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He is an active member of the Forsyth County and North Carolina State Medical societies, also of the American Medical Association, and has fraternal associations with Salem Lodge, No. 289, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, South Side Council, No. 88, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Twin City Camp, No. 27, Woodmen of the World, and with the Modern Woodmen of America. Doctor Schallert has always been fond of outdoor life and of natural science. He is a member of the National Geographic Society, of the American Historical Association, of the Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member and president of the Audubon Society of Winston-Salem. Other memberships that indicate favorite interests are in the Child Labor Federation of America, American Social Hygiene Association, and Nature Club of America. He also holds membership in several associations whose aim is for world's peace. Doctor and Mrs. Schallert are active members of the Trinity Morav- ian Church, where both are teachers in the Sunday school, the doctor teaching the Men's Bible class.
He was married in 1904 to Miss Grace Jackson. Mrs. Schallert was born at Bogota, Jasper County, Illinois, daughter of Peter and Nancy (Honey) Jackson. Her ancestors came from Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and South Carolina, and were of Dutch-Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mrs. Schal- lert is a graduate of the Indiana Normal School, and while a student there met Doctor Schallert. They are the parents of four children: Marion Vespera, Dorothy Amaryllis, Paul Otto, Jr., and Nancy Elizabeth. Doctor Schallert also took mili- tary training of which he was very fond and once held a commission as second lieutenant in the Illi- nois National Guard.
ALBERT FRANKLIN WILLIAMS, M. D. A phy- sician and surgeon of wide repute, located at Wilson, Doctor Williams distinguished himself even when in university as a scientific investigator, and was formerly an instructor at Chapel Hill in the subject of biology. Since begining active prac- tice he has enjoyed most of the honors and suc- cesses bestowed upon the physician and surgeon of ability.
Doctor Williams was born in Kenansville in Duplin County, North Carolina, October 24, 1874, son of Albert Franklin and Rossie (Jarmon) Williams. His father was a farmer. Doctor Wil- liams attended private schools in Kenansville and in 1891 graduated from Horners Military Academy. Before the end of his first year at Horners Mili- tary School he was promoted from private to cor- poral and during his second and last year to sergeant-major of battalion. He finished at Horn- ers with second honors. Entering the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he received his A. B. degree in 1897. He also was accorded a special diploma by the University in the Department of Biology, and for two years he was retained as an instructor in that subject. In May, 1901, Doctor Williams graduated M. D. from the University of Maryland Medical Department, and at once began a general practice at Kenansville, but in 1904 re- moved to Wilson. His work has been in the general field of medicine and surgery, but for 51/2 years most of his time has been taken up with the Wilson Sanitarium, which with Dr. E. T. Dickinson he purchased in February, 1913, buying Dr. C. E. Moore's interest. Doctor Williams is secretary and treasurer of the hospital, which is conducted as a general hospital, and furnishes a service the equal of any institution of its kind in this part of the state.
Doctor Williams is a member of the Wilson County, the Fourth District, the Seaboard, the North Carolina State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. He belongs to the Wilson Country Club and the Commonwealth Club, is a Kuight Templar Mason and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
October 25, 1905, he married Miss Margaret Hadley, daughter of John C. and Mary E. Hadley, of Wilson. They have four children: Mary Mil- licent, Albert Franklin, third, Margaret Hadley and Gretchen.
J. ARTHUR DOSHER, M. D. Iu a perusal of the roster containing the names of the men who have attained distinction in the medical profession, well to the forefront will be found that of Dr. J. Arthur Dosher, of Southport. In any of the various pursuits of life success unfailingly chal- lenges the admiration of the world. It matters not whether it be in the professions, in business, in public, military or civil life, success is the one distinguishing and sought-for characteristic of all transactions. In the medical profession Doctor Dosher has distinguished himself, and has dem- onstrated the fact that to the man of merit be- longs the full measure of success and worldly prosperity. He has figured for a number of years as a prominent representative of the medical fra- ternity of this part of North Carolina, and his labors have been appreciated not alone by his private clientele, but by the county and state, which have honored him by appointments to posi- tions of honor aud high responsibility.
