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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-31
BENJAMIN RUSH SMITH.

Benjamin Rush Smith, one Of the best
known and most popular members OF the
North Carolina Colony, yiceprcsidcnt or
the North Carolina Society, has been in
New York for nearly quarter Of u cen
tury. He was born in Mecklenburg coun-
ty in 1910 and lived in Charlotte until
1879, serving one term as mayor Of that
city. When he came TO New York he
engaged in the brokerage business and
he is now the manager Of the cotton de-
partment of the firm of Mcintyre and
Marshall, of No "A Broadway. He IS a
member of the Cotton and Produce Elk
changes. He served in the Confederate
army from April, 1861. until the close Of
the war, and when paroled was Captain
Of Company G, Sixth North Carolina In
fantry He is a member Of the New
York Club, the Colonial Country Club,
the Confederate Veteran Camp Of New
York, and the Southern Society. He was
married in 1866 to Miss Leila Garrett, Of
Richmond, and has two children
One Of his sons Junius Garrett Smith
lived for time in this city, but is now
in the thread manufacturing business in
Chicago
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sILAs McBEE.

Silas McBee, the Editor of the Church
man, the leading exponent of the Episcopal
Church in America, was born IN Lincoln
ton, n. c., in 1853 He lived there until
he reached manhood, attending the High
School there. He completed his educa-
ton in the University of the South, Sc
vance, Tenn. He became a teacher and
for nine years was principal of the FAIR
mount College at Mount Eagle,
Tenn. He served as General Commission
er for the University of the South for
number of years and has been one OF its
trustees for more than a quarter of a
century He came to New York city
eleven years ago. He has been married
twice and has three children. He lives in
Great Neck, l.. l., one of New Yorks
popular suburbs. Mr.. McBee has recently
attracted considerable attention to himself
and his paper by a controversy with
Bishop Potter regarding the work of the
Episcopal Church's foreign missionaries.
Mr.. McBee came to the defense of the
missionaries in a manner which showed
that he Is no respeeter of persons, and
does not fear to say what he thinks no
matter who may be hurt.
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New York ten years ago to engage in
the practice Of law and for year was
Assistant District Attorney under M. w.
M X Olcott.
He was but fourteen years of age when
he was made Deputy Register of Deeds
in Madison county North Carolina. with
er he had removed, and was but eighteen
when the position of Deputy Clerk of the
Superior Court Of the State came to him.
At the age of nineteen he was made
Special Deputy Collector Of Internal Rev
enue. At the age Of twenty-four he re-
ceived flattering vote for Attorney Cen
eral of North Carolina, and a few years
later was appointed Supervisor Of the
Census for the Western District Of North
Carolina.
Mr.. Hardwicke has also achieved dis
tinction in the field Of literature as au-
thor Of "The Art Of Winning Cases. or
Modern Advocacy" ''The Art of Living
Long and Happily" THE History Of
Oratory and Orators, The Art of Rising
in the World" and THE Art of Getting
Rich"
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LEONARD cHAs. VAN NoppEN

Leonard Charles van Noppen, though
born in Holland, became resident of
North Carolina when he was a child, his
parents moving to Greensboro. where they
lived for some years, and then went to
Durham. He attended Guilford College
and the University of North Carolina. and
later finished his education in THE Uni
versities Of Linden and Utrecht, Holland.
For ten years Mr.. van Noppen has lived
in New York except the four years he
spent in the country of his birth. He is
an authority on Dutch literature and has
lectured on that subject at Columbia Uni
versity, the Lowell Institute. Boston and
Princeton His most important work is
translation OF Vondels 'Lucifer," the
Dutch Paradise Lost" His was the
nrst metrical English version and it has
Zen warmly commended by critics IN
europe as well as America A translation
aohaefs Samson" is now in the hands
'ne publishers and is eagerly awaited
~ STUDENTS OF the literature of Holland.
Ca,4' san Noppen is a contributor to the
century North American Review. Critic.
anu o'ner leading periodicals. He was
married last year to Miss Adah Maude
stanton Becker, of jamestown n v Mr.
van Noppen was born in 1863
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j. TURNER MoREHEAD.

