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James Loftin Kernodle, youngest of the family, was only six weeks old when his father died. As soon as old enough he began assisting his mother in the farm work and at the same time pursued his education in the district schools. He prepared for college at Gilliam's Academy in Alamance County. He borrowed money to pay his way through college. He entered the University of North Carolina in 1888, where he remained for two years. From there he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore and gradu- ated with his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1893. In June of the same year the North Carolina Medical Board met in Raleigh, at which place Doctor Kernodle applied for and was granted license to practice his profession. For four years he was busy with a country practice in the southern part of Alamance County and theu, having sold his practice in that locality, he formed a partnership with his brother, Dr. George W., and returned to his native township. His ability brought him all the work he could handle, and for seventeen years he was busy attending to the needs of his extended practice.
In the meantime he had become interested in various business enterprises and in 1914 he retired from practice and moved to Greensboro. In 1899, in company with his brother, Dr. George W., they bought a large tract of land in Southwestern Virginia, bordering on the waters of New River. The special feature that made this land valuable was a fine water-power. Later they sold this prop- erty to the Appalachian Power Company and bought other land in Southwest Virginia and in Western North Carolina and still own much of it. These lands also border on New River and control several water powers which are still unharnessed.
Doctor Kernodle is still identified with various enterprises in Alamance County. He is a director of the Alamance Loan and Trust Company of Bur- lington. In 1907 he organized the Hub Milling Company at Altamahaw and is its president. He organized the Dixie Milling Company at Burling- ton in 1912 and is president of the same. He is a member of the firm of Fogleman Brothers at Bur- lington.
In Guilford County he is president of the Bank of Gibsonville. He organized and was the first president of the Gibsonville Hosiery Mills Com- pany, is president of the Liberty Hill Store Com- pany at Greensboro, and also owns an interest in the R. K. Motor Company of Greensboro. Doctor Kernodle is the president of the Gibsonville Mill- ing Company at Gibsonville. This company is now developing a water power five miles north of Gib- sonville and will operate their mills with electric power derived from this development. He is also
a stockholder in the Slate Mountain Orchard Com- pany of Mount Airy.
Doctor Kernodle has wisely used his means to develop some of the agricultural resources of the state aud owns five farms in Alamance County aud one iu Guilford County, comprising 350 acres. This was ouce owned by his great-grandfather, and it was here his grandfather was born. This place is situated ou the waters of Reedy Fork and it is here that Doctor Kernodle has his summer home in a house built and occupied about an huudred years ago by Ludrick Summers, who in his time was uot only the wealthiest mau in Guilford County, but was said at one time to be the wealth- iest citizen in North Carolina.
May 11, 1897, Doctor Keruodle married Lydia Alma Albright. She was boru iu Cobles Town- ship of Alamauce County, daughter of George M. and Jane (Foust) Albright. Doctor and Mrs. Ker- nodle have one daughter, May Attrice, now a mem- ber of the senior class in Greensboro College for Women.
Doctor Kernodle and family are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Gibsonville, with Beach Camp, of the Woodmen of the World at-Elon Col- lege, and with Union Council, No. 4, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Improved Order of Red Men at Altamahaw.
HOWELL GRAY WHITEHEAD was born at Wilson, December 24, 1874. His parents were Howell Gray and Mary Jane (Bynum) Whitehead, old and hon- ored family names in this state. The father of Mr. Whitehead served in the Civil war and was captain of Company E, Fifty-fifth North Carolina Infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg and also captured aud was detained as a prisoner of war on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie until after the close of the war. He died at his home in Wilson November 15, 1887.
Mr. Whitehead has been identified with the to- bacco trade during the greater part of his business life and continues to be an important factor in this section. For a short time after leaving school and embarking in business he was interested in fire insurance. He then organized the Wells-Whitehead Tobacco Company, manufacturers of cigarettes. He was made president of this company in 1901. After a few years of successful operation the business was sold to the American Tobacco Company. For some years Mr. Whitehead was on the directing board of the Branch Banking Company, from which directorate he later resigned.
