The Campbell 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.

• Campbell, B. J. 3 entries, 1982–1987
  • March 15 to April 9, 1982: UNC's Highway Safety Research Center pays Chapel Hill High drivers to buckle up
  • April 18, 1983: UNC's Highway Safety Research Center starts a seat belt reward campaign in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
  • January 1987: More than 80 percent of Chapel Hill drivers wear seat belts after the state fine begins
• Campbell, Bill 2 entries, 1990–1992
  • 1990–1996: UNC housekeepers’ movement, 1990–1996
  • by March 24, 1992: UNC refuses to hear the housekeepers' grievance as a group
• Campbell, Catlet 7 entries, 1802–1836
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  • May Term 1802: The court names commissioners to let repairs to the courthouse and pillory
  • May Term 1805: The court orders a public clock for the courthouse and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1813: The court names Thomas Ruffin and three others to draft rules for the patrols
  • May Term 1816: The court names election inspectors for the county's polling places
  • 1828–1853: The Mayo children and the county court, 1828–1853
  • November Term 1835: The court cancels Richard Mayho's indenture to Samuel Child and binds him to Josiah Turner
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho
• Campbell, Catlett 6 entries, 1803–1845
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  • May Term 1803: The court frees George, Cate, Sally, young George and Jack under Absalom Tatom's will
  • 1804: Suit by William Kirkland and others leads to the sale of Hannah and her children
  • May 27, 1834: An Orange County internal improvement meeting at Hillsborough asks the state to fund a steam route to the coast
  • October 1838: Commissioners seek bids to repair the Eno bridge at Hillsborough
  • May 26, 1843: Orange Whigs nominate Henry K. Nash for Congress
  • January 18, 1845: Catlett Campbell, long chairman of the Orange County Court, dies
• Campbell, Donald 1 entry, 1850
  • 1850s: Signed marble obelisks go up in the Dialectic and Philanthropic plots
• Campbell, George Preston 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: George Campbell and his father build a stone house on North Graham Street
• Campbell, Handy 2 entries, 1945–1959
  • 1945: Black mason John Wesley Campbell and his sons build the stone Neville House in Carrboro
  • 1959: Chapel Hill's city directory lists sixteen bricklayers, twelve in Black neighborhoods
• Campbell, Jack 1 entry, 1967
  • February 14-15, 1967: The Institute on State Programming for the 70's holds its organizing session at UNC
• Campbell, John Wesley 6 entries, 1945–1968
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• Campbell, Leo 1 entry, 1959
  • 1959: Chapel Hill's city directory lists sixteen bricklayers, twelve in Black neighborhoods
• Campbell, Orville 8 entries, 1923–1987
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  • 1923–1972: The Chapel Hill Weekly, 1923–1972
  • September 1947: Orville Campbell starts the Colonial Press in Carrboro
  • September 1954: Chapel Hill's Colonial Records issues Dizzy Dean singing 'Wabash Cannonball'
  • October 27, 1959: The Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission organizes
  • September 5, 1972: The Chapel Hill Weekly becomes a daily, the Chapel Hill Newspaper
  • by July 11, 1985: Chapel Hill and Carrboro mayors seek a study of merging the towns
  • 1985–1986: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro merger study, 1985–1986
  • November 5, 1987: Ottaway Newspapers buys The Chapel Hill Newspaper
• Campbell, Orville B. 2 entries, 1985–1989
  • by August 1985: Chapel Hill buys the Pearsall property on Rosemary Street for a parking lot
  • June 6, 1989: Publisher Orville B. Campbell dies at 69
• Campbell, Peter 2 entries, 1947
  • June 20, 1947: Peter Campbell opens Campbell's Inc., a clothing store, in Carrboro
  • by November 1947: A. B. Whitfield and Roy W. Oakley buy Campbell's clothing store in Carrboro
• Campbell, Ralph, Jr. 1 entry, 1994
  • August 29-September 2, 1994: Chancellor Hardin puts UNC's internal audit office under his own office and its director is reassigned
• Campbell, Robert 2 entries, 1789–1802
  • May 26, 1789: The court names the men to take the tax lists in the county's eight districts
  • February Term 1802: The court orders a bridge over New Hope Creek on the road from the University to Raleigh
• Campbell, Robert 14 entries, 1967–2017
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• Campbell, Ruth 2 entries, 1993–1994
  • by February 1993: Women Against Rape begins giving rape complainants a letter on Honor Court procedures
  • February 1, 1994: UNC's Committee on Student Conduct passes changes to Honor Court handling of sexual assault
• Campbell, Thomas Joseph 1 entry, 1916
  • March 1916: Thomas J. Campbell arrives as the university's first athletic director
• Campbell, W. R., Jr. 1 entry, 1953
  • August 2, 1953: Carrboro Methodist Church holds its first service in its new $75,000 building
• Campbell, William 1 entry, 1992
  • June 12, 1992: UNC Board of Governors names new deans of pharmacy and social work

In books and archives 3 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.

• Campbell family family, 1 work
• Campbell, David P 1 work
• Campbell, Randy 1 work

In the historical records 777 records

130 deeds, 24 records of enslaved people, 42 marriages, 542 court minutes, 13 tax list entries and 26 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. Campbell marriages in full · Search the name in every collection