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Edmund Strudwick

Edmund Strudwick, born at Long Meadows near Hillsborough and schooled at Bingham's Hillsborough Academy, practiced medicine and surgery from the town for more than fifty years and was an elder of its Presbyterian church. He inherited over a thousand acres and many enslaved people from his father, and is buried in Hillsborough's old town cemetery.

Source: NCpedia: Strudwick, Edmund Charles Fox

1802–1879 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Edmund Strudwick, painted portrait, reproduced 1915
Edmund Strudwick, painted portrait, reproduced 1915

Life and Orange County connections

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StorylineThe Mayo children and the county court, 1828–18531828–1853 · 7 events · Again and again the county court bound out the children of the Mayo family, a free family of color, as apprentices, moving them from master to master. In 1835 it bound four Mayho children to three men, then in February 1836 rescinded those orders and bound all four to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho. It bound William Mayho to a cabinetmaker in 1843 and moved Samuel Mayhoe to Josiah Turner Sr. in 1850, and in 1851 it bound James and William Mayo to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, who was to hire them out to support their blind grandfather, Manuel. In 1853, with Strudwick and Henry Crabtree both claiming James's services, the court found him 21 and discharged him from his indentures.

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  1. 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. Place: Long Meadow · Also mentions: Bingham SchoolSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 160
  2. 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 Strudwick Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William F. 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. 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. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Internet Archive: North Carolina Medical Journal vol. 5 (February 1880), Memoir of Edmund Strudwick, M.D.
  4. 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. Place: 139 West King Street, Hillsborough · Also named: W. F. Strudwick, Robert StrudwickSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), Section 7, p. 76 (Dr. Edmund Strudwick Office)
  5. An Orange County meeting takes up the internal improvement convention's plan Citizens met at the court house in Hillsborough to hear the county's delegates to the November 1833 Internal Improvement Convention. Duncan Cameron urged a vigorous state system of improvements, Frederick Nash read the convention's memorial to the legislature, and the meeting named Nash, William A. Graham, Priestly H. Mangum and Walker Anderson to draft an address to the people of Orange, adjourning to Thursday of May court. People: Duncan Cameron, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Walker Anderson, Edmund Strudwick Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Priestly H. MangumSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), March 13, 1834, p. 3
  6. An Orange County meeting condemns Jackson's removal of the deposits Citizens of Orange met at the court house after May county court adjourned, chose Col. Cadwallader Jones chairman, and the next day adopted resolutions calling President Jackson's removal of the public deposits from the Bank of the United States unauthorized, declaring a national bank necessary, and approving the course of Senator Willie P. Mangum and Representative Daniel L. Barringer. People: Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, Willie P. Mangum Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Daniel L. BarringerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 4, 1834, p. 3
  7. 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 Heartt Place: HillsboroughBurwell 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
  8. Hillsborough elects Dennis Heartt magistrate of police and seven town commissioners Hillsborough voters chose Dennis Heartt, editor of the Recorder, as magistrate of police for the coming year and elected seven town commissioners, among them Dr. Edmund Strudwick, John Scott, William H. Phillips and Stephen Moore. People: Dennis Heartt, Edmund Strudwick, Stephen Moore Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Scott, William H. PhillipsSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 12, 1836, p. 3
  9. Orange County supporters of Hugh L. White meet at the court house More than a hundred Orange County opponents of Martin Van Buren met at the Hillsborough court house during county court week, endorsed Hugh L. White for president, John Tyler for vice president and Edward B. Dudley for governor, and named James Mebane, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and Harrison Parker to meet Granville and Person delegates and choose a district elector. James S. Smith, Hugh Waddell and James Mebane spoke, and the meeting adjourned to the Wednesday of superior court week to name candidates for the legislature. People: James Strudwick Smith, Hugh Waddell, James Mebane, Edmund Strudwick, Dennis Heartt, Harrison Parker Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Edward B. DudleySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 26, 1836, p. 3
  10. 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. Place: Haralson-Strudwick House site, 114 West Queen Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Archibald HaralsonSearch the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 148
  11. 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: John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Cadwallader Jones, Josiah Turner Jr. Place: Eno River bridge, Hillsborough · Also named: Catlett CampbellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 18, 1838
  12. Hillsborough's town commissioners engage J. Odend'hal to teach the town's English academy Hillsborough's board of commissioners, which owned the town's English Male Academy and had advertised for a teacher at the start of January, engaged J. Odend'hal, a teacher of eleven years' experience, and put the school under the board's superintendence to open on February 1, 1841. People: Edmund Strudwick, Lemuel Lynch, Stephen Moore, William H. Brown, James M. Palmer, John Berry Place: English Male Academy, Hillsborough · Also named: J. Odend'halHillsborough Recorder, January 28, 1841, p. 3
