The Graham surname

In the chronology 54 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.

• Graham, A. H. 2 entries, 1948–1953
  • January 2, 1948: Black farm families of Orange County begin a long-time planning program at the court house
  • May 11, 1953: A school committee approves plans for the new Hillsboro elementary school at Cameron Park
• Graham, Alexander H. 68 entries, 1919–1966
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• Graham, Alexander H. 1 entry, 1930
  • 1930: The University's hard year and the choice of Frank Graham, 1930
• Graham, Mrs. Allen 1 entry, 1957
  • September 16, 1957: Cedar Grove Community Choir organizes
• Graham, Annie C. 1 entry, 1911
  • June 5, 1911: The Hillsboro Betterment Association asks the commissioners to improve the court house square
• Graham, Annie Ruth 1 entry, 1994
  • March 20, 1994: Orange County Commission for Women honors the county's first women in their fields
• Graham, Augustus Washington 35 entries, 1874–1899
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• Graham, Billy 3 entries, 1964–1986
  • May 17, 1964: North Carolina pays tribute to President Kennedy in Kenan Stadium
  • September 27 to October 1, 1982: Billy Graham gives a five-night lecture series in Carmichael Auditorium
  • September 29, 1986: Evangelist Leighton Ford speaks to about 450 at UNC
• Graham, C. H. 1 entry, 1924
  • January 5-6, 1924: A cold wave freezes Chapel Hill's water pipes as the mercury falls to four degrees
• Graham, Mrs. E. K. 1 entry, 1915
  • January 18, 1915: Landscape architect John Nolen lectures Chapel Hill on planning the town
• Graham, E. K. 1 entry, 1948
  • February 18, 1948: Fire damages the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, the old Graham home on Battle Lane
• Graham, Edward K. 4 entries, 1911–1917
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• Graham, Edward K. 2 entries, 1926–1932
  • February 1, 1926: Jenny Johnson, born in slavery, dies in Chapel Hill
  • October 12, 1932: University Day exercises honor Presidents Winston and Alderman and dedicate memorial tablets
• Graham, Edward Kidder 77 entries, 1895–1988
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• Graham, Edward Kidder 4 entries, 1919–1948
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  • March 15, 1919: A Chapel Hill committee opens the town canvass for the Graham Memorial fund
  • by December 6, 1919: The Graham memorial fund passes $104,000
  • June 1919: UNC trustees provide for the education of Edward Kidder Graham's young son
  • February 18, 1948: Fire damages the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, the old Graham home on Battle Lane
• Graham, Frank 29 entries, 1913–1963
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  • Fall 1913: A YMCA lecture series on Black life in the South is held for students
  • March 1928: Chase's memorandum warns faculty against advocacy that embarrasses the university
  • 1929: A workmen's compensation law that Frank Graham and Harry Wolf helped write passes
  • July 5, 1930: Allan Wilson Hobbs is named dean of the University's college of liberal arts
  • July 9, 1930: Chapel Hill's men give Frank Graham a barbecue supper on his accession as president
  • May 14, 1930: Hillsboro high school graduates 31 seniors
  • May 10, 1930: North Carolina Federation of Students is organized at Chapel Hill
  • October 27, 1930: Carolina Playmakers corporation limits its theatre to University teaching use
  • June 18, 1930: University summer school opens with a record 1,365 students
  • March 11, 1931: Irish poet George W. Russell (A. E.) visits and lectures in Chapel Hill
  • October 12, 1931: John Sprunt Hill gives the University the lot between the Episcopal church and the Barbee place
  • November 5, 1931: The Southern Conference on Education opens at the Carolina Inn on the theme of education and the Depression
  • September 9-10, 1932: Albert Coates convenes the Institute of Government's first statewide school for public officials
  • October 14, 1933: The trustees ask Frank Graham to stay, and he declines a post with the NRA
  • by August 11, 1933: The University Janitors' Association reports the University's pledge that no Black workers will be dismissed
  • July 2, 1934: Robert B. House becomes Dean of Administration at Chapel Hill
  • 1935–1939: The Institute of Government's building, 1935–1939
  • May 30, 1936: University trustees refuse to keep the engineering school in Chapel Hill
  • December 5, 1938: President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks in Woollen Gymnasium and receives an honorary degree
  • week of October 31, 1938: Eighty volunteers go out across Orange County to teach adults to read
  • November 29, 1939: House Speaker William Bankhead dedicates the Institute of Government building
  • by December 21, 1939: Black Masons of North Carolina hold their Grand Lodge convention in Chapel Hill
  • July 13, 1939: The D.A.R. dedicates a marker at Matthew McCauley's grave beside University Lake
  • January 11, 1939: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks in Memorial Hall
  • 1940–1941: Chapel Hill before Pearl Harbor, 1940–1941
  • week of June 3, 1940: A Chapel Hill chapter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is organized
