BLOODWORTH, Timothy; was born in North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from North Carolina in 1790 and 1791; a Senator of the United States from 1795 to 1801;; was one of those who voted for locating the seat of Government on the Potomac. Died August 24, 1814.
(Source: Biography Annals of Citizens of the United States)

BLOUNT, William; was a Delegate tot he Continental Congress in 1782, 1783, 1786 and 1787, from North Carolina; was Governor of the territory south of the Ohio, having been appointed to that office in 1790; in 1796 was chosen President of the Convention of Tennessee; was elected the same year, by that State toa seat in the United States Senate, but was expelled in 1797, for having, as it was alleged, instigated the Creek and cherokee Indians to assist the British in conquering the Spanish territories near the United States. While his impeachment trial was in progress in the United States Senate he was elected a member of the State Senate and made President thereof. Died at Knoxville, March 10, 1810, aged fifty-six years.
(Source: Biography Annals of Citizens of the United States)

BLOUNT, Thomas; was born in North Carolina was a General of Militia; was a Representative from his native state in the Twelfth Congress. Died in Washington, February 9, 1812
(Source: Biography Annals of Citizens of the United States)

BRAGG, John; was born in North Carolina; was a Representative in Congress from Alabama from 1851 to 1853.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, 1887, pg 54)

CALLIS, John B.; was born in North Carolina, in 1828; emigrated to Tennessee in 1841; from that State went to Wisconsin; entered the volunteer forces during the Rebellion as a Lieutenant, and rose to the rank of Brigadier General; after the war, settled in Alabama; was commissioned a Colonel in the Regular Army; was elected a Representative from Alabama to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Enrolled Bills.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, 1887, pg 78)

COLEMAN, Daniel; was born in North Carolina in 1836 was appointed third Postmaster-General, holding the office until 1841.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, 1887, pg 105)

DARGAN, Edward S.; was born in North Carolina; removed in early youth to Alabama, where he subsequently taught school and studied law; in 1844 was elected Mayor of Mobile; from 1845 to 1847 was a Representative in Congress from Alabama; during the latter year was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, 1887, pg 126)

DAVIE, William R. was born in North Carolina in 1790 was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court for the District of North Carolina.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, by Charles Lanman, 1887, pg 129)

DEWEESE, John Thomas, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Van Buren, Crawford County, Ark., June 4, 1835; educated at home; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Henderson, Ky.; resident of Denver, Colo., for some years; moved to Pike County, Ind., in 1860; entered the Union Army July 6, 1861, as second lieutenant of Company E, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command until February 15, 1862, when he resigned; mustered in as captain of Company F, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, August 8, 1862; successively promoted to rank of colonel; moved to North Carolina; upon the reorganization of the Army was appointed second lieutenant, Eighth United States Infantry, July 24, 1866; resigned August 14, 1867, having been elected to Congress; appointed register in bankruptcy for North Carolina in 1868; upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 6, 1868, to February 28, 1870, when he resigned, pending the investigation of certain appointments to the United States Military and Naval Academies; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Forty-first Congress); censured by the House of Representatives on March 1, 1870, for selling an appointment to the Naval Academy; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; resumed the practice of law; died in Washington, D.C., July 4, 1906; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)

 

 

 

McMILLAN, Alexander, a Representative from North Carolina; birth date unknown; member of the state senate, 1810-1812; elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress but died before the Congress assembled.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)

 

SIMPSON, Fabius Evans

Tallest Light House Keeper

He is Built Like a Carolina Pine – Picture Taken in sections.

Like the towering pines that fringe the North Carolina coast, upon which he was born, in sight of dreaded Harteras, Fabius Evans Simpson, the assistant keeper of Lazzaretto lighthouse, at the entrance to Baltimore harbor can lay claim to be the tallest light house keeper in the fifth lighthouse district.  If not level with the tallest in the service from Maine to the Rio Grande says the Baltimore Sun.

He is only 23 years old and is built on the concertina plan.  When he rises from a sitting posture one wonders how much more remains to be unfolded before he is straightened out.  He is 6 feet 6 inches in his stocking feet.

His parents were reared alongside the sea and he comes of a family that has figured in the annals of the lighthouse service.  Alpheus W. Simpson, father of the young man was keeper on North River light station and his uncle, Fabius Evans Simpson, was in charge of the exhibit of the lighthouse board at the Jamestown exposition.  Another uncle, A. J. Simpson, is keeper of Southwest point light, all in North Carolina.  Young Simpson says he will stick to the business, believing he has inherited an ambition for the service in which his family has figured for many years.

He could not furnish a full-length picture of himself.  He said he tried to get a photographer in North Carolina to take all of him, but the artist said he could only do it in sections and then paste them together, which he thought would give an idea of his client’s towering figure.  To do so the photographer wanted to charge extra for the second section and the picture was not taken.
(Source:Mountain Democrat, The (Placerville, California) January 25 1908 Submitted by Nancy Piper)

WILLIAMS, Robert, (brother of John Williams, of Tennessee, and Lewis Williams and Marmaduke Williams), a Representative from North Carolina; possibly born in 1768 or 1773; two prominent men named Robert Williams from the same family are involved in politics at this time; elected as a Republican to the Fifth and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1803); died on either May 27, 1821 or January 25, 1836.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)