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Frederick O. Bowman

F. O. Bowman, a former judge of the Chapel Hill recorder's court who had served several years on the town board of aldermen, returned to the board in January 1946 to take the seat of R. H. Wettach, who had resigned.

Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 17, 1946, p. 1

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West Franklin Street paving and its Black homeowners, 1926–19411926–1941 · 15 events · Paving assessments on West Franklin Street threatened Black homeowners with the loss of their houses. The aldermen approved paving in 1926, and the owners were assessed $7.70 a front foot, a charge on each foot of a lot's street frontage. By 1932 Black owners faced tax sales, and in 1933 a Duke University legal aid clinic brought out that their petitions had been circulated by the paving contractor. At 1937 hearings Mrs. J. P. Nesbitt testified that her husband had been told the assessments were meant to get Black residents off the street. A 1939 law, the Weekly said, produced nothing, and in 1941 the aldermen voted bonds to refund the over-assessed owners; the refund list totaled $8,311.85. Chapel Hill’s business failures, 19301930 · 7 events · Chapel Hill's merchants went through a run of failures in early 1930. In January receivers were appointed for the Patterson Brothers drugstore, which the Weekly later counted the first of the village's mercantile failures that year. In February the Moore-Johnson Hardware Company filed in voluntary bankruptcy and closed, and the merchant S. Berman was put in the hands of a receiver; the Weekly blamed the collapse of real estate values. After the bank cashier M. E. Hogan warned that local business was 'in a bad way,' the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs urged people to buy from home merchants. By May new businesses had opened in the empty hardware store and the old cafeteria space.

