C. B. Griffin

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 10 dated events in the chronology →

1. by August 23, 1906 C. B. Griffin buys the brick store house that S. L. Herndon occupies in Chapel Hill C. B. Griffin bought the brick store house occupied by S. L. Herndon and planned to move in once Herndon built another brick store on the vacant lot next to his hardware store. People: C. B. GriffinSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 23, 1906, p. 1
2. about 1913 Bank cashier C. B. Griffin builds a house on McCauley Street C. B. Griffin, a bank cashier, built the two-story frame I-house at 214 McCauley Street in or about 1913. It has a two-story rear ell and a full-width front porch. People: C. B. GriffinSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 17
3. 1915–1922 C. B. Griffin serves as Chapel Hill's town clerk and treasurer While cashier of the Peoples Bank, C. B. Griffin served as Chapel Hill's town clerk and clerk to the Board of Aldermen, signing the town's charter notice of January 1915, its ordinances and bond notices, and in 1919 published the town's accounts as its treasurer.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill): January 28, 1915, p. 1
4. by January 1915 Lueco Lloyd serves as first vice-president of the Peoples Bank of Chapel Hill The Peoples Bank's notices in the News listed Lueco Lloyd as first vice-president under president E. V. Howell, with R. H. Ward second vice-president and C. B. Griffin cashier. He had been one of the bank's directors by 1912. People: E. V. (Edward Vernon) Howell, Ralph H. Ward, C. B. GriffinSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News (Chapel Hill), January 14, 1915, p. 6
5. March 6, 1915 The General Assembly authorizes up to $35,000 in bonds for a Chapel Hill graded school building The act let the Chapel Hill graded school trustees issue up to $35,000 in bonds to buy a site and build and equip a school building, with a special tax to pay them, if the district's voters approved. On March 29 the aldermen called the vote for May 18, 1915 at the Guard House, with a new registration. People: C. B. GriffinThe News (Chapel Hill), May 6, 1915, p. 4
6. March 15, 1915 Chapel Hill's building and inspection code takes effect The town's ordinance made the fire chief its fire and building inspector, required permits for building work, banned new wooden buildings and most tents near the streets of the fire district, set rules for storing dynamite and gunpowder, and fixed a five-dollar fine for each offense. People: C. B. GriffinSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), March 11, 1915, p. 2
7. by November 2, 1916 The Orange County Building and Loan Association is organized at Chapel Hill In early November 1916 articles of incorporation were being filed for the Orange County Building and Loan Association at Chapel Hill, to lend to members to buy, improve or clear real estate. The cashiers of the Bank of Chapel Hill and the Peoples Bank took subscriptions, aiming at 600 shares, with weekly payments of 25 cents a share to start in December. The association itself later counted from March 1, 1920: its reports in the Chapel Hill Weekly in the late 1920s gave that as the date of its organization, and none mentioned 1916. People: C. B. Griffin, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), November 2, 1916, p. 4 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 16, 1928, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 12, 1926, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 13, 1925, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 14, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1932, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 7, 1932, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 27, 1933, p. 1
8. March 15, 1919 A Chapel Hill committee opens the town canvass for the Graham Memorial fund A committee for Chapel Hill wrote to the townspeople that the local campaign for the Graham Memorial, a student activities building in memory of President Edward Kidder Graham, was beginning and that members would call for subscriptions. No quota was set; the students had already pledged between $20,000 and $25,000 of the $150,000 sought. The committee called it the first town campaign for a large campus enterprise since 1904. People: W. S. Roberson, C. B. Griffin, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), March 20, 1919, p. 1
9. November 7, 1921 Chapel Hill aldermen authorize bonds for a town building, sewer extension and fire apparatus The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen passed three ordinances under the Municipal Finance Act authorizing $5,000 in bonds for a municipal building, $8,000 to extend the sewer system and $6,000 for fire engines or other fire-fighting vehicles, each with a tax to pay them off. The statements filed with the ordinances put the town's average assessed valuation at $1,629,025 and its net debt at $31,600. People: C. B. GriffinSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 1, 1921, p. 8
10. by July 2, 1926 Chapel Hill furniture merchants Pendergraft and McCauley go into receivership and bankruptcy By early July 1926 Judge Michael Schenck had put the Chapel Hill furniture and hardware firm of Pendergraft and McCauley in the hands of receiver L. J. Phipps on the application of a creditor, the Supplee Biddle Hardware Company. The receiver put assets and liabilities at about $15,000 each and blamed slow collections; the firm went into bankruptcy, and its stock was sold off at a bankrupt sale from September 4 to 15, 1926. People: Luther James Phipps, C. B. GriffinSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 2, 1926, p. 1