William Dygnum Moss

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1. January 1904 William D. Moss becomes pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill Coming from pastorates in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, William Dygnum Moss reached Chapel Hill around the turn of 1904, preached for about a month, and in January 1904 was called as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill. Apart from six years in Washington, he served the congregation until his death in 1932. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries: William Dygnum Moss Papers, 1899-1970 · Also: The Tar Heel, January 28, 1904, p. 3
2. July 1912 The Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote to call William D. Moss back as pastor Moss had left in 1905 for a church in Washington, D.C. A congregational meeting voted without dissent to invite him back, at $500 a year and the manse with help from the Synod, and by mid-September 1912 he was back as pastor, beginning the long pastorate the church remembered him for. People: George McKie, George Howe Place: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The First Hundred Years: The Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, 1849-1949 (1950), scan p. 29 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 19, 1912, p. 5
3. Late 1914 Students improve Franklin Street and Battle Park during Community Service Week During Graham's first statewide Community Service Week, about a hundred students worked on Chapel Hill: one crew graded Franklin Street under Joseph Hyde Pratt with teams paid for by merchants and bankers, others cleared the grounds around Swain Hall, cleaned the Battle Park trails under the Rev. W. D. Moss and gathered trash from the alleys. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Joseph Hyde Pratt, William Dygnum Moss Place: Franklin Street and Battle Park, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Swain Hall, Franklin StreetSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 102
4. December 22, 1916 Susan Moses Graham, the president's wife, dies at Chapel Hill Susan Moses Graham, 34, died on the last day of the fall session after six weeks of infection. Remaining classes were called off, and she was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery on December 23 after a service at the Chapel of the Cross. She had helped found the Chapel Hill Community Club. People: Edward Kidder Graham, William Dygnum Moss Place: President's House, UNC; Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill · Also named: Susan Moses Graham · Also mentions: Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill cemeterySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 109
5. June 5, 1918 A subdued wartime commencement honors the governor, Senator Overman and the Rev. W. D. Moss With about a third of the class of 1918 already in camps, the university gave honorary degrees to Governor Bickett, Senator Lee S. Overman, Edwin Mims and the Presbyterian pastor W. D. Moss. Frederic C. Howe, immigration commissioner at New York, gave the address. People: William Dygnum Moss, Thomas W. Bickett, Lee S. Overman Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Edwin Mims, Frederic Clemson HoweSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 166
6. October 26, 1918 President Edward Kidder Graham dies of influenza and pneumonia at his home in Chapel Hill Graham, 42, president since 1914 and regional director of the Student Army Training Corps for the South Atlantic states, died on Saturday night after five days' illness. The SATC battalion escorted the funeral, conducted at the grave by W. D. Moss of the Presbyterian church; Josephus Daniels and Newton D. Baker sent tributes. People: Edward Kidder Graham, William Dygnum Moss, Josephus Daniels Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Newton D. BakerThe Tar Heel, October 30, 1918, p. 1
7. November 28, 1920 The new Presbyterian church on Franklin Street is dedicated as Sprunt Memorial The new Presbyterian church at 209 East Franklin Street, built by James Sprunt of Wilmington as a memorial to his wife, Luola Murchison Sprunt, was formally dedicated as the Sprunt Memorial Presbyterian Church. It had been under construction for about two years and in use for about a month. The pastor, William D. Moss, accepted it for the congregation. People: James Sprunt Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Charlotte Observer, November 29, 1920, p. 1 · Also: The Tar Heel, November 2, 1920, p. 1; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomin; Open Orange: 209 E. Franklin St. / Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
8. April 6, 1924 Eugene I. Olive begins his pastorate at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church Olive was welcomed at a service that drew the town's other ministers and the university president. One of his first changes gave deacons three-year terms with a year off before reelection, and his nine years were the church's longest pastorate up to then. People: Charles Edward Maddry, William Dygnum Moss Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eugene I. OliveSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 37 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1924, p. 1
9. October 7, 1932 Presbyterian minister W. D. Moss dies Rev. William D. Moss, who had served the Chapel Hill Presbyterian church for most of the previous 29 years, died of a heart attack early on Friday, October 7, at 65. A native of Canada who had become an American citizen, he had come to Chapel Hill about 1903, served a church in Washington for a time, and returned in 1912; his funeral was held in the Presbyterian church. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 14, 1932, p. 4