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Register of the Records of Cannon Mills, 1836-1983

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Descriptive Summary

Title

Records of Cannon Mills, 1836-1983

Creator

Cannon Mills

Extent

160 Linear feet
Approximately 63,000 items

Repository

Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185

Language

English.

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

However, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.

Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.

Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.

Use Restrictions

The copyright interests in the Cannon Mills Records have not been transferred to Duke University. For further information, see the section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Records of Cannon Mills, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Processing Information

Processed by Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Staff

Encoded by Gabriela A. Montoya

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

Processing Note: The pre-processing arrangement of these surviving records was also random. The company had stored parts of their earlier records in various places, and either the major part of its archives had never been stored or else had been discarded. Thus, retention, storage, and retrieval for this collection were all random. The result was a jigsaw puzzle that had to be both designed and assembled during processing.

The provenance of the files was greatly disturbed, and the structure and location of many files in the company's offices is unclear. Effort has been made to assign files to series appropriate to the office or constituent company to which they belonged, but, in many cases, filing represents a processing decision rather than known provenance.

The executive office files are a particular case of mixed provenance. The five series for 1950, 1952, 1970, 1971, and 1979 remain in their original arrangement, but where they were kept in the company's main office is not clear. Correspondence of major executives is in these files, but letters for the same individuals are also in other series. The Executive Office Files Series, 1923-1980, is largely a repository of records for which reconstitution of provenance required undue time and effort. The term "Executive Office Files" was adopted in order to indicate that these files usually represent the higher levels of the managerial structure.

Each series contains one or the other or both of two form divisions: Boxed Files and Volumes; and Volumes Shelved in Numerical Sequence. The Boxed Files and Volumes are mostly files, but some volumes are included, usually for better preservation. The Volumes Shelved in Numerical Sequence are mostly account books, many of them too large for housing in boxes.

Printed publications removed from the collection are partial files of "Cotton's Week," "Kiplinger Agricultural Letter," "Kiplinger Tax Letter," "Kiplinger Washington Letter," Whaley- Eaton Services "American Letter" and "Foreign Letter," "Textile Hi-Lights," "Textile Trends," Babson's "Weekly Staff Letter," "Gallagher President's Report," "The Corporate Shareholder," and the "Seidman News Bulletin."

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Biographical Note

1836-1861	Cannon family associated with Concord Steam Manufacturing Co., Concord, N.C.
1852	James William Cannon born in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
1886	J. W. Cannon elected director of Odell Manufacturing Co., Concord, N.C.
1868	J. W. Cannon joined mercantile firm of Cannon, Fetzer, and Wadsworth, Concord, N.C.
1887	J. W. Cannon founded Concord Manufacturing Co.
1892	Charles Albert Cannon born, Concord, N.C.
1893	Cabarrus Cotton Mills founded at Concord, N.C., by J. W. Cannon and others.
1893	Patterson Manufacturing Co. founded at China Grove, Rowan Co., N.C., by J. Frank Patterson, J. W. Cannon, and others.
1895	Kesler Manufacturing Co. founded at Salisbury, N.C.
1898	Cannon production shifted from cloth to towels.
1898	Wiscassett Mills Company founded at Albemarle, Stanly County, N.C., by J. W. Cannon and D. F. Cannon.
1899	Windemere Knitting Mills established at Albemarle, Stanly County, N.C.
1899	Gibson Manufacturing Co. founded at Concord, N.C., by Cannons and others.
1903	Bloomfield Manufacturing Co. founded in 1903 at Statesville, N.C.
1903	Windemere Knitting Mills became part of Wiscassett Mills Co.
1906	Franklin Cotton Mills established at Concord, N.C., by members of the Cannon family.
1907	Barringer Manufacturing Company founded.
1908	Cannon Manufacturing Company began production at Kannapolis, N.C.
1909	Imperial Cotton Mills founded at Eatonton, Georgia, by J. W. Cannon.
1911	Buck Creek Cotton Mills founded at Siluria, Ala.
1913	York Cotton Mills, York, S.C., purchased.
1915	Norcott Mills Co. established at Concord, N.C., with the Cannons and the Southern Power Co. among the early stockholders.
ca. 1915	Social Circle Cotton Mill Co., Walton County, Georgia, acquired by the Cannons.
1921	J. W. Cannon died. Charles Albert Cannon became company president.
1923	Hobarton Manufacturing Co. founded at Concord, N.C., by Charles A. Cannon and others.
1923	Swink Manufacturing Co., Rowan Co., N.C., incorporated.
1928	Cannon Mills formed from consolidation of Cannon Manufacturing Co., Cabarrus Cotton Mills, Barringer Manufacturing Co., Franklin Cotton mills, Gibson Manufacturing Co., Kesler Manufacturing Co., Patterson Manufacturing Co., Norcott Mills., and Hobarton Manufacturing Co.
ca. 1928	Bloomfield Manufacturing Co., Statesville, N.C., acquired by Cannon Mills.
1931	Swink Manufacturing Company dissolved and assets taken over by Cannon and Swink.
1935	Issaqueena Mill, Central, S.C., purchased and became Central Mills.
1935	Bloomfield Manufacturing Co. sold to J. W. Abernethy.
ca. 1944-1945	Plant at York, S.C., combined with Central Mills.
1947	Brown-Roberta Foundation established at Concord, N.C.
1949	Travora Textiles at Graham and Haw River, N.C., incorporated.
1956	Brown Manufacturing Co., Concord, N.C., acquired by Cannon Mills.
1956	Roberta Manufacturing Co., Cabarrus County, N.C., acquired.
1957	Central Mills closed.
1967	Travora Textiles at Graham and Haw River, N.C., liquidated.
ca 1970-1971	Brown Manufacturing Co., Concord, N.C., closed.
1971	Charles Albert Cannon died.
1971	Don S. Holt became president.
1974	Harold P. Hornaday became president.
1976	Imperial Cotton Mills at Eatonton, Georgia closed.
1978	Roberta Manufacturing Co. liquidated.
1979	Otto G. Stolz became president.
1982	David H. Murdock, purchased Cannon Mills.
1983	Social Circle Cotton Mill Co., Walton County, Georgia, liquidated.
1985-1986	Fieldcrest, Inc. purchased bath and bedding operations of Cannon Mills, and Fieldcrest-Cannon was established.

