Record #:

8920

Author(s):

Price, Woodrow

Abstract:

Silas Coley died in March 1967 at the age of 86. He was one of the founders of the Durham Life Insurance Company and an avid outdoorsman. Coley, along with P. K. Gravely, Staton Inscoe, and others, formed the North Carolina Wildlife Federation and led the successful campaign that created the North Carolina Wildlife Commission by an act of the 1947 General Assembly. He served as its chairman for the first seven months of its existence and inaugurated the system of electing new officers at the beginning of each year. The article includes names of commission members who served during the years 1947 – 1972.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 36 Issue 7, July 1972, p13-14, por

Subject(s):

Coley, Silas Bodie, 1880-1967; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission--History