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August 17, 1911, at Martinsville, Virginia, he married Mary Reamey Thomas, daughter of Lyne Starling Thomas. They have three children, Wil- liam, Lyne Starling and Kendrick Sheffield.
HON. CAMERON MORRISON. Prominent among the native sons of the Old North State who have won distinction in public life and high standing in the legal profession is Hon. Cameron Morrison, ex-state senator, leading democratic politician, and since 1906 a distinguished member of the
Charlotte bar. Mr. Morrison is a man whose in- dustry has been indefatigable, and whose efforts have been so well directed that with little effort he has accomplished large achievements. His inind is so quick and comprehensive and he makes upon others such a strong impression that he has always inspired confidence. This has helped in large measure to gain him his enviable posi- tion in his community and his county.
Mr. Morrison was born at Rockingham, Rich- mond County, North Carolina, in 1869, and is a son of Daniel M. and Martha (Cameron) Mor- rison, the former of whom is still living at Rock- ingham, while the latter is deceased. Daniel M. Morrison was born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, a son of a native of Scotland who was brought to the United States by his parents when twelve years old, first locating at Fayette- ville, North Carolina, and subsequently removing to Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Mrs. Morrison was the daughter of Hon. John Worthy Cameron, a native of Moore County, North Caro- lina, a man of extraordinary talents, and one of the most prominent lawyers and political lead- ers of ante-bellum days in his section of the state. He bore the reputation of being at least the equal of any lawyer of his day in his section of the state and was a very active and widely in- fluential man, both in his profession and in the public and political affairs of his time. He was a member of the General Assembly of North Car- olina, acted in the capacity of presidential elec- tor and held various minor offices in his county and state. He likewise became known as an edi- tor, having for several years acted in that ca- pacity on the Fayetteville Argus, and his brilliant gifts as a writer are still remembered by the older generation, who subscribed to the paper. His wife was Caroline (Crawford) Cameron.
Cameron Morrison was given his early educa- tion in the public schools of Richmond County, following which he studied law under the pre- ceptorship of Judge Dick, of Greensboro, North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in 1892, his practice beginning in Richmond County. He soon became interested in public affairs, was rec- ognized as a man of ability and executive powers, and was elected mayor of Rockingham, acting as chief executive of the county seat of Richmond for one term. As his practice increased and he came more and more favorably before the peo- ple, additional honors were given him, culminat- ing in his election, in 1900, to the Upper House of the North Carolina General Assembly. His serv- ices in that body were of a nature calculated to increase his popularity among the people, and he was slated for higher honors, and in 1902 be- came the candidate of the democratic party for a seat in Congress but met with defeat by a small majority after a close and exciting campaign. In 1906 he came to Charlotte, which has been his home and the scene of his success as a lawyer, and where his fine talents and ability have at- tracted to him a large and representative clien- tele. Mr. Morrison has been connected with much litigation of an important character, his work having carried him into all the courts. Not alone before the courts and juries as a pleader, but in political speaking as well, Mr. Morrison is gifted with splendid talents as an orator-forceful, elo- quent and winning. For this reason he is called upon in every campaign to do a goodly share of the work on the stump throughout the state, and has become personally acquainted with the lead-
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ing men. He takes a deep and intelligent inter- est in politics, is a close student of party history and party principles, and for several years past has been chairman of the committee on platform of every Democratie State Convention. He was appointed to the Superior Court, but he declined the honor.
Mr. Morrison married Miss Lottie Tomlinson, daughter of S. F. Tomlinson, of Durham, North Carolina, and they have one daughter: Angela. Mr. Morrison's offices are located in the Lawyers Building.
PAUL F. HADDOCK. The chemistry that lies at the bottom of the art of imparting colors to tex- tile and other materials has been made use of from time immemorial, and marvelous have been the results, particularly since 1856, when Perkin introduced the first of the coal tar colors. The manufacturers of these dyes and chemicals have carried on a great industry. Perhaps at no previous time in the United States have these manufacturers given more study, research and ex- periment to the discovery of new chemical agents and combinations than at present. A firm that has admirably met the demand for American made chemicals for the bleaching and dyeing industry is the E. C. Klipstein & Sons Company, of which A. Klipstein & Company, of New York City, are selling agents, and Paul F. Haddock, who is southern manager for this company, maintains branch offices at Charlotte, North Carolina.
