Algernon S. Barbee

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 16 dated events in the chronology →

1. September 15, 1875 Mayor Algernon S. Barbee helps marshal the celebration of the University's reopening At the formal celebration of the University's reopening, chief marshal John R. Hutchins of the class of 1852 and Mayor A. S. Barbee of the class of 1860, with several students, formed the procession in front of the South Building and marched to the chapel. People: John R. HutchinsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 95
2. 1876 Algernon S. Barbee opens his own general store Civil War veteran Algernon S. Barbee left his clerk's job with his brother-in-law David McCauley and opened his own general store. From its location Bryant judges that he took over the store of his father, Sidney Mulholland Barbee, then about seventy. People: Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 135
3. December 28, 1878 Julian S. Carr buys a lot of the A. S. Lee property at auction and gives it to Willis Cheek The Chapel Hill property of A. S. Lee was sold at auction in three lots. Julian S. Carr bought the first lot, with a three-room house, for $355 and presented it to Willis Cheek as a Christmas gift; A. S. Barbee bought two acres of the Lee lot for $97.71. People: Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, January 4, 1879, p. 3
4. by September 2, 1879 Chapel Hill commissioners repeal the town's law against hogs at large The Chapel Hill board of commissioners repealed the ordinance of a former board that kept hogs from running at large in the village. In a mock legal complaint, druggist A. S. Barbee reported that hogs loose under the new rule had eaten his garden on the night of September 2 and asked the board to restore the law. People: Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, September 6, 1879, p. 2
5. By 1883 Algernon S. Barbee buys and moves into the "Crystal Palace" on Franklin Street By 1883 Algernon S. Barbee had bought the Franklin Street house known as the Crystal Palace and moved into it.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 143
6. between 1889 and 1893 Barbee Drive is cut beside Algernon Barbee's house lot A road was opened along the eastern edge of Algernon S. Barbee's residential lot on Franklin Street and named Barbee Drive. People: Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 159
7. 1891 to 1894 John H. Watson serves four years as mayor of Chapel Hill Watson, who had been mayor in 1883 and again in 1885 and 1886, held the office from 1891 through 1894, his longest run. A. S. Barbee followed him. People: Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 364-365
8. November 1895 to 1896 Algernon S. Barbee serves as mayor of Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill commissioners chose Algernon S. Barbee mayor in November 1895, after the death of Mayor John H. Watson, and he was holding mayor's court by November 23. The voters elected him by a wide majority at the town election in May 1896. The town directory printed with the 1896 ordinances lists Barbee as mayor, with J. A. Holmes, J. A. London, W. N. Pritchard, H. H. Patterson and Thomas F. Lloyd as commissioners and A. J. McDade as clerk and treasurer. People: J. A. Holmes, Henry Houston Patterson, Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder), Alphonso J. McDade, John H. Watson, Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · Commissioners of Chapel Hill, Ordinances and Charter for the Government of the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1896), scan p. 4 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 3; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 16, 1896, p. 3
9. February 15, 1896 Chapel Hill's commissioners ratify a revised code of 72 ordinances Acting on a board resolution of December 2, 1895, Mayor Algernon S. Barbee and Alphonso J. McDade rewrote the town's rules in 72 sections, which the commissioners ratified and printed with the charter and its amendments. The new code repealed any earlier ordinance that conflicted with it. People: Alphonso J. McDade, Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · Commissioners of Chapel Hill, Ordinances and Charter for the Government of the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1896), scan p. 28
10. May 4, 1899 Chapel Hill re-elects Algernon S. Barbee mayor under its new charter At the first town election under Chapel Hill's new charter, Algernon S. Barbee was re-elected mayor for the fourth time over William Roberson, and aldermen named Lloyd, Pickard, Ward, Kluttz and a professor were chosen. The "good road" Democrats claimed the result. People: Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 11, 1899, p. 3
11. by May 3, 1900 Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor A. S. Barbee and its board Chapel Hill's town election returned Mayor Algernon S. Barbee and the sitting board of commissioners, which was carrying out extensive street improvements. People: Algernon S. BarbeeSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 3, 1900, p. 3
12. 1907 Algernon S. Barbee is elected mayor of Chapel Hill again Algernon Sydney Barbee, who had been Chapel Hill's mayor from 1895 to 1901, was elected mayor again in 1907.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 189