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Doctor McPhaul at once inaugurated a vigor- ous campaign. He put into his official adminis- tration the full vigor and enthusiasm of one who has made public health his special study and investigation and who is ambitious for the suc- cess of the movement and determined that so far as it depends upon his leadership it shall show results to justify. That his whole heart is in it may be judged from the fact that he sac- rificed a private practice much more remunerative financially than the salary of his office. Atten- tion has been frequently called to the fact that the public health movement is in a sense detri- mental to the income of the medical profession, and it is in every way creditable to their public spirit that so many have supported the move- ment so whole-heartedly.
Under the direction of Doctor McPhaul the activities of the public health office in Robeson County were considerably enlarged. He fitted up adequate quarters in the courthouse, with a com- plete office, laboratory and dispensary equipment. At present he has outlined three units for his work. The first unit was inaugurated in Decem- ber, 1917. This is known as the Life Extension Unit. It provides for a thorough medical and physical examination of every persou between the ages of twenty and sixty-five in the county, free, for those who would apply for it. Accompanying this examination go written and verbal advice to the applicants on how to prolong life. Up to November, 1918, something over 900 persons had been given the thorough and complete examination, while over 1,500 applications for free physical ex- amination were received. It is the estimate of med- ical authorities that the lives of these people can be prolonged from two to fifteen years each. A little calculation will show the enormous total of years that under a system such as this the
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human race can be prolonged. It is well known that incipient cases of tuberculosis are only de- tected by such a thoroughgoing examination, and it is in the incipient stages that tuberculosis can most readily be cured. Many other insidious dis- eases, that go unrecognized until the dangerous stages, are discovered under the same system.
The second unit of service, begun on March 1, 1918, embraced school inspection and medical ex- amination of school children. Robeson County has between 15,000 and 16,000 school children. The work under this unit involves the co-opera- tion of the school teachers. The children are given a thorough medical examination, all acute conditions at once are treated and relieved, advice is given to pupils and parents on the prevention and correction of numerous disease conditions pe- culiar to childhood and youth, and everything pos- sible is done to improve and conserve their health. A complete card system by which the teachers get a complete record of every pupil, and which is kept on file in Doctor McPhaul's office, is one of the features which indicate the efficiency of this department of the work. The schools are natu- rally the medium through which Doctor McPhaul expects to vitalize the effectiveness of public health education upon homes not ordinarily sus- ceptible to propaganda carried on by means of illustrated lectures or through the public press. Many hundreds of handbills and circulars and throughout the county, and many of these have circulars of information have been distributed been carried from the schools into the homes.
The third unit of service, begun in the spring of 1918, embraces rural hygiene and sanitation. In that Doctor McPhaul has from three to five assistants in the field. It is the purpose to visit and inspect every rural home in Robeson County. These individual visits furnish an opportunity for the inspector to give personal advice as to the construction of and location of sanitary privy, the safeguarding of the water supply, and at the same time every child in the home would be ex- amiucd for hook worm and other diseases pecu- liar to country life, and free medical treatment and advice given.
Another unit of service in contemplation. is in- fant hygiene, a work which has unlimited possi- bilities and will be properly emphasized by Doc- tor McPhaul's office.
Educational work and propaganda form a large part of Doctor McPhaul's service. He carries this on by lectures and addresses to the people in the schoolhouses and other public places aud par- ticularly through the columns of the Robeson- ian, Lumberton's progressive and public spirited newspaper. His articles in the paper on the prevention and control of epidemics, the duty of every family and community to report at once any symptom or suspicion of disease to the proper authorities, and other timely and important sub- jects, are doing a great deal of good. A few years ago most people in Robeson County, as else- where, would have resented and even repelled by force any intrusion of their homes by members of the County Health Department. But now the coming of a county health officer is welcomed, and unquestionably a wouderful amount of good is being done, though the total results of it can- not be estimated for some years to come. A large number of illustrated lectures have been delivered throughout the county, and during the first two or three months of the service these
lectures and addresses were attended by over 2,000 people.
