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Colonel Horner has received letters of commen- dation from prominent men all over this and into other states, who have watched the progress of the school and who know the advantages to be gained by its students. If it were necessary the testimony of these men would go a long way toward conclusively showing that there is no need for North Carolina boys to go outside of their state for an education. The equipment, the fac- ulty, the methods, the experience, the reputation and the products of the Horner Military School are equal to any. Among the alumni of the school are the governor of North Carolina, two judges of the Supreme Court, the commissioner of in- ternal revenue of the United States, the presi- dents of four colleges, the presidents of three large railroads, preachers, judges, bank officials, and presidents of great business concerns too nu- merous to mention. From one small class the school produced one of the greatest lawyers in the City of New York, a presiding elder, a judge and two bishops. Such results are not acciden- tal. The school has ample grounds, comfortable buildings and complete material equipment, away from external temptations and distractions, with
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a corps of, experienced teachers, loyal, conscien- tious, well trained and energetic. In the past it has accomplished a great and good work, and under the direction of Colonel Horner will con- tinue to do so in the future.
KINGSLAND VAN WINKLE is a lawyer of prom- inence at Asheville, junior member of the firm Harkins & Van Winkle, and is one of a rather numerous group of Northern men who have gained distinctive positions in this noted city of North Carolina.
Mr. Van Winkle was born in Hudson County, New Jersey, December 5, 1879, and is of old Holland Dutch pedigree. He is a son of Matthew A. and Helen H. (Crane) Van Winkle. His father was in the brokerage business. Kingsland Van Winkle was educated in the public schools of Yonkers, New York, the Central High School of Buffalo, and in 1896, at the age of seventeen, came to North Carolina in the employ of the Biltmore Estate as timekeeper and payroll clerk. While here he entered the law department of the Univer- sity of North Carolina, and was graduated LL. B. in 1901 and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one. He practiced for a time with Samuel H. Reed under the name Reed & Van Winkle. In 1904 he was admitted to the bar of New York State. In May, 1909, Mr. Van Winkle formed a partnership with Thomas J. Harkins under the name Harkins & Van Winkle, and they have since received a large share of the important clientage of Asheville.
Mr. Van Winkle is vice president of the Ashe- ville Club. He was for two years, 1909-11, a member of the Board of Aldermen of the city and in politics is a democrat. He is a Beta Theta Pi college fraternity man, is a vestryman and trustee of the Episcopal Church and a member of American Bar Association. He is serving as chairman of the board of directors of the Chil- dren's Home. Mr. Van Winkle is a man of studious pursuits, owns a splendid private library, and has a big future in the law and in the public spirited citizenship of the state.
RT. REV. JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE has been bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of North Carolina for nearly twenty-five years. His active career covers almost half a cen- tury and has been employed usefully in the fields of education, the law and the ministry.
Born March 27, 1850, at Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, he attended the Tarboro Academy until he was fifteen, then entered Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut, where he grad- uated B. A. in 1869 and M. A. in 1872. He re- ceived the honorary degree D. D. from the Uni- versity of North Carolina in 1890, and a similar degree from the University of the South at Sewanee in 1894, and from his Alma Mater in 1916.
Having graduated at the age of nineteen, he was a classical teacher from 1869 to 1871 in St. Clem- ent's Hall, Ellicott City, Maryland. His ambi- tion at that time was for the law, and having carried on his preparatory studies under the late William K. Ruffin and the Hon. George Howard, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of North Carolina January 1, 1872. For the first year after his admission he practiced in Balti- more, and then at Tarboro, North Carolina, until 1878.
A number of his family, including his honored father, had distinguished themselves in the min-
istry and Bishop Cheshire on April 21, 1878, was ordained a deacon, and on May 30, 1880, a priest. He served in the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during 1878-81, and was rector of St. Peter's Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1881 to 1893. October 15, 1893, he was con- secrated bishop-coadjutor to Bishop Lyman, of the Diocese of North Carolina. By the death of Bishop Lyman, December 13, 1893, he became bishop of the diocese, and has since administered its duties from the City of Raleigh.
