Alvin Cullum York
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Significant name | Sergeant York Historic Area | Pall Mall | |||||
| Architect | Alvin Cullom York Farm | Pall Mall | |||||
| 1900/00/00 | Alvin Cullum York receives what he would later call a 3rd grade education - a subscription school education which amounted to only nine months total schooling over three years. | Education | |||||
| 1918/10/08 | Cpl Alvin York and 16 other men under the command of Sgts Harry Parsons and Bernard Early attack the Decauville railroad near Chatel-Chehery in the Meuse-Argonne. After a brief firefight and 9 American dead, 123 Germans surrender. | US Corporal | Grand Est | France | |||
| 1920/00/00 | Barely literate veteran Alvin York establishes the non-profit York Foundation and begins touring the United States, giving lectures to raise funds for a free school for children in the mountains of Tennessee. | Vocation | Alvin C York Agricultural Institute Historic District | Jamestown | |||
| 1925/09/00 | With $12,000 he raised on speaking tours, York buys 400 acres that include an old Poor House. The first students at York Institute began taking classes in the fall of 1925. They live and attend class in the Poor House. | Founder | Alvin C York Agricultural Institute Historic District | Jamestown | |||
| 1927/07/09 | The County Board of Education serves York notice to vacate the premises by July 11, 1927, or be forcibly evicted. York turns over the matter to his attorney. | Vocation | Alvin C York Agricultural Institute Historic District | Jamestown | |||
| 1927/08/00 | York tours to raise money and rally support. For the first time in his speaking career, he talks about his war record. New Englanders will eventually provide the majority of the donations. | Vocation | |||||
| 1927/11/11 | On Armistice Day, Alvin York speaks to a packed audience at Carnegie Hall about the importance of his work and the benighted souls who stand in his way, comparing the Fentress county elite to a pair of mules working against each other. | Vocation | Carnegie Hall | New York City | |||
| 1929/09/00 | After a protracted series of legal challenges, Alvin York opens his Agricultural Institute in the fall of 1929. | Vocation | Alvin C York Agricultural Institute Historic District | Jamestown | |||
| 1931/00/00 | In 1931 and 1935, York secures a mortgage on his farm from banker, W L Wright to hire drivers, buy buses and pay teachers' salaries for the Institute. Susie Williams, twice loans York the money to pay off his notes avoid foreclose. | Vocation | Alvin Cullom York Farm | Pall Mall | |||
| 1931/00/00 | In 1931 and 1935, York secures a mortgage on his farm from banker, W L Wright to hire drivers, buy buses and pay teachers' salaries for the Institute. Susie Williams, twice loans York the money to pay off his notes avoid foreclose. | Vocation | Alvin C York Agricultural Institute Historic District | Jamestown | |||
| 1937/00/00 | The state of Tennessee takes control of Agricultural Institute and removes York as administrator. Because he did not have a college degree, they give him the honorary title of "president emeritus". | Vocation | Alvin C York Agricultural Institute Historic District | Jamestown | |||
| 1948/00/00 | York continues to promote York Institute, raising donations and presiding over every graduation ceremony until a stroke in 1948. York made regular visits to the school up into the late 1950s. | Vocation | Alvin C York Agricultural Institute Historic District | Jamestown |
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