]. Turner Morehead has lived in New
York most of the time since 1888, though
he is still citizen Of North Carolina, and
is member Of the Board Of Control OF
the state Geological Survey, to which he
was elected by the Legislature. He was
born in Greensboro in 1S40 but has lived
in Spray, Rockinham county, most Of
his life He and his father were con
cerned in the management Of large cotton
mills in Spray and he has been interested
in railroad building. He IS a graduate OF
the University Of North Carolina. He is
now the President Of the Wilson Alum
mum Company. which operates two cleo
trio smeltcrs in Virginia and West Vlr-
ginia, where the material used to harden
armer plate and projectiles is made. Mr.
Morehead was adjutant Of the Gard Re
glment Of North Carolina Cavalary from
the beginning until the end Of the Civil
War He was married IN 1864 to Miss Lily
.connally, Of Poulter Creek, N. c., and
has five children.
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A. C. WORTH.

A. G. Worth, who conducts commits
sion business at No. 81 Jay street, was
born in New Salem, Randolph county,
N. c., in 1847. He lived in wilmington
until 1866, when he moved to New York
and has resided here since. He was edu
Gated in Jewetts School in Wilmington,
Bingham's School, at the Oaks and at
the Hillsboro Military Academy. He was
married in 1869 to Miss Elizabeth H. AM
derson at Fayettevlne. He entered the
Confederate service with the cadets from
the Hillsboro Military Academy during
the last few months Of the Civil War. His
home since he came North has been in
Creskin, N. j., where he has lived for
a quarter of a century, having served
many years there as member of the
Board of Education and two years as
Mayor. He is proud of his North Caro-
lima birth and is an admirer of President
Roosevelt. The strenuous President
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WILLIAM HENRY WILLS.

William Henry Wills, now "a years old.
was educated at Bingham School and
the University of North Carolina, where
he graduated in 1891. He came to New
York year later and worked as a re-
porter on the Times, Sun and Journal
Four years ago he became interested in
trade journalism and he is now the editor
of the Fruit Trade Journal, one of the
leading papers of its class in the country.
He was married a few months ago to
Miss Helen Highly, of California, daughter
of the late Congressman William Highly,
and niece of the late Eben Jordan, of the
firm of Jordan. Marsh and Company. OF
Boston. The marriage took place in the
Church of the Ascension in this city, the
ceremony being performed by the Rev
ST. Clair Hester, of Brooklyn, 4 college
mate of Mr. Wills at the University of
North Carolina. Mr.. Wills's mother and
three brothers now live in Greensboro.
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w. BOB HOLLAND.
Native of Wayne County, Who
Writes Evening Journal
Editorials.

w Bob Holland was born in Wayne
county, where his forbears have lived for
several generations on land granted to an
ancestor by some predecessor of George
Ill When asked regarding his age he is
prone to suggest that the inquirer make
a guess These guesses range from rs to
As, and then Mr.. Holland says that he
was born March 3, 1868 This statement.
he admits. is rarely believed.
Mr. Holland literally has hundreds of
relatives in Wayne and Johnston counties
when I visit down there. ne said re-
Gently. practically every man, woman
and child meet calls me Uncle Bob or
Cousin Bob AS am the youngest Of
thirteen children and my father was one
of eighteen, you can readily see that the
Of large number Of relatives
is very good
Mr. Hollands father resigned the office
of Register Of Deeds of Wayne county in
1870 to move with him family to Kansas.
He had suffered heavy financial losses
during the war and was penniless when he
reached his Kansas destination. He Sc
cured farm near the Arkansas river in
Southern Kansas within tca niles of the
Indian Territory line, and it was there that
"W Bob" as his friends call him, spent
his youth. He attended and secured his
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yers in North Carolina. Too severe APP
plication endangering his eyesight, he was
compelled to relinquish his studies, and
took up newspaper work, which he fol
lowed for twelve years.
During this time he was business man
ager of the Wilson Advance and he also
reported the meeting of the State Senate
in 1891 for the News and Observer. He
later returned TO Wilson and bought the
Advance which he conducted for some
years. In 1892 he was secretary of the
Democratic State Convention when Elias
Carr was nominated for Governor.
He came to New York in 1892 and joined
the staff OF the Sun and was sent to Nor
ristown, N. j., as resident correspondent.
He held this position for six years and
was for four years of the time on the staff
OF the True Democratic Banner of Nor
rlstotwn He quit newspaper work in
1886 to resume the practice of law in the
office of Edward A. Quayle, then Mayor
of Morristown.
In October. 1898. he entered the New
York Law School evening sessions for two
years. He worked in the office all day and
at Sis each afternoon took train 1or
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THOMAS L. MOORE.

