Excerpt from The North Carolina Year Book, 1901 In order to supply this long-felt want the editor has determined to publish on the first day of every January the north carolina year book. This first issue has been wholly prepared in less than two months. It is not perfect. It is not complete. There must be a No. 1 of all things, however, and this is presented as an earn-est of better things. If there be any good in it, it will improve like old brandy from year to year. This number contains much information that has never before been collated Other mat ter heretofore printed has been corrected, verified, condensed. Boil it down has been the motto, to the end that as much as possible could be crowded into every page. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.