Lewis P. Olds

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Lewis P. Olds was an American lawyer and politician who served as North Carolina Attorney General from 1869 to 1870.

In 1868, he was offered the presidency of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kemp P. Battle wrote, "As there was no treasury in sight from which a salary could be drawn, Mr. Olds wisely declined [the offer of the presidency]." [1] According to Battle, Olds was the son-in-law of then-Governor William W. Holden. He represented Wake County in the North Carolina Senate in 1870-71, when he voted against removing his father-in-law from office. [2] [3]

President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Olds to be U.S. consul to St. Helena., [4] where he served in 1876 and 1877.

Olds' first wife, Pauline Eugenia Olds, died of typhoid fever in 1864, at the age of 36. [5] His second wife, Laura Haylander Olds, was committed to an insane asylum in April 1888, [6] and died on March 11, 1895. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ History of the University of North Carolina, Volume II
  2. ↑ NC Manual of 1913
  3. ↑ Trial of William W. Holden
  4. ↑ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States, p. 302 and p. 364.
  5. ↑ "Obituary and Card of Thanks Written in 1864", Statesville Record And Landmark (August 20, 1928), p. 2.
  6. ↑ "North Carolina", Murfreesboro Index (April 27, 1888), p. 1.
  7. ↑ "Died", The Raleigh News and Observer (March 13, 1895), p. 8.
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