Edmund Strudwick

Life and Orange County connections

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1. March 25, 1802 Edmund Strudwick is born at Long Meadow Edmund Strudwick, later a physician and surgeon, was born on March 25, 1802, at Long Meadow, five miles north of Hillsborough. He went to Bingham School and earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 160
2. 1811 to 1819 The Strudwick heirs' enslaved people are hired out under Dr. James Webb's guardianship After Col. William F. Strudwick died in 1810, Dr. James Webb managed the estate for his widow and younger sons and hired out the people it held, listing them by name year after year. In 1819 two of those assigned to young Edmund Strudwick, Jim and Nelly, were sold or leased for $533 and $500. People: James Webb, Edmund StrudwickBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 28-29
3. 1826 Dr. Edmund Strudwick begins practising medicine in Hillsborough After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1824 and two years in Philadelphia's almshouse and charity hospital, Edmund Strudwick began practising medicine in Hillsborough in 1826. He practised from the town, largely as a surgeon, for more than fifty years.Search the index · Internet Archive: North Carolina Medical Journal vol. 5 (February 1880), Memoir of Edmund Strudwick, M.D.
4. about 1830 Dr. Edmund Strudwick builds a medical office on West King Street Dr. Edmund Strudwick put up a one-story, two-room frame office at 139 West King Street, on the site of Edmund Fanning's law office. Dr. W. F. Strudwick later practised there and Robert Strudwick used it as a law office.Search the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), Section 7, p. 76 (Dr. Edmund Strudwick Office)
5. September 18, 1835 The Recorder prints a county meeting's warning to abolitionists An Orange County meeting adopted a report warning "northern fanatics" not to stir up the enslaved and predicting lasting hostility between the sections if abolitionists pressed on. Its fourteen-man committee included Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and the paper's own editor, Dennis Heartt, as a secretary. People: Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Dennis HearttBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 49
6. 1837 Dr. Edmund Strudwick buys Archibald Haralson's house on West Queen Street and enlarges it Dr. Edmund Strudwick bought the house from Archibald Haralson in 1837, enlarged it, and is thought to have built the brick kitchen that still stands in the rear yard. The house became known as the Haralson-Strudwick House.Search the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 148
7. October 1838 Commissioners seek bids to repair the Eno bridge at Hillsborough John U. Kirkland was one of five commissioners, with Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, Josiah Turner and Catlett Campbell, who advertised for proposals to repair the bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough, with bids due in November. People: Edmund Strudwick, Cadwallader Jones, Josiah Turner Jr.Search the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, October 18, 1838
8. December 30, 1844 Frances Devereux deeds Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick Five months after her husband died, Frances Devereux of Raleigh deeded Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick of Hillsborough. Primus later drove and gardened at the Burwell School and, after emancipation, worked at the Nash and Kollock School as Primus Smith. People: Edmund Strudwick, Frances (Pollock) DevereuxBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 19
9. August 29, 1845 Witherspoon's farm Tusculum is sold at the courthouse door Dr. Edmund Strudwick, who had long held the mortgages, bought the farm at public sale. Susan Witherspoon was allowed to stay on at Tusculum by Strudwick's provision. People: Edmund StrudwickSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Witherspoon, John Knox
10. 1849 Dr. Edmund Strudwick leads the revival of the state medical society Edmund Strudwick of Hillsborough proposed and helped call the 1849 meeting that revived the North Carolina Medical Society, and he became its first president. His teacher James Webb was made an honorary charter member. People: James WebbSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 159
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. 1859 The legislature creates North Carolina's first Board of Medical Examiners In 1859 the state set up its first Board of Medical Examiners by law. The book credits the urging of Hillsborough's Dr. Edmund Strudwick. People: Edmund StrudwickSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 159-160
13. April 24, 1861 A courthouse meeting in Hillsborough calls for a secession convention Ten days after Fort Sumter, a large crowd from across the county met at the courthouse. With Dr. Edmund Strudwick presiding and Dennis Heartt as secretary, it adopted resolutions asking the legislature to call a convention at once to pass an ordinance of secession. People: Edmund Strudwick, Dennis HearttBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 52
14. December 6, 1862 Hillsborough meeting resolves to erect a monument to Col. Charles C. Tew A Hillsborough meeting chaired by M. E. Manly resolved to raise a monument to Col. Tew, killed at Sharpsburg, at or near the front of his Military Academy, and named Dr. Edmund Strudwick, Dr. Pride Jones and Thomas Webb to collect funds and build it. People: Charles Courtenay Tew, Edmund Strudwick, Pride JonesSearch the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, December 17, 1862
15. 1870 Orange County reports on its poorhouse to the new Board of Public Charities Orange County's report to the state Board of Public Charities described two one-story brick buildings of six rooms each on a 400-acre tract five miles from Hillsborough. The poorhouse held 41 people, ten able to do light work, with ten deaths since July 1868. People: Edmund StrudwickSearch the index · Documenting the American South: First Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina (1870), pp. 122-123
16. 1889 A small office from the Turner-Strudwick grounds is moved to East Orange Street A one-story frame office on the Turner-Strudwick House lot, shown on John Bailey's 1839 map when the lot belonged to Josiah Turner Sr., was moved next door to 110 East Orange Street, two years after Edmund Strudwick of Norfolk bought the property. It was later enlarged into a house and rebuilt in 1987. It is not Dr. Edmund Strudwick's medical office on West King Street.Search the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 131
17. 1960 The Haralson-Strudwick House on West Queen Street is torn down The antebellum house that Dr. Edmund Strudwick had enlarged was razed in 1960. Its brick kitchen was kept and enlarged as a residence, and a Dutch Colonial Revival house went up on the site in 1969.Search the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 147