Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961)

Life and Orange County connections

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1. About 1902 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 StrudwickSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Strudwick, Clement Read
2. 1903 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 BinghamSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 9
3. about 1904 to 1908 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.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District additional documentation (2014), 318 N. Churton Street, Shepperd Strudwick House
4. 1904–1929 Shepperd Strudwick heads the new Bellevue Manufacturing Company in west Hillsborough The Bellevue Manufacturing Company, Hillsborough's cotton mill in the west of the town, was incorporated in 1904 with Shepperd Strudwick as its first president, and he remained president until 1929. By 1911 the mill ran 5,000 spindles and 200 looms making ginghams.Search the index · Open Orange: Bellevue Manufacturing Company
5. 1905 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 RuffinSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13
6. 1909 Shepperd Strudwick builds the Bellevue cotton mill on South Nash Street The Bellevue Manufacturing Company's mill went up in 1909 west of South Nash Street, a short way beyond the town line of the day, backed by local investors and staffed by people leaving farm work. By 1912 it ran 5,000 spindles and 200 narrow looms.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13
7. by February 1909 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.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 14
8. 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: M. C. S. Noble, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961)Search the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 44
9. October 22, 1917 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. BickettSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 58
10. June 23-28, 1918 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)Search the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 60
11. Mid-August 1918 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)Search the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 73
12. September 2, 1918 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)Search the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 80
13. 1929 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.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 19
14. between 1953 and 1960 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. People: C. H. ReckardSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 137
15. 1957 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.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 113