Wilmington Morning Star, 30 December 1913.

The white people may have been surprised, but this was not the first “colored fair” in Wilson. The Wilson County Industrial Association, headed by Samuel H. Vick, sponsored fairs as early as 1887 and 1888. Politician and newspaper editor John C. Dancy was a featured speaker at the 1888 event, too.

• Charles L. Coon
• Henry Groves Connor — United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
• F.A. Woodard — former United States Congressman Frederick A. Woodard.
• John F. Bruton, lawyer, educator and banker