James Cole Taylor

Life and Orange County connections

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1. between 1877 and 1881 James Cole Taylor works as an assistant at the state experiment station in Smith Hall James C. Taylor and William B. Phillips, Chapel Hill graduates of 1877, worked as assistants at the state's fertilizer control and experiment station at the university, with W. Warnecke of Germany and A. D. Mickle of Chapel Hill. The station had four rooms in Smith Hall. In December 1878 the Chapel Hill Ledger found it busy under Dr. Ledoux, Warnecke and Phillips, with Taylor handling its correspondence. People: William Battle Phillips, Andrew Mickle Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Smith HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 138 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, December 14, 1878, p. 2
2. June 1877 The reopened university graduates its first class At the 1877 commencement five men took degrees, William Battle Phillips of Chapel Hill a Ph.B. and Julian M. Baker, Frank M. Fremont, Joseph C. Powell and James C. Taylor the B.S. The 1876 commencement had had no graduates. People: James Cole Taylor, William Battle Phillips Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Julian Meredith Baker, Frank Murray Fremont, Joseph Clay PowellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 134
3. June 1900 Commencement marks twenty-five years since the university reopened The 1900 commencement was given over to the reopening of 1875, with nineteen members of the 1875-76 student body present and addresses by Kemp Battle, George T. Winston, W. J. Peele and President Alderman. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, George Tayloe Winston, W. J. Peele, James Cole Taylor Place: Memorial HallDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 576
4. January 8, 1915 The Bank of Chapel Hill elects Milton E. Hogan cashier At the directors' annual meeting in the bank building, cashier J. C. Taylor resigned; Milton E. Hogan was elected cashier and John P. Cole assistant cashier, and a ten percent dividend was declared. M. C. S. Noble stayed on as president and H. H. Patterson as vice-president. People: James Cole Taylor, M. C. S. Noble, Henry Houston Patterson, Milton E. Hogan Place: Bank of Chapel Hill, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: John P. ColeSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), January 14, 1915, p. 4