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10199
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Born in Enfield, Halifax County, Exum Lewis Hunter was a captain during the Civil War and was captured at Fort Fisher. After the war, he studied dentistry and graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1870. He was one of the leaders in the reorganization of the present North Carolina Dental Society, organized in 1875.
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10034
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Rogers recounts the life Delia Dixon, who was born into the eminent family of Thomas Dixon, Sr. From early life she dreamed of being something unheard of in that time period--a woman doctor. Achieving her goal, she later married Norwood Carroll, a Raleigh dentist. She was the first woman doctor in the city of Raleigh and the first physician for Meredith College, a position she held for thirty-five years.
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10252
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Dr. J. Frank Highsmith was a pioneer in surgery and hospital practices. He established the first privately owned hospital in Fayetteville at the turn of the century, and many of his rules for its running are still in operation today.
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10245
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Dr. Richard Gordon Gatling of Maney's Neck in Hertford County was born September 12, 1818. Gatling was world-famous for his agricultural inventions, and after the outbreak of the Civil War, he began work on a weapon that would bring him lasting fame - the Gatling Gun.
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Born in Washington, North Carolina, Susan Dimock became the first woman member of the North Carolina Medical Society, although she never practiced medicine in the state. Refused admission to medical colleges in Boston, she applied to a Swiss university, was accepted, and graduated with a degree. She returned to Boston and became well established in her profession. On a voyage to Europe, she lost in a shipwreck off the coast of England.
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10195
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Rogers recounts the life of Edward Holt, planter and pioneer manufacturer of colored textiles in the South.
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10049
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Eleanor White Dare was the first English mother to bear a child in the New World, yet few facts about her remain to give a complete story. Rogers recounts what is known.
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10088
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Eliza Hall Nutt was born in Wilmington in 1842. Early in the Civil War, she married Capt., later, Col. William Parsley, who was killed near Richmond three days before the surrender at Appomattox. She established the Cape Fear chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1894. In 1897, she formed the North Carolina Division with five chapters and served as its president for two years.
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10019
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Elizabeth Hutchinson was born in Ireland and came to America with her husband Andrew Jackson a decade before the Revolutionary War. They settled in North Carolina. She was widowed when her children were young and was largely responsible for the development of the character of her son Andrew, who would later become President of the United States. While caring for wounded American Revolutionary War soldiers in Charleston, South Carolina, she contracted a fever, died, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
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10037
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Rogers recounts the life of Elizabeth Kelly, who is who is more widely known for her contributions to education than any other woman in North Carolina.
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10042
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Rogers recounts the life and accomplishments of Fannie Heck, who was one of the most widely known religious leaders among Southern women.
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10256
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Rogers recounts the lives of brothers Caesar and Moses Cone, who were industrialists and philanthropists. Following successful business ventures in other sections of the country, the brothers opened a textile mill in Greensboro in the late 1890s that within a decade grew to be the largest cotton mill in the South and the largest denim manufacturing mill in the world. The family was the benefactor of Moses Cone Hospital.
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10040
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Rogers recounts the life and literary accomplishments of Frances Fisher Tiernan, who, 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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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 1 Issue 12, Apr 1944,
p12-14, 30, il, por, bibl
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10204
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Rogers recounts the life of Frank Page--banker, industrialist, railroad builder, and father of the state's modern highway system.
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10216
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Welker, a minister in the Reformed Church, came to North Carolina from Pennsylvania. After the Civil War, Welker was one of the men who helped write North Carolina's new constitution. He contributed greatly to the section which dealt with the welfare of the state's less fortunate people and had the most to do with the establishment of the North Carolina Board of Public Charities.
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