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John W. Umstead Jr.

John W. Umstead Jr. sat in the state Senate in 1931 and 1939 and represented Orange County in the state House from 1941 until ill health forced him to resign in March 1963, working chiefly for the schools and the state mental hospitals. A university trustee, he gave free room and board to about 125 needy students from 1933.

Source: NCpedia: Umstead, John Wesley, Jr. (Julian M. Pleasants, 1996)

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  1. Orange County Democrats choose Umstead for state senate in the June primary In a Democratic primary that the Weekly said was the first in North Carolina under the secret Australian ballot, Orange County voters chose John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill over J. Clyde Ray of Hillsboro for state senator, 1,415 to 939, S. M. Gattis Jr. over L. J. Phipps for the house, 1,456 to 843, and S. W. Andrews over Cicero Jones for register of deeds, 1,387 to 951. The county also favored Josiah W. Bailey over Senator F. M. Simmons and gave Frank Hancock 1,593 votes to 695 for A. F. Sams for Congress. People: Luther James Phipps, Samuel Weldon Andrews, John W. Umstead Jr., Moody W. DurhamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1930, p. 1
  2. Democrats sweep Orange County in the general election Orange, like all but six counties, went Democratic. John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill won a state senate seat and S. W. Andrews was elected register of deeds; in the Chapel Hill precinct Josiah Bailey beat George Pritchard for the U.S. Senate 517 to 144 and Sheriff W. T. Sloan won 611 to 60. People: Josiah William Bailey, Samuel Weldon Andrews, William T. Sloan, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 7, 1930, p. 1
  3. John W. Umstead Jr. begins giving free room and board to needy university students From 1933 onward John W. Umstead Jr. furnished free room and board to about 125 needy young men who attended the university.Search the index · NCpedia: Umstead, John Wesley, Jr. (Julian M. Pleasants, 1996)
  4. Roland McClamroch and Sheriff S. T. Latta Jr. win the Orange Democratic primary Roland P. McClamroch beat fellow University faculty member Raymond F. Stainback for the legislature, 1,861 to 1,430; Sheriff Samuel T. Latta Jr. beat campus patrolman Frank Maddry, 2,503 to 1,218; and H. J. Walker beat Dr. John S. Hooker for coroner. John W. Umstead Jr. led the state senate race in Orange with 2,081 votes. People: John W. Umstead Jr., Samuel T. Latta Jr., Roland P. McClamrochSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 10, 1938, p. 1
  5. A Chapel Hill delegation asks the State Highway Commission for a new broad road to Durham by way of Duke Mayor Foushee for the town and D. D. Carroll for the University led a delegation to the State Highway Commission in Raleigh to ask for a new broad road from Chapel Hill to Durham by way of Duke University, on a route north of the existing road, perhaps near Mt. Moriah church and the old Patterson Mill site, entering town through the Bolin Creek valley and North Columbia Street by the new town hall. State Senator John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill had long pressed for it. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, John W. Umstead Jr., John M. FousheeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 30, 1938, p. 1
  6. Orange County Democrats sweep the county offices In the general election every Democratic candidate in Orange County won by a wide margin: S. W. Andrews was re-elected register of deeds, 2,146 to 475, S. T. Latta Jr. was elected sheriff, A. W. Kenion clerk of court and Grover C. Bivins treasurer, and Collier Cobb Jr., J. Ed Laws and Ben F. Wilson county commissioners. Roland McClamroch of Chapel Hill won the House seat over W. H. Sparrow, John W. Umstead Jr. and Joseph H. Warren the two Senate seats, and Carl T. Durham carried the county for Congress 1,966 to 199 over write-in candidate Oscar Barker. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Samuel Weldon Andrews, Roland P. McClamroch, John W. Umstead Jr., Ben F. Wilson, Alonzo W. Kenion, Samuel T. Latta Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 11, 1938, p. 1
  7. John W. Umstead Jr. enters the race for Orange County's seat in the state House Former state senator John W. Umstead Jr. announced his candidacy for representative in the May 25 Democratic primary, making three Chapel Hill candidates with Roland P. McClamroch and Raymond F. Stainback. His platform called for farm-to-market roads, no diversion of highway money, vocational schools, a teachers' pension plan, and University appropriations that would not require it to sell merchandise. People: Roland P. McClamroch, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 15, 1940, p. 1
  8. Orange Democrats choose John W. Umstead Jr. for the state House and keep their county commissioners In the Democratic primary John W. Umstead Jr. won the nomination for the House with 2,085 votes to 993 for Roland McClamroch and 418 for Raymond Stainback, losing only the South Chapel Hill precinct. Commissioners Collier Cobb Jr., J. Edd Laws and Ben F. Wilson were renominated over Dr. S. A. Nathan, and Orange gave Congressman Carl Durham 2,991 votes to 422 for his three opponents. People: Collier Cobb Jr., S. A. Nathan, Carl T. Durham, Roland P. McClamroch, John W. Umstead Jr., Ben F. WilsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1940, p. 1
