Since I’m backlogged in research on the various brothers and sisters who made this Order great, I’m goin hard for a min…
This is Past District 13 Grand Master George W. Bolden….
He was a native of the old Colonial town of Camden, where he was born 8/7/1880. Young Bolden attended the academy at Camden where he was prepared for college. He then matriculated at #ClaflinUniversity and graduated in 1902. Something of the struggle he had to complete his education may be inferred from the fact that he started to school with only ten dollars and worked out the rest of his tuition and expenses about the place till the next vacation. Several vacations were spent in the brick yard at Camden. He simply refused to be discouraged , however, notwithstanding the hard conditions with which he was surrounded.
He taught school for five years at his home and for one year at Sterling College, Greenville. He spent one year in Chicago, where he earned sufficient money to buy a home, doing hotel and saloon work. He found the saloon work the most profitable work he had ever done, but fearing that he might fall a victim to his environment resigned his position, against the protest of his employer, and after having bought and paid for his home, returned to South Carolina.
Along with teaching, he had taken up insurance work during vacations. He made for himself such a record that when he was ready to enter the field definitively, he found a place awaiting him.
The North Carolina Mutual has trained and put in the field.a corps of workers unsurpassed in their line of work. Each district is worked by salesmen under the direction of a Superintendent. One of these was Mr. George Westberry Bolden, who had largely developed and was in charge of the Union, South Carolina District.
He was a member of the M. E. church and the #KoP fraternally. One of the most profitable and successful of his ventures was the organization and establishment of the Piedmont Drug Company, of which he was Secretary Treasurer. His principal property interests were located at Camden and at Union.
Hail him thrice!!!