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Washington Duke
Confederate Navy Officer + Businessman + Philanthropist and Tobacco Industry Executive
Male
Born
Dec 18, 1820
Hometown
North Carolina
Died
May 8, 1905
For the fictional person named George Washington Duke, see George Washington Duke George Washington Duke (December 18, 1820 %E2%80%93 May 8, 1905) was an American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist.
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CHILDHOOD
1820
Birth
Born on December 18, 1820.
TWENTIES
1842
21 Years Old
On August 9, 1842, he married Mary Caroline Clinton (1825 - 1847) with whom he had two children: Sidney Taylor Duke (1844 - 1858) and Brodie Leonidas Duke (1846 - 1919).
THIRTIES
1852
31 Years Old
After Mary Duke's death at age twenty-two, he married Artelia Roney (1829 - 1858) on December 9, 1852.
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1860
39 Years Old
He did not say they were his slaves and, in fact, the 1860 census, just prior to this "recorded" event shows that he did not own slaves.
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FIFTIES
1874
53 Years Old
After the war, he grew tobacco, but in 1874, he sold his rural home and moved to the city of Durham, where he began his tobacco business.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1881
60 Years Old
In 1881, the W. Duke Sons and Company was established as a tobacco manufacturer and was soon a marketer of pre-rolled cigarettes.
1884
63 Years Old
In 1884 he was nominated by the Republican Party for North Carolina State Treasurer, an elected position, and lost.
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1896
75 Years Old
In 1896, Duke gifted the college with $100,000 (about $2,200,000 in 2005 dollars) on the condition that it open its doors to women.
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1905
84 Years Old
Died on May 8, 1905.
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