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Charles Edward Maddry

Charles Edward Maddry, born near Chapel Hill in 1876, was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1901 to 1904, was ordained at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church in 1902, and was pastor of Hillsborough's First Baptist Church from 1902 to 1904 and again from 1951 to 1954. In between he led the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board from 1933 to 1944.

Source: NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward

1876–1962 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Charles Edward Maddry

History of the First Baptist Church of Hillsboro, North Carolina

Maddry, Charles Edward, 1876-1962 · 1953 · Edwards & Broughton

Charles Edward Maddry's 31-page history of the First Baptist Church of Hillsborough, printed in Raleigh by Edwards & Broughton in 1953 with illustrations and portraits. Maddry (1876-1962) was a Baptist minister.

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Charles Edward Maddry papers, 1903-1960.

Maddry, Charles Edward, 1876-1962 · 1903

Forty seven items dated 1903 to 1960 from Charles Edward Maddry (1876-1962), in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3593. Topics include the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, church buildings in the state, and the church history of Orange County, with Mount Moriah Church in Orange County named directly. Josephus Daniels also appears among the subjects.

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About Charles Edward Maddry

[Letter to the editor of Chapel Hill news]

Turner, C. D. · 1906 · C.D. Turner?

A letter to the editor of the Chapel Hill News, printed in 1906, in which C. D. Turner defends Charles Maddry against the charge that he misappropriated school funds while serving as superintendent of schools for Orange County. Turner signs himself a candidate for clerk of Superior Court and dates the letter October 3, 1906.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Maddry, Charles Edward, 1876-1962.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. 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 Maddry, John William CanadaSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 143
  2. 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. 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. 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. The county school board reports nine new schoolhouses and six rural libraries Meeting at Hillsborough to apportion the school fund, the Orange County Board of Education reported nine new schoolhouses built in the past year: seven paid from the general fund, one paid by its district under the old law, and one given with an acre of land by George Pickard of White Cross. It also had six rural libraries running, the most the law allowed, and planned six more houses for 1902, though building costs left too little money for four-month terms for the county's 4,847 school-age children. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 23, 1902, p. 3
  6. 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
  7. Orange County holds separate institutes for its white and Black teachers Required teachers' institutes met at Hillsborough for a week, the white teachers in the court house under Prof. C. C. Crittenden of Wake Forest College and the Black teachers in a hall west of the court house under Prof. Charles H. Boyer of Raleigh, a Yale graduate, with large attendance at both. On August 23 State Superintendent J. Y. Joyner addressed the teachers of both institutes before one of the largest crowds seen in Hillsborough in years, urging consolidated districts and local school taxes. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 21, 1902, p. 2
  8. Caldwell asks for an election on a rural graded school The Caldwell community asked for a vote on establishing a rural graded school, and the board asked the county commissioners to call the election. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 54
  9. Hillsborough subscribers and the county school board fund a new public schoolhouse Townspeople answered County Superintendent Charles E. Maddry's appeal with subscriptions for a new public schoolhouse at Hillsborough, where children were being turned away for lack of room, and the county board of education pledged to match every dollar so the house could be built at once; Maddry then advertised for building bids. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 9, 1902, p. 3
  10. The county board of education apportions the school fund and sets aside $1,000 for new schoolhouses The Orange County Board of Education divided the year's school fund among about 4,700 children of school age and set aside more than $1,000 for new schoolhouses to be built in 1903. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 15, 1903, p. 3
  11. Orange County's Black teachers hold their institute at Hillsborough The Orange County institute for Black teachers met at the court house in Hillsborough in the week of July 27, 1903, conducted by Prof. Charles H. Boyer of St. Augustine's School, Raleigh; on July 30 A. C. Burnett, a Black graduate of the A. and M. College at Greensboro raised near Ridge Church, spoke to it on agriculture. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 6, 1903, p. 3
  12. The board of education orders Chapel Hill's Black school rebuilt in Potter's Field The county board of education ordered the superintendent to sell the Black school house and grounds in Chapel Hill and rebuild in Potter's Field, the Black settlement. At the same meeting it abolished Bethel district in Bingham Township, sending its patrons to White Cross and a neighboring district, and allowed Caldwell's patrons to vote on a local school tax. People: Charles Edward MaddryOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 14, 1904, p. 2
