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William P. D. Bush married in 1852 Caroline V. Ghiseslin. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, daughter of John D. and Catherine (Ferguson) Ghiseslin. The names of the children of William P. D. Bush and wife were: Finlay F., Catherine M., who married L. M. Martin, Sidney J .; Sue G .; Lily; Harry R., and Caroline V.
Mr. Harry R. Bush married in 1894 Ellen Douglas Mark. She was born at Louisville, Ken- tucky, daughter of Samuel Smith and Sallie (Martin) Mark. Mr. and Mrs. Bush have five children : William Pope Duvall; Mark Lane; May Dulaney; Caroline Frances and Ellen Douglas. The older son, William, left his studies in the University of Virginia to join the National army, and is now with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. The younger son, Mark, is also receiving military training at Citadel in Charleston. Both these sons have in them the blood of their fighting ancestors, and their service is contributing to the record of the Bush family for achievement, both in war and peace.
Mr. and Mrs. Bush are members of the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bush is active in the Merchants and Manufacturers Club of Greensboro, the Country Club, is first vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, and is past chance'lor commander of Alpha Lodgo of Knights of Py- thias. His Masonic affiliations are at Louisville, Kentucky, where he is a member of Louisville Lodge, King Solomon Chapter No. 5, Royal Arch Masons, and Louisville Commandery No. 1, Knight Templars.
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JAMES MCQUEEN LEDBETTER, M. D. For a cen- tury or more members of the Ledbetter family have contributed their splendid talents to the betterment of almost every department of com- mercial, professional, moral, religious and educa- tional movements in Richmond County. What others of the name have given to their respective fields, Dr. James M. Ledbetter has contributed to the profession of medicine and surgery at Rock- ingham. He has been in active practice there more than twenty years, and has a state wide prominence in the profession.
Doctor Ledbetter was born in Richmond County, near Rockingham, in 1869, a son of Thomas Ben- son and Ella (McQueen) Ledbetter, both of whom are now deceased. His grandfather was a well known character in the nearly days of Richmond County, Rev. Henry Ledbetter, an old time circuit rider who carried his message of the Gospel over a wide expanse of territory and was one of the stalwart pioneers of religion in Richmond County. Thomas Benson Ledbetter, who was born in the upper part of Richmond County and died at his home in Rockingham in 1913, was especially dis- tinguished for his activities as an industrial pion- eer. He is credited with having erected one of the first cotton mills in Richmond County. This miil was located five miles from Rockingham.
Besides the sterling traits so long associated with the Ledbetter name, Doctor Ledbetter has. an equally notable ancestry in the maternal line. His mother was the grand-daughter of Col. James McQueen, the famous Scotchman who founded the McQueen family in Robeson, Scotland and Rich- mond counties and the old home of Queensdale in Robeson County. Col. James McQueen came to America in 1765, locating in Anson County, North Carolina, afterwards removing to Robeson County, where he married Ann McCrea. The place of his settlement ten miles below the present town of Maxton subsequently became known as Queensdale, and is one of the historic communities of North Carolina. Col. James McQueen was a great figure in his day, a large land owner, slave owner and planter, represented Robeson County in the Legislature in the closing years of the eighteenth century, and was also clerk of the court and master in equity of Robeson County. Maj. James H. Mc- Queen, maternal grandfather of Doctor Ledbetter, was a pioneer cotton mill builder and operator, and his brother, Gen. John McQueen, was long a prominent figure in North Carolina public life.
In the preparation for his chosen profession Doctor Ledbetter had all the opportunities and advantages which his family position could give. He was educated in the University of North Caro- lina and in the medical department of Vanderbilt University, where he graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1894. Since then he has taken post-graduate work in New York City. Soon after graduation he located at Rockingham and has long since attained more than a local reputation in both medicine and surgery. He is a former president of the Richmond County Medical Society and also belongs to the State and American Medical Asso- ciations.
