E. H. Pogue

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1. February 21, 1866 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. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 7, 1866, p. 3 (E. H. Pogue tinware advertisements)
2. January 4, 1869 Hillsborough elects A. C. Murdock magistrate of police Hillsborough's town election chose A. C. Murdock as magistrate of police, with E. H. Pogue, D. C. Parks and Joseph Reece among the town commissioners. People: A. C. Murdock, E. H. Pogue, David C. Parks Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Joseph ReeceSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 11, 1869, p. 2
3. January 1870–September 1871 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: Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Sr., E. H. Pogue Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Pogue, Joseph Ezekiel, Sr. (Micaela Magee, 2015)
4. January 11, 1876 Hillsborough's tobacco market reopens at Webb's warehouse E. H. Pogue & Co. reopened Webb's tobacco warehouse at Hillsborough after the town had gone nearly a year without a market, and the first sale filled the streets with wagons and sold about 15,000 pounds at prices equal to other markets. By late February the house reported selling more tobacco in January alone than the town had sold in all of the year before. People: E. H. Pogue Place: Webb's Warehouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 12, 1876, p. 3
5. November 1, 1877 Pogue's tobacco warehouse opens for sales in Hillsborough Pogue's tobacco warehouse in Hillsborough held its opening sale on November 1, 1877, selling about 5,000 pounds of mostly poor new leaf while some planters took their tobacco back rather than accept the bids. The proprietors set sales four days a week and advised planters not to rush their tobacco to market before January, when better prices were expected. Place: Pogue's Warehouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 7, 1877, p. 3
6. by January 30, 1878 Hillsborough counts four plug tobacco factories and one smoking tobacco factory Hillsborough had four plug tobacco factories and one smoking tobacco factory, led by J. Y. Whitted & Co., the oldest, and E. H. Pogue, the first to make tobacco in the town. Pogue had leased Webb's Warehouse and reopened it for the season, and the town's factories used nearly half a million pounds of leaf a year. People: E. H. Pogue Place: Hillsborough · Also named: J. Y. Whitted · Also mentions: Webb's WarehouseSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 30, 1878, p. 3
7. 1879 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. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: W. J. PogueSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Durham Recorder, May 6, 1885, page 6 ("Our Tobacco Manufacturers: E. H. Pogue & Son")
8. January 2, 1886 Hillsborough men incorporate the Orange County Tobacco Association to buy and sell leaf tobacco Fifteen men, among them the merchants Charles M. Parks, David C. Parks and Harry L. Parish, John W. Graham and E. H. Pogue, filed articles with the Orange County Superior Court clerk incorporating the association, with $2,000 in capital in fifty-dollar shares. The same week the paper reported a heavy break at the opening sale of Hillsborough's tobacco warehouse. People: Charles M. Parks, David C. Parks, Harry L. Parish, Edward Atkins Rosemond, Thomas Ruffin, John W. Graham, James A. Cheek, Augustus Washington Graham, E. H. Pogue Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 9, 1886, p. 3 ("Notice of Incorporation")
9. January 5, 1886 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. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 9, 1886, p. 3 (opening sale report and notice of incorporation)
10. by May 22, 1886 The Hillsboro Warehouse becomes Webb's Warehouse as Thomas D. Turner buys in E. H. Pogue & Co. sold an interest in the Hillsboro Warehouse to Thomas D. Turner, and the tobacco house was renamed Webb's Warehouse under the firm of E. H. Pogue, Turner & Co. People: E. H. Pogue Place: Webb's Warehouse, south of the court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas D. TurnerSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 22, 1886, p. 3