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Calvin E. Parish lived in Hillsborough for more than forty years, serving as its postmaster before and during the Civil War and several terms as mayor. A lawyer, he was elected to the state Senate in 1874 and 1880 and to the House in 1876.
Source: DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, March 30, 1899, p. 2
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Background reading on The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication, 1820. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Calvin E. Parish. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
Shirley Jones Mallard's abstracts of the death and marriage notices printed in the Hillsborough Recorder from 1820 to 1879 and in the Hillsboro Recorder of 1887 and 1888. Published by the compiler in Chapel Hill in 1997, 445 pages.
E. B. Munson's five-volume abstract of the marriage and death notices printed in the Hillsborough Recorder between 1820 and 1865: volume 1 covers 1820 to 1836, volume 2 1837 to 1845, volume 3 1846 to 1853, volume 4 1854 to 1859 and volume 5 1860 to 1865. The paper reported on families well beyond Hillsborough. Self-published in Greenville, N.C., 2001, 28 cm.
Shirley Jones Mallard gathered the death and marriage notices printed in the Hillsborough Recorder from 1820 to 1879 and in the Hillsboro Recorder for 1887 and 1888. Published by the compiler in 1997, 445 pages.
Shirley Jones Mallard's compilation of the death and marriage notices published in the Hillsborough Recorder between 1820 and 1879, issued by the compiler in 1997 at 29 centimeters. The notices name brides, grooms and the dead across six decades of the county seat's newspaper.
An index on cards to mentions of Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina in surviving issues of the Hillsborough Recorder between 1820 and 1879. Helen D. Allen compiled the entries by hand in 1970, and they fill one file box of four by six inch cards.
Marian Camper Fuller's abstracts of marriage and death notices printed in the Hillsborough Recorder, covering 1820 to 1829, 1834 to 1858, 1860 to 1869, and the years 1873 and 1877, with gaps in coverage. Prepared in 1946 as a typescript, 130 pages and 81 leaves. A first stop for family historians working Orange County names in the nineteenth century.
J. D. Cameron issued this single sheet in 1872 to announce the terms and the plan of the Hillsborough Recorder, the town's newspaper, and signed it at the end. The prospectus measures 42 by 10 cm. Evidence of how a county paper solicited subscribers after the Civil War.
The weekly newspaper Dennis Heartt began at Hillsborough in 1820, printed in large format and carrying county and state news. Publishers varied across the run; the paper was Democratic in its politics. Later compilers abstracted its death and marriage notices, which is how much of Orange County genealogy reaches back into the period.
Dennis Heartt's Hillsborough Recorder, a Democratic weekly for Orange County that ran from 1820 to 1879. Publication was suspended twice in the spring of 1865, from 19 April to 3 May and from 17 May to 26 June. Part of the Chronicling America newspaper collection.
The Hillsborough Recorder was the town's long running weekly newspaper, begun in 1820 by the printer Dennis Heartt, whose shop also produced many of the Hillsborough imprints of that period.
George A. Williams of the 7th North Carolina Infantry wrote his parents and children on 5 April 1864 that he was safely back in camp and the men were faring well. He reports days of cold, rain and snow and hopes for a move to Camp Holmes. Governor Vance, W. W. Holden, food, health and talk of peace also come up.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Statewide Civil War collection of the State Archives of North Carolina, dated 1860 to 1965. It gathers pardon petitions, bounty payrolls, quartermaster vouchers and supply papers, disabled veterans' claims and letters about artificial limbs, regimental and unit papers, muster rolls, diaries, reminiscences, clippings and sheet music. Orange County is one of the many North Carolina counties represented.
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