He is also identified with the best interests of Rockingham and Richmond county in business and civic directions. He is a director in the Ledbetter Manufacturing Company at Rockingham and in the Steele's mills. His father built the Ledbetter mills, while the Doctor's cousin, J. S. Ledbetter, is president and treasurer, and the Doctor's brother, H. D. Ledbetter, is secretary of the Led.
better Manufacturing Company. Mr. Ledbetter is also a director of the Richmond County Savings Bank.
Mrs. Ledbetter before her marriage was Miss Martha Elizabeth Steele. Her father is Robert L. Steele and she is a great niece of the late Col. Walter L. Steele, both of whom were prominent characters in the history of the state. Col. Walter Steele represented North Carolina in Congress and filled many other important public positions. Dr. and Mrs. Ledbetter have two children: James McQueen, Jr., and Martha Elizabeth.
ERNEST WINDLEY DUNN, D. O. One of the men who have contributed to the dignity of the School of Osteopathy in North Carolina is Doctor Dunn, a careful and conscientious practitioner already en- joying a splendid practice in his native city at Newbern,
Doctor Dunn was born at Newbern August 20, 1888, son of John and Lucretia Roberts (Guion) Dunn. He was liberally educated both in private schools and in the University of North Carolina. He studied for his profession in the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, where he was graduated in June, 1910. He spent sixteen months after gradu- ating at Norfolk, Virginia, but in January, 1912, returned to his native city and is now securely es- tablished in a profitable practice among the best class of people.
Doctor Dunn is member of Christ's Episcopal Church and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Doric (Blue Lodge), No. 568, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and of Sudan Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is at present with the headquarters of the Sanitary De- tachment, 156th Depot Brigade, Camp Jackson, South Carolina.
CHARLES LUTHER IVES, president of several of the leading corporations doing business with headquarters at Newbern, is a northern man by birth but has been a resident of North Carolina more than forty years. His achievements are those of a man who makes himself known and respected by his personal ability and efficiency rather than through what he has had by inheritance and by his influential surroundings.
Mr. Ives was born at New Haven, Connecticut, April 17, 1861, and came to North Carolina with his parents in 1875. He is a son of Luther and Laura A. (Barnes) Ives. His father was a farmer. After attending the common schools and a business college Charles L. Ives began earning his living as clerk and bookkeeper in stores. That gave him a rather broad business training, and it was broad- ened still further by considerable experience around saw mills and in the lumber industry.
Mr. Ives first entered the business field as a lumberman, organizing in 1890 the Broaddus & Ives Lumber Company. He was secretary and treasurer of this well known organization many years and since 1915 has been president. He was one of the incorporators in 1897 of the Newbern Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Mills. From 1900 to 1914 he was manager of these mills and has since been president. He is also president of the Doane & Bartlett Fish Oil Company, Beaufort, North Carolina.
He has always been ready to work with others for the general good of business or for community welfare. In 1915) he was president of the Inter-
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state Cotton Seed Crushers Association, and has served as president of the Newbern Chamber of Commerce from 1915 to 1917. He was formerly an alderman from the Second Ward at Newbern, and has been a trustee of the local schools. Mr. Ives is a deacon in the Presbyterian Church.
On November 4, 1891, he married Haunah Allen, of Newbern. Their three children are Laura Allen, George Allen and Charles Luther, Jr. His son George Allen Ives enlisted in the navy as second crass seaman in the summer of 1917, and-in the following winter was appointed to an officers' training school, where in the spring of 1918 he was commissioned an ensign and given command of one of the United States submarine chasers. He has since been in service in foreign waters.
LARRY ICHABOD MOORE, of Newbern, is one of the ablest and most successful corporation law- yers in the State of North Carolina, and for the past ten years has handled many diverse and im- portant interests. He was formerly well known in official life at Greenville, and his associations have always been with prominent men and prom- inent interests.
Mr. Moore was born March 14, 1870, in Wil- son County, North Carolina, a son of Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth (Farmer) Moore, the for- mer a native of Pitt County and the latter of Wilson County, North Carolina. His father was an able educator and a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church.
Mr. Moore secured part of his education under the direct instruction of his father and also at Whitaker's Academy and in the University of North Carolina. He was admitted to the bar in February, 1894, and at once began practice in Greenville associated with James Edwin Moore. Later for a time he had as a partner in the law at Greenville Governor Aycock.
