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Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Sr.
Joseph Ezekiel Pogue Sr. (1851–1926), later a Raleigh tobacco manufacturer and longtime secretary of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, began his North Carolina career in Hillsborough, clerking in his brother E. H. Pogue's general store from January 1870 to September 1871.
Source: NCpedia: Pogue, Joseph Ezekiel, Sr. (Micaela Magee, 2015)
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Life and Orange County connections
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- 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. Pogue Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Pogue, Joseph Ezekiel, Sr. (Micaela Magee, 2015)
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- E. H. Pogue 1 entry: Joseph E. Pogue clerks in his brother E. H. Pogue's Hillsborough store (January 1870–September 1871)
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library 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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