Record #:

10849

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Nestled in the heart of tobacco country is the nation's largest cigarette manufacturer, 92-year-old R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolds dates to 1875 when 24-year-old Richard Joshua Reynolds left his father's tobacco farm and went to Winston to set up his own tobacco business. By 1913, Reynolds controlled one-fourth of the plug tobacco business in the United States and had begun producing smoking tobacco as well, introducing the Prince Albert brand of pipe and cigarette tobacco in 1907.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 35 Issue 11, Nov 1967, p17-18, 21, il, por

Subject(s):

Reynolds, Richard Joshua (R.J.), 1850-1918