THOMAS l.. MOORE.
Thomas L.. Moore civil engineer CON
nected with the Bureau Of Highways Of
Greater New York, was born in Hertford
county, n. O.. in 1913 He was cadet
at the United states Naval Academy when
the Civil War broke out, having been
appointed in 1857 by Hon. II. M. shaw. He
entered the Confederate Navy as a mid
shipman in 1861, and served in the navy
until 1863, when he was ordered to Eu-
rope. He has been in the employ of the
city here for twenty years While in
Europe he was married in 1864 in Baden
Baden to Miss Rose S. Ludlam. of Rich
mond, va. He is now the adjutant Of the
Confederate veteran Camp of New York
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New York He attended the lectures
which began at p. m. and at 1890 at
night started back to MorristoWn reach
ing thae at 1920 a. m. He finished the
course and was admitted to the New Jer-
sey bar by the Supreme Court in 1900.
For two years he was the managing
clerk for Judge John 3. Vreeland. Two
months ago he was admitted to partner
ship, the firm being Vreeland, King, Will
son and Lindabury.
He was appointed Referee in Bankruptcy
by Judge fitzpatrick in December 1901,
to fill the unexpired term of Joseph f.
Randolph, resigned, and in May, 1902, re-
appointed for full term. He IS a Demo-
appointed for full term. He IS a Demo
Club. the Red Men and member Of the
Morristown Baptist Church. He married
DR.. Grace Flanders, Of Morristown, last
June.
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w. BOB. HOLLAND.

education in a country school and he is a
standing proof that the public school sys-
tenn of Kansas is as good as could be re-
CURED.
When scarcely in his teens he became a
country correspondent of a local news
paper and since then he has been writing
for the press continuously. He became
local editor Of Kansas country daily
when sixteen years old, and since then has
been continuously engaged IN journalism
with the exception of brief interludcs
when he tried to break into the theatrical
ard circus business.
Like many other newspaper men, he has
drfted around good deal. lie has work
ed in New Orleans, Denver, Omaha, Chi
mgo, Detroit. Kansas City, st. Louis
Philadelphia and New York as well as in
smaller towns in Illinois. Kansas, Texas
Michigan and New HAMPSHIRE. He has
held various positions ranging from man-
aging editor to police reporter. and is
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-31
HON. WALTER h. PAGR,
who stands among the first in the
literary world.

Waiter II. Page, now the editor of the
Worlds Work and a member Of the firm
of Doubleday, Page & Co. has achieved
vide distinction in literary and publish.
ing circles since he left North Carolina
twenty-five years ago. lie has been sue
cesslYely editor Of the Forum, the Allan
tic Monthly and the Worlds Work. This
last publication, established few years
ago, has been under Mr.. Pages direction
continuously and its success has been en-
tlrely due to his energy and ability.
Mr.. Page was born in Cary, a few miles
from Raleigh. He was educated in the
Randolph- Macon College of Virginia and
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore.
Since coming North he has lived in New
York except for the five years that he was
editor of the Atlantic Monthly when he
lived in Boston.
Mr.. Page was married in 1880 to Miss
Alice Wilson, of Pontiac Mich, They have
four children and handsome home in
Engewood. NJ j.
Mr.. Page has made numerous addresses
before educational literary and scientific
bodies. He was one Of the speakers at
the banquet of the North Carolina So
ciety at its second banquet year ago. his
address being a plea for the establish
ment Of q government forest reserve in
Western North Carolina He is a member
of the Executive Board of both the South
Continued on Fourth Page)
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JOHN w. WORTH.

John w Worth, organist and choir
master of St Pauls Episcopal Church,
Bronx Borough, was born in Fayetteville,
N. c., in 1877 He lived there until 1892,
when he came to New York, Seven years
ago he took charge Of the st. Paul's choir
and now the music of that church is at
tracing wide attention. His executive
ability as well as his musical knowledge
mas been of much value to him. His or
ganization is now considered one of the
best male choirs in the city. Mr. Worth
is nephew of Governor Worth, Of North
Carolina, and cousin of the late Worth
BagIey.
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DIR. JNo. HERBERT CLAIBORNE.

