary Strayhorn Cabe, daughter of Gilbert Strayhorn, whose gift of land the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith

• George Mulholland Johnston

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  George Mulholland Johnston was a Hillsborough merchant with business connections across North Carolina. He married Eliza Mary Bond of Hillsborough around 1831 or 1832… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce

• Joseph E. Johnston

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Wars & Military Service Antebellum and Civil War

  Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston met Union general William T. Sherman three times in April 1865 at James and Nancy Bennitt's farm in Orange County, on the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service

• Samuel Johnston

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Samuel Johnston of Edenton, the leader of North Carolina's Federalists, was elected unanimously as president of the July 1788 convention at Hillsborough, which decided… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 13 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County

• William Johnston

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Revolution and early republic

  William Johnston, a Scottish-born merchant, lived in Hillsborough by 1767 and kept a store there with James Thackston, besides a plantation and store called Snow Hill… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• Allen Jones

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Allen Jones sat in the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in August and September 1775, where he was named to the committee of seven that drew up the Test the… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service

• Cadwallader Jones

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Jones was the son of Cadwallader and Rebecca Jones of West Hill near Hillsborough. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1832, began practicing law in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 31 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Community & Civic Organizations

• Charles M. Jones

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Civil rights era

  The Rev. Charles M. Jones, pastor of University Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill from 1941 to 1953, drove the Journey of Reconciliation riders attacked at the bus… Source ↗

  12 indexed works · 26 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations

• H. G. Jones

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  In 1974 H. G. Jones succeeded William S. Powell as curator of UNC's North Carolina Collection and adjunct professor of history. The next year he founded the North… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Community & Civic Organizations

• Halcott P. Jones

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Work, Labor & Industry Reconstruction and the New South

  Halcott P. Jones headed H. P. Jones & Co., which made long-cut and granulated smoking tobacco at a factory near the railroad depot in Hillsborough, as the 1886 North… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Howard Mumford Jones

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  An English professor at the University of North Carolina, Howard Mumford Jones founded the Bull's Head Bookshop in 1927 in his Murphey Hall office, planned as a campus… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Johnston Blakeley Jones

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Antebellum and Civil War

  Johnston Blakeley Jones (1814–1889) was born at Rock Rest in Chatham County and settled in Chapel Hill as a physician in 1841. He took over the old medicine shop on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Kenneth Jones

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Kenneth Jones, whom the Chapel Hill Weekly called a leading Black citizen of the town, spoke with Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt and Negro Civic League president Charles Craig… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations, Schools & Education

• Paul Jones

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Paul Jones (born 1950), a poet and information technologist, worked in the Office of Information Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1996 and in 1992 helped… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Literature & Publishing

• Pride Jones

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Health, Medicine & Care Antebellum and Civil War

  Pride Jones (1815–1889), a Hillsborough-born physician and 1834 UNC graduate, was clerk of superior court for Orange County and represented it in the General Assembly in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 44 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Willie Jones

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Willie Jones marched into Orange County with Governor Tryon's militia in 1771 as his aide-de-camp, and in 1788 led the Anti-Federalists against the Constitution at the… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 22 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice

• Michael Jordan

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Jordan played all three of his Carolina seasons, from 1981-82 through 1983-84, in Carmichael Auditorium in Chapel Hill, scoring in double figures in 90 of his 101 games… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• James Yadkin Joyner

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  James Yadkin Joyner (1862–1954), a member of the University's class of 1881, was North Carolina's superintendent of public instruction from 1902 to 1919. The men's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life

• Alexander Julian

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Recent decades

  Alexander Julian grew up working in Julian's, the clothing store his father opened on Franklin Street in 1942, and in 1969 ran his own Franklin Street shop, Alexander's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Maurice Julian

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Maurice Julian was a Chapel Hill clothier and university alumnus who founded Julian's College Shop on Franklin Street. In 1942 he and his wife, Mary, opened a men's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life

• Milton Julian

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Laurel Hill · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Milton Julian was a Chapel Hill clothier. In 1947 or 1948 he opened Milton's Clothing Cupboard on West Franklin Street, which stayed open until 1992. When the architect… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Business, Shops & Commerce, Law, Courts & Justice

• Charlie Justice

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Justice played tailback at UNC in Chapel Hill from 1946 to 1949, leading Carolina to a 32-7-2 record and three New Year's Day bowl games. He was Walter Camp National… Source ↗

  27 indexed works · 5 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly

  Featured profile · Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Antebellum and Civil War

  Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly (1818–1907; NCpedia gives about 1820) was enslaved in Hillsborough from 1835, after Armistead Burwell loaned her to his son Robert, a Presbyterian… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Women's Lives & History

• Randall Kenan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Randall Kenan graduated from UNC in 1985 with an English degree, returned as a visiting professor in 1995, and joined the faculty full time in 2003, teaching fiction… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• William Rand Kenan Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  As a UNC student in 1893, William Rand Kenan Jr. helped chemistry professor Francis Venable demonstrate calcium carbide in Person Hall. In 1926 he gave 275,000 dollars… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Carolina Sports, Buildings & Preservation

• Alonzo W. Kenion

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Alonzo W. Kenion was Orange County's register of deeds from about 1916 to 1919 and clerk of the superior court from 1926 to 1942, by the county's lists of its officers… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• John F. Kennedy

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Kennedy received an honorary Doctor of Laws at UNC's University Day ceremony in Chapel Hill in October 1961 and spoke to an estimated 32,000 people in Kenan Stadium… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 1 dated event

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• David Ker

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  David Ker came to Chapel Hill from Fayetteville in 1794 and became the first professor and first presiding professor of the University of North Carolina when it opened… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Oliver Owen Kessing

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  Oliver Owen Kessing, an Indiana native and Naval Academy graduate, was the first commanding officer of the Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 10 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, UNC & Campus Life

• John Kimberly

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  John Kimberly was elected to the University of North Carolina's chair of agricultural chemistry in January 1857, succeeding Benjamin Hedrick, and after a year of study… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• John Kinchen

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  John Kinchen (about 1745–1794), a Halifax lawyer, moved to Hillsborough in 1770 and practised law there for about ten years, keeping a plantation called Tar Hill near… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Chapel Hill in May 1960. He addressed church groups at University Baptist Church, took questions in two UNC sociology classes, and gave a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Churches & Faith, Politics & Government

• Ellie Kinnaird

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Kinnaird was mayor of Carrboro from 1987 to 1996 and then sat in the North Carolina Senate from 1997 to 2013. Her papers, covering 1987 to 2016 and documenting her… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 104 dated events · 21 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Women's Lives & History

• George Kirkland

  In a named event · Hillsborough, Orange County · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  George Kirkland was born in Hillsborough in late 1841 to Elizabeth Hobbs, then enslaved there. His father was Alexander Kirkland, son of a wealthy Hillsborough planter.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Black Life & Civil Rights, Wars & Military Service

• John U. Kirkland

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  John Umstead Kirkland (1802–1879), son of the Hillsborough merchant William Kirkland, acquired Ayr Mount from his mother's estate and lived there until his death in… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 25 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Families, Land & Genealogy, Politics & Government

• William Kirkland

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  William Kirkland (1768–1836) emigrated from Ayr, Scotland, opened a store in Hillsborough and built Ayr Mount, his plantation at Hillsborough, where he held at least… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 16 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Buildings & Preservation, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Carolyn Kizer

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Civil rights era

  Poet Carolyn Kizer was UNC's writer-in-residence in 1967–68 and joined the English faculty on February 1, 1970, as a visiting lecturer heading the poetry side of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Mark Kleinschmidt

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Kleinschmidt served on the Chapel Hill Town Council and then as mayor of Chapel Hill, and has been Orange County clerk of superior court since 2018. In 2026 he received… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism, Law, Courts & Justice

• Peter H. Klopfer

  Wider story · Orange County, Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Peter H. Klopfer was a Duke University biologist. In 1962 he and his wife Martha joined other Quakers in founding Carolina Friends School, later built on land the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Adam Alexander Kluttz

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Adam Alexander Kluttz was a Chapel Hill merchant who took over management of Dr. Abner B. Roberson's general store in 1884 and in 1894 moved into a brick store he built… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce

• Joseph Palmer Knapp

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Joseph Palmer Knapp (1864–1951), a New York publisher and financier, is the namesake of the Institute of Government building in Chapel Hill, which the Knapp Foundation… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Edgar Wallace Knight

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Edgar Wallace Knight, a historian of American education, joined the University of North Carolina faculty in 1919 and made Chapel Hill his home. He held a Kenan… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 21 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life

• Edward M. Knox

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Edward M. Knox, a recent graduate of the University's engineering school when Chapel Hill hired him, was the town's manager until July 1928, when he left to become city… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 45 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Frederick H. Koch

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Frederick H. Koch came to Chapel Hill in 1918 at President Edward Kidder Graham's invitation, taught dramatic literature and playwriting at UNC for twenty-six years and… Source ↗

  12 indexed works · 42 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Sarah Kollock

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Sarah Kollock (1826–1907) grew up in her uncle Frederick Nash's house on Margaret Lane in Hillsborough, studied at the Burwell School and in 1848 became its teacher of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Charles Kuralt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Kuralt entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951, majored in history, edited the Daily Tar Heel, and worked for WUNC radio and for WCHL in Chapel… Source ↗

  10 indexed works · 13 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Literature & Publishing

• Kay Kyser

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  Kay Kyser entered UNC in 1923, was a Carolina cheerleader, acted in Carolina Playmaker productions and in 1926 took over leadership of the campus band. After a national… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life, Carolina Sports

• Thomas W. Lambeth

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Thomas W. Lambeth, a 1957 Carolina history graduate, served on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and chaired it for two years. He was executive director of the Z.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Edwin Sidney Lanier

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Edwin Sidney Lanier (1901–1983) was born near Metter, Georgia, and came to UNC as a student in 1921. He later directed the university's student aid office from 1934 and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 60 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Growth, Land & Planning

• William F. Lathan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, White Cross · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  W. F. Lathan came to Chapel Hill High School in the summer of 1941 to teach in its new department of vocational agriculture, after two years teaching and demonstrating… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Farms & Rural Life, Wars & Military Service

• Samuel T. Latta Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Samuel Tate Latta Jr., a native of Orange County educated at Cedar Grove Academy and State College, served in the First World War, was county treasurer and then sheriff… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 23 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Lydia Lavelle

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Lavelle won a seat on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in 2007 and served two terms, then was mayor of Carrboro for four terms from 2013 to 2021. She is a professor at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism, Law, Courts & Justice

• Alfred Stratton Lawrence

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  Alfred Stratton Lawrence was rector of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill from 1921 to 1943, after serving parishes that included Hillsborough, and helped found the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 23 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation

• George H. Lawrence

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  George H. Lawrence came to Chapel Hill in 1922, took a master's degree at the University in 1928, and for several years was Orange County's superintendent of public… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 77 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• Dudley M. Laws

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Dudley M. Laws was elected treasurer of Orange County on the Democratic ticket in November 1884, carrying 1,695 votes to 1,037 for his chief opponent. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• George Laws

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  George Laws, born in Orange County, lived about 57 years in Hillsborough and served as deputy sheriff, clerk of the county court and, by 1871, clerk of the superior… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 30 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith

• Hubert G. Laws

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Hubert G. Laws was one of the incorporators of the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation, the rural electric cooperative based at Hillsboro, and served as its… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life

• John Lawson

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Eno River · Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology Colonial and Regulator years

  The English surveyor John Lawson reached Occaneechi Town, near present-day Hillsborough, in early 1701 on a reconnaissance of the Carolina interior for the Lords… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Indigenous Peoples & Archaeology, Colonial Orange County

• Sturgis E. Leavitt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Sturgis E. Leavitt taught Spanish at the University of North Carolina from 1917 until he retired in 1960, becoming a Kenan Professor in 1945. He founded and directed the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Albert R. Ledoux

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Albert R. Ledoux, a chemist trained at Columbia College and Goettingen, began his career as the first director and state chemist of the North Carolina Agricultural… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Farms & Rural Life

• Howard N. Lee

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Howard N. Lee came to Chapel Hill from Georgia in 1964 to study at UNC. On May 6, 1969, he was elected mayor of Chapel Hill, the first African American mayor elected in… Source ↗

  13 indexed works · 184 dated events · 36 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government

• J. Kenneth Lee

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  J. Kenneth Lee was one of five Black students who enrolled at UNC's law school in Chapel Hill in June 1951, after a 1949 lawsuit in which Thurgood Marshall represented… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 4 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Robert E. Lee

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, was honored at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill decades after the war. The class of 1897 gave the university a… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Hugh Talmage Lefler

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Early twentieth century

  Hugh Talmage Lefler (1901–1981) joined the University's history faculty in Chapel Hill in 1935, succeeding R. D. W. Connor, was named Kenan Professor in 1955 and retired… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• William Lenoir

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  William Lenoir was the first chairman of the University of North Carolina's board of trustees, and Lenoir Hall, the campus dining hall that opened in January 1940, was… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• William E. Leuchtenburg

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  William E. Leuchtenburg taught at UNC-Chapel Hill for two decades from 1982, retiring in 2002 as William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, and afterward served on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Jenny Levy

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Jenny Levy has been the only head coach of women's lacrosse at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, named the new program's first head coach in October 1994.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Henry W. Lewis

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916–2004) joined the faculty of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill in 1946 and was its director from 1973 to 1979. He was the Institute's… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Richard H. Lewis

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Richard H. Lewis, a Raleigh eye and ear physician and longtime secretary of the State Board of Health, sat on the University of North Carolina's board of trustees for… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Simon Lindley

  Wider story · Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Colonial and Regulator years

