Thomas H. Taylor

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1. between 1809 and 1813 Thomas H. Taylor builds and runs a shoe store on Franklin Street Tom Taylor, son of John Taylor Sr., put up a shoe store on the western half of Lot #14, which his father bought in 1812. The building later housed Dr. Walter Norwood's medicine shop. People: Thomas H. Taylor Place: Taylor's shoe store, west half of Lot #14, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Taylor Sr., Tom TaylorSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 39
2. 1814 Thomas H. Taylor buys Lot #17 and builds the Tom Taylor house Taylor bought Lot #17 from Frances Benton, enlarged the log cabin on it, and later built a much larger house around it, moving in about 1817. The university acquired the house in 1835, and it became President Swain's home and then housing for faculty. People: Thomas H. Taylor Place: Tom Taylor house, Lot #17, East Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 45
3. before 1816 Edward Robson keeps a store and the post office on Franklin Street Before selling the property to Thomas H. Taylor in 1816, Edward Robson ran a store on the eastern half of Lot #10 and kept the village post office in it. People: Thomas H. Taylor Place: Robson's store, east half of Lot #10, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Edward RobsonSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 45
4. May Term 1817 The court licenses two Chapel Hill stores and a house to retail liquor At one term the court licensed James Thompson and Thomas H. Taylor to retail spirits at their stores in Chapel Hill and Christopher Moring to retail them at his house there. People: Thomas H. Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: James Thompson, Christopher MoringSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1817
5. June 1825 Trustees adopt by-laws creating a resident superintendent and a student uniform On Bartlett Yancey's motion the trustees created a superintendent of university property living at Chapel Hill, who was to receive and pay out all student money, and they prescribed a plain uniform dress and forbade boots. Chapel Hill merchant Thomas H. Taylor was appointed; in January 1829 the office passed to the faculty, who chose Elisha Mitchell. People: Elisha Mitchell, Thomas H. Taylor Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bartlett YanceySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 302
6. about 1828 Dr. Walter A. Norwood opens a medicine shop opposite Alsobrook's hotel Dr. Norwood's medicine shop stood on Thomas H. Taylor's half of Lot #14, probably in Taylor's old store building, which Norwood later bought. From 1841 the shop housed the practice of Drs. Jones and Moore. People: Thomas H. Taylor, Walter A. Norwood Place: Norwood's medicine shop, west half of Lot #14, Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 57
7. August 13, 1829 Orange County elects William Montgomery, Thomas H. Taylor and John Stockard to the legislature Orange County voters chose Dr. William Montgomery for the state Senate and Thomas H. Taylor and John Stockard for the House of Commons, and the town of Hillsborough returned Frederick Nash to the Commons. People: William Montgomery, Thomas H. Taylor, Frederick Nash, John Stockard Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 19, 1829, p. 3
8. February 6, 1834 Chapel Hill elects its town commissioners for 1834 Village voters chose five commissioners: Professor Elisha Mitchell, a doctor, T. H. Taylor, William McCauley and John Hutchins. People: Elisha Mitchell, Thomas H. Taylor, William McCauley Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: John HutchinsSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), February 13, 1834, p. 3
9. 1835 Thomas H. Taylor trades his Franklin Street house to the university Taylor exchanged Lot #17 and his house for university land in Tennessee and left Chapel Hill. The university gave the Tom Taylor house to its new president, David L. Swain, whose wife disliked the old Caldwell house. People: David L. Swain, Thomas H. Taylor Place: Tom Taylor house, Lot #17, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom Taylor · Also mentions: Caldwell houseSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 69