Without. attempting to describe his work as bishop, which would to a large degree be a history of the church in North Carolina during the past twenty years, it should be said that Bishop Ches- hire was particularly vigorous in pushing the mis- sionary work in the mountains of the state while it remained part of his diocese. He revived the old Valle Crucis Mission in Watauga County, and in 1895 secured the erection of the western counties of the state into the "Missionary District of Asheville." As bishop he also brought about the establishment of St. Mary's School, Raleigh, as a permanent church institution under the ownership and control of the Carolina Dioceses. In line with, and incidental to, this progressive work he has accepted every opportunity to extend religious influence among the negroes of the diocese and in developing and extending St. Augustine's School at Raleigh.
Though his career has been marked by a large amount of practical and executive administration, Bishop Cheshire is by nature a student and is a recognized authority on many phases of state and local history. He has written many addresses and papers on local and church history, and in 1912 brought out a "History of the Protestant Episco- nal Church in the Confederate States," published by Longmans, Green & Company. He has served as a trustee of the University of the South at Sewanee since 1885. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity, and is a prominent member of the Society of the Cincinnati, being chaplain of the North Carolina Society and one of the chaplains general of the national organization.
Bishop Cheshire is a son of Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire. D. D., who for over fifty years was rector of Calvary Church at Tarboro, and Eliza- beth Toole (Parker) Cheshire. Various branches of the family represent some of the distinguished names of North Carolina. His father was a son of John and Elizabeth Ann (Blount) Cheshire, of Edenton, the latter being a daughter of Joseph and Anne (Gray) Blount. The Blounts were a large and notable family in Chowan County, while the Grays were prominent in Bertie County. Bishop Cheshire's mother, Elizabeth Toole Parker, was a daughter of Theophilus and Mary (Toole) Parker, Mary Toole being a daughter of Henry I. and Elizabeth (Haywood) Toole. Henry I. Toole, of a notable Edgecombe County family, was a cap- tain in the First Regiment of the North Carolina Continental Line and a nephew of Lieut .- Col. Henry Irwin of the Fifth Regiment of the North Carolina Continental Line, who was killed in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. Elizabeth Hay- wood, a daughter of Col. William Haywood of Edgecombe County, was granddaughter of John Haywood, one of the treasurers of the Province of North Carolina before the Revolution, and an- cestor of a large family which has had many dis- tinguished members in this and other states.
On December 17, 1874, Bishop Cheshire was
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married at Hillsboro, North Carolina, to Annie Huske Webb, daughter of James Webb, of Hills- boro. She died January 12, 1897, about three years after her husband had been elevated to the bishopric. On July 19, 1899, at Beltsville, Dis- trict of Columbia, Bishop Cheshire married Eliza- beth Lansdale Mitchell, daughter of Rev. Walter A. Mitchell, of Washington, District of Columbia. Bishop Cheshire's children, all by his first mar- riage, are as follows: Elizabeth Toole, born July 2, 1879, married Rev. Albert S. Cooper, a mission- ary in China; Sarah Frances, born April 23, 1881, is unmarried; Joseph Blount, born December 20, 1882, is an attorney at Raleigh and married Ida J. Rogerson; Annie Webb, born April 23, 1884, is the wife of Dr. Augustin W. Tucker, who is in charge of St. Luke's Hospital at Shanghai, China; James Webb, born September 9, 1890, is unmarried and is treasurer and secretary of the Orange Trust Company at Hillsboro, North Caro- lina; Godfrey, born September 21, 1893, is now assistant superintendent of the North Carolina Fire' Insurance Rating Bureau, and married Alice C. Shiell. James is second lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth Regiment Infantry, now in France, and Godfrey is first lieutenant, Coast Artillery, now at Fort Caswell.
JOHN EXUM WOODARD, of Wilson, is one of the eminent lawyers in North Carolina. Among his contemporaries, and he has been in active practice for forty years, his name commands the fullness of esteem paid the highly accomplished and ver- satile lawyer, man of affairs and cultured gentle- man.
While Mr. Woodard has proved his ability in many civil cases of importance, his reputation doubtless rests most securely upon his fame as a criminal lawyer. During his career he has handled nearly 150 capital cases and some of them have attracted state wide attention. Among the causes celebres with which practically every lawyer of North Carolina is familiar was the case of State v. John Jefferson. As the sole counsel for the de- fense, Mr. Woodard contested this case through the Criminal, Superior and Supreme courts of North Carolina, and after the Supreme Court granted a new trial, it was again tried by a jury of the Superior Court, and a verdict of not guilty was rendered in favor of his client. He was also lead- ing counsel for the defense, in the case of Dr. Lemuel T. Johnson, indicted in the Hastings Court, at Richmond, Va., for poisoning his wife. After a hotly contested trial, which attracted much atten- tion and lasted for two weeks, the jury rendered a verdict of "not guilty."
