Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Benjamin Newton Duke

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Benjamin Newton Duke MR. I ' .EXJAMIN NEWTON DUKE was born April 27, 1855, in what is now Durham County, North Carohna. He attended the neighborhood schools, and later was sent to the New Garden Boarding School, which afterwards became Guilford College. He manifested his gratitude to this old Quaker academy in a beautiful way when in 1907 he and his brother built the handsome Memorial Hall at Guilford College. He early went to work with his father and brother in the tobacco business, the marvelous success of which is well known. For a long time now he has been intimately associated with great business and industrial enterprises of many kinds. He is largely interested in the manufacturing of tobacco and of cotton, is president or director of banks in North Carolina and New York, and is actively engaged in railroad development. Recently he and his brother, Mr. James B. Duke, have been developing water- power in North and South Carolina, and building electric railroads that will ultimately connect the important towns in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. For many years Mr. Duke has contributed liberally to churches and benevo- lent purposes of every description, but his most significant benefactions have been to Trinity College. Along with his father, the late lamented Washington Duke, he has from the beginning of its existence in Durham, been a stanch supporter of the College. Especially since i8g6 has the rapid growth of the College been primarily due to his inspiration and support. He has not only given money with great- generoisty, but he has exerted an influence that has always been liberating and inspiring.