J. Arthur Dosher was born at Southport, Bruns- wick County, North Carolina, April 3, 1878, aud is a son of J. Julius and Mary A. (Pinner) Dosher. His father, who was a pilot for mauy years and well known to the river men and coast captains, is now deceased. After attending the public schools and a private school at Southport, J. Arthur Dosher was sent to the Maryland Col- lege of Pharmacy, from which he duly grad- uated with the class of 1900, and then continued
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his studies as a student at the Baltimore (Mary- land) Medical College. When he received his de- gree of Doctor of Medicine in 1903 Doctor Dosher at once returned to Southport, where he entered upon the general practice of his profession, in which he built up a large patronage. As the years passed, however, he gave more and more of his time to surgery, until it may now be said that he is a specialist in this branch of his pro- fession, a field in which he has won much more than a local reputation. Doctor Dosher is a mem- ber of the Brunswick County Medical Society, the District Medical Society, the Tri-State Medi- cal Society, the Southern Medical Association, the North Carolina Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Since 1903 he has been county superintendent of health for Brunswick County, and for several years has been city physi- cian of Southport. He is also acting assistant surgeon of the United States Public Health Serv- ice, and in October, 1909, was commissioned as surgeon, with the rank of lieutenant, in the United States Medical Reserve Corps. His private prac- tice is large and representative and his official duties of the most important character, yet he still finds time for other labors, among which are those connected with the office of chief surgeon of War Board and the Southern Railroad, surgeon for the various fish factories and sawmills of South- port and the surrounding county, and examiner for the various life insurance companies represented here. He has been a leader, not a follower, in professional work, and his labors have in many respects formed a distinct and valuable contri- bution to medicine and surgery. His professional service has ever been discharged with a keen sense of conscientious obligation and his work has brought him a high reputation among his fellow-practitioners. The determination and laud- able ambition that caused him to take up the profession in his youth have constituted an ef- fective force in all his later life and have brought him at length to well-merited prominence in his chosen field of endeavor. Doctor Dosher is a member of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Woodmen of the World.
On November 22, 1903, Doctor Dosher was mar- ried at Baltimore, Maryland, to Miss Grace Ken- neth Keyworth, of that city, and they are the parents of one child, Grace Alma.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON COCKE. Though a lawyer of long experience and solid attainments, it is rather for his prominence in business and public affairs that William Johnston Cocke is best known in his home City of Asheville and throughout the state at large.
He was born at Asheville January 19, 1873, a son of William M. and Maria (Johnston) Cocke. His father was a prominent and highly successful lawyer and business man. The son was educated in a manner befitting the family position and fortune, attending private schools, Wofford Col- lege at Spartanburg, South Carolina, from which he graduated in 1892, and the next three years attended Harvard University, where he specialized in political science and law. He left university in 1895, and returned to Asheville to assume the active responsibilities of managing his father's estate.
In 1896 Mr. Cocke was elected mayor of Ashe- ville and filled that office one term. He served as a member of the State Senate during the im-
portant session of 1899-90, when the constitutional amendment was considered and passed. In 1904 he was democratic nominee for solicitor of the Fifteenth Judicial District. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention of 1896 and again to the Denver Convention of 1908.
Mr. Cocke is proprietor of the widely known Blue Ridge Farm. Some years ago he took over George Vanderbilt's herd of Berkshire hogs, and now has the largest single herd of that strain in America. When the present war with Germany began Mr. Cocke with other prominent pork pro- ducers in the United States formulated plans which they laid before the Government as to means and methods of increasing pork production and seeur- ing the removal of such restrictions which had up to that time interfered with the raising of hogs.
Mr. Cocke is a member of the Asheville and North Carolina State Bar associations, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and for years has been an active member of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, South. November 18, 1903, he married Nola Dilworth, of Gonzales, Texas. They have two children, Wil- liam Johnston and George Dilworth.
CHARLES S. SIEWERS is one of the prominent family of that name in Western North Carolina, and has made his own carcer count for a great . deal in the field of business and manufacturing at Winston-Salem. His achievements have been specially identified with the manufacture of furni- ture and he has helped to give Winston-Salem a place in the furniture industry of North Carolina.
