Walter A. Norwood

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 9 dated events in the chronology →

1. about 1828 Dr. Walter A. Norwood opens a medicine shop opposite Alsobrook's hotel Dr. Norwood's medicine shop stood on Thomas H. Taylor's half of Lot #14, probably in Taylor's old store building, which Norwood later bought. From 1841 the shop housed the practice of Drs. Jones and Moore. People: Thomas H. Taylor, Walter A. Norwood Place: Norwood's medicine shop, west half of Lot #14, Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 57
2. June 22, 1831 Friends of education organize the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill During commencement week a meeting adopted a constitution on Benjamin M. Smith's motion, elected Simmons J. Baker president and made professors Elisha Mitchell, William Hooper and James Phillips its executive committee. The Institute met at the next few commencements and enrolled about 130 members before it lapsed. People: Elisha Mitchell, James Phillips, Walter A. Norwood, William James Bingham Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Benjamin M. Smith, Simmons J. Baker, William HooperSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 339
3. 1834 Dr. Walter A. Norwood closes his medicine shop and moves to Hillsborough Norwood gave up his Franklin Street shop and left for Hillsborough. Elisha Mitchell owned the land and building by the end of the year and soon sold them on credit to Isaac Partridge for a hotel. People: Elisha Mitchell, Walter A. Norwood Place: Norwood's medicine shop, west half of Lot #14, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · 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. 69
4. 1840 Free people of color make up most of Dr. Walter A. Norwood's Hillsborough household In the 1840 census, as the Burwell School task force read it against the 1839 Bailey map of Hillsborough, Dr. Walter A. Norwood headed a household of five in which everyone but the doctor was a free person of color. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Burwell SchoolSearch the index · Historic Hillsborough Commission: Enslaved and Free People of Color Who Lived and Worked at the Burwell School, task force report (2019), p. 44
5. November 10-13, 1841 Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County Meeting at the court house, Hillsborough men organized a Washington Temperance Society on the total-abstinence pledge, adopted a constitution and elected Col. Henry Webb president. The drive followed talks in the village by John F. Carey of the Baltimore Washingtonians, and about half the adult men of Hillsborough signed the pledge. People: James C. Turrentine, William Bingham (1835-1873), George Laws, Lemuel Lynch, Walter A. Norwood, Stephen Moore Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Henry Webb, John F. CareySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 18, 1841, p. 3
6. January 20, 1842 Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary A Literary Association was formed at a meeting in the Presbyterian session house in Hillsborough on the evening of January 20, 1842, after a preliminary meeting the night before, with Frederick Nash as president; James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones and Robert Burwell as vice presidents; Dennis Heartt as secretary; and Walter A. Norwood as treasurer. Heartt, a charter member, had helped organize it. People: Dennis Heartt, Frederick Nash, Cadwallader Jones, Robert Armistead Burwell, James Strudwick Smith, Walter A. Norwood Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Robert Burwell · Also mentions: Presbyterian session houseSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Chronicle, February 9, 1842, page 2 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, January 27, 1842, p. 3
7. May 14, 1842 Delegates form the Orange County Temperance Society at Hillsborough A convention of delegates from the county's temperance societies met at the court house and organized the Orange County Temperance Society, auxiliary to the state society, with every member of a local society counted a member. It elected Thomas Clancy president, James C. Turrentine recording secretary and William J. Bingham corresponding secretary, and set an annual meeting in Hillsborough each August. People: James C. Turrentine, Walter A. Norwood Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas Clancy, William J. BinghamSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 26, 1842, p. 3
8. May 26, 1843 Orange Whigs nominate Henry K. Nash for Congress A Whig meeting at the Masonic Hall, with Catlett Campbell presiding, nominated Henry K. Nash of Hillsborough for Congress in the seventh district, which the Democratic legislature had gerrymandered. A committee led by Willie P. Mangum drafted the resolutions, and Nash accepted in a speech. People: Willie P. Mangum, Edmund Strudwick, Walter A. Norwood, Henry Kollock Nash Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Catlett CampbellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 1, 1843, p. 3
9. February 8, 1850 Orange railroad meeting names a committee to raise subscriptions A meeting of Orange County citizens at the court house in Hillsborough appointed a committee, among them Dr. W. A. Norwood, D. C. Parrish, John Berry, J. U. Kirkland, W. N. Pratt, C. W. Johnston and Josiah Turner Jr., to solicit subscriptions to the North Carolina Railroad and report at the February county court. People: Walter A. Norwood, John Berry, John U. Kirkland, Josiah Turner Jr. Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: D. C. Parrish, W. N. Pratt, C. W. Johnston · Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 13, 1850, p. 3