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How people qualify and what the counts mean

565 people with a biography. 448 are Orange County figures: 79 central, 56 in a named event, 313 connected to an institution or movement. The other 117 come from the wider story of the state and nation and appear in the county's chronology. Another 1,491 people named in catalog headings have pages of their own; the index search reaches them by name.

A person is here when the county was the principal site of their significant work, they led locally over time, they built or changed a local institution, a local episode shaped their wider significance, or their experience is unusually important evidence about an under-represented local community. The featured profiles are the people who meet that bar on their own; connected people come into the record through a named event, a movement, or an institution; wider-context figures are state and national names whose part in the county's history the chronology records.

Biographies are one or two sourced sentences, with the source under each. Indexed works are the works in the index that name the person; a featured profile counts every work naming them, others only the works where the person carries a local label. Dated events are the person's moments in the chronology, and storylines the longer histories they are part of. About two hundred people have no indexed record and are here through the chronology alone, and the card says so.

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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 · 4 dated events
Themes Literature & Publishing, Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Arts, Music & Performance, Buildings & Preservation
Charlotte Adams
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Women's Lives & History Recent decades
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 · 5 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 · 2 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
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 · 13 dated events
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 · 8 dated events
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Community & Civic Organizations
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 · 6 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 · 6 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Black Life & Civil Rights, Community & Civic Organizations
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 · 11 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government
John Armstrong (active 1764)
Wider story · Orange County · Work, Labor & Industry Colonial and Regulator years
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 · 2 dated events
Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Colonial Orange County, Business, Shops & Commerce
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 ↗
1 indexed work · 6 dated events
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 · 2 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 · 4 dated events
Themes Wars & Military Service, 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 · 7 dated events
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 · 6 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Carolina Sports
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 · 6 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care
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
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
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 · 8 dated events
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 · 49 dated events · 1 storyline
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
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 · 20 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Schools & Education
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
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 · 9 dated events
Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Farms & Rural Life
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Families, Land & Genealogy
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
Themes Roads, Rail & Transportation, Women's Lives & History, Politics & Government
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 · 31 dated events
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Women's Lives & History, Families, Land & Genealogy
W. Reece Berryhill
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Health, Medicine & Care Civil rights era
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 · 6 dated events
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 · 8 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 ↗
4 indexed works · 12 dated events
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 · 6 dated events
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 · 10 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
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
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
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 · 10 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
John Lewis Brandon
In a named event · Chapel Hill · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades
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
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 · 8 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Farms & Rural Life, Politics & Government
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 · 4 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 · 5 dated events
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
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 · 3 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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus 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 · 5 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 · 9 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Schools & Education
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
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
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 · 5 dated events
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 ↗
6 indexed works · 27 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government
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 · 6 dated events
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 · 14 dated events
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 ↗
2 indexed works · 14 dated events
Themes Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice
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 · 13 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government
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 · 5 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 ↗
In the chronology · 6 dated events
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 · 1 dated event
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Health, Medicine & Care
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 · 12 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government, Schools & Education
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 · 36 dated events
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 10 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
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 · 18 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Business, Shops & Commerce
Paul C. Cameron
Featured profile · Hillsborough, Orange County · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War
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 · 26 dated events
Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Families, Land & Genealogy, Farms & Rural Life
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
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 · 4 dated events
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 Early twentieth century
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 ↗
5 indexed works · 7 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care, Business, Shops & Commerce
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 ↗
In the chronology · 7 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 · 30 dated events · 2 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 · 11 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory
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
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 ↗
38 indexed works · 14 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 76 dated events
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
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, Law, Courts & Justice
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 · 14 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning, Law, Courts & Justice
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 · 6 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 · 1 dated event
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 · 9 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History
Walter Clark
Wider story · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Law, Courts & Justice Early twentieth century
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 83 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice
Gladys Hall Coates
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Civil rights era
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 · 11 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 · 11 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Growth, Land & Planning
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 · 4 dated events
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 · 18 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Eno & Environment, Literature & Publishing
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
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 · 9 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Schools & Education
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
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 · 4 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 ↗
In the chronology · 4 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 · 7 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 · 7 dated events
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
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
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 · 7 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
Themes Food, Drink & Local Culture, Black Life & Civil Rights, 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 · 5 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Schools & Education, Churches & Faith
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, 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
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
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 · 6 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, Eno & Environment