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  1. The Patterson Brothers drugstore goes into receivership On a suit by the Scott Drug Company, Judge W. C. Harris appointed F. O. Bowman and C. W. Hall permanent receivers of Mrs. M. A. Patterson, trading as Patterson Brothers, a retail drugstore in Chapel Hill. The Weekly later counted it the first of the village's mercantile failures that year. People: Frederick O. BowmanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 21, 1930, p. 1
  2. Manning Pritchard and Philip Lloyd buy the Patterson Brothers drugstore from its receivers The Patterson Brothers drugstore went into receivership early in 1930, and on February 22 Manning Pritchard and Philip Lloyd (James Manning Pritchard and Thomas Phillip Lloyd) bought its stock and equipment from the receivers, F. O. Bowman and C. W. Hall, to run as Pritchard-Lloyd, Inc. Lloyd had long worked in the Patterson store; Pritchard, youngest child of the late W. N. Pritchard, came from drugstores in Durham, Greensboro and Raleigh. Bryant names Wallace Durham Patterson as the seller. The maps then list it as the Pritchard and Lloyd Rexall store. People: Thomas Phillip Lloyd, Frederick O. Bowman, James Manning PritchardSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 245 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1930, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Foushee and chooses three new aldermen In a town election that drew only 551 voters of perhaps 1,200 to 1,500 qualified, John M. Foushee was re-elected mayor without opposition and L. J. Phipps kept the recorder's court judgeship over Roy McGinnis, 368 to 183. Paul Robertson (284 votes), George Hellen (281) and F. O. Bowman (264) won the three aldermen's seats over Clarence Pickard, J. T. Dobbins, Matt Thompson and Raymond Adams. People: Luther James Phipps, Clarence Pickard, Paul H. Robertson, Frederick O. Bowman, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1937, p. 1
  4. Aldermen name a committee to review the West Franklin Street paving assessments Lawyer John Manning, speaking for owners on West Franklin Street, asked the aldermen to cancel the 1927 assessments of $7.70 a front foot for curb, gutter and paving and to reassess the owners at much lower rates, saying many of them, most of them Black, had been misled about the cost and faced foreclosure. The board named aldermen F. O. Bowman and R. J. M. Hobbs to study the case with Town Manager John L. Caldwell. People: John Manning, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John Caldwell, Frederick O. Bowman, John L. Caldwell, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1937, p. 1
  5. The aldermen's committee holds hearings on the West Franklin Street paving assessments Owners told the committee they had been assured in 1927 that the charge would be far below the $7.70 a front foot finally levied, and Mrs. J. P. Nesbitt testified that her husband had been told the assessments were meant to get Black residents off West Franklin Street. Former mayor Zeb P. Council answered in a letter that the board of 1927 had acted on a valid petition; the committee members signaled that they thought the levy too high and might seek an act of the legislature to validate relief. People: John Manning, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John Caldwell, Frederick O. Bowman, John L. Caldwell, Zeb P. Council, Clarence P. HinshawThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1937, p. 2
  6. Hillsboro's polling place moves to the high school athletic building The county board of elections ordered a new registration of all voters in the Hillsboro precinct, October 10 to 29, voiding the old books, and moved the precinct's polling place from the board of education building to the athletic building of Hillsboro High School. People: Frederick O. BowmanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 23, 1938, p. 5
  7. The county board of elections splits the Chapel Hill precinct in two With the town's growth swelling the registration books, the Orange County board of elections divided the Chapel Hill precinct along Franklin Street, Raleigh Street and Highway 54 into North Chapel Hill and South Chapel Hill precincts, voting at the curb market building at Henderson and Rosemary streets and at the elementary school's athletic building. It voided the old registration and ordered a new one, October 10 to 29. People: Frederick O. BowmanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 23, 1938, p. 1
  8. YMCA secretary Harry Comer is named Chapel Hill's Most Valuable Citizen The Carolina Theatre's annual trophy for Chapel Hill's Most Valuable Citizen of 1938 went to Harry F. Comer, secretary of the University YMCA, at a presentation in the theatre. He was chosen by a committee of Mrs. Isaac Manning (chairman), Mrs. Irene Lee, Dr. S. A. Nathan, P. L. Burch and F. O. Bowman. People: Frederick O. Bowman, Peter L. Burch, Harry F. ComerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 6, 1939, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor John M. Foushee and elects Fitch, Bowman, and Davis aldermen In the town election John M. Foushee was re-elected mayor over J. T. Dobbins, 558 to 357, and Andrew McIntosh kept the recorder's court judgeship over L. J. Phipps, 464 to 447. Bernice Fitch led the aldermanic field with 733 votes, F. O. Bowman (497) was re-elected, and G. Obie Davis (496) took the third seat, 43 votes ahead of Alderman George Hellen; the new board was sworn in on May 14. People: Luther James Phipps, Frederick O. Bowman, John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1941, p. 1
  10. Orange County beats its quota for North Carolina's ambulance plane for Britain In a drive led by Collier Cobb Jr. and F. O. Bowman in Chapel Hill and Owen Robertson in Hillsboro, Orange County gave $663.15 to the Old North State Fund, which was raising $75,000 to buy an ambulance airplane as North Carolina's gift to Britain. Hillsboro raised $231.70 of the total. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Owen S. Robertson, Frederick O. BowmanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 15, 1941, p. 1
  11. Chapel Hill aldermen begin to study extending the town limits With residential colonies such as Westwood, Forest Hills, the Country Club section and Davie Woods grown up on the town's fringes, the aldermen asked Alderman F. O. Bowman and Town Attorney C. P. Hinshaw to find out how the town limits could be extended. The Weekly expected an enabling act and a vote of residents to be needed. People: Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 24, 1941, p. 1
  12. Chapel Hill reelects Mayor Madry and Judge Whitfield and adds Edwin Lanier to the aldermen About 700 Chapel Hill voters reelected Mayor R. W. Madry without opposition (616 votes) and returned Henry A. Whitfield as judge of the recorder's court with 417 votes to 90 for Tom Henry and 17 for Paul Robertson. For three aldermen they chose R. B. Fitch (493), newcomer Edwin S. Lanier (456) and Bruce Strowd (398); F. O. Bowman, an alderman for eight years, lost with 375. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Bruce Strowd, Paul H. Robertson, Henry A. Whitfield, Frederick O. BowmanSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1945, p. 5
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  1. F. O. Bowman returns to the Chapel Hill board of aldermen F. O. Bowman, an alderman from 1937 until his defeat in May 1945, accepted appointment to the seat left by R. H. Wettach, dean of the law school, who resigned in December 1945. He was sworn in at the board's February meeting. People: Robert H. WettachSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 17, 1946, p. 1

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