History of Davie County North Carolina United States of America

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David Moffatt Furches, jurist, was born in Davie county, N.C., April 21, 1832; son of Stephen Lewis and Mary (Howell) Furches; and grandson of Tobias and Susan (Horn) Furches, and of Joseph and Jane (Creson) Howell. His ancestors, who spelled the name Fourshe, were Huguenots who came from France to America some time after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. He was educated at Union academy, read law under Chief-Justice Pearson, and practised at Monksville, N.C. He was solicitor of Davie county, 1858-65, a member of the provisional state constitutional convention held in Raleigh, N.C., in 1865, and provisional solicitor of the 8th judicial district during the reconstruction period. He removed to Statesville in 1866; was the defeated Republican candidate for representative in the 43d congress, 1872; was appointed judge of the 10th judicial district by Governor Brogden to fill the unexpired term of Judge Mitchell, resigned, serving, 1875-78; and practised law in Statesville. 1878-94. He was the nominee and defeated Republican candidate for representative in the 47th congress in 1880; for judge of the superior court for his district in 1886; for judge of the supreme court in 1888, and for governor of North Carolina in 1892. He was elected associate justice of the supreme court of the state in 1894 on the fusion ticket, for a term of eight years, taking his seat on the supreme bench, January, 1895. He was twice married: first in 1859 to Eliza Bingham of Davie, who died in 1891; and in 1893 he was married to Lula Corpening of Iredell county.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Hinton Rowan Helper, author, was born in Davie county, N.C., Dec. 27, 1829, son of Daniel and Sarah (Browne) Helper; and grandson of Jacob Helper, who immigrated into North Carolina from Germany in 1752, and of Cannon Browne of Virginia, of English descent. He was prepared for college under the tuition of the Rev. Baxter Clegg, principal of the Mocksville (N.C.) male academy, and was graduated from the institution in 1848. In 1851 he went to California by way of Cape Horn, and remained in San Francisco several years. In 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln U.S. consul at Buenos Ayres, Argentina, where, in 1863, he was married to Maria Luisa Rodriguez. He resigned his consulate in 1866, and after residing in North Carolina and in St. Louis, Mo., he removed to New York city. He travelled extensively in Europe, Africa and the three Americas and was the projector of the Pan-American railway. He published: The Land of Gold (1855); The Impending Crisis of the South (1857); Nojoque, a Question for a Continent. (1867); The Negroes in Negroland, the Negroes in America, and Negroes Generally (1868); and The Three Americas Railway (1881). Although strongly opposed to all forms of slavery, Mr. Helper became firmly convinced that the whole world would eventually be peopled and bettered only by the white races of mankind.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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