David Gaston Worth

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1885 Alumni build the university's first gymnasium off university land After the dancing ban, a chartered Gymnasium Association sold $10 shares to alumni and built a hall 110 by 45 feet on its own land, rented to the university for exercise and used for the 1885 commencement ball. The building later became Commons Hall, the student dining hall. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert Bingham, Isaac Hall Manning, Richard H. Lewis, David Gaston Worth Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 313
2. 1891 David G. Worth pays to refit Gerrard Hall with numbered chairs David G. Worth of Wilmington gave $500 toward remodeling the university chapel, Gerrard Hall, where chairs replaced the old benches. Each student was given a numbered seat so monitors could report absences from morning prayers. Place: Gerrard HallSearch the index · NCpedia: Worth, David Gaston (Leora Hiatt McEachern, 1996)
3. June 5, 1895 Alumni pledge money for an Alumni Hall at the centennial banquet At the banquet marking a hundred years since the university opened, alumni and classes pledged gifts toward an Alumni Hall, led by Julian S. Carr with $3,000 and Thomas M. Holt with $1,000. The building, modeled on the Boston Public Library, had its cornerstone laid in 1898. People: Julian S. Carr, Marion Butler, David Gaston Worth, Bennehan Cameron Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas M. Holt · Also mentions: Alumni HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 523 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 6, 1895, p. 1
4. November 26, 1897 The university holds a memorial service for David Gaston Worth Five days after Worth died, the university held a memorial service for him in Gerrard Hall, with a prayer by the Rev. N. H. D. Wilson and talks by Dr. John Manning, Kemp P. Battle and President Edwin A. Alderman, who said a tablet in Memorial Hall would bear his name. People: John Manning, Kemp Plummer Battle, Edwin Anderson Alderman Place: Gerrard Hall · Also named: N. H. D. Wilson · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 550