Francis D. Winston

Life and Orange County connections

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1. September 1875 Francis D. Winston is the first student to arrive for the reopening Battle names Francis Donnell Winston of Bertie County the first student on the Hill in 1875, arriving a day ahead of other entrants with his brother Robert and Charles Bond. Bond was the only student to enter the agricultural department on opening day, and Battle calls him the first student of the first college of agriculture in the state. People: Robert W. (Robert Watson) Winston, Francis D. WinstonDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 94
2. 1876 The university begins keeping Washington's Birthday as a holiday The reopened faculty set the precedent of a holiday on February 22, and the literary societies later chose a Washington orator for the day. At the first or second observance Francis D. Winston displayed a battered hatchet he claimed had felled the cherry tree. People: Francis D. WinstonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 93
3. 1879 Cornelia Phillips Spencer edits the Chapel Hill Weekly Ledger For some months in 1879 Cornelia Phillips Spencer edited the Chapel Hill Weekly Ledger, with students R. P. Pell and Francis D. Winston as assistants. The book calls her the county's only woman editor; Charles B. Aycock took over from her. People: Charles B. Aycock, Francis D. WinstonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 127-128
4. 1887 Francis D. Winston becomes a trustee of the university Francis D. Winston of Bertie County joined the university's board of trustees in 1887, eight years after he graduated. He served on the board for more than half a century and attended sixty-one consecutive commencements.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 789
5. June 1, 1907 Masons lay the cornerstone of the Carnegie library On the Saturday of the 1907 commencement the Grand Lodge of Masons, led by Grand Master Francis D. Winston, laid the cornerstone of the new library built with Andrew Carnegie's gift. Construction had begun in October 1906. People: M. C. S. Noble, Eric A. Abernethy, Francis D. WinstonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 664
6. May 31, 1909 Alumni pledge forty-one endowed scholarships At the 1909 alumni luncheon, classes and local alumni groups promised to endow forty-one scholarships of $1,000 each. Julian S. Carr gave five named for J. Johnston Pettigrew for sons of Confederate soldiers, and Edgar Love two named for Cornelia Phillips Spencer. People: Julian S. Carr, Francis Preston Venable, Francis D. WinstonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 689
7. May 1911 commencement The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement. People: Edward K. Graham, Julian S. Carr, Walter Clark, Francis D. WinstonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717
8. 1920 The university awards Francis D. Winston an honorary doctor of laws In 1920 the University of North Carolina gave Francis D. Winston, a member of the class of 1879 and a longtime trustee, an honorary LL.D.Search the index · NCpedia: Winston, Francis Donnell (R. Neil Fulghum, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1996)