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- Prominent people of North Carolina: brief biographies of leading people for ready reference purposes
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- 1906
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Prominent people of North Carolina: brief biographies of leading people for ready reference purposes
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PROMINENT PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA
years — the editing and management of
the Biblical Recorder, his father hav¬
ing, after a long and useful career as
minister and editor, been disabled by
a stroke of paralysis. Upon his father's
death in 1895, Mr. Bailey was formally
elected editor of the Biblical Re¬
corder by the the Baptist State Con¬
vention. This position he now holds.
He is head of the Anti-Saloon
League of North Carolina. As editor
and personally before the General
Assembly took an active part in the
agitation (1895-1899) in behalf of the
free schools. Was secretary of the
focal taxation campaign of 1897. Was
member of the State Board of Agricul¬
ture under both Fusion and Demo¬
cratic administrations. Has been a
member of the Raleigh Township
school committee ten years. Served as
president of the Baptist Young Peo¬
ple’s Union of North Carolina. Is a
member of the boards of trustees of
Wake Forest College, Baptist Wo¬
man's University, Shaw University.
State Board of Missions ar>d Sunday-
Schools, American Baptist Education
Society, American Baptist Historical
Society and other administrative
bodies. Is director of the Progressive
Farmer and the Merchants' Journal,
and president of the Mutual Publish¬
ing Company.
Is well known throughout the state
as a speaker and writer.
JOSEPH HOWELL WAY
Was born in Waco, Texas, Novem¬
ber 22, 1865, a son of Charles Burr
Way. an attorney and farmer, who
was the first mayor of Waco after its
incorporation in the early fifties; a
member of the Texas Legislature, and
a circuit judge in Texas. He removed
to Asheville. N. C., in 1872 and be¬
came a farmer and became interested
in the public school system of Bun¬
combe county and superintendent of
Buncombe county schools for a num¬
ber of years. His mother was
Martha Julia Howell, a native of Hay¬
wood county, N. C.. a daughter of
David Howell, of Jonathan's Creek in
Haywood county, N. C., a substantial
farmer.
He was instructed by his father at
home until he began teaching in public
schools of Buncombe county under a
first grade teacher’s certificate in 1882
under the Rev. James Atkins, who
was then county superintendent of
schools of Buncombe. During this
year he also began the study of medi¬
cine and began teaching and studying
for the next two years.
He attended the Medical College of
Virginia in 1884 and 1885 and was li¬
censed by the North Carolina Board
of Medical Examiners in 1885. He
graduated from the Vanderbilt Uni¬
versity in 1886 and during March of
that year settled at Waynesville, N.
C, where he has since resided. He
is devoted to his chosen profession
and is a constant student, owning one
of the largest professional libraries in
the state, and is a frequent contribu¬
tor to the medical journals. Dr, Way
was chairman of the board of com¬
missioners of the Waynesville dispen¬
sary for ten years, the first dispensary
established in North Carolina, and still
operated under the rules framed by
Dr. Way, Attorney General R. D. Gil¬
mer and Colonel G. W. Clayton, its
first board of commissioners appointed
in
1З94.
He was for ten years super¬
intendent of health for Haywood
county.
He is a member of the Knights of
Pythias, A. F. & A. M. He has been
Grand Regent and for the past ten
years Grand Secretary of the Royal
Arcanum.
He has held nearly every office in
the gift of the Medical Society of
North Carolina. He was a member
of the State Board of Medical Exam¬
iners and secretary of that board for
five years, and on the day of his re¬
tirement was elected secretary of the
State Medical Society and has been
re-elected for the past four years.
Governor Glenn appointed him a
member of the State Board of Health
for the term beginning May, 1905, and
ending May, 1911. He is a surgeon
for the Southern Railway and a mem¬
ber of various state and national med¬
ical societies.
He was married July 3, t888, to Miss
Marietta Welch, a daughter of the
late Dr. Robert V. Welch, of Waynes¬
ville, N. C., and is the father of a
daughter and a son. Miss Hilda Way
and I. Howell Way, Jr.
He is regarded as one of the fore¬
most physicians of North Carolina,
and one of the leading citizens of
Waynesville and Haywood county.