Mr. Whitehead was married at Wilson, North Carolina, on August 14, 1895, to Miss Nolia Gard- ner, who is a daughter of Thomas J. and Amauda Gardner, old residents of Wilson. They have two daughters, Dorothy and Nolia Gardner Whitehead.
In politics he is a democrat and he is a loyal and enthusiastic supporter of the present ad- ministration. He is a member of the Wilson Country Club and of the Commonwealth Club, both of Wilson.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MCINTOSH. In the business affairs of Newbern William McIntosh is a leader and has been one for a number of years. His is a career that furnishes inspiration to young men who have to fight their own battles. There was a time and not so many years past when Mr. McIntosh was earning his bread by the sweat of his brow, and by the hardest kind of manual toil. He
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learned how to do things well, mastered a trade, and mastered the still greater secret of how to manage other men's efforts.
He was born in Craven County, North Carolina, September 18, 1857, a son of Henry and Eliza (Bakers) MeIntosh. His father was a farmer, a man in moderate circumstances, and was able to give his son only a comparatively brief schooling. As soon as his strength was sufficient he was waik- ing between the handles of a plow in the fields, and from farm work he went to something a little more exciting and followed railroading for a year. He then became an apprentice at the machinist's trade and mastered that trade fully before he left the shop.
Mr. McIntosh worked as a marine engineer four years. He was gradually extending his acquaint- ance and was getting a better grip on commercial life, and upon the organization of the Newbern Iron Works and Supply Company he was chosen as one of the executive officials and has since been treasurer of the company. He is also vice presi- dent of the Broadhurst and Ives Lumber Company, and is a director of the Newbern Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company and of the Doan and Bartlett Fish and Oil Company of Beaufort. He is also a director of the Southport Fish and Oil Company and a director of the Newbern Ice Company. Another organization with which he is identified is the People's Auto Company of Newbern, of which he is vice president.
Mr. MeIntosh is one of the leading members of the Newbern Chamber of Commerce. He served as alderman of his city one term and is well known in fraternal circles. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, also of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Wood- men of the World. In April, 1886, he married Miss Olivia O. Fields, of Newbern.
JAMES I. CAMPBELL, M. D. With all the de- mands made upon him as the leading physician and surgeon of Norwood, Doctor Campbell has found time and inclination for other affairs, has been a member of the State Legislature, and is the real leader of the republican party in Stanly County and one of the men whose activities and influence have done mnost to keep up the republi- can organization in the state.
Doctor Campbell was born in Mecklenburg County in 1875, a son of Joseph L. and Mary (Dulin) Campbell. His father, still a resident of Mecklenburg County, is a son of Capt. Isaac Camp- bell, who served with the rank of captain of State Militia in the early years of the past century. Joseph Campbell's grandfather was born in Scot- land, came to America, first settling in Pennsyl- vania, and came to Mecklenburg, North Carolina, before the Revolutionary war. The Campbell family history is somewhat remarkable for the fact that although Joseph L. Campbell is not yet an old man he had an unele who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war from Mecklenburg County. In a business way Joseph L. Campbell has long been a successful farmer. At the same time he has proved a valiant figure in the councils of the repub- lican party. Mecklenburg County is overwhelm- ingly democratic but his presence in the local party insures a high degree of respect for the principles and organization, and more than any other indi- vidual he has maintained a strong working organi- zation. Several times he was the party 's candidate
for the Legislature and at other times was on the party ticket for the office of county commissioner.
