Excerpt from Duke Alumni Register, Vol. 53: February 1967A friend of mine handed me a copy of the September issue of the Duke Alumni Register in which appeared an article of much interest to me entitled A Long Way Up From Brown's School house. Brantley York referred to in this article was my great-grandfather on my mother's side of the family.The family is quite proud of the part he played in the educational life of North Carolina, as he spent most of his life organizing schools and teach ing throughout various sections of North Carolina.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.