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Clement Read Strudwick

Clement Read Strudwick grew up in Hillsborough, where his family returned when he was two, and studied at the university in Chapel Hill from 1918 to 1920 before becoming a portrait painter. He painted in a workshop built behind his parents' Hillsborough home, made a portrait of President Edward Kidder Graham, and was buried in the Hillsborough cemetery.

Source: NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Strudwick, Clement Read

1900–1958 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Evelyn P. Lloyd slide show of "The Strudwicks: A family of artists", 1950s-1970s

Lloyd, Evelyn P. · 1954

Evelyn P. Lloyd assembled a slide show called 'The Strudwicks: A family of artists', about 130 items in a linear foot and a half made between the 1950s and the 1970s, in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC, P0119. The pictures are set in Hillsborough and feature four Strudwicks: Shepperd the elder and the younger, Clement Read and Edmund.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Strudwick, Clement Read, 1900-1958.

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Shepperd Strudwick and Hillsborough's new enterprises, 1902–19091902–1909 · Shepperd Strudwick, who brought his family back to Hillsborough about 1902, stood at the head of one new enterprise after another. Ralph Adams Cram designed his new house at the corner of Churton and Union. In 1904 a new Business Men's Association elected him president, and he became president of the Bellevue Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in west Hillsborough. In 1905 voters made him a town commissioner on a ticket understood to favor licensing barrooms. In 1907 the new Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company chose him president and treasurer for a brick plant, and by 1909 the Observer listed him at the head of the clay company and the Bellevue mill.

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  1. Shepperd Strudwick brings his family back to Hillsborough Shepperd Strudwick, a native of Hillsborough, returned to the town with his family when his son Clement, born in Tennessee in April 1900, was two. People: Clement Read StrudwickSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Strudwick, Clement Read
  2. Portrait painter Clement Strudwick dies and is buried in Hillsborough Clement Read Strudwick, who had painted in a workshop behind his parents' Hillsborough home, died on February 26, 1958. His funeral was held in the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church and he was buried in the Hillsborough cemetery.Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Strudwick, Clement Read

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