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Cyrus Thompson

From the state marker

“Physician and orator. Secretary of State of N.C., 1897-1901. Farmers' Alliance and Populist leader. Grave 4 mi. W.”

State historical marker: C-72: Cyrus Thompson 1855-1930

1855–1930 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Leonidas Polk Denmark Family Papers

Denmark, Leonidas Polk · 1861

Papers of the Denmark family, 1861 to 1966, gathered by Leonidas Polk Denmark (1892 to 1964), grandson of the farm leader Colonel Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837 to 1892). They cover Polk's agricultural journalism, the Farmers' Alliance and Populist politics, the Civil War, World War I and the 1918 influenza. Hillsborough appears among the places.

Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Thompson, Cyrus, 1855-1930.

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