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On September 14, 1862, William Ashe, railroad president and commander of the Confederate government’s transportation network between New Orleans and Richmond, died after being struck by a train.
On September 13, 1948, 11-year-old Martha Mason of Lattimore in Cleveland County came down with polio on the very day her parents buried her older brother Gaston who had succumbed to the disease. They were both victims of a major polio outbreak that year. Martha survived, but became a quadriplegic dependent on the iron lung for the next 60 years.
On September 13, 1938, Shepherd Dugger, chronicler of North Carolina mountain life, died.In 1881 Dugger, became the first superintendent of Watauga County’s public schools. After holding that position for a single four-year term, he opened a hotel at the base of Grandfather Mountain, with partner J. Erwin Callaway.Dugger married Callaway’s daughter, Margaret, in 1887.
On September 13, 1781, the largest engagement of North Carolina’s “Tory War” took place in present-day Alamance County near Thomas Lindley’s mill.
On September 12, 1925, prominent jurist William Alexander Hoke died.Born in Lincolnton in 1851, Hoke attended Lincolnton Male Academy and later studied law under Chief Justice Richmond Pearson at Richmond Hill. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1889.
On September 12, 1857, the S.S. Central America sank 200 miles off Cape Hatteras with great loss of life. The side-wheel steamer was bound for New York from Havana when she encountered a hurricane and sprung a leak.