The birthplace of Doctor Campbell was six miles east of Charlotte, on the old home place of the Campbells and in the same locality where they located prior to the Revolution. He was educated primarily in Bain Academy at Mint Hill, and studied medicine in the North Carolina Medical College at Davidson. Doctor Campbell began prac- tice at New London in Stanly County in 1898. For about two years he was resident physician for the Whitney Power Company, predecessors of the present Tallassee Power Company, builders of the great dam at Badin in Stanly County on the Yad- kin River. In 1900 Doctor Campbell located at his present home, Norwood, where he has continued in the successful practice of his profession. Evi- dence that he has prospered is found in his home at Norwood, one of the most elegant and costly residences in the county. His public spirit has been a factor in that community for many years, and he has again and again taken the leadership in the organization and promotion of local indus- tries and enterprises. He is an active member of the Presbyterian Church and it is proper to add some further comments concerning his leadership in the republican party. In 1908 he received the nomination of the party for the State Legislature. He lived in a democratic region, where candidates usually considered a nomination equivalent to elec- tion, but such was Doctor Campbell's personality and the ability which he threw into his campaign that he was elected by a majority of one hundred thirty-five. He was one of the able working mem- bers of the State Legislature in 1909. At the present time he is being prominently mentioned as his party 's candidate for Congress to succeed R. C. Doughton. For a number of years Doctor Camp- bell has been practically the sole active leader and campaigner of the republican party in his county and his part of the state. He has unusual powers as a campaign orator. His speeches are always interesting, full of facts, are presented in a pleas- ing and natural manner, adorned with wit and eloquence, and he has no difficulty in getting and keeping the attention and confidence of his audi- ence. During the state and national campaign of 1916 he made dozens of speeches in his county and district and his services were constantly in demand by the public speaking bureau. Doctor Campbell is a close student of politics and government, is well read in the history of both the great national parties, and is never at loss for reasons to support every stand he takes.
Doctor Campbell has been three times married By his marriage to Miss Jennie Long at Rocking- ham he has a son Walter Lee Campbell. His sec- ond wife was Miss Estelle Crowell, of Virginia. She was the mother of his other two sons, Joe Crowell and James I., Jr. Doctor Campbell's present wife was Miss Mary Colson, of Norwood, member of the well known family of that name in Stanly County.
COL. JOHN T. PATRICK. Any history of North Carolina 's representative men, and particularly of those who have contributed materially to its de- velopment and growth, would be decidedly in- complete did it not give appreciable mention to the labors and achievements of Col. John T. Pat- rick. Starting his work of promotion and devel- opment more than thirty years ago, he has be- come the father of some of the most enterprising
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towns, villages and winter resorts in the Old North State, and his work in this connection has car- ried him over a large part of the commonwealth, has brought him official honors, and has associated him with men whose names are nationally known in business and finance. One of the largest land- owners in the state at the present time, Colonel Patrick is centering his activities at the beauti- ful winter resort of Southern Pines in Moore County, a community which was founded by him and the development of which has been the work of this able capitalist's own hands and brain. As a promoter of immigration and industrial and agricultural development he occupies a position which puts him practically in a class by himself, while a project which he now has on foot is at- tracting widespread interest all over the country and bids fair to make his name nationally known.
John T. Patrick was born in 1852, at Wades- boro, Anson County, North Carolina, a son of William A. and Margaret (Campbell) Patrick, the former born in, Anson County and the latter a native of Scotland, from which country she came to the State of North Carolina as a child with her parents. As a boy, lacking the means of attending college, John T. Patrick was practically educated in the printing office. From the case he graduated to the positions of editor and pub- lisher of the Pee Dee Herald at Wadesboro, which was the successor to the North Carolina Argus, one of the first papers published in the state. Colonel Patrick began his career as a town pro- moter and developer in 1884, when he came to Southern Pines, Moore County, and bought the land upon which this beautiful winter resort now stands for $1 an acre. He enlisted capital for the building of the large resort hotel, the Highland Pines Inn, which was followed by the building of numerous other hotels, and subsequently Colonel Patrick built up another resort center, Pine Bluff, on the main line of the Seaboard Air Line, a few miles south of Southern Pines. He built a great many houses at these two places, as well as at Wadesboro and Southmount and other places, and worked untiringly in the interests of these com- munities.
Following these successful enterprises Colonel Patrick became the industrial and immigration agent for the Seaboard Air Line, in which capacity he was retained for about fifteen years, and which work took him away from Southern Pines and Pine Bluff. During this time he was also immi -. gration agent for the Department of Agriculture and Immigration of the State of North Carolina, and subsequently was engaged similarly by the Harriman interests for the Southern Pacific Rail- road. This position took him to Houston, Texas, a city which he made his headquarters for the following five years.
