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In 1966, the library's two bookmobiles were retired. The bookmobiles had provided flexible, popular service. But they could carry only limited collections and were becoming increasingly expensive to operate.
On April 20, 1854, we were married in the old house, 22 Beach St., New York… by Dr. Jas. W. Alexander of the 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church; Edmund Wilkes and Laura Renwick, James R. Smedberg and Janey Wilkes were our attendants, and about 60 guests, family and intimates.
Dorothea Dix was a reformer from Massachusetts who made it her special cause to improve care for persons suffering from mental health challenges.
MECKLENBURGERS insist that few counties in America have as intriguing a story to tell as their own.
The Bugler
When the morning's gray and the fog is thick
The bugler turns his nasty trick.
First call, he blows on his piece of junk,
As you tumble drowsily out of your bunk.
You call him names and wish he were
In her personal life, Annie Alexander was active in the Colonial Dames, the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. Dr.
Charlotte Literary and Library Association
Board of Directors 1891
Dr George W. Graham, President
JE.D. Latta, Vice-President
•The families select April 20, 1854 for the day of the wedding in New York City for the wedding of John ("Jack") Wilkes and Jane ("Jeanie") Smedberg.
As a doctor, Annie Alexander had the training and dedication to heal thousands of individuals over her 42 years as Charlotte's - and the South's - female physician. As an educated citizen, she devoted thought and effort to treating the causes of illness.
Charlotte Town, Mecklenburg County, May 31, 1775
THIS day the Committee of this County met, and passed the following RESOLVES:
In 1829 and again in 1830, the Mecklenburg County Court authorized citizens to buy land “for building a poor house” and then for constructing the structu
SOCIAL historians studying the more than two-century story of Mecklenburg might well agree that this community's character has its roots in the independent-mindedness of her early citizenship. Theirs was a continuing struggle to achieve and maintain a new way of life.
Alexander, Sid, 6; house of, 22
American Library Association, 69
American Trust Company, 75
Arkansas, 29
Arrington, Minerva, 63
Ashley Park, vii
Associated Press, 23
Athens, Georgia, 2, 3
Ayres, W. A., 40
MY MEMORY OF BROOKLYN would be incomplete without some space being given to our laundry man. He was very fair, tall, lanky, raw-boned and angular. If dressed in buckskins, he would have looked quite the type that one would imagine a frontiersman to have been.
HARDLY had the business of the May meetings been completed before Mecklenburgers began planning for their participation in the session at Hillsboro in August of the North Carolina Provincial Congress.
Chain of Error Presented below is Chain of Error and the Mecklenburg Declarations of Independence, by V.V. McNitt. The book has been separated into chapters in PDF format for your viewing and printing convenience.