Thus Doctor McPhaul in his profession has set himself the highest standards of service and already, when a comparatively young man, has won the grateful acknowledgment of a large and important community of his home state. For several years he has been the medical examiner for all the standard insurance companies, num- bering nearly thirty, doing business in Lumber- ton and Robeson County. During the administra- tion of Governor Kitchin by appointment of the governor he served as a member of the Board of Di- rectors of the State Hospital for the Insane. Doctor McPhaul is a member of the Robeson County and North Carolina Medical societies and the Ameri- can Medical Association, and in the Southern Med- ical Association is member of the public health section. He is also acting as a member of the Robe- son County Exemption Board. Doctor McPhaul belongs to the Chestnut Street Methodist Epis- copal Church and is a member of the Masonic Order and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows.
He married Miss Clara Brown Grantham, daughter of Mr. C. P. Grantham, of Fairmont. They have four children : Wilbur A., Jr., Shirley, Billy Weston and an infant boy uamed Jack Powell.
SOUTHGATE JONES. Although he is still a young man under thirty, Mr. Southgate Jones of Durham has been prominently identified with many public and private enterprises in his home city.
He was born at Durham, July 23, 1888, the son of Thomas Decatur Jones, a pioneer tobacconist of the Durham market and one of the most highly beloved citizens of his day, and Mattie Southgate Jones, herself known and prized throughout North Carolina for her culture and interest in public welfare.
Mr. Southgate Jones received his early educa- . tion in the Durham city schools, the Trinity Park School, and in 1905 he entered the Bingham School at Asheville where he spent two years, there be- coming first sergeant of his company, a member of Alpha Phi, a local fraternity, president of the Young Men's Christian Association, and entering into almost every phase of the school's activities. Later he entered Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, where he stood well in his classes and among his fellows, joining Kappa Sigma and, at the end of his first year, being elected vice president of the sophomore class, for the presidency of which he was defeated by only two votes, secretary of the Washington Literary Society, an officer in the Young Men's Christian Association, and to other parts denoting the con- fidence of the student body. He was unable to return to Washington and Lee for the sophomore year, however, his physician advising him to go. West for the purpose of building up his physical condition. Following this advice he spent one year in New Mexico.
Since entering business Mr. Jones has had wide experience. His principal activities have been in banking, he having served for several years in the First National Bank of Durham in nearly all capacities up to that of paying teller. In 1909 he was sent by that institution to Chapel Hill to reopen and to become cashier of the Peoples Bank which had failed previously, and after eighteen months spent there he returned to Durham and began business as a real estate broker. This
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business he has continued and in March, 1917, he assumed in connection with it the management of the Durham Morris Plan Company.
Mr. Jones has been interested in various public institutions and enterprises. He is one of the fourteen charter members and treasurer of the Durham Chamber of Commerce and he has served two terms as president of the Durham Young Men's Christian Association, during one of which the institution was reorganized and the founda- tion laid for its present enlarged field of service. He has filled offices in the Masonic and Pythian lodges, and he is at present a director in the local . Young Men's Christian Association, and a steward in Trinity Methodist Church, South.
LUTHER C. HINE has found his pleasant and profitable work as a general farmer in Oldtown Township of Forsyth County. He is a member of one of the older families of Western North Carolina and his own life and achievements have been in keeping with the high standards set by his ancestry.
He was born on a farm adjoining the church property at Oldtown on the 4th of July, 1855. His great-grandfather was a native of Germany. Com- ing to America when a young man he located in what is now Forsyth County, North Carolina, se- cured some wild and raw land and in the course of time had it developed and improved as a farm. It remained his home until his death. Mr. Hine's grandfather was John Hine, who was born in the Oldtown community of Forsyth County, May 24, 1799. He showed no disposition to depart from the ways of his ancestors and remained steadily as a farmer and a good upright citizen all the days of his life. He died January 1, 1858. His wife, whose maiden uame was Catherine Fizer, was born in the same year and died in the same year that her husband did. The month of her birth was December, and the day of her death was the 23d of June.