In the summer of 1916 Colonel Patrick returned to his old home, Southern Pines, and actively re- entered, with his accustomed energy and vigor the work of promoting and developing immigra- tion, agricultural and industrial enterprises at Southern Pines and the vicinity. During the time he was away from Southern Pines he had become largely interested in land and industrial proper- ties at Southmount in Davidson County, and these interests he still retains. He also owns about 1,000 town lots at Southern Pines, as well as similar property at Wadesboro and in other parts of North Carolina, and is, in fact, one of the largest land owners in the state. He believes thor-
oughly in real estate and its great value as an investment and has never been afraid to borrow money and to spend money freely to back up his faith in this respect. He is never idle, always having some important project on foot and in course of development. In the fall of 1916 he bought about 800 acres of land adjoining South- ern Pines on the west. He brought Japanese mer- chants here from San Francisco to establish a Japanese art store, and to show that Colonel Patrick's ideas are not altogether utilitarian, he brought a Belgian artist to Southern Pines to do landscape and portrait painting.
The latest project to which Colonel Patrick has lent his splendid ability is the "Hope Isle" proj- ect, a colonization and industrial enterprise for negroes of the South, to be established at some place on the South Atlantic coast, the location to be determined later. Colonel Patrick is giving his services to this project free of charge, being in- terested in it only philanthropically. Benind this project is capital to the extent of $1,500,000, with which to purchase 4,000 acres of land and to found a town similar in general features to sev- eral model cities peopled by both the white and colored races which have already been laid out in the South. When Colonel Patrick was con- sulted regarding the project he agreed to help the enterprise upon the condition that he receive no salary or other financial compensation for his serv- ices. The preliminary organization consisted of Dr. C. V. Roman, Dr. John Patrick Turner, Dr. Algernon B. Johnson, Edward Dickerson and Les- ter A. Walton, and it was the original plan to have the model city in the mountain region of North Carolina or Tennessee. Advice from Colonel Patrick changed this plan and it is now decided to locate the settlement on a sea island location, and several of these, located between Savannah and Norfolk, on the coast, are now under consid- eration. Each contains between 10,000 and 15,000 acres and each is within fifteen miles of a good city. Arrangements have already been made for a silk mill and a printing establishment, and the industries of the town, according to the plan, will be confined to a section adjoining one end of the forty-acre civic center. In corresponding space at the other end will be situated most of the cultural institutions of the community, schools, churches, musical auditorium and others, and about and around this large rectangle will be outspread a gridiron of residence streets with transverse avenues. A co-operative seed farm and a system of five-acre plots for intensive farming will occupy most of the island beyond the town limits, and these are intended to be both educational and self-supporting. This is but a faint outline sketch of the new plan, which under Colonel Patrick's able guidance is fast coming to completion. With . his broad experience, his wide acquaintance, his ready initiative, his power of resource and his abilities developed through years of promotion, development and execution, he is doubtless the very best man who could be secured to direct such an enterprise and bring it through to suc- cessful termination.
During the time he had his headquarters at Raleigh in the immigration service Colonel Patrick inaugurated and carried to successful completion the law, enacted by the Legislature, which pro- vided for the paying of increased pensions to the old soldiers. In appreciation of this the North Carolina Division of the United Confederate Vet-
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erans unanimously elected him an honorary mem- ber of that organization. For some years Colonel Patrick was a member of the National Guard of North Carolina, in the capacity of quartermas- ter, and received his commission as colonel from Goveruor Vance.
Mrs. Patrick died in 1896. Before her mariage she was Miss Hattie Patterson, a beautiful and talented young lady of Cleveland County, North Carolina. There are two children surviving: James C., who is an engineer in the United States army, who was educated in the Agricultural and Mechanical College and Moody Institute; and Mrs. Carl Lawson, whose home is at Winston-Salem.
