Samuel Field Phillips

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 15 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1845 Samuel F. Phillips opens a law practice in Chapel Hill Phillips, who had grown up in Chapel Hill after his family moved there in 1826, studied law under President David L. Swain and in the new university law school, then began practising in Chapel Hill when he came of age in 1845. People: David L. SwainSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
2. 1847 A boys' preparatory school meets in Samuel Phillips's law office Samuel Phillips's small stuccoed law office on East Franklin Street reportedly housed a preparatory school for boys in 1847. Later in the century William Horn Battle taught law classes in the same building. People: William Horn BattleSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 36
3. 1848 Literary societies move into new halls in the enlarged Old East and Old West The northward extensions of Old East and Old West, designed by A. J. Davis and built by Isaac J. Collier and Kendall B. Waitt for $9,360, were finished in 1848 with debating halls and library alcoves for the two societies. At the Dialectic opening James Mebane, the society's first president in 1795, sat beside the student president, Kemp P. Battle. People: Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Alexander Jackson Davis, Kemp Plummer Battle, Isaac J. Collier, Samuel Field Phillips, James Mebane, Kendall B. WaittSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 513
4. 1851 Zebulon Vance studies law at Chapel Hill Vance entered the University of North Carolina early in 1851 and spent the rest of the year at Chapel Hill studying law under Judge William H. Battle and Samuel F. Phillips. He obtained his law licence in December 1851 and set up an office at Asheville early in 1852. People: William Horn Battle, Samuel Field PhillipsSearch the index · NCpedia: Vance, Zebulon Baird (Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History)
5. 1854 to 1859 Samuel F. Phillips teaches in the university law school From 1854 to 1859 Phillips taught in the university law school at Chapel Hill. People: William Horn BattleSearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
6. December 1854 or early 1855 North Carolina Railroad finished to Durham's Station On December 20, 1854 the Recorder reported trains running daily from Raleigh to within a mile and a half of Durham's Station, whose warehouse was finished. The railroad was completed to Durham's Station, then a single house on Dr. Bartlett Durham's plantation in Orange County, and the company gave legislators a free ride there. From then until 1882 a two-horse hack line between Chapel Hill and Durham replaced the four-horse stage to Raleigh. People: Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Samuel Field PhillipsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 641 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, December 20, 1854, p. 2
7. 1856 to 1865 Samuel F. Phillips represents Orange County in the House of Commons A Whig, Phillips was elected to the House of Commons in 1856 and 1858 and again in 1864 and 1865, representing Orange, and was chosen speaker in 1865. He moved to Raleigh in 1867.Search the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
8. 1856 Samuel Phillips builds a gable-and-wing house beside his law office In 1856 Samuel Phillips built his family a two-story house at 407 East Franklin Street, beside his law office. With a projecting front wing and arched French doors and casements, it was the first house in the village to break from the box-like Federal and Greek Revival plan. People: Samuel Field PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 28
9. 1859 Samuel F. Phillips closes his law school and shares the office with Judge Battle Phillips, who had taught law in his Franklin Street office since 1854, closed the school, went back to practice, and shared the building with Judge William Horn Battle. People: William Horn BattleSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 107
10. September 21, 1865 Orange County sends John Berry and Samuel F. Phillips to the 1865 convention Orange would have elected Graham to the postwar convention, but his pardon was held up, so he withdrew and voters chose Berry and Phillips. People: Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, William A. Graham, William W. Holden, Samuel Field PhillipsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 109 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, September 27, 1865, p. 2
11. 1869 Samuel F. Phillips sells his East Franklin Street house to Henry J. Hogan Samuel Phillips sold his East Franklin Street house and lot to Henry J. Hogan, who moved to Tennessee right away and left the place to his father, William J. Hogan. The sale sent Phillips's mother and his sister Cornelia Phillips Spencer to live in Charles Phillips's house. People: Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Charles PhillipsSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 123
12. February 6, 1877 Fire guts Person Hall Person Hall, the old chapel finished in 1798 and recently given to the chemistry department, burned on February 6, 1877, apparently from a stovepipe set too close to a roof rafter. The thick walls stood, the loss came to about $1,000, and gifts from A. F. Redd, J. S. Carr and others paid to restore it. By mid-April workmen under a Hillsborough builder had raised a new roof and new window frames on the old walls. People: Julian S. Carr, Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Samuel Field PhillipsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 127 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1877, p. 3