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10203
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William Simpson was born in New York, moved to Richmond, and at age sixteen, moved with his family to Warrenton, North Carolina. Later he worked in a Richmond drugstore and for a pharmaceutical maker. During the Civil War he was assigned as a pharmacist in military hospitals in Raleigh. Simpson wanted pharmacists trained, and in 1893, he became dean of the Leonard School of Pharmacy at Shaw University.
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10204
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Rogers recounts the life of Frank Page--banker, industrialist, railroad builder, and father of the state's modern highway system.
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10205
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Rogers recounts the life of Greensboro native, William Sidney Porter, who wrote under the name of \"O. Henry\" and is considered one of the greatest American short story writers.
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10206
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Rogers recounts the life of Archibald Murphy, who was not only an attorney, legislator, jurist, and manuscript collector but is also considered the father of the state's public school system and the father of internal improvements.
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10208
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Rogers recounts the life of Andrew Johnson, the son of a Raleigh hotel porter who became President of the United States upon the death of Abraham Lincoln.
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10209
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James Knox Polk of Mecklenburg County was the eleventh President of the United States. As president, Polk championed the cause of westward expansion of the United States - which was known as Manifest Destiny, settled the Oregon boundary dispute with England, and gained congressional recognition of a state of war with Mexico and the annexation of Texas.
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10211
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Rogers recounts the life of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, whose birthplace is claimed by both North and South Carolina.
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10213
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Although John Paul Jones was not a native North Carolinian, he enjoyed the friendship of a number of prominent individuals in the state. Willie Jones of Halifax provided a home for him when he was down and out, and he secured his first commission in the first United States Navy through the influence of Joseph Hewes of Edenton.
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10214
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Rogers recounts the life of Calvin Henderson Wiley, who was North Carolina's first superintendent of common schools.
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10215
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James Davis came to North Carolina about two hundred years ago to become the state's first printer and to print the laws of the colony. He remained thirty-six years. He was the first man to establish a newspaper, print a magazine, and print a book.
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10192
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Rogers recounts the life of Thomas Fanning Wood, who served with the Eighteenth and Third Regiments North Carolina Troops during the Civil War and was later responsible more than anyone else for the origin of the North Carolina State Department of Public Health.
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10193
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Josephus Daniels--newspaper editor, Secretary of the Navy, and ambassador to Mexico--was interviewed by Rogers, who wrote the article a few weeks before Daniels's death in January 1948.
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10194
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Rogers recounts the life of Alexander Graham - teacher, Civil War soldier, historian, and the father of North Carolina's graded school system.
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10195
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Rogers recounts the life of Edward Holt, planter and pioneer manufacturer of colored textiles in the South.
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10196
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Born in Perquimans County, John Harvey was a colonial and Revolutionary leader. His bold work in behalf of freedom from England was one of the leading causes for the North Carolina colony's early stand for independence. Harvey died before independence for all the colonies was achieved.
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