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William F. Strowd (1832–1911), son of an Orange County family, enrolled at Chapel Hill in 1861 in the Orange Light Infantry. He farmed in Chatham County and served two terms in Congress as a Populist, 1895–1899, then moved to Chapel Hill in 1908 to live with his son Robert and is buried there.
Source: NCpedia: Strowd, William Franklin (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
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1832–1911 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Forty-nine items kept as the papers of William Franklin Strowd, 1832 to 1911, with a few pieces from 1755 and 1820 and the main run from 1854 to 1929, collection 4151-z in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers concern economic conditions in Orange and Chatham counties, mathematical problems and exercises, Alexander Carson and R. L. Strowd.
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