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Ashburn, Jesse Anderson

farmer, clergyman, state senator, was born Dec. 21, 1861, near Pilot Mountain, N. C.

He is a farmer and a noted clergyman of Ashburn, N. C. As an orator he is well known in the south; where he is also prominent as a political speaker. In 1896 he was elected member of the North Carolina state senate; has taken a prominent part in the deliberations of a that body; at all times advocating with voice and pen all progressive measures in the interests of the commonwealth.

ASHBURNER, CHARLES ALBERT, geologist, was born Feb. 9, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1880 he was appointed geologist in charge of the survey of the anthracite coal fields, where he originated a method for surveying and representing the geology of this great coal-bed which has received the approbation of mining engineers and geologists both in the United States and in Europe. He died Dec. 24, 1889, in Pittsburg, Pa.