Charles H. Robertson

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1. by October 8, 1908 The Hillsboro Democratic Club is organized Hillsborough Democrats organized the Hillsboro Democratic Club with more than a hundred members, electing Charles H. Robertson, superintendent of the Eno Cotton Mills, president and E. Marvin Lockhart secretary-treasurer. The club held campaign meetings through October, one of them in the hall at the Eno Cotton Mills. People: Charles H. Robertson Place: Hillsborough · Also named: E. Marvin Lockhart · Also mentions: Eno Cotton MillsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 8, 1908, p. 3
2. September 28, 1911 Hillsboro citizens form a Law and Order League A Law and Order League was organized at Hillsboro on a Thursday night meeting. Charles H. Robertson of the Eno Cotton Mills explained its purpose, Dr. W. N. Mebane took the chair, and officers were elected to give the town officers public support in enforcing the law. People: Charles H. Robertson Place: Hillsborough · Also named: W. N. Mebane · Also mentions: Eno Cotton MillsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 5, 1911, p. 5
3. August 10, 1912 Orange County Democrats nominate George C. Pickard for the House and renominate the county officers After primaries on August 3, the Democratic county convention at the court house nominated George C. Pickard of Chapel Hill for the state House by acclamation and renominated Sheriff R. D. Bain, Treasurer Harry L. Parish, Register of Deeds John Laws and Surveyor James O. Webb. It named Dr. W. N. Mebane for coroner and John P. Hughes, J. D. Webb and Allan Browning for county commissioners. People: George C. (George Clancy) Pickard, Charles H. Robertson, Samuel Mallett Gattis, Robert D. Bain, Harry L. Parish, Junius D. Webb Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: John Laws, James O. Webb, W. N. Mebane, John P. Hughes, Allan BrowningSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 15, 1912, p. 5
4. August 20, 1913 The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association is organized in the back of the West End Drug Store Six incorporators put up $5,500 to start the Hillsboro Building and Loan Association, with Charles H. Robertson as president and druggist C. M. Andrews as secretary-treasurer. Andrews took members' payments at his drug counter until 1926. People: Charles H. Robertson, Charles M. Andrews, N. W. Brown Place: West End Drug Store, Nash Street, West Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsboro Building and Loan AssociationSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1950, p. 10 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 13, 1961, p. 27
5. June 11, 1917 A Sunday rally at the Hillsborough court house gives $400 to the Red Cross War Fund After a week of canvassing by C. H. Robertson's membership committee, a Sunday afternoon service at the court house led by the town's ministers raised $400 for the national Hundred Million Dollar Red Cross War Fund and brought the chapter to 200 members. By July 1 the chapter reported 400 members to Atlanta. People: Charles H. Robertson Place: Court House, HillsboroughSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 3
6. June 28, 1917 J. Cheshire Webb is appointed chairman of the Orange County Council of Defense J. Cheshire Webb of Hillsborough was appointed chairman of the Orange County Council of Defense, with M. C. S. Noble, C. H. Robertson, Shepperd Strudwick, S. W. Andrews, John P. Hughes and P. C. Collins as members. He led the council through the war and the 1919 homecoming. People: J. Cheshire Webb, M. C. S. Noble, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Paul C. Collins, Charles H. Robertson, Samuel Weldon Andrews Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John P. HughesSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 44
7. December 1917 A Christmas membership drive signs the Orange County Red Cross's quota of 400 members J. Cheshire Webb led a membership drive in the week before Christmas 1917, run from an office in the Orange Trust Company room, and reported on January 5, 1918 that the chapter had reached its quota of 400 members. Half the drive's receipts stayed with the chapter and let it pay its bills. People: J. Cheshire Webb, Charles H. Robertson Place: Orange Trust Company, HillsboroughSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 9
8. January 5, 1918 C. H. Robertson becomes chairman of the Orange County Red Cross executive committee At the chapter's first meeting of 1918, Robertson was elected unanimously to succeed the Rev. Thomas M. Grant, who had moved away, as chairman of the executive committee. He led the committee through the end of the war and signed the chapter's history as its chairman. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas M. GrantSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 10
9. October 1918 Eno Mill opens an influenza diet kitchen at West Hill school When influenza reached the Eno Mill district, the mill opened and paid for a diet kitchen at the West Hill school for about seven weeks, run by home demonstration agent Elizabeth Cornelius. It fed as many as 150 people a day, and the mill hired nurses for the sick. People: Charles H. Robertson Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Elizabeth Cornelius · Also mentions: Eno MillDocumenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 76
10. June 20, 1919 The Orange County Red Cross commits its women workers and $300 to the soldiers' homecoming At the request of the homecoming chairman, Robertson called the chapter's executive committee and workers to the court house, where they agreed to decorate the town and serve the soldiers' dinner on July 16. He named Mrs. W. L. Wall chairman of the dinner, and the committee voted $300 of its $399 balance toward the celebration. People: J. Cheshire Webb Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Mrs. W. L. WallSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 17
11. by November 1, 1929 A county committee studies replacing Orange County's run-down county home The commissioners named R. A. Eubanks of Chapel Hill, C. H. Robertson of Hillsborough and John P. Hughes of Cedar Grove to study a new county home, and they visited Vance County's $30,000 county hospital, which the Duke Endowment aided at $1 a day for each charity patient. The Weekly reported that the county would probably wait to learn whether the new Duke University hospital would take Orange charity patients before deciding. People: Robert A. Eubanks, Charles H. Robertson, George H. Lawrence Place: Orange County · Also named: John P. HughesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 1, 1929, p. 1
12. November 26, 1942 National Munitions plant in Carrboro reaches full payroll-deduction bond buying State payroll-savings chairman Charles H. Robertson was notified on Thanksgiving Day that every employee of the National Munitions Corporation plant in Carrboro had signed up for bond deductions, with ten percent of total wages going into War Bonds, and the Treasury sent the plant its Certificate of Award. People: Charles H. Robertson, Carl T. Durham, W. E. Thompson Place: National Munitions Corporation plant (Mill No. 7), CarrboroThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1942, p. 1