Doctor John Herbert Claiborne,
Junior, is a native of North Caro-
ina, though he was raised in
Virginia He was born in Louisburg,
n. c., in 1861, but when five years old
went to Petersburg, Va. He came to
New York in 1886 and has been engaged in
the practice Of medicine since then He
has an office and residence at No. 80 West
IS street DR.. Claiborne was educated in
The University School. Petersburg, Va,
the University of Virginia, and the uni
versities Of Halle, Saxony and Berlin. He
is now an instructor in eye diseases in
Columbia University, assistant surgeon
in the New Amsterdam Eye and Ear Hos
pital. Member OF the New York Academy
of Medicine, the American Medical Asso-
citation, the University Club, the Fencers'
Club, the Calumet Club and the South
ern Society.
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HERBERT III. HARRIS.

Herbert H. Harris is one OF the bright
young North Carolinians who was brought
here by the American Tobacco Company.
He was born in Wilson in 1879. and after
going through the Wilson High School
and the Eastman Business College at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, accepted a position
With the Tobacco Trust in Wilson. He
was afterwards transferred to Greenyille,
and later to New York. He is now the
superintendent of the Monopol Tobacco
Works, the subsidiary company which
manufactures Turkish and Egyptian CT
garettes. His father, William ]. Harriss,
IS prominent business man of Wilson
His mother was Miss Shepherd. of Vir-
ginia, sister of Hon. j. e. Shepherd, of
Raleigh
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JOHN r. ToLAR.

John r. Tolar, now head of the firm Of
Tolar, Hart & Company commission
merchants at No. 100 Front street
was born in Cumberland county. N. c.,
in 1S4S. His father moved to South Caro-
lima when he was a boy and during the
war commanded a company in the Tenth
South Carolina Regiment During the
years Immediately following the war Mr..
Tolar attended private schools in Fayette
VILE n. c. He was married in Conway.
s. c., in 1869, to Miss Ella Bell and four
years later moved to New York. where
he has since resided. He is now the prin-
cipal owner of the Tolar, Hart and Holt
cotton mills at Fayetteville.
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minister of Revolutionary ancestry DR..
Lawrence's mother was the daughter OF
Judge Jesse Cooper Knight
After receiving a collegiate and medi-
cal education. DR.. Lawrence assumed edi-
torship of the Daily Rough Notes, at
Goldsboro. N. c. He was a captain of
the 7th Confederate Cavalry durirA the
Civil War.
After the close of the war, he practiccd
medicine for short time, and then
moved to st. Louis, Mo- Here he re-
summed the publication of the Medical
Brief. which he sad established in North
Carolina. This periodical is now thirty
years old and is the most successful
medical journal in the world in point of
circulation and financial profits.
The Brief has circulation in England
of $4,000, more than ten thousand SUBJ
scribers being in the city of London. Dur
ing the time that he has published the
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DIR. LEoN1DAs LEMAy a11AL.

DR.. Leonidas Lemay Mail was born IN
Wake county, near Raleigh, July Z 1862.
He graduated from the University Of
North Carolina with the degree of A. b.
in 1881 and afterwards took three years
course in the Medical Department OF the
University Of Pennsylvania He then
spent fifteen months as resident physician
in Philadelphia hospital and then be-
came assistant physician to the
New Jersey State Hospital in Nor
ristown, where he remained for three
years. He came to New York city IN
1891 and has been engaged in practice
here since then. lie is now assistant sur
geon at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hos
ptal and is also connected with ST Mary 8
Hospital Hoboken, and the Memorial
Hospital in Morristown, where he still
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FREDERICK w. wURsTER.

Frederick w. Wurster was born in
Plymouth, N. c., in 1850, and spent the
first seven years Of his life there He
came to New York then and has lived
here ever since. He was mayor Of the
city Of Brooklyn in 1896 and 1897. and
was delegate to the National Republi-
can Convention in 1895 He is a mem
Der of the New York Yacht Club, the
Union League and the Hanover Club of
Brooklyn Besides being the head OF
the manufacturing firm of F. w Wurster
& Company, he is a trustee of the Nassau
Trust Company. He was married in 1874
and has six children.
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1900. when he came to New York.
DR.. Aver was married February 18th,
of this year to Miss Mason. His brother
is not married.
The success Of the firm Of J. NJ. Aver
G Company in the brokerage business has
been gratifying to its members The
market letters which the Ayers have is
sued have been remarkable for their ac-
curaey and for the knowledge of the cot
ton market that they show What the
members Of the firm think Of the imme-
date future Of the cotton market IS
shown in a market letter they have writ
shown in market letters they have writ
are printed on the financial page from
time to time
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LEWIS w. ELIAS.