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  1. Hillsborough re-elects Stephen Moore magistrate of police and returns its town commissioners In the annual town election, Hillsborough voters re-elected Stephen Moore as magistrate of police and returned the town commissioners for the coming year, among them John Berry, Edmund Strudwick, Lemuel Lynch, William H. Brown and James M. Palmer. People: Stephen Moore, John Berry, Edmund Strudwick, Lemuel Lynch, William H. Brown, James M. Palmer Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 11, 1841, p. 3
  2. Orange County Whigs meet at the Masonic Hall and nominate Henry Clay for president A Whig meeting at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough, chaired by Dr. James S. Smith and addressed by Senators Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham, nominated Henry Clay for president and Governor John M. Morehead for re-election. It refused to recognize President Tyler as a Whig and called for delegates from every captain's district to meet at Hillsborough at the May court to name the party's ticket for the General Assembly. People: James Strudwick Smith, Edmund Strudwick, Giles Mebane, Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Henry Kollock Nash, Harrison Parker Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: John M. MoreheadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 25, 1841, p. 3
  3. Hillsborough citizens adopt an address urging voters to reject a central division of Orange County A meeting of Hillsborough citizens chaired by Thomas Clancy adopted an address 'To the Voters of Orange County' written by a committee of six Democrats and seven Whigs. It argued that a central division would still leave western voters across the Haw River from a court house, would double county taxes and require new court houses, jails, poorhouses, bridges and roads, and would cost the eastern half a senator. People: James Webb, James Strudwick Smith, Edmund Strudwick, John Wall Norwood Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas ClancyHillsborough Recorder, July 28, 1842, p. 3
  4. Orange Whigs nominate Henry K. Nash for Congress A Whig meeting at the Masonic Hall, with Catlett Campbell presiding, nominated Henry K. Nash of Hillsborough for Congress in the seventh district, which the Democratic legislature had gerrymandered. A committee led by Willie P. Mangum drafted the resolutions, and Nash accepted in a speech. People: Willie P. Mangum, Edmund Strudwick, Walter A. Norwood, Henry Kollock Nash Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Catlett CampbellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 1, 1843, p. 3
  5. 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) Devereux Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Primus Smith · Also mentions: Burwell School, Nash and Kollock SchoolBurwell 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
  6. 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: John Knox Witherspoon, Edmund Strudwick Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Susan Davis Kollock WitherspoonSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Witherspoon, John Knox
  7. Orange Whig convention nominates Hugh Waddell and a Commons ticket Meeting at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough on Tuesday of May court with Dr. Edmund Strudwick presiding, the Whig county convention nominated Hugh Waddell for the state Senate and Giles Mebane, Josiah Turner Jr., Isaac Holt and John B. Leathers for the House of Commons; when Leathers withdrew days later, a court-week meeting of Whigs named William W. Guess in his place. People: Hugh Waddell, Edmund Strudwick, Giles Mebane, Josiah Turner Jr. Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Isaac Holt, John B. Leathers, William W. Guess, Michael W. HoltSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 31, 1848, p. 3
  8. 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 Webb Place: RaleighSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 159
  9. Orange County railroad meeting backs a central route through Orange and Guilford A county meeting at the Hillsborough court house, chaired by Dr. Edmund Strudwick, adopted William A. Graham's resolutions that the central railroad should run through Orange and Guilford, pledged enough subscriptions to grade the road through the county, and named ten delegates to the Salisbury railroad convention in June. Graham and Giles Mebane spoke. People: William A. Graham, Edmund Strudwick, Giles Mebane, Dennis Heartt, David L. Swain, Cadwallader Jones, John Wall Norwood, John U. Kirkland, James Patterson Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 21, 1849, p. 3
  10. Orange physicians meet at Hillsborough to form a county medical society A meeting of Orange County physicians at Hillsborough, with Dr. Edmund Strudwick in the chair and Dr. Johnson B. Jones of Chapel Hill as secretary, resolved that a county medical society should be organized, named delegates to the state medical convention at Raleigh, and appointed a committee to draft a constitution for adoption at May court. People: Edmund Strudwick Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Johnson B. JonesSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 25, 1849, p. 3
  11. North Carolina Railroad stock books open at Hillsborough The commissioners opened the North Carolina Railroad subscription books at the Hillsborough court house, where John M. Morehead, David L. Swain and William A. Graham addressed the people; the editor called the first day's subscriptions respectable, and the books stayed open thirty days. People: Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, John Motley Morehead, David L. Swain, William A. Graham Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 1, 1849, p. 3
  12. Job Berry and Billy Payne begin the congregation that became Dickerson Chapel Dickerson Chapel AME Church dates its founding to 1851, when Job Berry, an enslaved painter and its first pastor, began gathering the congregation with Rev. Billy (William) Payne, enslaved by Dr. Edmund Strudwick. With state law barring Black preachers, they met in homes; the congregation moved into the old courthouse on Queen Street in 1866. People: Edmund Strudwick, Job Berry Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William Payne · Also mentions: Dickerson Chapel AME Church, Queen StreetSearch the index · News of Orange County: Hillsborough church awarded $400k preservation grant (2025)
