after gaining a thorough acquaintance with the machinery of cotton mills, returned to take charge of the Haw River mills. Since the death of his father he has been president of the three mills, the Granite, T. M. Holt and Cora. In 1894 he was married to Eugenie, daughter of Governor Jones, of Alabama. Cora M., daughter of Governor Holt, was married in 1880 to Dr. Edward Chambers Laird, who was born in Mecklenburg county, Va., in 1854, son of Dr. Alexander Thompson Laird and his wife Virginia, daughter of Judge Edward R. Chambers, of Virginia. He was graduated at the Virginia military institute in 1875, and at the medical department of the university of Baltimore in 1877. He is now engaged in the practice at Haw River, and is interested in the Holt mills.
Edmund Burke Haywood, M. D., distinguished in the medical service of the Confederate States army, born at Raleigh, January 13, 1825, died January 18, 1894, was a worthy descendant of a family for a long time identified with the history of North Carolina. The family had its origin in the county of Lancaster, England, where the name was written Heywood. In 1662 John Heywood emigrated to the island of Barbadoes, and thence his son, John Haywood, born on the island in 1684, removed to North Carolina, and settled in what is now Halifax county. He was one of the commissioners who constructed Fort Johnston, at the mouth of Cape Fear river; was a colonel of militia, many times a member of the provincial assembly, and in 1752 was elected treasurer of the northern counties of the province. At the time of the revolution three of his sons were officers of the provincial militia, the most distinguished being Col. William Haywood, who was a member of the committee of safety for Halifax district in 1775; of the State congress at Halifax, in April, 1776, and November, 1776; of the committee which drafted the constitution and bill of rights; of the council of State in 1776; was one of the commissioners who signed the revolutionary currency of the State, and a member of the legislature at Smithfield in 1779. The eldest son of Colonel Haywood, and father of Dr. Haywood, was John Haywood, born 1755, who was one of the commissioners who selected the site of the university of North Carolina, and a trustee of the same;
