The Scott surname

In the chronology 21 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.

• Scott, Andrew 2 entries, 1958–1970
  • 1958: Anne Firor Scott moves to Chapel Hill and takes a temporary history post at UNC
  • May 9, 1970: Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
• Scott, Anne Firor 2 entries, 1958–2014
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• Scott, Bob 23 entries, 1967–1972
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  • 1967–1970: Howard Fuller, Howard Lee and the social work deanship, 1967–1970
  • November 5, 1968: Orange County voters return commissioners Harvey Bennett and William Ray
  • October 29, 1968: UNC holds Time-Out Day for open forums on the University and society
  • July 27, 1969: The Chapel Hill Telephone Company opens its Campus exchange on Manning Drive
  • March 27, 1969: 242 faculty members ask Governor Scott to act through University officials
  • March 22, 1969: The striking food workers vote to go back to work, ending their month-long strike
  • March 5–6, 1969: Governor Scott orders Lenoir Hall reopened under Highway Patrol guard
  • March 21, 1969: A Polk Place rally learns that Governor Scott has ordered a $1.80 minimum wage for state workers
  • December 5, 1969: Chapel Hill withdraws its police from the campus during the cafeteria strike
  • March 13, 1969: State troopers clear Manning Hall on Governor Scott's orders
  • March 14, 1969: The trustees' executive committee makes campus disruption grounds for expulsion or dismissal
  • September 12, 1969: UNC trustees reverse themselves and approve a lectureship for Mayor Howard Lee
  • March 17-18, 1969: Students hold an all-day vigil in Polk Place for the striking food workers
  • December 14, 1970: Chapel Hill aldermen ask the Corps of Engineers to study the New Hope Dam's environmental effects
  • 1970–1983: Chapel Hill and the New Hope dam (Jordan Lake), 1970–1983
  • October 13-15, 1970: A conference on relations among the North Atlantic nations opens at the Carolina Inn
  • 1970–1972: Choosing Sitterson’s successor, 1970–1972
  • June 1, 1970: UNC graduates a record class of 4,200 in Kenan Stadium
  • October 18, 1971: UNC trustees endorse expanding the University to take in all 16 public campuses
  • January 28, 1972: Alderman James C. Wallace resigns to join the state Board of Water and Air Resources
  • November 10, 1972: The UNC Board of Governors authorizes a temporary building for the medical school in Chapel Hill
  • October 12, 1972: N. Ferebee Taylor is installed as chancellor on University Day
  • September 22, 1972: Gov. Bob Scott warns legislators against weakening the new University system
• Scott, C. A. 1 entry, 1904
  • April 18-26, 1904: The Bank of Orange is chartered and elects its officers
• Scott, C. C. 1 entry, 1930
  • February 1930: Black parents and teachers raise money to lengthen the term of Chapel Hill's Black high school
• Scott, Calvin 4 entries, 1857–1860
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  • December 1857: John H. Watson sits on Chapel Hill's board of town commissioners
  • by April 18, 1857: E. J. Mallett serves as intendant of Chapel Hill over five commissioners
  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
  • about 1860: Merchant Calvin Scott builds a Greek Revival house on West Cameron Avenue
• Scott, Charlie 5 entries, 1965–1969
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• Scott, Hazel 1 entry, 1950
  • March 1950: Pianist Hazel Scott plays two concerts in Chapel Hill and the Hostess Club gives her a tea
• Scott, J. C. 1 entry, 1903
  • April 6, 1903: Hillsborough's commissioners fire the police chief and elect J. C. Scott
• Scott, Jane Armistead 1 entry, 1801
  • November 5, 1801: Archibald D. Murphey marries Jane Armistead Scott and settles at the Hermitage
• Scott, Joan 5 entries, 1894–1980
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  • 1894–1978: Admitting women to the University, 1894–1978
  • by October 31, 1975: UNC names a committee to find a director for a women's studies program
  • Fall 1975: Women outnumber men in the entering freshman class for the first time
  • 1977: The university approves a women's studies program with Mary Turner Lane as director
  • January to February 1980: Local advocates campaign for a woman as UNC athletic director
