James Bell Bullitt

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 9 dated events in the chronology →

During their lifetime

1. late July 1917 The Chapel Hill Red Cross ships a box of 1,462 surgical dressings Answering an urgent call, the Chapel Hill chapter of the Red Cross shipped a box of 1,462 bandages, compresses and other dressings. The chapter had 310 members and twenty to twenty-five women working at its headquarters each workday. People: James Bell Bullitt Place: Red Cross headquarters, Chapel HillThe News (Chapel Hill), August 2, 1917, p. 1
2. November 30, 1917 The Community Club shows a tuberculosis film to Chapel Hill's Black residents The Health Department of the Chapel Hill Community Club showed a moving picture on tuberculosis and the dangers of patent medicines to the town's Black residents at their hall, after a talk on health and tuberculosis by Dr. J. B. Bullitt. The News reported a large attendance. People: James Bell Bullitt Place: Black community hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 6, 1917, p. 1
3. Spring 1918 Chapel Hill Red Cross treasurer Dr. J. B. Bullitt resigns to enlist in the Army Medical Corps In the spring of 1918 Dr. J. B. Bullitt, who had set up the chapter's monthly subscription plan, resigned as treasurer to enlist in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Dr. J. M. Bell succeeded him, and after about a month Dr. W. M. Dey took over when Bell went to Washington for government work. People: William Morton Dey, James Munsie Bell, James Bell Bullitt Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 19
4. by May 26, 1933 The Battle Park Association incorporates and takes charge of the University Lake grounds The Battle Park Association, led by Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, was incorporated, and the University trustees put it in charge of both Battle Park and the land around the new University Lake. The Weekly reported that since 1931 the group had opened nearly six miles of trails, built eight footbridges and a pavilion, and laid out three picnic grounds in the park. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, James Bell Bullitt Place: Battle Park and University Lake, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 26, 1933, p. 1
5. July 17, 1940 Chapel Hill groups form a joint committee to find homes for British refugee children Representatives of the University's refugee committee, the Committee for the Defense of America, the A.A.U.W., the Women's International League, the war relief committee, the Red Cross and the welfare board formed an executive committee under M. A. Hill Jr. to list homes for children sent out of Britain. Many residents had offered to take children or pay toward their keep, but ships to bring them over were lacking. People: James Bell Bullitt, John M. Foushee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: M. A. Hill Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 19, 1940, p. 1
6. by April 10, 1942 Chapel Hill civil defense types the blood of about 700 residents A Local Civilian Defense committee headed by Dr. James B. Bullitt had about 700 residents' blood typed at the University medical building, and their blood-type cards were handed out at Eubanks' drugstore. In late May the Weekly reported that only about a fifth of them had called for their cards. People: James Bell Bullitt Place: Medical building, University, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 10, 1942, p. 1
7. November 1942 Chapel Hill builds up a community blood bank with Pre-Flight donors Townspeople and Pre-Flight School personnel began giving blood for a community blood bank in Chapel Hill, kept for local emergencies under Dr. J. B. Bullitt, with technicians from Watts Hospital in Durham and Lt. Comdr. Clark E. Brown of the Pre-Flight medical staff drawing blood weekly at the university infirmary. Commander Kessing and Lt. Comdr. Graff led the Navy donors on November 12. At least 500 donors were needed to start the bank. People: James Bell Bullitt, Oliver Owen Kessing, John P. Graff Place: University infirmary, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Clark E. Brown · Also mentions: Watts HospitalSearch the index · Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), November 14, 1942, p. 2 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1942, p. 1
8. 1946–1973 Kenneth M. Brinkhous chairs the UNC Department of Pathology Brinkhous succeeded James B. Bullitt as chair of pathology at the UNC School of Medicine in 1946 and held the post until 1973, building a research program in thrombosis and hemostasis. His department invented the partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test used in clinical laboratories. People: Kenneth M. Brinkhous, James Bell Bullitt Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: UNC School of MedicineSearch the index · UNC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Department History

After their death in 1964

Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.

1. 1983 The Brinkhous-Bullitt Building is named for two pathology chairs The University named its 1973 pathology building for Kenneth M. Brinkhous and his predecessor James B. Bullitt, who between them chaired the Department of Pathology from 1913 to 1973. People: Kenneth M. Brinkhous, James Bell Bullitt Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Story: Kenneth M Brinkhous (1908-2000) and James B. Bullitt (1874-1964) and Brinkhous-Bullitt Building