Bennehan Cameron

Life and Orange County connections

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1. November 12, 1880 Paul Cameron buys university land put up for sale When part of the university's land around Chapel Hill was put up for sale, Spencer, fearing for places like Piney Prospect and the Roaring Fountain, wrote begging Paul C. Cameron to buy it, and Bennehan Cameron and John W. Graham came to bid for him. Cameron later left Spencer a few acres of it in his will. People: Paul C. Cameron, Bennehan Cameron, John W. Graham, Cornelia Phillips Spencer Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Hope Summerell Chamberlain, Old Days in Chapel Hill (1926), scan p. 275
2. 1891-1925 Bennehan Cameron serves as a university trustee from Orange County Bennehan Cameron, elected a trustee of the University of North Carolina in 1891 and listed from Orange County, served on the board until his death in 1925. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Bennehan Cameron Papers, 1866-1962 (#3623)
3. by January 17, 1891 Paul C. Cameron's will is read and his executors qualify Cameron's handwritten will, found in his travelling valise, divided an estate the paper thought worth over a million dollars, ordered lands including the old Military Academy grounds sold, and left the house and lands east of Hillsborough to his widow and then to Mildred Cameron. Anne Cameron, Bennehan Cameron, John W. Graham and R. B. Peebles qualified as executors. People: John W. Graham, Paul C. Cameron Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Anne Cameron, R. B. PeeblesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 17, 1891, p. 3
4. June 5, 1895 Alumni pledge money for an Alumni Hall at the centennial banquet At the banquet marking a hundred years since the university opened, alumni and classes pledged gifts toward an Alumni Hall, led by Julian S. Carr with $3,000 and Thomas M. Holt with $1,000. The building, modeled on the Boston Public Library, had its cornerstone laid in 1898. People: Julian S. Carr, Marion Butler, David Gaston Worth, Bennehan Cameron Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas M. Holt · Also mentions: Alumni HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 523 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 6, 1895, p. 1
5. June 1906 The trustees' visiting committee backs new buildings and urges an infirmary At the June 1906 trustees meeting the visiting committee of John W. Fries, Henry A. London and Bennehan Cameron backed President Venable's call for $2,000 more a year and his building plans, urged an infirmary worthy of the university, and found student conduct very good. People: Francis Preston Venable Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: John W. Fries, Henry A. LondonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), pp. 656-657
6. May 3, 1916 Orange County holds a county-wide school commencement at Hillsboro The schools of the county gathered at Hillsboro for an Orange County Commencement, with literary contests, prizes and a dinner, in Burnside Park lent by Col. Bennehan Cameron, who spoke. The county board of education thanked the Hillsboro Betterment Association, the town's business men, Dr. L. A. Williams of the university and Chapel Hill's Mayor W. S. Roberson, among others. People: Bennehan Cameron, W. S. Roberson Place: Burnside Park, Hillsborough · Also named: L. A. WilliamsOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 11, 1916, p. 1
7. June 10, 1925 Col. Bennehan Cameron is buried in the Episcopal churchyard at Hillsborough Col. Bennehan Cameron was buried in the Episcopal cemetery at Hillsborough, with Josephus Daniels of Raleigh among the honorary pallbearers, the Weekly's Hillsboro column reported. People: Josephus Daniels Place: Episcopal churchyard (St. Matthew's), HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 12, 1925, p. 4