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Cheshire read law under William K. Ruffin of Hillsborough before taking his license in January 1872. Ordered deacon in 1878, he was assigned to the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill at the request of university president Kemp P. Battle and served there until he left for Charlotte in 1881.
Source: NCpedia: Cheshire, Joseph Blount, Jr.
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1850–1932 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 works about Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr. are indexed here, as are 2 works by Cheshire.
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Address by Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough on 24 August 1924, marking the parish's hundredth anniversary. Printed in Durham in 1925 at the vestry's order, with a foreword by the rector. Cheshire discusses George Micklejohn, William Mercer Green and Moses Ashley Curtis.
A biographical article on Judge John Haywood and his departure from North Carolina, signed J.B.C., Jr. and detached from the January 1895 North Carolina University Magazine. Published at Chapel Hill by the students of the university, it belongs with the magazine's long series of sketches of judges and public men in the state.
Interviews recorded in spring 1968 with Martha Hawkins Bailey Haywood, Mrs. Marshall DeLancey Haywood of Raleigh, by the Wakefield Junior Historian Club for an oral history project. One reel-to-reel tape, with a CD version and transcripts. Her memories range over Raleigh houses, streets, families and institutions; Chapel Hill and the university are mentioned. State Archives of North Carolina, TR.40.
Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932.
Papers of Alfred Stratton Lawrence, 1882 to 1958, spanning 1914 to 1944, about 250 items in half a linear foot, collection 4350 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers concern Episcopal clergy in North Carolina, including material on the Chapel of the Cross, the Chapel Hill School of Religion, the Diocese of North Carolina, Joseph Blount Cheshire and Elwood Haines.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932.
Papers of Henry W. Lewis (1916-2004) of the Institute of Government at UNC, spanning 1820 to 1997 in roughly 36,000 items and 61 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4456. Diaries and photographs are among the material. Topics include family members named Lewis and Wilkins, the Bank of Northampton, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, with Albert Coates and Frank Porter Graham also named.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932.
Papers of Lawrence Foushee London, 1740 to 2003, about 5,400 items in 6.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4958. Includes correspondence, diaries and personal narratives. Subjects include several generations of Londons, among them John London, Henry Adolphus London and Frank Marsden London, and take in the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, the 32nd North Carolina Infantry and slavery in the state.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932.
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Recollections, stories and traditions set down late in life by Joseph Blount Cheshire (1850 to 1932), born in Tarboro, rector of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill from 1878 to 1881 and Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina from 1893 until his death. The foreword calls it a cross section of North Carolina life. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1930, 255 pages.
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Picture: Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr., 1897. Public domain. Photograph by Perry, WIlliam Stevens; Perry, William Stevens, The bishops of the American church, past and present. Sketches, biographical and bibliographical, of the bishops of the American Church. With a preliminary essay on the historic episcopate and documentary annals of the introduction of the Anglican line of succession into America. New York: The Christian Literature Co, 1897; via Wikimedia Commons
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