George E. Badger

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1818-1844 George E. Badger serves as a trustee of the university George E. Badger sat on the university's board of trustees from 1818 to 1844. He was one of the first members of its executive committee in 1835, served on its land committee and as its counsel in the Tennessee land suits, and moved the creation of a chair of modern languages. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: George Edmund Badger
2. 1825 Students illuminate the college to welcome Caldwell home from Europe When President Caldwell came back from nearly a year in Europe buying books and apparatus, the students lit up the college buildings and escorted him to a stand by the well in front of South Building, where he spoke to them and the villagers. In December 1825 the trustees formally thanked him for his work. People: Joseph Caldwell, Paul C. Cameron, George E. Badger Place: South BuildingSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 295
3. July 15, 1825 The governor and council appoint Thomas Ruffin of Hillsborough a Superior Court judge The governor and council of state appointed Thomas Ruffin of Hillsborough a judge of the Superior Court in place of George E. Badger, who had resigned. People: Thomas Ruffin, George E. Badger Place: Hillsborough (appointment made in Raleigh)Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 20, 1825, p. 3
4. About 1827 Trustees name Badger, Yancey and Moore to draft a law against liquor and student credit at Chapel Hill On President Caldwell's motion the trustees named Bartlett Yancey, George E. Badger and Alfred Moore to prepare a bill forbidding the distilling or selling of spirituous liquors at or near Chapel Hill and barring village merchants from trading with students. It became law; Battle says the liquor ban still stood in 1907 while the trading ban was ignored and later repealed. People: Alfred Moore, Joseph Caldwell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bartlett YanceySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 304
5. 1833 Trustees name the new chapel Gerrard Hall The trustees sold Major Charles Gerrard's 2,560-acre service tract in Tennessee for $6,400, voted $2,000 of it toward finishing the new chapel that had stood unfinished since about 1824, and resolved that the building be known forever as Gerrard Hall in his memory. People: William Gaston, George E. Badger, William Polk Place: Gerrard Hall · Also named: Charles GerrardSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 350
6. June 26, 1833 George E. Badger gives the commencement address to the literary societies At the 1833 commencement, held without the ailing President Caldwell, George E. Badger, chosen by the Dialectic Society, delivered the annual address before the two literary societies at Chapel Hill. People: Elisha Mitchell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 353 · Also: The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 24, 1833, p. 3
7. late June 1834 The university makes Thomas Ruffin, George E. Badger and Bishop Ives Doctors of Laws At its 1834 commencement the University of North Carolina conferred the LL.D. on Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin, George E. Badger and Bishop Levi S. Ives, the D.D. on the Rev. Andrew Syme of Petersburg, Virginia, and the master's degree on six alumni. People: Thomas Ruffin, George E. Badger Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Levi S. Ives, Andrew SymeSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 9, 1834, p. 3
8. January 2, 1835 Trustees create an executive committee to run the university At Duncan Cameron's instance the board placed management in a seven-member executive committee including the governor, with the powers of the land, appointments and building committees and the right to change studies and dismiss faculty. The first members were Cameron, George E. Badger, William McPheeters, Charles Manly, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham and Governor Swain. People: Duncan Cameron, David L. Swain, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, George E. Badger, Charles Manly, William McPheeters Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 399
9. March 1844, confirmed that December Frederick Nash of Hillsborough is appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court After William Gaston's death the Council of State unanimously rejected the governor's first choice, George E. Badger, and in March 1844 accepted his second, Frederick Nash of Hillsborough, for the Supreme Court; the legislature elected him to the seat that December. Eight years later his colleagues made him Chief Justice. People: Frederick Nash, William Gaston, George E. Badger Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 90 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, March 28, 1844, p. 3
10. October 9-10, 1844 Whigs hold a two-day mass meeting on the Alamance battleground Whigs from Orange, Wake and neighboring counties camped for two days on the ground of the 1771 Battle of Alamance, hearing George E. Badger, Henry K. Nash, Henry W. Miller, Charles Manly, Ralph Gorrell and others tie the Regulators' cause to their own. Michael Shoffner, who owned the land, declared that the ground should henceforth belong to the nation in memory of the battle, and on October 11 Hillsborough's Whigs met the returning Wake delegation with a procession and a supper at the Masonic Hall. People: George E. Badger, Charles Manly, William A. Graham, Henry Kollock Nash Place: Regulator battleground on Great Alamance Creek, Orange County (now Alamance County) · Also named: Henry W. Miller, Ralph Gorrell, Michael ShoffnerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 17, 1844, p. 3