Charles Clinton Spaulding (a.k.a. "C.C. Spaulding"), served as president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and prominent as a civic and business leader, was born near Clarkton, NC, August 1, 1874, the son of Benjamin M. and Margaret Moore Spaulding.
From childhood, he was fired with an ambition that unfitted him for farm life, so while still a youth, he journeyed to Durham, NC, where he worked at odd jobs in order that his desire for a better education might be realized. On being graduated from Whitted High School in 1898, he felt that at least the first step on the road to a more useful life had been taken.
Soon after his graduation, John Merrick and Dr. Aaron Moore brought him into the fledging firm that later developed into the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. He served the company in various capacities- agent, clerk, janitor and general manager. Largely as the result of his initiative and unswerving spirit of honesty and fair dealing, that from the beginning, had characterized the activities of the promoters.
The company has achieved a foremost position among life insurance companies of America that are owned and operated by African Americans.
Contributed by Andre Vann, Durham Historian
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(1942)
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