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J. A. Holmes

Also found in catalogs as J. A. (Joseph Austin) Holmes.

1859–1915 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineWorking the county roads: the road tax fights, 1891–18991891–1899 · 8 events · From 1891 to 1899 Orange County's commissioners and justices fought over how to keep up the public roads: with a road tax under an alternative system, or with the labor owed by local men. In 1891 a joint session voted 13 to 2 for the alternative system and a tax of 7 cents on the $100. In 1893 the justices voted to end it, and after two standoffs the commissioners gave way and the tax ended. A special road law adopted in 1896 let each township choose labor or a road tax, and in 1899 the commissioners levied no road tax and went back to set days of work from every man liable to road duty.

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  1. Prof. Holmes of the university is appointed State Geologist Professor Holmes, who taught geology at the university, was appointed State Geologist; the Raleigh News and Observer called it a well-merited choice and said he would serve the state efficiently. Place: University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hillian, March 28, 1891, p. 1
  2. Orange magistrates turn down the alternative road system and name a township road committee At their joint meeting the magistrates and county commissioners heard State Geologist J. A. Holmes on improving the public roads, voted down a motion to adopt the alternative system of working the roads, and had the commissioners' chairman name a committee of one man from each township to draw up a road plan with Holmes's help. People: J. A. Holmes Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 9, 1894, p. 2
  3. Algernon S. Barbee serves as mayor of Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill commissioners chose Algernon S. Barbee mayor in November 1895, after the death of Mayor John H. Watson, and he was holding mayor's court by November 23. The voters elected him by a wide majority at the town election in May 1896. The town directory printed with the 1896 ordinances lists Barbee as mayor, with J. A. Holmes, J. A. London, W. N. Pritchard, H. H. Patterson and Thomas F. Lloyd as commissioners and A. J. McDade as clerk and treasurer. People: J. A. Holmes, Henry Houston Patterson, Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder), Alphonso J. McDade, John H. Watson, Algernon S. Barbee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: J. A. London, W. N. PritchardSearch the index · Commissioners of Chapel Hill, Ordinances and Charter for the Government of the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1896), scan p. 4 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 3; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 16, 1896, p. 3

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Putting Down Roots

Burk, William R. · 2023

William R. Burk's history of botany at the University of North Carolina, from its early natural scientists such as Denison Olmsted and Elisha Mitchell through later figures including George Francis Atkinson, Joseph Austin Holmes and Henry Van Peters Wilson, closing with a chapter on the Department of Botany itself. Published in Fort Worth in 2023.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Holmes, J. A. 1859-1915.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 580.9 BURK UNC

Collier Cobb Photographic Collection, circa 1890s-1920s

Cobb, Collier, 1862-1934 · 1894

Collier Cobb (1862-1934) taught at the University of North Carolina and made photographs there from the 1890s into the 1920s. Approximately 500 items in seven linear feet, P0013 in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC. Subjects include campus buildings, the Old Well, alumni, employees, and faculty, with portraits including Wilson Caldwell, Harry Woodburn Chase, R. D. W. Connor, and Frederick H. Koch.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Holmes, J. A. (Joseph Austin), 1859-1915.

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