Mr. Siewers was born at Winston-Salem and is a son of Dr. Nathaniel S. and Eleanor (deSchweinitz) Siewers. Doctor Siewers was born at Winston- Salem in 1845, and was liberally educated, served for three years in the Confederate army, and on re- turning home took up the study of medicine. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and after studying two years in Europe, he located in Salem, where his ability and rare talents soon brought him success. After a practice of over thirty years his death came on January 12, 1901. He was also active in promoting and building the Roanoke and Southern Railroad, the second rail- road to enter Winston-Salem, and was one of the organizers of the Wachovia Loan and Trust Com- pany. Throughout his life he was a member and worker in the Moravian Church. The wife of Doctor Siewers is a daughter of Bishop de- Schweinitz, and both the Siewers and deSchweinitz, families are among the most prominent in Western North Carolina. Reference to these families will be found in greater detail on other pages.
Charles S. Siewers, who was the oldest of six children, had the home environment and the social position calculated to bring out the best of his native talents and propensities. He attended the Salem Boys School and then entered the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College at Raleigh. Having made definite choice of a business rather than a professional career, he did not remain to complete his college course, but entered the ranks of the world's workers as an employe in the Forsyth Manufacturing Company, where he served his ap- prenticeship. He remained in that factory about five years, and then with his experience and capital organized the Forsyth Chair Company. He has been president of this concern since its organization,
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and it is one of the industries which give character to the resources of Winston-Salem. Mr. Siewers also organized the Forsyth Dining Room Furniture Company, of which he is president, treasurer and general manager. Both these are highly successful and growing concerns.
Mr. Siewers was married in June, 1901, to Miss Clara Vance, who was born in Winston-Salem, daughter of Joseph A. and Adelaide (Fogle) Vance. Mr. and Mrs. Siewers have four children, Charles, Carolyn, Margaret and John. Mr. Siewers is a member of the board of trustees of Salem Academy and College, and also a member of the board of trustees of the Home Moravian Church, of which both he and his wife are active members.
GEORGE LOUIS WIMBERLY, M. D. Among the representative men of note in Edgecombe County no one is better known or more highly esteemed than Dr. George Louis Wimberly, Jr., a physi- cian of prominence at Rocky Mount, and vice president of the First National Bank at this place. The caution, concentration and exactness of the physician have been valuable elements in the financial field, and Doctor Wimberly has built up an honorable reputation in both lines of effort.
Dr. George Louis Wimberly was born Febru- ary 10, 1862, near Tarboro, North Carolina. His parents were George Louis and Frances ( Whit- field) Wimberly. His father was graduated from the University of North Carolina in the class of 1857 and was qualified for professional life, but his preference lay in the direction of agriculture and his life was passed as a farmer. Of his children his namesake son was the only one who became a physician.
Under the scholarly tuition of Prof. F. S. Wilkinson, a noted educator, George Louis Wim- berly was prepared for the University of North Carolina, in which institution he pursued his lit- erary studies, later entering the medical depart- ment of the University of Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1883. Doctor Wimberly en- tered into medical practice in Edgecombe County and for four years was associated with Dr. R. H. Speight, formerly of the University of North Car- olina. In 1886 Doctor Wimberly opened an of- fice at Rocky Mount and for thirty-one years has been considered a physician of rare knowl- edge and skill at this place, where he has served as health commissioner with the greatest efficiency, and it may be stated that during his administra- tion no epidemics ever gained headway here as in many other industrial centers.
For a number of vears he has been inter sted in several important financial institutions of Rocky Mount. He is vice president of the First Na- tional Bank, is a director of the Morris Plan Bank and is also on the directing board of the Underwriters Fire Insurance Company. As a man of earnest citizenship he has been more or less concerned with public matters at Rocky Mount and has served on the board of city alder- men.
Doctor Wimberly was married November 16, 1893, to Miss Mary Bunn, who was born in Nash County. North Carolina, and is a daughter of Hon. B. H. Bunn, formerly a member of Con- gress. Doctor and Mrs. Wimberly have five chil- dren, as follows: George Louis, the third of the name in succession. who is a student of law in the University of North Carolina, the alma mater of both his father and grandfather; Benjamin Bunn, who is a student in the Virginia Military
Institute; Mary Bryan, who is attending the Rocky Mount High School; Robert Diggs, who is also in the high school; and Francis Whitfield. Doctor Wimberly and family have a beautiful home in which hospitality is considered a virtue and many of the old customs, dear to native-born Southerners, are preserved in social functions.
