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He cast his first presidential vote in 1880 for James A. Garfield. He has always been a con- sistent supporter of the principles of the repub- lican party and on its ticket was elected 'a repre- sentative in the State Legislature in 1898 and was elected to the State Senate in 1901.
Mr. Reynolds was married May 7, 1890, to Maude Wall. Mrs. Reynolds is of a prominent North Carolina family, though she was born in Henry County, Missouri. Her grandfather, Mason Wall, owned and occupied a plantation in Rock- ingham County, North Carolina, but in 1844 he sold his land and moved to Missouri. For the purpose of finding homes in what was then the far West, a colony of Rockingham County people was made up, consisting of members of the Wall, Fewel, Garrett and Allen families. They went West with teams and wagons. They took along their slaves and drove a large number of livestock. It was a journey of much hardship but on the whole was also one of many pleasant incidents. They had ample provisions in their wagons, and they camped out by the roadside. At that date Missouri did not have a single mile of railroad, and much of the land was still owned by the Govern- ment and could be bought at $1.25 per acre. The woods and prairies were filled with wild game, consisting of buffalo, deer, wolves and panthers. In Henry County, where the colony located, Mason Wall secured a large tract of Government land, the
greater part of which was prairie and situated in the north part of the county. For a time the nearest convenient market was at Boonville, a 100 miles distant. The various families lived the simple frontier life, cooking their meals by the open fire, while the slaves did the carding, spinning and weaving, and homespun cloth provided all the clothing. The first home of the Wall family was a log house. Mason Wall was a very thrifty and successful business man and farmer, and in time he assisted each of his children in securing homes of their own. He lived in Henry County until his death. His wife's maiden name was Walker.
Mrs. Reynolds' father was Dr. James Walker Wall, who was born on a plantation in Rocking- ham County November 20, 1816. On completing his literary education he took up the study of medicine going to Philadelphia and graduating from the Jefferson Medical College. In 1844, then a young physician, he joined the colony bound for Henry County, Missouri, and arriving in that section he bought land in the northern part of the county near his father's home. His residence was about three miles from Leeton, across the line in Johnson County. His services as a physician were in great demand in that pioneer community, and he built up a large and extensive practice and continued it until his death on May 10, 1875. While he was in active practice several young men studied medicine under him and also made their mark in the profession. Doctor Wall married Mary Frances Fewel, who was born in Madison, Rockingham County, North Carolina, March 28, 1829. Her father, William Fewel, was probably a native of Greensboro, but in 1844 was living in Rockingham County, at which time he joined the Missouri Colony and in Henry County improved a farm with the aid of his slaves. William Fewel married a Miss Wall, and both lived to a good old age. Mrs. Reynolds was one of six children: James W., Mary Elizabeth, Corinna Alice, Sarah Lelia, Maude Ella and Robert Lee.
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have one daughter, Maude Edwin. She is a graduate of the Salem Academy and College and for two years was a stu- dent in St. Mary's College at Raleigh. She is a very gifted woman, especially in music, and has a large private class in piano, violin and vocal.
ALEXANDER BOYD ANDREWS is a son of Col. A. B. Andrews (1841-1915) one of North Carolina's prominent men, whose biography is found on other pages.
Born at Henderson, North Carolina, February 2, 1873, Alexander Boyd Andrews attended the Raleigh Male Academy and the University. of North Carolina, where he took the full four years course and was graduated in 1893. He continued his studies in the university in the Law Depart- ment during 1893-94, and was admitted to the bar in September of the latter year. Since then for over twenty years he has been in general practice at Raleigh. He is a member of the North Carolina and American Bar associations. From 1900 to 1904 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Raleigh.
Mr. Andrews is prominent in North Carolina Masonry. During 1916 he served as grand master of the Grand Lodge of the state, and in 1906 was grand commander of the Knights Templar of North Carolina. He is also a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Shrine.
Mrs. S. A. Ogburn
S.A. Oglum
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On November 5, 1908, he married Miss Helen May Sharples of Media, Pennsylvania. Her father was the late Walter M. Sharples.
