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10244
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Rogers recounts the life of Michael Schenck, who moved from Pennsylvania to Lincoln County in North Carolina around 1790. He established himself as a merchant and is credited with building the state's first cotton mill in 1813.
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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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10247
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Rogers recounts the life of Josephus Daniels, whose many activities included newspaper editor, Secretary of the Navy, author, and ambassador to Mexico.
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10248
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Some of Thomas Wolfe's fellow citizens in Asheville did not appreciate it when he began writing novels with the city and some of her citizens as background. Rogers recounts the life of North Carolina's greatest writer.
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10249
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Rogers recounts the life of William E. Dodd, who was one of the nation's greatest teachers and historians of the 20th-century.
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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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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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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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10285
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In 1791, Congress chartered the “first†United States Bank in Philadelphia. That bank was liquidated in 1811. That same year the “second†United States Bank was chartered and empowered to operate branches. Rogers recounts the history of the North Carolina branch which was located in Fayetteville.
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