Benjamin C. Patton

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1. about 1883 to 1890 B. C. Patton keeps a high school and academy for boys and girls at Cedar Grove Patton's High School and Academy at Cedar Grove took pupils of both sexes for a ten-month term in the English branches, Latin, Greek and music, with board nearby. His advertisement of summer 1890 called it his eighth year at Cedar Grove.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 9, 1890, p. 3
2. July 6, 1885 The new Board of Education sets aside $50 for an institute for Black teachers At its first meeting in the Hillsboro courthouse, the board created under the 1885 school law organized with Joseph Harris as chairman and voted fifty dollars to hold a training institute for the county's Black teachers. People: George Tayloe Winston, James L. Currie, Benjamin C. PattonDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 34
3. July 2-7, 1888 Superintendent Currie holds the county teachers' institute for white teachers at Hillsborough County superintendent J. L. Currie, helped by B. C. Patton and W. W. Andrews, held a week's institute for Orange County's white teachers in the Masonic Hall at Hillsborough, from Monday to Saturday noon. Twenty-one teachers enrolled; the days went to the branches taught in the public schools and the evenings to lectures and debates on education that were open to the public. People: Benjamin C. PattonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 7, 1888, p. 3 · Also: Hillsboro Recorder, July 5, 1888, p. 3
4. May to June 1889 B. C. Patton announces a male school at Hillsboro In a card dated at Cedar Grove on May 21, 1889, Patton said he would open a school for boys in Hillsboro in September to run ten months. In June the Observer reported that the Hillsboro Male School, with Patton as principal, would open on the first Tuesday of September.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 8, 1889, p. 3
5. June 3, 1889 Justices and commissioners elect a new board of education and school superintendent In joint session on June 3 the justices and commissioners chose John Thompson, W. V. Andrews and D. S. Parker as the county board of education. The next day, at a joint meeting of the commissioners and the new board, B. C. Patton was elected county superintendent of public instruction in place of the Rev. J. L. Currie, who had resigned. People: John W. Thompson, James L. Currie, Wilton V. Andrews, Benjamin C. PattonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 8, 1889, p. 3 (Joint Meeting) · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
6. July 22 to August 2, 1889 Orange County holds summer institutes for white and Black teachers Superintendent B. C. Patton, assisted by W. V. Andrews and John Thompson, held a week's institute for white teachers at the Masonic Hall beginning July 22 and one for Black teachers beginning July 29; nineteen white and twenty-two Black teachers attended, and the Black teachers closed theirs with a vote of thanks. People: John W. Thompson, Wilton V. Andrews, Benjamin C. PattonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 17, 1889, p. 3
7. October 28 to November 1, 1889 Edwin A. Alderman holds a week's institute for Orange County's white teachers State institute conductor Edwin A. Alderman held a week-long institute for the county's white teachers at Hillsborough, closing on November 1 with addresses by Alderman and State Superintendent Finger at the court house on public schools and public education. People: John W. Thompson, Benjamin C. PattonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 9, 1889, p. 3
8. 1890 B. C. Patton's report finds most Orange County schoolhouses still built of logs Patton's annual report to the state counted 43 white and 41 Black schools with 1,425 white and 1,048 Black pupils. Thirty of the 43 white schoolhouses and 17 of the 24 Black ones were log buildings, and terms ran about twelve weeks. People: Benjamin C. PattonSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 105
9. 1890 The state superintendent tells Orange County to make its sheriff pay over the school taxes Teachers were holding $500 in unpaid orders with nothing in the school treasury because Sheriff John Knox Hughes had not turned over the taxes he collected. Asked for advice, the state superintendent advised Patton to collect from the sheriff or take him to court. People: Benjamin C. Patton, John Knox HughesSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 105
10. May 1890 B. C. Patton becomes postmaster at Cedar Grove B. C. Patton, who kept a high school and academy at Cedar Grove, was named postmaster there, apparently after the post fell vacant with the death of T. C. Ellis. People: Benjamin C. PattonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 24, 1890, p. 3
11. June 2, 1890 John W. Thompson of Cedar Grove becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools John W. Thompson, a Cedar Grove teacher, took over the county schools from B. C. Patton in June 1890. He held the post until the board was abolished in 1895 and stayed on as supervisor under the county commissioners. People: Benjamin C. Patton, John W. ThompsonSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 105
12. by August 16, 1890 B. C. Patton gives up his Cedar Grove high school to go into business Patton, whose 'High School and Academy' at Cedar Grove had been advertised for a fall term, decided not to teach the coming session and to open a store at Cedar Grove instead. People: Benjamin C. PattonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 16, 1890, p. 3