Walker Anderson

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1. February 22, 1819 Students give up pistols and dirks after a Washington's Birthday brawl After Walker Anderson's oration a dinner ended in drunken fighting, a dirk was drawn and a peacemaker was stabbed in the arm. The students were made to hand in their weapons, six pistols and two dirks, to be held while they remained at the university. People: Walker Anderson Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 263
2. July 14, 1823 The Orange County Bible Society holds its first anniversary meeting The Auxiliary Bible Society of Orange County met at Hillsborough, heard its first annual report and re-elected Judge William Norwood president. The board reported that it had given out 110 of the 100 Bibles and 75 Testaments received from the American Bible Society in a county of 23,492 people, cut annual dues to one dollar, and moved future anniversaries to the first Monday in August. People: William Norwood, James Webb, Duncan Cameron, William Kirkland, James Mebane, William Huntington, John Witherspoon, Walker Anderson Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 16, 1823, p. 3
3. 1830 Frances Blount buys the Hawks house and the lot beside it Walker Anderson, acting for Francis L. Hawks, sold the house to Frances Blount, who is thought to have been renting it. She also bought the neighboring lot 180 that year. People: Walker Anderson, Francis L. Hawks Place: Ruffin-Roulhac House, Churton and Orange streets, Hillsborough · Also named: Frances BlountSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ruffin-Roulhac House, National Register nomination (OR0017), p. 4
4. September 15, 1832 Willie P. Mangum declines a public dinner offered by his Orange County supporters Senator Willie P. Mangum declined a public dinner offered by a committee of Walker Anderson, Samuel Child, W. Montgomery, Allen C. Jones, V. M. Murphey and John Scott on behalf of a meeting that had approved his course in the Senate. He wrote that Orange had never so honored its public men and that such dinners belonged to great occasions. People: Willie P. Mangum, Walker Anderson, Samuel Child Place: Hillsborough · Also named: W. Montgomery, Allen C. Jones, V. M. Murphey, John ScottSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 26, 1832, p. 3
5. August 31, 1833 Trustees elect Walker Anderson of Hillsborough professor of rhetoric and logic Meeting at Raleigh, the trustees' committee of appointment elected Walker Anderson of Hillsborough to the university's chair of rhetoric and logic. The committee put off filling the professorship of modern languages. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (committee met at Raleigh)Search the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 10, 1833, p. 3
6. September 9 to 11, 1833 Internal improvement convention meets at Hillsborough and elects Thomas Ruffin president Delegates from Orange, Granville, Person, Caswell, Wake, Warren, Rowan, Guilford and Cumberland met at Hillsborough on September 9 to promote a railroad from the Roanoke into the western counties. They chose Judge Thomas Ruffin president over Governor David L. Swain by 26 votes to 16, named Walker Anderson and Sandy Harris secretaries, sat in the Presbyterian church, and adjourned on September 11. People: David L. Swain, Walker Anderson, James Webb, Thomas Ruffin Place: Presbyterian church, Hillsborough · Also named: Sandy HarrisSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 10, 1833, p. 3
7. October 19, 1833 William E. Anderson and Samuel J. Johnston take over the female boarding school near Hillsborough The seminary for young ladies near Hillsborough, lately run by Walker Anderson, passed to William E. Anderson and Samuel J. Johnston, who said they would keep it on the same plan with the same music and drawing teachers. Their first session was set for early 1834. People: Walker Anderson Place: Near Hillsborough · Also named: William E. Anderson, Samuel J. JohnstonThe Harbinger (Chapel Hill), October 29, 1833, p. 3
8. December 1833 Trustees make the senior professor Caldwell's deputy and add an adjunct professor When Caldwell's illness first forced him to ask for help, the trustees gave the professor of longest standing, Elisha Mitchell, power to act in the president's place and created an adjunct professorship of natural philosophy and astronomy, filled by Walker Anderson. Mitchell served as acting president until Swain arrived. People: Joseph Caldwell, Elisha Mitchell, Walker Anderson Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 357
9. March 11, 1834 An Orange County meeting takes up the internal improvement convention's plan Citizens met at the court house in Hillsborough to hear the county's delegates to the November 1833 Internal Improvement Convention. Duncan Cameron urged a vigorous state system of improvements, Frederick Nash read the convention's memorial to the legislature, and the meeting named Nash, William A. Graham, Priestly H. Mangum and Walker Anderson to draft an address to the people of Orange, adjourning to Thursday of May court. People: Duncan Cameron, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Walker Anderson, Edmund Strudwick Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Priestly H. MangumSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), March 13, 1834, p. 3
10. June 1835 The diocesan convention meets in St. Matthew's for the second and last time The Episcopal convention met at St. Matthew's in Hillsborough in June 1835 while Bishop Ives was in Europe for his health; by 1890 it had not returned, though Hillsborough was chosen again several times. Newly ordained deacon Moses Ashley Curtis arrived on June 4 and preached that night, probably his first sermon, from the chancel he would later serve for many years as rector. People: William Mercer Green, Moses Ashley Curtis, Walker Anderson Place: St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Joseph W. Murphy, A Sermon-Sketch of the History of St. Matthew's Parish, Hillsboro, N.C. (1900), scan p. 37