{"id":105,"date":"2009-12-16T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/wake\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2009-12-16T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:05:52","slug":"biographies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have information to share about a Wake County ancestor or relative? Please consider submitting your information.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Individual Bios<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/wake\/biographies\/bio-joseph-gill-brown\">Brown, Joseph Gill<\/a> (1854-1927) &#8211; \u00a0of the Citizens National Bank<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anna_J._Cooper\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper, Anna J.<\/a> (1854-1964) &#8211; the 4th African-American woman in the US to earn a doctoral degree<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/wake\/gaston-alonzo-edwards\">Edwards, Gaston Alonzo<\/a> (1875-1943) &#8211; first black architect licensed in North Carolina<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obhistorycenter.ncdcr.gov\/ead\/obhc_fearn_robbie_papers.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Fearn, Robbie<\/a> (1959 &#8211; ) &#8212; the Outer Banks History Center has the papers of this Raleigh-raised actor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/wake\/biographies\/bio-edward-a-johnson-1860-1944\">Johnson, Edward A.<\/a> (1860-1944) &#8211; \u00a0African-American lawyer, author &amp; scholar<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nchistorytoday.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/29\/joel-lane-key-to-raleighs-establishment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lane, Joel (c. 1740s &#8211; 1795) <\/a>&#8211; early prominent Raleigh resident<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcarolinahistory.org\/encyclopedia\/18\/entry\">Lane, Lunsford<\/a> (1803-?) &#8211; famous for his slave narrative. \u00a0Lunsford was a servant of the Sherwood Haywood family of Raleigh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/wake\/smedes-rev-aldert-1810-1877\">Smedes, Reverend Aldert<\/a> (1810-1877) &#8211; photo of the founder of St. Mary&#8217;s College<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/wake\/smedes-rev-bennett\">Smedes, Reverend Bennett<\/a> &#8211; photo of Aldert Smedes&#8217; son, also rector of St. Mary&#8217;s College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Additional Sources<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dictionary of North Carolina Biography<\/strong>&#8211; compiled by William Powell, this text contains biographies of about 4,000 North Carolinians.\n<ul>\n<li>See a list of Wake County individuals included in the book<a href=\"http:\/\/web.co.wake.nc.us\/library\/locations\/orl\/Dict%20of%20NC%20Bios%20Index\/NC%20Bio%20Birth%20Index\/wake.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>See a biography you&#8217;re interested in? Consult WorldCat for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/4775986\" target=\"_blank\">a library near you<\/a> that may have the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgwarchives.net\/nc\/wake\/wakebiographies.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Biographies @ the NCGenWeb Archives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have information to share about a Wake County ancestor or relative? Please consider submitting your information. Individual Bios Brown, Joseph Gill (1854-1927) &#8211; \u00a0of the Citizens National Bank Cooper, Anna J. (1854-1964) &#8211; the 4th African-American woman in the US to earn a doctoral degree Edwards, Gaston Alonzo (1875-1943) &#8211; first black architect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/biographies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biographies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}