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Located in Henderson, Harriet and Henderson Yarns, Inc. is one of the country's largest spinners of yarn for cotton apparel. Owned for a century by the Cooper family, it is the state's thirteenth largest privately held company.
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Rogers recounts the life of Edward Holt, planter and pioneer manufacturer of colored textiles in the South.
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Park discusses what cotton growing and the cotton industry mean to the welfare and progress of North Carolina. Around one-and-half million people are dependent on this one industry alone.
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Marshall Y. Cooper, Jr. is president and treasurer of Harriet & Henderson Yarns, Inc., located in the town of Henderson in Vance County. His grandfather was one of the original investors in the company in 1895, and a Cooper has headed the business since then. We the People of North Carolina magazine features Cooper in their Businessman In the News section.
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H.K. Hallett was born and raised in Reading, Massachusetts; he had never seen a cotton plant, but now he is president of the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, the trade association of one of the nation's largest and most important industries.
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This article examines the development of the cotton textile industry in the Reconstruction era South. Particular attention is given to the re-imagining of a labor model, of the development of a labor force and labor legislation, and a restructuring of the Southern economy. The influence of the Northern textile industry is also discussed.