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Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs

Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs taught economics and then business law at the University of North Carolina from 1929. He served on Chapel Hill's board of aldermen in the late 1930s. Elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1952, he was its chairman from December 1954 until he retired in December 1960. In 1959 he warned that the new Research Triangle would bring the county mostly new residents and school costs rather than industry.

Source: Documenting the American South: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library. North Carolina Collection, Compiled by.…

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  1. Quakers organize the Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting of Friends The Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting was organized, the first Friends meeting in Orange County since the old Eno Meeting was laid down about a century earlier. It had no building and had bought a lot on Highway 54. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Richard Junius Mendenhall HobbsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 292
  2. Collier Cobb Jr. leaves the Orange County Board of Commissioners after fourteen years Elected in 1938 and chairman since December 1942, Cobb left the county board after seven terms, having missed only three meetings. The new board passed a resolution thanking him, and he pointed to the school improvement program and the start of the new courthouse. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall HobbsSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, December 4, 1952, page 1
  3. Orange County commissioners give a cool reception to a Research Triangle planning request At a special meeting, Orange County commissioners gave only a lukewarm reception to a request to help fund a land development survey for the Research Triangle area and took no action pending firm figures. The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that the county expected to gain mostly new residents and school costs from the park rather than industry, and commissioners discussed zoning the area northeast of Chapel Hill toward the Durham County line. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall HobbsDigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 19, 1959, page 1

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