  9. Orange County gives the Democrats sweeping majorities in the 1940 general election Orange County voted Roosevelt over Willkie 3,671 to 1,100 and returned Carl Durham to Congress, John W. Umstead Jr. to the legislature, and Democrats Collier Cobb, Wilson and Laws to the county board, each with about 3,700 votes against fewer than 800 for the Republicans. The Weekly called the majorities the largest the party had ever piled up in the county. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Carl T. Durham, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1940, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill aldermen seek authority to issue bonds to refund over-assessed West Franklin Street owners At the aldermen's request, Representative John W. Umstead Jr. introduced a bill letting Chapel Hill issue $8,500 in bonds to refund owners along West Franklin Street who had been over-assessed for the paving of the 1920s. The Weekly said many of the owners were Black families threatened with losing their homes, and that the 1939 law permitting refunds from spare funds had produced nothing. The General Assembly ratified the act on February 4, 1941. People: John Lindsay Morehead, John W. Umstead Jr.The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 24, 1941, p. 1
  11. Civic groups form the Chapel Hill Safety League against reckless driving Chapel Hill's civic clubs, the town government and student leaders joined in the Chapel Hill Safety League, with John W. Umstead Jr. as president and L. J. Phipps as secretary, to hold drivers to the 20-mile speed limit downtown and 25 miles elsewhere and to have them pledge themselves with windshield stickers. Umstead first proposed it at the Kiwanis Club; by mid-December it had seventeen members and its placard was posted in store windows. People: Luther James Phipps, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 12, 1941, p. 1
  12. Governor Broughton and the General Assembly tour the Pre-Flight School Governor J. Melville Broughton, the Council of State and about 140 members of the General Assembly came from Raleigh by bus as an honorary 20th Battalion, watched cadets on the obstacle course and at football, boxing, wrestling, swimming and other sports, saw hand-to-hand combat and mass drills in Woollen Gymnasium and dined with the school. On February 24 the legislature passed a joint resolution thanking Commander Graff and Orange County's representative, John W. Umstead Jr., who arranged the visit. People: J. Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, James P. Raugh, John W. Umstead Jr., John P. GraffCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 20, 1943, p. 1
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  1. John W. Umstead Jr. announces for reelection to the state House John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill announced his candidacy for reelection as Orange County's member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, the first county officeholder to seek renomination formally for the May 27 Democratic primary. He had served in the House in 1941 and 1943 and in the state Senate in 1931 and 1939, and in 1943 had introduced the House bill for a nine months school term. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), February 17, 1944, p. 1
  2. The county school board lets Orange Grove pupils stay in their old school building On Monday, May 1, 1944, the Orange County Board of Education granted the request of Orange Grove school patrons, who had met on April 28, that their children keep attending school in the old Orange Grove building, built in 1900, rather than be sent to schools elsewhere in the county. The board also told Superintendent R. H. Claytor to prepare the next year's school budget. People: R. H. Claytor, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 11, 1944, p. 1
  3. Orange County votes Democratic in the 1944 general election With 13 of 16 precincts reporting, Orange gave Roosevelt nearly three votes to one over Dewey, and only the Caldwell and Rock Springs precincts went Republican for president. W. Dennis Madry beat Alan T. Garrison for the state Senate, J. W. Umstead Jr. kept his House seat, clerk Edwin M. Lynch was reelected, and commissioners Collier Cobb Jr., Ben F. Wilson and H. G. Laws won new terms. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Edwin M. Lynch, John W. Umstead Jr., Ben F. Wilson, Hubert G. LawsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1944, p. 1
  4. The county board of agriculture backs a $15 million state fund for farm roads With J. L. Scotton presiding, the Orange County board of agriculture heard John W. Umstead Jr. and passed his resolution asking that at least $15 million of the state's $60 million highway surplus go to secondary roads, and sent out petitions through the neighborhood leaders. REA manager F. E. Joyner also outlined plans for expanding rural electric lines. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 14, 1944, p. 1
