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Eminent Charlotteans : twelve historical profiles from North Carolina's Queen City / Scott Syfert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Syfert, Scott, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charlotte (N.C.)--Biography.
- Charlotte (N.C.).
- Charlotte (N.C.)--History.
- North Carolina--Charlotte.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 211 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- "This history details the lives of 12 Charlotteans who made important contributions to the Queen City, from the early Colonial period to the 20th century. Subjects include Catawba Indian chief King Haigler, Founding Father Thomas Polk, freed slave turned celebrity barber Thaddeus Lincoln Tate and North Carolina's first woman physician, Dr. Annie Lowrie Alexander"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- King Haigler and the Catawba Indians
- Crackers: Thomas "Kanawha" Spratt and the Scots-irish
- No surrender: the Rev. Alexander Craighead and the Presbyterians
- The founding father: Thomas Polk
- Charlotte's Paul Revere: Captain James Jack and the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
- Freedom for slaves: Ishmael Titus and the African Americans in the American Revolution
- The Roman: Joseph Graham
- The forgotten Charlotteans: African American slaves
- The silent barber: Thaddeus Lincoln Tate
- The Cavalryman: lt. William Ewen Shipp
- Dr. Annie: North Carolina's first woman physician
- Hubert Crotts and the greatest generation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476666495
- 1476666490
- OCLC:
- 1022084420
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