TUDOR FRITH WINSLOW: An honored old Caro- linia name comes forward in respectfully calling attention to one of Perquimans County's best known men, Tudor Frith Winslow, a name that for generations has represented sterling character and good citizenship.
Tudor Frith Winslow was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina, November 28, 1857. His parents were Francis Edward and Mary Talem (Jordan) Winslow. His father was a man with numerous business interests, mainly agricultural, and after completing his education in Randolph- Macon College, Tudor Frith Winslow assisted in conducting operations on the large farms and managing the stores that had to be established to meet the necessities of the hundreds of em- ployes. He thus had considerable business exper- ience prior to his father's death, after which he and his brother, E. D. took over the entire management.
Mr. Winslow had been conducting his own farms for but two years when he was first elected sheriff of Perquimans County, in which he served with the utmost satisfaction for two years and then resumed his personal management of his farm and stock interests. He operates 220 acres which adjoin the City of Hertford, and an additional 250 acres, as a member of the firm of Winslow & White. Mr. Winslow has numerous other interests, his active participation in the developing of local enterprises being a proof of his public spirit, as well as his business judgment and keen fore- sight. Mr. Winslow is vice president of the Hert- ford Banking Company; was one of the organizers of the Cotton Oil Company; and is a member of the Fisheries Commission Board of the state, an important body that looks after the interests of one of the most invaluable industries of North Carolina.
Mr. Winslow was married December 27, 1882, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood, of Hertford, and they have the following children: Mary Wood, Katherine Leight, Francis Edward and Elizabeth Blount.
Mr. Winslow has always been a sound and loyal democrat and on numerous occasions his party has called upon him to accept offices of responsi- bility. After serving several terms as mayor of Hertford, in 1900 he was a second time elected sheriff of the county and served four years more in that office, retiring with an unblemished public record. At present he is giving his services to his country as chairman of the local board of ex- emption in reference to the army draft for the World war. Mr. Winslow and his family are members of the Episcopal Church, in which he has served for years in the office of junior warden. In all things he commands the trust and respect of his fellow citizens.
SIHON A. OGBURN has been a resident of Win- ston-Salem more than half a century. His presence there has been one of varied usefulness to the community. He has been a successful merchant, and has extended his influence to the betterment and improvement of the city. The Ogburn family is one of the oldest in Western North Carolina. It was established here more than a century ago, and the name is intimately associated with various pioneer undertakings.
The pioneer Ogburn to locate in this part of the state was Edmund Ogburn, a native of Penn- sylvania, where he grew up and married. About 1810 he brought his family to North Carolina, coming over the hills and trails from Virginia with wagon and team. He located about seven miles from Salem, in what was then Stokes County. His beginning was made with the purchase of a tract of timbered land. That land and all the sur- rounding country was then a rugged wilderness. Game of all kinds roamed through the woods and over the hills, and it was possible to gain a living by hunting the deer and bear that were so plenti- ful, not to mention many other species of the wild game. Edmund Ogburn had the mental and physical equipment for enduring the vicissitudes of pioneer existence. He was skillful with the ax, was an uuerring marksman, and after he had eleared a portion of his land and put it into cul- tivated crops he was able to sustain his family with all the necessary comforts. He and his wife lived on the old homestead until they passed away at a good old age. Their remains were laid to rest on the home farm.
Sihon A. Ogburn is a native of the same county to which his grandparents came more than a cen- tury ago. He was born in the log house that stood five miles north of Salem, in what was then Stokes but is now Forsyth County. His birth occurred there March 17, 1840. His father, James E. Og- burn, was born in Brunswick, Virginia, in 1809, and was only a few months old when the family came to North Carolina. Naturally enough he had very meager advantages in the way of schools. He grew up in close touch with nature in its vir- gin state, learned all the arts and crafts of the frontier, and became sturdy and capable, and by experience rather than from books acquired the culture of the true gentleman. At the time of his marriage he bought some land near his father's place and erected the log house in which his son S. A. Ogburn first saw the light of day. This couple began housekeeping with no floor but the bare earth, while overhead the roof was covered with rough boards and the chimney was built of hewn timbers and rived boards lined from the in- side with a thick coating of clay. The mother of Mr. Ogburn had grown up proficient and wise in all the housewifely arts of her time. She knew how to spin and weave, and for years she dressed her children in homespun garments cut and fash- ioned with her own hands. Nearly all the cook- ing was done by the open fire.