  • October 11, 1940: Former students present a portrait of Dr. Isaac Hall Manning to the medical school
  • February 14-15, 1948: Students welcome Frank Graham home from the Indonesia truce talks
  • February 28, 1963: Governor Terry Sanford speaks to Chapel Hill school children
• Graham, Frank P. 4 entries, 1901–1950
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  • 1901–1948: Josephus Daniels serves on the University of North Carolina board of trustees
  • by May 22, 1931: Black veterans in Chapel Hill organize the John Allen Post of the American Legion
  • by March 19, 1949: Father Francis J. Morrissey, pastor of Chapel Hill's Catholic church, dies
  • October 31, 1950: Orange Democrats hold their election rally at Schley Grange Hall, with Willis Smith on the platform
• Graham, Mrs. Frank P. 4 entries, 1940–1941
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  • September 4, 1940: Chapel Hill women's war relief workshop ships its first Red Cross quota
  • 1940–1946: Orange County's home front in the Second World War
  • July 23, 1940: Chapel Hill women open a war relief sewing room in the University dining hall
  • by August 1, 1941: Chapel Hill Red Cross women set up a sewing room in the zoology building to clothe British civilians
• Graham, Frank Porter 166 entries, 1879–1988
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• Graham, Frank Porter 13 entries, 1901–1968
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  • 1901–1948: Josephus Daniels serves on the University of North Carolina board of trustees
  • 1930: Chapel Hill hears the textile labor debate, 1930
  • 1932–1974: The North Carolina Symphony in Chapel Hill, 1932–1974
  • March 21, 1932: The North Carolina Symphony Society meets at the Carolina Inn and elects Joseph Hyde Pratt president
  • 1933–1955: Desegregating the University of North Carolina, 1933–1955
  • April 1947: Charles M. Jones takes interracial bus riders into his home
  • February 6, 1950: University trustees elect Gordon Gray president
  • September 12, 1962: Chapel Hill counts 35 Black pupils in mainly white schools and no white pupils in its Black schools
  • August 13, 1962: Chapel Hill school board grants 116 reassignments, sending eight Black pupils to Chapel Hill Junior High
  • by June 13, 1963: The Mayor's Integration Committee turns to a public accommodations ordinance after businesses refuse to desegregate
  • 1964–1968: Building the undergraduate library and student union, 1964–1968
  • 1967: Chapel Hill annexes the Merritt Mill Road area
  • January 2, 1968: Roof section collapses at the unfinished Frank Porter Graham student union
• Graham, Mrs. Frank Porter 1 entry, 1967
  • by April 29, 1967: Mrs. Frank Porter Graham dies in New York
• Graham, George 1 entry, 1891
  • by January 12, 1891: The trustees' executive committee allows athletic games with other colleges again
• Graham, George W. 1 entry, 1877
  • August 6-9, 1877: Governor Vance closes the first summer normal school at Chapel Hill
• Graham, James 3 entries, 1840
  • 1840–1841: The Log Cabin campaign in Orange County, 1840–1841
  • May 26, 1840: Orange Whig convention nominates Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham for the legislature
  • December 3, 1840: Orange voters elect Hugh Waddell to the state Senate and Col. James Graham to the Commons
• Graham, James Augustus 11 entries, 1855–1928
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• Graham, James Nills 1 entry, 1959
  • December 1959: James and Myrtle Graham, a Black Efland couple, buy the old Efland Home cottage
• Graham, Joe 1 entry, 1951
  • February 26, 1951: Chapel Hill aldermen refuse the Curve Inn an exemption from the beer rule
• Graham, John 4 entries, 1812–1905
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  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
  • 1895–1920: The Farmers' Alliance headquarters at Hillsborough, 1895–1920
  • August 10-12, 1897: The Farmers' State Alliance meets at Hillsborough and elects John Graham president
  • early August 1905 (in session August 10): The State Farmers' Alliance offers its Hillsborough headquarters for an agricultural school
• Graham, John B. 1 entry, 1965
  • October 26, 1965: The Ford Foundation gives $800,000 to UNC's Population Center
• Graham, John W. 87 entries, 1842–1928
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• Graham, John W. 4 entries, 1866–1932
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  • 21 August 1866: Patsy Ruffin declines to name her child's father, as the Graham letter arranged
  • May 18, 1878: Orange Democrats nominate A. W. Graham for the Senate and Angier and Hutchins for the House
  • mid-September 1893: Eugene L. Hassell takes charge of the Hillsborough post office and moves it to Churton Street
  • October 12, 1932: University Day exercises honor Presidents Winston and Alderman and dedicate memorial tablets
• Graham, Joseph 5 entries, 1781–1819
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• Graham, Kathleen 3 entries, 1910–1939
  • January 19–February 2, 1910: Hillsboro citizens meet to organize a library association
  • 1934: The Orange County board of education begins yearly grants to the Hillsborough library
  • 1938-39 (reported June 23, 1939): Hillsborough's Confederate Memorial Library lends 20,287 books in a year through ten county book stations
