William Battle Phillips

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 6 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1854–1862 James Phillips keeps weather records at Chapel Hill From 1854 to 1862 Professor James Phillips kept weather records at Chapel Hill. They survive in the Southern Historical Collection alongside Chapel Hill records kept from December 1879 to 1882 by Professors W. B. Phillips and Francis Preston Venable. People: Francis Preston Venable, William Battle PhillipsSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries Catalog: Chapel Hill (N.C.) weather records, 1854-1862; 1879-1882
2. between 1877 and 1881 James Cole Taylor works as an assistant at the state experiment station in Smith Hall James C. Taylor and William B. Phillips, Chapel Hill graduates of 1877, worked as assistants at the state's fertilizer control and experiment station at the university, with W. Warnecke of Germany and A. D. Mickle of Chapel Hill. The station had four rooms in Smith Hall. People: William Battle PhillipsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 138
3. June 1877 The reopened university graduates its first class At the 1877 commencement five men took degrees, William Battle Phillips of Chapel Hill a Ph.B. and Julian M. Baker, Frank M. Fremont, Joseph C. Powell and James C. Taylor the B.S. The 1876 commencement had had no graduates. People: James Cole Taylor, William Battle PhillipsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 134
4. 1883 Horace Williams earns a master's degree at the university Williams entered the state university at Chapel Hill in 1879 and in 1883 took both the B.A. and an M.A. His M.A. and William Battle Phillips's Ph.D., conferred at the same commencement, were the first advanced degrees the reopened university granted for further study. Before 1875 any graduate could receive the A.M. three years after the B.A. People: William Battle PhillipsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), appendix of degrees in course, p. 807 (with pp. 231-232)
5. 1883 William Battle Phillips receives the university's first doctorate after the reopening In 1883 William Battle Phillips, one of the five graduates of 1877, received a Doctor of Philosophy, the first doctorate in Battle's list of degrees granted since the 1875 reopening. People: William Battle PhillipsSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 807
6. 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 Phillips, William Battle PhillipsSearch the index · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: James Phillips, Charles Phillips, and William Battle Phillips and Phillips Hall