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Rh society. For more than a quarter of a century he was a vestryman of Christ church, Raleigh, and he maintained his comradeship with the Confederate veterans as a member of Junius Daniel camp at Raleigh. Alfred W. Haywood, second son of the foregoing, at eight years of age assisted his father in hospital duty and did what he could to aid in providing for his family when the progress of Sherman’s army left them bereft of property. He was graduated with first honors at Horner’s military school, and then after four years business training as teller in the Citizens national bank, entered the law school of Chief Justice Pearson, where he was graduated, as vale dictorian of his class, in 1876. During the eighteen years of professional career which followed, he attained great success as a lawyer, particularly in corporation practice; won prominence in the councils of the Democratic party, and had important business connections. On May 23, 1873, he was married to Louise M., daughter of Gov. Thomas M. Holt, and in 1895, at the request of the latter, he abandoned his law practice and assumed part of the care of management of the vast manufacturing interests established by Governor Holt. He is now one of the executors of the Holt estate and vice-president of the Granite manufacturing company, the Thomas M. Holt manufacturing company, and the Cora manufacturing company, all engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods.

Lieutenant L. Banks Holt, of Graham, Alamance county, N. C., a son of Edwin M. Holt, the pioneer of the great cotton manufacturing industry, now carried on in Alamance county by his descendants, was born January 28, 1842, and was educated at Dr. Alex Wilson’s school and the military academy at Hillsboro. He entered this academy in 1859, and left in the spring of 1861 to serve with the Orange Guards in the occupation of Fort Macon. After two months service there he joined the regiment of Col. Charles Fisher, the Sixth North Carolina State troops, and served as drill-master until after the first battle of Manassas, in which the regiment became famous. He participated in that engagement and was commissioned as first lieutenant and assigned to the Eighth North Carolina regiment, with which he served at Roanoke island, and was captured