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Marshall De Lancey Haywood
1871–1933
A careful North Carolina historian and biographer, he spent his life preserving the stories of the state’s political, military, and church leaders. His books helped shape how many readers first encountered North Carolina’s colonial and early state history.
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About the author
Born in Raleigh on March 6, 1871, he was the son of Richard Bennehan Haywood and Julia Ogden Hicks Haywood. He lived in Raleigh throughout his life and became known as a historian and author with a strong interest in North Carolina’s past.
He wrote extensively about the state’s early leaders and institutions, producing works on figures such as Governor William Tryon, Joel Lane, and Colonel Edward Buncombe, as well as a history of the bishops of North Carolina. His writing focused especially on colonial, Revolutionary, and church history, and it made regional history accessible to a broad readership.
He died on September 20, 1933. A portrait held by the North Carolina Museum of History and featured by NCpedia shows him holding a copy of the Raleigh News and Observer around 1921, a fitting image for a writer devoted to documenting his state’s public memory.