While Paul F. Haddock is yet a young man, he is thoroughly experienced in the bleaching and dyeing business. He was born in 1886, at Adling- ton in Lancashire, England, and is a son of John and Lucy (Fairclough) Haddock, Sir Robert Fair- clough being a maternal ancestor. For several generations the Haddocks have been connected with bleaching and dyeing plants in the great cotton manufacturing centers in Lancashire, both the father and grandfather of Paul F. Haddock being so employed, the latter being foreman of one of the great establishments.
Paul F. Haddock attended the public schools at Adlington until sixteen years old, when he became self supporting and during the next two years at- tended a chemical school at night in order to thoroughly become instructed in the line of work he desired to follow, and when he completed the course he had practical as well as technical knowl- edge. In the meanwhile, from the age of sixteen, he worked in the bleachery with the firm of Davies & Eckersley, Ltd., who owned the Huyton Bleach- ing, Dyeing and Finishing Works at Adlington. In June, 1910, he decided to come to the United States and resigned the first-class position he had held so long with the British house. In New York City he secured a position as mechanic's helper with a firm just organized, the Lancashire Bleach- ing, Finishing and Dyeing Company, its plant being situated at Waldwick, New Jersey. Within one week he had shown such thorough knowledge of the business that he was given charge of all the mechanics and superintended the installation of the expensive machinery, and when the plant started to operate he was made superintendent.
From there Mr. Haddock went to Memphis, Ten- nessee, and for one year was superintendent of the American Finishing Company of that city. He then took a vacation, during which he revisited his home in England, and on his return to New York, in September, 1912, accepted a position with the firm of A. Klipstein & Company, extensive
manufacturers of dyes and chemicals. He was sent through the South as a demonstrator, soon was made a salesman and later assistant manager and finally was promoted to his present position. As southern manager his territory embraces Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida. Mr. Haddock has made rapid advance in the business field and his identification in so important a posi- tion with so prominent a concern reflects · credit not only upon his business knowledge and ability, but gives a fair estimate of the impression he made through his personality and force of char- acter.
A. Klipstein & Company are manufacturers and dealers of dyes, chemicals for bleaching, finish- ing, dyeing,. tanning, etc., selling agents for the E. C. Klipstein & Sons Company, manufacturers of sulphur black, sulphur brown, olive, gray and tan, also sulphur blue and sulphur khaki, also sell- ing agents for the Bulls Ferry Chemical Company, manufacturers of soluble oils, soaps, sizings,. softeners, gums, waxes and finishings. This con- cern also manufactures oxitan, a new soluble tan- ning compound, invented by W. A. Klipstein. The above company are also selling agents for the Warner-Klipstein Chemical Company, owners of a large plant at Charleston, West Virginia, and man- ufacturers of tetrachloride of carbon, chlorine, chlor-benzol and muriatic acid. They have addi- tional selling connections and are also selling agents for The Society Chemical Industry of Basle, Switzerland.
Mr. Haddock was married to Miss Willie Louise Skinner, who was born in North Carolina and was reared and educated at Concord. They have one child, Paul F., Jr. They have a handsome resi- dence. in Myers Park, Charlotte, and are valued acquisitions to the city's pleasant social circles. Mr. Haddock has shown interest and public spirit since coming to Charlotte and is a valued member of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, the Manu- facturers Club, Suburban Club, Phalanx Lodge of Masons, Carolina Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons, is a Shriner, a member of the Red Fez Club, the Southern Textile Association, the Ameri- can Cotton Manufacturing Association and also of the Society of Dyers and Colourists in England.
Mr. Haddock's parents survive and he has one sister, Elizabeth, and two brothers, Thomas and Gilbert. Both brothers were trained in the bleach- ing and dyeing industry and the elder, Thomas Haddock, is counted an expert and because of his skill in a necessary war industry has never been called to the colors in the great World war. It has been otherwise, however, with Mr. Haddock's younger brother, Gilbert, who has been in active service since 1914. He enlisted in General Kitch- ener's army and was first assigned to duty with the Home Guards. Later he was one of that brave contingent of British youth that was sent to France, then to Belgium, then to Egypt and later to Salonica, many times performing deeds of valor and thus far has escaped being wounded, although taking part in a great many engagements.
