Record #:

17255

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

Herman Cone came to America from Bavaria in 1845, settling first in Virginia, then in Tennessee where his thirteen children were born. Lawrence recounts the lives of brothers Caesar and Moses Cone, who were industrialists and philanthropists. Following successful business ventures in other sections of the country, the brothers opened a textile mill in Greensboro in the late 1890s that within a decade grew to be the largest cotton mill in the South and the largest denim manufacturing mill in the world.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 5, July 1939, p1-2, por

Subject(s):

Textile industry--Greensboro