Record #:

21530

Author(s):

Cain, Robert J.

Abstract:

This article looks at the career and businesses of James Sprunt, a prominent Wilmington civic leader and merchant who, between the mid-1870s and 1900, transformed his firm, Sprunt and Son, from a small trader in naval stores to the nation's largest exporter of cotton to Europe. Sprunt was appointed as North Carolina's representative to the British vice-consulate between 1884 and 1915, and then occupied an equivalent post with the German vice-consulate from 1908 to 1911. Sprunt's business ties to Germany were distasteful to the English, and Sprunt eventually was forced to resign his vice-consular post.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 2, Apr 1997, p161-181, il, por, f

Subject(s):

Sprunt, James, 1846-1924