FREDERICK RUTLEDGE is one of the older men in insurance circles in North Carolina, and it was a quarter of a century ago that he established the Rutledge Insurance Agency at Asheville.
Mr. Rutledge has spent practically all his life in and around Asheville. He was born in Henderson County February 10, 1868, son of Col. Henry Middleton Rutledge, who came from South Caro-
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lint and during the war between the states was colonel of the Twenty-fifth North Carolina Regi- ment throughout the entire war. After the war for a number of years he engaged in rice planting near Georgetown, South Carolina. Colonel Rut- ledge was a student of the University of Virginia.
Frederick Rutledge was a cadet in the Virginia Military Institute. He came to Asheville in 1889 and entered the general insurance business. He was general agent for both North and South Caro- lina of the Girard and Franklin companies of Philadelphia and also the City of New York Fire Insurance Company. He was at one time vice president of the Local Agents Association of North Carolina. He also organized and was one time secretary of the Home Building and Loan Association. He was one of the organizers and a director of the Dixie Fire Insurance Company of Greensboro.
Mr. Rutledge was captain of Troop B, North Carolina National Guard Cavalry, and was in ac- tive service on the Mexican border in 1916 and 1917 and now his elder son is in the field artillery, regular army. This makes an unbroken record of three successive generations of the Rutledge family who have distinguished themselves as sol- diers. Mr. Rutledge married April 21, 1892, Mabel Reeves, daughter of Dr. R. H. Reeves, of Asheville. The elder son, Frederick Reeves, re- ceived his commission after a period in the train- ing camp at Fort Oglethorpe and is now an of- ficer in the United States Field Artillery. The younger son is Reginald Edmond. Mr. Rutledge is a stockholder in the Asheville Country Club and a member of the Board of Trade, and is af- filiated with the Knights of Pythias. He is now actively engaged in local fire insurance business in the City of Asheville, North Carolina.
WALTER T. AND RUFUS A. SPAUGH, twin brothers, are both prominently identified with Winston- Salem's industrial, civic and religious life, and are members of one of the oldest and best known families of this section of North Carolina.
They are direct descendants of that interesting historical character in Western North Carolina, Adam Spach, who was born in Alsace, Germany, January 20, 1720. Coming to America a young man, he lived a time with the Moravians in Penn- sylvania, but in 1753 came to North Carolina and located in the wilderness two miles from the present site of Friedberg Church. At first his nearest neighbors were twelve miles away at Bethania, and in order to have access to that community he cut a road through the wilderness. His surroundings were exceedingly wild and primitive, and it was possible in those days to supply the table with meat of all kinds from the wild game that existed in the forest. Indians were the jealous neighbors of all the early white settlers. Adam Spach built a substantial rock house, still standing as a land- mark in that section. This served not only as a shelter but as a fortification, and there were port- holes in the walls, while in the basement was a spring of living water. This frontiersman lived a long and active life and died August 23, 1801. He married Elizabeth Huster. Their descendants are many, not only in this section of North Carolina but elsewhere, and while some of the present gen- eration retain the original spelling of the name Spach, most spell the name more nearly as it is pronounced, Spaugh. It was the father of these brothers who adopted that form of spelling for his name.
Adam Spach, the pioneer, had a son Adam, who was born two miles from Friedberg, and who was the father of George Spach, grandfather of Walter and Rufus Spaugh. George was born near Fried- berg, became a planter, owned and occupied a large place in South Fork Township of Forsyth County, and spent his last years there. He and his wife are both buried in Friedberg churchyard. They reared three sons, named Levi, Thomas and Trau- gott.
Thomas Spaugh, father of the twin brothers, was born in South Fork Township of Forsyth County in 1819, was educated at the Salem Boys' School, and for a time was a teacher in rural schools. He . bought farms in South Fork Township and was successfully identified with their management and cultivation until 1876. Selling out, he then re- moved to Winston-Salem, where he lived retired until his death in 1891. During the war between the states he was in the Confederate service, de- tailed for the transportation of salt and also in the making of barrels for the Government.
Thomas Spaugh married Melvina Lash. She was born near Bethania in 1822, a daughter of Isaac and Mary (Transou) Lash. She survived her hus- band a number of years and passed away in 1900. There were five children; Charles, who died at the age of twenty-six; Frances, who died in 1892; Byron; and Rufus and Walter, twins, The son Byron attended Winston Academy and the Morav- ian College and Theological Seminary at Bethle- hem, Pennsylvania, and after his graduation was ordained to the ministry at Salem. His promising career was cut short by an early death at the age of twenty-eight.
