Lawrence O Bryan BRANCH, Congress, NC (1820-1862) BRANCH Lawrence O Bryan , a Representative from North Carolina; born in Enfield, Halifax County, N.C.,
November 28, 1820; pursued a preparatory course under a private teacher in Washington, D.C., and
at the Bingham Military Academy in North Carolina; attended the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill for a short time and was graduated from Princeton College in 1838; studied law at
Nashville, Tenn., and owned and edited a newspaper there; moved to Tallahassee, Fla., in 1840; was
admitted to the bar in Florida in 1840 by a special act of the legislature and commenced practice in
Tallahassee; fought in the Seminole War in 1841; moved to Raleigh, N.C., in 1852 and continued the
A Black woman from Orange County will go down in history for leading the effort to solve this global Pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci called her a rising star of the Vaccine Research Center s coronavirus team at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Corbett s work also led to the development of the Eli Lilly therapeutic monoclonal antibody treatment that now has emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Her work will have a substantial impact on ending the worst respiratory-disease pandemic in more than 100 years, Fauci said in an article for TIME Magazine.
Corbett was was born in Hurdle Mills and raised in Hillsborough. She attended Stanback Middle School and graduated from Orange High School. She went on to earn Bachelor of Science degrees in biological sciences and sociology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and in 2014 received a doctorate in microbiology and immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sydenham Benoni ALEXANDER, Congress, NC (1840-1921) ALEXANDER Sydenham Benoni , a Representative from North Carolina; born at ``Rosedale, near
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C., December 8, 1840; attended preparatory
schools at Rocky River and Wadesboro, N.C.; was graduated from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the
Confederate Army in 1861 as a private in the First Regiment, North Carolina
Volunteer Infantry; elected captain of Company K, Forty-second North Carolina
Regiment, in June 1862; detached from his company in 1864 and served as
inspector general on the staff of Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke; member of the State