Thomas Hume

Life and Orange County connections

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1. June 1885 The trustees enlarge the faculty from nine to fifteen Meeting in Raleigh, the trustees chose from several hundred applicants Thomas Hume for English, Walter D. Toy for modern languages, William B. Phillips for agricultural chemistry and mining and James Lee Love for mathematics. A faculty circular then announced postgraduate courses toward the A.M., Ph.M. and Ph.D., free of tuition to graduates of any college. People: Thomas Hume, James Lee Love, William Battle Phillips Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Walter D. ToySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 333
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. December 25, 1886 Fire destroys the old president's house on Christmas morning The house Helen Hooper built, later home to Presidents Caldwell and Swain, burned the day after Professor Thomas Hume's family moved in. Fire spread from boxes and straw in an outbuilding, and Chapel Hill had no fire engine or ladder company to stop it. People: Joseph Caldwell, David L. Swain, Thomas Hume Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 8, 1887, p. 3 · Also: Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II
4. 1887 Professor Thomas Hume buys the house across from the Baptist church Burned out of the president's house, Professor Thomas Hume bought the West Franklin Street house opposite the Baptist church. It had been home to the Baptist minister Needham Byron Cobb until the congregation turned its school building into a parsonage. People: Thomas Hume Place: Hume house, West Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 151
5. 1890-91 session Thomas Hume leads the university Shakespeare Club's study of All's Well That Ends Well In the 1890-91 session Dr. Thomas Hume chaired a Shakespeare Club meeting on All's Well That Ends Well, gave a paper on the play's mixed styles and closed with notes on new books. Other members gave papers on the plot's source in Boccaccio and on its characters. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 452
6. October 23-25, 1894 The Mount Zion Baptist Association meets at Mount Moriah church The Mount Zion Baptist Association held its annual session at Mount Moriah church, with the Orange and Durham churches well represented, and heard reports on Sunday schools, ministerial relief and the Thomasville Orphanage. It chose J. L. Carroll of Chapel Hill as delegate to the Southern Baptist Convention and set its next session at Bethesda, east of Durham. People: Thomas Hume Place: Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Orange County · Also named: J. L. CarrollSearch the index · The Independent (Chapel Hill), November 2, 1894, p. 1
7. May 10, 1905 The Leonidas Polk Chapter of the UDC holds Confederate memorial exercises On May 10, 1905, the Leonidas Polk Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy held memorial exercises in Gerrard Hall, reading the roll of students who had served in the Confederate army. Children and adults then carried flowers to decorate soldiers' graves in the village cemetery. People: Thomas Hume, Leonidas Polk Place: Gerrard HallDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 826
8. June 4, 1907 Kemp P. Battle and Thomas Hume retire on Carnegie pensions At the 1907 commencement President Venable announced the resignations of Kemp P. Battle, professor of history and former president, and Thomas Hume, professor of English, both placed on the Carnegie Foundation pension list. People: Francis Preston Venable, Thomas Hume, Kemp Plummer Battle Place: Memorial HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 668
9. Fall 1912 Alumni begin publishing the Alumni Review The alumni launched the Alumni Review, issued monthly during the college year, with Dean Edward Kidder Graham as an associate editor; his piece in the first issue memorialized his teacher Thomas Hume. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Thomas Hume Place: 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. 11
10. By September 1916 Bank cashier Milton E. Hogan buys the Thomas Hume house on West Franklin Street By early September 1916 Milton E. Hogan, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, had bought the West Franklin Street residence of Dr. Thomas Hume, and in January 1917 the News reported him building an addition to 'his house, the Hume place.' The house later passed to Caesar Cone, a fraternity and the University, and in 1943 held the high school. People: Thomas Hume, Milton E. Hogan Place: Hume house, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Caesar Cone · Also mentions: Bank of Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 7, 1916, p. 1; The News (Chapel Hill), January 11, 1917, p. 1
11. June 1950 The pre-Civil War Hume house is moved across the Chapel Hill High School grounds To clear ground for a new high school building, the pre-Civil War house known in turn as the Hume, Hogan and Cone house was put on rollers and moved to the west edge of the school lot, still facing Franklin Street, for use as offices and classrooms. People: Milton E. Hogan, Thomas Hume Place: Hume house, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Caesar Cone · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 2, 1950, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 2, 1950, p. 12; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1950, p. 1