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Thomas Michael Holt (15 July 1831 – 11 April 1896 ) was born in Alamance County , North Carolina , July 15 , 1831 . Holt studied at the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill for one year before briefly moving to work in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , dry goods store. In 1858 , Thomas and his father, Edwin M. Holt , acquired Benjamin Trollinger ’s textile-manufacturing mill known as the “ Granite Mill ,” (located in Haw River , North Carolina). In 1861 , Thomas acquired his father's interest in the mill and moved to Haw River to oversee the mill’s operations. In 1868 , Thomas 's brother-in-law, Adolphus "Dolph" Moore, became business partners with Thomas and the operation was renamed Holt & Moore. In 1876 , Moore was murdered, and the mills were consolidated as the Thomas M. Holt Manufacturing Company . After Thomas’s death in 1896 , his son, Thomas, took over operations of the mills and expanded them. The mills were later sold to the Cone Family , who in turn sold it to Burlington Industries . Thomas’s party affiliation was Democrat , and he served as a local magistrate, a county commissioner, as a member of North Carolina’s state senate 24th District in 1876 , as a member of North Carolina’s state house of representatives from Alamance County, 1883 - 1887 , as Lieutenant Governor Of North Carolina , 1889 - 1891 , and upon the death of the prior governor ( Daniel G. Fowle ), as Governor Of North Carolina , 1891- 1893 . Thomas died April 11 , 1896 and is buried in Alamance County. EXTERNAL LINKS
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