Mr. Moore was called from private practice in 1898 when he was elected solicitor of the Third Judicial District, and was re-elected to the same post in 1902 and again in 1906. He was first nominated for the office of solicitor by Judge H. G. Connor.
Mr. Moore resigned as solicitor in January, 1907, in order to take up private practice and at that date he removed to Newbern. Much of his work as a corporation lawyer has been in rep- resenting leading railroad interests. For twelve vears he has been division counsel of the Nor- folk & Southern Railway, and for ten years has filled a similar position with the Atlantic Coast Line Railway. He is also a director of the New- bern Banking and Trust Company, and while at Greenville he organized and was president of the Greenville Banking and Trust Company and also president of the National Bank of Green- ville.
Mr. Moore is prominently known in the North Carolina Bar Association and also a member of the American Bar Association. He is a thirty- second degree Scottish Rite and a Knight Tem- plar York Rite Mason, a member of the Shrine, and also has affiliations with the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
March 22, 1899, he married Ella King, daugh- ter of William M. King, formerly sheriff of Pitt County, North Carolina. Their three children are: Thomas Owen, a student in the Virginia Military Institute; Larry I., Jr .; and Carrie Almeta.
OSCAR DAVID GREEN was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 18th day of March of the year 1873, being the third son of Andrew Hartsfield and Nina (Watson) Green. The Green family have long been prominent in the civic and social life of North Carolina and of late years particularly prominent in Johnston, Franklin and Wake counties.
The first generation of the Green family in America was headed by James Green, Jr., who came from England in 1734 and settled in North Carolina. James Green was a prominent figure in the Colonial life of America. He took a very active part in the Revolutionary history of North Carolina, serving as secretary of the General As- sembly of North Carolina before the Revolution and was later secretary of the Provisional Con- gress which met at Halifax, North Carolina, on April 4, 1776. He was also secretary of the Provisional Congress presided over by that great son of North Carolina, Richard Caswell, Esquire, which Congress adopted the constitution of North Carolina at Halifax on December 18, 1776.
A son of this Revolutionary leader was Capt. Joseph Green, great-great-grandfather of Oscar David Green, the Baltimore banker and subject of this sketch. Joseph Green, son of James Green, gained distinction as captain in the Eighth North Carolina Continental Troops and was one of the leaders of the forces from that State in combating the arms of Great Britian. In 1781 Joseph Green was honored by election to the North Carolina House of Commons. His home was on a colonial plantation in Wayne County, on the banks of the historic Neuse River, about eight miles from Golds- boro.
One of the sons of Capt. Joseph Green was Furnifold Green, who married Elizabeth Jeffries, whose son, William Oscar Green, married Cynthia Hartsfield, whose second son was named Andrew Hartsfield Green, the father of Oscar David Green. Although peace had reigned in North Carolina for several generations when the call to arms was sounded in the lamentable strife between the sec- tions of this country in 1861, the fighting spirit stirred in Andrew Hartsfield Green and for four years he served his state in the Confederate army as a member of Hoke's Cavalry Division. Andrew Hartsfield Green after the war retired to his plantation, where he raised a family of four boys and three girls. He is now living in Raleigh, North Carolina, retired after serving his country and state well and ably in many offices and ways.
The eldest son of William Oscar Green, the late Col. William Furnifold Green, was a prominent attorney. After serving with distinction in the General Assembly of North Carolina he was for many years chairman of the State Board of Agri- culture, and while so serving prepared the bill for the establishment of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of North Carolina, and was most instrumental in establishing what is now one of the greatest institutions of education and tech- nical learning in the South.
On his maternal side Oscar David Green comes of distinguished ancestry. His mother's immedi- ate family, the Watsons, were patriots of wealth and standing, always in the forefront in the civic and social life of the state.
Oscar David Green was educated in the public and private schools of Raleigh, and was a charter student at the North Carolina College of Agri- culture and Mechanic Arts, matriculating at the age of fifteen. He did not remain to secure his
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diploma, but has since been honored by election to the alumni of that institution and holds mem- bership in its charter class. He took a leading part in the organization of the Leazer Literary Society, the leading debating society at the North Carolina A. and M.