Levine Israel Hine, father of Luther C., was born near Oldtown, May 7, 1826, and as a young man learned the trade of tanner. He followed that business until the outbreak of the war, when he entered the Confederate army and was in active service about two years. With the close of the war he returned to Forsyth County and became actively associated with the manufacturing firm of F. & H. Fries. For many years he conducted a tannery at Salem, but in the meantime he had invested in land at Oldtown, and a few years be- fore his death he retired to that quiet retreat and spent his declining days in peace and comfort on the farm. He died at the age of seventy-eight. His wife was Regina C. Beck, who was born in what is now Forsyth County, a daughter of Wil- liam and Mary (Null) Beck. William Beck was born in Forsyth County, North Carolina, May 15, 1802, and his wife was born September 11, 1806, and died in June, 1862. As a young man William Beck settled in his native county and was for many years a prosperous farmer of that section. He lived to venerable years, passing away May 15, 1891. The mother of Luther C. Hine died aged eighty-three. She reared two sons, Luther C. and Gilbert C., and one daughter, Della, who was born February 26, 1868, and died July 25, 1891. Della married Ernest Dalton.
Luther C. Hine spent most of his youth in Salem, his parents having moved there when he was a child. His first instruction came from what was known as the Infants' School, and later he
attended the Salem Boys' School. His school days over he engaged in the harness business at Win- ston, remained there six years, and then chose his permanent vocation as a farmer. Returning to his father's homestead at Oldtown, he has since been successfully engaged in its management and cultivation, and while providing amply for his family has also contributed something to the ad- vancement and the raising of the standards of agriculture in this section of the state. He has his farm well equipped with implements and raises good grades of live stock.
Mr. Hine married Ada M. Shore, who was born in South Fork Township of Forsyth County, daugh- ter of William and Lusetta (Walk) Shore. Mr. and Mrs. Hine have reared five children: Carl Edgar, Ira Walter, Paul Eugene, Beulah L. and Ollie Regina. Carl married Ethel Thomas, and his daughter, Beulah Catherine, is the wife of Harold Shoaf. Mr. and Mrs. Hine are active members of the Methodist Protestant Church.
ANCESTRAL RECORD OF THE FOREFATHERS OF JAMES STUART KUYKENDALL.
Record and References of Pre-American Histories, of Dutch-American Families.
Dutch Reform Church, New York City; Dutch Reform Church, Kingston, New York; State Records, Albany, New York; The Holland Society of New York, Mr. D. Versteeg, genealogist for the society, and Mr. L. P. de Boer, family historian for the society, 99 Nassau Street, New York City; Kingston Methodist Church, Kingston, New York; Minisink Cemetery records, Minisink Islands, New Jersey; state records, Richmond, Virginia; records of Hampshire County, Richmond, Virginia, and Romney, West Virginia; Fredrick County, Mary- land, records; state records of grants, Raleigh, North Carolina; Rowan County records, Salisbury, North Carolina; Iredell County records, States- ville, North Carolina; early records of Daniel Boone, Rowan County, North Carolina; records of The Daughters of The American Revolution in Ire- dell County, North Carolina, Statesville, North Carolina.
Family Tradition.
It is a family tradition that the Kuykendalls originally were from Scotland, that they fled that country because of political and religious perse- cutions, that they went to Holland about 852, where they married and intermarried with the Dutch, lost some of the Scotch characteristics, took on some of the Dutch characteristics, and that while in Holland the Dutch twisted the name from Kirk-in-dale, meaning, "church in the valley," to Kuykendaal, which would mean "Valley of Fowls," suggesting that somewhere iu the old country the ancestors of the family lived in a valley where fowls abounded.
Another tradition is to the effect that between 852 and 1000 as in Biblical times, they used only the given name, and that an edict was issued by the Duke of Alba and Duchess of Parma insist- ing that surnames should be taken. This met with no little opposition, and resulted in many of the inhabitants assuming ridiculous names, viz. : Knicker, meaning marble, Backer, meaning baker, or Marble-Baker, hence the aristocratic New York name Knickerbocker, also De Paauw, meaning pea- cock, from which came another old Dutch name, "DePew."
Luer Jacobson van Kuykendaal came from Hol-
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land to America with the van Renssallaer Colony some time prior to 1640, landed at New Amsterdam, New York, and lived for a time with the colony at Wyldwick, or Fort Orange (New Albany). The date of his birth in Holland is unknown, research of the records so far found do not disclose the name of his wife. His death occurred at Wyld- wick, New York, October 25, 1653.
