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10014
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Sallie Southall Cotton married a Confederate Army officer after the Civil War and raised a family. Most women of that period settled in to do “womanly things†after their families had grown, but Mrs. Cotton embarked on a career of public service. She felt that working together women could achieve great things. In 1902, she was a force in founding the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, an organization that enabled women statewide to speak as a group for public school improvement, prison reform, and aid to the poor and elderly.
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10015
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Road building held a low priority in North Carolina until the beginning of the 20th-century. The article presents a brief history of the development of the state's road system up to 1943. At that date the highway system covered 60,000 miles of public roads, with about 12,000 miles being hard-surfaced.
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In this continuing series of articles about North Carolinians who have contributed to the growth and development of the state, Gilbert discusses Charles F. Tomlinson. For four-generations the Tomlinson family contributed to industrial and civic development in High Point. In 1904, Charles Tomlinson joined the family furniture business, Tomlinson of High Point, one of the great industries of the state.
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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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10018
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The article provides short, biographical sketches of the North Carolina's Congressional delegation of 1943.
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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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10032
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Many important events happened in North Carolina during November that were important in the forward progress of the state or were conclusions of projects earlier begun. One of the earliest was the death of the pirate Blackbeard on November 22, 1718. Revolutionary War and Civil War activities, as well as the arrival of the Moravians in what is now Forsyth County in 1753, were among other events.
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10033
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Many important events happened in North Carolina during December that were important in the forward progress of the state or were conclusions of projects earlier begun. Among the events are the naming of Philip Ludwell as North Carolina's first governor on December 5, 1689; the arrival of General Nathaniel Greene in Charlotte on December 2, 1780, to take charge of demoralized and defeated Revolutionary War soldiers; and the bombardment of Fort Fisher near Wilmington on December 25, 1864, during the Civil War.
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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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10035
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Many important events happened in North Carolina during January that were important in the forward progress of the state or were conclusions of projects earlier begun. Among the events are the beginning of the state's transportation system for railroads and highways, Reconstruction, and the opening of the state's first public school in New Bern.
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10036
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Rogers recounts the life of Mira Margaret Baird Vance, the mother of Zebulon Baird Vance, who was Colonel of the 26th Regiment and the wartime governor of North Carolina during the Civil War.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 1 Issue 9, Jan 1944,
p24, 31-32, il, por, bibl
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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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10038
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Many important events happened in North Carolina during February that were important in the forward progress of the state or were conclusions of projects earlier begun. Among the events were the birth of Calvin Henderson Wiley, who was the first State Superintendent of Common Schools; the passage of legislation establishing the Fayetteville Normal School for Negroes; and the Battle of Roanoke Island during the Civil War.
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Peele discusses diary entries kept by a Union Civil War soldier. The diary was found seventy-nine years after the war by Francis Chappel of Elizabeth City in an old city lot. There are around 200 entries; each one begins with a comment on the weather conditions where the soldier happens to be.
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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