Thomas Bragg

Life and Orange County connections

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1. August 3, 1854 Orange elects William A. Graham to the state Senate and Phillips and Turner to the Commons Orange County voters elected the Whig ticket: William A. Graham to the state Senate over Cadwallader Jones Jr., and Samuel F. Phillips and Josiah Turner Jr. to the House of Commons over John F. Lyon and William Nelson. The county gave Alfred Dockery, the Whig candidate for governor, 1,080 votes to Thomas Bragg's 963, and voted against the liquor 'Reform' question. People: William A. Graham, Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Josiah Turner Jr., William Nelson, Thomas Bragg, Cadwallader Jones Place: Orange County · Also named: John F. Lyon, Alfred DockerySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 9, 1854, p. 2
2. October 11, 1856 The trustees' executive committee rules that Hedrick has destroyed his usefulness to the university Meeting under Governor Thomas Bragg, the committee resolved that Hedrick's letter broke the rule against professors agitating party politics, approved the faculty's stand, and found he could no longer serve the university. The resolutions were sent to Chapel Hill but not published. People: Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, Thomas Bragg, Charles Lewis Hinton, Bartholomew F. Moore, Romulus M. (Romulus Mitchell) Saunders Place: Raleigh, for the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSearch the index · J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick (1910), scan p. 25
3. June 2 and 3, 1857 Freshman and sophomore declaimers compete at commencement, and Governor Bragg gives a composition prize Nine freshmen declaimed before a crowded audience on Tuesday evening of commencement week and nine sophomores on Wednesday evening. After the sophomore contest Governor Thomas Bragg presented C. W. McClammy of New Hanover with an encyclopaedia for proficiency in composition. People: Thomas Bragg Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: C. W. McClammySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Gazette, June 6, 1857, p. 2
4. June 4, 1857 The university confers degrees on sixty-nine graduates After the annual report was read on commencement day, the university conferred degrees on sixty-nine members of the graduating class, the faculty giving each a bound Bible, and awarded master's degrees in course to about twenty earlier graduates. Governor Bragg and nine other trustees attended. People: Thomas Bragg, David L. Swain, William A. Graham, William Horn Battle, Charles Manly, Giles Mebane Place: Gerard Hall, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Gazette, June 6, 1857, p. 2
5. July 1857 The trustees' executive committee votes Elisha Mitchell's widow his salary and divides his duties Meeting in Raleigh after news of Elisha Mitchell's death, the trustees' executive committee voted his widow the rest of his half-year salary and the use of their house to the end of the year, and authorized President Swain to share out Mitchell's teaching and his duties as bursar among the faculty, appointing tutors if needed, for the session. People: Thomas Bragg, David L. Swain, Charles Manly Place: Executive Office, Raleigh, for the University at Chapel Hill · Also named: Maria North Mitchell, Elisha MitchellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Gazette, July 25, 1857, p. 2
6. 1866 Trustees mortgage all university property to settle its debts Facing $103,000 of debt against worthless bank stock and Confederate securities, the trustees compromised with the Bank of North Carolina and other creditors at a quarter of the debt in gold, pledging all the university's property at Chapel Hill and its Buncombe County lands. The General Assembly also voted $7,000 for one year to pay the officers. People: Thomas Bragg, David L. Swain, Charles Manly, Bartholomew F. Moore Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 755
7. January 23, 1871 William A. Graham of Hillsborough joins the prosecution of Governor Holden The House managers announced to the impeachment court that former governor William A. Graham of Hillsborough, with Thomas Bragg and Augustus S. Merrimon, would act as their counsel. Graham argued points of evidence for the prosecution through the trial. People: William A. Graham, Thomas Bragg, Thomas Sparrow Place: North Carolina Senate chamber, Raleigh · Also named: Augustus S. MerrimonInternet Archive: Trial of William W. Holden, Governor of North Carolina, vol. 1 (1871)