John Exum Woodard was born in Wilson County May 8, 1855, and is a son of Calvin and Winifred (Exum) Woodard. Mr. Woodard received some of his earlier education in the Wilson Collegiate Institute and graduated from the University of Virginia in. 1875. . He studied law with Chief Justice R. M. Pearson, at Richmond Hill, and was admitted to the bar, at Wilson, in 1877. In the same year of his admission to the bar, Mr. Wood- ard was elected solicitor of the Inferior Court when that court was organized, and he filled the position until the office was abolished. He has since been both county attorney and district solicitor; was elected mayor of Wilson in 1882; served as a member of the Legislature in 1885; in 1888 repre- sented the Second Congressional District as presi- dential elector, served as solicitor of the Third Judicial District from 1891 to 1895, and was
elected a member of the State Senate in 1901 and 1903. During the 1901 session, he was chairman of the committee on penal institutions, and a member of the judiciary, federal relations and judicial reform committees. In 1903 he was chairman of the judiciary committee. Mr. Wood- ard was democratic delegate at large to the St. Louis National Convention in 1904.
He owns what is generally regarded as the best selected law and private library in this part of North Carolina, and he is a man of learning and information on many subjects outside of his own profession. He is one of the active members of the North Carolina Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Woodard's college fraternity was the Zeta Psi, and he has attended the meet- ings of that fraternity and has been officially iden- tified with the organization both in the state and in the nation. He belongs to the Independent .Order of Odd Fellows, and served as Grand Mas- ter of the State and as Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the World. For eight years he served as a trustee. of the University of North Carolina.
On July 31. 1878, soon after beginning his law practice at Wilson, he married Mary Lee Ruffin, daughter of Etheldred and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Ruffin. After nearly forty years of married com- panionship, Mr. Woodard lost his wife December 15, 1916. Five children were born to them: Thomas Ruffin is in the real estate business at Sacramento. California; John Exum, Jr., is in the insurance and farm loan business in Wilson County, North Carolina; Delzell is the wife of Mr. B. T. Cowper, an insurance man of Raleigh; Mary Lee is the wife of C. B. Hassell, of Williamston, North Carolina; Etheldred H. was educated in the Uni- versity of North Carolina, in the literary and law departments, and also in Wake Forest College; was admitted to the bar in September, 1916, and practiced with his father at Wilson. He is now in France, a member of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment of Scottish Highlanders. Mr. Woodard was married a second time, November 14, 1917, to Miss Frances L. Jordan, of Danville, Virginia. -
WILLIAM NEHEMIAH HARRISS. A public honor that came as a culmination of a long and useful business and civic career was the election in 1912 of William N. Harriss as clerk of the Superior Court and Recorder's Court at Wilmington. Mr. Harriss has since occupied that dignity and per- formed all the services with careful and conscien- tious ability. and is one of the most popular men in public affairs of New Hanover Countv.
His birth occurred in Wilmington February 4. 1865, and he is a son of George and Julia O. (Sanders) Harriss. After an education in pri- vate schools and the Cape Fear Academy he en- gaged with his father in the shipping business and continued to be active in business affairs un- til quite recently.
An honor that came to him many years ago was his election as mayor of Wilmington in 1894. There has been no more influential worker in be- half of the military organization of the state than Captain Harriss. In 1883 he joined the Wil- mington Light Infantry and a few years ago he received the state gold medal for twenty-five years of continuous service. During that time he filled his place in the ranks and also as cantain of this company, and is now in the Reserve Corps with the rank of major. For five years he was adju- tant of the Third Regiment.
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Mr. Harriss is vice president of the Progressive Building and Loan Association, has long been active as democrat,
a is vestryman in St. James Episcopal Church, and a member of the Cape Fear Country Club and the Carolina Yacht Club. January 24, 1887, he married Frances Latham, of Washington, District of Co- lumbia. They have two sons, Marion Sanders, born January 25, 1889, is now assistant civil en- gineer with the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Com- pany. George Latham, the second son, is senior lieutenant in the United States Navy.