  5. Dairy farmers buy a Chapel Hill lot for a cooperative milk plant About 50 dairy farmers from Orange, Durham and Chatham counties bought a lot on Roberson Street in Chapel Hill for a plant to pasteurize and bottle milk and make ice cream. Henry Hogan and Charles Stanford led the project with help from Representative John W. Umstead Jr.; building waited on the government's release of materials. People: Charles W. Stanford, John W. Umstead Jr., Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 8, 1945, p. 3
  6. The legislature raises Orange County officers' pay and grants county workers a war bonus Bills introduced by Representative John W. Umstead Jr. became law, setting new salaries for the clerk of superior court ($3,000), sheriff ($3,300) and register of deeds ($2,500) from December 1946 and giving county officers and employees a monthly war bonus of $10 to $18 backdated to January 1, 1945. The county commissioners approved the bonuses on March 5. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 1, 1945, p. 1
  7. John W. Umstead Jr. sponsors hybrid corn demonstrations for Orange County 4-H boys Hybrid corn demonstrations sponsored by John W. Umstead Jr. in 1946 gave an average of 65 bushels an acre against 40 for the local variety. For 1947 assistant farm agent E. P. Barnes gave 48 4-H club boys half a gallon of hybrid seed each to plant beside local corn.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 9, 1947, p. 5
  8. Orange County votes for the state's road and school bonds About 4,100 Orange voters approved Governor Kerr Scott's $200 million secondary road bonds, 2,450 to 1,743, and the $25 million school building bonds, 3,296 to 879. The Hillsboro precinct voted the road bonds down 478 to 278, the road bonds carried in Chapel Hill by two votes, and University precinct was the only one to vote against both issues. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1949, p. 1
  9. Governor Kerr Scott tours northeastern Orange to see rural progress Governor W. Kerr Scott spent about three and a half hours in Orange County, speaking to some 200 people at the newly finished New Sharon Methodist Church, inspecting the nearly complete Schley Grange hall and farm conservation work, and ending at barbecue suppers at Pleasant Green and St. Mary's. He denied charges that he was setting country against town and said he wanted rural living to equal town living. People: Carl T. Durham, John W. Umstead Jr., Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1949, p. 1
  10. Citizens set up township committees to choose Orange County roads for paving At a mass meeting called by the Orange County Pomona Grange, so crowded it moved from the courthouse to the high school auditorium, citizens set up a 54-member countywide steering committee and five-man township committees to pick roads for paving under the state's $200 million rural roads bonds. Highway commissioner James A. Barnwell said Orange would get $2,126,527 for about 75 miles of paving and stabilizing of its other 425 miles of unpaved roads, and John W. Umstead Jr. was elected to head the steering group. People: Garland O. Reitzel, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 29, 1949, p. 1
  11. Orange County casts a record vote and carries the Democratic ticket About 9,000 voters went to the polls in the county's 16 precincts on November 4, 1952, the biggest vote on record, after the heaviest registration ever. Adlai Stevenson carried the county over Dwight Eisenhower, who got 3,813 votes, and the Democrats won every county office; Carrboro, St. Mary's, Caldwell and Rock Springs went for Eisenhower, but only Rock Springs also favored Republicans down the ticket. People: Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson, Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John W. Umstead Jr., Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 6, 1952, p. 1
  12. Chapel Hill aldermen ask for a new, smaller perimeter zoning act On February 9, 1953, the Chapel Hill aldermen voted 4 to 2 to ask Representative John W. Umstead Jr. to introduce a new enabling act, replacing the 1949 and 1951 laws, to let the town zone a much smaller area of about a mile on each side of the new Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, with planning and adjustment boards of five town and five outside members. The vote shelved the zoning ordinance that rural residents had fought for more than a year. People: Oliver K. Cornwell, John W. Umstead Jr., Peter L. Burch, Robert Lee FowlerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 12, 1953, p. 1
  13. UNC trustees' executive committee approves semesters and Saturday classes at Chapel Hill Meeting in Raleigh on February 9, 1953, the executive committee of the University trustees voted 6 to 2, with one abstention, to put the Chapel Hill campus on a semester system with a six-day week, including Saturday classes, from September 1953. John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill and A. Hugh Harris voted no, and a faculty report favored semesters but objected to how the six-day week was ordered. People: Gordon Gray, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 12, 1953, p. 6
  14. Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. shares the Progressive Farmer's Man of the Year award The Progressive Farmer named Orange County legislator John W. Umstead Jr. joint recipient of its 1953 Man of the Year in Service to Rural North Carolina award for his work on the state's mental hospitals, including leading the 1953 movement for a $22 million mental hospital bond issue. James H. Clark of the Medical Care Commission shared the award. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 26, 1953, p. 1
