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James Young was born on October 26, 1858, near Henderson, North Carolina, United States to an enslaved woman owned by Captain D. E. Young and a prominent white man in Vance County. His father oversaw his education, and Young attended school in Henderson before studying at Shaw University from 1874 to 1877. [2] Young in 1919
South Carolina: July 12, 2022 — Murder of his wife and son. [86] Michael D. Murphy: Texas and Louisiana: 1984, 1985 — [87] [88] Mike Nifong: North Carolina: 2007 — Prosecutorial misconduct while prosecuting the Duke lacrosse case. [89] Richard Nixon: New York: August 9, 1976 — Obstruction of justice related to Watergate. [90] Joseph C ...
On March 6, 1899, the North Carolina General Assembly created the Department of Insurance to regulate its namesake industry in the state. The agency was to be led by a commissioner of insurance, who was to be appointed by the governor to two-year terms, though the legislature selected the first commissioner; the day the insurance department was created, the legislature elected Young to the ...
April 14 – Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator (born 1830) April 15 – James Harvey, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1874 to 1877 (born 1833) April 30 – Francis B. Stockbridge, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1887 to 1894 (born 1826)
While being most known for inventing the Gatling gun, Gatling invented and patented a number of other inventions.His inventions include a screw propeller and a wheat drill (a planting device) in 1839, a hemp break machine in 1850, a steam plow (steam tractor) in 1857, the Gatling gun in 1861, a marine steam ram in 1862, and a motor-driven plow ().
Although the banana as an exotic fruit was introduced to the American public in the 1880s, it was later in 1904, that the banana split was invented in the town of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by 23-year-old pharmacy apprentice David Strickler, who was inspired to create a new sundae after seeing a soda jerk during a visit to Atlantic City.
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The history of North Carolina from pre-colonial history to the present, covers the experiences of the people who have lived within the territory that now comprises the U.S. state of North Carolina. Findings of the earliest discovered human settlements in present day North Carolina, are found at the Hardaway Site , dating back to approximately ...