Felix Addor - A Remarkable Life Traditional Cache
Felix Addor - A Remarkable Life
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Unfortunately, this area only lends itself to a micro and some stealth will be needed. Like my other cache about Demus Taylor (GC2A0BP), this cache is meant to recognize and celebrate one of the many forgotten characters who helped make Moore County what it is today.
The Following was reprinted from 'The State' magazine (Nov. 7, 1942):
Moore County, down in the sandhills, is a quaint county... You may stuble upon almost anyone within its borders... While down in tiny Addor, tucked away in the heart of the hills, lives one of the quaintest characters to be found outside of the pages of Dickens - Felix Addor, a native of Switzerland.
His story is so filled with romance that it savors fiction rather than fact. Go back to 1870 when Prince Bismark, the "Iron Chancellor" crushed the power of France at Sedan and formed the German empire. At that time, the father of our Felix was Generalissimo of the Swiss Army, undertaking the task of maintaining the traditional neutrality of the country. Moreover, a brother became Chancellor, or Secretary of State of the Swiss Republic! His first cousin, Gustav Addor, was president of the International Red Cross.
But Felix himself did not persue the path to power; in lieu thereof, he became distinguished as a caterer, a chef, a restauranteur. He served as caterer to Isabella when that monarch sat upon the throne of Spain. He visited the court of the Czar of all the Russias, where he was entertained by the unfortunate Nicholas himself!
Emigrating to America, he operated a large hotel in Atlantic City; thereafter becoming personal chef to President Thomas A. Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad; and tutor of Scott's sons. In this capacity, he escorted them when they made the grand tour of Europe, and he taught them languages - for Felix was fluent in five tongues!
When he retired, he came to Carolina with is nephew, finding a home in the heart of the hills at Keyser, a little way station on the Seaboard. Sir William Blackstone said that a corperation has no soul, but he was wrong, for when the nephew of Felix volunteered for service in the World War, and was the first soldier from Moore County to fall in that conflict, the Seaboard patriotically changed the name of the station form Keyser to Addor, and in its vicinity, Felix can still be found.
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