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Calvin Graves

From the state marker

“Speaker of the N.C. House and Senate. He cast deciding vote for North Carolina Railroad, 1849. He lived here.”

State historical marker: G-43: Calvin Graves 1804-1877

The index holds one work for Calvin Graves so far. Search further, by name: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

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Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present

Ashe, Samuel A. · 1905 · C.L. Van Noppen

Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Graves, Calvin.

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Background

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Collections and databases

  • NC LIVE: prepared search for Calvin Graves Library card 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
  • Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries

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