Joshua W. Gore

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1. 1882 Joshua W. Gore joins the university as professor of natural philosophy and engineering The trustees unanimously chose Joshua Walker Gore, a Virginia-born civil engineer who had studied at Richmond College, the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins, to succeed Carey D. Grandy as professor of natural philosophy and engineering. He was the first appointee in years to take permanent charge of the subject. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Carey D. GrandySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 257
2. March 11-14, 1886 The annual YMCA convention meets at Chapel Hill The Young Men's Christian Association's annual convention met at Chapel Hill, with sessions in Gerrard Hall, reports from associations around the state and a Sunday talk to townspeople in the Baptist church. Professor J. W. Gore was chosen its president. People: Thomas Hume, Joshua W. Gore Place: Gerrard HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 355
3. February 22, 1889 The Orange County Sunday School Convention meets at Hillsborough Seventeen delegates of the county's Sunday schools met in convention at the Hillsborough Methodist church with Rev. W. F. Wilhelm in the chair, heard addresses by Revs. G. W. Harman and W. B. North, and chose delegates to the state convention at Charlotte. People: Joseph A. Harris, Joshua W. Gore, W. S. Roberson, W. F. Wilhelm Place: Methodist church, Hillsborough · Also named: G. W. Harman, W. B. NorthSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 2, 1889, p. 3
4. January 15, 1891 Students and Prof. Gore organize the University Telegraph Union After the Y.M.C.A. meeting, Prof. Gore and a number of students met in the Y.M.C.A. hall and formed an electrical club, the University Telegraph Union, to run a wire between members' rooms in the college. J. V. Lewis was elected president and F. C. Mebane secretary and treasurer, and each member was to buy his own battery and instrument. Place: Y.M.C.A. hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. V. Lewis, F. C. MebaneSearch the index · The Chapel Hillian, January 20, 1891, p. 3
5. March 12, 1892 Orange County Sunday School Convention meets at the Hillsborough Baptist church The county convention of Sunday schools met in Hillsborough on Saturday, March 12, with reports from 21 schools. It elected officers, with J. W. Gore of Chapel Hill as president, and named delegates to the state convention at New Bern. People: Joshua W. Gore Place: Baptist church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 26, 1892, p. 3
6. 1895 The University's first electric plant brings electricity to the campus and village A steam plant near South Building drove the generators and the pumps that filled the campus water tanks, and lines ran from it to university buildings and to shops, cafes and hotels in the village. Physics professor Joshua W. Gore planned the work. William R. Kenan Jr., then a young instructor whom the alumni directory lists as the plant's builder and operator, wrote in 1943 that he worked on it in the summer and fall of 1895, and Lewis Utley, in charge of the power house, recalled turning on the first current on October 2, 1895. Covington puts power in the library in Smith Hall late in 1896, and arc lights later went up along campus walks. People: Joshua W. Gore Place: Power plant near South Building, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William R. Kenan Jr., Lewis Utley · Also mentions: Smith 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), p. 30 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1936, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1943, p. 1
7. between June 1895 and September 1897 Dr. Joshua Gore and his wife leave the Chapel Hill Baptist Church for Mount Carmel While the church had no pastor, from June 1895 to September 1897, its minutes record that Dr. Joshua Gore and his wife moved their membership to Mount Carmel Baptist Church. Howell says the Gores went on to build Gore's Chapel on a hilltop about two miles south of Chapel Hill; the Weekly's 1933 obituary of Mrs. Gore credits the chapel to her and her sister, Mrs. Marriott, who built it about three miles south of town in memory of their father, the Baltimore minister J. W. M. Williams. The sisters taught Sunday school there for many years, into the 1920s, and the building later burned. Place: Gore's Chapel, south of Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Mount Carmel Baptist ChurchSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 31 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 10, 1933, p. 5
8. Spring 1898 Acting president Joshua Gore demonstrates an X-ray machine at the university While Alderman was abroad from February to May 1898, physics professor Joshua W. Gore ran the university and set up an X-ray apparatus in his laboratory. A Raleigh doctor brought over a patient to look for a shawl pin thought to be in her throat, which Gore could not find. People: Joshua W. Gore Place: Physics laboratory, 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. 36
9. 1900-01 session Chapel Hill gets its first long-distance telephone Through the efforts of Professor Joshua W. Gore, the first long-distance telephone line was set up at the university during the 1900-01 session, connecting by way of Durham. People: Joshua W. Gore Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 597
10. June 2, 1907 The campus YMCA building is dedicated The new Young Men's Christian Association building was formally dedicated on the evening of June 2, 1907, after the YMCA sermon. Professor J. W. Gore presented it for the building committee and Dr. Richard H. Lewis accepted it for the trustees. People: Richard H. Lewis, Joshua W. Gore Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: YMCASearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 665
11. April 8, 1908 Joshua W. Gore, professor of physics and dean, dies Joshua Walker Gore, professor of physics and dean of the university, died in a Baltimore hospital on April 8, 1908. A memorial service followed on May 10, and alumni later gave his portrait for the library. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Edward Maddry, Joshua W. Gore Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 673 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 16, 1908, p. 3
12. July 1925 University clears the last of its old power station and print shop to build the east wing of Phillips Hall Work began on a three-story east wing for Phillips Hall, for civil and electrical engineering and mathematics, and with it the last traces of the old power station built about 1895 by J. W. Gore and the old University print shop disappeared. The University Printery moved to the back of the former Strowd garage on Franklin Street. People: Joshua W. Gore, Zeb P. Council Place: Phillips Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 17, 1925, p. 2