One fall day in 1892, a raw 22-year-old named Blanford Barnard Dougherty came down out of the mountains of western North Carolina to the little town of Lenoir. Ahorse and by shanks' mare, he had traveled all the stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was going to college at Wake Forest, N. C. At Lenoir, young Dougherty cloppered on to a train, the first he ever did see. Finding the second-class car full, he made himself comfortable in first class. When the conductor tried to put him back in second class, the...
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