Oscar David Green gained his first business ex- perience in mercantile life in Raleigh, and when about reaching manhood, after reading law, saw several years of active service in transportation work, serving with credit during the organization of the Seaboard Air Line Railway and later with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. In 1906 he moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and that city has since been his home.
In Baltimore Mr. Green became associated with the Maryland Trust Company, and that institution has since received most of his time and energies and of which he is at present an associate trustee. His business interests and associations are many, he being secretary-treasurer and manager of the Maryland Trust Building Company, owners of a large office building, secretary-treasurer of the Kitchin-Phillips Company, export agents, with large commercial interests in the Latin American countries to the south of the United States. Mr. Green was quick to realize the wonderful oppor- tunities in trading with Cuba and South America, and his ability and business experience is reflected in the success being attained by this company. He is president of the Agus Shade Carrier Com- pany, manufacturers of carriers and fixtures adapt- able to the proper shading of any and all types of windows, and it is due to his inventive ability and knowledge of organization that this latter com- pany has been such a success. Mr. Green has a number of other business interests and is repre- sented on many boards and directorates.
Soon after moving to Baltimore Mr. Green was elected to membership in the North Carolina So- ciety of Baltimore and in the third year of his membership served that society as president. It is a singular fact that during his occupancy of the presidents' chair that society reached its high water mark in membership, social and civic activ- ities. He has been treasurer since refusing re- election as president.
Mr. Green is a member of the most important business and social associations and clubs of the Monumental City, among them being the Merchants and Manufacturers Association; a former president and now secretary-treasurer of the Building Owners and Managers Association, and also a member of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers, members of the City Club, the Balti- more Press Club, the Public Park Golf Association, the Motor Arms Defense Association, of which he is a charter member and in the organizing of which he materially aided, the League for National Defense. the Churchmen's Club of the Diocese of Maryland, and various other social and automobile clubs.
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He was secretary of the Non-War Construction Committee of the Maryland Council of Defense, which had charge of all construction work in Maryland for the Priorities Division of the War Industries Board of the Government, and his organization of that committee's work placed Maryland in the forefront among the forty-eight states of the Union during the World War which began in 1914. His genius for organizing soon put this important committee in proper control of the important functions delegated to it by the Government.
Mr. Green has always taken a deep interest in politics, being by conviction as well as heredity a firm believer in the democratic party, but only recently would he consent to the use of his name as a candidate for public office. In the campaign of 1917 he was nominated by his party for a mem- ber of the Maryland House of Delegates, and was elected in November of that year, serving in the 1918 session of the Maryland General Assembly and being honored with appointment on a num- ber of. the most important committees and always found in the forefront for that class of legisla- tion looking to the best interest of his adopted city and state. His position in the General As- sembly was a strong one, not only due to his ability to hold his own in debate and in the com- mittee work, but also that while representing nor- mally the strongest democratic district in Balti- more City, he was the only member of that party elected from his district at the election of 1917. He represented the Second Legislative District of Baltimore City, comprising wards No. 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 15.
Mr. Green is a most loyal Tar-heel and proud of the state of his birth, and this has caused him to retain intimate and interesting relations with North Carolina and her people, though his principal busi- ness and social interests are naturally with his adopted city and state.
On reaching manhood Mr. Green became in- terested in fraternal . orders and was raised a Master Mason in William G. Hill Lodge No. 218, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, but soon there- after demitted and was most instrumental in or- ganizing Raleigh Lodge, No. 500, Ancient Free and Accented Masons, which he served as Wor- shipful Master in 1904 and 1905 and of which he is still a member, being one of the original twenty- four charter members. His other Masonic affilia- tions are Raleigh Chapter No. 10. Royal Arch Ma- sons, Enoch Council, No. 5, Royal and Select Masters. Raleigh Commandery No. 4, Knight Tem- plars, Oasis Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Yedz Grotto No. 55, Mystic Order Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, of Baltimore. In addition he has been elected to honorary mem- bership in Landmark Lodge No. 127, Ancient Free and Accented Masons, Crusade Commandery No. 5, Knight Templars. and Boumi Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, all of Baltimore. He is one of the most active members of Boumi Patrol.
