Local figure
A portrait painter in Hillsborough, Edmund Strudwick painted the portrait of the late Orange County sheriff Oddie Clayton that was hung in the sheriff's office in March 1962, after a public subscription led by Burch Compton, Clayton's former deputy.
Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, March 22, 1962, page 1
1909–1973 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 work about Edmund Strudwick (1909-1973) is indexed here.
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Works about or by Edmund Strudwick (1909-1973). Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
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.
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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
An address by Frank Nash on Dr. Edmund Strudwick (1802 to 1879), the Hillsborough surgeon born at Long Meadows north of the town, who took his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1849 became the first president of the North Carolina Medical Society. Nash spoke on December 14, 1926, when Strudwick's portrait was presented to the State Hospital at Raleigh; the ten-page text was printed in 1927.
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