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Lawrence writes \"that the Dockery family ranked as the most outstanding Whig and Republican family in the state. They were not professional men--not even agriculturalists, but just plain dirt farmers.\" The family started with Thomas in 1797, and at one time the family owned thousands of acres in Richmond County. They were prominent citizens and rendered valuable service to their state among various lines in war and peace.
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18564
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Michael Schenck built the first cotton mill south of the Potomac River near Lincolnton in 1813. Lawrence summarizes how cotton manufacturing expanded in the state from that point.
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Dr. Haywood, a native of Raleigh, was a physician, Confederate surgeon, and medical administrator. An outstanding professionals in the medical field during the 19th century, Haywood established the state's first military hospital during the Civil War in May 1861.
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Pritchard was born in Tennessee in 1857. He later settled in strongly Republican Madison County and began his political career. He practiced law, served in the General Assembly, held several judgeships, and upon the death of Zebulon Vance, completed his term in the U.S. Senate. As the only Southern Republican in the Senate, he became a confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt and advised him on Southern appointments and on all Southern policies.
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McRae was a teacher and a missionary of the Presbyterian Church and is remembered by the name of her second husband, Alexander McRae of Wilmington, who died in 1881. One of her causes was organizing missionary societies for women, but many ministers opposed her. Another group who opposed her was the infamous Lowrie gang, outlaws who terrorized the region, but she stood them down. Her second cause was education, and in 1898 she went to the remote mountains around Banner Elk. The school she started was called McRae Institute. Mrs. S. P. Lees became interested and gave generously. In 1907 the school became Lees-McRae Institute, and later Lee-McRae College.
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Rev. Dr. Robert H. Morrison, one of the most distinguished preachers of his generation and the first president of Davidson College, had four daughters, who married four famous men. Isabella married, Lt. General Daniel Harvey Hill; Mary Anna who married Lt. General Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson; Eugenia who married Brigadier General Rufus Barringer; and Susan who married the youthful Major (later Supreme Court Justice) Alfonzo C. Avery.
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Lawrence takes a brief look at three Majors from Burke County. Alphonso C. Avery who served on the staff of his brother-in-law General Daniel Harvey Hill during the Civil War, and then later a Judge of the Superior Court and the NC Supreme Court; Samuel McD. Tate served in the 26th NC Regiment and later served in the General Assembly and as the NC Treasurer; and James W. Wilson who saw action in battle during the Civil War. Wilson was chief engineer on the railroad building project through the mountains and later the first Railroad Commission chairman.
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Physicians were in the North Carolina colony almost as early as there were preachers. John King practiced in Chowan as early as 1694, and Godfrey Spruill was practicing at Edenton as early as 1702. Lawrence lists other outstanding doctors, including one he considers the most famous, Dr. Hugh Williamson of Chowan, who was appointed Surgeon-General of the North Carolina troops by Governor Richard Caswell.
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To date there have been thirty-three men who have been elected to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina. They not only served the state in the Senate but in other fields of usefulness, too. The list begins with Samuel Johnston, elected 1789, and ends with Robert R. Reynolds, elected 1932.
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North Carolina can proudly claim three men who signed the Constitution--Hugh Williamson of Chowan, Richard Dobbs Spaight and William Blount of Craven County. Lawrence provides biographical information on them.
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After Daniel Boone, North Carolina's most famous mountain man was Big Tom Wilson, who was a noted guide, tracker, bear hunter, and master story teller who lived in Yancey County. When Dr. Elisha Mitchell, in seeking to prove the height of a mountain later named for him, disappeared, it was Tom Wilson who lead a search party to find Mitchell's body in 1857 that brought him nationwide fame.
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Meekins was a native of Tyrrell County. During his life he held a number of positions including, mayor, postmaster, general counsel in the office of Alien Property Custodian during World War II, and U.S. District Court Judge.
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The 26th North Carolina was one of the most famous regiments of the Civil War. The officers and men participated in many hard-fought battles and sustained their greatest losses at Gettysburg. In a charge on the first day fourteen color bearers were shot down, including Colonels Burgwyn and Lane. When it surrendered at Appomattox, 120 men were left from a regiment of 1,900.
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Meredith College is named for Thomas Meredith, the father of Baptist educational work in North Carolina. Lawrence recounts the growth of the college under the leadership of some of the greatest educators in the state, including Dr. Richard T. Vann and Dr. Carlyle Campbell.
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North Carolina has a number of well-known physicians dating from its earliest days. One signed the Constitution. Another became Governor of the state. Others were outstanding in the service they rendered to the state. Among them were Ephraim Brevard, Thomas Burke, Hugh Williamson, and Edward Warren.
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