Walter T. Spaugh found his life work early, exercised the substantial virtues in him and those inherited from his ancestors, and step by step has advanced in the scale of industrial importance until he is now president of the Salem Iron Works.
He was born on his father's plantation in South Fork Township of Forsyth County, and completed his education in the Salem Boys' School. He then began an earnest apprenticeship at the machinist 's trade with the Salem Iron Works. This apprentice- ship was followed by a journeyman's experience of a few months, and he was then admitted to part- nershin in the Salem Iron Works with Mr. Constan- tine Hege, founder of this local industry. In 1900 the business was incorporated, Mr. Spaugh becom- ing secretary and treasurer. On the death of Mr. Hege in 1914 Mr. Spaugh became vice president and treasurer, and in 1917 bought the outstanding stock of the company and after reorganization took the chief executive office as president. He is now at the head of one of the important industries in this section of North Carolina, and his own judg- ment and work have entered largely as factors in its growth and upbuilding.
Walter T. Spaugh was married in 1902 to Jennie E. Frazier, who was born in Jacksonville, Florida, daughter of George W. and Jennie (DaCosta) Frazier. Mr. and Mrs. Spaugh have three chil- dren: Elizabeth, Janet and Walter T., Jr. The family are members of the Home Moravian Church. Mr. Spaugh is one of its most influential workers, belongs to the Central Board of Elders of the Salem Congregation, and is treasurer of the Church Aid and Extension Board of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church, and has served as assist- ant superintendent and superintendent of the Home Moravian Sunday School ten years. He is now superintendent of a rural Sunday school near Win- ston-Salem.
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Rufus A. Spaugh was born November 5, 1865, on his father's plantation near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, moving with the family to Salem in 1876, where he attended the Salem Boys' School. After graduating from this institution and a business college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he accepted a position in the office of the Salem Iron Works.
A few years later he became associated with a large mercantile establishment. After several changes in partnership the business was incorpo- rated as Vaughn & Company. Mr. Spaugh became its secretary and treasurer and devoted his time for a number of years to its upbuilding and advance- ment.
In 1903, while still retaining his financial in- terest in this company, and remaining on its board of directors, he applied his extensive experience and business ability to the Forsyth Manufactur- ing Company, in which he was already a stock- holder, becoming its vice president, treasurer and manager.
At that time this company had a small plant on Sunnyside Avenue, Winston-Salem. It needed only capable direction to attain success, and this suc- cess is now represented by two large and finely equipped plants with many times the capacity and output of the old one which he took the manage- ment of in'1903.
In 1893 Mr. Spaugh was married to Miss Anna Louise Hege, a native of Salem, and daughter of Edward L. and Mary (Hunt) Hege. He has had a very happy and congenial home life with his wife and three sons. The sons are, Walter Herbert, Rufus Arthur and Ralph Edward. Herbert at- tended the Salem Boys' School, Tinsley Military Institute and the Moravian College and Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter in 1916. The son Arthur is now a student at the University of North Carolina, while Ralph is still in the Winston-Salem High School.
At the age of fourteen Mr. Spaugh united with the Home Moravian Church in Salem, and has since then always been greatly interested in all kinds of Christian work, contributing liberally to numerous causes and organizations both local and foreign. For thirty years or more he has been actively engaged in Sunday school work, both as a teacher and superintendent, serving in the latter capacity for nearly twenty years.
In 1907 Mr. Spaugh and family moved their resi- dence to the new suburban section of Southside; and when Trinity Moravian Church was built there in 1911-12, on Sunnyside Avenue, to care for the Moravian Church members in this part of the city, Mr. and Mrs. Spaugh transferred their membership from the Home Church to Trinity Church. Since that time Mr. Spaugh has been a member of the Board of Elders on Trinity Church, and also the representative of this church on the Central Board of Elders of the Salem Congregation.
ISHAM FAISON HICKS, M. D. The work and skill and character which constitute the real ele- ments of success in the medical profession have been earned and acquired in abundant measure by Doctor Hicks during his fifteen years of prac- tice at Dunn in Harnett County.
