[4] A farmer who lived in Dogwood, North Carolina,[5] he also served as a county official.
[6] He was one of a few Republicans – alongside William Belcher, Turner Speller, and Edward H. Sutton, among others – who generally opposed the creation of public schools for white cities in counties with significant black populations.
[4] He served on a committee for the state's Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum alongside Jacob Montgomery, James Harris, and William Johnson.
[4] There is no record of his life after the 1890s, and he may have died outside of North Carolina.
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