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Though he has achieved such position and honor by the exercise of cxeeptional ability and by remarkable diligence, Judge Allen represents a family that has long enjoyed prominence in the professional and public life of North Carolina.
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He was born in Wake County March 20, 1850. His father, William A. Allen, served with the rank of colonel in the Confederate army, and spent many years in the successful practice of law in Duplin County. He served as a member of the Legislature from Wake County in 1852, and after locating in Duplin County was elected to the State Senate. Judge Allen's mother was Mariah G. Hicks, who was born in Granville County.
Though the war and reconstruction occurred during his boyhood and youth, Judge Allen ac- quired a liberal education. In 1871 he graduated from Trinity College with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and in June, 1874, the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him, and he was soon afterward admitted to the bar. He first prac- ticed in Duplin County and later at Kinston. In a short time he was looked upon as a young law- yer of unusual powers and skill in the general practice of the law. At first he was associated with his father, and subsequently was with A. D. Ward in Duplin County and for a short time was associated with N. J. Rouse at Kinston.
While he has always been keenly interested in public events, his public honors have come to him chiefly within the line of his profession. He was elected and served as the first solicitor of the Inferior Court of Duplin County. On June 15, 1885, Governor Scales appointed him solicitor of the Sixth Judicial District. and he was nomi- nated and elected to that office in 1886 and again in 1890. On December 10, 1896, Governor Elias Carr appointed Mr. Allen judge of the Superior Court to fill the unexpired term caused by the resignation of E. T. Boykin. The dignity and ability with which he presided over this court made him the logical candidate for regular elec- tion and confirmation by the people. He was nominated and elected in 1898 for the term of eight years, was re-elected in 1906, and in 1914 received the third successive election for that high office.
Prior to his judicial career Judge Allen had an active part in democratic politics, and at one time served as chairman of the Democratic Execu- tive Committee in Duplin County. He also served in that county as public school examiner. He is a Mason, has been junior and senior warden and master of Warren Lodge No. 101 at Kenansville, and is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, his qualification for membership in that order be. ing as great-grandson of William Hicks, who was an officer in the Revolutionary army. Judge Al- len is a trustee and member of the board of stew- ards of the Methodist Church.
On October 11, 1883, in Duplin County, he mar- ried Miss Sarah Moore, daughter of Dr. Matt Moore, of Duplin County. In her paternal ances- try Mrs. Allen is connected with the old Dixon family of Duplin County, and on her mother's side is related with the Middleton family. Judge and Mrs. Allen have the following children: Matt Hicks Allen; William A. Allen; Martha Moore Allen, who married B. S. Barnes of Maxton; Con- nor M. Allen, who is assistant attorney for the Federal Land Bank at Columbia; and Reynold T. Allen. Judge Allen has three sons in the war, Matt Hicks, major in the Judge Advocate's Department as Division Judge Advocate, Thirty- first Division, United States Army; William A., sergeant-major of the One . Hundred and Thir- teenth Field Artillery, and Reynold T., first lieu- tenant of the Three Hundred and Twenty-first Infantry.
HON. MATTHEW HICKS ALLEN. A long and not- able list would be that including even a half cen- tury's men of distinction in North Carolina, but a few lines would cover those who within a decade have achieved so much that their names are "writ large" in their state's history. A name worthy of such prominence is that of Hon. Matthew Hicks Allen, lawyer and legislator, whose activities as well as his ability measures up with any man of his age who has ever been in the public life of the state. That he has chosen Goldsboro as his home is a matter of local pride, but Duplin County can claim his birth, at Kenansville, November 29, 1884. His parents are Oliver Hicks Harrison and Sarah Cassandra (Moore) Allen. Senator Allen had early advantages, both social and educational. His boyhood preceptor was Dr. R. H. Lewis at Kinston, North Carolina, and from his school he entered Horners' Military School, going from there to Trinity College and then to the University of North Carolina, and after being graduated from the law department with credit, was admitted to the bar. The selection of law as a career was an inheritance, to some degree, for his father, long a brilliant attorney, has been a judge on the Superior Court bench of the state for twenty years, and his uncle is one of the associate justices of the Su- preme Court of North Carolina.