Jacob Luwreszen, the only son, was baptized at the old Dutch Reform Church at Kingston, New York, May 29, 1640, and married Grietie Artz Tack in 1680. To them was born twelve children, whose infancy ), Cornelius, Johannas, Matthew, Ary, Arenitja, Petrus, Sara, Syntie and Christina.
Isaac, son of Nathaniel, was born in 1766 and names were Syntie, Jacob, Johannas (who died in . died in 1845. He married Jane Calvin, who died in 1854. To their union were born six children, Jacob, Luke, William, James, Susan and Sallie, all The line of descendants was handed down through Jacob, who was baptized August 12, 1683. He was twice married, the name of his first wife being Adriontjen Tutsort, who lived but a short time after their marriage. About two years later he was re-united in holy wedlock to Sarah West- fall. Matthew and Jacob both owned large tracts of land adjoining the lands of the Westfalls and Westbrooks on both sides of the Delaware River at Minisink Islands, New Jersey (see records and original plats Port Jarvis, New York). of whom were large land owners. They loved and owned good horses and were large robust men and good horsemen. Isaac Kuykendall owned a large tract of land southwest of Romney, up the Potomac. The boundary ran to within a mile or two of Romney, on which he built a large stone residence and barn, which at some later date was burned, but the walls of these buildings are still standing and in good condition. Over the door is inscribed the name of Isaac Kuykendall, and bears the date of 1789. The owners of the old Isaac Kuykendall farm at present are Mrs. Susie Pancake (who owns the land on which the ruins of the old stone house are located), Harness Johnson and Michael Kuykendall, a great-grandson of Isaac.
Jacob and Sarah Kuykendaal were the parents of six children: Jacob, baptized 1716; David, baptized 1719; Marretjen, baptized 1721; Benja- min, baptized 1723; Christina, baptized 1727; and Nathaniel, baptized 1728.
The old records show that Nathaniel assisted in surveying and locating the east and west boundary line between the states of New York and Penn- sylvania, and also records the settlement of his father's estate, which was near the little Village of Beurwyck, where Albany now stands. The name of Nathaniel also appears on the records as having assisted in settling disputed boundary lines among the settlers, and indicates that he was rather an important character for one of his youthful years and the period in which he lived.
About 1743 the Dutch were planning a Dutch republic similar to that in Holland, when the Eng- lish came in and took possession. This usurpation on the part of the English was very much against the wishes of the Dutch, who determined to get out from the old New Amsterdam section where they had been operating, and sent an exploring expedi- tion down into Virginia. History records the nanies of Jacob and Nathaniel Kuykendall, Jan Van Meter, a man by the name of Blue, and others whose names are not given as being members of the party. They reported glowing accounts of the country upon their return to New Amsterdam, and immediately, or very soon after, this same party with others moved down into Virginia, taking lands on the south branch of the Potomac River, up and down the river from where Romney, Hampshire County, is now located.
On June 15, 1749, Nathaniel Kuykendall (it will be observed that the name is spelled "Kuyken- dall" instead of "aal,"' as former records all show) received a deed for a large boundary of land running up and down the Potomac River at Romney for a distance of eleven or twelve miles, signed by Lord Thomas Fairfax, the deed being simply signed "Fairfax" with the seal of Great Britain affixed thereto. A man by the name of Sullivan received a deed on the same date for land adjoining that of Nathaniel Kuykendall. A great deal of interesting history comes in here, in which the name of George Washington appears inti- mately associated, which is now being prepared
for publication in "The History of the Kuyken- dalls in America."
The writer is not in possession of the name of Nathaniel's wife or names of any of the other children but Isaac, who was the writer's great- grandfather.
Hampshire County had its county seat laid off and made legal in 1762, and the first county court was held two or three years later, and Nathaniel Kuykendall sat as one of the first judges of the court.
The line of this branch of the family was handed down through James, the fourth son of Isaac and Jane Kuykendall. He was born at the old stone house mentioned above in 1810, and married Han- nah Lawson Blue October 25, 1836.
