Wake-Johnston County NcArchives News.....John C. Scarborough, Superintendan of Public Instruction January 1, 1877
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The Landmark Of Statesville, Jan. 1, 1877 January 1, 1877
The Landmark of Statesville, N.C. 

JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH, son of SAMUEL and CYNTHIA SCARBOROUGH, was born in Wake 
County on the 22nd Sept, 1841. His mother was a daughter of HARTWELL HORTON, 
ESQ. MR. SCARBOROUGH, though he has just entered upon the discharge of one of 
the most important offices in the gift of the people, is the youngest of all 
those who took the oath of office today. His school days were spent in the 
common schools and district schools of his county. The war coming on, he early 
entered the military service of the State, where he served first as a sergeant 
in the 4th Regiment of the North Carolina Volunteers and afterwards in  1st 
Regiment North Carolina State Troops. His service there was faithful and 
continuous. Like so many others, MR. SCARBOROUGH found himself entirely 
dependent on his own exertions after the war closed, and without the help of 
an education to enable him to push forward in life. This defect he proceeded 
to repair at once according in 1866 went to Wake Forest College where he 
remained until June 1869, when he graduated. He was no less faithful and true 
as a student than he had been brave and gallant as a soldier.

Having adopted teaching as a profession, he remained as a resident of Wake 
Forest until about five years ago when he went to the town of Selina, in 
Johnson County, where he has since lived.He has never before held any public 
positin save that of magistrate and mayor of the village in which he lived. 
Like the other officers to be installed this morning, MR. SCARBOROUGH is also 
a married man, having on the 12th of June, 1876, married MISS JULIA V. MOORE, 
daughter of WALTER R. MOORE ESQ. 

MR. SCARBOROUGH, like so many of his new associates in office, is eminently a 
self-made man of the truest, best and most literal sense of that much abused 
term, for he owes his success in life to his own exertions. His latest 
triumph, we trust and believe is but the door to others that shall make his 
name a household word in North Carolina, remembered with grantful emotions for 
generations to come. To his hands have been committed the educational 
interests of more than a million people. From him legislation intended to 
afford the best facilities in our reach for the education of the rising 
generations will take shape and direction.

The responsibility is a great one, one that needs to bring to its proper 
discharge vigor of mind and body. Both of these admirable qualities MR. 
SCARBOROUGH possesses together with a strong will, energy, industry, great 
individuality of character and the true courage of opinions. May God speed him 
in the great undertaking that lies before him.

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