Charles Phillips

Life and Orange County connections

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1. March 27, 1842 Charles Phillips joins New Hope church James Phillips's son Charles, later a minister and teacher at the university, joined the church at New Hope. He often preached there with his father in later years.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
2. May 31, 1843 Alumni gather at Chapel Hill and organize the university's Alumni Association Graduates meeting at commencement organized the Alumni Association with former governor Morehead in the chair. At the 1844 meeting they adopted a constitution and chose Morehead as the association's first president. People: William A. Graham, Charles Phillips, William Horn BattleSearch the index · Internet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 1 (1907), full text
3. July 1844 Charles Phillips returns to Chapel Hill as a tutor of mathematics Phillips accepted a call from President David L. Swain in July 1844 to return to the University of North Carolina as his father's assistant. He held the post of tutor of mathematics until 1853. People: David L. Swain, James PhillipsSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Charles
4. October 26, 1845 David L. Swain and Charles Phillips transfer from New Hope to the Chapel Hill church University president David L. Swain, who first joined a church at New Hope, and Charles Phillips were released by letter to the Presbyterian church at Chapel Hill. People: Charles PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
5. 1847–1849 Dabney Cosby builds the Presbyterian church on Franklin Street After the university work Cosby built a small Tuscan style church designed by Alexander Jackson Davis for the Chapel Hill Presbyterian congregation, whose members included university president David L. Swain. In March 1848 the congregation member Charles Phillips wrote to Davis that the mason could not match the lilac gray color specified for the outside. The building no longer stands. People: David L. Swain, Charles Phillips, Alexander Jackson DavisSearch the index · North Carolina Architects and Builders, NC State University Libraries: Cosby, Dabney (1779-1862)
6. 1847 The Rev. William Mercer Green buys an East Franklin Street lot and builds a house Episcopal minister William Mercer Green bought the lot at 513 East Franklin Street in 1847 and had a two-story frame house built there before he sold it, two years later, to Charles Phillips, professor of engineering and mathematics. People: Charles PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 37
7. 1849 Charles Phillips buys the house William Mercer Green built on East Franklin Professor Charles Phillips bought the house at 513 East Franklin, just east of his father's, from the Rev. William Mercer Green, who had built it a few years earlier and was leaving to become Episcopal bishop of Mississippi. Phillips lived there until his death in 1889.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 91
8. 1849 The Presbyterian church on Franklin Street is finished and dedicated Built with money and effort from James and Charles Phillips, Elisha Mitchell and President Swain, the small Presbyterian church on the old Grand Avenue ground was completed and formally dedicated. People: James Phillips, Charles Phillips, Elisha Mitchell, David L. SwainSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 91
9. 1853 University library moved from South Building to Smith Hall The university's books were taken from the president's lecture room in South Building to the new Smith Hall, and Hubbard, Charles Phillips and the librarian were told to prepare a catalogue. At the start of the Civil War the books were stored in a room of the East Building. People: Charles Phillips, F. M. (Fordyce Mitchell) HubbardSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 634
10. January 1, 1854 School for the Application of Science to the Arts opens Under a trustee resolution of 1852 the university opened a scientific school with departments of civil engineering, under Charles Phillips, and of chemistry applied to agriculture and the arts, under Benjamin S. Hedrick, with a laboratory in the basement of Smith Hall. Its students could earn a Bachelor of Science in about two and a half years. People: Charles Phillips, Benjamin Sherwood HedrickSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 642
11. 1855 The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County The 1855 charters were for roads from Chapel Hill to Morrisville and to Durhamsville, from Hillsborough to Chapel Hill, and from Hillsborough to Milton, with capital from $20,000 to $150,000. The book could not say which, if any, were built. People: Charles Phillips, Edmund Strudwick, Andrew MickleSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 184