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 · 7 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, News, Journalism & Broadcasting
Edward G. Danziger
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century
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 · 3 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 ↗
10 indexed works · 19 dated events
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 · 9 dated events
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 · 32 dated events
Themes Buildings & Preservation, Schools & Education, UNC & Campus 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 ↗
2 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 Civil rights era
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory
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 · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights, Law, Courts & Justice
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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith
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 · 16 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
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 · 27 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
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
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing
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 · 6 dated events
Themes Politics & Government
Woody Durham
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Civil rights era
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 · 2 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
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
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 · 3 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 · 3 dated events
Themes Literature & Publishing
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 · 7 dated events
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
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 · 6 dated events
Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government
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 · 6 dated events
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 ↗
11 indexed works · 28 dated events
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 · 6 dated events
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
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 ↗
In the chronology · 7 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Families, Land & Genealogy, Work, Labor & Industry
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 · 6 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 · 4 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
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 · 11 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 · 4 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 · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care
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
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 · 1 dated event
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government
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
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
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 ↗
23 indexed works · 19 dated events
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
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 ↗
In the chronology · 15 dated events
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 · 12 dated events
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 ↗
In the chronology · 10 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 11 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Churches & Faith
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 · 3 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 · 4 dated events
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 · 12 dated events
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 · 2 dated events
Themes 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 · 8 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 61 dated events
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 · 41 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government
John W. Graham
Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Chapel Hill · Politics & Government Early twentieth century
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 · 24 dated events · 1 storyline
Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 38 dated events · 1 storyline
Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
Ernest Graves
Wider story · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Early twentieth century
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
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 · 13 dated events
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 · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, 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 · 8 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Health, Medicine & Care, Schools & Education
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 9 dated events
Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 19 dated events
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
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 · 9 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Literature & Publishing
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
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
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
Joe Hackney
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era
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 · 2 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
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
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 · 12 dated events
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
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Buildings & Preservation, Churches & Faith, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
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 · 1 dated event
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
Frances Hargraves
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Carrboro · Black Life & Civil Rights Recent decades
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 · 3 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 ↗
6 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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 ↗
3 indexed works · 13 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce
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
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 · 20 dated events
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 · 9 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 · 4 dated events
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 · 6 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
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 · 10 dated events
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
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 · 6 dated events
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 ↗
9 indexed works · 12 dated events
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 ↗
In the chronology · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 1 dated event
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 ↗
In the chronology · 6 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, News, Journalism & Broadcasting
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 · 19 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Buildings & Preservation
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 · 12 dated events
Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life, Women's Lives & History
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
Luther H. Hodges
Wider story · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Business, Shops & Commerce, 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 · 3 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 ↗
1 indexed work · 20 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Business, Shops & Commerce
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 · 18 dated events · 1 storyline
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
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 · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing
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 · 6 dated events
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 · 6 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 · 18 dated events · 1 storyline
Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government
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 · 7 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Literature & Publishing
R. B. House
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era
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 · 14 dated events
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
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 ↗
2 indexed works · 8 dated events
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 · 9 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Community & Civic Organizations
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, 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 · 3 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning, UNC & Campus Life
Vic Huggins
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Carolina Sports Early twentieth century
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 · 3 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
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 · 7 dated events
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 · 10 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing, Churches & Faith
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 ↗
4 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 · 4 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 · 16 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County
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 · 29 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, 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 ↗
1 indexed work · 9 dated events
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 · 6 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 · 3 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government
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 Civil rights era
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 · 3 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 · 6 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 3 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 · 5 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 · 1 dated event
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 3 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 · 1 storyline