Mr. Allen entered into practice in August, 1906, as a member of the law firm of Simmons, Ward & Allen at Newbern, North Carolina, where he re- mained until 1910, when he came to Goldsboro and . shortly afterward entered into partnership with John D. Langston, the firm name being then Langston & Allen. Subsequently, after the admis- sion of W. F. Taylor, the firm style became Lang- ston, Allen & Taylor, as at present. As a lawyer Mr. Allen rapidly made his way to the front rank and has been identified with litigation of much im- portance. At one time he devoted much attention to the prosecution of a suit before the Interstate Commerce Commission which has resulted in the reduction of the lumber rates from Eastern North Carolina to the northern and eastern markets, in- volving a saving of several hundred thousand dol- lars annually to the lumber shippers of this state. Recently as the attorney for the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce he instituted before the corporation commission a proceeding which resulted in the restoration of certain trains to active service be- tween Goldsboro and Greensboro, and in having sleeping car service established from Greensboro through Goldsboro to Beaufort, these changes be- ing of vital commercial importance to the cities mentioned.
Senator Allen has been active in the ranks of the democratic party since early manhood. In 1915 he was elected a member of the Legislature, and during his period in the House was a member of the judiciary, the finance, propositions and griev- ances, appropriations and other committees, and as chairman of the judiciary, occupied a position of great legislative importance. In 1916 Mr. Allen was elected to the State Senate and was chairman of the Judiciary Committee of that body, and his usefulness as a legislator has still further added to his reputation as a public official and increased the confidence of his constituents, whose interests he has striven vigorously to conserve.
Senator Allen is a member of the North Caro- lina Bar Association. He has long been identified with the leading fraternal organizations, is a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner, is a past
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exalted ruler of the Elks, and belongs to the Odd Fellows and to the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics. On all public occasions he is solicited to speak, his fame as an orator not being confined to local circles and during political campaigns his services as a speaker are at a pre- mium. Personally Senator Allen is friendly and courteous and the number of his admirers and well wishers may almost be said to include all those who have been admitted to close companionship. He is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church at Goldsboro. In May; 1917, he entered the Reserve Officers Training Camp at Fort Ogle- thorpe, Georgia, was commissioned a captain of Field Artillery in July, 1917, in December, 1917, was promoted to major in the Judge Advocate Gen- eral's Department and assigned to Camp Wheeler, near Macon, Georgia, as Division Judge Advocate, Thirty-first Division.
Walter Frank Taylor, the junior member of the law firm of Langston, Allen & Taylor, was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, April 4, 1889. His parents are Luther and Ettie (Crow) Taylor. His father is a merchant and also engages in farm- ing. Mr. Taylor was educated in the Faison Male Academy at Faison, North Carolina, and the Uni- versity of North Carolina, completing his academic course in 1911 and his law course in 1914. He en- tered into a general law practice at Goldsboro and became a member of the firm with which he is still connected. He belongs to the North Carolina Bar Association.
In politics Mr. Taylor is a democrat. Frater- nally he is identified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias and retains interest and mem- bership in his college societies, the Golden Fleece, the Phi Beta Kappa, the Tau Kappa, and is a member of the board of trustees of the Univer- sity of North Carolina. Mr. Taylor was carefully reared in the Methodist Episcopal faith and be longs to St. Paul's Methodist Church at Goldsboro. He stands high in public esteem both personally and professionally.
ALEXANDER MCNIEL BLAIR, M. D. The con- genial elimate of North Carolina has won for the state thousands of temporary residents from among the wealthy and prominent people of the North, and one of them who has long since come to regard North Carolina as his real home and the North only as a place of temporary sojourn is Dr. Alex- ander MeNiel Blair of Southern Pines, Moore County. The state has no more accomplished spe- cialist of diagnosis and radiography than Doctor Blair, who is a man of real attainments and emi- nence in his profession.
