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E. H. Pogue
E. H. Pogue, a Tennessee-born merchant, dealt in tobacco from 1866 alongside a wholesale tinware and general merchandise trade, made plug tobacco at a Hillsborough factory from about 1872, and kept his home and the Occoneechee Hotel there after moving his business to Durham in 1879.
Source: DigitalNC: The Durham Recorder, May 6, 1885, page 6 ("Our Tobacco Manufacturers: E. H. Pogue & Son")
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- E. H. Pogue starts making tinware for the wholesale trade in Hillsborough E. H. Pogue announced that he had begun manufacturing tinware in Hillsborough for merchants and retail dealers, and would also sell it to townspeople at wholesale rates. By early 1867 his store stood west of the courthouse, where he also sold groceries, stoves and tobacco and took country produce in barter.Search the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, March 7, 1866, page 3 (E. H. Pogue tinware advertisements)
- Joseph E. Pogue clerks in his brother E. H. Pogue's Hillsborough store At 18, Joseph Ezekiel Pogue left East Tennessee for Hillsborough, where he clerked in the general store of his brother, E. H. Pogue, until September 1871. He then became a traveling salesman for a tobacco factory, the start of a tobacco career that took him to Henderson in 1875 and Raleigh in 1885. People: E. H. PogueSearch the index · NCpedia: Pogue, Joseph Ezekiel, Sr. (Micaela Magee, 2015)
- E. H. Pogue moves his tobacco manufacturing from Hillsborough to Durham Pogue, a tobacco dealer since 1866 alongside his tinware and general merchandise trade, began making plug tobacco at a factory in Hillsborough in 1872 or 1873. In 1879 he moved the business to Durham, where E. H. Pogue & Son made granulated and long-cut smoking tobacco, while Pogue kept his home in Hillsborough.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Durham Recorder, May 6, 1885, page 6 ("Our Tobacco Manufacturers: E. H. Pogue & Son")
- E. H. Pogue & Co. hold the opening sale at the Hillsboro Tobacco Warehouse The Hillsboro Tobacco Warehouse, run by E. H. Pogue & Co., held its opening sale on Tuesday, January 5, 1886, and the Observer reported a heavy break with good prices. Three days earlier Pogue and fourteen other men had incorporated the Orange County Tobacco Association to buy and sell leaf tobacco.Search the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, January 9, 1886, page 3 (opening sale report and notice of incorporation)
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- Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough Public buildings and services · Hillsborough · 1 event here
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- Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Sr. 1 entry: Joseph E. Pogue clerks in his brother E. H. Pogue's Hillsborough store (January 1870–September 1871)
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- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 72 Orange County pages naming E. H. Pogue DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
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