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19125
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The North Carolina Bankers Association organized in 1897, at Morehead City. Thomas H. Battle, of the distinguished Edgecombe County family, was selected the first president. Lawrence discusses how the organization has benefited the state as a whole.
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19127
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Since its founding at Greensboro fifty years ago, the U.N.C. Women's College has had a remarkable growth. It is also the second largest college for women in the nation.
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19130
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Lawrence discovers some interesting facts about the origins of some of our most important departments of state, including the Attorney General's office, Lieutenant Governor, and the State Highway Commission.
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19159
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Lawrence, who has practiced law for forty years, says \"it was my high privilege to know intimately and to practice before the two most unique jurists in the state--Charles M. Cooke and George Roundtree.\" Roundtree, a native of Kinston, served with distinction on the bench, but it was the practice of law in which he made a record that was outstanding.
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19195
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North Carolina has had some outstanding journalists during various periods of the state's history. Lawrence chooses ten he considers truly great in their field. They were Edward J. Hale, William W. Holden, Josiah Turner, William L. Saunders, Joseph P. Caldwell, Archibald Johnson, R. R. Clark, Samuel A'Court Ashe, and Clarence Poe.
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19197
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Lawrence gives his list of those ministers he considers in the top ten in the history of the state. The list is limited to those who substantially spent their entire lives within borders. They are Dr. Halbert G. Hill (Presbyterian);Dr. J. W. Carter (Baptist); Bishop Edward Rondthaler (Moravian); Dr. Jacob Henry Smith (Presbyterian); Bishop John Kilgo (Methodist); Bishop Thomas C. Darst (Episcopalian); Bishop Eugene McGuinness (Catholic); Pleasant D. Gold (Primitive Baptist); Dr. Richard Tillman Vann (Baptist); and Bishop Clare Purcell (Methodist).
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19199
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During their lifetimes they were severely criticized. Lawrence writes biographical sketches of each one, revealing that in the majority of instances, future developments proved them to be right. The men were John Sevier, Thomas Person, Archibald D. Murphey, Calvin Graves, Hinton Rowan Helper, William H. Haywood, Alfred Dockery, Albion W. Tourgee, and Thomas Settle.
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19201
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There have been many prominent men of industry in North Carolina. Lawrence recounts the work of ten of them in furthering industrial progress in the state. The men are Alexander Sprunt and Sons (Wilmington), Ashley Horne (Clayton), Needham B. Broughton (Raleigh), John F. McNair (Laurinburg), the Cannon family (Kannapolis), Richard J. Reynolds (Winston), William States Lee (Durham), Caesar Cone (Greensboro), Daniel A. Tompkins (Charlotte), and George W. Pack (Asheville).
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19293
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Lawrence relates interesting information about railroading in North Carolina from the crude wood-burning trains of a century ago to the efficient rail transportation of today.
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19295
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Mary Lyde Hicks, born in Faison in 1866, was a daughter of Capt. H. F. Hicks of the 20th North Carolina Regiment. In her 'teens she married Marshall Williams. She early exhibited artistic skills at St. Mary's in Raleigh. She later studied portraiture under Fisher in Washington and Alexander in New York City. She now ranks as the state's outstanding painter of portraits. Her work is found in many towns across the state, including the State Building in Raleigh, Wake Forest College, UNC at Chapel Hill, and beyond to the walls of the Confederate Museum in Richmond where numerous examples of her portraits hang.
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19310
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J. B. Ivey started from scratch, but through the years he rose to become one of the biggest retail merchants in the Southeast. He opened a store in Charlotte in 1900, and by 1940, J. B. Ivey was the leading store there for quality merchandise. Other stores followed in North and South Carolina. He was an active member of the Methodist Church and served it in many capacities. He believed business should not be conducted on Sunday and drew the shades on the store's display windows on Saturday night.
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19339
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Lawrence reviews some of the common laws which the new nation and its states adopted from England. When the State and Federal Constitutions were adopted, there were more than fifty offenses punishable by death in North Carolina. The pillory, stocks, and whipping post were also in common use. Tongue slitting, branding, and ear croppings were frequent.
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19341
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Smith was born in Murfreesboro in 1812. He was both a Union and Confederate Congressman, and after the Civil War was active in behalf of President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy. As Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, he established a fine record of service.
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19411
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Lawrence lists North Carolina's twelve Revolutionary War generals and gives a brief summary of their careers.
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19428
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Dortch was born near Rocky Mount in 1824. Educated in local schools,Dortch entered the famous Bingham School in Hillsborough and later studied law. During the Civil War he was a member of the Confederate Senate from North Carolina. After the war, he played a part in helping to enact into law many beneficial pieces of legislation in the state, and in 1881, he was appointed chairman of a commission that revised the North Carolina Code.
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