{"id":353,"date":"2009-09-13T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T17:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/?page_id=353"},"modified":"2015-03-08T01:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T07:20:43","slug":"benjamin-foster-halsey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/home\/benjamin-foster-halsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Foster Halsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Benjamin Foster Halsey<\/strong>, Democrat, Representative from Washington County, was born at Tarboro, N.C., May 17, 1863. \u00c2\u00a0Son of Robert S. and Sarah E. (Alexander) Halsey. \u00c2\u00a0Was educated at Williamston and Plymouth High School; University of Maryland, Medical School, 1885; Vanderbilt University, Medical School, 1893. \u00c2\u00a0Physician. \u00c2\u00a0Coroner of Washington County. \u00c2\u00a0Mayor of Roper. \u00c2\u00a0Charitable Brotherhood. \u00c2\u00a0Married Miss Ida Chesson, October 4, 1889. \u00c2\u00a0Address: Roper, NC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Source: \u00c2\u00a0North Carolina, and North Carolina Historical Commission.<\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">North Carolina Manual<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission, 1917. Available @ Google Books &lt;<\/span><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=KdUGAQAAIAAJ\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=KdUGAQAAIAAJ<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&gt;<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Other info about Benjamin Halsey<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See his marriage certificate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/mr\/WLIC102.HTM#0755\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Halsey died June 18, 1928 &#8211; view his death certificate <a href=\"http:\/\/pilot.familysearch.org\/recordsearch\/start.html#p=recordimage;c=1609799;r=26716636;role=principal\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ida Chesson Halsey was the daughter of Friley Fagan Chesson &amp; Clara Mariah Pollard<\/li>\n<li>Search the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taneya-kalonji.com\/rbeacon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roanoke Beacon Newspaper Index<\/a> to see him mentioned in the newspaper. Search for &#8220;Hallsey&#8221; as well as &#8220;Halsey&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Foster Halsey, Democrat, Representative from Washington County, was born at Tarboro, N.C., May 17, 1863. \u00c2\u00a0Son of Robert S. and Sarah E. (Alexander) Halsey. \u00c2\u00a0Was educated at Williamston and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/home\/benjamin-foster-halsey\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}