Doctor Blair was born at Buffalo, New York, July 30, 1873, son of James Currie and Margaret Buchanan (Foster) Blair. His parents were both born in Scotland. No doubt Doctor Blair feels more at home in this part of North Carolina be- cause of the presence here of many families who are descended from the blood of Scotland. Doctor Blair was educated in the grammar schools and the State Normal School of Buffalo, and acquired his medical education in the medical department of Niagara University at Buffalo. He received his degree and license to practice in 1897 from the medical department of the University of the State of New York. After graduation he took up the general practice of medicine in the City of Buffalo and there enjoyed one of the best practices of the younger men.
In 1902 he went to Germany and became a
special student of the famous Prof. H. Newton Heinnemann, specialist in heart and circulatory diseases at Bad-Nauheim. On his return to Buf- falo Doctor Blair resumed his practice, only di- rected along more special lines.
On account of an earlier indication of failing health he came South in 1903, seeking a climate best suited to his individual needs. He selected as a temporary field the noted Sand Hills section of North Carolina, and located at Southern Pines in Moore County. This has for a number of years been one of the most popular and most widely patronized winter tourist resorts in the South. Here Doctor Blair has enjoyed a constantly grow- ing success. This success is largely due to his faithful, conscientious routine of skillful work. He is a man of untiring energy and apparently sel- dom has an idle moment. His offices at Southern Pines are at his home, but they represent in theni- selves a completely equipped set of rooms such as are usually found only in large hospitals. They include a reception room, radiographic room, bac- teriological laboratory and treatment rooms. The laboratory and radiographic rooms have the most complete and modern equipment known to the technical branches of science. Competent observ- ers have pronounced the X-Ray apparatus owned by Doctor Blair without superior in the South. The work he does here not only for himself but for a large clientele of other physicians has brought him distinction as a specialist in diagnosis and radiography. With all due deference to the great surgeons and all around physicians, it is to be conceded that the ideal diagnostician is the highest culmination of the medical art. In diagno- sis Doctor Blair has attained enviable rank in his profession. At his offices he has on constant duty a secretary and a trained nurse and every detail of the work is carried out with the utmost accuracy. Much of his success is doubtless due to his insistence upon thoroughness and efficiency. He keeps elaborate records, files and card indexes so as to afford every available help to a complete record of each individual case. Doctor Blair has given his entire life and enthusiasm to his profes- sion and has allowed no outside interests to intervene.
During the summer from July until about October each year he continues his regular practice at his summer residence at Bethlehem, New Hamp- shire, in the White Mountains. Many of his North- ern patients seek him out in that retreat. From 1904 to 1911 he spent the entire summers attend- ing lectures and clinics of the larger cities, includ- ing Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago and Montreal.
Doctor Blair has become an enthusiastic North Carolinian and is a friend and patron of the state's best institutions. He is a member of the Moore County Medical and North Carolina State Medical Societies, being a third vice president of the State Medical Society, also a member of the Tri-State Medical Society, Southern Medical Asso- ciation, American Medical Association and of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuber- culosis.
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Doctor Blair married Miss Josephyne C. Ander- son, of Buffalo, in 1899. They have one daughter, Helen Alice Blair, aged nine years.
WILEY HAMPTON MOGLAMERY, of Greensboro, is an old time railway man, but for the past five years has been using his resourcefulness and ex- perience to build up large and satisfying eonneo
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tions as one of the distributors of Ford cars in this part of the state.
Mr. McGlamery was born on a farm in Wilkes County, North Carolina, a son of William A. Mc- Glamery, a native of the same locality and grand- son of Jesse McGlamery, who belonged to some of the early Scotch-Irish families that located in Western North Carolina. Mr. McGlamery was a farmer and probably a lifelong resident of Wilkes County. William A. McGlamery was reared and educated in his native county, lived there until about 1895, when he sold his farm and other possessions and moved to Clay County. He con- tinued farming there a few years, and then went to West Asheville, where he has invested in real estate and where he continues to reside. He mar- ried Elvira Vannoy, a native of Wilkes County and daughter of Jesse Vannoy. They reared five chil- dren, named Cora, Wiley Hampton, Annie, Benja- min and Mack Vannoy.
