Prominent people of North Carolina: brief biographies of leading people for ready reference purposes

PROMINENT PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA 69 in the practice of medicine and farm¬ ing. He was director of Central Hos¬ pital at Raleigh, N. C., from 1894 to 1900; a member of the State Senate in 1891-1899 and 1901, and is now a director of the State prison. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church. His first wife was Miss Margaret A. Powell, a daughter of Jesse H. Powell, a farmer of Edgecombe county. His second wife was Mar¬ garet Whitefield, a daughter of George W. Whitefield, an attorney of Wilson, N. C. The following child ren have been the result of this un¬ ion: Robert P., dead, Henry L., a farmer, Fannie W„ Marry P., a trained nurse, Richard H., Jr„ assist¬ ant physician in State Hospital at Morganton Jessie P„ teacher. George W., a machinist, Joseph P., a medical student, Seth E., a farmer, Frank J. Ambler and E. Carr; the last three are schoolboys. HON. C. R. THOMAS Was born at Beaufort, N. C., Au¬ gust 21. 1 861 , a son of Hon. Charles R. Thomas, an attorney and a member of the convention of 1861, who was presi¬ dent of the A. & N. C. R. R„ Secretary of State of North Carolina, a judge of the Superior court and a member of Congress. His mother was Emily Pit¬ kin, the daughter of a merchant. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, from which he graduated in 1881, and in Dick and Dillard’s Law School, Greensboro, N. C., He received his license to practice law in 1882. He was a member of the Legislature in 1887, presidential elec¬ tor in 1896. He was first elected to Congress in 1898. and began his term March 4. 1890. He has served in the 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th Congresses with notable ability. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Royal Arcanum. HUGH REID SCOTT Was born January 9, 1855, in Rock¬ ingham county. N. C, a -on of Wil¬ liam Scott, a farmer and merchant, and chairman of the county court for several years before the constitution of 1868. His mother was Miss Rhoda Reid, a daughter of Reuben Reid, a farmer who was also the father of Gov. David S. Reid, and owned the land whereon is located the town of Reidsville. He was educated at Wake Forest College. After leaving college, he at¬ tended Judge Pearson’s law school and obtained his license in 1877 and has been in active practice ever since, and has been president of the Citizens Bank of Reidsville since its organiza¬ tion in January, 1885. He was a member of the State Sen¬ ate in 1881 and again in 1883, but had no further political aspirations. LIVINGSTON JOHNSON Was born November 7, 1857, a son of Duncan Johnson, a farmer. His mother was Miss Catherine Livingston a daughter of Charles Livingston, a farmer. He was educateil in Spring Hill High School and Wake Forest Col¬ lege. He is a minister in the Baptist denomination and has been in charge of pastorates at Rockingham. Lumber- ton and the First Baptist church at Greensboro, and is at present Secre- fary_ of the Baptist State convention of North Carolina. He married Miss Fannie Memory, a daughter of Thomas Memory, a merchant of Whitsville, N. C. He has four chil¬ dren, three girls. Miss Foy, in college. Miss Frances, in High school and Miss Mary Lynch in graded school. His only son, Wingate Memory, is a medical student. JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY Third child and second son of С. T. and Annie I.. Bailey, was born in Warrenton, N. C, in 1873, his parents, the father Seotch-Trish, the mother British, having come from Virginia a few years before. He was educated in the city schools of Raleigh, six years, the Raleigh Male Academy two years, Wake Forest College four years, receiving from that institution the degree of B. A. Immediately upon graduating, in >803. Mr. Bailey took up the work his father had had for eighteen