  15. John W. Umstead Jr. runs again for the state House and pledges to repeal the secrecy law Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill announced that he would run again for Orange County's seat in the House, which would be his eighth House term after two in the Senate, and pledged to help introduce a bill at the first meeting of the 1955 House to repeal the legislative secrecy law passed in 1953. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 21, 1954, p. 1
  16. Rep. Umstead objects to a new Chapel Hill-Hillsborough road through New Hope Speaking for citizens who had complained to him, Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. told the county commissioners that the state should not extend the Chapel Hill-New Hope road into Hillsborough while 75 to 100 miles of roads promised stabilization under the rural roads bond program were still unimproved, and he said he would carry his objection to the Highway Commission. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 4, 1954, p. 1
  17. The commissioners oppose a bill forcing the full Chapel Hill school supplement The county commissioners unanimously resolved against a section of the school bill before the General Assembly that would make them levy the full supplementary school tax voters had approved, which Chapel Hill school officials backed to restore their 20-cent rate after the board cut it to 12 cents following the 1954 revaluation. They asked Representative John W. Umstead Jr. and Senator Ralph Scott to fight it. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 10, 1955, p. 1
  18. Money is set aside to finish the psychiatric wing at North Carolina Memorial Hospital Hospital Director Robert R. Cadmus announced that up to $300,000 had been made available to finish the empty ground floor of the 75-bed psychiatric wing and to build a planned two-story extension, with a State Hospitals Board of Control grant to be matched with federal Hill-Burton money. He said the work would complete the hospital's six-year building program. People: John W. Umstead Jr.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 29, 1955, p. 8
  19. County commissioners ask the legislature to allow no more than two commissioners from one township On Commissioner Sim Efland's motion the board voted 4 to 0, with Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs abstaining after failing to get a public hearing first, to back a bill limiting the five-member board to two members from any township; banker W. E. Thompson, Representative John W. Umstead and others had urged it that day. After protests from Roland McClamroch Sr. and the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters, which called the change 'tantamount to disenfranchisement' of part of the county, the board set a public hearing for September 10 and later moved it to October 8. People: Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Roland P. McClamroch, W. E. Thompson, John W. Umstead Jr.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1956, p. 1
  20. Piedmont Electric members hold their 17th annual meeting at Hillsboro More than 400 members heard Congressman Carl Durham trace rural electrification to 1933, when, he said, Orange County's commissioners started the program and the county 'can claim that it was first,' and heard state REA chairman Gwyn B. Price forecast farm power use tripling in 20 years. Members re-elected nine directors, including S. C. Wilson, Clyde Roberts and N. B. Berry; the co-op served 5,200 members over 1,340 miles of line in six counties. People: Carl T. Durham, Clyde Roberts, John W. Umstead Jr.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 21, 1956, p. 1
  21. Representative John W. Umstead Jr. backs Governor Hodges's school plan As the special session opened, Orange County's veteran legislator said he would support the Pearsall Committee's program of education expense grants and local option to close schools because it took school decisions away from 'extremists on both sides,' though he was not sure it was the answer and opposed dropping compulsory attendance. A week earlier Superintendent G. Paul Carr had endorsed the plan, while school board member Clarence D. Jones called the tuition grants unfair. People: G. Paul Carr, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 26, 1956, p. 1
  22. The university gives John W. Umstead Jr. an honorary doctor of laws For his services to the state the university awarded John W. Umstead Jr. an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1957.Search the index · NCpedia: Umstead, John Wesley, Jr. (Julian M. Pleasants, 1996)
  23. Representative John W. Umstead Jr. reports on the legislature in a weekly newspaper column During the 1957 General Assembly The News of Orange County ran a column by Representative John W. Umstead Jr., "John Umstead Says," on the bills before the legislature, from teacher pay and highway safety to the University's budget.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 14, 1957, p. 1
