Encyclopedian Dictionary: May 2013

Anthracothorax nigricollis X Chrysolampis mosquitus ( Hybrid )

LAMPORNIS CALOSOMA, Elliot. Elliot's Topaz. Chrysolampis chlorolæmus, Elliot, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vi. p. 346 (1870). Lampornis calosoma, Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1871, p. 429. —Elliot, Ibis, 1872, p. 351. — Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 177.—Elliot, Synops. Humming-birds, p. 41. IT is now ten years ago since this beautiful species was described by my friend Mr. Elliot; and...

Buckley's (Mysterious) Mountain Humming-bird ( Pinarolæma Buckleyi )

PINAROLÆMA BUCKLEYI, Gould. Buckley's Mountain Humming-bird. Pinarolæma Buckleyi, Gould, Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 489 (June 1880). A SINGLE specimen only of this species has as yet been obtained. This is in such ragged plumage that its markings can only be determined with difficulty. The specimen was moulting when it was shot; and much of the colour has faded from the old...

George Alexander Martin

George Alexander Martin George Alexander Martin. One of Anson County's most flourishing towns is Morven. That it is a good town in a moral sense, a well ordered and regulated community, that it is a thriving place of trade and business and is developing on a solid foundation, is due to the genius and wisdom of George Alexander Martin as a town builder more than to any other individual factor. Mr....

Henry Paul Bilyeu

Henry Paul Bilyeu Henry Paul Bilyeu, whose home is at Southern Pines in Moore County, is one of the noted horticulturists of the state. His chief contribution to that industry has been as a pioneer in establishing the dewberry as a profitable crop. Horticulture has been the business of the Bilyeu family for several generations. Henry Paul Bilyeu was born at Hightstown in Mercer County, New Jersey,...

Evander M. Britt

Evander M. Britt Evander M. Britt is member of the law firm Britt & Britt at Lumberton, a firm composed of young men but of fine abilities and with many solid achievements to their credit in the professional and public affairs of their home county. Through several generations the name Britt has been honored and esteemed for its work and respectability in Robeson County. The Britts came originally...

Robert Lee Bethune

Robert Lee Bethune Robert Lee Bethune. In old Robeson and new Hoke County the name Bethune has been one of distinction for practical achievement and value of citizenship for many generations. A finer class of people exists nowhere than the North Carolina Scotch, and the Bethunes have their proper share of honors among this worthy race. A short time before the Revolutionary war Colin Bethune came...

William Graham Shaw, M. D.

William Graham Shaw, M.D. Representing the third generation of the Shaw family to be well known in medical circles of Scotland County, Dr. William Graham Shaw, of Wagram, has practiced his profession in this community for more than a quarter of a century. Incomplete indeed would be any history of North Carolina without distinctive mention of that large body of men who labor in the broad field of...

Rev. Edward F. Green

Rev. Edward F. Green When an air of pessimism seems to envelop in gloom many worthy enterprises in these modern days, it is cheering, encouraging and invigorating to look upon the marvelous work that is being quietly but effectively carried on by Rev. Edward F. Green, president of the Carolina Collegiate & Agricultural Institute at Star, North Carolina. Through his philanthropy, wide and deep,...

Jeremiah Simon Cox

Jeremiah Simon Cox Jeremiah Simon Cox during a long and useful career has been farmer, financier, manufacturer and banker. He is one of the men responsible for the establishment and development of one of Greensboro's most prominent banking institutions, the Greensboro Loan and Trust Company, of which he has been vice president since it was established in 1899. This company, capitalized at $200,000,...

Charles Hoertel

Charles Hoertel Charles Hoertel has been a factor in the manufacturing affairs of High Point for a number of years and is an expert mirror maker. Mr. Hoertel was born in Alsace, son of William and Salome Hoertel, also natives of the same province and of pure French ancestry. William Hoertel came to the United States, but after a few years returned to his native land. Mr. Charles Hoertel's only brother...

Hon. Robert B. Redwine

Hon. Robert B. Redwine Hon. Robert B. Redwine. One of the most forceful and energetic citizens of Union County, Hon. Robert B. Redwine has steadfastly used his sterling legal talents in the furtherance of those movements which he has considered to be for the welfare of his community, incorporating the two characters of lawyer and citizen into a worthy and helpful personal combination which has been...

David Livingstone Ward

David Livingstone Ward David Livingstone Ward, of Newbern, has given all his best years, his best talents, and his interest to the law, and largely due to this concentration of purpose has gained a success that ranks him among the ablest members of the North Carolina bar. Mr. Ward was born in Greene County, North Carolina, October 24, 1860, and represents a prominent old family of North Carolina...

Joseph F. McKay, M.D.

Joseph F. McKay, M.D. Joseph F. McKay, M. D. The medical profession of North Carolina, not to mention a large portion of the general public, will regard any amount of space well used which is devoted to some record of the McKay family, representatives of three generations of which have been distinguished in medical history. While the services of this long line of physicians have come to be pretty...

John L. Currie

John L. Currie John L. Currie. In the death of John L. Currie, which occurred at his home in Carthage September 4, 1916, Moore County lost one of its most valuable and valued citizens. Mr. Currie exemplified many traits that are everywhere accepted as the fundamentals of good citizenship, and for all his success in material affairs his life meant most for its sturdy and irreproachable character. He...

W. Thomas Parrott, M.D.

W. Thomas Parrott, M.D. W. Thomas Parrott, M. D. To no profession are there open greater opportunities of human and social usefulness than to the practitioner of medicine. One of the able men of North Carolina who have utilized to a remarkable degree these opportunities is Dr. W. Thomas Parrott of Kinston. Dr. Parrott is a leader in his profession and in certain lines has few peers in the state. Dr....

Charles David Kellenberger

Charles David Kellenberger Charles David Kellenberger has been a resident of North Carolina for the past ten years and is one of the men who have been attracted to this state by its unrivaled business opportunities and splendid resources. Mr. Kellenberger is an experienced furniture manufacturer, and has been identified with one of the leading industries of that kind in Greensboro. He is of an old...

David Thomas Tayloe, M.D.

David Thomas Tayloe, M.D. Thirty-three years of devotion to his profession as a trained and capable physician and surgeon is the record of Dr. David T. Tayloe of Washington. Thirty-three years of his life given to the calling which he chose as his work when he entered upon his career in young manhood; three decades spent in the alleviation of the ills of mankind, is the work in which his talents...

Henry Fries Shaffner

Henry Fries Shaffner Henry Fries Shaffner is vice president of the Wachovia Bank & Trust Company of Winston-Salem, the largest and strongest bank in North Carolina and one of the largest in the South. He has been active in business affairs in Winston-Salem for thirty years. His own career is only part of the honorable record sustained by the Shaffner family in this section of North Carolina...

William Holt Williamson

William Holt Williamson. In the historic Holt homestead "Locust Grove," Alamance County, North Carolina, the home of his maternal ancestors for several generations, William Holt Williamson of Raleigh, North Carolina, was born, February 4, 1867. Michael Holt (who died about 1783), of the first generation of the family in North Carolina (and Mr. Williamson's great-great-great-grand-father) had made...