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Branch, Alpheus
by Ryan Floyd, 2015, North Carolina State University; Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, January 2023
7 May 1843-3 Jan.
1893
Alpheus Branch, a Halifax County merchant, banker, and manufacturer, is best known for his role in creating North Carolina’s Branch Banking and Trust Company, or BB&T.
Alpheus branch biography books
He also played a significant role in the recovery of North Carolina’s economic stability after the Civil War when he and Thomas Jefferson Hadley opened the Branch and Hadley bank in 1872 in Wilson County, North Carolina. Banks like Branch and Hadley were essential to the farmers and the local community because they could provide farmers the means to borrow money to buy seed and fertilizer.
Branch was born in Halifax County, North Carolina on May 7, 1843.
Branch’s father, Samuel Warren Branch, had inherited a plantation from Alpheus’s grandfather, John Branch Sr. (father of John Branch Jr., the