The fact that Winston-Salem is now one of the greatest tobacco centers in the South gives special interest to the pioneer enterprise of James E. Ogburn as a tobacconist. In the early days he raised a crop of tobacco, though only on a small scale. Forsyth County was then isolated from railroads and only a few rough highways led down into the more populous districts of the state. Thus there was little market for the leaf, and there was not a factory in the county. With the assistance of his sons, James E. Ogburn stemmed the tobacco and twisted it up into some of the pigtail twists which were such a familiar form of tobacco manufacture to an older generation. After thus putting his crop into a merchantable form he carried it to Salem, where his limited erop fouud a ready sale for home consumption. Thus was established the first tobacco factory in Forsyth County. At the beginning the family stemmed the tobacco in the house, but with the growth of the
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enterprise a special building was erected for that purpose. James Ogburn also installed a tobacco press, operated with wooden screws. In a few years the Ogburns were manufacturing the entire crop of tobacco leaf raised in Forsyth County. At that time the business was not one of surpass- ing proportions, since the county produced a very small crop in the aggregate. Manufacturing op- erations were usually begun in the month of June and were continued until fall. The product was then taken in wagons to the southern counties and sold to the dealers and individuals. James Og- burn and wife lived on the old farm until late in life, when they moved to Winston and had their home with their son Sihon A. at the time of their death. They reared eight children: Eddie, Rufus, Marcellus, Sihon A., Charles J., John W., Martha E. and Edward W. Martha E. is the wife of Charles Masten and lives four miles east of Win- ston-Salem.
The old farm in the country north of Winston- Salem afforded the environment where Sihon A. Ogburn spent his childhood years. He wisely im- proved all his opportunities to secure an education. To the limit of his strength and ability he assisted in the varied work of the farm and the tobacco factory. It will not be out of place to recall the earliest commercial transaction in which Mr. Og- burn was a party. This occurred when he was about eight years of age. In the process of strip- ping the tobacco leaf usually some small fragments were left on the stem. Young Ogburn busied him- self for several days with picking off these small pieces, and as a reward of his industry he found himself possessed of a small sack full of tobacco leaf. This sack he carried to Mr. Winkler, who kept the confectionery and cigar store. To the merchant's question as to how much the boy wanted for his tobacco, the answer was given, "I will take it all in ginger cakes." The bargain was closed immediately on those terms and the purchaser was well satisfied and so was the seller. How many ginger cakes he received is not recorded, and nothing is known as to the discomfort he suf- fered consequent upon the sale and the consump- tion of the cakes.
The years came and went, and about the time he reached his majority the North and South were involved in the life and death struggle of civil war. In 1862 Mr. Ogburn volunteered his services and enlisted in Company D of the Fifty-seventh Regi- ment, North Carolina troops. He was soon at the front, and on December 13, 1862, he was a par- ticipant in the great battle of Fredericksburg. In the course of that engagement he was three times severely wounded, and he carries the deep scars of his wounds even to the present time. He was then sent to a hospital, where he remained four months, and was then given a furlough home, where he spent nine months convalescing. Having re- covered somewhat, he reported for duty and was assigned to work as assistant in the quartermas- ter's department. Later he was appointed quar- termaster of the regiment, and gave service in that way until the close of the war. He surren- dered with his command at Appomattox, and on receiving his parole started home on foot, being three weeks in making the journey.
In the fall after the close of the war Mr. Ogburn married, and he and his wife located at Winston. At that time the greater part of the present site of Winston was a wilderness. He and his wife
occupied a house on the site now covered by the Kress store in the block across the street east of the courthouse building. Their house was then the only building in that entire block, and it was owned by Mrs. Ogburn's father. At Winston the young soldier engaged in merchandising with his father-in-law, but after four years he left the town and bought a farm five miles north of the city. He was busied with the operation of his farm for two years, and then returning to Win- ston he bought the block of land upon which the O'Hanlon office building now stands. At the time of his purchase the block had only one building upon it. Here Mr. Ogburn engaged in the grocery trade, continuing it for several years, and then formed a partnership with his brother, C. J. Og- burn and W. P. Hill for the manufacture of tobacco. After two years Mr. Ogburn sold his interest in the tobacco factory and then set up in business for himself, continuing for eighteen years. Since retiring from active commercial pursuits he has given his time to the management of his pri- vate affairs.
