George Washington Pegram
1809 - 1884
This photograph is from an early history of Harnett County, North
Carolina.. The
caption under the photograph in the book reads: "Chairman of the Meeting Which Established Harnett County".
George W. Pegram was the father of William Howell Pegram for whom Pegram
Hall at Duke University was named and the grand-father of George Braxton Pegram, the
noted physicist who became Chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
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