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Rogers recounts the life of Alexander Graham - teacher, Civil War soldier, historian, and the father of North Carolina's graded school system.
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Rogers recounts the life of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, whose birthplace is claimed by both North and South Carolina.
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10208
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Rogers recounts the life of Andrew Johnson, the son of a Raleigh hotel porter who became President of the United States upon the death of Abraham Lincoln.
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10113
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Rogers recounts the life of Annie Land O'Berry, of Edgecombe County, who headed the major relief agencies in North Carolina during the Great Depression, such as the Civil Works Administration and the Emergency Relief Administration.
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Rogers recounts the life of Arch T. Allen and the contributions he made to the state's public school system. He was appointed to complete the term of E. C. Brooks, who had been elected to the presidency of North Carolina State College. He was later popularly elected in 1924, 1928, and 1932.
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10206
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Rogers recounts the life of Archibald Murphy, who was not only an attorney, legislator, jurist, and manuscript collector but is also considered the father of the state's public school system and the father of internal improvements.
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10191
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Rogers recounts the life of Benjamin Rice Lacy, who rose from a laborer with the railroads to become North Carolina treasurer. He served from 1901 to 1929.
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10251
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Bowman Gray Sr., was one of the men who contributed to North Carolina's industrial growth in the first half of the 20th-century. He was also a man who benefited education and other civic enterprises. One of his greatest benevolences was providing funds for the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.
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10214
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Rogers recounts the life of Calvin Henderson Wiley, who was North Carolina's first superintendent of common schools.
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10202
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An 1881 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Charles Duncan McIver had a long career in education. He was the founder and first president of the State Normal and Industrial School for Girls, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Frederick Augustus Olds was born in Pitt County in 1853. A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Olds was made a colonel when he joined the staff of Gov. Zebulon Vance in 1877. Olds was a newspaper columnist, lecturer, editor, and historian. His greatest contribution to the state was the founding of the State Hall of History in 1887. He donated his collection of historical documents and relics and collected over 35,000 more pieces of North Carolina history. During his tenure, he escorted more than 300,000 visitors.
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Polk was born in Anson County in 1837. He was a graduate of Davidson College. During the Civil War he served with the 26th and 43rd North Carolina Regiments, until he was elected to the state legislature in 1864. After the war he was a newspaper editor, agrarian leader and the state's first Commissioner of Agriculture. He later served as president of the National Farmers' Alliance. Polk died in 1892, just before he would have been nominated for the Presidency of the United States.
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Cornelia Petty Jerman was born in Carthage in December 1, 1874. After her marriage in 1898, she moved to Raleigh and became very active in the city's social life, such as the Women's Club of Raleigh and later president of the N.C. Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Jerman led the fight for women's suffrage in North Carolina. She was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1924 and 1928 and was appointed to the National Democratic Committee in 1928. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her assistant collector of the Internal Revenue Service for North Carolina.
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In this continuing series of articles about women who have played dramatic and interesting roles in the history of North Carolina, Rogers discusses Cornelia Phillips Spencer. She was a skilled artist who drew sketches of Chapel Hill and wrote everything from poems to hymns and sketches of men, and women and events. She is known to North Carolinians for her efforts to close the University of North Carolina when it was being disgraced by the carpet-bag regime, and then working to get it reopened a few years later under a new regime.
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Rogers recounts the life of Addie Ruth Bagley Daniels. She was the granddaughter of Governor Jonathon Worth, and her father, William Henry Bagley, was a major in the 68th Confederate North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. In 1888, she married Josephus Daniels.
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