Excerpt from Hill's Durham (Durham County, N. C.) City Directory, 1934, Vol. 23: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide In 1865 Washington Duke, a Confederate soldier, walked from New Bern to his home in Durham, and with the same stout _heart that had carried him through the vicissitudes of a lost cause, turned his atten tion to the battle for bread, which was doubtless as cruel and bitter as the war from which he had returned. He built the second factory in Durham, composed of a log cabin 2ox30 feet, and with-his Own hands manufactured a product out of a small supply of tobacco that the Federal soldiers had not found. This he called pro-bono Publico. The annual output of this factory was originally four or five hundred pounds, and in 1872 had grown to pounds. 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.