  Simon Lindley was born in Orange County on 20 January 1769 and, after marrying Anna Stanley in South Carolina in 1789, made his home there until the family moved to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Churches & Faith, Families, Land & Genealogy

• William E. Lindsay

  Wider story · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Work, Labor & Industry Early twentieth century

  William E. Lindsay was a hosiery manufacturer in West End, the mill village that became Carrboro. In 1902 he and his partners chartered the Blanche Hosiery Mills… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Everyday Life & Traditions, Churches & Faith

• William F. Little

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  William F. Little joined UNC's chemistry faculty in 1956, chaired the department from 1965 to 1970, and later served as vice chancellor for development and public… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 10 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• George Livas

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  George Livas, a Greek immigrant who came to the United States in 1921, moved to Chapel Hill in 1922 to work at the Carolina Confectionary, went into partnership with… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Food, Drink & Local Culture, Newcomers & Changing Communities

• Sophia (Sophie) Livas

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Sophie Livas ran the Carolina Coffee Shop in Chapel Hill after the death of her husband, George Livas, in 1956, and sold it to Donald Belton, who became the restaurant's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Food, Drink & Local Culture, Women's Lives & History

• Braxton Bynum Lloyd

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Early twentieth century

  Braxton Bynum Lloyd, a Chapel Hill native, practiced medicine in the Chapel Hill community from 1912 until he died at his Carrboro home in 1947. He was mayor of Carrboro… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government

• Brodie Lloyd

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro, Calvander · Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement Early twentieth century

  Brodie H. Lloyd, a cousin of Alberta Cotton Mill founder Thomas F. Lloyd, built many of the privately owned houses rented to Carrboro's mill workers from the 1890s on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Lueco Lloyd

  Connected to an institution · White Cross, Carrboro · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Lueco Lloyd of White Cross served Orange County in the state legislature and was later a deputy collector of internal revenue. For half a century he was active in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Thomas Lloyd (died 1792)

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Thomas Lloyd (about 1710–1792) settled on Marks Creek north of present Chapel Hill in the 1750s, sat as an Orange County justice of the peace and represented Orange in… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder)

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro · Work, Labor & Industry Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas F. Lloyd, a Confederate army veteran, bought land beside the new railroad depot at West End, where he and William Pritchard built a steam grist mill and cotton… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 23 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Thomas Phillip Lloyd

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Thomas Phillip Lloyd, known as Philip, was a Chapel Hill pharmacist. A 1920 graduate of the university's pharmacy school, he worked for many years at the Patterson… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Health, Medicine & Care

• Samuel Paul Lockhart

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Efland · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Samuel Paul Lockhart (1890–1956), born in Orange County and schooled at Bingham Academy and the University of North Carolina, was superintendent of the Orange County… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education

• Cornelia Spencer Love

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Civil rights era

  Love was a librarian at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1917 to 1948 and wrote When Chapel Hill Was a Village in 1976. She was a granddaughter of… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 9 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• James Lee Love

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  James Lee Love taught mathematics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1885 to 1889, then taught at Harvard until 1911, where he was dean of the… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 17 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Buildings & Preservation

• J. Spencer Love

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  J. Spencer Love, founder of Burlington Industries and a grandson of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, made a gift to the Institute of Government in 1941 that was crucial to its… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• June Spencer Love

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Reconstruction and the New South

  June Spencer Love, born Julia James Spencer in Clinton, Alabama, on June 1, 1859, was the daughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer and grew up in Chapel Hill. Her letters… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Everyday Life & Traditions

• Lydia

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  Hillsborough's commissioners voted in March 2021 to rename Thomas Ruffin Street as Lydia Lane for Lydia, the enslaved woman whom John Mann shot and injured as she ran… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Edwin M. Lynch

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Edwin M. Lynch was clerk of the Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough. In 1964 the county commissioners, at the Hillsborough Historical Society's request, named… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Lemuel Lynch

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  Lemuel Lynch (1808–1893), a silversmith and watchmaker trained in William Huntington's Hillsborough shop, worked in Hillsborough from 1834 until his death. Appointed a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Jeff MacNelly

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  Jeff MacNelly drew sports cartoons for the Daily Tar Heel as a UNC student from 1965, then editorial cartoons for the Chapel Hill Weekly under editor Jim Shumaker, where… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life

• William de Berniere MacNider

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Born in Chapel Hill, William de Berniere MacNider graduated in the first class of UNC's medical school in 1903, organized the university's first Department of… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Charles Edward Maddry

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  Charles Edward Maddry, born near Chapel Hill in 1876, was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1901 to 1904, was ordained at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 43 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education

• Robert W. Madry

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Civil rights era

  Robert W. Madry, a 1918 graduate of the University of North Carolina, came back to Chapel Hill in 1922 to head the University news bureau, and in July 1942 the town's… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 41 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• William P. Mallett

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Reconstruction and the New South

  William Peter Mallett moved his medical practice from Fayetteville to Chapel Hill in 1857 and treated villagers and university students for more than thirty years… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• Wright Malone

  In a named event · Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Wright Malone, a young Black farmer who grew up enslaved, lived with his parents Squire and Malinda Malone near the Little River in eastern Orange County. On September… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Adolphus Williamson Mangum

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Adolphus Williamson Mangum, a Methodist minister and former Confederate chaplain, served as a pastor in Chapel Hill and taught moral philosophy, history and English… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith

• Charles Staples Mangum

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Early twentieth century

  Charles Staples Mangum, a son of University professor A. W. Mangum, returned to Chapel Hill in 1896 as the University's professor of physiology and later taught anatomy.… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 26 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• Charles S. Mangum Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Charles S. Mangum Jr. lived at 510 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. He inherited the old Mangum house at East Rosemary and Hillsborough streets from his aunt, Mary… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Willie P. Mangum

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Durham County (neighboring) · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  Willie P. Mangum (1792–1861) was born at Red Mountain in Orange (now Durham) County, was schooled partly in Hillsborough and represented Orange County in the House of… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 35 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Charles Manly

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Charles Manly (1795–1871), an 1814 graduate, served as a University of North Carolina trustee from 1821 to 1849 and from 1850 to 1868 and sat for years on the trustees'… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Isaac Hall Manning

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Isaac Hall Manning joined the UNC medical faculty in 1901 as professor of physiology and was dean of the School of Medicine from 1905 to 1933. He applied a quota… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• John Manning

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  John Manning was elected professor of law at the University of North Carolina in 1881 and built law enrollment from seven to eighty-seven students by 1897-98. A… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 21 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• Jayne Mansfield

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield, in North Carolina for a nightclub engagement in Greensboro, appeared in the pace car for the race at Orange Speedway near Hillsborough… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes Carolina Sports, Everyday Life & Traditions

• Doug Marlette

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette moved to Hillsborough in the early 1990s and in 2001 was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in UNC's School of Journalism… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Alexander Martin

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Alexander Martin, a Salisbury lawyer, was among the lawyers a Regulator mob assaulted at the Hillsborough court in September 1770. He later represented Guilford County… Source ↗

  25 indexed works · 14 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service

• Josiah Martin

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Josiah Martin, governor of North Carolina, wrote to the Earl of Hillsborough from Hillsborough on August 30, 1772, after a tour west into the Regulator country. He… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 8 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• William Joseph Martin

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement Antebellum and Civil War

  William Joseph Martin (1830–1896) joined the University of North Carolina faculty in 1857 as professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology, succeeding Elisha Mitchell.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, UNC & Campus Life, Wars & Military Service

• Charlie Lee Martindale

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Buildings & Preservation Early twentieth century

  Charlie Lee Martindale was a Chapel Hill contractor said to have built many of the brick stores on Franklin Street and several houses in the Franklin-Rosemary area. He… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Business, Shops & Commerce, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• David Mason Jr.

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  David Mason Jr. was one of the Chapel Hill Nine, Lincoln High School students who organized one of the town's earliest sit-ins and were indicted in 1960 for trespassing… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Danita Mason-Hogans

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Danita Mason-Hogans, daughter of Chapel Hill Nine member Dave Mason, was a leader of Chapel Hill's Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task Force, which in 2018 gave… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Women's Lives & History

• James B. Mason

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  James B. Mason came to the university from Davie County as a student in 1867–1868 and stayed in Chapel Hill through Reconstruction, serving as clerk to the town… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• James Pleasant Mason

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Reconstruction and the New South

  James Pleasant Mason married Mary Elizabeth Morgan, whose family farm was later bequeathed to the University of North Carolina and became the Mason Farm Biological… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Farms & Rural Life, UNC & Campus Life

• Don S. Matheson

  Wider story · Orange County, Schley · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  Don S. Matheson was Orange County's farm agent for about thirty-four years, from the late 1920s until he retired in the summer of 1963. In the 1930s he spoke regularly… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 127 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Everyday Life & Traditions, Growth, Land & Planning

• Erin Matson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Erin Matson played field hockey at UNC on four NCAA and five ACC championship teams and graduated in December 2022. Named the program's fifth head coach on January 31… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• George Matsumoto

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Morgan Creek Hills · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  George Matsumoto (1922–2016), a Japanese American modernist architect who taught at North Carolina State College's School of Design from 1948 to 1961, designed the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Stuart Matthews

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Matthews sat on the steering committee of Students for a Democratic Society. In 1966 he joined eleven other enrolled… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• William T. Mattox

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Efland · Health, Medicine & Care Early twentieth century

  William T. Mattox was a minister of the Christian church who had led several congregations in eastern North Carolina. In July 1937 he became Orange County's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Farms & Rural Life, Women's Lives & History

• A. K. McAdams

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  A. K. McAdams, a farmer from the Hebron section of Orange County, became chief clerk of the county's AAA office in Hillsboro on December 1, 1944. He had spent the two… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Politics & Government

• John F. McAdams

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  John F. McAdams was Orange County's register of deeds, and so clerk to the county commissioners, from 1920 until he died of a stroke in July 1926, a month after his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government

• Hugh McAden

  Wider story · Eno River, Cedar Grove · Churches & Faith Colonial and Regulator years

  Hugh McAden, a Presbyterian licentiate on a year's mission through the Carolinas, preached to the settlement on the Eno on the second Sabbath of August 1755, lodging at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Colonial Orange County

• Adeline Denham McCall

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Adeline Denham McCall came to Chapel Hill in 1918 and graduated from the university in 1922. She was music supervisor in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro public schools for… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 5 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Mac McCaughan

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Mac McCaughan founded Merge Records in Chapel Hill in 1989 with Laura Ballance, at the same time the two formed the band Superchunk. The label put out records by local… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Business, Shops & Commerce

• David McCauley

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  David McCauley came to Jesse Hargrave's Franklin Street store as a clerk in 1850 and took over the business with Thomas A. Long after Hargrave died in 1854. He bought… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce

• Manly McCauley

  In a named event · Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Manly McCauley was an 18-year-old Black man who lived and worked on Milton and Maggie Brewer's farm a few miles west of Chapel Hill, in the area where he was born. A mob… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Matthew McCauley

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Matthew McCauley came from Carrickfergus, Ireland, to Orange County before the Revolution, served in the 10th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Army, and with… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Families, Land & Genealogy, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Matthew McCauley Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  Matthew McCauley Jr., born in 1803, was the youngest child of Martha Johnston McCauley and Matthew McCauley Sr., who came to Orange County from County Antrim before the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Families, Land & Genealogy

• William McCauley

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  William McCauley, an immigrant from the north of Ireland who lived in the Great Meadows a few miles west of Chapel Hill, gave 100 acres toward the university's site. He… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• Roland P. McClamroch

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Roland P. McClamroch of Chapel Hill was Orange County's representative in the 1939 state House. That session he introduced a bill for statewide highway zoning, meant to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Growth, Land & Planning

• Sandy McClamroch

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Roland P. (Sandy) McClamroch of Chapel Hill founded the radio station WCHL in 1953, served two terms as a town alderman and was mayor of Chapel Hill through the 1960s.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 45 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Growth, Land & Planning

• Hortense McClinton

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  McClinton became the first Black professor at UNC-Chapel Hill when the School of Social Work hired her in 1966, and she taught there until she retired in 1984. In… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Jill McCorkle

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Jill McCorkle, a novelist, was a lecturer in the University of North Carolina's creative writing program, teaching honors writing courses for first-year students and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Samuel Eusebius McCorkle

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, a university trustee, chaired the first curriculum committee, wrote the first student regulations, and gave the address at the laying of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith, Schools & Education

• J. H. McCracken

  Connected to an institution · Caldwell, Cedar Grove · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  J. H. McCracken was principal of Caldwell Institute until he resigned at its 1897 commencement, when the trustees elected Thomas T. Candler, a young man from the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education

• Alexander McCulloch

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Alexander McCulloch (died 1798), a Halifax County planter and royal councillor who enslaved more than seventy people at his death, held a commission in the Orange County… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service

• Alphonso J. McDade

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Alphonso J. McDade put up the brick building at the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia streets in Chapel Hill in 1880 and was the town's mayor in 1884. In 1894 he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Buildings & Preservation

• Patterson H. McDade

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  Patterson H. McDade was a Chapel Hill property owner and town official in the middle of the 1800s. He bought a lot on West Franklin Street from Professor Elisha Mitchell… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Families, Land & Genealogy, Politics & Government

• Charles A. McDougle

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  McDougle was principal of Chapel Hill's Orange County Training School from 1946 and then of Lincoln High School, the town's school for Black students, from 1948 until it… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Diana McDuffee

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Diana McDuffee served on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen from 1995 to 2005, where she worked to preserve the town's village feel and human-scale downtown and supported… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Edward G. McGavran

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Civil rights era

  Edward G. McGavran was dean of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill from 1947 to 1963. In those years the school added departments of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Frank McGuire

