Adam Alexander Kluttz

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1. 1884 Adam A. Kluttz takes over management of Dr. Roberson's general store Adam Alexander Kluttz became the active manager of Dr. Abner Benton Roberson's general store. He later opened stores of his own and built a brick store on East Franklin in 1893 and 1894. People: Abner Benton Roberson, Adam Alexander Kluttz Place: Roberson's general store, 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
2. about 1891 Dr. Abner B. Roberson buys the Central Hotel and moves his drugstore into it After the hotel's owner, Jones Watson, died, Dr. Roberson bought the Central Hotel, moved his drugstore into it with Clyde Eubanks as druggist, and leased the hotel's management to 'Bunn' Patterson. Adam A. Kluttz opened a store called the Glass Front in the many-windowed west end of the building. People: Jones Watson, Clyde Eubanks, Adam Alexander Kluttz, Abner Benton Roberson Place: Central Hotel, 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. 161
3. 1893 to 1894 Adam A. Kluttz builds a brick store on East Franklin Street Kluttz bought half an acre from the heirs of John Wesley Carr and began a brick building just west of David McCauley's store. In 1894 he moved his general merchandise business across the street into it; the building later carried the number 149 East Franklin. People: John Wesley Carr, Adam Alexander Kluttz Place: Kluttz building, north side of East 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. 161
4. about 1894 Adam A. Kluttz buys the old Sam Phillips house and law office After the owner, Margaret Miller, died, her only heir, Mary Jane Cooper, sold the old Sam Phillips house on East Franklin Street, with the old law office, to the merchant Adam A. Kluttz. People: Samuel Field Phillips, Adam Alexander Kluttz Place: Samuel Phillips house and law office, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mary Jane Cooper · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 169 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 23, 1991, p. 5
5. about 1900 Adam A. Kluttz buys the lot west of his store and moves its houses back to Rosemary Street Kluttz bought the property just west of his East Franklin Street store and had its two old houses moved to the rear of the lot, turned to face Rosemary Street, where they stood until 1963. He is said to have built a second store beside the first, run as a haberdashery. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin Street, Rosemary StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr.: Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 181
6. December 10, 1910 A. A. Kluttz advertises his University Bookstore to students in the Tar Heel The student paper's list of regular Chapel Hill advertisers included A. A. Kluttz, whose University Bookstore advertised shoes, hats, underwear, pictures and souvenirs. A dentist, Dr. William Lynch, advertised an office in the Kluttz Building. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William LynchSearch the index · The Tar Heel, December 10, 1910, p. 3
7. 1916 Adam Kluttz sells his Franklin Street store to the Solomon Brothers, who keep his name on it After a heart attack, merchant Adam Alexander Kluttz sold his original store to the Solomon Brothers of New York on the condition that it go on carrying his name. B. Y. C. Buice became manager. People: Adam Alexander Kluttz Place: A. A. Kluttz store, East 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. 207
8. 1916 Professor W. S. Bernard rents the old Sam Phillips law office from the Kluttz family Professor William Stanley "Bully" Bernard rented the old Sam Phillips law office on East Franklin Street from the Kluttzes, remodeled the inside and made it his home. People: William Stanly Bernard Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr.: Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 209
9. August 10, 1925 The store bearing A. A. Kluttz's name closes The A. A. Kluttz Company's store shut in August 1925. Its proprietor, G. Y. C. Buice, posted a "Going out of Business" notice on Monday, August 10; a temporary receiver was named on August 18 and made permanent on September 4, and the stock went in a receiver's sale that September. Buice blamed too many stores for the town's size, chain stores, and roads that took shoppers to the cities, and the Weekly noted the trouble of collecting from customers who bought on credit. A. A. Kluttz, who had run a store there before, was by then only the landlord. Stetson D, a men's clothier, later took the space. People: Adam Alexander Kluttz, Luther James Phipps Place: A. A. Kluttz store, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: G. Y. C. BuiceSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 233 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1925, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1925, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1925, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1925, p. 3
10. 1926 Merchant Adam Kluttz dies, and a deathbed remark is later linked to the phrase "southern part of heaven" Kluttz died in 1926. The book tells of a parson at his bedside likening heaven to Chapel Hill in spring and suggests this may be where the town's nickname began. People: Adam Alexander Kluttz Place: Kluttz residence, East 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. 233 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 23, 1926, p. 1