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William Jennings Bryan

1860–1925 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. William Jennings Bryan speaks from his train at the Hillsborough depot Democratic presidential nominee William J. Bryan stopped at Hillsborough on his North Carolina tour, was introduced by S. M. Gattis, spoke for two or three minutes to several hundred people and shook hands. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis Place: Southern Railway depot, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 24, 1896, p. 2
  2. William Jennings Bryan speaks at Chapel Hill William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats' 1896 candidate for president, spoke at Chapel Hill the day after giving two speeches in Raleigh. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 15, 1900, p. 2
  3. A Hillsboro crowd waiting for Bryan learns that Charles D. McIver has died on his train Six or seven hundred people gathered at the Southern Railway station in Hillsboro to see and hear William Jennings Bryan. When his special train arrived, Governor Robert B. Glenn told them from the rear platform that Charles D. McIver, president of the State Normal College, had dropped dead in one of the cars after the train left Durham; Bryan bowed and went inside without speaking, and the crowd broke up in silence. People: William Jennings Bryan, R. B. (Robert Brodnax) Glenn Place: Southern Railway depot, Hillsborough · Also named: Charles D. McIverSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 20, 1906, p. 3
  4. William Jennings Bryan argues against entering the war in Memorial Hall Former secretary of state William Jennings Bryan, campaigning for peace, spoke in Memorial Hall on the morning of Sunday, November 14, 1915, to students and townspeople, a crowd that spilled into the street, and urged Americans to keep out of Europe's war. He came at the invitation of the University Y.M.C.A. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 126 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), November 11, 1915, p. 1

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Walter Clark papers, 1880-1920.

Clark, Walter, 1846-1924 · 1880

Fifty items from the judge Walter Clark, 1846 to 1924, dated 1880 to 1920, half a linear foot in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 2751. The material concerns judicial elections in North Carolina, the United States Senate, William Jennings Bryan, the Philippines, and the legal and social status of women, with a Confederate personal narrative and Hillsborough history among the earlier subjects.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.

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