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Charles H. Robertson

C. H. Robertson of Hillsborough sat on the Orange County Council of Defense from June 1917 and chaired the county Red Cross chapter's executive committee from January 1918 into 1919. In the October 1918 influenza epidemic he had charge of West End and oversaw the diet kitchen at West Hill.

Source: Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 37, 44, 75-76, 109

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  1. 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. RobertsonSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, October 5, 1950, p. 10
  2. 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. RobertsonSearch 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
  3. 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: M. C. S. Noble, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Paul C. Collins, Charles H. RobertsonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 44
  4. 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. RobertsonSearch 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
  5. 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.Search 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
  6. 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. RobertsonDocumenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 76
  7. 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 WebbSearch 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

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Background on The 1918 influenza pandemic in Orange County

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A record of the war activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919

Cameron, Annie Sutton · 2002 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Annie Sutton Cameron compiled this account of Orange County's part in the First World War in 1919 as historian for the county's Council of Defense, at the request of its chairman J.S. Webb. It covers the Council and the Home Guard, drives for war bonds and overseas relief, Red Cross work, patriotic observances, the influenza epidemic and women's war work, with registers of the county's soldiers. Published online in 2002 by the UNC library in Documenting the American South's North Carolinians and the Great War.

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L.R. Wilson presents student center as most fitting monument to Graham

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1932 · General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina

Remarks by Louis Round Wilson at the dedication of Graham Memorial, the student center built at the University of North Carolina in memory of Edward Kidder Graham, printed in the February 1932 Alumni Review at Chapel Hill by the General Alumni Association. Topics include student unions in Chapel Hill, the buildings of the university and monuments to Graham.

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Presentation Graham Memorial

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1932

Louis Round Wilson's typescript of remarks presenting Graham Memorial, the student union at Chapel Hill named for Edward Kidder Graham, 1876 to 1918. A manuscript hand supplies the caption title and the date January 29, 1932. Topics include college buildings, monuments and student unions at the University of North Carolina. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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The University of North Carolina Record. Edward Kidder Graham. [1919]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1919 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speeches on Edward Kidder Graham, published by the University of North Carolina in January 1919 as bulletin number 162. Graham, president of the University from 1914, died in October 1918 during the influenza epidemic.

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The University of North Carolina Record. Marvin Hendrix Stacy. [1919]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1919 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Addresses in memory of Marvin Hendrix Stacy, the University of North Carolina dean who died early in 1919, published at Chapel Hill in February 1919 as university bulletin number 163.

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A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina. 1917-1919

Cameron, Annie Sutton · 1917 · Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection

Annie Sutton Cameron's record of wartime activity in Orange County from 1917 to 1919, presented as a transcript of the manuscript in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina. Topics include the Orange County Council of Defense, Red Cross work, savings bond drives, registers of soldiers, women's war work and influenza in the county.

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A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina. 1917-1919

Cameron, Annie Sutton · 1917 · Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection

Annie Sutton Cameron compiled a record of war activities in Orange County from 1917 to 1919, given here as a transcript of the manuscript in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Orange County Council of Defense, Red Cross work, war savings bonds, registers of soldiers, influenza, and the war work of women.

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Inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, Wednesday, April the twenty-first, MCMXV : programme and order of academic procession

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1915 · University of North Carolina

The printed programme and order of academic procession for the inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina on Wednesday, 21 April 1915, published by the university at Chapel Hill. It gives the order of the ceremony and the ranks of the procession.

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Papers,

Newell, Leone Burns · 1913

Letters to Leone Burns Newell, a Charlotte physician, from Dr. William de Berniere MacNider, the University of North Carolina pharmacologist, beginning in 1913. The 83 items mix personal news with word of changes in the university's medical department and of the 1919 influenza epidemic in Chapel Hill.

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Leonidas Polk Denmark Family Papers

Denmark, Leonidas Polk · 1861

Papers of the Denmark family, 1861 to 1966, gathered by Leonidas Polk Denmark (1892 to 1964), grandson of the farm leader Colonel Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837 to 1892). They cover Polk's agricultural journalism, the Farmers' Alliance and Populist politics, the Civil War, World War I and the 1918 influenza. Hillsborough appears among the places.

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Fred Pharr oral history interview, 1993 January 22

Pharr, Fred C., 1899-1996 · 1993

Fred 'Chuck' Pharr (1899 to 1996), interviewed 22 January 1993, remembers his student years at UNC Chapel Hill from 1918 to 1922: ROTC training, college football and its uniforms, dormitory life, courtship and the 1918 influenza epidemic. He also speaks of life in Charlotte and service in both world wars. About 18 minutes of audio.

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