William P. Mallett

Life and Orange County connections

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1. by May 1856 Dr. William P. Mallett moves his medical practice to Chapel Hill After about fifteen years of practice in Fayetteville, Mallett moved to Chapel Hill so his children could attend the university. He treated villagers and students there for more than thirty years. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Mallett, William Peter (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography) · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, May 28, 1856, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1929, p. 3
2. 1858 The university opens its first infirmary, the Retreat, with Dr. Mallett in charge The small building known as the Retreat stood in the southwest corner of the university-owned Tom Taylor property, and the town physician William P. Mallett ran it. It served as the infirmary until 1894. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom TaylorSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 99
3. May 14 to 17, 1862 The Episcopal diocesan convention meets at the Chapel of the Cross The forty-sixth annual convention of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina met in the Chapel Hill church during the war. The rector, Francis W. Hilliard, and the parish's lay delegates William H. Battle, W. P. Mallett, A. Mickle and Manuel Fetter all attended. People: William Horn Battle, William P. Mallett, Andrew Mickle, Manuel Fetter Place: Chapel of the Cross, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Francis W. Hilliard, A. MickleArchibald Henderson, The Church of the Atonement and the Chapel of the Cross at Chapel Hill (1938), scan p. 52
4. May 16, 1879 Three men hanged for a string of Chapel Hill burglaries In 1878 a band of four broke into houses in and near Chapel Hill, among them the Rev. G. W. Purefoy's on the night of August 5, and wounded the widow Margaret Hendon with an axe blade while trying to rob her. Albert Atwater, a Black man held for a lesser offense, confessed and named two white men and a Black man, Jim Carlton, Davis and Henry Andrews, who were convicted at the October 1878 term of Orange Superior Court and sentenced to death. They were hanged after the governor refused a pardon or commutation, probably in the spring of 1879: Battle dates the hanging April 16, 1878, months before the arrests. People: William P. Mallett, Thomas Ruffin Jr. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Margaret Hendon, Albert Atwater, Henry AndrewsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 150 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, August 14, 1878, p. 3; Hillsborough Recorder, October 30, 1878, p. 3; The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 17, 1879, p. 2
5. 1880 Fire destroys the old Pleasant Henderson house on East Franklin Street The old Pleasant Henderson house, where the children of Dr. George Moore were then living, burned. In 1881 Dr. William P. Mallett bought the lot and built on it. People: William P. Mallett Place: Pleasant Henderson house, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: George MooreSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 143
6. 1881 Dr. William P. Mallett builds a house on the old Henderson lot Dr. Mallett bought the burned-out lot from the heirs of Anna Ashe and built a large two-story house, keeping a chemist's shop at its southeast corner. After his death in 1889 his widow ran the house as a boarding house where new professors stayed. People: William P. Mallett Place: Mallett house, 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. 143
7. 1885 Dr. William P. Mallett begins handing out Chapel Hill's mail from his lot Dr. Mallett and his daughter started distributing the village mail. The post office building he put up on the southwest corner of his East Franklin Street lot also held his doctor's office at the back, and after his death Thomas Kirkland ran the post office there. People: William P. Mallett Place: Post office, Mallett lot, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas Kirkland · 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. 151
8. October 16, 1889 Chapel Hill physician William Peter Mallett dies Mallett, the village's leading doctor, who had lived in Chapel Hill for more than thirty years, died in the fall of 1889. People: William P. Mallett Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 441 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 26, 1889, p. 3