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10203
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William Simpson was born in New York, moved to Richmond, and at age sixteen, moved with his family to Warrenton, North Carolina. Later he worked in a Richmond drugstore and for a pharmaceutical maker. During the Civil War he was assigned as a pharmacist in military hospitals in Raleigh. Simpson wanted pharmacists trained, and in 1893, he became dean of the Leonard School of Pharmacy at Shaw University.
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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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10205
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Rogers recounts the life of Greensboro native, William Sidney Porter, who wrote under the name of \"O. Henry\" and is considered one of the greatest American short story writers.
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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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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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10209
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James Knox Polk of Mecklenburg County was the eleventh President of the United States. As president, Polk championed the cause of westward expansion of the United States - which was known as Manifest Destiny, settled the Oregon boundary dispute with England, and gained congressional recognition of a state of war with Mexico and the annexation of Texas.
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10211
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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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10213
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Although John Paul Jones was not a native North Carolinian, he enjoyed the friendship of a number of prominent individuals in the state. Willie Jones of Halifax provided a home for him when he was down and out, and he secured his first commission in the first United States Navy through the influence of Joseph Hewes of Edenton.
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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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10215
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James Davis came to North Carolina about two hundred years ago to become the state's first printer and to print the laws of the colony. He remained thirty-six years. He was the first man to establish a newspaper, print a magazine, and print a book.
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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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10217
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Washington Duke rose from a yeoman farmer with little formal education to become one of North Carolina's great industrialists and philanthropists of the 19th-century.
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10218
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John Henry Boner was born in Salem, North Carolina, in 1845. Rogers recounts incidents in the life of this little-known North Carolina poet.
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10239
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Josiah Bailey was North Carolina's United States Senators from 1931-1946. Rogers recounts incidents in his political life.
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10242
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Rogers recounts the life of Matthew Whitaker Ransom--lawyer, farmer, Confederate general, United States Senator, and Ambassador to Mexico.
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