Themes Politics & Government, Colonial Orange County
William Johnston
Connected to an institution · Hillsborough, Orange County · Business, Shops & Commerce Colonial and Regulator years
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 · 8 dated events
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 ↗
1 indexed work · 3 dated events
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 · 9 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Community & Civic Organizations
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, 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 · 12 dated events
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 ↗
3 indexed works · 20 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
Themes Carolina Sports, 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 · 4 dated events
Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 4 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
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 · 5 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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Carolina Sports, Buildings & Preservation
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
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life
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 · 10 dated events
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 · 12 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 · 11 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 · 10 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism, Law, Courts & Justice
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
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 · 5 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 8 dated events
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 · 6 dated events
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 · 5 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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government
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
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 · 5 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life, Buildings & Preservation
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 · 2 dated events
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 · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus 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 · 14 dated events
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
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 · 3 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 · 4 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 · 8 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 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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life
George Livas
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Business, Shops & Commerce Early twentieth century
George Livas, a native of Greece, came to Chapel Hill in 1922 to work at the Carolina Confectionary, went into partnership with James Gust in 1929 to run it as a… Source ↗
In the chronology · 2 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 · 2 dated events
Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government
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 Early twentieth century
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 · 9 dated events
Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce
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 · 6 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 ↗
In the chronology · 6 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Buildings & Preservation
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
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 · 7 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
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 · 14 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education
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 · 7 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith
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 · 10 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
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 · 10 dated events
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 · 8 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 ↗
21 indexed works · 13 dated events
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 ↗
6 indexed works · 8 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government
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 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 · 5 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, Farms & Rural Life, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government
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 · 3 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 · 7 dated events
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 · 5 dated events · 1 storyline
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 · 3 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Families, Land & Genealogy, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction
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 · 8 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Churches & Faith, Schools & Education
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, Black Life & Civil Rights
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 · 7 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 6 dated events
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
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 ↗
In the chronology · 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 · 3 dated events
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
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, Roads, Rail & Transportation
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
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
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 · 1 dated event
Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life
Andrew Mickle
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Hillsborough · Business, Shops & Commerce Antebellum and Civil War
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 · 16 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
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 · 25 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 5 dated events
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 ↗
2 indexed works · 8 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government
John Lindsay Morehead
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 4 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 · 5 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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government
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 · 2 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
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 · 6 dated events
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 · 2 dated events
Themes Housing, Neighborhoods & Displacement, Growth, Land & Planning, Business, Shops & Commerce
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 · 13 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, Roads, Rail & Transportation, Politics & Government
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 · 5 dated events
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 ↗
12 indexed works · 6 dated events
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 · 18 dated events
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 · 19 dated events
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 · 11 dated events
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 · 15 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Schools & Education
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 18 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life
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
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 ↗
In the chronology · 7 dated events
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, Schools & Education
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 · 2 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 · 14 dated events
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 · 8 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Eno & Environment
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 · 6 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 · 1 dated event
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
Themes Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, UNC & Campus Life, Black Life & Civil Rights
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
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government, Buildings & Preservation
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 ↗
In the chronology · 6 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Community & Civic Organizations
Daniel W. Patterson
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Recent decades
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 · 1 dated event
Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory
Rufus Lenoir Patterson
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Reconstruction and the New South
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 10 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, Schools & Education, Colonial Orange County
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 · 5 dated events
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 ↗
6 indexed works · 6 dated events
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 11 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
Themes Carolina Sports
Charles Phillips
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · UNC & Campus Life Antebellum and Civil War
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 · 22 dated events
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 · 18 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Churches & Faith
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 · 7 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 4 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government
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 · 6 dated events
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 · 17 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 · 8 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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Libraries, Archives & Public Memory, Literature & Publishing
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 · 14 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Roads, Rail & Transportation
David Price
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill, Orange County · Politics & Government Civil rights era
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 · 1 dated event
Themes Politics & Government, Black Life & Civil Rights
