181:. He was the son of Milton Gold, a farmer, and Martha Fortune Gold. His grandfather, Daniel Gold, had moved to North Carolina from Virginia in 1798. He worked on his family's farm until he was twenty, when he borrowed money to attend college. Gold studied law and received his law license in 1856. Gold worked as an attorney at a law firm in
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