Background
PITTMAN, Thomas Merritt was born on November 24, 1857 in Franklin Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of Alfred Henry and Elizabeth (Alston) Pittman.
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Thomas Merritt PITTMAN
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North Carolina Public Schools. Private study; Wake Forest College, Doctor of Laws, 1925.
Career
C.; second, Elizabeth Norwood Briggs, October 16, 1923, Raleigh, North Carolina United States Commissioner, Circuit Court of United States, Western District, North Carolina, 1876. Examiner in Equity, 1878. Company Attorney, Vance Company, North Carolina, 1888.
City Attorney, Henderson, North Carolina, 1902.
Religion
First Baptist Church.
Membership
Member, Sinking Fund Commission, Henderson, North Carolina, 1902, Joint Leg. Commission to Investigate Torrens Land Title Systems, 1909. Member North Carolina Historical.
Commission, 1911, Chairman, 1923 —. Judge, Superior Court, Third Judicial District, 1923. Chairman, Vance Company Board of Elections, 1914.
Trustee. Leslie Perry Memorial Library, 1928. Author: A decade of North Carolina History, 1832-1842, 1910. Nathaniel Macon, Guilford Battle Ground Address, 1909.
John Porter and the Cary Rebellion, 1903. John Penn, 1904; Preparation for Baptist Work in North Carolina, 1898. Torrens Land Title System.
1911; Charter City of Henderson, 1913: The Trend of History in North Carolina as it Relates to Civil and Religious Liberty, 1926. Revolutionary Congresses of North Carolina, 1902. Industrial Life in Colonial _North Carolina 1907.
The Event and Its Personnel (Centennial Session Baptist State Convention of North Carolina) 1930. Member Henderson, North Carolina. Alabama Historical. Association- Vance Company Bar Association (President, 1915).
North Carolina Bar Association (Vice-President.). North Carolina Literary & Historical. Association, (President, 1926).
Connections
Spouse Harriet Lassiter, June 10, 1884, Henderson, N.
