Victor Silas Bryant

Life and Orange County connections

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1. by March 3, 1894 The law firm of Merritt, Bryant & Merritt opens an office in Hillsborough The Roxboro law firm of J. S. Merritt and Victor S. Bryant took in William D. Merritt, a new graduate of the university law school, and opened an office in Hillsborough on King Street next to the Observer printing office, where William D. Merritt was to be at all times. William D. Merritt was admitted to practice at the March term of court. People: Victor Silas BryantSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 3, 1894, p. 3
2. 1905 The General Assembly votes $50,000 for a chemistry building After Professor Charles Baskerville described the crowded chemistry laboratories, the legislature raised the university's yearly appropriation to $45,000 and gave $50,000 for a chemical laboratory. Venable called the building grant a new departure. People: Charles Baskerville, Francis Preston Venable, Richard H. Battle, Victor Silas BryantSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 647
3. March 13-15, 1905 Sophie Neville pleads guilty to manslaughter in her father's death At the spring term of Orange Superior Court, Sophie Neville, a Black woman charged with shooting her father dead with a pistol at Chapel Hill that winter, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to four months in the county jail. At the same term the murder case against J. Knapp Horner for killing Deputy Sheriff Nichols was continued to August. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis, Victor Silas BryantSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 16, 1905, p. 3
4. August 11, 1905 Superior court convicts J. Knapp Horner of killing Deputy Sheriff Nichols At the summer term of Orange Superior Court before Judge George W. Ward, a jury found J. Knapp Horner guilty of second-degree murder on August 11 for killing Deputy Sheriff D. J. Nichols, and he was sentenced to 12 years in the state penitentiary. Horner, a Confederate veteran of about 59, appealed, and the state Supreme Court affirmed the sentence in November. People: John W. Graham, Victor Silas BryantSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 17, 1905, p. 3
5. March 1913 Three students are convicted in Hillsborough in Isaac William Rand's death At the Orange County Courthouse one of the four defendants was freed after the first testimony, and a jury of Orange County farmers found the other three guilty within a few hours. The judge gave the minimum four months with the option of hiring them out, and their families paid the fees and took them home the same day. People: John W. Graham, Isaac William Rand, Victor Silas BryantSearch 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. 11
6. February to May 1919 Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president After Edward Kidder Graham's death, the trustees named a search committee chaired by Dr. Richard H. Lewis of Raleigh, which met students and faculty on the campus in mid-February. In mid-May it put forward Frank L. McVey, Robert J. Aley and Harry W. Chase, with McVey its favorite. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Edward Kidder Graham, Victor Silas BryantSearch 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), pp. 193-194, 199, 202 (pdf 210-211, 216, 219)