SMITHDEAL, GEORGE MICHAEL, educator, author, was born Sept. 23, 1855, near Salisbury, N. C. He taught school and attended college alternately for several years, and subsequently became a successful Spenserian penman. In 1883 he opened the Smithdeal Business College in Greensboro, N. C, which institution he subsequently moved to Richmond, Va. He has gradually built one of the finest institutions of the kind in the country, buying and uniting several other schools of similar character with the Smithdeal College, of which he is president. He is the author of Smithdeal's Bookkeeping, and other works.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
STORK, CHARLES AUGUSTUS GOTTLIEB, clergyman, was born June 16, 1764, in Germany. In 1788 he accepted a call as pastor and missionary among Lutherans in North Carolina. When in 1803 the synod of North Carolina was organized he was elected the first president, and he was annually re-elected whenever he could be present. He died March 27, 1831, in Salisbury, N. C.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
STORK, THEOPHILUS, clergyman, author, was born in August, 1814, near Salisbury, N. C. He was a Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of Life of Luther; Luther's Christmas Tree; Luther and the Bible; Afternoon; Home Scenes in the New Testament; and The Unseen World. He died March 28, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
