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Clarence Dupre Jones

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StorylineSmallpox and the county's first pest house, 1899–19001899–1900 · 5 events · With no pest house, a building for isolating contagious patients, Orange County had to quarantine each smallpox patient at home when the disease came in 1899 and 1900. In 1899 Hillsborough quarantined itself against an outbreak in Alamance County. In 1900 a University medical student caught smallpox and recovered, and in February Postmaster J. Clyde Cheek of Hillsborough was found to have it; his house was cut off, everyone there was vaccinated, and no other town case followed. Cases then turned up among Black workmen building a telephone line. On Dr. C. D. Jones's advice, the commissioners bought 15 acres that had belonged to William Wheaton, a Black landowner, and ordered a two-room pest house built at once. StorylineMacadam for Hillsborough: the township road tax, bonds and paved streets, 1900–19081900–1908 · 10 events · Hillsboro Township taxed itself for roads and became the only Orange township to vote road bonds, and from 1905 Hillsborough's streets were macadamized, surfaced with crushed stone. In 1900 township voters carried a special road tax. In 1905 the township road commissioners set up a rock crusher west of the court house and began a macadam road from Churton and King streets to the depot. In 1907 township voters sought an election on $40,000 in road bonds, and the money built a few miles of macadam road. In 1908 the township road commission organized a chain gang of prisoners, and Street Commissioner T. Norfleet Webb's crew, using convict labor, macadamized Churton Street south to the river bridge for $3,085.47. StorylineShepperd Strudwick and Hillsborough's new enterprises, 1902–19091902–1909 · 13 events · Shepperd Strudwick, who brought his family back to Hillsborough about 1902, stood at the head of one new enterprise after another. Ralph Adams Cram designed his new house at the corner of Churton and Union. In 1904 a new Business Men's Association elected him president, and he became president of the Bellevue Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in west Hillsborough. In 1905 voters made him a town commissioner on a ticket understood to favor licensing barrooms. In 1907 the new Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company chose him president and treasurer for a brick plant, and by 1909 the Observer listed him at the head of the clay company and the Bellevue mill.

