The Gordon surname

In the chronology 16 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.

• Gordon, Adolphus J. 13 entries, 1890–1908
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• Gordon, Alice 12 entries, 1940–1994
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  • 1940–2018: The Horace Williams Airport, 1940–2018
  • 1959–1994: Chapel Hill's thoroughfare plan, road widenings and bypasses, 1959–1994
  • November 6, 1990: Alice Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis and Verla Insko win the three open Orange County commissioner seats
  • 1990: Orange County in the 1990 election
  • February 5, 1990: Thirteen candidates file for three seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners
  • February 4, 1991: Orange County commissioners vote 3 to 2 to let managers plan for moving Horace Williams Airport
  • February 19, 1991: Orange County commissioners speak against the state's plan to widen N.C. 54
  • 1993–1994: Orange County in the 1994 election
  • by January 27, 1994: Hillsborough planning board member Bill Crowther enters the county commissioners' race
  • February 7, 1994: Verla Insko withdraws as filing closes for three Orange County commissioner seats
  • November 8, 1994: Orange County voters return Democrats to all three open commissioner seats
  • May 3, 1994: Gordon, Crowther and Halkiotis win the Democratic primary for Orange County commissioners
• Gordon, B. P. 1 entry, 1944
  • February 7, 1944: Gordon's Grocery moves into new quarters in Hillsborough
• Gordon, Mrs. B. P., Jr. 1 entry, 1944
  • late October 1944: Hillsboro High students put out the first issue of the Yellow Jacket
• Gordon, B. P., Jr. 1 entry, 1964
  • by June 21, 1964: The private Park Valley swimming pool opens in Hillsborough
• Gordon, Mrs. Brown P., Jr. 1 entry, 1954
  • April 28, 1954: The Hillsboro Business and Professional Women's Club receives its charter
• Gordon, Eugene 8 entries, 1970–1979
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  • 1970–1983: The student-fee suits against the Daily Tar Heel and the BSM, 1970–1983
  • November 2, 1972: Federal judge postpones the suit against student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel
  • February 8, 1973: Appeals court sends the New Hope Dam case back and halts reservoir clearing
  • July 31, 1973: A federal judge refuses class-action status in the suit against student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel
  • September 11, 1978: The Black Student Movement asks to help defend the UNC law school's minority admissions
  • week of August 21, 1978: A federal jury finds UNC did not deny a religion professor tenure for her age or faith
  • January 26, 1979: Federal appeals court clears the Army Corps to fill Jordan Lake over Chapel Hill's challenge
  • March 28, 1979: The state settles a reverse-discrimination suit against the UNC law school
• Gordon, Eugene A. 11 entries, 1970–1982
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  • 1970–1983: Chapel Hill and the New Hope dam (Jordan Lake), 1970–1983
  • 1970–1983: The student-fee suits against the Daily Tar Heel and the BSM, 1970–1983
  • 1970–1994: Women's complaints and affirmative action at UNC, 1970–1994
  • by June 18, 1971: Federal court strikes down North Carolina's one-year residency rule in a suit against the Orange County elections board
  • February 14, 1972: A federal judge refuses to halt construction of the New Hope Dam
  • 1973–1984: The Minority Court and the guaranteed minority seats, 1973–1984
  • August 28 or 29, 1974: A federal judge upholds student-fee funding of the Daily Tar Heel
  • September 17, 1975: A federal judge dismisses the suit against student-fee funding of the Black Student Movement
  • by August 25, 1977: Chapel Hill appeals the ruling that lets the Army fill Jordan Lake
  • November 9, 1978: A federal judge rules UNC did not discriminate in refusing to rehire a woman religion professor
  • by April 8, 1982: A federal judge upholds funding The Daily Tar Heel from mandatory student fees
• Gordon, Ira 1 entry, 1979
  • July 1, 1979: Bill Self becomes dean of the UNC School of Education
• Gordon, Ira J. 2 entries, 1978–1983
  • September 7, 1978: Ira J. Gordon, dean of the UNC School of Education, dies
  • by October 27, 1983: Professor emeritus W.L. Wiley gives UNC $100,000 for a visiting professorship
• Gordon, Mamie 3 entries, 1883–1956
  • 1883–1964: Telephones in Hillsborough and the countryside, 1883–1964
  • by March 4, 1948: Hillsboro honors Mamie Gordon after 41 years as its telephone operator
  • September 26, 1956: Hillsboro's business and professional women name telephone operator Mamie Gordon Woman of the Year
• Gordon, Mamie M. 1 entry, 1958
  • December 11, 1958: Mamie M. Gordon, longtime Hillsboro telephone operator, dies
• Gordon, Mamie Murdock 1 entry, 1948
  • by March 4, 1948: Hillsboro honors Mamie Gordon after 41 years as its telephone operator
• Gordon, Mary 1 entry, 1896
  • by November 5, 1896: Builder James Nichols finishes a new Hillsborough house for Mary Gordon
• Gordon, T. Ed. 1 entry, 1896
  • by November 5, 1896: Builder James Nichols finishes a new Hillsborough house for Mary Gordon
• Gordon, William 1 entry, 1865
  • spring to October 1865: Hillsborough Military Academy closes for a time at the end of the Civil War

In books and archives 2 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.

• Gordon family family, 1 work
• Gordon, James B. (James Byron), 1822-1864 1 work

In the historical records 58 records

12 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 22 marriages, 17 court minutes, 5 tax list entries and 1 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. Gordon marriages in full · Search the name in every collection