ROBERT MALACHAI WELLS has been a practicing lawyer at Asheville for over twenty years, and from the standpoint of his profession and in the general ranks of citizenship has lived a successful and fruitful life.
Mr. Wells was born on a farm in Buncombe County, North Carolina, October 10, 1870, son of Robert Chrisley and Angie Barbara (Reeves) Wells. He was educated in district schools, spent three years at the Parrottsville School and also in the Judson School at Hendersonville. In Sep- tember, 1894, he graduated from the law depart- ment of the University of North Carolina, and from that time to the present has been engaged iu a general practice of law at Asheville. From 1905 to 1918 he was head of the prominent firm Wells & Swain. A reorganization of partnership was affected on January 15, 1918, and the firm is now Jones, Wells & Swain.
Mr. Wells is an active member of the Asheville and the State Bar associations, is a director of the Bank of West Asheville, is a director of the Asheville Milling Corporation. He is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and an Independent Odd Fellow. December 22, 1899, Mr. Wells married Annie L. Wilson of Buncombe County. The five children are Annie Kate, Eveline, Christa Gillis, Virginia and Robert Malachai, Jr.
HENRY HAMMOND CARR, of Raleigh, whose life work has been in connection with engineering and with the management of large public utilities, is now at the head of several large transportation and power corporations in the State of North Carolina.
He was born near Annapolis, Maryland, Novem- ber 7, 1865, a son of Henry and Eliza (Brown) Carr. His father was a substantial Maryland farmer. Educated in a private academy in Mary- land, he took up civil engineering, and for a num- ber of years was engaged in many branches of the work, surveying, railroad construction and on other commissions. In September, 1891, he became divi- sion superintendent of the Baltimore Street Rail- way, and directed the city transportation system until 1898. From that date until June, 1906, he was general manager of the Newport News and Old Point Comfort Railway and Power Company at Newport News, Virginia.
Since September, 1906, Mr. Carr has had his home and business headquarters at Raleigh, and at that date became general manager of the Raleigh Street Railway. Upon the organization of the Carolina Power and Light Company he was made vice president and general manager, and is also vice president and general manager of the Yadkin River Power Company, is vice president of the Asheville Power & Light Company, of Asheville, and is a member of the National Electric Light Association and of the National Gas Association.
He takes an active part in Raleigh's social and business life, and is a member of the board of governors in both the Capital and Country clubs. He was chairman of the building committee when the Good Shepherd Church was erected. Frater- nally he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
Near Annapolis, Maryland, on January 11, 1894, Mr. Carr married Miss Mary Alice Lyles. They have one son, William Lyles, now a student in the University of Virginia.
EDWIN GIBBONS MOORE, M. D., who located at Elm City, then known as the Village of Toisnot, in 1883, has been distinguished alike in his pro- fessional attainments and service and in the quality of his public spirit and his work for his home community. He has in fact been called "the bal- ance wheel in the life of his town for many years.''
Doctor Moore was born at Williamston, North Carolina, November 13, 1861, son of John Edwin and Martha (Jolly) Moore. From boyhood he manifested that strong intellectual curiosity which makes books, schools and environment a constant opportunity for improvement and progress. He was educated in the Arrington High School at Rocky Mount, the Conyers High School at Elm City, and Trinity College, where he was graduated in June, 1880. For one term following his gradua- tion he taught at Ridgeway, North Carolina, and then entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Baltimore in 1881. The next year he transferred his studies to the University of Mary- land, and was graduated M. D. in 1883, in his twenty-first year. In the same year he passed the State Board at Tarboro, North Carolina.
Recently Doctor Moore's activities were reviewed in an issue of the Charlotte Medical Journal, in which Drs. D. W. and Ernest S. Bullock referred to his initial experience at Elm City and his sub- sequent career in the following words:
"Elm City needed him and he still resides within her gates. His serious, practical face, his stately form, his firm martial tread, his cool and equable temper, his impartial justice and withal his courteous bearing and kindly spirit soon planted him in the hearts of his people and built up a stronghold thereabouts. They learned to associate his appearance with sure victory and constant care for their comfort and safety. He has run full abreast of the times by doing post-graduate work- at Post Graduate of New York and New York Polyclinic."