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  1. Dr. C. D. Jones opens a medical practice at Oaks Dr. C. D. Jones, a young physician and son of a former Orange County sheriff, hung out his shingle at Oaks after spending some time in and near Hillsborough. Place: Oaks, Bingham TownshipSearch the index · Hillsboro Recorder, December 15, 1887, p. 3
  2. The Orange County Board of Health elects Dr. C. D. Jones superintendent of health over Dr. D. C. Parris Meeting at the court house in Hillsborough, the county Board of Health chose Dr. C. D. Jones county superintendent of health on the second ballot after a tie with Dr. D. C. Parris, who had held the post for several years. The board then elected Parris its president and Jones its secretary. People: D. C. Parris Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 9, 1893, p. 3
  3. Hillsborough elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and an all-Democratic town board Hillsborough voters elected Democrat Joseph A. Harris mayor over Republican Nathan W. Brown, 82 to 52, with a Democratic board of commissioners. The new registration, ordered after the old book was lost, listed 72 white and 71 Black voters, and about 25 Black men voted the Democratic ticket. People: Joseph A. Harris, N. W. Brown, Clarence Dupre Jones, Frank Nash, H. Winder Webb, Dudley M. Laws Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 9, 1896, p. 3
  4. Hillsborough's commissioners take up revised town ordinances and order them printed and posted The Hillsborough board went through a revision of the town ordinances section by section and ordered them printed and posted. The mayor named standing committees for public property, streets, finance, cemeteries, and the pump, clock and scales. People: Joseph A. Harris, Frank Nash, Clarence Dupre Jones, H. Winder Webb, Dudley M. Laws Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 23, 1896, p. 3
  5. Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis for the House and a county ticket The Orange County Democratic convention met in the court house, nominated S. M. Gattis for the state House and a full county ticket headed by Sheriff John K. Hughes, and then heard R. B. Glenn speak for free silver. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis, David McCauley, John W. Thompson, Clarence Dupre Jones, R. B. (Robert Brodnax) Glenn, John Knox Hughes Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 24, 1896, p. 3
  6. The Democratic-Populist fusion ticket carries Orange County Orange County's voters elected the whole fusion ticket: Albert H. Holmes (Populist) to the House, John K. Hughes sheriff, John Laws register of deeds, W. B. York treasurer, Dr. C. D. Jones coroner, James O. Webb surveyor, and M. W. Moore, N. V. Ray and Thomas J. Hogan county commissioners. W. W. Kitchin carried the county for Congress by 401 votes. People: Clarence Dupre Jones, William W. (William Walton) Kitchin, John Knox Hughes Place: Orange County · Also named: Albert H. Holmes, John Laws, W. B. York, James O. Webb, M. W. Moore, N. V. Ray, Thomas J. HoganSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 5, 1896, p. 3
  7. John T. Shaw unseats Mayor Joseph A. Harris by one vote Hillsborough voters elected John T. Shaw mayor over the sitting mayor, Joseph A. Harris, by 74 votes to 73, with one vote for P. B. Ruffin. They chose E. G. Sherrill, E. A. Rosemond, Dr. C. D. Jones, S. E. Cole, F. R. Faucette, George A. Durham and J. R. Roach as town commissioners. People: Joseph A. Harris, Clarence Dupre Jones, Edward Atkins Rosemond, George A. Durham Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: John T. Shaw, E. G. Sherrill, S. E. Cole, F. R. Faucette, J. R. Roach, P. B. RuffinSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 5, 1898, p. 3
  8. Hillsborough quarantines itself against smallpox in Alamance County The town board passed an ordinance putting Hillsborough under quarantine against Burlington, Graham, Haw River and all of Alamance County, with arrest and a fine of up to $25 for anyone entering from there, and posted special policemen at the trains and on the Alamance roads. The board rescinded the quarantine on March 30 as the Burlington outbreak waned. People: Clarence Dupre Jones Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 23, 1899, p. 2
  9. Smallpox reaches Hillsborough and the postmaster's house is quarantined Dr. William Strudwick and Dr. C. D. Jones, the county superintendent of health, found that Postmaster J. Clyde Cheek had smallpox, perhaps caught from handling the mail. The town commissioners then met and, since Hillsborough had no health officer of its own, acted under Dr. Jones to cut the Cheek house off from the public. Everyone on the premises was vaccinated, no other town case followed, and Cheek was well and out again by late March. People: Clarence Dupre Jones, Joseph A. Harris Place: Hillsborough · Also named: J. Clyde Cheek, William StrudwickSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 22, 1900, p. 3
  10. Smallpox appears among telephone-line workers near University Station and White Cross After a first case near University Station on February 19, two more smallpox cases turned up among Black workmen building the telephone line between Hillsborough and Greensboro, one near University Station and one between White Cross and Chapel Hill. On February 24 Dr. Harrill of Statesville, a smallpox expert, went out with county health superintendent Dr. C. D. Jones and confirmed both University Station cases; a suspected case in Brownsville, west of Hillsborough, proved to be measles. The county had no pest house, so each patient was quarantined at home and everyone exposed was vaccinated. People: Clarence Dupre Jones Place: Near University Station and near White Cross, Orange County · Also mentions: University StationSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 1, 1900, p. 3
  11. Orange commissioners buy land for a smallpox pest house On the advice of county physician Dr. C. D. Jones, the Orange commissioners bought 15 acres south of the railroad, a mile from Hillsborough, at $4 an acre and ordered a two-room pest house built there at once for smallpox patients. The tract had belonged to William Wheaton, a Black landowner. People: Clarence Dupre Jones Place: South of the railroad, one mile from Hillsborough · Also named: William WheatonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 12, 1900, p. 3
  12. Orange Democrats name their 1902 county ticket The largest Democratic county convention in years met at the court house and nominated W. N. Pritchard for the state Senate, S. M. Gattis for the House, D. H. Hamilton for clerk, Sheriff John K. Hughes for another term, John Laws for register of deeds, M. A. McCauley for treasurer over the sitting treasurer E. A. Dickson, and Thomas H. Wilson, A. F. Andrews and B. H. McKee for county commissioners. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis, Clarence Dupre Jones, John Knox Hughes Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: W. N. Pritchard, D. H. Hamilton, John Laws, M. A. McCauley, E. A. DicksonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 21, 1902, p. 3
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  1. Orange County physicians reorganize the county medical society Meeting at the court house in Hillsborough on August 27, 1903, with Dr. Hubert A. Royster of Raleigh explaining the state society's plan, the county's physicians organized the Orange County Medical Society, with Dr. Isaac H. Manning president and Dr. C. D. Jones secretary, to meet quarterly. A county medical society had already petitioned the legislature in 1897. People: Isaac Hall Manning, Clarence Dupre Jones, Hubert Ashley Royster Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 10, 1903, p. 3
  2. Hillsborough Township voters ask for a $40,000 good-roads bond election A meeting of Hillsborough Township voters in the court house unanimously asked State Senator John W. Graham to have the legislature authorize a vote on road bonds for thirty years, to be issued in $10,000 lots over up to four years for building the township's public roads. The meeting also asked that Churton and King streets be taken from the township road commission and put under the town, and named A. J. Ruffin, C. D. Jones and Shepperd Strudwick to handle the sale of the bonds. People: John W. Graham, Allen Jones Ruffin, Clarence Dupre Jones, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Churton and King streetsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 14, 1907, p. 3
  3. Orange County Democratic convention votes for Al Smith over Cordell Hull Meeting in Hillsboro on June 9, 1928, the Orange County Democratic convention took a preference vote of 45 for Gov. Alfred E. Smith and 26 for Cordell Hull, and told its delegates to split the county's 13 votes at the state convention 8 1/4 for Smith and 4 3/4 for Hull. The county stood apart from the Fifth District, where Hull men took all four Houston delegates. People: Clarence Dupre Jones, Samuel Mallett Gattis, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 15, 1928, p. 3

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Miss Mary and the Doctor

Craig-Scott, Ellen J. · 1975 · Carlton Press

Ellen J. Craig-Scott's fictional biography of Mary Ellen Webb and her husband, Dr. Clarence Dupre Jones, set in Hillsborough. Published by Carlton Press of New York in 1975 as a Geneva book, 191 pages.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Clarence Dupre, 1866- -- Fiction.

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