HON. WILLIAM CICERO HAMMER, United States attorney for the Western District of North Caro- lina, began the practice of law at Asheboro more than a quarter of a century ago, and his profes- sional and publie attainments have made him one of the best known men in this part of the state.
His own services and experience have been con- sistent with an ancestry and family not lacking in worthy distinctions in time of peace as well as in war. His first North Carolina ancestor was Abraham Hammer. The locality of his birth is not definitely known, though evidence points to the fact that he was a native of Wales. It was from Pennsylvania that he came to North Caro- lina in colonial times and settled in the wilder- ness of what is now Randolph County. His name is attached as one of the signatures to resolutions presented to Governor Tryon, protesting against the dishonest practices of crown officials of North Carolina.
His son, Abram Hammer, a native of Randolph County, was a farmer and a minister of the Quaker Church. He spent all his life in what is now Ran- dolph County.
The head of the next generation was John Ham- mer, grandfather of William C. He was born in the same locality of Randolph County, and in addi- tion to farming took up the ministry of the Bap- tist Church. His business enterprise manifested itself in the fact that he transported the first threshing machine outfit across the Blue Ridge Mountains and operated it in the western' part of the state and in Tennessee. This was one of the old power threshers, run by horse power, presuma- bly on the treadmill principle. It was while operating this machine in Alexander County that he met his death at the hands of an assassin. He married Jane Spoon, daughter of Eli Spoon. She survived her husband many years. Of their eight sons three were Confederate soldiers and two of them gave up their lives for the cause.
William Clark Hammer, father of William Cicero, was born on the farm in Randolph County and in early manhood joined the Methodist Prot- estant Church, which he served as a minister and held pastorates in different parts of the state. His last days were spent in Ashboro. He was twice married and the mother of his children was Han- nah J. Burrows. She was born in Randolph County, daughter of Wilkins and Sarah (Wright) Burrows. She died at the age of forty-four, her children being William Cicero, Mary Luella, Snethan Bolivar, Cornelia Ann, Hannah, Isabella, Ida Margarete and John M.
William Cicero Hammer was born on a farm in Ashboro Township of Randolph County, close to the place where his father and other ancestors were born. During his early youth he was edu- cated both in public and private schools, attended
Yadkin College and Western Maryland College at Westminster. Some of his old-time friends re- member the splendid work he did as a teacher, a profession he followed eight years. For one year he taught in Accomac County, Virginia, but was chiefly engaged in school work in his native state. At one time he was principal with the Farmers' Academy in Randolph County.
Mr. Hammer took up the study of law in 1888 with M. S. Robins at Ashboro and in 1891 entered the law department of the University of North Carolina under Doctor Manning. He received a certificate from the university in the same year and at once began practice at Ashboro. His abil- ity and diligence have brought him steady promo- tion in the ranks of his profession. December 24, 1901, he was appointed by Governor Aycock so- licitor for the Twenty-fourth District and was three times afterward elected. February 23, 1914, President Wilson sent his name to the United States Senate for United States attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The appoint- ment was confirmed the following day, and at the expiration of this term he was reappointed. His has been a very forceful as well as intelligent ad- ministration and his work has been highly com- mended by the Department of Justice.
Mr. Hammer is also one of North Carolina's editors and newspaper men. In 1891, with Wiley Rush, he bought the Ashboro Courier, a weekly paper at Ashboro. He has been connected with that paper ever since and for the last twenty-seven years has been its sole proprietor. Mr. Hammer is active in fraternal affairs, being affiliated with Balfour Lodge, No. 188, Ancient, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Franklinville Lodge of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; Ashboro Council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics; Ashboro Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and the Camp at Salisbury of the Woodmen of the World. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church.
December 21, 1893, he married Minnie Lee Han- cock. Mrs. Hammer was born in Randolph County, daughter of Dr. John Milton and Lydia (Page) Hancock. Her father was for many years active in his work as a physician and during the war served with the rank of major in the Confederate army. Mr. and Mrs. Hammer have one daughter, Harriet Lee, now the wife of Henry W. Walker. Mr. Walker is a first lieutenant in the American Expe- ditionary Forces, now in France.
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