Locke Craig

Life and Orange County connections

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1. about 1880 Locke Craig teaches at the university and at a Chapel Hill school After graduating from the university at nineteen, Locke Craig taught chemistry there for a short time and taught at a private school in Chapel Hill. Kemp Battle listed him among graduates then teaching as "Craig at Chapel Hill." Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Craig, Locke
2. about March 10, 1880 Seniors begin the class tree and Class Day custom The class of 1880, led by its president Thomas H. Battle, planted a sugar maple at the edge of the Forbidden Ground after Class Day speeches that included one by Charles B. Aycock. Later classes kept the custom, planting a water oak in 1882 and a white pine in 1883. People: Charles B. Aycock, Locke Craig Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas H. BattleSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 197 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, March 20, 1880, p. 2
3. by April 9, 1881 Locke Craig's Chapel Hill boys' school takes up military drill Locke Craig began military training at his boys' school in Chapel Hill, ordering uniforms and guns for the pupils, who were drilled meanwhile by university students with military-school training. Place: Locke Craig's school, Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 9, 1881, p. 3
4. May 18, 1908 The Orange County Democratic convention gives Kitchin most of its vote for governor The Orange County Democratic convention, meeting in the courthouse after the May 9 precinct primaries, cast 4.50 of the county's convention votes for W. W. Kitchin for governor, .81 for Ashley Horne and .69 for Locke Craig, and named the county's delegates to the state, congressional and judicial conventions. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis, William W. (William Walton) Kitchin, Joseph A. Harris, Locke Craig, Samuel Weldon Andrews Place: Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 21, 1908, p. 3
5. June 2, 1913 UNC's Confederate Monument is dedicated On the second day of commencement Major H. A. London introduced Governor Craig; Mrs. London presented the monument to the trustees for the UDC, President Francis P. Venable accepted it for the university, and Julian S. Carr spoke for the students of 1861. Carr's speech, which praised the Confederate army and recounted his horsewhipping of a Black woman in the village in 1865, is the part now most remembered. People: Julian S. Carr, John A. Wilson, Locke Craig Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bettie Jackson London, Francis P. VenableDigitalNC: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 3, 1913, page 1
6. 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