Memorial Service for James Duke Held Nov. 25, 1925

Memorial Service for Late James B. Duke is Conducted. . . Service Was Held at Duke University with Many Notables in the Large Audience. . . Gov. McLean Is Chief Speaker. . . He Praised Mr. Duke for What He Did “For the Soul of North Carolina” Through Its People

Durham, Nov. 25 (AP)—As spokesman for the people of North Carolina, Governor Angus W. McLean, speaking at the memorial service for the late Jas. B. Duke, held at Craven Memorial Hall at Duke University here today, paid tribute to Mr. Duke’s memory for his material contribution to the state’s growth and development, to what Mr. Duke did “for the soul of North Carolina as expressed in its young men and women.

“The story of Mr. Duke’s life affords a striking example of what the American boy with the right kind of stuff in him, can attain,” the Governor declared.

“Not in many generations,” he said, “has North Carolina produced a man of more business acumen or broader vision than the late James Buchanan Duke. Such men are not everyday products. They cannot be forecast like the reappearance of some planet, but develop in our midst unheralded, and when we have analyzed their achievements, it would seem that they were given to the world to play a particular role in the age in which they lived. So it was with Mr. Duke.”

While North Carolina has produced many unusual men, “the life of Mr. Duke presents an unusual growth and remarkable developments which few of our citizens have attained,” said the Executive.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 25, 1925

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