On October 17, 1865, Mr. Ogburn married Mary Jane Tise. Mr. and Mrs. Ogburn had the very happy experience of celebrating on October 17, 1915, the golden wedding anniversary of their marriage. It was an occasion of much interest to the entire community, and was made happy and joyous by the presence of their children, grand- children and a great host of friends who at that time took the opportunity to render special honor to this old couple who have lived in the city for more than half a century.
Mrs. Ogburn was born at Winston September 26, 1847. Her father was Jacob Tise, who was born December 13, 1817. The Tise grandparents spent their last years in Winston. Jacob Tise was an early comer to Salem, where he served an ap- prenticeship at the carriage making and black- smithing trade. His apprenticeship over, he engaged in business for himself at Winston. His shop occupied the flatiron lot at the junction of Liberty and Main streets, his home being just across the street from his shop. He was a very successful business man, and in time acquired a large amount of town property. Many years ago he erected a dwelling house on the site now occu- pied by the great Reynolds tobacco factory. After his sons had grown to years of usefulness he engaged in merchandising, and continued a resi- dent of Winston until his death at the age of eighty-six years. Under his eyes Winston had expanded from a mere settlement in the wilder- ness to a thriving city, and he himself had been a not unimportant factor in that building and prog- ress. Jacob Tise married Margaret Kiser. She was born November 19, 1825, a daughter of Henry and Betty (Ripple) Kiser, and a granddaughter of Tandy Kiser. Tandy Kiser in the early part of the last century operated a very large planta- tion near Rural Hill in the northern part of For- syth County, and kept a retinue of about a hun- dred slaves in the fields and about the house. Henry Kiser, the father of Margaret Kiser, was also a large planter, his farm being about five miles from Germanton in Stokes County. Betty Ripple, who married Henry Kiser, was born in Davidson County, North Carolina, and both she and her husband lived to be upwards of ninety years of age. Mrs. Margaret Tise died in 1915, when eighty-nine years of age. She and her hus-
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band reared four children: Mary J .; Martha Ann, who married John Henry Masten; Charles H., de- ceased; and Jacob Cicero.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Ogburn are the parents of ten children, named Robert Lee, Minnie V., Rufus H., Cicero, Ella, Mary, John F., Carrie, Paul and Daisy. Robert Lee has six children, two by his first wife, Emma Mickey, Clyde and Lillian, and by his second marriage, to Ida Fulcher, his four children are Thomas, Gene, Lena and Nina. The daughter Minnie married Francis B. Efird, and their five children are Oscar, Ida, Francis, Mary and Bahson. Rufus H., by his marriage to Dena Newton, has three children, named Henry, Celestie and Ada Gray. Cicero married Emma Kapp, and their four children are Cicero, Cleo, Kapp and Thomas Linn. Ella became the wife of John Mc- Creary and has a daughter named Margaret. Mary married J. M. Peden, and their one daughter is Mary Frances. John F. married Sally Griffith and has a son, John Francis. Carrie is unmarried. Paul died at the age of twenty years. Daisy is the wife of S. C. Clark and lives at High Point. She married on her parents' fifty-second anni- versary and was twenty-five years old when she married.
Mr. Ogburn had three brothers, all of whom went through the Civil war and all are living at this writing.
RAYMOND GAY PARKER. A successful member of the Winston-Salem bar, Mr. Parker is a native of North Carolina and is a graduate in law from the University of North Carolina.
His early environment was a farm in Wiccacanee Township in Northampton County, North Carolina. His father was Israel Putnam Parker, who was born in the same township. The grandfather, Jesse Parker, was a farmer and spent his last years in that section of North Carolina. Jesse Parker married Miss Joyner, who lived to be eighty-three years of age. Israel Putnam Parker grew up on a farm and subsequently bought a place near the old homestead and was success- fully engaged in general farming there until his death at the age fifty-three. He married Miss Sue Gay. She was born in Jackson Township of Northhampton County, daughter of Jeremiah and Adelia (Stancell) Gay. Jeremiah Gay was a Con- federate soldier. Mrs. Sue Parker is now living in the Village of Jackson, and was the mother of three sons, named Walter, Raymond G. and Carl P.