Doctor Moore is a moving spirit of the medical organization. He is one of the charter members of the Wilson County Medical Society, organized in 1895. He is a member of the Tri-State Medical Association, the Seaboard Medical Association, and the Fourth District Medical Society, which he has served as president. He has also been a member of the State Medical Society since 1890. He has been a member of the A. C. L. Surgeons for several years. Recently he was elected a member of the Board of Medical Examiners of his state.
"Doctor Moore has practiced concentration on little things until he mastered them and then moved on to larger things. The medical associa- tions have recognized his talents and in 1894 he delivered the annual oration before the State Medical Society. And we must not dwarf our praise of the beautiful tribute he paid to Gen. Robert E. Lee at Wilson, North Carolina, January 19, 1916, under the auspices of John W. Dunham
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Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, on the occasion of the annual Lee-Jackson birthday cele- bration. "
It remains to speak with some particularity con- cerning his various activities in his home com- munity. He has been vice president since its organization of the Toisnot Grocery Company and is a half owner of the Elm City Pharmacy, one of the finest drug stores in the state. Whatever concerns the welfare of Elm City is a matter of deep concern to Doctor Moore. He was the first to take definite steps to give that town its water- works system. The first water was supplied the town by a windmill, but from that as a nucleus has been developed the splendid system of water- works. He also advocated and worked until he saw achieved a good sewer system. The establish- ment of the electric light plant was also aided by his influence and means. He has proved himself a warm friend of education and has done much to build up the good system of graded schools in Elm City. Doctor Moore has served as alderman and county health officer, and was formerly director of the State Hospital at Goldsboro and later at Raleigh.
On December 17, 1884, Doctor Moore married Miss Annie M. Thompson, of Goldsboro. This has been a most congenial union of interests and tastes, and Doctor Moore liberally credits his wife with an important share in his success. They are the parents of two children. John Craven, born April 5, 1887, was educated in Trinity Park High School and the University of North Carolina, where he graduated in the Pharmacy School in 1914. He is now active manager for his father of the fine 500 acre farm in Toisnot Township of Wilson County. The daughter, Lucile Robey Moore, who is a graduate of Peace Institute at Raleigh, is now assistant teacher of science in that institute. Doctor Moore is an active member of the Wilson Country Club.
WILLIAM ALONZO LUCAS, a prominent member of the Wilson County bar, was admitted to prac- tice in August, 1903, and has continuously been in the profession in the City of Wilson. He han- dles a general practice, and with increasing ex- perience his reputation and his connections have become well known throughout that district. Mr. Lucas is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, belongs to the Wilson Country Club, the Commonwealth Club, is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Jun- ior Order of United American Mechanics.
He was born in Wilson County February 11, 1881, a son of Lafayette Francis and Leola (Barnes) Lucas. His father for many years has been a successful farmer and for some time served on the board of county commissioners. Mr. Lu- cas was educated first in the public schools, later attended Trinity College at Durham, and then took both the academic and the law courses of the University of North Carolina.
He was married October 15, 1913, to Mamie Doss Jennings, of Nashville, Tennessee.
ROBERT FISHBURNE CAMPBELL, D. D. Few men in the ministry of today have so fully realized the opportunities of their great profession and have worked with more enthusiasm and with greater simplicity of soul and character than Rev. Dr. Robert Fishburne Campbell, for more than a quarter of a century pastor of the First Pres-
byterian Church of Asheville. In the strength of its institutional and benevolent works, the spirit- uality of its members, and in the influence of its organization over the state at large, this is one of the most prominent churches of the state.
Rev. Dr. Campbell is member of a family that has stood high in public life and professional affairs in the South for generations. He repre- sents the eleventh generation of the Campbell family, which is of that stock and ancestry known as "the everlasting Scotch-Irish." The most re- mote ancestor that can be definitely named was Dougal Campbell of Inveraray, Scotland. His son Duncan Campbell, an officer in the British Army in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, moved to Ulster, Ireland, during the reign of James I. The three following generations were headed respectively by Patrick Campbell, Hugh Campbell, and Andrew Campbell. Duncan Campbell, son of Andrew, married Mary McCoy, and their son Dougal Camp- bell, representing the seventh generation, immi- grated to America and settled in Berkeley County, Virginia, and came to Rockbridge County of that state in 1780.
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