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Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961)

Shepperd Strudwick of Hillsborough founded Bellevue Cotton Mills in the town and served as its president, and he was also a banker, a postmaster and a woodcarver. He had earlier worked as a fertilizer broker in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia. His sons Clement Read Strudwick and Edmund Strudwick III became artists and Shepperd Strudwick Jr. an actor.

Source: UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections Library: Shepperd Strudwick Papers, 1827-1944

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Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), 1947
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StorylineMacadam for Hillsborough: the township road tax, bonds and paved streets, 1900–19081900–1908 · 10 events · Hillsboro Township taxed itself for roads and became the only Orange township to vote road bonds, and from 1905 Hillsborough's streets were macadamized, surfaced with crushed stone. In 1900 township voters carried a special road tax. In 1905 the township road commissioners set up a rock crusher west of the court house and began a macadam road from Churton and King streets to the depot. In 1907 township voters sought an election on $40,000 in road bonds, and the money built a few miles of macadam road. In 1908 the township road commission organized a chain gang of prisoners, and Street Commissioner T. Norfleet Webb's crew, using convict labor, macadamized Churton Street south to the river bridge for $3,085.47. StorylineShepperd Strudwick and Hillsborough's new enterprises, 1902–19091902–1909 · 13 events · Shepperd Strudwick, who brought his family back to Hillsborough about 1902, stood at the head of one new enterprise after another. Ralph Adams Cram designed his new house at the corner of Churton and Union. In 1904 a new Business Men's Association elected him president, and he became president of the Bellevue Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in west Hillsborough. In 1905 voters made him a town commissioner on a ticket understood to favor licensing barrooms. In 1907 the new Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company chose him president and treasurer for a brick plant, and by 1909 the Observer listed him at the head of the clay company and the Bellevue mill.

