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Joseph Graham

volunteer at Battle of Charlotte

volunteer at Battle of Charlotte

In the record (9)

  1. 1780 · 1780-09-26

    On September 26, 1780, at the Battle of Charlotte, Colonel William R. Davie's roughly 150 mounted infantry and dragoons, reinforced by Captain Joseph Graham's volunteers, made a defensive stand around Charlotte's wooden courthouse against Lord Cornwallis's much larger British force, repelling several cavalry charges before withdrawing in an orderly retreat; Patriot losses were about five killed, while the British reportedly suffered around thirty casualties among privates plus wounded officers.

    Mecklenburg County CourthouseLord CornwallisPeter ForceWilliam R. Davie

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  2. 1825

    Samuel McComb discovered gold in what is now Charlotte, just west of Irwin Creek near the present-day intersection of Morehead and Graham Streets, marking the start of gold mining within the city itself.

    Samuel McComb

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  3. 1891 · 1891-09-23

    Good Samaritan Hospital opened for business on September 23, 1891, at the corner of Mint and Graham Streets in Charlotte's Third Ward, with a 20-bed capacity — one of the first hospitals built specifically for African American patients in the United States and the first privately funded Black hospital in North Carolina.

    Good Samaritan Hospital siteQueen City Drug StorePresbyterian HospitalGood Samaritan HospitalMercy HospitalW.W. Ward

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  4. 1918

    Billy Graham grew up on his family's dairy farm outside Charlotte during the Great Depression; his father, William Franklin Graham Sr., was a dairy farmer, and Billy later described spending time "in the hayloft reading books on a wide variety of subjects."

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  5. 1918 · 1918-11-07

    Billy Graham was born November 7, 1918, in the downstairs bedroom of his family's farmhouse near Charlotte, NC, just days before the end of World War I.

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  6. 1934 · 1934-11-01

    On November 1, 1934, 16-year-old Billy Graham had his religious conversion experience during a revival crusade held in Charlotte by traveling evangelist Mordecai Ham, an event Graham later described in his autobiography 'Just As I Am' (1997) as the moment he came to know he was "right with God."

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

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  7. 1947 · 1947-09-13

    Billy Graham held his first independent evangelistic crusade September 13-21, 1947, at the Civic Auditorium in Grand Rapids, Michigan, drawing about 6,000 attendees; he was 28 years old and had recently become a charter vice president of Youth for Christ International.

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

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  8. 1948 · 1948-01-01

    In 1948, at age 29, Billy Graham became president of Northwestern Bible College (Northwestern Schools) in Minneapolis, making him the youngest college or university president in the country at the time; he held the post until resigning in 1952.

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

    Elizabeth College

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  9. 1949 · 1949-01-01

    In 1949, Billy Graham held an eight-week evangelistic crusade in Los Angeles under circus tents in a parking lot; the event ran five weeks longer than planned, drew national media coverage, and made Graham a national figure.

    Stephen B. Weeks

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