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  McGuire arrived at UNC in 1952, where his first office was the ticket booth at Woollen Gym in Chapel Hill. His 1956-57 Tar Heels won 32 straight games and the national… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 5 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Alexander McIver

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Alexander McIver, a first-honor graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1853, taught mathematics there briefly as a tutor and returned as professor of… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Floyd B. McKissick

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, City of Durham (neighboring) · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  Floyd B. McKissick (1922–1991) was among the first Black students at the University of North Carolina's law school in Chapel Hill. A Durham lawyer with undergraduate and… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Angus W. McLean

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Angus W. McLean, as governor of North Carolina and so chair of the university's trustees, won a 1925 law that made the governor director of the state budget and put the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Ralph McNair

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Ralph McNair, a Glasgow-born merchant who settled near Hillsborough, sided with the Orange County officials against the Regulators, and Governor Tryon's army bought… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• William McPheeters

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  William McPheeters, a Presbyterian minister and principal of the Raleigh Academy, served for many years as a trustee of the University of North Carolina, which gave him… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Marinda D. McPherson

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  McPherson, of Hillsborough, taught in Orange County for more than four decades and was known as a singer. McKellar Israel recorded her in 1972 and 1973 singing… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Schools & Education

• Alan McSurely

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Recent decades

  Alan McSurely practiced law in Chapel Hill, where he built a reputation as a legal advocate for many in the African American community and represented members of the UNC… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 65 dated events · 9 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Walter R. Mears

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  After retiring from the Associated Press, Walter Mears taught journalism for a time at the University of North Carolina and made his home in Chapel Hill, where he died… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life

• Alexander Mebane

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Alexander Mebane (1744–1795), born at the Hawfields in Orange County, was the county's first sheriff under statehood, from 1777 to 1780, and in November 1792 was among… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• Giles Mebane

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Alamance County (neighboring) · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  Giles Mebane (1809–1899) was born in Orange County near the present town of Mebane, in the part that became Alamance. He tutored at the university after graduating in… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 18 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• James Mebane

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  James Mebane (1774–1857) was born at the Hawfields in Orange County, a son of Alexander Mebane Jr. He entered the University of North Carolina with its first students in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Everyday Life & Traditions

• James A. Medford

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  James A. Medford was president of the Young Men's Christian Association at UNC in Chapel Hill in 1966 and one of the students who asked Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Community & Civic Organizations

• Clarence Merritt Jr.

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Clarence Merritt Jr., 17, was one of the nine Black high school students the Town of Chapel Hill's Chapel Hill Nine subcommittee identified in 2018 as the participants… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Eben G. Merritt

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Eben G. Merritt and his wife, Ruby, opened an Esso filling station on the Pittsboro Road south of Chapel Hill in 1929 and ran it for nearly fifty years; it is the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Law, Courts & Justice, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• James Merritt

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  James (Jim) Merritt, a Northside native, joined the Colonial Drug sit-in of February 28, 1960 as one of the Chapel Hill Nine. He later fought in Vietnam, had a long… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Harold D. Meyer

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Community & Civic Organizations Early twentieth century

  Harold D. Meyer taught sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the 1920s, becoming a full professor in 1926. In 1932 he started the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Community & Civic Organizations, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Philip Meyer

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  Philip Meyer earned a master's in political science in Chapel Hill in the 1950s and returned in 1981 as a Kenan Professor of journalism at UNC, later becoming the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life

• Andrew Mickle

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Andrew Mickle became bursar of the University of North Carolina when it reopened at Chapel Hill, chosen when the trustees stopped giving the post to a professor. A… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 27 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• George Micklejohn

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Colonial and Regulator years

  George Micklejohn was the Church of England rector of St. Matthew's Parish in Hillsborough, sent there by Governor William Tryon in April 1767. In 1768 he preached to… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• Caesar Mills

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

  Caesar Mills, a formerly enslaved person of Hillsborough, had been held in slavery before emancipation by Catherine Roulhac of Hillsborough. A tintype portrait of Mills… Source ↗

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Eunice H. Milton

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Eunice H. Milton signed as president of the campus YWCA when UNC student leaders asked Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson on 14 March 1966 to let Herbert Aptheker and Frank… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Women's Lives & History

• Elisha Mitchell

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Elisha Mitchell (1793–1857) came to Chapel Hill in January 1818 as the university's professor of mathematics and natural philosophy and from 1825 taught chemistry… Source ↗

  20 indexed works · 54 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• James Moeser

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  James Moeser became the ninth chancellor at Chapel Hill on August 15, 2000 and served until June 30, 2008, years of the Carolina First campaign, which raised 2.38… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 16 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Robert L. Mohler

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Schley · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  Robert L. Mohler opened the federal Soil Conservation Service office in Orange County in 1938 and ran it until he went into the Army. He returned to the post in December… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Wars & Military Service, Community & Civic Organizations

• William Montgomery

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  William Montgomery (1789–1844) was a physician who practiced at Albright's in Orange County. He represented Orange in the state senate from 1824 to 1827 and again from… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government

• Alfred Moore

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Revolution and early republic

  Alfred Moore, a Wilmington lawyer, prosecuted several important cases at Hillsborough in 1782 and was made state attorney general that year. While holding that office he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• Bartholomew F. Moore

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Bartholomew Figures Moore (1801–1878) served as a University of North Carolina trustee from 1840 to 1868 and from 1871 until his death, and the university made him an… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• Dan K. Moore

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Dan K. Moore graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1927 and studied law in Chapel Hill for a year. As governor from 1965 to 1969 he set up the nine-member… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 16 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Maurice Moore

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Colonial and Regulator years

  Maurice Moore Jr. was one of the three justices summoned to Hillsborough on 30 May 1771 who sentenced to death twelve Regulators taken at the Battle of Alamance, six of… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 9 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government

• John Lindsay Morehead

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  John Lindsay Morehead (1894–1964), a textile executive and cousin of John Motley Morehead III, ran the Morehead Foundation at the university in Chapel Hill as its… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• John Motley Morehead

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  John Motley Morehead graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1817. He enslaved people, was elected governor of North Carolina in 1840 and 1842, served as… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• John Motley Morehead III

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Morehead graduated from the university at Chapel Hill in 1891 and paid for the planetarium dedicated there on May 10, 1949, as well as the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Mark Morgan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Mark Morgan (about 1715 to about 1777) was one of the first white settlers in the Chapel Hill area and one of its biggest landowners, holding many thousands of acres in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service

• Cameron Morrison

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Cameron Morrison was an influential trustee of the university and, as governor in the early 1920s, a strong supporter of its expansion program; the university named… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Fred W. Morrison

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Fred W. Morrison headed the Chapel Hill school system from 1914 to 1924, apart from army service in 1918. He later served Governor O. Max Gardner as a tax and relief… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life

• Daniel Morrow

  In a named event · Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Daniel Morrow, likely in his late 30s, lived in Orange County with his wife Sally, a sister of Lucinda Morrow, and their four children. On October 14, 1869, a masked… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Jefferson Morrow

  In a named event · Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas Jefferson Morrow, a Black Orange County man in his early 40s, lived with his wife Lucinda and six children and had written to Governor Holden seeking protection… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Thomas Jefferson Morrow

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas Jefferson Morrow was a Black farmer who lived with his wife, Lucinda, on Cane Creek in southwestern Orange County. In the summer of 1869 his sons Washington and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, Everyday Life & Traditions

• Washington Morrow

  In a named event · Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  Washington Morrow, 19, the oldest child of Jefferson and Lucinda Morrow, grew up enslaved and was sharecropping in Orange County when he and his brother Nelson were… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• William Dygnum Moss

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  William Dygnum Moss, known as "Parson Moss," took the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill in 1903 and, after six years in Washington, returned to it in… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life

• William Muirhead

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement Civil rights era

  William Muirhead, a native of Scotland and president of the Country Club Development Corporation, built Glen Lennox, a colony of 314 apartments in 48 one-story buildings… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Growth, Land & Planning, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Lucinda Munger

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Carrboro · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Recent decades

  Lucinda Munger became Orange County's library services director on January 12, 2009, succeeding the retired Brenda Stephens and taking charge of the main library in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Archibald D. Murphey

  Connected to an institution · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Archibald D. Murphey (about 1777–1832) was a UNC graduate and former professor who built his law practice around Hillsborough and, as a state senator from 1812 to 1818… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Schools & Education, Roads, Rail & Transportation, Politics & Government

• Joseph W. Murphy

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Reconstruction and the New South

  Joseph W. Murphy was rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Hillsborough from 1881 to 1892. In 1900 his brother, Dr. Samuel W. Murphy, and his daughter gave the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith

• Pauli Murray

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Murray celebrated her first Eucharist at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill on February 13, 1977, invited by the rector Peter James Lee because of her family's ties… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History, Churches & Faith

• Abner Nash

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Eno River · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Abner Nash moved to Hillsborough, then called Childsburgh, in 1762 or early 1763 and stayed long enough to buy town lots, dam the Eno River and build the town's first… Source ↗

  18 indexed works · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County, Work, Labor & Industry

• Arthur Cleveland Nash

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Buildings & Preservation Early twentieth century

  Nash came to Chapel Hill in 1922 as architect for the University of North Carolina's expansion, working with the builder Thomas C. Atwood and the firm McKim, Mead and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 31 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life

• Francis Nash

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Francis Nash settled in Hillsborough before 1763, kept a store and a law practice, and was clerk of the Orange County superior and inferior courts. He sat for Orange… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 21 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Frank Nash

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Frank Nash grew up at the Nash-Kollock school in Hillsborough and moved back to the town in 1894. He wrote Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), was mayor of… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 25 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Literature & Publishing

• Frederick Nash

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Nash moved from New Bern to Hillsborough in 1807, represented Orange County in the House of Commons in 1814, 1816 and 1817 and the town of Hillsborough in 1828 and 1829… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 45 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• Henry Kollock Nash

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  Henry Kollock Nash, a son of Judge Frederick Nash, practiced law in Hillsborough, represented Orange County in the legislature and was for some years solicitor of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 29 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Maria Nash

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  Maria Nash, a daughter of Chief Justice Frederick Nash, opened the Nash and Kollock School for young ladies in Hillsborough with her sister Sally and their cousin Sara… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• S. A. Nathan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Early twentieth century

  S. A. Nathan was Chapel Hill's municipal health officer, and in 1932 he directed a county campaign of free diphtheria and typhoid shots for children. When he went on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 51 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Bill Neal

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Chatham County (neighboring) · Food, Drink & Local Culture Recent decades

  Bill Neal, who grew up on a small South Carolina farm, opened La Residence after returning to the Chapel Hill and Durham area, and in 1982 turned Crook's Corner, the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Food, Drink & Local Culture, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Mike Nelson

  Featured profile · Carrboro, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Mike Nelson served as mayor of Carrboro from 1995 to 2005, the first openly gay mayor in North Carolina, after winning a seat on the Board of Aldermen in 1993, where he… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 31 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism

• William Nelson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  William Nelson was a dry goods merchant in Hillsborough whose name appears in several business partnerships. He was guardian of his granddaughter Jane Rebecca Parker, a… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 10 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Work, Labor & Industry

• Albert Ray Newsome

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Albert Ray Newsome was an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina until 1926, returned to Chapel Hill in 1934 to head the history department… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• James Nichols

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  James Nichols was a Black building contractor in Hillsborough. In 1896 he built a new house in the town for Mary Gordon and her daughter, and the Orange County Observer… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Buildings & Preservation, Business, Shops & Commerce

• William Nichols

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Buildings & Preservation Antebellum and Civil War

  William Nichols, the English-born state architect of North Carolina, worked for the university in Chapel Hill from 1822 to 1827, building Old West, adding a third story… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith

• George E. Nicholson III

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  George E. Nicholson III chaired the Carolina Forum at UNC in Chapel Hill in 1966. He was one of twelve students who asked Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson to let Herbert… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Stella Nickerson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Stella Nickerson went to Northside Elementary and Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, then spent her senior year at the new Chapel Hill High School when it opened in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Alice Noble

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Community & Civic Organizations Early twentieth century

  Alice Noble of Chapel Hill was librarian and secretary of the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy and worked for the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Community & Civic Organizations, Women's Lives & History, Wars & Military Service

• M. C. S. Noble

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble (1855–1942) came to the University of North Carolina in 1898 as professor of pedagogy, became dean of the School of Education in 1913, and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 45 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life

• John Wall Norwood

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  John Wall Norwood (1803–1885) practiced law in Hillsborough and lived at Poplar Hill, his family's estate on the Eno River, which he restored in the 1840s. A ruling… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 48 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith

• Walter A. Norwood

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Health, Medicine & Care Antebellum and Civil War

  Dr. Walter A. Norwood opened a medicine shop on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill about 1828, across from David B. Alsobrook's hotel, on property he later bought from… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Community & Civic Organizations

• William Norwood

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  William Norwood settled in Hillsborough before 1800, practiced law there and lived at Poplar Hill on the Eno River. He represented the borough of Hillsborough in the… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 22 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• William Nunn

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  William Nunn, a captain in the Revolutionary War and a former sheriff of Orange County, bought James Patterson's inn at Chapel Hill in 1795. He and his wife Betsy… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Holger Nygard

  Connected to an institution · Eno River · Eno & Environment Civil rights era

  Holger Nygard came to Durham for a professorship at Duke and lived with his wife Margaret beside the Eno River. On August 16, 1966, the couple led a group that opposed a… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes Eno & Environment

• Margaret Nygard

  Featured profile · Eno River · Eno & Environment Civil rights era

  Margaret Nygard, a Durham teacher, social worker and environmentalist, led the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, formed after Durham proposed a… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 3 dated events

