Download or read book A History of First Baptist Church, Morganton, North Carolina, 1879-1990 (Classic Reprint) written by W. Stanley Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of First Baptist Church, Morganton, North Carolina, 1879-1990 As editor of The News Herald for 25 years, he was a vigorous crusader, a champion of equality, and an influential advocate for education, quality health care, and human relations. Stanley Moore was born in Lenoir in 1909, but moved to Statesville where he was graduated from Statesville High School in 1927. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and worked for a securities company in New York during the stock market crash of 1929. After a short stint as a reporter for the Statesville Record, he joined The New Herald in 1934 where he served as News Editor until 1945. After a brief period as assistant business manager at Broughton Hospital and administrator of Grace Hospital, he returned to The News Herald as editor, a position he held from 1952 until his retirement in 1977. 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.