  13. Hillsborough citizens meet to bring the railroad through town on the north side of the river A meeting at the court house, chaired by Magistrate of Police O. F. Long with E. A. Heartt as secretary, heard John U. Kirkland and others argue that the North Carolina Railroad should pass through the town on the north side of the river, and named a committee including Dr. Edmund Strudwick, Dr. W. A. Norwood, Dr. Pride Jones, George Laws and W. H. Brown to report how to secure that location. People: John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Pride Jones, George Laws, William H. Brown Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: O. F. Long, E. A. Heartt, William A. Norwood, W. A. Norwood · Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 26, 1851, p. 3
  14. The court binds James and William Mayo to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, to be hired out for their blind grandfather After ordering Henry Crabtree and William Hobbs to produce the two boys of color and show cause, the court rescinded its bindings of James Mayo to Crabtree and William Mayo to Hobbs and bound both to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, who was to hire them out for the support of their grandfather Manuel, who was blind. On 2 June 1851 Strudwick wrote to Crabtree demanding that he deliver James to the sheriff. People: Edmund Strudwick Place: Orange County · Also named: James Mayo, William Mayo, Henry Crabtree, William Hobbs, ManuelSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
  15. The court finds James Mayo of age and frees him from his indentures as two men claim his services The sheriff brought James Mayo, a young man of color, into court. With notice given to Henry Crabtree and Dr. Edmund Strudwick, who both claimed his services, the court heard evidence and argument of counsel, declared that he had reached 21 and discharged him from his indentures. People: Edmund Strudwick Place: Orange County · Also named: James Mayo, Henry CrabtreeSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
  16. Orange's Whig and Democratic conventions agree to put the liquor question to the voters A joint committee of the Whig and Democratic conventions agreed, and both conventions adopted, that their nominees would follow the majority of Orange voters on liquor legislation, that the question would be decided by ballots for and against at the August election with the sheriff opening polls for it, and that nominees would not treat voters. People: Edmund Strudwick, John Wesley Carr Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 31, 1854, p. 3
  17. 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 Hillsboro' and Chapel Hill company was chartered on February 10, 1855, and the Hillsboro' and Milton and the Chapel Hill and Durhamsville Plank Road and Turnpike companies on February 14. Lefler and Wager could not say which, if any, were built. People: Charles Phillips, Edmund Strudwick, Andrew Mickle, Patterson H. McDade Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Hillsborough to Chapel HillSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 184 · Also: Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 16
  18. 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 Strudwick Place: North CarolinaSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 159-160
  19. The Hillsborough Savings Institution declares its first dividend At the first general meeting of stockholders on January 2 in the court house, the Hillsborough Savings Institution adopted a committee report on its affairs, opened its stock to new subscribers at fifty dollars a share and elected seven directors. The next day the directors declared Dividend No. 1, five per cent on the profits of the first six months. People: Edmund Strudwick, Thomas Webb, Henry Kollock Nash Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 4, 1860, p. 3
  20. The Orange Opposition convention nominates Josiah Turner Jr., Jones Watson and Henry K. Nash A Constitutional Union (Whig and Opposition) county meeting on Tuesday of May court, with William A. Graham in the chair, nominated Josiah Turner Jr. for the state senate and Jones Watson and Henry K. Nash for the House of Commons on a platform of ad valorem taxation. The nominees accepted before the meeting. People: William A. Graham, Josiah Turner Jr., Jones Watson, Edmund Strudwick, James C. Turrentine, Henry Kollock Nash Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 30, 1860, p. 3
  21. A courthouse meeting in Hillsborough calls for a secession convention Four days after Fort Sumter's surrender, 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. The meeting also pledged that the citizens of Orange would provide for the families of the Orange Guards while the company was in state service. People: Edmund Strudwick, Dennis Heartt Place: HillsboroughBurwell 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 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, April 24, 1861, p. 2
  22. 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: Thomas Webb, Charles Courtenay Tew, Edmund Strudwick, Pride Jones, Thomas Blount Hill Place: Hillsborough Military Academy, Hillsborough · Also named: M. E. ManlySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 17, 1862
  23. 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 Strudwick Place: Orange County poorhouse, near EflandSearch the index · Documenting the American South: First Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina (1870), pp. 122-123
  24. Dr. Edmund Strudwick dies at Hillsborough after drinking atropia by mistake Hillsborough physician Edmund Strudwick, identified with the town for more than half a century, died on a Saturday night after pouring whiskey into a tumbler that still held a solution of atropia prepared for his ailing son. Doctors from Hillsborough and Raleigh could not save him, and the Recorder called his death a public calamity. People: Frederick N. Strudwick Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William StrudwickSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, December 6, 1879, p. 2

