Andrew Mickle

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1835 to 1849 A. Mickle serves as Orange County's register of deeds Lefler and Wager's list of Orange County registers of deeds gives A. Mickle in the office from 1835 to 1849, between J. McKerall and John Laws.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 357
2. between 1844 and 1848 The Union Church is moved off Franklin Street and becomes a school When the university sold the Grand Avenue ground to Andrew Mickle and Richard James Ashe and the Presbyterians, the little Union Church was moved away from Franklin Street and later used as the village school. People: Andrew MickleSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 81
3. 1846 Andrew Mickle turns the log schoolhouse at Highlands into a house The log school built south of the Eno around 1844 was converted to a residence, and Andrew Mickle added a three-bay, two-story side-hall section in 1846. Paul C. Cameron enlarged it again in 1857. People: Andrew MickleSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 205 US 70A, Highlands
4. after 1855 Chapel Hill merchants, John W. Carr among them, agree not to sell to minor students on credit After the state's new laws on student contracts were sent to them, most of the village merchants pledged not to sell on credit to students under age without written leave from a parent or guardian, for eighteen months and subject to the faculty's approval. John W. Carr was one of nine signers. People: Andrew MickleSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 647
5. 1855 The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County The 1855 charters were for roads from Chapel Hill to Morrisville and to Durhamsville, from Hillsborough to Chapel Hill, and from Hillsborough to Milton, with capital from $20,000 to $150,000. The book could not say which, if any, were built. People: Charles Phillips, Edmund Strudwick, Andrew MickleSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 184
6. 1857 Paul C. Cameron enlarges Highlands, the former log schoolhouse south of the Eno Paul C. Cameron added two bays to Highlands, giving it the center-hall plan it keeps. The house had begun about 1844 as a log school and was made a dwelling by Andrew Mickle in 1846. People: Andrew MickleSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 197
7. by 1858 Charles P. Mallett keeps the University Bookstore on Franklin Street Mallett's University Bookstore was one of four businesses the book first maps in 1858, along with Andrew Mickle's dry goods, John R. Hutchins's clothing store and C. Gottenburg's mattress shop. All may have opened before 1853. People: Andrew MickleSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 99
8. 1861 to 1865 Andrew Mickle refuses to raise his prices as Confederate money falls Andrew Mickle was prospering as a merchant when the Civil War began, but he held that it was wrong to raise his prices when his neighbors could hardly get money. As the currency fell he sold his goods for much less than cost and lost his fortune.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 83
9. November 1862 Thirty Chapel Hill families pool money to buy corn Amid wartime scarcity, thirty heads of families sent Andrew Mickle to buy corn in a better-supplied district; he brought back about 1,921 bushels by rail to Durham and wagon from there, at $6.75 a barrel delivered. The livery keeper John H. Watson took ninety barrels, President Swain 33 and Judge Battle 24. People: Charles Phillips, David L. Swain, Andrew MickleDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 725
10. August 5, 1869 Orange County holds its first township elections Voters in each township chose magistrates, a clerk, a constable and school committeemen for the first time. In Chapel Hill Township 540 of 565 registered voters cast ballots. People: William Kirkland, Jones Watson, Andrew Mickle, John Wesley CarrSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 196
11. 1874 to 1875 Andrew Mickle serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police Under the town charter the commissioners chose a magistrate of police to preside at their meetings, and Andrew Mickle held the office in 1874 and 1875. In March 1870 a rival group of citizens claiming to be the town's officers had named him to the post, which the sitting board said was without authority of law.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 364
12. May 1874 to January 1875 The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court At the May 1874 term of Orange Superior Court the new board brought one action against Superintendent Alexander McIver, who held the university's seal and books and had agreed to a friendly test suit, and another against Solomon Pool for the buildings. Judge Albion W. Tourgee ruled against the trustees; John W. Graham and James A. Graham of Hillsborough argued for them without fee, as did B. F. Moore and William H. Battle on appeal in June 1874. At its January term 1875 the state Supreme Court decided for the university on every point, and possession passed to Andrew Mickle, the board's agent, with the seal, books and papers going to Treasurer Kemp Battle. People: Solomon Pool, Albion W. Tourgée, Kemp Plummer Battle, Alexander McIver, James Augustus Graham, John W. Graham, Andrew MickleInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
13. June 16, 1875 Andrew Mickle becomes bursar of the reopened university Electing the reopened university's professors, the trustees broke with the old practice of making a professor bursar and chose Andrew Mickle, the Chapel Hill merchant who had acted as their agent, at $400 a year. He held the post until he left to live with his children in Texas in the early 1880s. People: Andrew MickleDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 79
14. May 19, 1877 Andrew Mickle is appointed Chapel Hill postmaster Andrew Mickle was appointed postmaster at Chapel Hill on May 19, 1877, succeeding Hugh B. Guthrie. Thomas M. Kirkland followed him on January 31, 1881.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 366
15. summer 1878 Bursar Andrew Mickle helps poor teachers through the university's summer normal school At the summer normal school the university lent its dormitories and bedding and let teachers cook for themselves, so that many lived on $4 or $5 a month. Andrew Mickle, the school's business agent, worked tirelessly to advise and help those who needed it. People: Kemp Plummer BattleSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 161
16. 1882 Henry H. 'Hoot' Patterson opens a general merchandise store Henry Houston 'Hoot' Patterson, a Civil War veteran married to Dr. Thomas Hogan's daughter Mary, started a general merchandise business in the building Andrew Mickle had used. Bryant calls it very successful. People: Andrew MickleSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 143