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Clyde Eubanks

Clyde Eubanks (1871–1965) was a Chapel Hill druggist and bank executive who helped found the town's Merchants Association and served as a town alderman for 25 years. He is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.

Source: Town of Chapel Hill: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Centennial Brochure

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Eubanks, Clyde (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Newspaper clippings and a report on Clyde Eubanks of Chapel Hill, in an undated folder from box 3 of the Individuals and Families series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.

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  1. Dr. Abner B. Roberson buys the Central Hotel and moves his drugstore into it After the hotel's owner, Jones Watson, died, Dr. Roberson bought the Central Hotel, moved his drugstore into it with Clyde Eubanks as druggist, and leased the hotel's management to 'Bunn' Patterson. Adam A. Kluttz opened a store called the Glass Front in the many-windowed west end of the building. People: Jones Watson, Abner Benton Roberson, Clyde Eubanks, Adam Alexander KluttzSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 161
  2. Clyde Eubanks buys Dr. Roberson's drugstore When Dr. Roberson died, his druggist Clyde Eubanks bought the drugstore and kept it in the Central Hotel until 1901. People: Abner Benton Roberson, Clyde EubanksSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 171
  3. Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own Eubanks left the Central Hotel and set up his drugstore in a new building he had put up on the west corner of the Tankersley property on Franklin Street. People: Clyde EubanksSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 179
  4. Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own on Franklin Street Clyde Eubanks put up a new building on his own lot, about a hundred yards west of the Tankersley-owned store he had rented, and moved Eubanks Drug Store into it. Robert Foister's camera shop took the old space. People: Clyde EubanksSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207
  5. Chapel Hill appoints its first town planning commission After more than a year of urging by the Chapel Hill Weekly, the town named a five-member planning commission to review the design of new and remodeled buildings. It set the Colonial Revival look of downtown for the next decade. People: William D. Carmichael Jr., Herman G. Baity, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Clyde EubanksSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Town Hall, National Register nomination (OR0327), p. 10
  6. Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs The Courts kept the East Franklin store where it was for about two years, then moved it to University Square East in 1967 when North Carolina National Bank began expanding. People: Clyde EubanksSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 323

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