His name suggests some of the honorable fam- ily associations which were something like a guar- antee and inspiration for his individual career. Doctor Hicks was born at Faison in Duplin Coun- ty, North Carolina, in 1876. His father, the late Capt. Louis Thomas Hicks, spent all his life at Faison, where he was born and where he died
in 1904. He was a member of a prominent and his- torical family of Duplin County. His Faison con- nections constitute one of the most prominent fam- ilies of Eastern North Carolina. Captain Hicks had more than an honorary title. He was captain of Company E, Twentieth North Carolina Infantry, during the war between the states, and was in ac- tive service for two years. He was at the head of his company, in one of the desperate charges of Gettysburg, and on the third day of the fight there, was captured, taken as a prisoner to Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, and held during the remainder of the war. His record of service was that of a brave, dashing and skillful officer. After the war he became a merchant and planter, and few citi- zens of Duplin County enjoyed so much respect and honor.
Captain Hicks married Rachel McIver, who is still living at the advanced age of eighty-two. The McIvers have from early days been prominent in Moore, Lee and 'Chatham counties. One of its members was Hon. Charles D. McIver, and Mrs. Hicks was a cousin of that well known jurist.
The boyhood and early associations of Doctor Hicks was of a very agreeable and comfortable character, to which as a grown man he takes pleasure in reverting. His early schooling was obtained at Faison, and he was also a student in Fishburne Military School at Waynesville, Vir- ginia. He studied medicine in the North Caro- lina Medical College at Charlotte and in the Uni- versity College of Medicine at Richmond, graduat- ing M. D. in 1902. With his diploma and license he located at Dunn in Harnett County and has been steadily in practice there for fifteen years. Real eminence has come to him in his profession and as a physician and surgeon his name may properly rank with those of the professional lead- ers in the state. He served a number of years as city health officer of Dunn, and is surgeon at Dunn for the Atlantic Coast Line and Durham & Southern Railways companies. His splendid qual- ities as a genuine good man and useful citizen have won for him equally high regard and esteem. He is a member of the County and State Medical societies, American Medical Association, is a Ma- son and Knight of Pythias and member of the Presbyterian Church. Doctor Hicks is chairman of the Jarvis Red Cross Chapter at Dunn.
Soon after beginning practice Doctor Hicks married Miss Mary Gertrude Harper, daughter of the late Dr. M. W. Harper.
Dr. Martin W. Harper was born at Benton- ville in Johnston County, North Carolina, in 1844, and died at his home in Dunn in 1907. He was born and reared at Bentonville, which is now a very small village, but which will always have an historical significance as the scene of the last real battle of the war between the states, and the surrender of General Johnston's army to General Sherman. Doctor Harper before reach- ing his seventeenth year had volunteered in the Confederate service in Company H of the Twen- tieth North Carolina Infantry. He was all through the war except a period at home recuperating from a wound received at the battle of Stone Mountain. Toward the close of the war he was a member of General Baker's staff.
Doctor Harper was for a time a student of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky at Lexington, and then took up the study of med- icine in the Louisville Medical College, where he graduated with the class of 1873. He at once returned to his old home at Bentonville, and be-
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gan the practice of his profession. In 1886 the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad building southward through Johnston and Harnett counties, over a route that now constitutes the main line of the system, reached Dunn. At the very beginning of this village Doctor Harper moved his family from Bentonville and his was one of the first resi- dences in the town. With all his splendid quali- ties as a physician and surgeon and kindly and capable practitioner, his name is almost equally well remembered for his part as a town builder. Everything affecting the welfare of the new com- munity elicited his interest and co-operation. He established the first drug store in the town, con- ducting it for several years while his private practice was growing. He also organized the Dunn Road District, under which the first good roads were built in Harnett County. He helped to locate the first cemetery. His name was prom- inently connected with other movements which served to promote the growth of Dunn into the flourishing and wealthy little city it has become. Dunn is the center of one of the finest agricul- tural districts in North Carolina. Doctor Har- per organized the Harnett County Medical So- ciety, and at one time was its president. One of his chief interests in life was the Disciples Church at Dunn, of which he was a working member for many years. In 1875 Doctor Harper married Miss Eugenia Wilson, of Newton Grove, Sampson County, North Carolina. She is still living, and her four daughters are Mrs. McD. Holliday, Mrs. I. F. Hicks, Mrs. Annie Young, and Mrs. J. A. McLean.
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