James Kuykendall owned a farm located on both sides of the Potomac River adjoining Romney, West Virginia, which he later sold and purchased another farm about two miles east of Cumberland, Maryland, known as the "Hitchcock Farm, " where the family resided a number of years, or until about the time of the breaking out of the war between the states, in 1861, when he disposed of his holdings there and engaged in the mercantile business at Springfield, West Virginia, which is about nine miles down the Potomac River from Romney, the old Isaac Kuykendall home place, where he was born. James Kuykendall owned a number of slaves when the war broke out, and held a large sum of Confederate money, which he realized from the sale of lands near Cumberland, Maryland, in addition to what he had invested in the mercantile business. The money was worthless at the close of the war, and most of his goods in the store were confiscated by the Union Army, leaving him with a large family and a meager sum of money to be- gin business anew, which he did, and while he never accumulated as much as the losses sustained by the war, he was considered a successful business man and always provided well for his family, which has always been a characteristic of the family. A few years after the close of the war he sold his busi- ness at Springfield, West Virginia, and engaged in a similar business at Frenches Depot, about one mile from the junction of the north and south branches of the Potomac, where he continued suc- cessfully till his death in 1876. He was returning from Presbytery at Charlestown, West Virginia, being an elder in the Presbyterian Church, like his father before him. He was instantly killed by an express train as he came around behind the west bound train from which he had just gotten off. The watch he was wearing was given him by his father and is still in the family, now owned by his
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oldest grandson. His death occurred in September, 1876.
James and Hannah Kuykendall were the parents of eight children, the oldest, Frances Jane, boru in October, 1837, dying in infancy April 4, 1839. The names of the other children were Isaac, Fannie, Michael, James, Willie, Susie and Thomas.
Hannah Lawson Blue, wife of James Kuyken- dall, was of an old Dutch family and one of the early settlers, and like the Kuykendalls of old Knickerbocker stock. Her grandfather's name was Uriah Blue, born December 2, 1746, and he died April 14, 1814. His wife, Susau Williams, born November 25, 1754, was captured and scalped by the Indians and returned home by the Indians upon payment of a ransom. She died September 19, 1815. Michael, son of Uriah, was born May 15, 1782, and died May 11, 1842. Frances Lawson, his wife, was born November 29, 1785, and the date of her death is not available at this writing. Frances Lawson Blue, wife of Michael Blue, was the mother of Hannah Lawson Kuykendall, wife of James Kuykendall.
Reference is hereby made to old records at Rich- mond, Virginia, and Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia, relative to grants of lands to the grandfather of Hannah Lawson as compensation for services rendered in the Revolutionary war. (See Book of Entry for Hampshire County at Richmond, Virginia, book R, page 281-282. (See Records, Second Regiment, Continental Line.)
Isaac Kuykendall, eldest son of James and Han- nah Kuykendall, was born August 30, 1839. In addition to a common school education he attended the Academy at Cumberland, Maryland, and en- listed in the cause of the Confederacy as a private under Capt. George Sheetz at Romney, West Vir- ginia, in 1861, entering Company F, Seventh Vir- ginia Cavalry, Laurel Brigade, under Gen. Thomas Rosser and Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, commander.
In April, 1862, Captain George Sheetz was killed in a cavalry charge at Buckton Station, Paige County, Virginia, and Isaac Kuykendall was pro- moted to second lieutenant, and at the battle of Cedar Mountain (where he had two horses killed under him) he was promoted to the captaincy of his company, which title he held during the period of the war. He was twice captured, being held four months the first time and eleven months the second. He was under fire at Fort Delaware, and his name appears in the records of the Civil war as one of "The Immortal Six Hundred."
In 1870 he was married to Lucy Rebecca Davis in Mineral County, West Virginia, and lived in the brick home erected by Samuel Davis just before the Civil war, which was left to Lucy Rebecca with 280 acres of fine farming land at his death. In 1881 Isaac and Lucy sold the farm and purchased an- other farm containing 670 acres near Huttons. Garrett County, Maryland, from Mortimer Pollock of Wheeling, West Virginia, who had previously purchased it from Col. William Schley, brother of Admiral Schley. This was one of the most beauti- ful and most valuable farms in Western Maryland, and was known through that country as "The Promised Land." In 1894 the family moved to Romney, West Virginia, where they remained until 1904, when they moved to the old Blue farm at Hanging Rock, four miles below Romney, on the Potomac River, which contained 1,300 acres of land. This property was granted to the Blue fam- ily about 1744, by George III of England, and was never deeded till the death of Michael and Lawson Blue, which occurred in 1904 and 1908,
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