  Themes Eno & Environment, Women's Lives & History

• Howard W. Odum

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Howard W. Odum (1884–1954), a sociologist of the American South, arrived in Chapel Hill in 1920 to direct the university's School of Public Welfare and Department of… Source ↗

  18 indexed works · 39 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Daniel A. Okun

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Cane Creek · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Daniel A. Okun, a UNC environmental engineer from 1952, led the campaign in the 1980s to build the Cane Creek Dam and Reservoir as a water source for Chapel Hill and the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 13 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Eno & Environment

• Thomas J. Oldham

  Connected to an institution · Oaks, Cane Creek · Farms & Rural Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas J. Oldham was elected president of the Orange County Farmers' Alliance at its meeting of July 10, 1891, when the county Alliance endorsed the sub-treasury plan… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Politics & Government

• Denison Olmsted

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Denison Olmsted was the university's first professor of chemistry, appointed in 1817, and taught at Chapel Hill from 1819 to 1825. While there he carried out the state's… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Jerrold Orne

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Jerrold Orne directed the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 to 1973 and then taught there as professor of library science until 1976. Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Osborne

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  Osborne, an enslaved bricklayer and plasterer, was sent to Chapel Hill in February 1845 to begin the masonry on the additions to Old East and Old West at the university… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Adlai Osborne

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Adlai Osborne (1744–1814), a Rowan County lawyer and court clerk whose Belmont plantation was worked by 25 enslaved people in 1800, was a University of North Carolina… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Colonial Orange County

• Lee S. Overman

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Lee S. Overman, a Trinity College graduate who later became a United States senator, introduced the bill in the General Assembly of 1885 that added $15,000 a year to the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Henry Owl

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Henry Owl (1896–1980), a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was the first American Indian admitted to the University of North Carolina, where he earned a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights

• William D. Paisley

  Wider story · Mebane, Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Antebellum and Civil War

  William D. Paisley (1770–1857) was a Presbyterian minister and teacher who served the Hawfields and Cross Roads churches in western Orange County, now partly Alamance… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Churches & Faith

• James M. Palmer

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  James M. Palmer was a Hillsborough officeholder in the middle of the 1800s. He was named a town commissioner in 1835, was the town's postmaster from 1845 to 1849 and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Families, Land & Genealogy

• Robert Palmer

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Alamance County (neighboring) · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Robert Palmer, a royal councillor who lived at Bath, served as adjutant of Governor William Tryon's first expedition against the Regulators in 1768 and, as colonel of… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 2 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government

• Calvin E. Parish

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Reconstruction and the New South

  Calvin E. Parish lived in Hillsborough for more than forty years, serving as its postmaster before and during the Civil War and several terms as mayor. A lawyer, he was… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 32 dated events

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Harry L. Parish

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Harry L. Parish, a native of Hillsborough, was the town's postmaster under President Cleveland and became Orange County treasurer in 1907, succeeding his late brother C.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 22 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Harrison Parker

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  Harrison Parker of Orange County died at his home in late May 1864, in his seventy-second year. His obituary in the Hillsborough Recorder praised his help to the poor… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• John A. Parker

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  John A. Parker was hired by the University of North Carolina in 1945 to start a Department of City and Regional Planning in 1946, and he led the department until he… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Growth, Land & Planning

• Karen Lynn Parker

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Karen L. Parker transferred to UNC from the Woman's College in Greensboro in fall 1963 as its first Black woman undergraduate. In Chapel Hill she joined CORE, took part… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Charles M. Parks

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Charles M. Parks kept a large store in Hillsborough until February 1889, when James Webb Jr. and Brother bought his whole business, brick store, stock, goodwill and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Churches & Faith, Schools & Education

• David C. Parks

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  David C. Parks owned Hillsborough's Occoneechee Hotel, today's Colonial Inn, on West King Street. In 1889 he joined its lot to the Parks-Richmond House next door to make… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 26 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Buildings & Preservation

• D. C. Parris

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Health, Medicine & Care Reconstruction and the New South

  D. C. Parris was a physician who went into partnership with Dr. Thomas J. Wilson at the start of 1885 to practice medicine in Hillsborough and Orange County. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Isaac C. Patridge

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Antebellum and Civil War

  Isaac C. Patridge began publishing the Harbinger at Chapel Hill in August 1833, under the supervision of the professors of the University of North Carolina. The paper… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Andrew Henry Patterson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Andrew Henry Patterson, an 1891 graduate of the University of North Carolina, was its professor of physics from 1908 until his death in 1928 and, from 1911, dean of its… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Community & Civic Organizations

• Daniel W. Patterson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  Patterson took his MA (1955) and PhD (1959) in English at UNC and taught there for more than three decades. His citation for the university's 2020 Distinguished Alumnus… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Henry Houston Patterson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Henry Houston Patterson was a Chapel Hill general merchant whose store accounts, from 1882 to 1915, include the University of North Carolina and several of its… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce

• James Patterson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Chatham County (neighboring) · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  James Patterson, a slaveholder and a donor of land to the university, was hired by its building committee to oversee the construction of Old East, finished in 1795. In a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• John Patterson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  John Patterson was one of the justices at Orange County's first court session in September 1752. In October 1754 the county court directed him, as treasurer of Corbin… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Churches & Faith

• Rufus Lenoir Patterson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Rufus Lenoir Patterson of Salem was chief marshal of the university's 1850 commencement and graduated in 1851. He was elected a trustee in 1858 and again in 1874, and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• William N. Patterson

  Wider story · Orange County · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  William N. Patterson was a physician and farmer on New Hope Creek, in the part of Orange County that later became western Durham County. He represented Orange in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Henry Pattillo

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Alamance County (neighboring) · Churches & Faith Colonial and Regulator years

  Henry Pattillo moved to Orange County in 1765 as pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River Presbyterian churches, served them for nine years, and kept a classical… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 18 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education, Colonial Orange County

• Benjamin C. Patton

  Connected to an institution · Cedar Grove, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  Benjamin C. Patton kept a high school and academy for boys and girls at Cedar Grove, teaching English, Latin, Greek and music on a ten-month term. Advertising it in 1890… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• James Welch Patton

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  James Welch Patton directed the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1948, succeeding J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Judge Stanley Peele

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Recent decades

  Stanley Peele joined the district court bench about 1970, succeeding his former law partner L. J. Phipps. By 1976 he was known for juvenile cases and for asking Chapel… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• John Penn

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  John Penn of Granville County sat in the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in 1775, which appointed him to the Continental Congress in Richard Caswell's place.… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 7 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service

• William Percival

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  William Percival, an English architect working in North Carolina in the 1850s, designed New East and New West, the university dormitories begun in June 1858 and modeled… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation

• Douglas Perry

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Clyde Douglas Perry was one of the Chapel Hill Nine, who sat in at Colonial Drug in 1960. At the town's 2019 anniversary ceremony, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Thomas Person

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Revolution and early republic

  Thomas Person, an original trustee of the University of North Carolina, gave $1,050 to complete the chapel built at Chapel Hill in 1795 to 1798, which was named Person… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County

• Lee Petty

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Lee Petty of Greensboro won the 200-mile race at Occoneechee Speedway near Hillsborough on October 29, 1950, and raced at the track through the 1950s and 1960s, as did… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Richard Petty

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Richard Petty won the September 1960 race at Orange Speedway near Hillsborough, leading all 110 laps, won the Hillsborough 150 during his ten-race winning streak of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Charles Phillips

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Phillips taught at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill as a tutor from 1844, professor of civil engineering from 1854 and professor of mathematics from 1860.… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 42 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Churches & Faith

• James Phillips

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  English-born James Phillips (1792–1867) taught mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of North Carolina from 1826 until he died in his classroom in 1867.… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 32 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Churches & Faith

• James Dickson Phillips

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  James Dickson Phillips Jr. was an assistant director of the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill in 1948–1949, taught at the UNC School of Law from 1960 to 1978, and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Samuel Field Phillips

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Samuel Field Phillips grew up in Chapel Hill, where his family moved in 1826, practiced law there from 1845 and taught in the university law school from 1854 to 1859. He… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 15 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• William Battle Phillips

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  William Battle Phillips (1857–1918) was born in Chapel Hill, the son of mathematics professor Charles Phillips. He took a Ph.B. in 1877 with the first class of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Luther James Phipps

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  Luther James Phipps (1898–1969) graduated from the university in civil engineering in 1922 and opened a law practice in Chapel Hill in 1924, the year he married Vivian… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 88 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• Clarence Pickard

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  Clarence Pickard of Chapel Hill served on Orange County's Selective Service board from its organization before the Second World War until he resigned in late 1953, the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 18 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Business, Shops & Commerce, Growth, Land & Planning

• Andrew Pickens

  In a named event · Orange County, Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Revolution and early republic

  Brigadier General Andrew Pickens brought militia into Orange County in February 1781 under Nathanael Greene's orders to shadow the British at Hillsborough. His scouts… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service

• E. H. Pogue

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  E. H. Pogue, a Tennessee-born merchant, dealt in tobacco from 1866 alongside a wholesale tinware and general merchandise trade, made plug tobacco at a Hillsborough… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Farms & Rural Life

• Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Sr.

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Sr. (1851–1926), later a Raleigh tobacco manufacturer and longtime secretary of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, began his North Carolina… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce

• James K. Polk

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  James K. Polk graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818. As president he bought a cotton plantation in Mississippi worked by enslaved people, used enslaved… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Leonidas Polk

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Leonidas Polk attended the University of North Carolina from 1821 to 1823 before entering West Point. Consecrated bishop of Louisiana in 1841, he enslaved more than 400… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Wars & Military Service

• William Polk

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  William Polk was a trustee of the University of North Carolina from 1790 until his death in 1834 and president of the trustees from 1802 to 1805. A Revolutionary… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Daniel H. Pollitt

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  Daniel H. Pollitt (1921–2010) taught constitutional and labor law at the UNC School of Law from 1957 until he retired from teaching in 1992. He helped shape the… Source ↗

  16 indexed works · 13 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Solomon Pool

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Solomon Pool entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1849, graduated in 1853 and became tutor of mathematics there that December, rising to adjunct… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Robert S. Powell Jr.

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Robert S. Powell Jr. was executive director of the Carolina Forum at UNC in Chapel Hill and one of the students who asked Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson for permission… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• William S. Powell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  William S. Powell was librarian of UNC's North Carolina Collection from 1951 to 1973 and then taught North Carolina history at the university until 1986, to more than… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Literature & Publishing

• James H. Pratt

  Wider story · Eno River · Farms & Rural Life Antebellum and Civil War

  James H. Pratt was a planter on the Eno River in Orange County. In 1850 he and his wife, Malvina, worked about 800 acres with 47 enslaved people. In 1860 he bought the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Families, Land & Genealogy, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Joseph Hyde Pratt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, North Carolina (statewide) · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Joseph Hyde Pratt came to North Carolina in 1897 as state mineralogist and made his home in Chapel Hill for the rest of his life. As state geologist from 1906 to 1924 he… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 64 dated events · 9 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• David Price

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Recent decades

  David Price represented North Carolina's fourth congressional district, which includes Orange County and Chapel Hill, for more than three decades before retiring in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Renée Price

  Wider story · Orange County, Cedar Grove · Everyday Life & Traditions Recent decades

  Renée Price served ten years on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, stepping down at the end of 2022 to represent House District 50 in the North Carolina General… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Everyday Life & Traditions, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Health, Medicine & Care

• Lillian Hughes Prince

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Lillian Hughes Prince moved to Chapel Hill in the 1930s with her husband, the illustrator William Meade Prince, and acted in thirty or more Carolina Playmakers… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Women's Lives & History

• William Meade Prince

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  William Meade Prince lived in Chapel Hill from age five to fifteen with his grandfather, the Episcopal rector William Meade. A magazine illustrator, he moved back in the… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 11 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Isaac W. Pritchard

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Isaac W. Pritchard grew up on a farm near Chapel Hill and, after moving into the village, dealt in real estate, joined Tom Lloyd in cotton manufacturing and sat for many… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 21 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Work, Labor & Industry

• James Manning Pritchard

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  James Manning Pritchard was a pharmacist and the youngest child of Captain W. N. Pritchard of Chapel Hill. After training at the university's pharmacy school he worked… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce

• Glenn T. Proffit

  Wider story · Orange County, Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Glenn T. Proffit, a 1926 graduate of the University of North Carolina, was superintendent of the Orange County schools in the late 1940s. In 1948 he reported the closing… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, Food, Drink & Local Culture

• John Pryor

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Colonial and Regulator years

  John Pryor was one of the two Regulators whom Orange County voters sent to the colonial Assembly. In April 1768 the Regulators named him first among the men chosen to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice

• Anne Queen

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Anne Queen directed the merged YMCA-YWCA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1964 until she retired in 1975. Born in 1911 and raised in Canton, she… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 3 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life

• Isaac William Rand

  In a named event · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Isaac William Rand, a freshman from Smithfield, died at the University of North Carolina on September 13, 1912, when he fell from a barrel during a sophomore hazing and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• William George Randall

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  William George Randall walked from Burke County to Chapel Hill in the fall of 1880 to enter the university, where the Dialectic Society paid him as its librarian and he… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Arts, Music & Performance

• Mel Rashkis

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Recent decades

  Mel Rashkis moved to Chapel Hill in the early 1960s, and his firm, Mel Rashkis and Associates, was for many years the largest real estate firm in town. He was president… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Schools & Education

• Zora Rashkis

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Recent decades

  Zora Rashkis taught English at Phillips and Culbreth middle schools in Chapel Hill and started the weekly "Meet the Teacher" Cablevision program, which she hosted for 22… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• James P. Raugh

