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David McCauley

David McCauley came to Jesse Hargrave's Franklin Street store as a clerk in 1850 and took over the business with Thomas A. Long after Hargrave died in 1854. He bought Long out in 1872, owned the old Eagle Hotel as the Chapel Hill Hotel until 1878, and kept his store until his death.

Source: Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 123

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  1. David McCauley and Thomas A. Long take over Jesse Hargrave's store After Hargrave's death, his business was sold to the two young clerks he had hired in 1850. McCauley and Long's general store appears on the maps through 1868. People: Jesse Hargrave, David McCauley Place: McCauley & Long store, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. LongSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 99
  2. Chapel Hill forms a volunteer military company A new volunteer company was formed at Chapel Hill with J. R. Hutchins as captain, David McCauley as first lieutenant and J. M. Blackwood as third lieutenant, and it planned a uniform like that of the Orange Guards. People: David McCauley, John R. Hutchins Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: J. M. BlackwoodSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 25, 1857, p. 2 · Also: The Chapel Hill Gazette, November 21, 1857, p. 2
  3. David McCauley buys the Union Hotel and renames it the Chapel Hill Hotel McCauley bought the Union Hotel, the house Nancy Hilliard had once kept as the Eagle Hotel, and gave it the name Chapel Hill Hotel. He also bought the building at the northeast corner of Franklin and Henderson streets where Richard Benbury Saunders had kept his drugstore. People: Nancy Hilliard, David McCauley Place: Union Hotel (later Chapel Hill Hotel), Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Richard Benbury Saunders · Also mentions: Franklin and Henderson streets, Union HotelSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 123
  4. David McCauley buys out his store partner Thomas A. Long Merchant David McCauley bought out his partner, Thomas A. Long, and kept the Franklin Street general store on his own. Bryant credits the store's success, and McCauley's 1873 marriage to a daughter of Sidney Mulholland Barbee, for the property he was able to buy afterward. People: David McCauley Place: David McCauley's general store, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. Long, Sidney Mulholland Barbee · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 123
  5. David McCauley lets Nancy Hilliard live rent free in her old hotel After losing her house and giving up hotel work at the Exchange Hotel in Raleigh, Nancy Hilliard came back to Chapel Hill destitute by 1872, and the firm of Long and McCauley, which now owned her former Eagle Hotel, let her live rent free in a room there. Former students sent her money until her death in 1873. People: Nancy Hilliard, David McCauley Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Eagle HotelSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 125 · Also: Spencer to Mrs. Swain, December 31, 1872, in Hope Summerell Chamberlain, Old Days in Chapel Hill
  6. Chapel Hill's new town board chooses John H. Watson mayor Chapel Hill voters elected a new board of town commissioners on May 6, and at its first regular meeting a week later the board chose John H. Watson mayor, David McCauley clerk and treasurer, George W. Barbee constable and W. J. Hogan Jr. weigh master. People: John H. Watson, David McCauley Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: George W. Barbee, W. J. Hogan Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 18, 1878, p. 3
  7. John H. Watson takes over the Chapel Hill Hotel from David McCauley John H. Watson, a brother of Jones Watson, took over the Chapel Hill Hotel from McCauley. Bryant's history of Franklin Street says he bought it; Watson's own advertisement in the Chapel Hill Ledger in 1878 said he had rented the hotel and would take charge after June 10. By 1891 he had taken W. W. Pickard as a partner. People: David McCauley, John H. Watson Place: Chapel Hill Hotel, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. W. Pickard, Jones Watson · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 135 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, July 13, 1878, p. 3
  8. Chapel Hill merchant Thomas A. Long dies Thomas A. Long, who came to Chapel Hill as a boy to clerk for Jesse Hargrave, later kept store with David McCauley and then with Norwood, died at forty-five and was buried after services at the Methodist church on June 23. He had been a Methodist class leader, Sunday school worker and steward. People: David McCauley, Jesse Hargrave Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. LongSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, June 28, 1879, p. 3
  9. University Railroad stockholders organize and run the line to University Station Stockholders of the University Railroad Company met at President Battle's office with $10,160 of stock taken. After Julian S. Carr and Paul C. Cameron argued for Durham, they adopted Battle's resolution to locate the road from Chapel Hill to University Station, elected Cameron, Hoke, McCauley, Carr and Battle directors, and called in a quarter of the stock. People: Paul C. Cameron, Kemp Plummer Battle, Robert F. Hoke, Julian S. Carr, David McCauley Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University StationThe Chapel Hill Ledger, January 10, 1880, p. 2
  10. Robert Strange MacRae buys Dr. Harris's drugstore and its building MacRae bought the drug business from Dr. Thomas W. Harris and the building it occupied, at Franklin and Henderson streets, from David McCauley. He sold the drugstore to Dr. R. H. Whitehead in 1893. People: David McCauley, Thomas West Harris Place: Northeast corner of Franklin and Henderson streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert Strange MacRae, R. H. Whitehead · Also mentions: Franklin and Henderson streetsSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 151
  11. Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis for the House and a county ticket The Orange County Democratic convention met in the court house, nominated S. M. Gattis for the state House and a full county ticket headed by Sheriff John K. Hughes, and then heard R. B. Glenn speak for free silver. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis, David McCauley, John W. Thompson, Clarence Dupre Jones, R. B. (Robert Brodnax) Glenn, John Knox Hughes Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 24, 1896, p. 3
  12. Thomas W. Strowd builds a two-story house on McCauley Street At 220 McCauley Street, on lots he bought from David McCauley in 1901, Thomas Strowd built about 1910 a big frame Queen Anne house, hip-roofed, with a scallop-trimmed two-story bay and a porch that wraps around it, part of the wave of such houses in west Chapel Hill after 1900. People: David McCauley Place: 220 McCauley Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas W. Strowd · Also mentions: McCauley StreetSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 47 · Also: West Chapel Hill Historic District National Register nomination

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