Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; (1916)
Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917, Foster, E. Everton, Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858 · Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company · leaf 496
racted by an unusual opportunity for investment in a manufac-turing site on Deep River in the County of Randolph, at a place then knownas Columbia and subsequently as Ramseur. With J. S. Spencer, of Char-lotte, N. C, and W. E. Capil, he purchased this mill property and organizedthe Columbia… … L (^-i OF THE UNITED STATES. 311 Mr. Watkins, who, from the organization of the company, had been itsactive secretary, treasurer and general manager, as well as its largest stock-holder. At this writing (1916) the company operates 340 looms and 11,072spindles, all devoted to the fabrication of…
Textile industry -- United States · Industrialists
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