The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-19
ASHLEY HORNE-PATRIOT.

the War Between the States, a young
farmer from Johnston county-by
name Ashley Horne-heeded the call
and for four years wore the gray. |
He dropped his books and his hoe
and gave those years to his country.
He was d modest man, a private who
saw hardships, but a mar of the stuff
that puts Duty in the high place
where Robert E. Lee exalted that
virtue.
Fifty years have passed since that
youth enlisted. He came back from !
the war with a clear head, a stout
heart and faith in himself and in his
country. He returned to farming
and began merchandising at Clayton.
He worked early and late, he planned,
h thought, he saved, he won. No
man in North Carolina showed finer
business Judgment than Mr.. Horne.
In the early years following the war
his business, although in a small
village, brought him large returns
and he invested his profits in lands
until he has farms not second in size
and fertility to any in Eastern North
7 aIOllHd ne Is Interested III q OOZel
or more great industries in this
State, has succeeded not only as a
farmer and merchant and cotton
manufacturer, but as a banker, presi-
dent Of a great fire insurance COM
pany and in every enterprise in which
he has invested. He has amaSSed a
fortune by honest methods, combined
with industry and his ability to see
into the future. He has never doubt
ed. even when others thought the
South could not recuperate from the
losses of the wars that it would pros
per and become richer than it had
ever been. He has contributed to
everything in the State thai has been
on the upgrade and his success has
been we'll deserved. Mr.. Horne has
served the people of his community
and of his State in a way as to make
him recognized as one of the first
citizens of the State. He has served
his county in the Senate and in the
House and both times only when he
was called upon by his people in a
crisis to render them important serv-
ice. He was a member of the last
House of Representatives and he in
troduced the bill to erect a building
in Raleigh for the Supreme Court
and the preservation of the historical
relics of the State. He is chairman
of the building commission and
brought to that and to all other pub
lie service the same sound judgment
and ripe experience that has given
him such success in his business.
Tuesday mornings News and OBJ
Charleston, S. c., stating that a letter
had been received in that city from
Gen. Julian S. Carr, head Of the
Confederate Veterans Camp of North
Carolina, that Mr.. Ashley Horne had
donated a sum sufficient to erect in
the Capitol Square at Raleigh, a
monument to the Women of the Con-
federacy. The Board Of Public
Buildings and Grounds authorized
Col. J. Bryan Grimes to select a
site for the monument, and he has
chosen a spot half way between the
Fayetteville street entrance to the
can;tol and the corner of Salisbury
and Morgan streets. 1t will be i'm
nediately in front OF the eHIIdHce "
the new State building. There were
good reasons for selecting the spot on
which this memorial to the women OF
the state is to be erected. 1t Will
be in front Of the entrance to the
great State building, which is being
constructed under an act of the Leg
islature, introduced by Mr.. Horne and
being erected by a commission, OF
Which> Mr.. Horne is chairman. Mr..
Horne has long cherished the idea OF
belpiue to erect a fitting memorial
to the women Of the State. who serV-
ed the C~onfederacy quite as courage