In addition to his professional and banking interests Doctor Wimberly is one of the exten- sive farmers of Edgecombe County. He is a Royal Arch Mason and is a member of the Du- rant Island Club. With his family he belongs to the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopalian, in which he is a vestryman.
THEODORE MCLEAN NORTHROP, M. D. Honored in his profession, trusted by his business asso- ciates, esteemed and beloved by all who knew him in any relation, the late Dr. Theodore McLean Northrop passed away, leaving behind him not only large material possessions as the result of his thrift and industry, but the enviable record of a noble, useful and worthy life. In his death Robe- son County lost a valuable citizen and St. Pauls one of the most active leaders in the development of her most worthy enterprises.
Theodore McLean Northrop was born July 12, 1874, at Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Caro- lina, and died in the Charlotte Sanatorium, Char- lotte, North Carolina, March 13, 1916, at which time he was president of the Bank of St. Pauls. He was a son of H. F. and Laura ( McLean) Northrop. The father of Doctor Northrop was born at Wilmington, North Carolina, but died in what is now Scotland County, formerly a part of Richmond County, where his life was mainly spent. The mother of Doctor Northrop was born in the old Laurel Hill Church community, about six miles north of Laur- inburg, the old McLean plantation being still known as Scotch Grove. Her parents were Neill and Mary ( Briggs) McLean, of Scotch ancestry. Before the war between the states Mr. McLean was an extensive planter and large slave owner. Mrs. Northrop was afforded unusual educational and social advantages, and undoubtedly to this in- tellectual, capable and devoted mother Doctor Northrop owed much that stimulated him to early effort. Some years after the death of Mr. Northi- rop, Mrs. Northrop was married to J. T. Rich, who is now deceased. Mrs. Rich resides at Laurin- burg.
Theodore MeLean Northrop grew up at Laurin- burg and there received his early educational training. He was fond of books and an ambitious youth in every way, determining early to become a physician but willing to lay a sound literary foundation before beginning the study of medi- cine. For some years he was a student in Oak Ridge Institute and later the University of North Carolina, from which latter institution he was grad- uated in 1894. His medical studies were pursued in the University Medical College at Richmond, Virginia, and the University of Maryland, and he was graduated from the university in the class of 1897, after which he devoted one year to hos- pital work in Baltimore and then returned to enter into medical practice in his native state.
In 1898 Doctor Northrop selected the village of St. Pauls, with its rich surrounding agricultural territory, as his field of medical practice, having the wise foresight that many others did not possess, that a time would come when conditions would change here as general progress invaded the
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country and the outside world came to a knowl. edge of the sleeping wealth and the fine citizenship of this section. His work for some years as a country physician sorely tried his strength, but he persisted and there is hardly a home in all this section where, at one time or another, his professional services had not been bestowed or his kindly interest made known in some way. He was uot only a doctor, but "the Doctor, "' and no one, as long as he lived, conld take his place in the trust and affection of the people. The same high regard was entertained for him by his fellow phy- sicians and was notably manifested during his last illness, when they crowded to the hospital and begged for opportunity to do him some service.
As Doctor Northrop gradually accumulated a competency from his practice, he wisely iuvested in farming lands in the vicinity of St. Pauls, and the value of these lands was greatly iucreased when the Virginia & Carolina Southeru Railway line was built through the village. From the begining of the awakening that followed Doctor Northrop took a most active interest in the development of this section, in which he had always maintained his faith, and in every way possible to him, helped to further laudable enterprises and substantial im- provements. He invested freely and was a leader in civic improvement and was largely instrumental in bringing abont many admirable movements. Agriculture in all its branches always interested him and he developed several fine farms, his home estate being a part of and adjoining St. Pauls on the north. It was a delight to him to beautify his land and he erected a handsome modern resi- dence here, on a fine location adjoining the grounds of St .. Pauls Church, in which religious body he was a deacon. The entire management of his large estate, including his extensive farming en- terprises, Doctor Northrop left in the hands of Mrs. Northrop, with the certainty that no one conld carry out his intentions more completely and satisfactorily than this admirable woman.