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  James P. Raugh, executive officer of the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill under Commander John P. Graff, took command of the school at a review before about 4,000… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Wars & Military Service

• Shannon Ravenel

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Shannon Ravenel, a St. Louis fiction editor who had studied creative writing with Louis Rubin, founded Algonquin Books with him in 1982. In 1990 Rubin turned control of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing

• John Stark Ravenscroft

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  John Stark Ravenscroft, elected Episcopal bishop of North Carolina in 1823, encouraged the forming of a church in Hillsborough and gave his blessing to William Mercer… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith

• Dwight Ray

  Wider story · Carrboro · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Dwight Ray was a Carrboro merchant and local officeholder. In April 1922 he and Seaton Lloyd opened the Lloyd-Ray hardware and furniture store on Main Street, which for… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 32 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Gilbert W. Ray

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Gilbert W. Ray became Orange County's accountant and purchasing agent on September 3, 1928, and held the post until August 31, 1947, adding the jobs of tax supervisor… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 51 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning

• C. H. Reckard

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Churches & Faith Civil rights era

  The Rev. C. H. Reckard, pastor of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, delivered a sermon in April 1956 criticizing local stock car racing and its effect on young people… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Carolina Sports

• John Shelton Reed

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  John Shelton Reed directed UNC's Odum Institute for Research in Social Science from 1988 to 2000 and helped found the university's Center for the Study of the American… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Garland O. Reitzel

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Wars & Military Service Civil rights era

  Garland O. Reitzel of Hillsborough chaired Orange County's Selective Service board at the end of the Second World War. In January 1946 Governor R. Gregg Cherry presented… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Farms & Rural Life, Community & Civic Organizations

• Penny Rich

  Featured profile · Orange County, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Rich sat on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board from 2001 to 2007 and the Chapel Hill Town Council from 2009 to 2012, then served on the Orange County Board of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Health, Medicine & Care, Growth, Land & Planning

• William P. Richardson

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Early twentieth century

  Richardson was the health officer for Orange County and director of the Orange-Person Health Department in the later 1930s. In July 1937 he ran it jointly with Durham's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 65 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Women's Lives & History

• Roy Riggsbee

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Roy Riggsbee, a native of Bynum who moved to Carrboro about 1930, served the town for twenty years as mayor, commissioner, mayor pro tem and chairman of the town board… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Community & Civic Organizations, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Mildred Ringwalt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Civil rights era

  Mildred Ringwalt, a Chapel Hill Quaker, stood at the Wednesday vigil against the Vietnam War in front of the post office for more than six years, helped organize the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Women's Lives & History, Community & Civic Organizations

• Abner Benton Roberson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Dr. Abner Benton Roberson was Chapel Hill's druggist from about 1869, keeping a general store on the south side of Franklin Street that dealt mainly in drugs and medical… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Health, Medicine & Care

• W. S. Roberson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  W. S. Roberson, mayor of Chapel Hill during the First World War, lent a Main Street store he owned to the Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter as its first workroom in 1917 and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 67 dated events · 10 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service, Community & Civic Organizations

• Clyde Roberts

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  Clyde Roberts, a farmer on Route 1, Hillsboro, joined the board of directors of the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation in 1938 and served as the rural electric… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life

• Fireball Roberts

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Fireball Roberts scored his first victory at Occoneechee Speedway near Hillsborough on August 13, 1950, at age 21, and was one of the prominent racers who regularly… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Reid Roberts

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Farms & Rural Life Civil rights era

  Reid Roberts, a poultry farmer on Route 1, Hillsboro, was master of the Orange County Pomona Grange and a past master of St. Mary's Grange when the State Grange named… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes Farms & Rural Life, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith

• Charles H. Robertson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  C. H. Robertson of Hillsborough sat on the Orange County Council of Defense from June 1917 and chaired the county Red Cross chapter's executive committee from January… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Community & Civic Organizations, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Owen S. Robertson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  Owen S. Robertson of Hillsborough chaired Orange County's draft board when it was set up in the fall of 1940, with G. O. Reitzel of Hillsborough and Clarence Pickard of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government, Community & Civic Organizations

• Paul H. Robertson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Paul H. Robertson, a Johnston County native who lived in Chapel Hill from the early 1920s, was the local Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance agent and a justice of the peace. A… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 29 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Community & Civic Organizations, Wars & Military Service

• Hubert Robinson

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Hubert Samuel Robinson sat on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen from 1953 to 1965. He worked for Frank Porter Graham's family and then as a UNC custodian, was a deacon… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 22 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith

• Porter Robinson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance

  Electronic musician Porter Robinson grew up in Chapel Hill. In 2014, the year of his debut album Worlds, he had deferred enrollment at the University of North Carolina… Source ↗

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance

• Nathaniel Rochester

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Rochester clerked and kept store in Hillsborough from 1768, serving as clerk of St. Matthew's Parish vestry and as a partner in two stores there. He sat on the Orange… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• John Rogers

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  John Rogers was principal of Hillsborough Academy from 1822 to 1826, running it as a school that prepared boys for the University of North Carolina, whose faculty… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education

• John J. W. Rogers

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  John J. W. Rogers (1930–2015) left Rice University, where he had chaired the geology department, in 1975 to take a Kenan chair in geology at the University of North… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• L. B. Rogerson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  L. B. Rogerson came to the University at Chapel Hill in 1921 and installed its accounting and budget systems under Charles T. Woollen. As assistant controller he was… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Igal Roodenko

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Igal Roodenko, a Journey of Reconciliation rider, was arrested at the Chapel Hill bus station in April 1947 after he and Bayard Rustin took the front seats of two… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Roosevelt spoke in Memorial Hall at UNC on January 31, 1942 to a capacity audience of about 2,000, closing a two-day conference on post-war planning run by the Carolina… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Women's Lives & History

• Charles G. Rosemond

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Charles G. Rosemond, a Republican, was elected sheriff of Orange County in November 1916, defeating the Democratic sheriff, R. D. Bain, as the county elected a full… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Edward Atkins Rosemond

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Edward Atkins Rosemond bought the lot at 115 East Tryon Street in Hillsborough in 1885 and built the two-story, triple-A-roofed I-house there between 1888 and 1894. He… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Buildings & Preservation

• James Finch Royster

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  James Finch Royster taught English at the University of North Carolina from 1907 to 1914 and returned in 1921 as Kenan Professor of English Philology. He became dean of… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 16 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Literature & Publishing

• Vermont C. Royster

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  Vermont Royster, a 1935 UNC graduate who edited The Wall Street Journal from 1958 to 1971, returned to Chapel Hill in 1971 and taught journalism and political science at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life

• Louis D. Rubin Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Civil rights era

  While a University of North Carolina English professor, Rubin formed Bright Leaf Press with Shannon Ravenel in 1982, starting in a garage at his home, and the firm grew… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Allen Jones Ruffin

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, West Hillsborough · Work, Labor & Industry Early twentieth century

  Allen Jones Ruffin (1857–1911), from an old Hillsborough family, founded the Eno Cotton Mill with James H. Webb Jr. in 1896, the first textile mill in Hillsborough and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Churches & Faith

• Anne Kirkland Ruffin

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Women's Lives & History Reconstruction and the New South

  Anne Kirkland, born in 1794 into the family whose home was Ayr Mount, married the lawyer Thomas Ruffin in 1809 and settled with him in Hillsborough. He became chief… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Families, Land & Genealogy

• Jesse Ruffin

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Antebellum and Civil War

  Jesse Ruffin (1806–1901) was a coachman enslaved by Judge Thomas Ruffin, carrying goods and dispatches for the judge and, before the railroad came, driving a stagecoach… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Carolina Sports

• Thomas Ruffin

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Ruffin entered the bar at Hillsborough in 1808 and served on the University of North Carolina's Board of Trustees from 1813 to 1831 and from 1842 to 1868. On the state… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 56 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Politics & Government

• Thomas Ruffin Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Reconstruction and the New South

  Thomas Ruffin Jr. (1824–1889), a Hillsborough-born son of Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin, was a lawyer and Confederate officer who moved back to Hillsborough in 1870 and in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Buildings & Preservation

• Charles E. Rush

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Charles E. Rush came to Chapel Hill from the Cleveland Public Library in 1941 to direct the University of North Carolina's libraries. By 1952 their holdings had nearly… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Phillips Russell

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Civil rights era

  Russell graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1904 and returned to Chapel Hill in 1931 to teach creative writing for twenty-five years, first in English and… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• Bayard Rustin

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Bayard Rustin organized the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation with George Houser and was arrested at the Chapel Hill bus station in April 1947 after he and Igal Roodenko… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• John Rutherford

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  John Rutherford (1724–1782), also spelled Rutherfurd, was the colony's receiver general of quitrents and a royal councillor who enslaved as many as 150 people. He served… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 2 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Wars & Military Service

• Aziz Sancar

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Aziz Sancar joined UNC's faculty in 1982 and is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; his lab there mapped how cells repair damaged DNA. Since… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care, Newcomers & Changing Communities

• John L. Sanders

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  John L. Sanders joined UNC-Chapel Hill's Institute of Government as instructor and assistant director in 1956 and directed it from 1962 to 1973 and from 1979 to 1992… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Terry Sanford

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Sanford returned to Chapel Hill after the Second World War, completed a law degree at the University of North Carolina in 1946, and served two years as assistant… Source ↗

  6 indexed works · 36 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Erin Sapienza

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Recent decades

  Erin Sapienza is director of the Orange County Public Library. After earning a master's degree in library science from UNC Greensboro in 2010, she joined Orange County… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Everyday Life & Traditions

• William L. Saunders

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  William L. Saunders (1835–1891), an 1854 graduate of the university, was a chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina and in Chapel Hill, and in 1871 refused… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service

• Bonner D. Sawyer

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Civil rights era

  Bonner D. Sawyer, a lawyer, became the partner of A. H. Graham, a former speaker of the state House, in 1930, and the two had their offices in the one-story stone… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 30 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• Beverly Scarlett

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Recent decades

  Beverly Scarlett grew up in Hillsborough, opened a law practice in a rented room there after passing the bar, and worked for years as an assistant district attorney for… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History

• Robert F. Schenkkan Sr.

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Civil rights era

  Robert F. Schenkkan completed an M.A. in drama at UNC in 1947 and taught at the university. In January 1955 he was asked to put WUNC-TV, the tenth public broadcasting… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life

• Eric Schopler

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Civil rights era

  Eric Schopler, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill, developed the TEACCH Autism Program there in the mid-1960s and in 1971 enlisted parents as… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• Anne Firor Scott

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Civil rights era

  Anne Firor Scott moved to Chapel Hill in 1958, when her husband Andrew Scott joined UNC's political science department, and took a temporary position in history at the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Women's Lives & History, UNC & Campus Life

• Charlie Scott

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Charlie Scott became the first Black scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina in 1966. Playing basketball for Carolina, he led the team to ACC… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 3 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Carolina Sports, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Robert W. Scott

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Governor Robert W. Scott sent riot-trained Highway Patrol squads to Chapel Hill in March 1969 to keep Lenoir Hall open during the UNC foodworkers' strike and later… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 13 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• W. Kerr Scott

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Schley · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  W. Kerr Scott, as governor of North Carolina, appointed university president Frank Porter Graham to the U.S. Senate on March 22, 1949, ending Graham's presidency.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Farms & Rural Life

• Ross Scroggs

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Ross Scroggs was a Chapel Hill civic official in the 1960s. In March 1963 he chaired the town Planning Board when it reviewed a regional development plan and went on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 21 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Black Life & Civil Rights, Growth, Land & Planning

• Willie Scroggs

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Willie Scroggs coached men's lacrosse at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for 12 seasons after being hired from Johns Hopkins in 1978, winning NCAA… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Damon Seils

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Damon Seils joined Carrboro's Town Council in April 2013 through a special election and was elected mayor in 2021, serving until December 2023. His term saw the hiring… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Fumiko Seki

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Newcomers & Changing Communities Civil rights era

  Fumiko Seki, a Japanese woman, lived in Chapel Hill from 1955 to 1957 while her husband held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship at UNC. As a mother, wife and student… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Newcomers & Changing Communities, UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Samuel Selden

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Selden joined the University of North Carolina in 1927 as technical director of the Carolina Playmakers and stayed 31 years, serving as chairman of the Department of… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 15 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life

• Lloyd M. Senter

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Lloyd M. Senter, a Carrboro pharmacist and civic leader, was appointed to the Carrboro District School Committee by the Orange County Board of Education in December 1955… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Community & Civic Organizations, Schools & Education

• Robert E. Seymour

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Civil rights era

  Robert Seymour became the first pastor of Chapel Hill's Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in 1959 and stepped down from the pulpit in 1988. In the 1960s he fought for… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 6 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government

• Alan Shapiro

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Alan Shapiro, a poet, joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1995 and became Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing. His collection Reel to Reel… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Paul F. Sharp

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Sharp was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from September 1, 1964 to February 15, 1966. His chancellor's records document… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 27 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Ruth Faison Shaw

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  Ruth Faison Shaw, the teacher who developed finger painting, retired to Chapel Hill, where she researched the use of finger painting in psychiatric therapy at North… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• Karen Shelton

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Karen Shelton coached field hockey at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for 42 seasons, from 1981 until she announced her retirement in December 2022… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• William T. Sherman

  Wider story · Orange County, Chapel Hill · Wars & Military Service Antebellum and Civil War

  William T. Sherman, the Union general whose army entered North Carolina in March 1865, met Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston three times that April at James and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service

• L. R. Sides

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Early twentieth century

  L. R. Sides, a graduate of Elon College who came to the University as a fellow in education and became an instructor in its music department, was principal and acting… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Arts, Music & Performance

• Michael Simmons

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Schools & Education Recent decades