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  1. Shepperd Strudwick brings his family back to Hillsborough Shepperd Strudwick, a native of Hillsborough, returned to the town with his family when his son Clement, born in Tennessee in April 1900, was two. People: Clement Read Strudwick Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Strudwick, Clement Read
  2. The Bingham house is moved down East Union Street to clear the corner for Shepperd Strudwick's house The 1831 William J. Bingham House is moved half a block east on East Union Street so that Shepperd Strudwick can build on its lot at the corner of Churton and Union. Much of the old house's outside dates from the move. People: William James Bingham Place: 123 East Union Street (moved from the southeast corner of North Churton and East Union streets), HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 9
  3. Hillsborough Methodists sell their Churton Street parsonage lot to Shepperd Strudwick The trustees of the Hillsborough Methodist church sold the Churton Street house and lot used as the parsonage to Shepperd Strudwick, who planned to build a residence there, and moved the parsonage to the Webb house at Tryon and Wake streets. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Methodist parsonage lot, Churton Street, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Churton StreetSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 30, 1903, p. 3
  4. Shepperd Strudwick builds a Churton Street house designed by Ralph Adams Cram Shepperd Strudwick built a Neoclassical Revival house on Churton Street to a design Ralph Adams Cram drew about 1904; Cram's wife Elizabeth was the sister of Strudwick's wife Susan. The site had been cleared in 1903 by moving the antebellum W. J. Bingham House down East Union Street, and the house was finished about 1908. It was later named Tamarind. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Susan Read Strudwick, Ralph Adams Cram · Also mentions: Churton StreetSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District additional documentation (2014), 318 N. Churton Street, Shepperd Strudwick House · Also: Open Orange: Tamarind / Sheppard Strudwick House; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 24, 1903, p. 3
  5. Shepperd Strudwick builds the Bellevue cotton mill on South Nash Street The Bellevue mill west of South Nash Street, a short way beyond the town line of the day, was backed by local investors and staffed by people leaving farm work. The Observer reports a Bellevue knitting mill going up late in 1904, its engine first fired on July 7, 1905, and a railroad siding and new stock for spinning that year; Heather Wagner Slane's 2017 architectural survey dates the mill to 1909, perhaps an enlargement or rebuilding. By 1912 it ran 5,000 spindles and 200 narrow looms. Place: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, South Nash Street, West Hillsborough · Also named: Heather Wagner SlaneSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 13, 1905, p. 3
  6. The Bank of Orange is chartered and elects its officers The Bank of Orange was chartered at Raleigh on April 18 with $5,000 capital, which might rise to $50,000, to do a commercial and savings business. Its stockholders met on April 26 at the court house, adopted by-laws and elected directors, who chose J. S. Spurgeon president, C. A. Scott vice president and Paul C. Collins cashier. People: John Sanford Spurgeon, Paul C. Collins, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Samuel Mallett Gattis, O. J. Forrest Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: C. A. Scott · Also mentions: Bank of OrangeSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 21, 1904, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 28, 1904, p. 3
  7. Hillsboro merchants form a Business Men's Association Business men of Hillsboro and the county met at the court house on June 2 and organized a Business Men's Association to bring before the public matters for the good of the town and county, electing Shepperd Strudwick president and Paul C. Collins secretary; the association adopted its constitution and by-laws on June 27. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Paul C. Collins Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 9, 1904, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 30, 1904, p. 3
  8. Town commissioners accept three gasoline street lamps from a citizens' association The Hillsborough commissioners accepted an offer from Paul C. Collins, for an association of citizens that included Shepperd Strudwick, to buy and put up three gasoline street lamps at Churton and King, at Churton and Tryon, and on King Street near the Occoneechee Hotel at no cost to the town. In return the town agreed to keep them in order and lit for five years. People: Paul C. Collins, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Joseph A. Harris Place: Churton and King streets, Hillsborough · Also mentions: King StreetSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 4, 1904, p. 3
  9. Shepperd Strudwick heads the new Bellevue Manufacturing Company in west Hillsborough The Bellevue Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in west Hillsborough, was incorporated on October 13, 1904, with Shepperd Strudwick as its president and Norfleet Webb as secretary and treasurer. Strudwick remained president until he resigned in 1929. By 1912 the mill ran 5,000 spindles and 200 looms making dress ginghams. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: T. Norfleet Webb, Norfleet Webb · Also mentions: Bellevue Manufacturing CompanySearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15 · Also: Open Orange: Bellevue Manufacturing Company
  10. Shepperd Strudwick buys Allen Ruffin's land north of the future Bellevue mill Four years before the Bellevue mill was built, Strudwick acquired the tract north of the site from Ruffin, one of the Eno Cotton Mill's founders, probably to build company housing there. People: Allen Jones Ruffin Place: West HillsboroughSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13
  11. Hillsborough's commissioners ask the legislature for a much higher saloon license The town board unanimously adopted a charter amendment raising the town liquor license from $100 to $1,000 and giving the board power to regulate the trade and revoke licenses, and Representative Ira E. D. Andrews introduced it in the House. The bill was reported favorably in February with a compromise figure of $750. People: Joseph A. Harris, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Ira E. D. AndrewsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 26, 1905, p. 2
  12. Hillsborough elects a town board expected to license saloons Joseph A. Harris was re-elected mayor, and voters chose Shepperd Strudwick, William A. Hayes, Calvin R. Lassiter, Stephen E. Cole and George C. Lynch as commissioners over the old dry board of O. J. Forrest, A. F. Crabtree, N. W. Brown and P. H. Smith. The new ticket was understood to favor licensing barrooms, which the old board had refused for two years. People: Joseph A. Harris, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), N. W. Brown, O. J. Forrest Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: William A. Hayes, Calvin R. Lassiter, Stephen E. Cole, George C. Lynch, A. F. Crabtree, P. H. SmithSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 4, 1905, p. 3
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  1. The Rev. H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church A presbytery committee led by the Rev. D. I. Craig installed the Rev. H. S. Bradshaw as pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church on August 13; ruling elder Shepperd Strudwick of Hillsborough gave the charge to the congregation. People: D. I. (David Irwin) Craig, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), H. S. Bradshaw Place: New Hope Presbyterian Church, Orange CountySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 17, 1905, p. 3
  2. Nineteenth District Democrats nominate John W. Graham and Cary H. King for the Senate at Hillsboro The Democratic convention of the 19th Senatorial District (Alamance, Caswell, Durham and Orange) met in the Hillsboro court house with D. C. Parks as permanent chairman and Shepperd Strudwick as secretary, and unanimously nominated Cary H. King of Caswell and Maj. John W. Graham of Orange for the state Senate. Caswell sent no delegates. People: David C. Parks, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), John W. Graham Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Cary H. KingSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 13, 1906, p. 3
