Bartholomew F. Moore

Life and Orange County connections

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1. Commencement 1846 Bartholomew F. Moore gives the annual address before the two literary societies At the 1846 commencement, Moore, an 1820 graduate, was the annual orator before the two student societies. His subject was the claims of the university on her sons for cultivating truth and universal justice.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 498
2. 1859 Trustees buy a second thousand shares of bank stock on credit When the old state bank's charter ran out, the trustees put the university's $100,000 into the new Bank of North Carolina and, by a bare majority, subscribed for another thousand shares on credit. Only $10,000 of that debt was ever paid, and after the war the university owed $90,000 on shares that were worthless. People: David L. Swain, Bartholomew F. MooreSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 706
3. 1866 Trustees mortgage all university property to settle its debts Facing $103,000 of debt against worthless bank stock and Confederate securities, the trustees compromised with the Bank of North Carolina and other creditors at a quarter of the debt in gold, pledging all the university's property at Chapel Hill and its Buncombe County lands. The General Assembly also voted $7,000 for one year to pay the officers. People: Thomas Bragg, David L. Swain, Charles Manly, Bartholomew F. MooreSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 755
4. Commencement 1868 The university gives Bartholomew F. Moore an honorary LL.D. At the 1868 commencement, which Battle calls the last of the old regime, the university granted the degree of Doctor of Laws to ex-Governor Seymour and to Moore, a Raleigh lawyer and active trustee.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 769
5. February 1, 1873 Alumni meet in Raleigh to plan the university's revival At the invitation of trustees led by Superintendent Alexander McIver, fifty-five alumni met in the state Senate chamber with B. F. Moore in the chair. Their committee proposed that the alumni association nominate a new board for the Board of Education to appoint, but most of the 1868 trustees did not resign and the plan lapsed. People: Alexander McIver, William A. Graham, William Horn Battle, Richmond Mumford Pearson, Bartholomew F. MooreDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 46
6. July 1873 State educational convention calls for reviving the university A convention called by the State Board of Education, with B. F. Moore presiding, resolved that the university should be revived as soon as practicable. It added that the revival was impossible except on a basis impartial between denominations and political parties, after Braxton Craven, Thomas H. Pritchard and A. W. Mangum argued over church representation. People: Robert Bingham, Adolphus Williamson Mangum, Thomas Henderson Pritchard, Bartholomew F. MooreDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 45
7. 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, Kemp Plummer Battle, Alexander McIver, James Augustus Graham, John W. Graham, Andrew Mickle, Albion W. Tourgee, Bartholomew F. MooreInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
8. 1875 Bartholomew F. Moore gives $1,000 toward reopening the university Moore's $1,000 was among the largest gifts on the list of subscriptions paid in 1875 for the revival of the university.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 796
9. August 19, 1875 Trustees burn the repudiated railroad bonds As the act restoring the land-scrip fund required, trustees B. F. Moore, David M. Carter and Kemp P. Battle burned 160 special tax bonds of $1,000 each issued for the Western North Carolina Railroad, with Seaton Gales as witness. In return the state had given the university its bond for the $125,000 fund, paying $7,500 a year. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Bartholomew F. MooreDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 70
10. 1878 Bartholomew F. Moore leaves the university $5,000 for scholarships Moore, who died in November 1878, left the university $5,000 by will to fund scholarships. Battle later reported three young men studying on the Moore scholarships.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 325