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Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton) Duke

1855–1929 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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John D. Moss Family Bible

Moss, John David · 1890

Genealogical pages from the family Bible of John David Moss (1876 to 1940), who came from Cherokee County, South Carolina. They note his three marriages, to Luna May Cobb, Minnie Lee Turner and Sudie Lera Bennett. Ten images, with dates running from 1890 to 2025. Topics include Chapel Hill, the Erwin Cotton Mills and Benjamin N. Duke.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Duke, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton), 1855-1929.

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1901 Lincoln Hospital opens in Durham for Black patients Dr. Aaron Moore and John Merrick won Duke family funding for a separate hospital where Black physicians and nurses treated Black patients, after Watts Hospital had excluded them. It opened in 1901 as a 50-bed frame building. People: Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton) DukeOpen Durham: Lincoln Hospital (1901-1924)

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Background context: NCpedia: Benjamin Newton Duke NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 6 Orange County pages naming Benjamin N. Duke DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton) Duke NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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