Wiley Hampton MeGlamery was educated in the district schools of Wilkes County. He also com- pleted a course in Hayesville College in Clay County, and soon after leaving school he went to work with the Southern Railway Company as as- sistant to the agent at Murphy in Cherokee County. Two years later he was assigned as a telegraph operator and clerk at Hendersonville, where he re- mained two years, and in October, 1902, came to Greensboro as assistant ticket agent for the com- pany. In 1907 he was transferred to Raleigh, but after nineteen months returned to Greensboro and continued in the Southern's service until 1912. In January, 1912, Mr. McGlamery resigned from the railroad to engage in the automobile business. He has made many friends in Greensboro, has a large growing business, and is one of the leading distributors of Ford cars in the state. He is a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers Club, and he and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church.
In September, 1904, he married Miss Annie Martin. She was born in Rockingham County, a daughter of John D. and Annie (Dillard) Martin, both the Martins and Dillards being old families of the state. Mr. and Mrs. McGlamery have two children, Wiley H., Jfr., and Dillard Martin.
HUGH WHITE MCCAIN, M. D. An accomplished physician and surgeon, Doctor McCain, who has been a resident of High Point for seven years, is one of the best trained and most scientifically ex- pert men in his profession in the state.
A native of North Carolina, he grew up in a rural district, attended graded schools at Waxhaw, prepared for college at Marshville Academy and from there entered the University of North Caro- lina, from which he graduated A. B. in 1906. He had specialized in science and for two years fol- lowing his graduation was a member of the Bio- ยท logical staff of the state university. He also began the study of medicine there, but completed his medical training in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1909. Even this thorough preparation did not satisfy him, and he remained two years longer at Philadelphia as an attendant in the. Polyclinic Hospital. Doc- tor McCain located in High Point in 1911 and in addition to carrying on a general practice has been associated since 1914 with Dr. J. T. Burris and Dr. D. A. Stanton as proprietors and man- agers of the High Point Hospital. They bought this property from the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and while it is not one of
the larger hospitals it is conceded to be one of the best equipped institutions of the kind in the state. Doctor McCain is well known to the profession over the state and is a member of the Guilford County Medical Society, North Carolina and Tri- State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association.
He was born on a plantation in Jackson Town- ship, Umion County, North Carolina. His grand- father, Hugh McCain, was of Scotch ancestry and probably a life long resident of Union County. Col. William Johnson McCain, father of Doctor McCain, was a native of Union County and during the war was a colonel in the Confederate army. Much of the time was spent in detached duty re- cruiting and also in looking after deserters. He covered a large district extending from Richmond, Virginia, to Camden, South Carolina. After the war he bought a farm in Jackson Township, Union County, and became a man of large business affairs there. Besides supervising the cultivation of his farm he was a lumber manufacturer, at first operat- ing a mill by water power on Cain Creek, and later having a portable steam mill. He also had a grist and flour mill and cotton gin. His home was on his farm until his death at the age of fifty-nine. Colonel McCain married Mary Jane Walker, a native of Jackson Township and daughter of a planter. She is still living at Waxhaw, Union County. There were seven children: John Walker, Margaret (now deceased), George A., James E., William R., Laura J. and Hugh White.
Doctor McCain married in 1912 Alma Cunning- ham. Mrs. McCain was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, daughter of Oscar E. and Clara (Welborn) Cunningham. Dr. and Mrs. Mc- Cain have one daughter, Alma Virginia. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Doctor McCain is affiliated with Numa F. Reid Lodge No. 344, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with the Royal Arch Chapter and Knights Templar Commandery.
CHARLES JEROME BOLAND is one of the men who have risen to substantial position and dignity in the cotton mill industry in North Carolina. He was born on a farm, was educated in common schools and by diligence and close application worked his way from one responsibility to another.
For eleven years he was superintendent of the Daisy Hosiery Mills, for three years was superin- tendent of the Sellers Hosiery Mills, and in 1913 organized the Southern Hosiery Mills, with a fine equipped plant at Burlington. He is secretary and treasurer of the company and general manager of the business. He is also vice president of the Walker Hosiery Company of Burlington.
