Address of Hon Josephus Daniels at Rutherford County
Extracts from Daniels address at the Sesqui-Centennial in Rutherfordton on August 16 recount Rutherford county history from its first settlements to its naming after Griffith Rutherford. It covers De Soto era, Kings Mountain, the Tryon to Rutherford shift, Revolutionary battles, and local figures, plus Reconstruction tensions and civil rights era echoes, ending with a look toward later events and World War I context.
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Josephus Daniels
Rutherfordton
Rutherford County
Hernando de Soto
Hickory Nut Gap
Chimney Rock
Father of Waters
Mississippi
Bechtlers
Hayneses
de Soto
Atlantic
Ohio
Shackleton
Rutherford
John Walker
Green River
Ruthford
Tryon County
George
South Carolina
Charleston
New Jersey
Brandywine
Germantown
Land Valley Forge
Western
North Carolina
Holstein
Waitauga
Cathey’s Creek
Griffith Rutherford
Grant
Sir Henry Clinton
Carolinas
Colonel Ferguson
Valley
Hill
Coonskin
Ferguson
Kings Mountain
Gilberttown
William Campbell
Brittain Presbyterian Church
Patrickk Watson
Watson
Gilbert Town
Francis Logan
Jay
George W. Logan
John C. Carson
Thomas McCollouch
Campbell
McColl Louch
Tryon
Lincoln
Crooked Creek
Smokies
Catawba
Hiawassee
Scovelite
Savannah
Raiseur’s Mill
Yadkin
Gates
Camden
Cape Fear
Wilmington
Cornwallis
Ruther Gilberttown
Ford
Ashe
Bear
Scotland
Rowan County
Rowan
Mecklenburg
Committee of Safety
Tennessee
Washington
William Lenoir
Clarence Griffin
Tapable
Mr. Griffin
William Green
House of Representatives
Senate
Green
Lenoir
Elias Alexander
Alexander
Elias Alexander, Jr
Baptist Church
Broad River
Major Green
Rascal
Mexico
Mountain
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Polk
Congress
Jason H. Carson
G. W. Michal
Micajah Durham
John W. Ellis
John Pool
Vance
J Johnson
Alfred Dockery
Jonathan Worth
Holden
Pee Bate Tanealate Eal Enery
Union of Our Fathers
Sumter
Lee
Clark
16Th
Forest City
Herbert D. Lee
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M. C. Dickerson
John Edwards
Bethel
Collett Leventhorpe
Confederacy
Weldon
Leventhorpe
Gettysburg
South
Gran
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Folley
Strox
John
Jon
Sherman
Ir Tagut
Stevens
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Ben Wade
George W. Lo
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Orange
Richmond Pearson
Bowm
Thos. Settle
Rockingham
Robert P. Dick
Guilford
William W. Holden
Supreme Court
Ion
Andrew Johnson
Nef Groes
Union League
Ku Klux Klan
Mr. Daniels
Randolph Shotwell
Captain Shotwell
Raleigh
Rong
Land
Albany
Mr. Daniel
Courier
Rele
W. T
Bell
Virginia
William Carpenter
Liberati
Cuba
Porto Rico
Phil Peines
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