• Scott, John 13 entries, 1799–1963
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  • February 28, 1799: The court appoints a patrol for the University village
  • November 5, 1801: Archibald D. Murphey marries Jane Armistead Scott and settles at the Hermitage
  • August 10, 1820: Orange County elects Michael Holt to the state senate over Duncan Cameron
  • July 4, 1822: Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with a reading, an oration and a dinner at Faddis's
  • February 2, 1822: Hillsborough elects Jonathan P. Sneed magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • 1825: The Orange County Sunday School Union asks the Assembly to fund its schools
  • August 11, 1825: Orange County voters return Willie P. Mangum to Congress and send William Montgomery to the state Senate
  • July 4, 1828: Hillsborough celebrates Independence Day with a procession, an oration and a Masonic Hall dinner
  • September 15, 1832: Willie P. Mangum declines a public dinner offered by his Orange County supporters
  • February 2, 1833: Hillsborough elects John Scott magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • February 7, 1835: Hillsborough elects its magistrate of police and town commissioners
  • February 6, 1836: Hillsborough elects Dennis Heartt magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • May–July 1963: A planning study projects Chapel Hill school growth to 1980
• Scott, Judith 2 entries, 1970–1993
  • 1970–1994: Women's complaints and affirmative action at UNC, 1970–1994
  • January 29, 1993: A state administrative law judge rules that a UNC Physical Plant worker was sexually harassed
• Scott, Marilyn 1 entry, 1992
  • by April 20, 1992: Three UNC juniors are named Truman scholars
• Scott, Ralph 5 entries, 1955–1974
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  • March 7, 1955: The commissioners oppose a bill forcing the full Chapel Hill school supplement
  • May 26, 1956: Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff
  • March 22, 1969: The striking food workers vote to go back to work, ending their month-long strike
  • November 27, 1972: State study commission votes to negotiate a sale of the University's water, electric and telephone systems
  • September 27, 1974: State study commission votes to sell the University's telephone system to Southern Bell and its electric and water systems to Duke Power
• Scott, Ralph H. 3 entries, 1952–1971
  • October 13, 1952: William B. Umstead opens the Orange County Democrats' fall campaign at Schley Grange
  • May 26, 1956: Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff
  • November 22, 1971: Consolidated University trustees elect their 16 members of the new Board of Governors
• Scott, Robert 3 entries, 1970–1973
  • March 15-19, 1970: The Carolina Symposium takes up Man and Environment with Udall, Muskie and Governor Scott
  • April 13, 1970: Governor Scott agrees to talks between UNC trustees and student leaders
  • April 15, 1973: Cameron West, UNC vice president for planning, accepts the Illinois higher education post
• Scott, Robert W. 16 entries, 1905–1972
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• Scott, W. Kerr 21 entries, 1944–1957
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• Scott, W. Kerr 2 entries, 1965
  • October 31, 1965: Lieutenant Governor Robert W. Scott dedicates Scott Residence College
  • 1965–1971: Residence colleges and Hinton James, 1965–1971
• Scott, Winfield 4 entries, 1841–1852
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  • 1841–1859: Whigs, Democrats and Know Nothings in Orange County, 1841–1859
  • Early August 1852: William A. Graham comes home to Hillsborough after resigning from the cabinet
  • November 2, 1852: Orange votes for the Scott and Graham electors
  • 1852: The Whigs nominate William A. Graham for vice president

In books and archives 6 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.

• Scott family family, 1 work
• Scott, Robert Walter, 1929-2009 11 works
• Scott, Charlie, 6 works
• Scott, James Edwin, 1858-1888 1 work
• Scott, Stuart, 1965-2015 1 work
• Scott, William Kerr, 1896-1958 1 work

In the historical records 351 records

90 deeds, 17 records of enslaved people, 86 marriages, 125 court minutes, 7 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. Scott marriages in full · Search the name in every collection