The private stockholders of the North Carolina Railroad in annual meeting elected Thos. M. HOLT president, H.W. FRIES, R.F. HOKE, Bennohan CAMERON and Thos. M. HOLT, directors, P.B. RUFFIN, secretary and treasurer. On motion of D.W.C. BENBOW, it was resolved to erect a monument to Calvin GRAVES, who, as Speaker of the Senate, gave the casting vote in the North Carolina Senate in 1849 to build the railroad, there having been a tie in that body. — Argonaut. 

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 26 July 1889.  Available online at digitalnc.org.