Charles Edward Maddry

Life and Orange County connections

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1. about 1896 John W. Canada starts the Canada School in Chapel Hill Soon after graduating from the university in 1896, John W. Canada organized a private school in Chapel Hill that prepared students for college. He ran it with his brother Charles, Sallie Wilson and a Miss Hendon until he left for Texas soon after 1900. People: Louis Graves, Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 143
2. July 1, 1899 Charles E. Maddry begins teaching Strains School near his boyhood home Maddry, who had been a pupil there, took charge of the one-room Strains School below Nunn's Mountain northwest of Chapel Hill with sixty pupils aged five to twenty-one. Two years later he became county superintendent. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 112
3. 1901–1904 Charles E. Maddry serves as superintendent of the Orange County schools While a student at the University of North Carolina, Charles Edward Maddry served as superintendent of the Orange County schools.Search the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
4. 1902–1904 Charles E. Maddry is pastor of First Baptist Church, Hillsborough Charles Edward Maddry was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hillsborough while finishing his studies at the University of North Carolina.Search the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
5. June 4, 1902 Charles E. Maddry is ordained at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church Charles Edward Maddry was ordained to the Baptist ministry at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, now University Baptist Church.Search the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
6. July 6, 1904 The Rev. John C. Hocutt replaces Charles Maddry as county school superintendent Maddry resigned in July 1904 to study at the Southern Baptist seminary, and the board chose his friend and former pastor John C. Hocutt to serve out the term. Hocutt stayed until 1908. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 114
7. May 2, 1906 Charles E. Maddry marries Emma Parker at Hillsborough Baptist Church The former pastor Charles E. Maddry married Emma Parker, daughter of church members T. B. and Penelope Parker, in the Hillsborough Baptist church. Hight C. Moore and the pastor A. C. Hamby performed the ceremony.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 35
8. April 9, 1908 Joshua W. Gore, professor of physics and dean, dies Joshua Walker Gore, professor of physics and dean of the university, died on April 9, 1908. A memorial service followed on May 10, and alumni later gave his portrait for the library. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 673
9. October 1921 Charles E. Maddry urges the faculty to add religious instruction At Harry W. Chase's invitation, Maddry, a university graduate just back from an Austin pastorate to lead the Baptist State Convention, met the faculty and described the University of Texas plan, under which denominations paid Bible teachers whose courses earned university credit. No decision was taken; Chase sent the question to the faculty committee on educational policy. People: Harry Woodburn ChaseSearch 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. 289
10. April 17, 1923 Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university Baptist, Presbyterian, Moravian, Episcopal and Methodist leaders met in President Chase's office with the faculty committee on educational policy. All favored nonsectarian Bible courses; after a day of argument over who would choose and pay the teachers, the churchmen agreed on courses taught off campus by teachers the denominations selected, with credit from the university. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr.Search 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), pp. 291-293
11. 1951–1954 Charles E. Maddry returns to First Baptist Church, Hillsborough, for his last pastorate After his years with the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Charles Edward Maddry served his final pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Hillsborough.Search the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
12. November 1953 First Baptist Church of Hillsborough celebrates its centennial The congregation marked its hundredth year in November 1953 under Charles E. Maddry, with its new educational building finished for the occasion. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 37
13. 1960 Charles E. Maddry writes a history of Mount Moriah Baptist Church Charles Edward Maddry wrote a history of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Orange County; it survives in his papers at UNC.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Charles Edward Maddry Papers, 1903-1960
14. September 19, 1962 Charles E. Maddry's funeral is held at Hillsborough Baptist Church Charles E. Maddry, pastor of the church at the start and end of his fifty-three-year ministry and former head of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, died on September 17 and was buried at Richmond after a funeral in the Hillsborough church.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 37