12. 1857–1868 Charles Phillips serves as stated supply for the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church Phillips was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Orange in December 1857 and served as stated supply for the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church from 1857 to 1868. He taught and superintended the church Sunday school and with his wife started a Sunday school for Black residents.Search the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Charles
13. November 1862 Thirty Chapel Hill families pool money to buy corn Amid wartime scarcity, thirty heads of families sent Andrew Mickle to buy corn in a better-supplied district; he brought back about 1,921 bushels by rail to Durham and wagon from there, at $6.75 a barrel delivered. The livery keeper John H. Watson took ninety barrels, President Swain 33 and Judge Battle 24. People: Charles Phillips, David L. Swain, Andrew MickleDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 725
14. April 14, 1865 Wheeler's cavalry reaches Chapel Hill and posts a guard on the university Confederate cavalry under General Joseph Wheeler reached Chapel Hill, and at the request of alumnus James P. Coffin, Wheeler detailed Lieutenant McBurney Broyles and fifteen men to report to President Swain and protect the university's books and apparatus. Wheeler's headquarters were opposite the Episcopal church. People: David L. Swain, Charles PhillipsDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 741
15. 14 April 1866 Charles Phillips is ordained at New Hope Church in Orange County Phillips was ordained on 14 April 1866 at Orange County's New Hope Church, which had long been under the pastoral charge of his father James Phillips. Orange Presbytery had convened there on Wednesday, April 11, and ordained Phillips and Calvin H. Wiley during the meeting. People: James PhillipsSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Charles
16. August 22, 1867 Swain and the faculty resign as trustees plan a new university At a meeting Governor Jonathan Worth called to face the university's collapse, Charles Phillips presented the resignations of President Swain, Professors Hubbard, Fetter and Smith, law professor William H. Battle and himself, and the trustees adopted Kemp P. Battle's resolution for a committee to plan an elective university system with higher standards. People: David L. Swain, Charles Phillips, Jonathan Worth, Kemp Plummer BattleDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 763
17. 1868 Charles Phillips is dismissed from the university faculty When the state's Reconstruction government reorganized the University of North Carolina in 1868, Phillips was dismissed from the faculty. He took a professorship at Davidson College in February 1869.Search the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Charles
18. August 11–27, 1868 David L. Swain dies after a buggy accident Weeks after the Reconstruction board of trustees accepted his resignation, David L. Swain was thrown on August 11, 1868, from a buggy pulled by the horse General Sherman had given him. He seemed to be recovering but died on August 27 and was buried on August 29 in the garden of his Chapel Hill home; Charles Phillips preached his funeral sermon. People: Charles PhillipsSearch the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, September 2, 1868, p. 2 (death notice)
19. 1875 Charles Phillips returns to Chapel Hill and chairs the faculty When the University of North Carolina reopened in 1875, Phillips was invited back as professor of mathematics and served as chairman of the faculty during his first year. Illness forced his retirement in 1879, when he became the first professor emeritus named by the trustees. People: Cornelia Phillips SpencerSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Charles
20. spring 1876 Faculty dismisses five students for a mock revival meeting During a revival in a village church, a group of students staged a burlesque meeting with mock sermons, and the faculty dismissed five of them despite petitions from townswomen and both literary societies. When classmates marched the five out of town, Charles Phillips stopped the procession at his house and turned it back, and four of the five later returned and graduated. People: Charles PhillipsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 110
21. April 10, 1889 Professor emeritus Charles Phillips dies Phillips, who came to Chapel Hill at four, graduated in 1841, taught mathematics for decades and chaired the faculty at the 1875 reopening, died ten years after retiring. He was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery, and a tablet in the Presbyterian church records his work in building it.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 399
22. 1919 Phillips Hall opens, named for three Phillips family teachers Phillips Hall opened on the Chapel Hill campus in 1919, honoring three members of the Phillips family who taught at the university in the nineteenth century: James Phillips, his son Charles Phillips and his grandson William Battle Phillips. People: Charles PhillipsSearch the index · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: James Phillips, Charles Phillips, and William Battle Phillips and Phillips Hall