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Patrick Henry Winston

1881–1940 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineTelephones in Chapel Hill, 1901–19921901–1992 · 39 events · Telephone service in Chapel Hill grew from one professor's telephone in 1901 to an automatic dial system owned by the University. Bryant lists Professor Eben Alexander as the first in town to have a telephone, number 1 in 1901, and by Battle's account Professor Joshua W. Gore had the first long-distance line set up that session. In 1922 more than eighty citizens protested a rate increase to the state Corporation Commission. In 1925 the University bought the Chapel Hill Telephone Company to keep it from outside buyers. In 1927 it ordered dial equipment to replace the overloaded manual board, and between December 1927 and January 1928 the town changed over to automatic service, with new numbers and higher rates. The University-owned company opened a Campus exchange in 1969 and planned one-party service in the early 1970s, and in 1974 a state commission recommended selling it to Southern Bell. Southern Bell bought the system in 1977. The towns fought its higher installation charges and asked it to pay taxes on the property, and in 1978 residents opposed its plan to enlarge the Rosemary Street exchange beside the Old Methodist Church. In 1981 Southern Bell switched Chapel Hill to an electronic system, Chapel Hill telephone workers joined the 1983 national strike, and in 1984, after the AT&T breakup, UNC replaced its dormitory telephones with modular jacks. In 1988 Bingham Township residents petitioned to join a toll-free Triangle calling region and calls between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro became local, and in 1989 a trial of flat-rate calling across the Triangle began. In 1990 and 1991 the county commissioners and the Town Council pressed for flat-rate and toll-free calling, in 1992 half-price calling across the Triangle began as an experiment, and Southern Bell switched its Chapel Hill office to digital equipment.

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  1. An Orange County meeting at the court house condemns nullification A county meeting that filled the Hillsborough court room, by one estimate three to four hundred people, adopted with one dissenting voice a resolution against nullification and for the Union. A second resolution calling the tariff unjust set off a debate among Patrick H. Winston, Willie P. Mangum, Dr. James S. Smith and Congressman Daniel L. Barringer that ended in a disputed count. People: Patrick Henry Winston, Willie P. Mangum, James Strudwick Smith Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Daniel L. BarringerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 26, 1832, p. 3
  2. Chapel Hill citizens protest the telephone company's rate increase to the Corporation Commission More than eighty Chapel Hill citizens signed a protest to the state Corporation Commission against the Chapel Hill Telephone Company's increase from $2 to $3 a month for residence telephones and from $3 to $4.50 for business telephones. The commission told P. H. Winston that it would hear the protest on a date after March 10 agreeable to the protestants. People: Patrick Henry Winston Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), March 9, 1922, p. 2
  3. George Tayloe Winston, president of the University from 1891 to 1896, dies George Tayloe Winston, president of the University from 1891 to 1896 and later of the University of Texas and North Carolina State College, died on the night of August 26, 1932 in Watts Hospital, Durham, in his eightieth year. He had spent his last four years at the Chapel Hill home of his son, P. H. Winston; Rev. Alfred S. Lawrence held private services and his ashes were taken to Asheville. People: George Tayloe Winston, Patrick Henry Winston, Alfred Stratton Lawrence Place: Home of P. H. Winston, Chapel Hill; died at Watts Hospital, Durham · Also mentions: Watts HospitalSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 2, 1932, p. 3
  4. Patrick Henry Winston, former University law professor, dies Patrick Henry Winston, a Chapel Hill native who taught in the University law school for 22 years until ill health retired him in 1931, died at his home. A 1905 West Point graduate and an Army major in the World War, he was a son of former University president George T. Winston; the Weekly reported that he had been despondent through a long illness and that his death was a suicide. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: George T. WinstonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 3, 1940, p. 4

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Patterson's General Store Ledger

Store, Patterson's General · 1910

Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Winston, Patrick Henry, 1881-1940.

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George Tayloe Winston papers, 1862-1969

Winston, George Tayloe, 1852-1932 · 1862

Papers of George Tayloe Winston (1852 to 1932), a member of the University of North Carolina faculty in the nineteenth century. The papers span 1862 to 1969. The subjects reach well beyond Chapel Hill: naval service and sea life, officers' diaries, ship drawings, travel in Paris, Madeira and Panama, and Venezuelan foreign relations. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 797.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Winston, Patrick Henry, 1847-1904.

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