Cabarrus Heritage

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Luther Thompson HARTSELL

Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-fifth District, was born in Cabarrus County, October 13, 1870.  Son of McDonald J. and Sarah C. Boger Hartsell.  Educated in public schools till 1888; Union Institute, 1888-1890; graduated from Trinity College in 1894, with degree of Ph.D.  Was chief marshall in 1893; editor in chief, Trinity Archive, 1893-1894.  Graduated in law at University of North Carolina, 1896, degree of LL.B.  Attorney at law.  Member North Carolina Bar Association.  County Attorney, 1900-1908 and 1910.  Member lower House of General Assembly from Cabarrus County, 1899.  B.P.O.E., Concord Lodge, 857; Exalted Ruler, 1906-1909.  Representative to Grand Lodge, 1908-1910.  Now State Councilor, Jr. O.U.A.M.  Presbyterian.  Delivered address before National Building and Loan Association at Philadelphia, July, 1909.  December 4, 1901, married Miss Janie W. Ervin.  One son.  Address: Concord, N. C.   Source: North Carolina Manual (Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Historical Commission, 1917), 265.

James F. HURLEY

Born in Concord, Sept. 20, 1870.  Father, Alexander F., sheriff of Cabarrus at death; mother, Jane A. King.  Educated Davis School and Davidson College.  Drug clerk three years; insurance several years.  In 1900 established the Tribune; editor and proprietor of Daily and Semi-Weekly Tribune.  Mason, Knight Pythias, Jr. O. U. A. M.  Presbyterian church.  Married in 1895 to Miss Jeannette Erwin, daughter of C. H. Erwin, Cabarrus.  One child, a son.   Source: T Prominent People of North Carolina: Brief Biographies of Leading People for Ready Reference Purposes (Asheville, North Carolina: Evening News Pub. Co., 1906), 12, digital images, Hathitrust (http://www.hathitrust.org : accessed 14 November 2019).

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