  Michael Simmons was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1977 to 1983. He came from the superintendency in Dillon, South Carolina, which he had held since… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education

• J. Carlyle Sitterson

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  J. Carlyle Sitterson taught history at UNC in Chapel Hill from 1935, became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences in 1955 and led the campus as chancellor from 1966… Source ↗

  21 indexed works · 168 dated events · 20 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Sammy Slade

  Featured profile · Carrboro · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Slade joined Carrboro's elected board in 2009 and served fourteen years on it, arguing throughout for climate action and sustainability. In July 2023 he said he would… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Eno & Environment, Growth, Land & Planning

• Miriam Slifkin

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Women's Lives & History Civil rights era

  Miriam Slifkin moved to Chapel Hill in 1955 and worked as a scientist in UNC's botany department. In 1973 she led the drive to found what became the Orange County Rape… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 16 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Community & Civic Organizations, UNC & Campus Life

• William T. Sloan

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  William Turner Sloan (1894–1958), a Lee County native, joined Chapel Hill's three-man police force in 1924 and later became its chief. He was elected Orange County… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 26 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Benjamin Smith

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Benjamin Smith, a Revolutionary soldier and later governor of North Carolina, was one of the university's first trustees and on December 18, 1789 became its first donor… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Betty Smith

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century

  The Federal Theater sent the playwright Betty Smith to Chapel Hill to work with Frederick H. Koch of the Carolina Playmakers, and she stayed on when the project expired.… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 11 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life

• Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner)

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Carl Smith, an investment counselor, served eight years as an Orange County commissioner and two years in the North Carolina House. In 1974 he ran in the Democratic… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 28 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Schools & Education, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Charles Alphonso Smith

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Charles Alphonso Smith (1864–1924), a Greensboro native, came to the University of North Carolina in 1902 as professor of English and the next year became the first dean… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Dean Smith

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Dean Smith coached UNC men's basketball in Chapel Hill for 35 years, winning 879 games and two NCAA championships. In 1959, as an assistant coach, he joined his pastor… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 22 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• E. Carrington Smith

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  E. Carrington Smith managed the Carolina Theatre in Chapel Hill for the Publix-Saenger company from its opening in the fall of 1927. In its first year he gave more than… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 30 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Everyday Life & Traditions, Health, Medicine & Care

• Fred Smith

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Roads, Rail & Transportation Reconstruction and the New South

  Fred Smith came to Chapel Hill in 1888 and for many years was conductor on the ten-mile branch railroad between the village and University Station, known to generations… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Isabel Smith

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Isabel Smith and her husband, Paul Smith, bought the Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street from Milton Abernethy in 1950 and moved it into the former Berman… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 3 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Literature & Publishing, Women's Lives & History

• James Strudwick Smith

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Health, Medicine & Care Antebellum and Civil War

  James Strudwick Smith (1787–1852) was an Orange County-born physician who practiced in Hillsborough, represented its district in Congress from 1817 to 1821, and later… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 43 dated events · 7 storylines

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government

• James Sidney Smith

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  James Sidney Smith (1819–1867), called Sidney, was a son of James Strudwick Smith of Hillsborough, where the family lived until 1847 and the Smith men were active in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• Lee Smith

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  By 2020 the novelist Lee Smith had lived in Hillsborough for more than twenty years, and she traces her novel On Agate Hill to an old man who knocked at the door of her… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Literature & Publishing

• Louise Smith

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Louise Smith of Greenville, South Carolina, one of two women in the 1949 Strictly Stock race at Occoneechee Speedway near Hillsborough, survived one of the most… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Carolina Sports, Women's Lives & History

• Mary Smith

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Mary Smith worked in the Pine Room at UNC's Lenoir Dining Hall and, with her cousin Elizabeth Brooks, led the campus foodworkers' strike that began on February 23, 1969.… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Work, Labor & Industry

• Mary Ruffin Smith

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War

  Mary Ruffin Smith (1814–1885) lived in Hillsborough until 1847 and then at Price Creek Plantation southwest of Chapel Hill. She enslaved Harriet, bought in 1834 as her… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Families, Land & Genealogy, UNC & Campus Life

• Paul Smith (Intimate Bookshop)

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Civil rights era

  Paul Smith became owner of the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill in 1950, fitting it with display fixtures designed for his earlier shop in the French Quarter of New… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 3 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, Business, Shops & Commerce

• R. D. Smith

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  R. D. Smith was born in Goldsboro in 1918 and came to Chapel Hill in the 1940s to teach agriculture, after graduating from Hampton Institute and serving two years in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 86 dated events · 7 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Remus J. Smith Sr.

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Civil rights era

  Remus J. Smith Sr. had taught in Orange County and Hillsboro schools for about ten years, and was on the Hillsboro High School faculty, when he opened the Smith… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• Oliver Smithies

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Oliver Smithies joined UNC's faculty in 1988 with Nobuyo Maeda and became Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. His Chapel… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care

• Carl Snavely

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Early twentieth century

  Snavely was head football coach at UNC in Chapel Hill from 1934 to 1935 and again from 1945 to 1952, leaving in April 1936 for Cornell after disagreeing with university… Source ↗

  12 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• M. Norma Snipes

  Wider story · Orange County · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  M. Norma Snipes was an educator and civic leader in Orange County's Black community. During World War II she chaired the Citizens Service Corps that Chapel Hill's Black… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, Buildings & Preservation

• Richard Dobbs Spaight

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Richard Dobbs Spaight of New Bern, who had signed the U.S. Constitution, spoke eleven times in its favor at the 1788 state convention in Hillsborough, arguing in vain… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 10 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• C. D. Spangler Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  The two buildings off Raleigh Road in Chapel Hill that held the UNC System's main offices from 1971 until the General Assembly moved the headquarters to Raleigh in 2023… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 33 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• George Attmore Sparrow

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Sparrow was a cadet at the Hillsborough Military Academy, west of Hillsborough, in 1861 and 1862, and wrote to his father from the academy about leaving it for the army.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Wars & Military Service

• W. O. Sparrow

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  W. O. Sparrow was secretary and treasurer of the Orange County Building and Loan Association in Chapel Hill. In March 1930 he reported that in its first ten years the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Community & Civic Organizations

• Walter Spearman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Civil rights era

  Walter Spearman, editor of the Daily Tar Heel as a UNC student, taught journalism at the university in Chapel Hill from 1935 until he retired. He wrote The Carolina… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 8 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life

• Margaret Spellings

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Margaret Spellings, then president of the UNC System, joined Chancellor Carol Folt and the chairs of the university's governing boards in an August 2017 letter warning… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Cornelia Phillips Spencer

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825–1908) grew up in Chapel Hill, where her father taught mathematics at the university. Her articles and letters to state leaders helped win… Source ↗

  24 indexed works · 47 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History, Literature & Publishing

• Elizabeth Spencer

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Novelist Elizabeth Spencer moved to Chapel Hill in 1986, taught as a visiting writer in UNC's Creative Writing Program from 1986 to 1992, and died at her Chapel Hill… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Samuel Spencer

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Samuel Spencer, an Anson County judge, was one of the leading Antifederalists at the 1788 constitutional convention at Hillsborough, where he argued that the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Colonial Orange County

• William Van Sprinkle

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Laurel Hill · Buildings & Preservation Early twentieth century

  William Van Sprinkle was a Durham architect who designed Georgian Revival houses in Gimghoul, Laurel Hill and other Chapel Hill neighborhoods in the 1940s and 1950s.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• James Sprunt

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  James Sprunt paid for most of the 1919–1920 remodeling of the Presbyterian church on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill as a memorial to his wife, Luola Murchison… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life

• John Sanford Spurgeon

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  John Sanford Spurgeon (1863–1950) was a dentist who practiced in Hillsborough for more than sixty years after taking his degree at Vanderbilt in 1886. In 1895 he and his… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce

• Marvin Hendrix Stacy

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Marvin Hendrix Stacy graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1902, became professor of civil engineering in 1910, and served as dean, faculty chairman and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Wars & Military Service, Health, Medicine & Care

• Enoch Staley

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Enoch Staley of North Wilkesboro was one of five men who incorporated Hillsboro Speedway, Inc. in September 1947 to build Occoneechee Speedway near Hillsborough. He… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Carolina Sports, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Chris Stamey

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill in 1954, formed the band Sneakers with drummer Will Rigby while attending UNC in 1975 and later played in the dB's. In the late 1990s… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance

• A. L. Stanback

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Cedar Grove · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Albert Leon Stanback (1911–1964), a native of Chester, South Carolina, came to Hillsborough's high school for Black students as athletic coach and mathematics teacher… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 32 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Charles W. Stanford

  Connected to an institution · White Cross, Orange County · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Charles Whitson Stanford Sr. served on the Orange County Board of Education from 1941 to 1967, much of that time as its chairman. The district dedicated a middle school… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 29 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Farms & Rural Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Richard Stanford

  Wider story · Orange County, Alamance County (neighboring) · Schools & Education Revolution and early republic

  Richard Stanford moved to the Hawfields district of Orange County in 1789 and opened an academy there in September 1790; Thomas Hart Benton was among his early pupils.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Max Steele

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Max Steele (1922–2005), a writer from Greenville, South Carolina, earned his B.A. at UNC in 1946, lectured there in 1956 and returned in 1966 as writer-in-residence.… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 5 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Tom Stevens

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Tom Stevens served fourteen years as mayor of Hillsborough and left office in December 2019. He said he would then give his time to painting and to running his art… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Don Stewart

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Morgan Creek Hills · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  Don Stewart, born in 1926 and raised in Ohio, worked in the Webb brothers' Chapel Hill office while earning a master's degree in regional planning at UNC. Licensed in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Quintana Stewart

  Featured profile · Orange County, Hillsborough · Health, Medicine & Care Recent decades

  Quintana Stewart became Orange County health director on December 18, 2017, chosen after a nationwide search from the Forsyth County Department of Public Health, where… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government

• John Stockard

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  John Stockard represented Orange County in the House of Commons in many sessions from the late 1820s into the 1840s and was one of the leaders of the county's Democratic… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government

• Sallie Walker Stockard

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Sallie Walker Stockard (1869–1963) was the first woman to graduate from the University of North Carolina. After finishing at Guilford College, she entered the university… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History

• Chuck Stone

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone Jr. taught journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1991 until he retired in 2005, and the university's Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Sonja Haynes Stone

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  Sonja Haynes Stone (1938–1991) came to UNC in 1974 as an assistant professor, headed its African and Afro-American Studies curriculum from 1974 to 1979 and advised the… Source ↗

  6 indexed works · 36 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Joe Straley

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Joseph W. Straley (1914–2005) joined UNC's physics faculty in 1945 and retired in 1980. With the Rev. Charles Jones he helped start the racially integrated Community… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 32 dated events · 9 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life

• Lucy Straley

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Community & Civic Organizations Recent decades

  Lucy Straley, a longtime member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, took part in the anti-Vietnam War vigil in front of the Chapel Hill post… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Community & Civic Organizations, Women's Lives & History, Churches & Faith

• Billy Strayhorn

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  The jazz composer came from Ohio to his grandparents' house at the corner of Margaret Lane and Hillsborough Avenue from about age five, attended his first year of school… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Black Life & Civil Rights, Everyday Life & Traditions

• Gilbert Strayhorn

  Connected to an institution · New Hope, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Gilbert Strayhorn (about 1715–1803) was, with John Craig, an original founder of New Hope Presbyterian Church and one of its first ruling elders, from the church's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Churches & Faith, Families, Land & Genealogy

• Isaac R. Strayhorn

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Isaac Richardson Strayhorn, son of Orange County legislator William Fletcher Strayhorn, served in the Junior Reserves in 1864-65, graduated from the University in 1868… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 22 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• James Strayhorn

  Connected to an institution · New Hope · Churches & Faith Revolution and early republic

  James Strayhorn, a son of New Hope church founder Gilbert Strayhorn, was ordained a ruling elder at New Hope about 1795. With James Hart, John Strain and John Freeland… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith, Families, Land & Genealogy

• Toney Strayhorn

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro, Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  Toney Strayhorn, enslaved in Orange County, and his wife Nellie bought thirty acres in what became Carrboro and built a one-room log cabin there in 1879, the start of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Buildings & Preservation, Churches & Faith

• William Strayhorn

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Early twentieth century

  William Strayhorn (died 1933) was a Carrboro brick mason, the second generation of a family of masons headed by his father, Toney Strayhorn. In 1915 Chapel Hill… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 8 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Buildings & Preservation, Churches & Faith

• Margaret Berry Street

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Early twentieth century

  Margaret Berry Street, born in 1892 into the Berry family of Orange County, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1913 and from its law school in 1915, the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• Lamar Stringfield

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Lamar Stringfield organized the Institute of Folk Music at the University of North Carolina in 1930 and in 1932 helped organize the North Carolina Symphony, then… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life

• Annie Strowd

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Carrboro · Women's Lives & History Civil rights era

  Annie Strowd, a native of Orange County, was a caseworker in the county welfare department's Chapel Hill office for about ten years before the welfare board named her… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Churches & Faith, Politics & Government

• Bruce Strowd

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Bruce Strowd (about 1891–1955), born on Strowd Hill in Chapel Hill, opened the town's Ford dealership in 1914 and ran it until he retired. A charter member of the Chapel… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 19 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Roads, Rail & Transportation, Politics & Government

• Robert L. Strowd

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Robert L. Strowd was a Chapel Hill farmer and merchant, the son of William F. Strowd, a Populist congressman from Chatham County. He married Fannie Headen of Pittsboro… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• William F. Strowd

