"The Yanceyville Telephone Company, of Yanceyville, Caswell County, was incorporated yesterday in the [North Carolina] Secretary of State's office, to operate a line from Milton via Hamer, Yanceyville, Purley, Gatewood, to Danville, VA, and from Yanceyville to Reidsville, Greensboro, Burlington, Graham, Hillsborough, Roxboro, and other points. The capital stock paid in is $1,000, which may be increased to $3,000.
"The incorporators are G. T. Hubbard, of Hamer; B. S. Graves and S. A. Malloy, of Yanceyville, and S. G. Woods, of Purley."
The North Carolinian (Raleigh, North Carolina), 17 September 1903.
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In 1931, the Yanceyville Telephone Co. was operated from the second floor of the Florance Building (became the Dime Store).
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1. Grattan T. Hubbard (1855-1905) (Hamer merchant and postmaster)
2. Barzillai Shuford Graves (1854-1942) (Caswell County Sheriff, among other positions held)
3. Dr. Stephen Arnold Malloy (1872-1944) (Yanceyville medical doctor)
4. Samuel Green Woods (1853-1935) (Purley farmer, lumber mill owner, merchant)
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