After their death in 1879

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  1. 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. Place: 110 East Orange Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Josiah Turner Sr. · Also mentions: Turner-Strudwick House, West King StreetSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 131
  2. Orange County commissioners name a committee to put a marker to Dr. Edmund Strudwick on the courthouse square By August 1929 the Orange County commissioners had appointed A. H. Graham, S. M. Gattis, Clyde Ray and S. Strudwick to erect a marker on the court house square in Hillsborough honoring Dr. Edmund Strudwick, the celebrated Hillsborough physician. The Durham-Orange Medical Society was to give the bronze plaque, and the unveiling was expected the next month. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Samuel Mallett Gattis, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Court house square, Hillsborough · Also named: Clyde Ray, S. StrudwickSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 23, 1929, p. 6
  3. Edmund Strudwick's portrait of C. T. Council is given to the School of Pharmacy University President Gordon Gray presented a portrait of Durham's C. T. Council, painted by Edmund Strudwick of Hillsborough, to the UNC School of Pharmacy, where Dean E. A. Brecht accepted it at a luncheon in the Morehead building. People: Edmund Strudwick (1909-1973), Gordon Gray, E. A. (Edward Armond) Brecht, William D. Carmichael Jr., Edmund Strudwick Place: Morehead building, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: UNC School of PharmacySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 15, 1953, p. 9
  4. 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. Place: Haralson-Strudwick House site, 114 West Queen Street, HillsboroughSearch the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 147
  5. Portrait of the late Sheriff Oddie Clayton is hung in the sheriff's office A portrait of the late Orange County sheriff Oddie Clayton, painted by Hillsborough artist Edmund Strudwick and paid for by public subscription in a drive led by ABC Police Chief Burch Compton, was hung in the county sheriff's office before members of his family. People: Edmund Strudwick (1909-1973), Odell H. Clayton, Edmund Strudwick Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Oddie Clayton, Burch ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 22, 1962, p. 1
  6. Edmund Strudwick speaks against a new federal access road and bridge into Hillsborough At a public hearing in Hillsborough on a proposed $338,000 federal project for a new access road and bridge into the town, artist Edmund Strudwick opposed it, saying he did not want more cars coming up Churton Street. The News of Orange County called the opposition thin. People: Edmund Strudwick (1909-1973), Edmund Strudwick Place: Churton Street, Hillsborough · Also mentions: The News of Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 23, 1962, section II, p. 1
  7. Edmund Strudwick finishes a portrait of retired farm agent Don S. Matheson Hillsborough artist Edmund Strudwick finished a portrait of Don S. Matheson, who retired in 1963 after 34 years as Orange County farm agent. Paid for by public gifts, it was hung in the county agricultural building, and further gifts founded a 4-H fund. People: Edmund Strudwick (1909-1973), Don S. Matheson, Edmund Strudwick Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 12, 1964, p. 1
  8. The East Orange Street house built around Edmund Strudwick's old office is raised to two stories The house at 110 East Orange Street grew out of Dr. Edmund Strudwick's one-story office, moved there in 1889. Enlarged by 1943, it was remodeled again in 1987 with a second story, and no trace of the office remains visible. People: Edmund Strudwick Place: 110 East Orange Street, HillsboroughSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 110 E. Orange Street, Strudwick Law Office

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