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  William F. Strowd (1832–1911), son of an Orange County family, enrolled at Chapel Hill in 1861 in the Orange Light Infantry. He farmed in Chatham County and served two… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service, Farms & Rural Life

• Clement Read Strudwick

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Clement Read Strudwick grew up in Hillsborough, where his family returned when he was two, and studied at the university in Chapel Hill from 1918 to 1920 before becoming… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life

• Edmund Strudwick

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Health, Medicine & Care Antebellum and Civil War

  Edmund Strudwick, born at Long Meadows near Hillsborough and schooled at Bingham's Hillsborough Academy, practiced medicine and surgery from the town for more than fifty… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 44 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Churches & Faith, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Edmund Strudwick (1909-1973)

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era

  A portrait painter in Hillsborough, Edmund Strudwick painted the portrait of the late Orange County sheriff Oddie Clayton that was hung in the sheriff's office in March… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance

• Frederick N. Strudwick

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Frederick Nash Strudwick was born in Hillsborough in 1833 and practiced law there. Representing Orange County in the North Carolina House, he introduced the resolution… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 27 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, News, Journalism & Broadcasting

• Samuel Strudwick

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Samuel Strudwick held 30,000 acres of the Haw Old Fields through former governor George Burrington's debt and came to North Carolina with Governor Tryon in 1764 to take… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Families, Land & Genealogy, Politics & Government

• Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961)

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Work, Labor & Industry Early twentieth century

  Shepperd Strudwick of Hillsborough founded Bellevue Cotton Mills in the town and served as its president, and he was also a banker, a postmaster and a woodcarver. He had… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 29 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce, Arts, Music & Performance

• Do-Ho Suh

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Do-Ho Suh made the Unsung Founders Memorial in McCorkle Place at the University of North Carolina, the Class of 2002's gift, dedicated on November 5, 2005. After… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• CJ Suitt

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  A Chapel Hill native, CJ Suitt became the town's first poet laureate after the Town Council voted in November 2019 to create the post. A spoken-word poet, he directed… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Literature & Publishing

• Jethro Sumner

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Wars & Military Service Revolution and early republic

  Sumner, a Continental brigadier general, was elected first president of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati when former officers of the state's Continental line… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Community & Civic Organizations

• David L. Swain

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Former governor David Lowry Swain (1801–1868) moved to Chapel Hill in January 1836 as president of the University of North Carolina and served longer than any other… Source ↗

  14 indexed works · 105 dated events · 7 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Benjamin Swalin

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Benjamin F. Swalin (1901–1989) took a position in the University of North Carolina's Music Department in Chapel Hill in 1935 and led the North Carolina Symphony from… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life

• John Swofford

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  John Swofford played quarterback and defensive back for UNC from 1969 to 1971 and was named the university's athletics director at 31, holding the job from 1980 to 1997.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 30 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• George W. Tate

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Reconstruction and the New South

  George W. Tate made the Map of Orange County, N.C., published in 1891, which shows the county's towns, roads, railroads, residences, schools, churches, mills, mines and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life

• Absalom Tatom

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Absalom Tatom (1742–1802) was a Continental Army officer who on August 15, 1778 became assistant quartermaster and keeper of the state arsenal at Hillsborough, and in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service, Colonial Orange County

• Jim Tatum

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Early twentieth century

  Tatum played tackle at UNC, was named All-Southern in 1934 and graduated in 1935. He returned to Chapel Hill as director of freshman athletics in 1939, coached the Tar… Source ↗

  10 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Isaac Montrose Taylor

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Civil rights era

  Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921–1996) was dean of the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill from 1964 to 1971, after joining its faculty in 1952. Enrollment, faculty and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• James Taylor

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Singer-songwriter James Taylor, born in Boston in 1948, moved with his family to the Morgan Creek neighborhood of Chapel Hill as a young child and attended local… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance

• James Cole Taylor

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  James Cole Taylor, born in 1855, was the son of Sarah A. Cole Taylor, who with her sisters Mary Catherine and Harriot Cole lived in Chapel Hill from about 1862 and ran a… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Farms & Rural Life

• N. Ferebee Taylor

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Nelson Ferebee Taylor was chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1 February 1972 to 31 January 1980. His office's records cover… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 134 dated events · 20 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Thomas H. Taylor

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War

  Thomas H. Taylor, a Chapel Hill merchant, was appointed under trustee by-laws of June 1825 as the university's resident superintendent of property and finances, who held… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life

• Charles Courtenay Tew

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Charles Courtenay Tew, a Citadel graduate from Charleston, moved to Hillsborough in 1859 to establish the Hillsborough Military Academy, a four-year school for boys… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 14 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Schools & Education, Wars & Military Service

• James Thackston

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  James Thackston (died by 1792) kept a Hillsborough store with William Johnston and opposed the Regulators: Edmund Fanning fled into their store during the 1770 court… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Business, Shops & Commerce, Wars & Military Service

• Brodie Thompson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Buildings & Preservation Early twentieth century

  Brodie Thompson (1884–1971) was Chapel Hill's leading building contractor in the 1920s and 1930s. He built Colonial Revival fraternity houses around the campus and many… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 30 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, UNC & Campus Life

• Joe Thompson

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades

  Joe Thompson was born on December 9, 1918, on High Rock Road in Orange County, the son of fiddler John Arch Thompson, and played for Piedmont dances with his brother… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 3 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Black Life & Civil Rights, Farms & Rural Life

• John W. Thompson

  Connected to an institution · Cedar Grove, Orange County · Schools & Education Reconstruction and the New South

  John W. Thompson (1844–1912) grew up on an Eno River farm near Cedar Grove and taught a neighborhood school in a log cabin there. He was superintendent of the Orange… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government

• Lawrence Thompson

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Lawrence Thompson was one of Orange County's first officials. In 1754 the county court named him, with James Watson and Josiah Dixon, a commissioner and trustee of the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Everyday Life & Traditions

• W. E. Thompson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  William E. Thompson was cashier of the Bank of Carrboro, the Bank of Chapel Hill's Carrboro branch, from 1923, and in August 1936 the directors chose him unanimously to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 32 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Wars & Military Service, Community & Civic Organizations

• William F. Thompson

  Connected to an institution · New Hope · Churches & Faith Revolution and early republic

  William F. Thompson, said to be a native of Connecticut, was ordained at New Hope church in November 1795 and became its first pastor. He resigned the charge in November… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education, Families, Land & Genealogy

• Mary Lindsay Thornton

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Early twentieth century

  Mary Lindsay Thornton became librarian of the university's North Carolina Collection in 1917, when it held about 1,500 items in a small upstairs room of the library… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Holden Thorp

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Holden Thorp, a UNC alumnus and chemist, became chancellor at Chapel Hill on July 1, 2008. Scandals in the football program and the African and Afro-American studies… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 8 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Carolina Sports

• Bill Thorpe

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades

  William H. "Bill" Thorpe served eleven years on the Chapel Hill Town Council (1977–1981, 1983–1987 and from 2005 until his death in 2008), including a term as mayor pro… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 50 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government, Community & Civic Organizations

• George Brown Tindall

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  George Brown Tindall joined the UNC history faculty in 1958 as an associate professor, became a full professor in 1964 and a Kenan professor in 1969, and retired as… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Addie Williams Totten

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Civil rights era

  Adelaide "Addie" Williams Totten, born in Stedman in 1890, lived in Chapel Hill from her 1923 marriage to botanist Henry Roland Totten and organized the Chapel Hill… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Women's Lives & History, Community & Civic Organizations

• Henry Roland Totten

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Henry Roland Totten taught botany at UNC from 1914 to 1917 and again from 1919 until he retired in 1963. He followed W. C. Coker as director of the campus arboretum, and… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 13 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Eno & Environment

• Albion W. Tourgee

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Albion W. Tourgee, a Reconstruction judge, sat on the University's board of trustees, where in 1868 he moved that a planned school for Black students near Raleigh be… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life

• George Trice

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Reconstruction and the New South

  George Trice (1838–1915), an African American businessman, ran an oyster restaurant and a shoe repair shop on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. He is buried in the Old… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Business, Shops & Commerce, Food, Drink & Local Culture

• Ralph M. Trimble

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Growth, Land & Planning Early twentieth century

  Ralph M. Trimble, a surveyor on the faculty of the UNC School of Engineering, surveyed the lots of the Gimghoul subdivision in Chapel Hill, laid out in 1923, and helped… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Growth, Land & Planning, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, UNC & Campus Life

• William Tryon

  Wider story · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  Governor William Tryon led the army that defeated the Regulators at Alamance on May 16, 1771. At Hillsborough in June 1771 twelve Regulators were condemned for high… Source ↗

  21 indexed works · 53 dated events · 8 storylines

  Themes Colonial Orange County

• Chester D. Turner

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Reconstruction and the New South

  Chester D. Turner was a Hillsboro attorney and real estate agent who in 1890 advertised that he gave special attention to collecting claims, land titles, the sale and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Curtis Turner

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Curtis Turner won Grand National races at the Hillsborough dirt track in August 1953 and March 1959, after finishing second to Fireball Roberts there in August 1950, and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Josiah Turner Jr.

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Josiah Turner Jr. (1821–1901) was born in Hillsborough, son of a longtime Orange County sheriff, and studied law there. He bought the Raleigh Sentinel late in 1868 and… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 68 dated events · 5 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Law, Courts & Justice

• Josiah Turner Sr.

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Politics & Government Antebellum and Civil War

  Josiah Turner Sr. was a longtime sheriff of Orange County and a large landowner in the county. He was the father of the Hillsborough lawyer, editor and politician Josiah… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• R. C. Turner

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Churches & Faith Early twentieth century

  R. C. Turner was a minister of the United Holy Church in Hillsborough. He was one of the leaders who organized Mebane Chapel in 1913, and the congregation built its… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Churches & Faith, Black Life & Civil Rights

• James C. Turrentine

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Orange County · Health, Medicine & Care Antebellum and Civil War

  James C. Turrentine was sheriff of Orange County in the 1830s and 1840s and later a Hillsborough merchant. As a warden of the poor he helped run the county poorhouse… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 25 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Law, Courts & Justice, Wars & Military Service

• John W. Umstead Jr.

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  John W. Umstead Jr. sat in the state Senate in 1931 and 1939 and represented Orange County in the state House from 1941 until ill health forced him to resign in March… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 42 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, Schools & Education, Health, Medicine & Care

• William B. Umstead

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  William B. Umstead, as a congressman, won the federal tax ruling that let Will Reynolds give $10,000 for the site of the Institute of Government's building in Chapel… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 14 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• Eric Van Loon

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Van Loon was chairman of the Carolina Political Union. In 1966 he joined eleven other enrolled UNC students, with… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Rupert B. Vance

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Rupert B. Vance joined the sociology faculty of the University of North Carolina and Howard W. Odum's Institute for Research in Social Science in Chapel Hill in 1928… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Zebulon B. Vance

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Vance entered the University of North Carolina early in 1851 and spent the rest of that year at Chapel Hill studying law under Judge William H. Battle and Samuel F.… Source ↗

  9 indexed works · 21 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Robert Varley

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Robert Varley was a Chapel Hill clothing merchant who in 1938 opened a men's store on East Franklin Street. He later served on the town's Board of Aldermen. In June 1967… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Business, Shops & Commerce, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Francis Preston Venable

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Francis Preston Venable was offered UNC's chair of chemistry in 1880, co-founded the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society in 1883, identified calcium carbide in 1893 and… Source ↗

  6 indexed works · 55 dated events · 6 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Buildings & Preservation

• Adolph Vermont

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Adolph Vermont, a Belgian-born teacher at the University of North Carolina, planned the July 4, 1918 pageant on French-American friendship in Chapel Hill's Battle's Park… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 5 dated events

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Stanley Vickers

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Stanley Boya Vickers was a ten-year-old Northside Elementary pupil whose 1959 request to transfer to Carrboro Elementary was refused. The federal suit his parents… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 12 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education

• Elizabeth Gray Vining

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century

  Elizabeth Gray Vining, known in Chapel Hill as Betty Gray, worked on the University library staff in the 1920s and wrote several books here as Elizabeth Janet Gray. She… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory

• Alfred Moore Waddell

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Alfred Moore Waddell was born in Hillsborough in 1834 and attended the Bingham School and the Caldwell Institute before graduating from the University of North Carolina… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life

• Hugh Waddell

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Hugh Waddell (1799–1878) practiced law in Hillsborough and Orange County from 1823 until 1867 and represented Orange in the House of Commons in 1828-29 and 1835 and in… Source ↗

  4 indexed works · 36 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• Paul W. Wager

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Paul W. Wager taught at UNC from 1926 to 1964 and was the first faculty member there to teach undergraduate courses in county administration and natural resources… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 23 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Growth, Land & Planning

• Kendall B. Waitt

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Kendall B. Waitt (1811–1893) was a Massachusetts-born carpenter and cabinetmaker who worked in Chapel Hill for about thirty years, much of that time as the university's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Thomas Waitt

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War

  Thomas Waitt was a New England builder whom President David L. Swain hired soon after 1835 as the university's superintendent of buildings. He finished Gerrard Hall in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights, Work, Labor & Industry

• Houston J. Walker

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Houston J. Walker founded Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough in 1922 with his son Allen H. Walker Sr., in a converted country store across from the courthouse on… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Churches & Faith

• Mary Walker

  Wider story · Orange County, Durham County (neighboring) · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Revolution and early republic

  Born in Orange County in 1818, Mary Walker lived enslaved on Duncan Cameron's large plantation, where she learned the skills of a seamstress and cared for Cameron's… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 1 dated event · 1 storyline

  Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Black Life & Civil Rights, Women's Lives & History

• N. W. Walker

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  N. W. Walker joined the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1905 as professor of secondary education, directed its summer school for twenty-seven years from… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 24 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Carolyn Andrews Wallace

