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10285
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In 1791, Congress chartered the “first” United States Bank in Philadelphia. That bank was liquidated in 1811. That same year the “second” United States Bank was chartered and empowered to operate branches. Rogers recounts the history of the North Carolina branch which was located in Fayetteville.
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10251
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Bowman Gray Sr., was one of the men who contributed to North Carolina's industrial growth in the first half of the 20th-century. He was also a man who benefited education and other civic enterprises. One of his greatest benevolences was providing funds for the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 8 Issue 11, Mar 1951, p21-22, 27, bibl
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10252
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Dr. J. Frank Highsmith was a pioneer in surgery and hospital practices. He established the first privately owned hospital in Fayetteville at the turn of the century, and many of his rules for its running are still in operation today.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 8 Issue 12, Apr 1951, p18-21, por, bibl
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10256
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Rogers recounts the lives of brothers Caesar and Moses Cone, who were industrialists and philanthropists. Following successful business ventures in other sections of the country, the brothers opened a textile mill in Greensboro in the late 1890s that within a decade grew to be the largest cotton mill in the South and the largest denim manufacturing mill in the world. The family was the benefactor of Moses Cone Hospital.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 9 Issue 1, May 1951, p19-21, por, bibl
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10216
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Welker, a minister in the Reformed Church, came to North Carolina from Pennsylvania. After the Civil War, Welker was one of the men who helped write North Carolina's new constitution. He contributed greatly to the section which dealt with the welfare of the state's less fortunate people and had the most to do with the establishment of the North Carolina Board of Public Charities.
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10217
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Washington Duke rose from a yeoman farmer with little formal education to become one of North Carolina's great industrialists and philanthropists of the 19th-century.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 7 Issue 10, Feb 1950, p24-27, por, bibl
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10218
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John Henry Boner was born in Salem, North Carolina, in 1845. Rogers recounts incidents in the life of this little-known North Carolina poet.
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10239
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Josiah Bailey was North Carolina's United States Senators from 1931-1946. Rogers recounts incidents in his political life.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 8 Issue 1, May 1950, p22-24, por, bibl
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10242
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Rogers recounts the life of Matthew Whitaker Ransom--lawyer, farmer, Confederate general, United States Senator, and Ambassador to Mexico.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 8 Issue 2, June 1950, p20-23, por, bibl
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10244
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Rogers recounts the life of Michael Schenck, who moved from Pennsylvania to Lincoln County in North Carolina around 1790. He established himself as a merchant and is credited with building the state's first cotton mill in 1813.
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10245
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Dr. Richard Gordon Gatling of Maney's Neck in Hertford County was born September 12, 1818. Gatling was world-famous for his agricultural inventions, and after the outbreak of the Civil War, he began work on a weapon that would bring him lasting fame - the Gatling Gun.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 8 Issue 4, Aug 1950, p6-7, por, bibl
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10247
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Rogers recounts the life of Josephus Daniels, whose many activities included newspaper editor, Secretary of the Navy, author, and ambassador to Mexico.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 8 Issue 5, Sept 1950, p20-24, por, bibl
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10248
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Some of Thomas Wolfe's fellow citizens in Asheville did not appreciate it when he began writing novels with the city and some of her citizens as background. Rogers recounts the life of North Carolina's greatest writer.
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10249
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Rogers recounts the life of William E. Dodd, who was one of the nation's greatest teachers and historians of the 20th-century.
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10202
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An 1881 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Charles Duncan McIver had a long career in education. He was the founder and first president of the State Normal and Industrial School for Girls, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 6 Issue 9, Jan 1949, p22-25, 30, por, bibl