Walter Clark

Life and Orange County connections

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1. August 1860 Walter Clark enters Colonel Tew's military academy in Hillsborough Walter Clark, then fourteen, enrolled at Colonel C. C. Tew's Military Academy in Hillsborough. He left for Confederate service after the war began. People: Charles Courtenay Tew Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Walter McKenzie Clark, 1846-1924 (from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, by David Clark and Charles W. Eagles)
2. February 1863 to June 1864 Walter Clark resigns his Confederate commission and graduates first in his class at the university When his regiment came back to North Carolina in February 1863, Walter Clark resigned his commission as a Confederate officer and went to the university, where he studied under David L. Swain and William H. Battle. He graduated first in his class in June 1864. People: David L. Swain, William Horn Battle Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Walter McKenzie Clark, 1846-1924 (from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, by David Clark and Charles W. Eagles)
3. June 2, 1864 The university graduates seven seniors at a thin wartime commencement The University of North Carolina held its 1864 commencement with seven graduates, the remnant of sixty-eight freshmen of 1860-61. The student body had fallen from seventy-three during the year to thirty-six at its end as young men left for the army, there were no outside addresses, and Governor Vance attended. People: Walter Clark, Charles F. Deems, Zebulon B. Vance Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 15, 1864, p. 2
4. spring term, April 30 to May 5, 1877 Orange Superior Court quashes the libel indictment brought for Josiah Turner against the Raleigh News At the spring term of Orange Superior Court under Judge Cox, the indictment against Walter Clark, John D. Cameron and the other owners and editors of the Raleigh Daily News for an alleged libel on Josiah Turner Jr. was quashed on motion of their counsel, John W. Graham and Thomas Ruffin Jr. People: Josiah Turner Jr., Walter Clark, John W. Graham, Thomas Ruffin Jr. Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: John D. CameronSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 9, 1877, p. 3
5. June 24, 1887 Eagle Lodge celebrates St. John's Day at Hillsborough with an address by Judge Walter Clark Eagle Lodge No. 71, A. F. & A. M., marched to the Baptist church, where Dr. Pride Jones installed its new officers and Judge Walter Clark gave the address before a crowd from town and country. A festival that night raised $58. People: Walter Clark, Pride Jones, Calvin E. Parish Place: Baptist church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 2, 1887, p. 3
6. June 6, 1888 Judge Walter Clark gives the annual address at the 1888 commencement Chosen by the Philanthropic Society, Walter Clark gave the annual address on the Wednesday of the 1888 commencement, speaking on the opportunities before young men and the duties that came with them. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Philanthropic SocietySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 394 · Also: Hillsboro Recorder, June 7, 1888, p. 3
7. May 3, 1890 Susan Washington Graham, widow of Governor William A. Graham, dies and is buried at Hillsboro She died at Judge Walter Clark's home in Raleigh on the night of May 3. Her body was brought to Hillsboro, and after a service at the Baptist church on May 5 she was buried beside her husband in the Presbyterian churchyard. People: Walter Clark, William A. Graham Place: Baptist church and Presbyterian churchyard, Hillsborough · Also named: Susan Washington Graham · Also mentions: Presbyterian churchyardSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 10, 1890, p. 3
8. 1910 Walter Clark helps teach the university's Summer Law School Chief Justice Walter Clark assisted in the university's Summer Law School, which enrolled thirty-seven students. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 709
9. May 1911 commencement The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement. People: Edward K. Graham, Julian S. Carr, Walter Clark, Francis D. Winston, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717
10. April 21, 1915 Edward Kidder Graham is inaugurated president in Memorial Hall A procession of about 1,400 marched to Memorial Hall, where Chief Justice Walter Clark gave Graham the oath and Governor Locke Craig presided. Graham's address cast the state university as the instrument of democracy. Three former presidents walked with him in the procession. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Francis Preston Venable, Kemp Plummer Battle, Locke Craig, Walter Clark Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch 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. 89
11. April 28, 1920 Harry W. Chase is inaugurated as president in Memorial Hall The new ROTC unit led a procession of students, faculty, alumni and delegates from over a hundred institutions to Memorial Hall, where Chief Justice Walter Clark gave Chase the oath. Chase asked the state to see its University as the university of the South; the day ended with a banquet at Swain Hall and a reception in Bynum Gymnasium. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Josephus Daniels, Walter Clark Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bynum Gymnasium, Swain HallSearch 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. 205-208 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), March 11, 1920, p. 1
12. Spring 1924 Albert Coates revives the Law School Association Coates brought back Efird's association and used it to bring state supreme court justices, judges and lawyers to Manning Hall to lecture, to run moot courts across all three classes, and later to equip a model law office. People: Albert Coates, Walter Clark Place: Manning Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 64