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John Caldwell

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  1. Orange County Training School graduates twelve The county training school for Black students at Chapel Hill held its commencement with orations by three graduates, spirituals by the glee club and a male quartet, an address by Rev. Eugene Olive and diplomas presented by M. C. S. Noble of the University faculty; twelve boys and girls graduated. The Weekly noted the large crowd and the simple dignity of the ceremony. People: M. C. S. Noble, John Caldwell Place: Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eugene OliveThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 27, 1927, p. 1
  2. An early ice storm coats Chapel Hill's trees Chapel Hill awoke on November 23 to trees and shrubs hung with ice, which bent limbs to the ground, broke branches and blocked paths and narrow roads. W. C. Coker said he had never seen iced trees there so early, the Black minister John Caldwell recalled only one other November freeze, and the town trimmed the damaged young poplars on the main street under Coker's direction. People: William Chambers Coker, John Caldwell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 29, 1929, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill aldermen accept Foushee's resignation and name John L. Caldwell town manager At their meeting on June 8, 1932, the aldermen accepted the resignation of town manager John M. Foushee, who had held the post since 1928, and named John L. Caldwell, office manager for the contractors T. C. Thompson & Bros., to succeed him on July 1. Foushee was kept on for about two months to show his successor the work. People: John L. Caldwell, John M. Foushee Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: T. C. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 10, 1932, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill aldermen adopt a reduced town budget for 1932-33 At a call meeting on July 25, 1932 the aldermen approved a town budget of $29,285 in operating requirements, $3,107 or 9.6 percent less than the year before, with $32,001 to be raised from property taxes. New town manager J. L. Caldwell's estimate had cut the manager's own salary by a quarter, from $2,400 to $1,800. People: John Caldwell, John L. Caldwell Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 29, 1932, p. 1
  5. Chapel Hill's new PWA-aided incinerator goes into operation The town's new garbage and trash incinerator, built beside the sewage disposal plant in Strowd's Lowgrounds east of the village by the Nye Odorless Incinerator Company for $17,700, passed its final inspection by PWA engineers and town officials and began burning the daily truckloads. The federal government paid nearly half the cost, the University supplied much of the refuse, and the town stopped using its old dump off the Hillsboro road. People: John Caldwell, John L. Caldwell, Arthur R. Hollett Place: Strowd's Lowgrounds, beside the sewage disposal plant, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 25, 1937, p. 1
  6. 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. Foushee Place: Town office, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1937, p. 1
  7. 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. Hinshaw Place: Town office, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1937, p. 2
  8. Chapel Hill puts a closed garbage truck with a locally invented loader into service The town's new $1,400 Ford garbage truck, with a closed eight-yard body and a hydraulic hopper loader of the kind fireman J. S. Boone had invented with Town Manager John L. Caldwell, went into use in mid-August; the two had applied for a patent on the improved design. With the incinerator taking as much as 16 tons a day, the town began collecting from every home twice a week on August 19. People: John Caldwell, John L. Caldwell Place: Town of Chapel Hill · Also named: J. S. BooneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1940, p. 1

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By John Caldwell

John Caldwell papers, 1766-1917 (bulk 1810-1850)

Caldwell, John, 1779-1857 · 1766

John Caldwell, 1779 to 1857, was a merchant and banker at Morganton, and his papers cover 1766 to 1917 with the bulk from 1810 to 1850. Subjects include account books, the Bank of Cape Fear and the Bank of the United States, and bills of sale for enslaved people in North Carolina. Student life at Chapel Hill and Tod Robinson Caldwell are also named. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 329.

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