A number of Eastern Carolina tobacconists are confident the “J.E. Archbald” who was among the American refugees from Smyrna recently was Jehu Archbell, a native of Beaufort County who has been abroad many years as representative of American tobacco companies. Archbell is prominently connected in the Pamlico River section. He is still a young man, having one to the Near East in his early twenties. He is understood to have resided in European Turkey for a time. Archbell, it was said here today, married abroad. His wife, an Italian girl, assisted in the rescue of a number of Greeks and Armenians by helping to operate a launch in Smyrna harbor while foreign ships were taking refugees aboard, reports which told of the couple’s arrival at Athens said.
According to Charles Happer, of Hong Kong, a brother of the mayor of this city who was a visitor here some months ago, Archbell had become very successful in business and was contemplating setup up as an independent tobacco dealer in the Levantine producing region. Happer said he and Archbell had come in contact occasionally and that the latter was well-known in a number of eastern fields.
From the front page of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922
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