{"id":765,"date":"2011-06-05T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=765"},"modified":"2011-06-05T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:33:48","slug":"harry-williams-stubbs-1860-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/harry-williams-stubbs-1860-1934\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Williams Stubbs (1860-1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hon. \u00a0Harry W. Stubbs, one of North Carolina’s leading lawyers, was born in Williamston, N.C., February 16, 1860. \u00a0He is a son of Jesse R. and Mary Ella (Williams) Stubbs, the former a native of Beaufort county, N.C., and the mother of Martin county, N.C. \u00a0 Jesse R. Stubs gained a thorough scholastic training by his own efforts at the Washington academy and prepared for the practice of law. \u00a0He was a member of the house of commons of the state from Beaufort county, and later represented Martin and Washington counties in the state senate. \u00a0Immediately after the war he was elected to the United States congress from the First North Carolina district, but was not seated. \u00a0He wasa a man of great ability, and a brilliat orator. \u00a0He first affiliated with the whig party, but later became a staunch democrat. \u00a0His death occured in September 1870. \u00a0Mr. Stubbs was one of the orginal stockholders in the Williamston and Tarboro railroad company, and was the first president of the company. \u00a0His wife died in 1864. \u00a0She was a daughter of Harry Williams, Esq., one of the earliest citizens of Williamston. \u00a0Two children were born to Jesse and Mary Stubbs, Harry W. and Jessie, wife of D.D. Simmons, of Williamston.<\/p>\n

The subject of this biographical mention was given exceptional educational advantages, \u00a0having been a student of the Horner school at Oxford, and later spending three years in the Hillboro academy, he was graduated from the University of North Carolina, and took up the study of law under the direction of Mr. James E. Moore, and completed his course with Dick & Dillard of Greensboro, N.C. \u00a0 He was admitted to the bar in January, 1881, and began the active practice of his profession in Williamston, in October, 1885, at that time having become associated with Mr. James E. Moore. \u00a0In 1889, he was elected to the state senate from the Second senatorial district on the inferior court of Martin county, and at one time was mayor of Williamston. \u00a0His first marriage was in 1882, when Miss Della B. Lanier became his wife. \u00a0One year later her death occurred. \u00a0In 1888 he married Miss Carrie L. Sitterson, and one child, Jesse R., has been born to them. \u00a0Mr. Stubbs is a prominent Royal Arch Mason, and also a member of the I.O.O.F. \u00a0As a lawyer he excels, being keen and well read.<\/p>\n

Mr. Stubbs died July 9, 1934 in Williamston, N.C. \u00a0An obituary appeared in the July 12, 1934 issue of the Robesonian, newspaper of Lumberton, NC.<\/p>\n

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