1903
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Events
- April 22 – The Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia were scheduled to meet to discuss the election of a president. [1]
- November 10 – The Charlottesville City & Suburban Railway Company was sold at public auction. [2]
- November 30 – A special meeting of the Charlottesville City Council takes place and City Engineer C.L. DeMott comments that the city is run by the street railway company. Mayor J. Samuel McCue said that might have been true of a different Council. [3]
- December 1 – A fire broke out a barn at Third and Jefferson Streets owned by Warner Woods. Fire crews contained the blaze from spreading to the nearby Catholic Church and a house belonging to a "Mrs. Gooch." Fire broke out a second time shortly after it was extinguished. [4]
Births
- July 11 – Virginia Moore is born in Omaha, Nebraska to Ethel Daniel and John Allen Moore. A prominent poet and historian, Moore resided at Cliffside and served as a president of both the Board of the Scottsville Museum Foundation and the Board of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.
- December 2 – Asalie Minor to Elizabeth Curry and Rives C. Minor.
Deaths
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References
- ↑ Web. [1], Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, April 22, 1903, retrieved April 22, 2023. Print. April 22, 1903 page 1.
- ↑ Web. The Street Railway Sold, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 10, 1903, retrieved November 10, 2022. Print. November 10, 1903 page 1.
- ↑ Web. Spicy Meeting of Council - Major Bolton Called City Engineer to Account for Remarks, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, December 1, 1903, retrieved December 1, 2022. Print. December 1, 1903 page 1.
- ↑ Web. Very Stubborn Fire Today, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, December 1, 1903, retrieved December 1, 2022. Print. December 1, 1903 page 1.