Lewis w. Elias is a young man who is
now a temporary resident Of New York
but NAV become a permanent citizen
later He graduates this spring from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. and
will enter a hospital next January for
stay of eighteen months DIR. elias was
born in Franklin, N. c., in 1876 He
lived there until he came to New York
to attend college four years ago. He
was educated in the Franklin High
School and also took the degree Of A. B.
from Trinity College at Durham.
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VICTOR E. WHITLoCK.

Victor E. Whitlock, member of the
law firm Of Holm & Smith. World Build
ing, was born in Tarboro in 1874. He
lived there until 1883 when he moved to
Asheville. He attended the public
schools there and afterwards took the
degree Of Phi. B. at the University Of
North Carolina. He came to New York
in 1895 and attended the New York Law
School for two years. He was admitted
to the bar in 1897 The firm with which
he is identified numbef many large cor
porations among its clients.
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MRS. ]. M. TURNER.

4 Z :
Mrs. ]. NJ Turner is one of the few
North Carolina women who is achieving
something by her own efforts in New
York. Most of the members of the gentler
sex who have come here from the Old
North State are happy wives and shine
only in the reflected glory of their hus-
bands. But Mrs. Turner has carved out
for herself distinct niche in the art of
life of the Metropolis. She was born near
Raleigh and was known there as Miss
Jenny Miller. Her mother was niece of
Moreau Barringer. once United States
Minister to Spain. The uncle was Mrs.
Miller's foster father and she had charge
of his establishment for many years. An
other uncle was the noted General Rufus
Barringer, a brother-in- law of stone
wall Jackson. Still another member Of
this distinguished family was for twenty
years a judge of the international Court
IN Egypt. Mrs. Turner spent her girlhood
in Charlotte. Baltimore and Washington
She studied art in Philadelphia and in the
Corcoran Art School, Washington She
was married in Washington, and for a
time taught in a private school there
When the necessity for earning a living
AOl HSASSi anu HtI Two DOys dIOSe MIS-.
Turner began to utilize the knowledge of
art, which she had acquired. She has
been remarkably successful painting min
iatures and as an aid to her work she took
up photography She makes a speciality
of artistic pictures of women and children
in their own homes and in posing her
clients she departs from the beaten track.
She has also colored lantern slides for
many noted lecturers and for various de-
partments of the United States Govern
ment Her studio is at No. IS East Tween
fv-third street
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]. M. AVER g COMPANY.

j. NJ Aver and H. w Aver. who COM
pose the firm of J. M. Aver & Company,
brokers. with offices in the Cotton Elk
change, are well known to North Caro-
lnians and especially to residents Of
Raleigh. They were both born in Nor
risville, N. c., J. NJ having seen the light
Of day in 1865, his brother being two years
older H. w. moved to Raleigh in 1880
and lived there until 1901, part of this
time being Auditor of the State. DR.. j.
NJ. Aver lived. in Raleigh from 1890 until
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w. w. FLEMMrNc.

w. " .Flemming. who came from c,n.r
lotte ten years ago and began the nrac.
tIcc of law here, has secured dcsira Ne
place in the legal life of the Metronol;s
He was born in Yancey county IN 1st7
but lived in Charlotte for twelve or a,
teen years. He was educated at The H;lIs
boro Military school and at the Uniyersitr
of North Carolina. Mr. Flemming has
an honorable record as a soldier. having
served two terms in the Sixth North
Carolina Regiment, c. S. A. Two OF
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j. D. CHURCH.

j. D. Church, the surviving partner Of
the firm of S. o. Church and Brother,
wholesale dealers in cooperage stock, is a
native of New York but for fifteen years,
from 1885 until 1900, he lived in Char
lotto During that time he was general
agent of the New York Life Insurance
Company for North Carolina and South
Carolina. His office is on one Of the up
per floors of the Park Row buildings, the
tallest office building. in the world. His
present business is one of the largest car
ired on by any firm in the same line in The
country.