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Alexander Boyd Andrews

1873–1946 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. State convicts build the University Railroad Governor Thomas J. Jarvis supplied state convicts at low hire to grade the line from University Station to Chapel Hill, while the Richmond and Danville company laid the rails. A white convict was shot dead while fleeing, and a Black convict named Fries died of gangrene after a whipping by the road's managers, which the solicitor found no ground to prosecute. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Alexander Boyd Andrews, Robert F. Hoke, Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Frederick N. Strudwick Place: Orange County · Also mentions: University StationSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 246
  2. University Railroad directors elect Kemp P. Battle president and Andrew Mickle treasurer Meeting right after the stockholders, the directors elected Kemp P. Battle president and Andrew Mickle secretary and treasurer at $200 a year, put Col. Thomas M. Holt on the board in Battle's place, and named Hoke and A. B. Andrews to arrange for convict labor and a survey. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Andrew Mickle, Robert F. Hoke, Alexander Boyd Andrews Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas M. HoltThe Chapel Hill Ledger, January 10, 1880, p. 2
  3. The Sons of the Revolution give the law school portraits of Justices Iredell and Moore The North Carolina Society, Sons of the Revolution, presented portraits of James Iredell and Alfred Moore, the state's two early justices of the United States Supreme Court, to the University of North Carolina law school. A. B. Andrews of Raleigh spoke on Iredell and Justice Heriot Clarkson of the state supreme court on Moore. People: James Iredell, Alfred Moore, Alexander Boyd Andrews Place: University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill · Also named: Heriot ClarksonSearch the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 11 (1934), p. 161 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 9, 1934, p. 1

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By Alexander Boyd Andrews

Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr. (1873-1946) Collection

Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1873-1946 · 1861

Papers of Alexander Boyd Andrews Jr., a Raleigh lawyer and son of railroad official Col. A. B. Andrews, 1861 to 1945. Among the letters are John Motley Morehead's account of the 1881 hanging of Tildy Carter, a Black woman, in Rockingham County, and H. A. Page Sr. writing about the home of Walter Hines Page. The Hillsborough Academy, the Civil War and the Episcopal Church also figure. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.125.

About Alexander Boyd Andrews

Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present

Ashe, Samuel A. · 1905 · C.L. Van Noppen

Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1873-1946.

Alexander Boyd Andrews

Cameron, J. D. (John Donald), 1820-1897 · 1894 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

John Donald Cameron's sketch of Alexander Boyd Andrews, the railroad executive whose career ran with the North Carolina lines in the later nineteenth century. Detached from the May 1894 North Carolina University Magazine and printed at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, it covers railroad officers and North Carolina biography.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1841-1915.

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