  3. Stockholders organize the Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company and elect Shepperd Strudwick president Stockholders of the Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company met and elected directors, who chose Shepperd Strudwick president and treasurer, A. J. Ruffin vice president and H. N. Brown Jr. secretary and general manager. Work on a brick plant a mile and a half east of town on the Southern Railway was to begin at once, on an authorized capital of $100,000 with $20,000 paid in. People: Allen Jones Ruffin, Paul C. Collins, J. Cheshire Webb, N. W. Brown Place: Office in the old Norwood building east of the court house; plant east of Hillsborough on the Southern Railway · Also named: H. N. Brown Jr.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 10, 1907, p. 2
  4. Hillsborough Township voters ask for a $40,000 good-roads bond election A meeting of Hillsborough Township voters in the court house unanimously asked State Senator John W. Graham to have the legislature authorize a vote on road bonds for thirty years, to be issued in $10,000 lots over up to four years for building the township's public roads. The meeting also asked that Churton and King streets be taken from the township road commission and put under the town, and named A. J. Ruffin, C. D. Jones and Shepperd Strudwick to handle the sale of the bonds. People: John W. Graham, Allen Jones Ruffin, Clarence Dupre Jones, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Churton and King streetsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 14, 1907, p. 3
  5. Shepperd Strudwick is president of the Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company Besides the Bellevue mill and the Bank of Orange, Shepperd Strudwick headed the Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company, according to the Orange County Observer. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Bank of OrangeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 14
  6. County commissioners order a survey for a macadam road from Hillsboro to Duke's farm At their July meeting the Orange County commissioners authorized Frank Nash, Shepperd Strudwick and Paul C. Collins to have a macadam road surveyed from Hillsboro to Duke's farm and report back on July 10. People: Frank Nash, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Paul C. Collins Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 6, 1911, p. 5
  7. 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
  8. Hillsborough men enlist in a Home Guard detachment of the state militia Answering Gov. Bickett's call, the Council of Defense chose 25 men on October 20, 1917, and they enlisted for the duration at the Hillsborough court house on October 22 and 24, electing Shepperd Strudwick first lieutenant. The county bought their uniforms, and they drilled twice a week until the influenza ban on meetings. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), J. Cheshire Webb, Thomas W. Bickett Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 58
  9. Orange County pledges three-quarters of its War Savings quota in a June drive The county's War Savings Stamps quota was $331,400, about $20 a person. A drive June 23-28, 1918, pledged 75 percent of it, and a second drive September 9-14 sought the rest; the county finished with $272,956 pledged and $264,370 sold. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 60
  10. A four-church committee raises $504 for Jewish war relief About the middle of August 1918 a campaign for the Jewish Relief Fund, run by men from the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, raised $504. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Charles M. Andrews Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 73
  11. The Hillsborough Community Chorus formally organizes Already singing at patriotic gatherings, the chorus organized at the Hillsborough Library on September 2, 1918, with Mrs. W. D. Benton as director, and gave the Red Cross $73 from an August concert. It later planned four concerts a year to help the Daughters of the Confederacy build a public library as a memorial to the county's Confederate soldiers. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Mrs. W. D. BentonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 80 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), May 29, 1919, p. 1
  12. Shepperd Strudwick resigns as president of Bellevue, and L. E. Beard takes over After twenty-five years as president, Shepperd Strudwick stepped down in 1929, the year its stock value fell from $500,000 to $419,600. L. E. Beard succeeded him and his partner Norfleet Webb as president and treasurer. People: L. E. Beard Place: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, South Nash Street at Eno Street, West Hillsborough · Also named: Norfleet WebbSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 19
  13. 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: Edmund Strudwick, 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
  14. County commissioners name a committee to plan Orange County's 200th anniversary On August 4, 1952, the commissioners named a nine-member countywide committee under L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill to plan an observance of the county's 200th anniversary, to be held with the laying of the cornerstone of the new courthouse that fall. Its members included historian Hugh Lefler of Chapel Hill, Shepperd Strudwick and E. M. Lynch of Hillsboro, Clem Cheek of the Orange Grove-White Cross section, and four women from the Schley-St. Mary's, Cedar Grove, Efland and Carrboro communities. People: Luther James Phipps, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Edwin M. Lynch, Hugh Talmage Lefler Place: Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Clem Cheek, Hugh LeflerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 7, 1952, p. 1
  15. County commissioners name 55 citizens to committees for the bicentennial On September 11, 1952, the commissioners named 55 Orange County people to committees for the bicentennial: program and guests under R. B. Studebaker, finance under Clem M. Cheek, publicity under Mrs. Mack P. Efland, exhibits under Shepperd Strudwick, and a pageant committee under historian Hugh T. Lefler that took in playwright Paul Green and Samuel Selden of the Carolina Playmakers. Several pageant members already doubted a creditable pageant could be staged by the October date, and the observance was expected to slip to the spring. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Paul Green, Samuel Selden, Archibald Henderson, Hugh Talmage Lefler Place: Hillsborough · Also named: R. B. Studebaker, Clem M. Cheek · Also mentions: Carolina PlaymakersSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 18, 1952, p. 1
  16. Shepperd Strudwick carves the cross for the Hillsborough Methodist sanctuary Shepperd Strudwick, a Presbyterian elder who took up wood carving late in life, made the cross for the Methodist sanctuary as well as one for his own church. Place: Hillsborough Methodist Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 113
  17. Hillsborough Presbyterian Church adds Strudwick Hall, a fellowship hall named for Shepperd Strudwick In C. H. Reckard's pastorate the church built a fellowship hall to his drawings and named it for Shepperd Strudwick, elder, Sunday school superintendent and clerk of session. The name was older: at the service of November 16, 1952 the congregation had named the assembly room of its educational building Strudwick Hall for Mr. and Mrs. Shepperd Strudwick. People: C. H. Reckard Place: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 137 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 20, 1952, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 29, 1959, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 5, 1959, p. 3

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Evelyn P. Lloyd slide show of "The Strudwicks: A family of artists", 1950s-1970s

Lloyd, Evelyn P. · 1954

Evelyn P. Lloyd assembled a slide show called 'The Strudwicks: A family of artists', about 130 items in a linear foot and a half made between the 1950s and the 1970s, in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC, P0119. The pictures are set in Hillsborough and feature four Strudwicks: Shepperd the elder and the younger, Clement Read and Edmund.

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