Warren W ShiresSep 6, 1920 - May 1987Forest City, North Carolina Warren Wal W Shires of Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina was born on September 6, 1920, and died at age 66 years old in May 1987. Favorite followers
Ireland. Captain James Rutherford was brother to the Presbyterian leader Samuel Rutherford. His son John was a captain in King William’s army at the Battle of the Boyne in 1689 and was granted lands in county Down (where he died in 1740). Two of John’s sons emigrated to America. The...
Other factories in North Carolina, such as the Henrietta and the Cliffside Mills in Rutherford County, used a similar cardboard ticket well into the 20th century, carefully labeled “redeemable only in merchandise” from the issuing company store. Cotton mills in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina...
Richard Ledbetter settled in Rutherford county, North Carolina in the 1770’s. A Revolutionary War veteran, he died in Georgia in 1841 at the grand old age of a hundred and three. Daniel Ledbetter, born in Georgia in 1825, moved onto Tennessee and North Carolina. two Ledbetter brothers, Wil...
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Rutherford B. Hayes is one of those presidents that can be hard to identify. Sure, most people know the name and perhaps know he falls somewhere on that foggy list between the more well-known Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Yet the election of Hayes marked a pivotal moment in the hi...
In the summer of 1994, the Whalers were purchased, in a deal brokered by the Connecticut Development Authority, by Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos, along with partners Thomas Thewes, and Jim Rutherford. Rutherford became the team’s new General Manager and Holmgren came back as the Head Coach. ...
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes faced Democrat Samuel Tilden, best known for battling Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring in New York. Tilden won the popular vote and seemed to win the election, but results in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana were contested, as was one vote in Oregon; if...
North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet ratified the Constitution. 6 As both Jefferson and Burr received the same number of electoral votes, the decision was referred to the House of Representatives. The Twelfth Amendment (1804) provided that electors cast separate ballots for president and ...
1876Rutherford B. HayesRepublican1854,036,29848.0 Samuel J. TildenDemocratic1844,300,59051.0 1880James A. GarfieldRepublican2144,454,41648.3 Winfield Scott HancockDemocratic1554,444,95248.2 James B. WeaverGreenback305,9973.3 1884Grover ClevelandDemocratic2194,874,98648.5 ...