William P. (William Peter) Mallett

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 4 dated events in the chronology →

1. April 16, 1878 Three men hanged for a string of Chapel Hill burglaries In 1877 a band of four broke into six houses in and near Chapel Hill 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, who were convicted in Orange Superior Court and hanged on April 16, 1878 after Governor Jarvis refused clemency. People: William P. (William Peter) Mallett, Thomas Ruffin, Thomas Jordan JarvisSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 150
2. 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.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 143
3. 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.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 151
4. fall 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. (William Peter) MallettSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 441