John Manning

Life and Orange County connections

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1. summer 1874 Commissioner's report keeps the campus and 600 acres for the university Commissioner George H. Snow inspected Chapel Hill in the summer of 1874 with trustees Paul C. Cameron, John Manning and Kemp P. Battle, and on Judge Bond's advice to be liberal the court left the university its campus, faculty houses, libraries and 600 acres. The outlying land, including about seventy acres at Piney Prospect, was sold, and Cameron bought the parcels along with the escheated mountain lands to secure his sister Mildred Cameron's debt. People: Paul C. Cameron, John Manning, Kemp Plummer BattleDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 59
2. 1874–1894 John Manning serves on the university's Board of Trustees John Manning became a trustee of the University of North Carolina in 1874 and held the post for two decades, through the university's 1875 reopening.Search the index · NCpedia: Manning, John, Jr.
3. January 28 to February 18, 1874 The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer By an act of January 28, 1874, the legislature elected sixty-four university trustees by joint ballot, only two of them from the Reconstruction board, and fourteen of them men removed in 1868. The new board first met on February 18, 1874, in the Citizens National Bank in Raleigh, elected William A. Graham of Hillsborough its president and Kemp P. Battle its secretary and treasurer, named an executive committee, and the next day sent a committee to inspect Chapel Hill, after Governor Tod R. Caldwell declined to preside because he held the legislature had no power to elect trustees. People: William A. Graham, Kemp Plummer Battle, Paul C. Cameron, John Manning, Tod Robinson Caldwell, William L. SaundersInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
4. May 5, 1875 Trustees adopt a six-college plan and set aside ground for athletics The trustees adopted Kemp P. Battle's committee report to reopen the university on the first Monday of September with colleges of agriculture, engineering, natural science, literature, mathematics and philosophy, meant to satisfy the 1862 land-grant act. They also reserved the eastern part of the campus along the Raleigh Road for athletics and a parade ground. People: John Manning, Kemp Plummer BattleDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 71
5. 1881–1899 John Manning teaches law at the university Elected professor of law in 1881, John Manning taught at Chapel Hill while keeping a private practice, and law enrollment grew from seven students to eighty-seven by 1897-98.Search the index · NCpedia: Manning, John, Jr.
6. May 7, 1883 Chapel Hill elects John Manning and Professor Graves to its town board Chapel Hill's town election chose John Manning, Professor Graves, John Ward and J. M. Cheek Jr. among its commissioners. People: John Manning, Ralph Henry Graves (1851-1889)Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 12, 1883, p. 2
7. 1884 Election fight splits the Philanthropic Society A quarrel over whether two South Building students could join the Philanthropic Society at the last meeting of a term, in time to swing its election, led some members to secede in 1884, and a split nearly followed in the Dialectic. Professors Winston and Manning could not bring the seceders back. People: John Manning, George Tayloe WinstonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 269
8. Commencement 1884 Governor Jonathan Worth's portrait is given to the university At the 1884 commencement John Manning presented an oil portrait of Worth on behalf of the late governor's grandsons, recalling his nearly thirty years as a university trustee. President Battle accepted it, Governor Jarvis spoke, and the portrait was hung beside those of Davie, Caldwell and Swain. People: John Manning, Kemp Plummer Battle, Thomas Jordan JarvisSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 281
9. November 3, 1884 Francis P. Venable marries Sallie Manning at the Chapel of the Cross Professor Francis Preston Venable married Sallie Carlton Manning, daughter of John Manning, at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill. People: John ManningSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 8, 1884, p. 3
10. between 1889 and 1891 Law professor John Manning builds his house on East Franklin Street Before 1892 Laura Phillips sold John Manning the lot west of the Presbyterian manse, and he built his home there. Manning had earlier set up the university's law school, and his daughter Mary stayed on in the house after he died in 1899.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 159
11. 1889 The university offers Mary Ruffin Smith's Jones Grove tract for sale in lots A committee of Kemp P. Battle, John Manning and A. H. Merritt advertised for sale, in lots, the 1,500-acre Jones Grove tract just over the line in Chatham County that Mary Ruffin Smith had left the university. The sales took years and brought about $15,000, part of it later lent to start Chapel Hill's first electric plant. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, John ManningSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Pauli Murray and UNC, Smith family and early UNC connections
12. August 9, 1894 The Orange County bar meets to honor the late Thomas Webb During a recess of superior court, lawyers and citizens met under C. E. Parish and adopted resolutions on Thomas Webb, who had died since the spring term after years of paralysis. They recalled his service as clerk and master in equity, as cashier of the savings institution, and as president of the North Carolina Railroad Company during part of the Civil War and for a year after it. People: Calvin E. Parish, John W. Graham, John Manning, James B. MasonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 18, 1894, p. 2