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Estelle Lawson Page wanted to be a doctor but was prevented by her father. She turned to golf, becoming one of the nation's best golfers and winning over twenty-two tournaments. She was one of the five original members of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame.
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Dr. Isaac F. Harris of Chapel Hill was the first, and from 1919 to 1929, the only commercial manufacturer of vitamins in the country. When he retired in 1942, his company, Harris Laboratories, Inc. in Tuckahoe, N.Y., had annual sales of over $100 million.
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Richmond County native Victor Blue had a distinguished naval career of 32 years. His two spy missions in Cuba during the Spanish-American War brought information that helped defeat the Spanish Navy at Santiago, Cuba.
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Born in Tyrrell County, Edward Warren won honors for his medical practice on three continents and service in the Confederate Army. Yet, at the end of his distinguished life he wished he had been content to remain in Edenton.
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Frances Fisher, who wrote under the pen name Christian Reid, wrote almost fifty novels. The title of her most famous novel, THE LAND OF SKY, gave the phrase that has forever described the state's mountains.
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Bicycling in the late 19th-century brought not only a new form of transportation to the state, but also a change in the social order of men and women.
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Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus accomplished many things during the Great Depression, including the state takeover of public education. He achieved national fame, however, when his car broke down, and he had to hitchhike to Fayetteville for a speech.
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In the early 1920s, University of North Carolina football player C. L. Merritt was nicknamed \"The Battering Ram.\" His charging style of play inspired the choice of the ram as the school's mascot in 1924.
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Marion Butler was a controversial political figure, serving in three parties - Democrat, Populist, and Republican - from the General Assembly to the U.S. Senate. He gathered a host of friends and enemies, party accolades, and charges of party betrayal.
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Elizabeth City newspaper editor W. O. Saunders' visions for the Outer Banks included the Wright Memorial, Lost Colony pageant, and bridging Oregon Inlet, but it was a 1934 article on 400 Pasquotank County outhouses that brought him national fame.
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James Glasgow was the state's first secretary of state (1776 to 1779).When people learned that the perceived model citizen had used the office for corrupt land dealings, he was fined and disgraced. A county named for him was changed to Greene County.
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A chance meeting in Texas in 1897 between two traveling salesmen from the state, Fairleigh Dickinson and Maxwell Becton, led to the founding of Becton Dickinson & Company, one of the nation's largest medical-supply firms.
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3383
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Sarah Micles (Michaels) of Burke County was famous for her pipes. Made of clay bowls, they were enjoyed by men, women, and Civil War soldiers in many states. Her descendants continued making pipes from her molds until the 1950s.
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A controversy between Elisha Mitchell and Thomas L. Clingman over who was first to identify, climb, and measure the tallest mountain in the state ended tragically when Mitchell fell to his death, while trying to prove his claim.
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Edward Teach, called Blackbeard the pirate, terrorized the state's coastal waters in the early 18th-century, creating a trail of legend and folklore before he was killed in 1718, near Ocracoke, fighting the king's navy.
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