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He received a Captains commission from Governor Arthur Dobbs to lead a group of soldiers from Johnston County. Members of the community signed a petition to remove him from his position due to his inability to effectively lead his troops.

He lived in Johnston County and signed a letter of petition to Arthur Dobbs about the need for another justice in their section of the county.

African American man lynched by mob in Roxboro, North Carolina, in July 1920

Born August 26, 1872, in Raleigh, North Carolina. An influential figure in the labor movement, Pace served one term as a state legislator and two terms as Commissioner of Public Works for Raleigh, North Carolina. During World War I, he served on the state's eastern district exemption board.

He was a colonial official and raised troops in North Carolina in 1754 to help defend Virginia during the French and Indian War.

Born September 29, 1867, in Springfield, Ohio. Dinwiddie was a minister who served as legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. His work was influential in the fight for securing the passage of the 18th amendment to the U. S. Constitution (known generally as the prohibition amendment), which outlawed alcohol throughout the nation.

Born in McDowell County, North Carolina, on February 18, 1866. Cansler was for many decades a prominent and successful attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina. During World War I, Cansler served as a member of the draft exemption board for the western district of North Carolina.

Born May 12, 1889, near New Bern, North Carolina. Dunn was a farmer in Pamlico County, North Carolina, who was called for military service during the country's mobilization for World War I. He successfully appealed the call and was exempted from the draft.

He was a colonial official who served in a variety of offices during the 1730s-1740s. He was aligned politically with Governor Gabriel Johnston.

Born May 16, 1876, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Henderson was superintendent of the Piedmont E & R Co. power station and later general manager of the Graham Water Co., both in Graham, North Carolina. In 1920, he provided testimony in an investigation into an attempted lynching in Alamance County.

Born December 10, 1896, in South Carolina. Wylie, nee Clayton, married Benjamin T. Wylie in March 1917. They resided in Marion, North Carolina, about the time of World War I.

Born June 14, 1893, in North Carolina. Deans, nee Wright, married Leon Alexander Randolph in August 1917. She later married Kenneth Ives Deans in November 1931.

Born January 16, 1858, in Patriot, Indiana. Mead was an engineer, educator, and civil servant, being variously connected throughout his career with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Colorado State Engineer's Office, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, among others.

Born January 17, 1867, in Wake County, North Carolina. Ernestine was an educator at various public schools in Wake County as well as the State School for the Blind. In January 1920, she was accused of physically assaulting a blind student, fifteen-year-old Annie Gentry. She married James Houston Booker in 1908; he died in 1916. She next married Rev. James Hinton Hutchinson in 1921; he died in 1929.

Born October 16, 1861, in Guilford County, North Carolina. McCulloch served as chief clerk of the prison board during the administration of Governor Thomas W. Bickett (1917-1921) and was tapped by Bickett's successor, Governor Cameron Morrison, to serve as the superintendent of the state prison. He died just a few months in to his term.

Born July 29, 1892, in Iredell County, North Carolina. Ewing Stevenson Millsaps attempted to evade mobilization by claiming exemption on account of occupation. Three weeks after the date of this letter, on August 8, 1917, he instead secured a discharge from the state’s national guard by way of a Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability.

Statesville, NC, resident in 1920

Born November 29, 1860, in Faison, North Carolina. Faison was a West Point graduate and career military officer who commanded the 60th Infantry Brigade of the 30th Division during World War I.

A labor group that seems to have been a part of the American Federation of Labor

Born circa March 1895 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Boon was an automobile machinist in Asheville, North Carolina, when he enlisted in the 1st North Carolina National Guard in May 1917 for service during World War I. He was transferred to the 55th Depot Brigade and later to Company A of the 105th Engineers, which unit he served with until he deserted from the service while at Camp Sevier, South Carolina, in October 1917.

He served as colonial governor in New Jersey (1758-1760) and Massachusetts. His reactions to the colonists' response to Parliamentary taxation deepened divisions between Parliament and the colonies. 

Working out of what became known as the Cupola House in Edenton, North Carolina, Corbin was the commissioned  land agent for the Earl of Granville (one of the eight Lords Proprietors who did sell back his land to the British Crown).  The proprietary agent and power of attorney for North Carolina also held numerous other provincial positions: a member of the governor's council, judge of the court of vice admiralty, an associate justice in the colony's general court system, colonel of the Chowan County militia, and a justice in Chowan's courts of pleas and quarter sessions. He fell out of Governor Dobbs' favor and eventually lost his numerous posts. He died in 1769.

Fauquier (1703-1768) served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1758 until his death in 1768.  He served during the terms of two absentee governors: John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, and Sir Jeffery Amherst. Largely via his friendship with the influential George Montagu-Dunk, 4th Earl of Halifax, Fauquier was offered the government role. He is known for steering Virginia through three difficult periods: Indian raids on the frontier, a compromise between colonials and English merchants regarding paper money, and the Stamp Act crisis. He occasionally disobeyed the orders of the Board of Trade and worked to balance the interests of the colonial elites and the English government. In 1756, he wrote An Essay on Ways and Means for Raising Money for the Support of the Present War, without Increasing the Public Debts. In it, he argued that the current taxation measures were insufficient to pay for an expensive Seven Years War. He proposed that the emphasis be on housing and not simply manufactured goods and the laboring classes. The second edition argued for a poll tax on estates and goods consumption.

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Born in New York on May 13, 1880. Cuddihy was a railroad car repairman for the Southern Railway at Spencer Shops in Rowan County, North Carolina. He additionally served as secretary for a labor union called Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen.