The Alexander surname

In the chronology 20 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Alexander, Charles F. 1 entry, 1962
  • April 12, 1962: W. T. Grant opens a department store at Eastgate Shopping Center
• Alexander, Eben 13 entries, 1886–1939
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• Alexander, Eben 2 entries, 1924–1935
  • July 1924 (week of July 7): The trustees' building committee keeps the women's building on the lot next to the Episcopal church
  • 1935–1941: Woollen Gymnasium, the Bowman Gray Pool and the first women's dormitories, 1935–1941
• Alexander, Elreta 2 entries, 1974
  • February 9, 1974: Judge Elreta Alexander speaks at UNC's Women's Festival
  • 1974–1978: The AWS Women's Festivals, 1974–1978
• Alexander, H. Q. 1 entry, 1915
  • July 5 to 10, 1915: The University Summer School holds a Rural Life Conference
• Alexander, Henry Quincy 1 entry, 1913
  • November 1913: Graham proposes a statewide civic service week in a Charlotte speech
• Alexander, J. C. 1 entry, 1958
  • 1958: Orange Methodist Church leaves a three-point charge for its own student minister
• Alexander, J. M. 1 entry, 1880
  • August 28, 1880: Chapel Hill Township Democrats hold their first primary election
• Alexander, James M. 1 entry, 1878
  • September 2, 1878: Chapel Hill commissioners set the town tax and elect a town attorney
• Alexander, Joseph 2 entries, 1753–1770
  • 1753–1790: Hugh McAden, Henry Pattillo and the first Presbyterian congregations, 1753–1790
  • Fall 1770: Orange Presbytery holds its first meeting at Hawfields Church
• Alexander, Karl 1 entry, 1969
  • February 12, 1969: Graduate students form a bureau to press Chapel Hill landlords on poor housing
• Alexander, Kelly 5 entries, 1970–1990
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  • 1970–1988: UNC, HEW and the desegregation consent decree, 1970–1988
  • May 22, 1982: UNC's second Black Alumni Reunion hears a panel on the desegregation consent decree
  • 1987–1994: Discrimination grievances in the UNC police, 1987–1994
  • December 7, 1990: UNC police officer Keith Edwards asks federal agencies to investigate the University
  • November 18, 1990: State NAACP rallies at the Hargraves Center for UNC employees and residents move to revive a local chapter
• Alexander, Kelly, Jr. 1 entry, 1971
  • late August 1971: UNC holds its first Black pre-orientation for entering freshmen
• Alexander, Lewis 1 entry, 1930
  • by May 16, 1930: Carolina Magazine publishes its annual issue of Black writers
• Alexander, Lex 1 entry, 1990
  • by September 28, 1990: Wellspring Grocery opens a Chapel Hill store in the former Kroger on South Elliott Road
• Alexander, O. R. 1 entry, 1958
  • by July 3, 1958: Southern Garment Company starts making dresses in the Roberts building west of Efland
• Alexander, Robert 1 entry, 1993
  • by August 26, 1993: Opponents of the multicultural plan form Putting Children First
• Alexander, Will W. 1 entry, 1915
  • 1915–2017: The Weil lectures on American citizenship, 1915–2017
• Alexander, Will W. 3 entries, 1929–1949
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• Alexander, William 1 entry, 1955
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In books and archives 7 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Alexander family family, 1 work
• Alexander, Nathaniel, 1756-1808 13 works
• Alexander, Eben, 1851-1910 3 works
• Alexander, Will Winton, 2 works
• Alexander, Annie Lowrie, 1 work
• Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992 1 work
• Alexander, William, 1726-1783 1 work

In the historical records 54 records

18 deeds, 14 marriages, 14 court minutes, 4 tax list entries and 4 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Alexander marriages in full · Search the name in every collection