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37260
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A small article about Tamsen Eustic Dozier Donner, formerly of Elizabeth City, NC. She died in 1846 in the tragic wagon train that was trapped by snow and members resorted to cannibalism.
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37326
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Kate Peele and her husband, Herbert Peele, owned 'The Daily Advance' newspaper in Elizabeth City, NC from 1913 to 1949 and kept the radio station until his death in December 1952.
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37630
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This the story of ‘Colonel’ Arthur Jones (1821-1908) of Elizabeth City, NC, who in 1862 took a wagon and horses from his own stables and rushed into the burning Court House and rescued the priceless Pasquotank County records from the 1700s.
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37651
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History of J. B. Flora, merchant in Elizabeth City, NC, found in 1884 Business Directory.
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37730
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About Charles R. Kinney, Early Lawyer at Elizabeth City, NC.
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37740
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Biography of Dr. W. W. Griggs, of Elizabeth City, NC from 1885.
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37776
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About James Monroe Richardson (1872-1926) of Elizabeth City, NC, merchant and steamboat captain.
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37847
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Article about African Americans in the Civil War, Buffalo Soldiers in WWI, and WWII. Information is given about Andrew ‘Salt’ Williams, of Elizabeth City, NC, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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37988
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Article about John B. Bray, Elizabeth City Manager, 1923
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38410
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Miss Lillie Grandy was the first president of the Woman’s Club of Elizabeth City, NC and was a moving spirit in the community. She got the State Legislature to provide funds for libraries, pushed Home Demonstration, and gave numerous scholarships. She requested at her death, ‘don’t send me flowers, plant dogwood trees in your yard.’
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38440
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The author gives an affectionate history of a simple woman from Elizabeth City, NC.
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38441
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The author gives a history of Anthony Burton Persse, of Chowan Co., NC and later of Elizabeth City, NC.