  24. The state Supreme Court strikes down Orange County's Sunday racing law The North Carolina Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the 1957 local act that barred motorcycle and auto races in Orange County on Sundays and after 6 p.m. on weekdays, reversing Superior Court Judge Clawson Williams. The court held that the act, aimed at the people who staged races rather than at racing itself, differed from a Wake County Sunday ban it had upheld. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, John W. Umstead Jr., Odell H. ClaytonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 16, 1958, p. 1
  25. The General Assembly enlarges the Orange County Board of Education to five members A bill introduced by Representative John W. Umstead Jr. passed the House on March 25 and the Senate on March 26, raising the county school board from three members to five and naming Charles M. Walker Jr., Gordon B. Cleveland and F. Ross Porter to terms beginning in April. The three took the oath on April 6, when the enlarged board reelected Charles W. Stanford chairman and G. Paul Carr superintendent. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 2, 1959, p. 4
  26. Representative Umstead places Orange County under the bill against single-shot voting Representative John W. Umstead Jr. had Orange County added to a bill that would throw out ballots cast for only one candidate in local elections with several seats at stake, and the House approved it. The paper reported sharp criticism from people in Chapel Hill and Hillsboro, and a delegation was expected to oppose the measure at a Senate Elections Committee hearing set for June 5. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 4, 1959, p. 1
  27. John Umstead gives a Bolin Creek site for the Exchange swimming pool John W. Umstead gave two acres beside the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Recreation Center Corporation's building on Bolin Creek as the site of the private pool planned by the Exchange Swimming Pool Corporation, which accepted the gift that week. Sponsor Herb Holland said the pool had 140 members and he hoped it would open by summer. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 18, 1962, p. 7
  28. Chapel Hill honors Representative John W. Umstead at a community dinner About 400 people at a public banquet in the University's Lenoir Hall honored John W. Umstead Jr., dean of the General Assembly, whom The News called the father of the state's mental hospital program, with Gov. Terry Sanford, his college roommate Frank Porter Graham, President William Friday and others speaking. Mrs. Umstead shared the honors, and the couple received a color television and a framed tribute. People: Terry Sanford, Frank Porter Graham, William C. Friday, William B. Aycock, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 19, 1962, p. 1
  29. L. J. Phipps is sworn in as Orange County's representative Recorder's Court judge and county Democratic chairman L. J. Phipps took the oath in the new Legislative Building, three days after the county Democratic Executive Committee unanimously chose him to succeed John Umstead. About 300 people came to a reception given by the Orange County Young Democrats, and that night he introduced bills for a Hillsborough historical commission and a separate Carrboro zoning district. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 21, 1963, p. 1
  30. John W. Umstead Jr. resigns as Orange County's representative Ill since the first day of the 1963 session, John W. Umstead Jr. stepped down from the General Assembly seat he had long held for Orange County. On March 15 the county Democratic Executive Committee thanked him and named him its honorary life chairman. People: John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 21, 1963, p. 11

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Oral history interview with Umstead G, Frank, 1998 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)

1998

Frank Graham Umstead, interviewed by J. D. Eyre on 22 June 1998, covers his family, his service in the Marines in World War II, his postal business and community work, and his father John W. Umstead Jr.'s fourteen terms in the North Carolina legislature and leadership in mental health. Cassette.

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Umstead, John W. and Sallie Reade Umstead: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1964

John W. Umstead and Sallie Reade Umstead photographed in 1964 on their fiftieth wedding anniversary. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection of Chapel Hill people.

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John U. Kirkland account books, 1829-1867

Kirkland, John U. (John Umstead), 1802-1879 · 1829

Merchant account books of John U. Kirkland (1802-1879), covering 1829 to 1867, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 405. The volumes concern nineteenth century Hillsborough commerce and the leather trade, including two firms Kirkland was tied to: Cain and Kirkland, and William Kirkland and Son of Hillsborough.

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Hillsborough Manufacturing Company

1813

Subscription book of 28 May 1813 seeking stockholders for the Hillsborough Manufacturing Company, a proposed cotton and wool factory in Hillsborough. John Umstead signed it as chairman. From Duke's Broadsides and Ephemera Collection.

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