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Women's Lives & History
William Meade Prince
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 1 dated event
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights, Churches & Faith, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 2 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 · 1 dated event
Themes Schools & Education, Women's Lives & History, News, Journalism & Broadcasting
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 · 3 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 · 1 dated event
Themes Churches & Faith
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 2 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life
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 · 8 dated events
Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Women's Lives & History
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 · 8 dated events
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 · 10 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Wars & Military Service, Community & Civic Organizations
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
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 · 5 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 · 13 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government
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 · 5 dated events
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 · 1 dated event
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Women's Lives & History
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 ↗
In the chronology · 7 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 Recent decades
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 · 5 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 · 8 dated events
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Women's Lives & History, Families, Land & Genealogy
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 ↗
7 indexed works · 28 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction, Politics & Government
Phillips Russell
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Literature & Publishing Early twentieth century
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 · 4 dated events
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 · 5 dated events
Themes Black Life & Civil Rights
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
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 · 11 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice
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 · 1 dated event
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
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 · 4 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Farms & Rural Life
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
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 · 4 dated events
Themes Arts, Music & Performance, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 4 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, Black Life & Civil Rights, Politics & Government
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 · 2 dated events
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
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 · 23 dated events
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
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 · 6 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 · 6 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, Schools & Education, Business, Shops & Commerce
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 · 9 dated events
Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 12 dated events
Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Politics & Government
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
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
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
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
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 ↗
In the chronology · 8 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 · 4 dated events
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
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 · 3 dated events
Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 25 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 · 4 dated events
Themes Literature & Publishing, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Churches & Faith, Buildings & Preservation, UNC & Campus Life
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 ↗
In the chronology · 7 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 · 5 dated events
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
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 · 2 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, Politics & Government
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
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 · 4 dated events
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 · 3 dated events
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 ↗
In the chronology · 7 dated events
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
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
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 · 1 dated event
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
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 · 17 dated events
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 · 10 dated events · 1 storyline
Themes Politics & Government, Law, Courts & Justice, News, Journalism & Broadcasting
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 · 15 dated events
Themes Work, Labor & Industry, Business, Shops & Commerce, Arts, Music & Performance
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 ↗
13 indexed works · 64 dated events
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 · 2 dated events
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 · 3 dated events
Themes Carolina Sports, UNC & Campus Life
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 · 6 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 · 5 dated events
Themes Arts, Music & Performance
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Politics & Government
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 · 6 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, Wars & Military Service
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 · 7 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 · 7 dated events
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
Themes Women's Lives & History, Community & Civic Organizations
Henry Roland Totten
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Civil rights era
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 · 4 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Eno & Environment
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 ↗
19 indexed works · 46 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County
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 Antebellum and Civil War
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 · 11 dated events · 1 storyline
Themes Politics & Government, News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Law, Courts & Justice
William B. Umstead
Wider story · Chapel Hill · UNC & Campus Life Early twentieth century
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 ↗
In the chronology · 3 dated events
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 7 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government
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 · 43 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Buildings & Preservation
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 · 9 dated events
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 · 1 dated event
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 · 7 dated events
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 · 4 dated events
Themes Politics & Government, UNC & Campus Life, Growth, Land & Planning
Mary Walker
Wider story · Orange County, Durham County (neighboring) · Slavery, Emancipation & Reconstruction Antebellum and Civil War
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
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 · 4 dated events
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 · 9 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Law, Courts & Justice, Politics & Government
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 · 6 dated events
Themes Wars & Military Service, Politics & Government, Growth, Land & Planning
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 · 11 dated events
Themes Business, Shops & Commerce, Politics & Government
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
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 · 18 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 · 21 dated events
Themes Health, Medicine & Care, Business, Shops & Commerce
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
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 · 5 dated events
Themes Law, Courts & Justice, Roads, Rail & Transportation, Business, Shops & Commerce
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
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 · 9 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life
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 ↗
1 indexed work · 2 dated events
Themes Colonial Orange County, Politics & Government, 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 · 4 dated events
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 · 11 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education, Buildings & Preservation
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 · 8 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 ↗
1 indexed work · 6 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 · 3 dated events
Themes Schools & Education, Churches & Faith
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 · 2 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 · 13 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Literature & Publishing
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 · 17 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Schools & Education
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 · 13 dated events
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 ↗
5 indexed works · 2 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 · 5 dated events
Themes UNC & Campus Life, Carolina Sports, Arts, Music & Performance
Bayard Wootten
Connected to an institution · Chapel Hill · Arts, Music & Performance Civil rights era
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 · 5 dated events
Themes Arts, Music & Performance, Business, Shops & Commerce, UNC & Campus Life
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
Themes News, Journalism & Broadcasting, Literature & Publishing, LGBTQ+ Life & Activism
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

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