Mr. Green was very active from 1895 to 1905 in assisting in establishing the Junior Order of United American Mechanics in North Carolina, serving with marked ability in the State Council for many years and still retained membership in Capital City Council No. 1 of Raleigh, of which he is a Past Councillor. He was one of the organizers of the One-to-Two Club at Baltimore, an exclusive association of Shriners.
In 1902 Mr. Green married Miss Florence Al- berta Tingle, of Baltimore, a descendant of a prominent family of the Eastern Shore of Mary- land. They have a fine family consisting of two sons and two daughters, Oscar David, Jr .. Cath- erine Virginia, William Andrew and Nina Watson. No father was ever more proud of his family than Oscar David Green.
He was confirmed in beautiful old Christ Epis- copal Church ot Raleigh, and he and his family are communicants and members of the Protestant
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Episcopal Church and Parish of Saint Michael's and All Angels of Baltimore, Maryland.
JULIUS FLETCHER DUNCAN is a lawyer at Beau- fort, his native city. Though one of the younger members of the bar he has attained professional success. Along with success in his profession he has obtained and utilized many of those opportuni- ties to be useful to the world at large. He is one of the fortunate younger men of North Carolina.
Mr. Duncan was born at Beaufort September 26, 1881, a son of William Benjamin and Emily Frances (Jones) Duncan. His father has for many years been well known as a merchant and steam- ship agent at Beaufort. Mr. Duncan attended the public schools of his native town and from 1898 to 1903 was a student in the literary and law courses of the University of North Carolina. He graduated LL. B. in 1903, and after his admission to the bar began practice at Beaufort. Mr. Duncan handles a general practice, and has served both as county attorney and city attorney. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, and was given a distinctive honor recently when he was chosen a trustee of the University of North Carolina, his term of service running from 1917 to 1923. He also was a member of the Carteret County Exemption Board and its secretary.
April 23, 1912, he married Miss Fannie Dudley, of Washington, North Carolina. They have a son, Julius Fletcher, Jr., who was born January 22, 1914.
JOHN W. GRAHAM, lumberman, capitalist, former banker of Aberdeen, is and for many years has been one of the active and progressive citizens who have brought industrial prosperity and have main- tained high ideals of citizenship in the Sand Hills region of which his home town of Aberdeen is the financial and railroad center.
In the working out of a very successful career John W. Graham has only been true to the tradi- tions of his honored family name. The Grahams have lived in Moore County for almost from time out of mind. Mr. Graham was born two miles south of Aberdeen in this county in 1864. His parents were John B. and Mary J. (Wootten) Graham. It was the great-grandfather who came out of Scotland not long after the Revolutionary war and established the family in this section of North Carolina. Mr. Graham's grandfather, Alex Graham, was born and reared on the old home- stead six miles east of Aberdeen, in what was then Cumberland County but is now Hoke County, and that same home place was where John B. Graham first saw the light of day.
The history of the Grahams is closely interwoven with that of Bethesda Presbyterian Church. This is one of the oldest and most interesting historic- ally of the churches in this section of North Caro- lina. It was organized about 1790 or 1792, and the first edifice was constructed about a mile east of the present town of Aberdeen. The list of pastors contains many prominent ministers, while its mem- bership include men who have borne the heavy responsibilities of business, civic and church affairs in the community for over a century. Mr. Gra- ham's father and grandfather were ruling elders of the church, and he is himself a ruling elder in his generation. The present church building, a handsome brick structure, is now located in Aber- deen, and represents the fourth home occupied by the Bethesda congregation since it was organized.
Education and culture have been part of the tradition of the Graham family in all the genera- tions, and John W. Graham was liberally educated, though his early life was spent in the rural en- vironments of a farm. He finished his training in the University of North Carolina, where he gradu- ated in 1890. During his sophomore year in the university he taught school and for three years after his graduation continued his work in school rooms. He taught one year in Guilford County and two years at McColl in Marlboro County.
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