• Graham, Mary Owen 2 entries, 1915
  • July 5, 1915: The county board re-elects Superintendent Lockhart and funds an assistant for him
  • July 5, 1915: Mary Owen Graham is endorsed as supervisor of Orange County's canning clubs
• Graham, Myrtle McAdoo 1 entry, 1959
  • December 1959: James and Myrtle Graham, a Black Efland couple, buy the old Efland Home cottage
• Graham, Otis L., Jr. 1 entry, 1985
  • March 29-30, 1985: Symposium marks the opening of Allard Lowenstein's papers at the Southern Historical Collection
• Graham, Otto 2 entries, 1944
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• Graham, Paul C. 1 entry, 1899
  • March 23, 1899: The Orange bar meets to honor the late Calvin E. Parish
• Graham, Paul Cameron 1 entry, 1892
  • September 1892: Paul C. Graham joins his father's law firm at Hillsborough
• Graham, Phyllis 1 entry, 1982
  • March 1, 1982: James Condie's resignation as UNC housing director takes effect
• Graham, R. D. 1 entry, 1862
  • May 16-17, 1862: John W. Graham's volunteer company leaves Hillsborough and elects its officers
• Graham, Robert D. 2 entries, 1857–1863
  • November 14, 1857: Hillsborough boys organize the Junior Orange Guards
  • May 22, 1863: The Orange company of the 56th N.C. loses Lieut. David S. Ray at Gum Swamp
• Graham, Robert Davidson 1 entry, 1905
  • June 28, 1905: Hillsborough buries Capt. Robert D. Graham beside his mother
• Graham, Susan 3 entries, 1850–1903
  • November 10, 1850: Architect Alexander Jackson Davis visits Montrose to plan its enlargement
  • 1866 or about 1868: Twenty Black members leave First Baptist Church of Hillsborough and organize Mount Bright Baptist Church
  • 1903: Mount Bright Baptist Church's first building burns
• Graham, Susan Moses 2 entries, 1913–1916
  • 1913: The Chapel Hill Community Club runs an improvement contest in a Black neighborhood
  • December 22, 1916: Susan Moses Graham, the president's wife, dies at Chapel Hill
• Graham, Susan Washington 8 entries, 1838–1890
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  • January 1838: William A. Graham buys a small house in Hillsborough
  • November 1842: William A. Graham buys the Eno River house that became Montrose
  • November 10, 1850: Architect Alexander Jackson Davis visits Montrose to plan its enlargement
  • February 4, 1851: A. J. Davis sends his plans for enlarging Montrose
  • winter of 1852-53: English landscape designer Thomas Paxton lays out the Montrose grounds for Mrs. William A. Graham
  • 1853-1855: The Grahams enlarge Montrose to their own plan instead of Davis's
  • March 1870: Susan Washington Graham reports the Baptist church's building debt paid
  • May 3, 1890: Susan Washington Graham, widow of Governor William A. Graham, dies and is buried at Hillsboro
• Graham, Susan Williams 1 entry, 1922
  • April 1922: The Susan Graham memorial fountain replaces the old town well on Franklin Street
• Graham, Susan Williams Moses 1 entry, 1908
  • 1908: A house is built on Battle Lane for English professor Edward Kidder Graham and his wife Susan
• Graham, Tom 1 entry, 1887
  • December 26, 1887: A costumed John Commons band parades through Hillsborough at Christmas
• Graham, W. A. 1 entry, 1915
  • July 5 to 10, 1915: The University Summer School holds a Rural Life Conference
• Graham, W. A., Jr. 1 entry, 1862
  • September 6, 1862: The Orange Cavalry charges into Washington, N.C., and loses John Grey
• Graham, William A. 138 entries, 1782–1999
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• Graham, William A. 6 entries, 1866–1921
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  • 1866 or about 1868: Twenty Black members leave First Baptist Church of Hillsborough and organize Mount Bright Baptist Church
  • May Term 1868: The court binds Amelia Ann Mays to John W. Graham and Ellen Mays to William A. Graham
  • March 1870: Susan Washington Graham reports the Baptist church's building debt paid
  • August 9-10, 1904: The State Farmers' Alliance meets at the Barracks, and Governor Aycock speaks at its picnic
  • early August 1905 (in session August 10): The State Farmers' Alliance offers its Hillsborough headquarters for an agricultural school
  • 1921: Alexander H. Graham acquires the Hasell-Nash House on West Queen Street
• Graham, William A., Jr. 1 entry, 1861
  • by October 17, 1861: The Orange Cavalry leaves its Hillsborough camp for the coast

In books and archives 10 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.

• Graham family family, 4 works
• Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972 80 works
• Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918 18 works
• Graham, William A. (William Alexander), 1804-1875 6 works
• Graham, Edward K. (Edward Kidder), 1911-1976 4 works
• Graham, Alexander H., 1890-1977 1 work
• Graham, James Augustus, 1841-1908 1 work
• Graham, Marian Drane, 1899-1967 1 work
• Graham, Otto, 1921-2003 1 work
• Graham, Samuel L. (Samuel Lyle), 1794-1851 1 work

In the historical records 151 records

57 deeds, 10 records of enslaved people, 36 marriages, 36 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 11 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. Graham marriages in full · Search the name in every collection