Dr. D. T. Tayloe, president of the
Medical Society of the State of North
Carolina, in his annual address of
1905, delivered in Greensboro in May
PROMINENT PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA
71
of that year in speaking of the growth
of the society, says:
“I wish to add that this fine showing
is to a large extent due to the efforts
of our efficient secretary, Dr. J. How¬
ell Way, who has spent much time
and energy in furthering the progress
of this great work, there being few
men who could have accomplished
such results.”
HON. W. W. KITCHIN
Was bom at Scotland Neck, N. C,
October 9, 1866, a son of William
Hodge Kitchen, an attorney who was
a member of the North Carolina Leg¬
islature and a member of Congress
from this state. His mother was Miss
Maria F. Arrington, a daughter of
William Walton Arrington, a planter.
He was educated in Wake Forest Col¬
lege and has been a successful attor¬
ney, and since March 4, 1897, a mem¬
ber of Congress.
He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and
Pythian and a JJiissionary of-Hte Bap¬
tist -otwrefh
He married Miss Musette Satter¬
field, a daughter of William Clement
Satterfield, of Roxboro, N. C., and is
the father of three daughters and a
son: Sue Arrington, Anniemaria,
Elizabeth and Clement Kitchen. One
son, Wm. Walton Kitchen, Jr., died.
F. A. WOODARD
Was born in Wilson, N. C.. Febru¬
ary 12, 1854, a son of Dr. Stephen
Woodard, a prominent physician of
that county. His mother was Miss
May Hadley, a daughter of Thomas
Hadley, a farmer. He was educated
in the high school of Wilson county,
and Chief Justice Pearson's law
school. Since his admission to the
bar he has been in active practice of
law in Wilson. He was elected to
Congress in 1892 and 1894.
He is a member of the board of
stewards of the Methodist church of
Wilson.
He has been twice married. His
first wife was Miss Fannie E. Raun-
tree, a daughter of Moses Rauntree,
a merchant. His second wife was
Miss Roe Ella Robbins, a daughter of
Rev. J. H. Robbins, a member of the
North Carolina Methodist conference.
He has one son who is a merchant.
R. J. REYNOLDS
Was born in Patrick county, Vir¬
ginia, July 20. 1853, a son of Hardin
W. Reynolds, a farmer, merchant and
tobacco manufacturer, who was cap¬
tain of the militia and held other pub¬
lic offices of honor and trust. His
mother was Miss Nancy Cox, a daugh¬
ter of Joshua Cox. of Stokes county,
North Carolina, and a grand-daughter
of Joshua Cox, a patriot and warrior
of Revolutionary days. He attended
Emory and Henry College, Va., and
Bryant and Stratton's Business Col¬
lege in Baltimore.
He first engaged in the manufacture
of tobacco in Patrick county, Virginia,
and later in 1875, moved to Winston-
Salem, N. C., and engaged there in
that business and has become one of
the largest manufacturers of flat plug
tobacco in the world.
He is a member of the Masonic fra¬
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He married Mary Katherine Smith,
daughter of Zachary Taylor Smith, of
Mt. Airy, N. C.
THEODORE F. KLUTTZ
Was born at Salisbury, N. C., Oc¬
tober 4, 1848, a son of Caleb Kluttz,
a farmer, who was at one time sheriff
of Rowan county, 1847-1857. His
mother was Miss Elizabeth Moose, a
daughter of a farmer. He was edu¬
cated in the public schools, and in the
Salisbury Academy. Since 1868 he
has been senior partner of Theodore
F. Kluttz Co., it» the drug business.
He is president of the Davis & Wiley
Bank, vice-president of the Salisbury
Cotton Mills and vice-president of the
Yadkin Railroad Co. He was a rep¬
resentative in Congress from the
Seventh District of North Carolina in
the 56th and 58th Congresses, and
from the Eighth District of North
Carolina in 58th Congress and abso¬
lutely declined nomination to the
59th Congress, returning home to
give better attention to his large law
practice.
He is an Odd Fellow, a member of
the Knights of Pythias. Royal Ar¬
canum, Heptasophs and Jr. O. U. A.
M., and is a deacon in the First Pres¬
byterian church of Salisbury, N. C.
He married Miss Sallic C. Caldwell,
a daughter of Honorable J. P. Cald-
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