Mr. Boland was born in Alamance County, North Carolina, February 7, 1884, son of Augustus and Catherine (McClure) Boland. On December 21, 1905. he married Miss Catherine Elizabeth Willis, of Alamance County, daughter of Frank P. Willis, a blacksmith by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Boland have three children, Howard, Willis Gray and Carlton Brown. Mr. Boland is a deacon in the Macedonia Lutheran Church of Burlington.
ALBERT HUBBARD BANGERT, mayor of Newbern, has been prominently and successfully identified with that city for many years, and besides his real estate business he is practically interested in farm- ing and has done much to develop the agricultural interests of Craven County.
Mr. Bangert was born in Newbern August 29,
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1873, a son of Sebastian and Caroline A. (Jacobs) Bangert. His father was for many years engaged in the baking business but eventually gave all his time and attention to real estate.
Mayor Bangert had a public school education and was also educated in Trinity College at Dur- ham. He began his active career associated with his father in handling real estate, and is one of the best informed judges of realty values and farming opportunities in Newbern. Mr. Bangert personally owns 1,200 acres of land, and gives much of his time to the supervision of the fields and crops.
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He has also been prominent in local politics and for fourteen years represented the First Ward in the City Council. In 1913 he was elected mayor of the city and his first term called for a second, and he was re-elected in 1915. He gave the city a thoroughly progressive and efficient administration of affairs. He is chairman of the Craven County democratic committee.
Mr. Bangert is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of Sudan Temple of the Mystic Shrine and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His church is the Methodist Epis- copal.
REV. ARCHIE THOMPSON LINDSAY is owner and president of Linwood College near Gastonia in Gaston County and has been actively identified with North Carolina educational and church work for many years. He is a man of the loftiest Christian character, of high ideals in connection with school progress and uplift, and has given great usefulness and power to his exceptional tal- ents.
Linwood College, of which he is now owner, is a school which has contributed to the cultural ad- vantages of this section of North Carolina for a great many years. It is located in a most beau- tiful and picturesque spot at the foot of Crow- der's Mountain in Crowder's Mountain Township, six miles from Gastonia, the county seat, and five miles from the Town of King's Mountain.
The history of the school is briefly stated as follows: In 1883 Miss Emily .C. Prudden, of Massa- chusetts, came to Gaston County, and at the place which for years had been known as all Healing Springs and had become noted as a health resort she founded a private school. A hotel for many years was maintained at the springs. For four years Miss Prudden continued at the head of the school. Subsequently Judge E. C. Jones, a wealthy citizen of Minneapolis, who had been coming to the All Healing Springs for his health, bought the hotel property and also the school. He placed in charge of the school as principal Mr. J. A. Hampton. The institution was continued under the name Jones Seminary, a school for girls, and continued about thirteen years. At the end of that time the school was leased from Judge Jones by the board of home missions of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Rev. A. G. Kirk- patrick was then in charge, and he continued the school's president for about three years. In 1902 the Rev. Mr. Lindsay leased the school from the board of home missions and took charge as principal and president. A little later he bought the building and grounds, and it has since been his own property and conducted as a private in- stitution. He then renamed the school Linwood College.
Throughout Mr. Lindsay has made it the policy of Linwood College to offer the best of educational training and positive Christian environment and
influences to the young people in the school. It is also a school for people of limited means, and by its curriculum measures up to the name col- lege, since it is not strictly a preparatory or high school. Scholarship is emphasized, industry is re- warded and there is every encouragement to econ- omy and earnest and thoughtful preparation for lives of duty and usefulness. Some of the fads and fancies and dissipation of private and fin- ishing schools is completely discouraged in this institution. Mr. Lindsay sustains a faculty se- lected with the greatest of care and including teachers of broad and thorough training and cul- ture and devoted to their special lines of work. Apart from the instruction offered Linwood Col- lege has an atmosphere which is ideal for young women. The college is located in a place long noted as a health resort, and perhaps no better testimony to the healthfulness of the locality could be found than that the school has never had a case of serious illness or a death among the pu- pils.
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