The Umstead surname

In the chronology 10 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.

• Umstead, Frank 3 entries, 1954–1968
  • October 2, 1954: Orange District Boy Scouts hold a 'Gold Rush' field day at the old iron mines
  • August 1, 1955: County commissioners fill the Greater Chapel Hill zoning boards
  • September 23, 1968: Townspeople oppose a 458-unit apartment complex off Airport Road
• Umstead, Frank G. 2 entries, 1953–1957
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
  • August 1957: John W. Umstead and his family offer land for a Chapel Hill recreation center
• Umstead, Frank O. 1 entry, 1959
  • early June 1959: City planners form the North Carolina Planning Association at the Institute of Government
• Umstead, J. W., Jr. 1 entry, 1944
  • November 7, 1944: Orange County votes Democratic in the 1944 general election
• Umstead, John 10 entries, 1795–1964
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  • May 27, 1795: John Estes is appointed register of Orange County
  • February Term 1798: The court pays for the register's books and has John Estes's indexing valued
  • 1813: Hillsborough men organize a company to build a cotton and woolen factory
  • 1933: State senator John Umstead buys the Royster house on East Franklin Street
  • January 1945: Chapel Hill teachers protest the legislature's plan to fix their salaries
  • week of September 29, 1946: Former Marines charter the John Umstead post of the Marine Corps League in Chapel Hill
  • November 8, 1960: Orange County voters back Kennedy and the Democratic ticket in a heavy turnout
  • July 15, 1962: Exchange Pools opens its new swimming pool off Umstead Drive
  • March 18, 1963: L. J. Phipps is sworn in as Orange County's representative
  • November 23, 1964: The Umstead family gives Chapel Hill a two-acre recreation field on Umstead Drive
• Umstead, John W. 28 entries, 1939–1963
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  • by March 3, 1939: The legislature lets Chapel Hill reduce the West Franklin Street paving assessments
  • by April 24, 1942: Orange County's officers face no opposition in the Democratic primary
  • by January 29, 1943: John W. Umstead, Jr., buys the 1,000-acre Thompson place near Orange Grove
  • November 5, 1946: Orange County Democrats sweep the 1946 general election
  • November 2, 1948: Orange County casts its largest presidential vote and returns the Democratic ticket
  • January 3, 1949: County commissioners ask the legislators for a lien on welfare recipients' property
  • January 14, 1952: Rural residents fight the proposed Chapel Hill perimeter zoning ordinance at a hearing
  • April 7, 1952: Rural residents again oppose Chapel Hill's proposed zoning of the four-mile area around the town
  • October 13, 1952: William B. Umstead opens the Orange County Democrats' fall campaign at Schley Grange
  • February 18, 1952: Teachers and parents organize a county unit of the United Forces for Education
  • by March 26, 1953: The legislature enlarges the Orange County Board of Commissioners from three members to five
  • 1955–1964: Recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1955–1964
  • April 14, 1955: County commissioners seek authority to run water and sewer lines to a prospective electronics plant
  • by April 4, 1955: The legislature lets Carrboro run water and sewer lines beyond the town limits
  • May 9, 1955: Rep. Umstead introduces a bill to let the Chapel Hill school district vote its own school building bonds
  • May 1955: Rep. John W. Umstead tells the Chapel Hill Rotary Club the race issue ran through the whole legislative session
  • June 4, 1956: County commissioners ask the legislature to allow no more than two commissioners from one township
  • November 6, 1956: Orange County gives Adlai Stevenson a narrow margin as Eisenhower carries nine precincts
  • 1956–1961: The Pearsall Plan in Orange County, 1956–1961
  • August 28, 1956: Rep. John W. Umstead urges the Hillsboro Lions Club to back the Pearsall Plan
  • by September 20, 1956: Rep. John W. Umstead proposes a biracial advisory committee for every school unit
  • April 29, 1957: County commissioners reverse themselves and back limited Sunday racing
  • May 8, 1957: The General Assembly bans Sunday racing in Orange County
  • August 1957: John W. Umstead and his family offer land for a Chapel Hill recreation center
  • April 15, 1960: John W. Umstead draws no opposition for an eleventh House term
  • November 8, 1960: Orange County voters back Kennedy and the Democratic ticket in a heavy turnout
  • by January 18, 1962: John Umstead gives a Bolin Creek site for the Exchange swimming pool
  • late June 1963: L. J. Phipps resigns as Orange County's state representative to head the American Legion
• Umstead, John W., Jr. 4 entries, 1926–1963
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  • 1926–1941: West Franklin Street paving and its Black homeowners, 1926–1941
  • 1936–1940: Orange County's elections of 1936, 1938 and 1940
  • by March 3, 1939: The legislature lets Chapel Hill reduce the West Franklin Street paving assessments
  • 1963: Orange County's House seat changes hands, 1963
• Umstead, John W., Jr. 42 entries, 1930–1963
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• Umstead, S. D. 1 entry, 1866
  • October 18, 1866: Orange elects John Berry to the state Senate and S. D. Umstead and W. W. Guess to the Commons
• Umstead, William B. 16 entries, 1935–1954
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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.

• Umstead family family, 1 work
• Umstead, William Bradley, 3 works

In the historical records 223 records

56 deeds, 9 records of enslaved people, 31 marriages, 109 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 16 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. Umstead marriages in full · Search the name in every collection