In his marriage Doctor Northrop was singularly happy and fortunate. He was united to Miss Betty McGeechy, who was born in St. Pauls Town- ship, Robeson County, North Carolina, and is a representative of old and historic families of this section of the state. Her parents were John and Flora (Shaw) McGeechy, the former of whom is deceased. The mother of Mrs. Northrop is a sister of the late Lanchlin Shaw, who for many years was one of Robeson Connty's most prom- inent men and was especially so in the neighbor- hood of St. Pauls and was the founder of the modern town, which is built on land originally owned by him. Six children were born to Doctor and Mrs. Northrop, namely: Katie Groves, Fran- cis, Dawson, Theodore, Lanra and Daniel, all of whom reside with their mother. Mrs. Northrop and family attend St. Pauls Presbyterian Church. The only fraternal body with which Doctor North- rop was identified was the Masons, to the teach- ings of which he was ever faithful and at one time he had served as worshipful master of his lodge.
EDWARD HENRY CRANMER was born at South- port February 22, 1871, a son of Edward H. and Almira C. (Bensel) Cranmer. He attended public schools of Southport and Eastman Business Col- lege, Poughkeepsie, New York. He was admitted to bar in 1900, is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, was mayor of Southport several times, and represented the Tenth Senatorial District in the General Assembly of 1917, as
senator from New Hanover and Bruuswick coun- ties. He is a Freemason, master of his lodge several terms, is a Methodist, Sunday School superintendent and chairman of the board of stewards.
Mr. Cranmer married Miss Mary Elizabeth Pearce, and they have five children, three boys, Edward H., Jr., James Pearce and Paul Morris, and two girls, Alice A. and Mary. Mr. Cranmer has been actively engaged in the practice of law since 1905.
JACOB F. CROUSE. Born and reared in the country district of Forsyth County, Jacob F. Crouse after considerable experience as a farmer on his own account determined to extend the horizon of his influence and efforts and find an opening in the business life of Winston-Salem. He, has been going steadily upward and is now an official mem- ber of the largest furniture house in the city.
His birth occurred on a farm near Friedberg in Sonth Fork Township of Forsyth County. His people have lived in that locality for genera- tions, going back to earliest pioneer days. His great-grandfather, Andrew Crouse, was a native of Germany, and so far as known was the only mem- ber of his immediate family to come to America. When he made the voyage and sought the fortunes of a new world he located near Piney Grove Church in Forsyth County, and in that locality his years were quietly and prosperonsly lived until his death. He married Margaret Alford and they had a large family of fifteen children.
Their son Jacob Crouse, who was born near Piney Grove Church in what is now Forsyth Connty, learned the trade of shoemaker. At that time shoe factories were practically unknown and the trade of shoemaker was much more important than it is today. All shoes were made to order and he conducted a good business with a shop on his home farm not far from his father's place. His home was on Silas Creek about three and a half miles northeast of Clemmons. In 1835 Jacob Crouse sold out his interests in North Carolina with the intention of accompanying a colony of local people to Illinois for settlement in Sangamon . County in that state. Just before the party was ready to start he was taken ill and died. His wife, whose maiden name was Rosa Berath, was born on a plantation on Mnddy Creek about four miles from Clemmons. Her father was Henry Berath, who spent all his life as a farmer in that locality. Henry Berath married Catherine Hart- man, whose father, John Hartman, was a native of Germany and on coming to America settled in Forsyth County, North Carolina, among the earliest pioneers. The death of Jacob Crouse left his widow with four children and in rather limited circumstances. She faced life courageously and managed to keep her honsehold together, earning money for their support by her skillful work with the wheel and loom. She was accomplished in the arts of carding, spinning and weaving, and not only dressed her own household in homespun bnt thereby provided the means necessary to live. Her later years were made comfortable by her children, and she died at the age of seventy-three. Her four children were Jnlia, William Harrison, Grandison and Lydia Catherine. Mrs. Lydia Catherine
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