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They soon moved to Guilford County. While there, he fought for legislative representation based on population. He served two two-year terms from January 1, to January 1, He was the first governor inaugurated in the new State Capitol. Morehead supported the new public school system, the extension of railroad lines, the improvement of rivers and harbors, and the construction of waterways and turnpikes.
The terminus of the railroad, Morehead City, NC, was named after him in He later worked for the expansion of the railroad, built a cotton mill in Leaksville, and served on the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I analyzed and found we had calcium carbide. Acetylene gas had been a laboratory curiosity for fifty years. Though Willson Aluminum failed to produce aluminum, it did perfect a practical aluminum alloy, but in the market for that was limited, nor was there a market for calcium carbide.
When the company's operations were drastically curtailed, Morehead's father arranged for him to work in a New York bank. After a brief stay, John Motley went to Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh and was graduated from its "expert's course" in Meanwhile, in Morehead's father and Willson had taken fruit jars of carbide to New York and had interested "some capitalists" in forming the Electro-Gas Company to exploit carbide and acetylene. They sold all except the chemical rights to calcium carbide for some cash and stock.
Later they produced the first chromium alloy in the country and the first ferrochrome for armor plate steel just in time for the Spanish-American War. Union Carbide bought out the Willson-Morehead electroalloys business in During he designed an apparatus for analyzing gases, which soon became standard equipment in industrial laboratories, and in he published his Analysis of Industrial Gases. Morehead, while still serving as engineer for Carbide Interest, became chief chemist and engineer of tests for Peoples Gas Light and Coke and moved to Chicago in Holding both positions, he served as design and construction engineer in charge of the research and development of new processes.
In Morehead married Genevieve M. When the United States entered World War I , he volunteered and, although overage, was commissioned a major in the army. On demobilization, he moved to Rye, N. In the event his services were needed to review the production of high explosives, he was retained in the reserve for five years. Morehead served three terms as mayor of Rye between and , when President Herbert Hoover appointed him minister to Sweden. There, in , he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the only foreigner ever to be so honored.
Also in he and his cousin, R.
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