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14834
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Thomas Clingman was elected to the North Carolina State House of Commons in 1835 and to the State Senate in 1840, where he was one of the outstanding builders of western North Carolina.
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There was a time when the lawlessness of lynching was fairly frequent in North Carolina, but the determined efforts of Governors Aycock, Glenn, and Bickett and Judges Sinclair and Grady finally put a stop to it.
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Davidson College, located both in Davidson the town and Davidson County, was charted in December 1838 as a Presbyterian institution. The college was named in honor of Revolutionary war hero General William Lee Davidson. In 1943, the college employed 45 faculty members and the student body numbered 700. One of Davidson's most famous alumnae was 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson.
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14844
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Lawrence presents ten outstanding educators in the history of North Carolina, such as David Caldwell of Guilford College, William Bingham of Orange County, and Kemp Battle of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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It is known that Judge Archibald D. Murphey was the father of the public school system in North Carolina, but he was also known for his plans for internal improvements and constitutional reform.
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14854
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There were many interesting features in connection with the issuance of paper money during the early history of North Carolina. The first bills were issued in 1712, and taxes collected were used to build forts and applied to public debt. The bills were printed on ordinary paper and were signed by Generals, Governors, Attorney Generals.
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Prominent African American men who experienced success during this era served as politicians and school officials. Members of Congress included Henry P. Cheatham (1889-1893) and James E. O'Hara (1883-1887) both served in the United States House of Representatives. Two diplomats, James H. Harris and Dr. L. L. Smith both performed duties as Minister to Liberia. Dr. Dudley was President of A.T.&T. College at Greensboro.
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Gardner-Webb College was a junior college located in the town King's Mountain. The institution began as Boiling Springs High School which through time became a Baptist organized junior college by the same name. Close to financial foreclosure, the college remained open because Judge Yates Webb, on the Board of Trustees for Wake Forest, and Governor Oliver Max Gardner contributed funds and thus was renamed for its benefactors.
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Eugene Grissom was a Granville native who briefly studied law before he became a doctor. After Grissom matriculated from University of Pennsylvania in 1856 he returned to North Carolina to practice medicine. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grissom recruited a regiment of North Carolina men and served until his injury in 1862. His injuries forced Grissom off the battlefield and into Confederate politics appointed to House of Commons and also called upon by Governor Vance to be a Major and full surgeon between legislative sessions. Following war, he established the Morganton Hospital.
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Ten women, out of the many influential females in the state, are highlighted for their distinguished service to North Carolina. The ten include: Dolly Madison, Flora MacDonald, Cornelia Spencer, Francis Fisher Tiernan, Susan Dimock, Elizabeth Ann Macrae, Katherine Shipp, Fannie E. S. Heck, Delia Dixon-Carroll. These women were selected because of affiliation with advances in education, literature, medicine, politics, warfare from the colonial period to the 1940s.
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Donald Parson was a well-known poet who was born and educated in the North but resided in Pinehurst. He helped found the Academy of American Poets and was an active member of his community in Pinehurst. Parson published two volumes of poetry, the first titled \"Glass Flowers,\" and a volume about John Keats, a favorite poet of Parson and the man he was often compared.
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley were born in England and came with their parents to North Carolina in 1880. Although the article focuses on H. H., his brother became famous in his own right through his work in the Entomology Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Both brothers achieved international fame as the leading Southern naturalists of their day. H. H.'s fame rests on his work as a zoologist and his more than fifty years with the North Carolina Museum of Science. Under his leadership the museum grew into the one of the country's best-known of its type.
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The Lords Proprietors obtained their titles from King Charles II of England and they were given vast domains of land in North Carolina as a reward for their service to the King.
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Under the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789, the entire state of North Carolina was erected into one Federal District, and the judges thereof served the entire state until it was divided into two districts in 1872. Judges to serve in this capacity were John Stokes, John Sitgreaves, Henry Potter, Asa Biggs, and George W. Brooks.
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Dr. Albert Anderson, born in Wake County, has become prominent in the field of medicine, helping those individuals struggling with alcoholism and mental strain.
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