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  1. Charles E. Maddry resigns as pastor of the Hillsboro Baptist church The Rev. Charles E. Maddry, pastor of the Baptist church at Hillsboro and county superintendent of schools, resigned the pastorate on June 26, effective after the fourth Sunday in August, to enter the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 30, 1904, p. 2
  2. Superintendent Maddry reports Orange County's school figures County Superintendent Charles E. Maddry's annual report counted 2,981 white and 1,337 Black children of school age, with 1,993 and 983 enrolled, 43 white and 23 Black districts, school property worth $9,680 for white and $2,180 for Black schools, and 15 rural libraries holding 2,000 volumes.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 28, 1904, p. 2
  3. 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 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 7, 1904, p. 3
  4. The State Farmers' Alliance meets at the Barracks, and Governor Aycock speaks at its picnic The North Carolina Farmers' State Alliance held its eighteenth annual session at the Barracks near Hillsborough, where President William A. Graham gave his annual address. On August 10 a well-attended farmers' picnic heard State Superintendent J. Y. Joyner, Governor Charles B. Aycock, Dr. Tait Butler and Charles E. Maddry. People: Charles B. Aycock, Tait Butler, Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 11, 1904, p. 2
  5. Hillsborough buries Capt. Robert D. Graham beside his mother Capt. Robert Davidson Graham, a Hillsborough-born son of William A. Graham who had commanded a company of the 56th North Carolina and later served as secretary of the Civil Service Commission, died after a fall from a building in Washington on June 27. His body was brought to Maj. John W. Graham's house, and after a service at the Baptist church led by Charles E. Maddry he was buried in the Presbyterian churchyard beside his mother. People: John W. Graham, Charles Edward Maddry, William A. GrahamSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 6, 1905, p. 3
  6. 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
  7. Joshua W. Gore, professor of physics and dean, dies Joshua Walker Gore, professor of physics and dean of the university, died in a Baltimore hospital on April 8, 1908. A memorial service followed on May 10, and alumni later gave his portrait for the library. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Edward Maddry, Joshua W. GoreSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 673 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 16, 1908, p. 3
  8. An Orange County Anti-Saloon League is organized after Charles B. Aycock speaks for prohibition Former governor Charles B. Aycock spoke for state prohibition to a large crowd in the Hillsborough courthouse, several merchants closing their stores so their clerks could hear him, and Rev. Charles E. Maddry of Greensboro then organized an Orange County Anti-Saloon League with Frank Nash as chairman, Nathan W. Brown as secretary and an executive committee drawn from every township. People: Charles B. Aycock, Charles Edward Maddry, Frank Nash, N. W. Brown, Samuel Mallett GattisSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 23, 1908, p. 3
  9. The Chapel Hill Baptist Church accepts the site for its new church After Charles E. Maddry, secretary of the state Baptist board, won approval to buy a site, the church in conference accepted the lot and agreed to pay $1,000 at once. Over the next year members pledged more than $25,000 and the Home Board and state board gave about $100,000. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 36
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Eugene I. Olive begins his pastorate at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church Olive was welcomed at a service that drew the town's other ministers and the university president. One of his first changes gave deacons three-year terms with a year off before reelection, and his nine years were the church's longest pastorate up to then. People: Charles Edward Maddry, William Dygnum MossSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 37 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924, p. 1
  13. Hillsborough Baptists resolve to build a baptismal pool in honor of Charles E. Maddry After a week of preaching by Charles E. Maddry, then executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, the deacons and trustees voted to build a baptismal pool named for him and to mark it with a plaque.Search the index · Charles E. Maddry, History of the First Baptist Church of Hillsboro, North Carolina (1953), scan p. 21
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Charles E. Maddry publishes his autobiography Charles E. Maddry, pastor of Hillsboro's First Baptist Church and former head of North Carolina Baptist work and of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, published Charles E. Maddry: An Autobiography, which began with his boyhood on an Orange County farm and his walk to the Canada school in Chapel Hill, where he cut wood to pay his tuition. Phillips Russell reviewed it in the paper. People: Phillips RussellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1955, p. 2
  17. 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
  18. 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

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