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Thursday, November 14, 1912.] THE CAROLINA UIHON FARMER Page Three Officials of the North Carolina Farmers Union E. C. FAIRES, OF ABERDEEN, N. C., Secretarj'-Treasurer. Mr. Faires is a native of Gaston County. He attended public schools of Gaston and graduated from Commercial College of Kentucky in 1886; spent four years in mercantile business at Gas tonia, but later sold out and located at Kings Mountain, where he engaged in farming until about a year ago he purchased a farm in Moore County, near Aberdeen, selling his farm at Kings Mountain. Mr. Faires was one of the first organ izers in this State for the Farmers’ Union and was very active in the work before the State Union was organized. He was elected Secretary-Treas urer at Charlotte in May, 1908, when the State Union was formed and has been unanimously re elected this year. St St CAPT. W. B. GIBSON, OF IREDELU, Chairman of Executive Committee. Capt. Gibson was born in Iredell County, near Statesville, in 1853, and on account of the war his educational advantages were very few. He has lived on the farm all his life and in connection with farming sold fertilizers and general mer chandise for twenty-one years. From 1902 to 1908 he devoted himself exclusively to his farm. In 1908 he was elected President of the Iredell County Farmers’ Union and has remained at the head of the organization from the beginning. He was also chosen as manager of the Iredell Union Warehouse Company in 1909 and has devoted his full time since that time to the work of the or ganization. At the meeting at Wilson last year he was chosen a member of the State Executive Committee and this body immediately elected him chairman. Capt. Gibson is one of the most enthusiastic promoters of the warehouse system, as his experience with the warehouses in his own county has convinced him that this is a winning proposition if properly handled. * ♦ ♦ J. Z. GREEN, Organizer-Lecturer. Mr. Green was born on the farm where he now lives, near Marshville, Union County, North Caro lina, in 1867. Was educated in the public schools of his county, and when eighteen years of age be-, work in his county as Lecturer for the Farmers’ gan teaching in the public schools, and later began' Marshville, and this paper was very prominent in its support of the People’s Party when the Alliance became merged into politics. Later on when the Third or Peoples’ Party, by fusion, merged with CAPT. W. B. GIBSON, OF STATESVILLE, Chairman Executive Committee. DR. H. Q. ALEXANDER, OF MATTHEWS, N. C., President. the Republican Party, this paper became indepen dent, and it was during the intervening years that Mr. Green.established his identity as editor of Our Home, and as a result of his writing, this paper Alliance. In 1892 he established Our Home at at the time of its beginning was merely a wide soon became a valuable asset in the town which place in a road. Mr. Green has refused several political nomina tions, and has at all times refused to be consider ed as a candidate for political offices. When Mr. G. W. Fant, of Texas, came to this State as organ izer, Mr. Green gave him his support, and when the State Union was organized in 1908 the first issue of The Carolina Union Farmer was brought out. This was printed in his office at Marshville, where it remained for a year or more. Mr. Green was elected organizer-lecturer of the North Caro lina Farmers’ Union at the State Meeting held in Monroe in December, 1908, when the offices of the organizer and lecturer were combined; since that time eighteen hundred local and about sixty Coun ty Unions have been organized. DR. J. M. TEMPLETON, OF CARY, N. C., A^ice-President. * * * PROF. C. C. AVRIGHT, of AVilkes. Prof. Wright was born at Hunting Creek on August 14, 1862, was educated in the private schools of his county. Began teaching at the age of eighteen and taught for twenty years in his na tive county. Was elected a member of the Board of Education for Wilkes County in 1885 and serv ed as Chairman for several years. In 1891 was elected a member of the Board of County Com missioners and served in this capacity for six years. In 1899 was elected County Superintend ent of Public Instruction, which position he now holds. In addition to these positions of trust he has served on the Board of School Examiners for the State, and on the Text-Book Sub-Commission for 1901. He is at present Chairman of the Na tional Educational Committee of the Farmers’ Union, also a member of the National Executive Board. He is Chairman of the Newspaper Com mittee, and Secretary of the State Executive Com mittee of the North Carolina Farmers’ Union. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the J. Z. GREEN, OF MARSHVILLE, N. C., Organizer-Lecturer. S J f. ■i i 1 ■ I ! li
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