William E. Lindsay

Life and Orange County connections

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1. April 5, 1897 County commissioners call a graded-school tax vote for the Chapel Hill school district Acting under a new act of the legislature, the county commissioners ordered an election for May 3 in Chapel Hill School District No. 24 on a special property and poll tax to support graded schools for white and Black children. They named W. E. Lindsay, W. F. Lloyd and A. J. McDade registrars. People: William E. Lindsay, Alphonso J. McDade Place: Chapel Hill School District No. 24, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. F. LloydSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 8, 1897, p. 3
2. March 3, 1902 The state charters the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company at West End The secretary of state issued a charter to the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company, formed by W. R. Lloyd, T. J. Hogan, John Lloyd and W. E. Lindsay to make hosiery. The company began on $6,500 in stock, with leave to raise it to $15,000. People: William E. Lindsay Place: Alberta Cotton Mill, West End (now Carrboro) · Also named: W. R. Lloyd, T. J. Hogan, John LloydDigitalNC: The News & Observer (Raleigh), March 4, 1902, p. 5 · Also: The Morning Post (Raleigh), March 4, 1902, p. 5
3. August 23, 1902 Orange Republicans elect Luico Lloyd county chairman The Orange County Republican convention at Hillsborough chose delegates to the state and district conventions and adjourned to name a ticket later; a resolution by Henry N. Brown Sr. against supporting anyone who accepted the 1900 suffrage amendment as final was not acted on. The county executive committee then accepted D. F. Crawford's resignation as chairman and elected Luico Lloyd of Bingham Township chairman and W. E. Lindsay of Chapel Hill secretary. People: William E. Lindsay Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Luico Lloyd, D. F. Crawford, Henry N. Brown Sr.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 28, 1902, p. 3
4. January 14, 1908 President Roosevelt names William E. Lindsay postmaster at Chapel Hill President Theodore Roosevelt sent the Senate the nomination of William E. Lindsay of Chapel Hill as postmaster of the town. Place: Post office, Chapel Hill · Also named: Theodore RooseveltSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 23, 1908, p. 3
5. May 10, 1910 A Christian Church congregation is organized in Chapel Hill The Christian Church congregation later called United Congregational Christian Church was organized in Chapel Hill and built its church in 1914. People: William E. Lindsay, Isaac W. Pritchard Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 303
6. late September 1911 The Chapel Hill post office opens as a postal savings bank The Chapel Hill post office was made a postal savings bank and opened to the public, taking deposits of ten cents and up. Postmaster Lindsay handled the new accounts. People: William E. Lindsay Place: Post office, Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 5, 1911, p. 5
7. March 8, 1913 The Blanche Hosiery Mill Company is chartered again with $100,000 in authorized capital Four years after Julian Carr's company bought the first Blanche mill, W. E. Lindsay, Blanche Gilbert Lindsay and W. S. Robertson took out a new charter for the Blanche Hosiery Mill Company. By late April its new plant was finished, with 58 knitting machines and work for about 40 hands. People: William E. Lindsay Place: Carrboro · Also named: Blanche Gilbert Lindsay, W. S. RobertsonSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News & Observer (Raleigh), March 9, 1913, p. 19 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, April 25, 1913, p. 3
8. by September 7, 1916 W. E. Lindsay and a partner form a lumber manufacturing firm at Chapel Hill By early September 1916 W. E. Lindsay and a partner named McMechen had formed a partnership to manufacture and sell lumber wholesale. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), September 7, 1916, p. 1
9. September 25, 1919 The Lindsay, McMechen Lumber Company of Chapel Hill is dissolved The stockholders of the Lindsay, McMechen Lumber Company, a Chapel Hill corporation with W. E. Lindsay as its agent, unanimously consented to dissolve it, and the Secretary of State certified the dissolution on September 25, 1919. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 9, 1919, p. 4
10. by February 3, 1939 W. E. Lindsay builds a four-family brick apartment house at Pittsboro and McCauley streets W. E. Lindsay was building a four-family brick apartment house on the corner of Pittsboro and McCauley streets and a six-room brick house on McCauley Street. Place: Corner of Pittsboro and McCauley streets, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: McCauley StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 3, 1939, p. 1