The Dawson surname

In the chronology 6 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.

• Dawson, Joe Buck 1 entry, 1946
  • April 9, 1946: Colonial Ice Company buys a Carrboro site for an ice plant
• Dawson, M. J. 1 entry, 1939
  • by July 14, 1939: The old firehouse and jail in the middle of Columbia Street is torn down
• Dawson, Marvin J. 3 entries, 1915–1939
  • between 1915 and 1925: Durham Hosiery Mills builds a house on West Main Street for its Carrboro superintendent
  • 1928–1942: Durham Hosiery's Carrboro mills through the Depression and after, 1928–1942
  • 1939: Durham Hosiery Mills sells its Carrboro houses and land at auction
• Dawson, R. H. 1 entry, 1969
  • February 5, 1969: UNC faculty publicly debate dropping ROTC
• Dawson, Raymond 5 entries, 1969–1994
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  • February 3, 1969: Chancellor Sitterson announces committees on minority students and Afro-American studies
  • September 12, 1970: The advisory committee to find Sitterson's successor holds its first meeting
  • 1970–1988: UNC, HEW and the desegregation consent decree, 1970–1988
  • October 12-14, 1981: Raymond Dawson's University Day speech on desegregation draws a faculty petition
  • January 19, 1994: Spangler Foundation pledges $10 million to the UNC campuses, endowing a Raymond Dawson professorship at Chapel Hill
• Dawson, Raymond H. 2 entries, 1968–1969
  • May 14, 1968: Raymond H. Dawson is named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
  • February 3, 1969: Chancellor Sitterson announces committees on minority students and Afro-American studies

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.

• Dawson, Francis Warrington, 1840-1889 2 works
• Dawson, Francis Warrington, 1840-1889. Dawson pamphlets, 1866-1892 1 work
• Dawson, Leonard H., 1937- 1 work

In the historical records 16 records

1 deeds, 11 marriages and 4 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Dawson marriages in full · Search the name in every collection