The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-09
SOME GIFTED AND ABLE SONS
OF GRANVILLE AND WAKE
DR.. Kingsbury's "reminiscences. More on John Wes-
ley. Charles Reade. Miss Murfree Best
Novelist of the South.

II. l regret to know that have no copy
Of that carefully wrought sketch of him.
Hon. Josiah Crudup, Baptist minister,
served one term in the United States Cow
gress. was a great speaker on the hust-
ings was remarkable logician in the
pulpit, was a Wing in politics, had great
reasoning powers, was well read, a man of
high type. of exalted ideals, of command
ing force and personal impressveness, was
rich planter, lived not far from Klttrell
Springs, in Granville, and died there
also wrote an article on him. but have nc
copy / wrote at the request of his able
brother-inlaw, the late Hon. Bartholomew
F. Moore. 1t was a grateful task to per
form. for / held Mr.. Crudun IN high ad-
miraton as a gentleman of the lo1tlesC
qualities and authoritative abilities. lie
lived to old age very greatly esteemed ald
venerated. but / do not recall the years
of his life am sure he was more IMAM
seventy President Swain told me When
| was at the University that the canvass
for Congress between Hon. Wiley + Man
gum and Mr. Crudup attracted more at
tention than any other campaign he had
ticularly of the great ability shown by
Mr. Crudup in the canvass. He SAID he
had heard Mr.. Mangum. himself a great
political speaker, say more than once, that
a hard August rain elected him by some
twenty odd majority. The last meeting
was at Laws Store, in Orange. Mr.
Mangum led off. Just as Mr.. Crudup be-
gan his reply a great rain began to fall
and broke up the meeting. Mr.. Mangum
said that Mr. Crudup would have been
sure to change more voters than were ne
cessary to elect him. if he could have de-
iivered his full speech in reply.
In this connection | refer fol n moment
to the gifted and able sons of Wake coun-
ty. | would like for some Raleigh man
with information, opportunity and IN
dustry to gather the list. 1t would prove
interesting to many citizens at the capltal
and elsewhere. | mean list Of men oil
force as well as of reputation. Some
year or so since, l published a few names
in the News and Observer. of Wake coun-
ty natives l repeat all or nearly all of
the names subject to correction: Presl-
dent Andrew Johnson Chief Justice John
l.. Sneed Col Edward Graham Haywood,
Joseph w Holden, Col. William l.. Saund-
ers, Dr. f. B. Haywood, Rev. DR.. Wllham
S. Lacy-these born in Raleigh. L have
an impression that my able old school
mate and friend, Col. David M. Carter,
was also a native of Raleigh Richard Z.
Badger should also be named for ne had
talents. | am inclined to believe that Rev
DR.. Sam McPheeters was also Ralelghttc
But I am not certain. No doubt there
are others OF whom l have no knowledge
at this writing. i have known personally
fifty other leading, gifted men who re-
sided at Raleigh-prior to 1S75-but none
was a native. DR.. Walter II. Page,
gifted man of letters, was born In Wake
county. Who else has made his mark and
achieved fame who was born in the county
outside of Raleigh? | emily contribute
brick or two to the proposed monument.
Who else will help to rear it? a friend
here thinks Carter was born III Hyde
county III 1845, and after, his father lived
at Raleigh as l know.
! I called attention several weeks ago to
| the two-hundredth anniversary OF the
| birth of the illustrious John Wesley, mas
| ter Of nine languages, who was born 2Sth
June 1903. / wish to supplement briefly
with a few points DR.. Albert Shaw, who
is not a Methodist, editor of the New YORK
"Revew of Reviews mlsnomer to
great extent-writes that no Methodist
'has reached his stature as man OF
intellectual and religious power" and that
'Methodism has been a great force ID
making our American life, and character
what they are Appreciative and true!
John Wesey's great grand father was
Bartholomew Wesley, lived in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth married the daughter Of
Gc1 IF ireland
Bartholomew son was John, a distln-
guished NJ. A. of Oxford. He and his
father were clergymen. John had son.
Samuel, the father of the great John Yves
| ley His mother was Susanna, youngest
daughter (and 25th child of Dr. Samuel
Annesley. The great John was the fiji
teenth child out of eighteen total. He
came very near being burned to death
when six wears old, and was rescued by
means of q, human ladder says the able
Rev Dr. j. M. Buckley, editor OF the
New York Christian Advocate He was
ordained a deacon OF the Established
Church in 1775. by DR.. Potter, Bishop of
Oxford He spent some ten year IN all at
the great University. Two months alter
he was asked to return to Oxford, Dr..
Buckley writes, she was elected Greek
lecturerer and moderator of the classes OF
Mondays and Tuesdays, he studied Greek
and Roman classics, historians and poets
Wednesdays. logic and ethics; Thursday,
Hebrew and Arabic; Fridays, metaphysics
and natural philosophy; Saturdays, ora
tory and poetry chiefly composing; Sun
days. divinity. For recreation, he studied
French and made excellent experiments Iii
natural science" When he received his
degree of NJ A., on 14th February 1877.
he delivered three orations in Latin-on
on 1.-The Spirit of Brutus,'' another on
Julius Caesar" and the last on "The
Love of Cod His scheme of life had be-
come thoroughly ascetic. For two years.
between 1927 and 1929, he officiated as his
fathers curate; in 1928, he was ordained
priest at oxford, and continued as his
fathers assistant for a short time, after
which he returned to Oxford and there re-
manned six years.
The first Methodist Conference was hell
in London on 25th June, IVA. Present sew.
en- clergymen of Church of England, and
four lay preachers. The first Class form
ed in the United States was in 1866. IL