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George Whitfield Connor

1872–1938 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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State

1943

The State for 10 July 1943, volume 11, number 6, a wartime issue on industry in Hillsborough, Orange County, Pittsboro, Siler City and Chatham County, with the furniture trade prominent. Other pieces cover Camp Butner, the Marines at Montford Point, African American history and Judge George Whitfield Connor.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Connor, George Whitfield, 1872-1938.

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August 1929 Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice About thirty lawyers, judges and state officials, including Attorney General D. G. Brummitt and Justices George W. Connor and Willis J. Brogden, met at the law school and split up sections of the American Law Institute model code to begin a new state code of criminal procedure. People: George Whitfield ConnorSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 91

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UNC School of Law University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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Albert Coates 1 entry: Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice (August 1929)

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Background

NCpedia: George Whitfield Connor Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry

Records of the time

DigitalNC newspapers: 3 Orange County pages naming George Whitfield Connor Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers

Collections and databases

NC LIVE: prepared search for George Whitfield Connor Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries

Local help

Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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