Orange County Indexed
The Kenan surname
The Kenan name in Orange County Indexed: 1 historical record, 12 people in the chronology and 4 headings in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1864
most named in the 1860s
- Marriages 1864
- In the chronology
- 1788 to 2018 12 people in 38 entries, most in the 1970s
- In books and archives
- 1 family heading and 3 people, born 1839
- Married into
- Hargrave 1 · the marriages
- People with a page here
- Frank H Kenan, James Graham Kenan, Randall Kenan, William Rand Kenan, William Rand Kenan Jr.
- Search beyond these records
- Kenan in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Kenan there)
- Kenan in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 12 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.
- Kenan, Frank 2 entries, 1973–1979
- Kenan, Frank H. 1 entry, 1971
- Kenan, Frank H 1 entry, 1984
- Kenan, James 2 entries, 1788
- Kenan, Owen Hill 1 entry, 1931
- Kenan, Randall 6 entries, 1967–2007
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Kenan, Sarah Graham 4 entries, 1927–1975
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- 1927: Hamilton announces plans for a manuscript collection at UNC
- 1927–1948: Hamilton and the Southern Historical Collection, 1927–1948
- By May 1930: The Southern Historical Collection is established
- by February 10, 1975: Dialectic-Philanthropic Societies Foundation wins $35,000 to restore the societies' portraits
- Kenan, Thomas S. 1 entry, 1891
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Kenan, William R., Jr. 14 entries, 1893–2018
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- 1893: Venable and student William R. Kenan Jr. demonstrate calcium carbide in Person Hall
- 1895: The University's first electric plant brings electricity to the campus and village
- 1926–1988: Kenan Memorial Stadium, 1926–1988
- November 24, 1927: Kenan Memorial Stadium is dedicated at the Thanksgiving Day game
- May 2, 1966: The Kenan Charitable Trust gives $5 million for 25 Kenan professorships
- by June 21, 1973: The Kenan Charitable Trust gives UNC's chemistry department a $1 million endowment
- June 1-3, 1980: Kenan professors from across the country hold their first national convocation in Chapel Hill
- by April 11, 1984: The Kenan trust plans the $6.5 million Kenan Center and a private enterprise institute at UNC
- March 8, 1990: First lady Barbara Bush speaks on family literacy at the Kenan Center
- 1990–1992: A new business school building at Kenan Heights, 1990–1992
- October 27, 1993: Biologist Lawrence Gilbert is named UNC's associate vice chancellor for academic affairs
- by October 4, 1994: Kenan Charitable Trust gives UNC's business school $9 million for an executive education center
- September 29, 1997: William C. Friday receives the National Humanities Medal
- October 2018: UNC moves Kenan Stadium's honor from William R. Kenan Sr. to his son
- Kenan, William Rand 2 entries, 1926–1927
- Kenan, William Rand, Jr. 8 entries, 1893–2018
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Kenan, William Rand, Jr. 4 entries, 1973–1982
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In books and archives 4 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.
- Kenan family family, 1 work
- Kenan, William Rand, 8 works
- Kenan, Frank H 1 work
- Kenan, James Graham, 1839-1912. 1 work
In the historical records 1 record
1 marriages, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Kenan marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1860s
- 1864MarriagesMarriage bond: William R Kenan and Mollie V Hargrave