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Libraries, Archives & Public Memory Civil rights era

  Born in Hillsborough in 1919, Wallace earned her MA and PhD at the university in Chapel Hill and followed a nearly forty-year career as an archivist and teacher of… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History

• Daniel Wallace

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Recent decades

  Daniel Wallace is the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directed the Creative Writing… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 1 dated event

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Gary Waller

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Waller sat on the steering committee of Students for a Democratic Society. In 1966 he joined eleven other enrolled… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 13 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Adelaide Walters

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era

  Adelaide Walters served on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen from 1957 to 1965, after a term as president of the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters. She chaired the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Politics & Government, Women's Lives & History, Black Life & Civil Rights

• Ira Ward

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Wars & Military Service Civil rights era

  Ira Ward, an Orange County native, joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 after graduating from UNC and won the Distinguished Flying Cross as a radio operator in the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning

• Ralph H. Ward

  Connected to an institution · Carrboro, Hillsborough · Work, Labor & Industry Early twentieth century

  Ralph H. Ward was superintendent of Durham Hosiery Mills' Mill No. 4 in Carrboro and the first to live in the house the company built at 103 West Main Street for the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 26 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Politics & Government, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Roosevelt Warner

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Roosevelt Warner Sr., a Hillsborough brickmason and contractor who had learned the trade at an orphanage in Oxford, became the first Black member of the town's governing… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 16 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• James Watson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Eno River · Colonial Orange County Colonial and Regulator years

  James Watson, one of Orange County's first settlers, owned the Eno land chosen for the courthouse in 1754 and was named a commissioner for Childsburg in 1759. A… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 11 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice

• John H. Watson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  John H. Watson, a justice of the peace and often mayor of Chapel Hill, owned the village hotel that had been the Eagle Hotel until the New York lawyer William G. Peckham… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 24 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Jones Watson

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  Jones Watson was one of the five men named commissioners of Chapel Hill when the General Assembly incorporated the town in 1851, and he served as the town's mayor in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 34 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government

• Thomas D. Watts

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Thomas D. Watts, a former sheriff of Orange County, took over the running of the Alsobrook Hotel on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill in 1834; it became known as the Watts… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Edward W. Waugh

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Cedar Grove · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Edward W. (Terry) Waugh (1913–1966) was a South African-born architect who came to Raleigh as one of the first professors at the North Carolina State School of Design… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, Buildings & Preservation

• Joe Weatherly

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Carolina Sports Civil rights era

  Joe Weatherly, the national champion who died in a racing crash in January 1964, set both track speed records at Orange Speedway in Hillsborough and won the last race of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports

• Jenn Weaver

  Wider story · Orange County, Hillsborough · Health, Medicine & Care Recent decades

  Jenn Weaver was mayor of Hillsborough through the COVID-19 pandemic. When Orange County and its towns required face coverings in June 2020, she described the rule as a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life, Everyday Life & Traditions

• H. Winder Webb

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  H. Winder Webb was born in Hillsborough in 1865, the son of James Webb and Sarah Frances Cheshire Webb, and became a farmer and merchant there, one of the town's most… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 12 dated events

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Work, Labor & Industry, Politics & Government

• J. Cheshire Webb

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Wars & Military Service Early twentieth century

  J. Cheshire Webb of Hillsborough was appointed chairman of the Orange County Council of Defense in June 1917 and became the county's food administrator that September.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 29 dated events

  Themes Wars & Military Service, Community & Civic Organizations, Work, Labor & Industry

• James Webb

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Health, Medicine & Care Antebellum and Civil War

  Dr. James Webb (1774–1855) was Hillsborough's pioneer physician, a merchant, and for decades the town's agent of the Bank of Cape Fear. He underwrote Polly Burke's… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 42 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Business, Shops & Commerce

• James Webb Jr.

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Reconstruction and the New South

  James Webb Jr. and his wife bought Over-the-River, John Wall Norwood's house across the Eno from Hillsborough, in 1848 and enlarged it. In 1881 he had the Italianate… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 26 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Buildings & Preservation, Politics & Government

• James M. Webb

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  James M. (Jim) Webb (1908–2000) came to Chapel Hill in 1947 to help start the university's graduate program in city and regional planning and led his own architecture… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 23 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Growth, Land & Planning, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• John B. Webb

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Buildings & Preservation Civil rights era

  John Bruce Webb (1910–1997) was the first partner in his brother Jim's Chapel Hill architecture firm, James M. Webb and John B. Webb Associates. With Donald Stewart, the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Buildings & Preservation, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement

• Junius D. Webb

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century

  Junius D. Webb was a Chapel Hill merchant who was for a time president of the Peoples Bank and served sixteen years as an Orange County commissioner. He died of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 31 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• Thomas Webb

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Law, Courts & Justice Antebellum and Civil War

  Thomas Webb of Hillsborough was chosen president of the North Carolina Railroad by its directors in February 1862, when Paul C. Cameron resigned the office; the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 29 dated events

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Roads, Rail & Transportation, Business, Shops & Commerce

• Howard Raymond Weeks

  Wider story · Cedar Grove, Chapel Hill · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  Howard Raymond Weeks (1901–1956) was an architect born in Palmyra, Missouri, and trained at Georgia Tech. When Arthur C. Nash retired in 1930, Thomas C. Atwood took… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life

• Stephen B. Weeks

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Stephen Beauregard Weeks graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1886, took a master's degree there the next year and in 1888 the first doctorate given by its… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Literature & Publishing

• Manly Wade Wellman

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Civil rights era

  Manly Wade Wellman settled in Chapel Hill soon after moving to North Carolina in 1947, drawn by the resources of the University of North Carolina library, and taught… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 2 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing

• Arthur Wells

  Connected to an institution · Cedar Grove · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Arthur Wells chaired the Cedar Grove Advisory Council of Cedar Grove School in northern Orange County. In 1966 he and Oscar Beasley asked the county school board to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 7 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Farms & Rural Life

• Robert H. Wettach

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Robert H. Wettach, a Pittsburgh native with a Harvard law degree, was dean of the UNC law school from 1941 to 1949 and served as an assistant state attorney general and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 23 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government

• Carter White

  Wider story · Cedar Grove, Orange County · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Carter White was an African American community leader from the Grover neighborhood of northern Orange County. In 1955 the county board named him to its committee to… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Farms & Rural Life

• Richard Henry Whitehead

  Wider story · Chapel Hill, Caldwell · Health, Medicine & Care Reconstruction and the New South

  Richard Henry Whitehead (1865–1916), a Salisbury native, came to Chapel Hill in September 1890 to revive the university's medical school, closed since 1885. He served as… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes Health, Medicine & Care, UNC & Campus Life

• Henry A. Whitfield

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century

  Henry A. Whitfield, a Chapel Hill lawyer admitted to the bar in 1915, was elected judge of the Chapel Hill recorder's court by the aldermen in June 1942 to fill out… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 27 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government

• W. F. Wilhelm

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Churches & Faith Reconstruction and the New South

  The Rev. W. F. Wilhelm was pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church from 1884 until his death in 1893 and was buried in the cemetery near the church. Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Churches & Faith

• Frank Wilkinson

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Frank Wilkinson, executive director of the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, was one of two speakers refused a UNC platform in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 10 dated events · 3 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Sylvia Wilkinson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era

  Sylvia Wilkinson (born 1940) was a lecturer in creative writing and visiting writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1970. She is the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Albert Williams

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Albert Williams was one of the Chapel Hill Nine, who sat in at Colonial Drug in 1960, and became Chapel Hill's first Black firefighter. Fire Chief Matt Sullivan spoke… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights

• Benjamin Williams

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Colonial Orange County Revolution and early republic

  Williams sat for Johnston County in the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in August and September 1775, where he was appointed a lieutenant of the second… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 3 dated events

  Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Schools & Education

• George F. Williams

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Civil rights era

  George F. Williams led the Orange County schools as superintendent from 1969 to 1977, the eleventh to hold the post. A Monroe native who came from the Brunswick County… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events

  Themes Schools & Education

• Gloria Williams

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Civil rights era

  Gloria Williams was a key organizer of Chapel Hill's 1960 civil rights protests, served on the Mayor's Human Relations Council and was active in school desegregation.… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 5 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Politics & Government

• Henry Horace Williams

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Williams taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1890 until 1940 and chaired the department from 1890 to 1935, holding the Kenan… Source ↗

  7 indexed works · 21 dated events · 4 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Buildings & Preservation

• John Williams

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Revolution and early republic

  John Williams (1731–1799), a Granville County lawyer, was deputy attorney general for the Hillsborough district in 1768 and was beaten by Regulators in the Hillsborough… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life, Colonial Orange County

• Roy Williams

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Recent decades

  Roy Williams, a 1972 UNC graduate, spent ten seasons in Chapel Hill as an assistant to Dean Smith and coached Kansas from 1988 to 2003 before returning as UNC's head… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 9 dated events

  Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life

• Hugh Williamson

  Wider story · Hillsborough · Politics & Government Revolution and early republic

  Hugh Williamson of Chowan County, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, was one of the 25 trustees who met at Hillsborough in August 1792 and chose by ballot to place the… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 7 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life

• Alexander Wilson

  Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Schools & Education Antebellum and Civil War

  Wilson led the Orange Presbytery's Caldwell Institute when it moved from Greensboro to Hillsborough in 1845, and he stayed with the school until it closed in 1850. He… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 6 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Schools & Education, Churches & Faith

• Ben F. Wilson

  Connected to an institution · Orange County, Mebane · Politics & Government Early twentieth century

  Ben F. Wilson of Cheeks Township joined the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1938 and attended his last meeting in November 1950 after twelve years, saying in a… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 17 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Politics & Government, Farms & Rural Life, Roads, Rail & Transportation

• John A. Wilson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  John A. Wilson, a Canadian sculptor, made the bronze Confederate soldier statue known as Silent Sam, which stood on McCorkle Place at the University of North Carolina at… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Louis Round Wilson

  Featured profile · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Louis Round Wilson became librarian of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1901, directed the new University of North Carolina Press from 1922 to 1932… Source ↗

  30 indexed works · 33 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing

• Woodrow Wilson

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Woodrow Wilson, later president of the United States, first spoke at the University of North Carolina in January 1909, as president of Princeton, on the virtues of… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government

• Francis D. Winston

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  Francis D. Winston enrolled at the University of North Carolina when it reopened in 1875 and later served more than half a century as a university trustee, attending… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 9 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• George Tayloe Winston

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  George Tayloe Winston came to Chapel Hill in 1875 as professor of Latin and German and was president of the university from 1891 to 1896, years in which the number of… Source ↗

  2 indexed works · 30 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education

• Robert W. Winston

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Robert Watson Winston (1860–1944), a lawyer and judge born in Windsor, graduated from UNC in 1879. At sixty-three he reentered the university as a freshman and spent the… Source ↗

  1 indexed work · 11 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Law, Courts & Justice

• John Knox Witherspoon

  Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Churches & Faith Antebellum and Civil War

  Witherspoon came to Hillsborough in 1816 to take both the pastorate of the new Presbyterian church and the principalship of the Hillsborough Academy, and he served the… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 15 dated events · 2 storylines

  Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction

• Thomas Wolfe

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century

  Thomas Wolfe entered UNC in 1916 and graduated in June 1920. In Chapel Hill he edited the student newspaper and played the title role in his own play The Return of Buck… Source ↗

  8 indexed works · 4 dated events

  Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life

• Charles T. Woollen

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century

  Charles Thomas Woollen (1878–1938) served the university for decades as registrar, purchasing agent, proctor, business manager and comptroller, and was the first… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 20 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes UNC & Campus Life, Carolina Sports, Arts, Music & Performance

• Bayard Wootten

  Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Early twentieth century

  Bayard Morgan Wootten (1875–1959), a New Bern photographer, won significant recognition after she moved to Chapel Hill in 1928. Her Wootten-Moulton Studios there were… Source ↗

  5 indexed works · 10 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life

• David Gaston Worth

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South

  David Gaston Worth, an honor graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1853 and son of Governor Jonathan Worth, was a trustee and benefactor of the university and… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Jonathan Worth

  Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Reconstruction and the New South

  Jonathan Worth moved to Hillsborough in 1823 to study law under Archibald DeBow Murphey and married Murphey's niece, Martitia Daniel, the next year before settling in… Source ↗

  3 indexed works · 9 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice

• Zijie Yan

  In a named event · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Recent decades

  Zijie Yan joined UNC's Department of Applied Physical Sciences in 2019 and was an associate professor there, using laser beams and optical tweezers to move nanoparticles… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 3 dated events

  Themes UNC & Campus Life

• Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Civil rights era

  Edwin M. Yoder Jr. edited the Daily Tar Heel while a student at UNC, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1956. He went on to write editorials for newspapers in… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life

• Perry Deane Young

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  Perry Deane Young wrote a column for the Chapel Hill Herald from 1996 to 2003. He entered UNC in 1959, left, and returned to graduate in 1994. Sent to Vietnam by United… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 2 dated events · 1 storyline

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Literature & Publishing, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism

• Alex Zaffron

  Wider story · Carrboro · Politics & Government Recent decades

  Alex Zaffron served on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen for twelve years, from December 1995 to December 2007, and was the town's mayor pro tem from 2001 to 2003. He also… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 6 dated events

  Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism, Growth, Land & Planning

• David Zucchino

  Wider story · Chapel Hill · News, Journalism & Broadcasting Recent decades

  David Zucchino, a 1973 UNC journalism graduate, returned to campus in fall 2023 as an adjunct instructor teaching International Reporting. He has won two Pulitzer… Source ↗

  In the chronology · 4 dated events

  Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life