Raymond G. Parker attended the rural schools first and afterwards the Warrenton High School. For two years he was in the academic department of Wake Forest College, and from there entered the law department of the University of North Carolina, where he was graduated in 1910. Mr. Parker has had a thorough experience as a lawyer and was in active practice at Jackson near his old home until 1915. He then moved to Winston- Salem, and since January, 1916, has been asso- ciated in the handling of a large legal clientage with John Cameron Buxton.
Mr. Parker was married in 1911 to Miss Julia Railey. Mrs. Parker, who died ten months after her marriage, was born in Northampton County, daughter of R. E. and Alma Railey.
Mr. Parker is an active member of the Brown Memorial Baptist Church, belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association at Winston-Salem, and is a member of the Twin City Club. He has always been fond of athletic sports and while in college
played center on the football team of 1907. Fra- ternally he is affiliated with Winston Lodge No. . 167, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Winston Chapter No. 24, Royal Arch Masons, Piedmont Commandery No. 6, Knights of Pythias, and Oasis Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Charlotte.
CHARLES ALEXANDER HARTMAN. Occupying a finely improved and well managed farm in Far- mington; Charles A. Hartman is actively identified with the promotion of the agricultural prosperity of Davie County, and is held in high regard as a man and a citizen. He was born, September 17, 1854, about one mile south of Farmington, his present home, being a son of George A. Hartman, who was born in the same locality.
Mr. Hartman's grandfather, Charles Hartman, it is supposed, was born in Germany, and was the only member of his father's family to cross the ocean. Coming to North Carolina, he located in Davie County, and having bought a tract of land lying about a quarter of a mile south of Farm- ington he lived there a number of years. In 1853 he migrated to Illinois, and having purchased vil- lage property resided there until his death. He married, and reared a family of sons and daugh- ters, the names of his sons having been George A., Elam, Moses, and James. George A. and two of the daughters remained in North Carolina, while the remainder of the family accompanied him to Illinois.
When ready to settle in life, George A. Hartman bought land situated a mile south of Farmington, Davie County, and began life as a farmer. Dur- ing the progress of the Civil war, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served until the close of the conflict. Returning to his home after be- ing paroled, he resumed his agricultural labors, remaining on the home farm during the rest of his life.
The maiden name of the first wife of George A. Hartman was Elizabeth Etchison. She was born 134 miles southeast of Farmington, a daugh- ter of Shadrach Etchison. She died in 1856, leav- ing but one child, Charles Alexander, of this sketch. The second wife of George A. Hartman, whose maiden name was Sally Williams, was born about two miles southeast of Farmington, a daugh- ter of Martin and Julia (Howard) Williams. She bore him two children, Bettie and Hattie.
Spending his early life on the home farm, Charles A. Hartman obtained his education in the district schools, and while assisting his father be- came well versed in agricultural lore. About 1879; he located in Farmington, where he resided for nine years, having been engaged in the manufac- ture of tobacco until 1883, and the following five years in the wholesale liquor business. Removing then to Shore, Yadkin County, he continued there two years, and for three years thereafter was a resident of Fremont, Wayne County. Going from there to Onslow County, Mr. Hartman resided in Jacksonville for two years, and then returned to Farmington, locating on the farm he now occupies, and the management of which, in addition to at- tending to his private affairs, he superintends.
Mr. Hartman was united in marriage, December 18, 1879, with Maggie Maria Brock. She was born near Farmington, December 17, 1859, a daughter of James Nathaniel Brock, and grand- daughter of Enoch Brock. Her great-grandfather, Nathaniel Broek, was born in Virginia, coming, it is said, from German ancestry. A local preacher
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in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he came to North Carolina during the later years of his life, locating in what is now Farmington Township, Davie County, but was then Rowan County, and on the farm that he purchased he spent the re- mainder of his life.
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