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Collection Overview

The records of Cannon Mills, a textile manufacturer, span the years 1836-1983, although the bulk occurs during 1887-1983. Files and account books concern the operations of Cannon Manufacturing Company and its successor in 1928, Cannon Mills, its subsidiary and associated textile mills, related business interests, and community involvement. The records include correspondence, volumes, memoranda, statistical compilations, reports, printed material, and financial and legal documents.

In 1898 Cannon Manufacturing Company switched to towel manufacturing, and in later years the product line expanded into blankets. In 1971 sales exceeded $305 million, and the company dominated over 50% of the country's towel business and over 20% of the sheet business.

Important topics include the textile industry, economic conditions related to the textile industry, textile marketing and sales, state and national textile industry associations and public and governmental relations; textile industry consolidation; textile equipment and manufacturers; textile production and costs; an antebellum textile mill; and the Cannon, Patterson, Swink, Odell, Barringer, Johnston, Murdoch, and other families who were owners and managers of one or more of the textile mills.

Topics and materials related to personnel are millworkers (both men and women), child labor (both girls and boys), employee retirement plans, the Textile Workers Union of America, time books, employee injuries, company mercantile stores, and mill houses and villages.

Other business activities involved building construction, architects, and contractors; investment in securities and commodities; advertising; taxation; stock and stockholders (both men and women); corporate directors; insurance; bankruptcy and bad debts; cotton brokers; cotton buying and the cotton market; dividends; banks and banking; mill superintendents' records; real estate; lawsuits, one involving racial discrimination; and estate settlements.

Community relations are evident in records relating to churches, schools, the Y.M.C.A., Freemasons, philanthropy to local organizations, and secondary boarding schools in North Carolina and the inception of agricultural training for boys and home economics for girls. The city of Kannapolis, N.C., in which the main offices of Cannon were located, was a particular focus of company interest.

There are record series for the nine companies that were consolidated in 1928 to form Cannon Mills: Cannon Manufacturing Company, Cabarrus Cotton Mills, Barringer Manufacturing Company, Franklin Cotton Mills, Gibson Manufacturing Company, Kesler Manufacturing Company, Patterson Manufacturing Company, Norcott Mills Company, and Hobarton Manufacturing Company. These mills were all in the western Piedmont of North Carolina.

A number of other mills, owned by or associated with the Cannons or Cannon Mills, had a separate existence in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Those mills, represented in this collection by series, include Central Mills, Central, S.C.; Bloomfield Manufacturing Co., Statesville, N.C.; Brown Manufacturing Co., Concord, N.C.; Roberta Manufacturing Co., Cabarrus County, N.C.; Imperial Cotton Mills, Eatonton, Georgia; Social Circle Cotton Mills, Walton County, Georgia, Swink Manufacturing Company, Rowan County, N.C.; Travora Textiles, Graham and Haw River, N.C.; Windemere Knitting Mills, Albemarle, N.C.; and Wiscassett Mills, Albemarle, N.C. Other mills, not represented here by series, were related to the Cannon group, and information about them occasionally appears in the collection. These firms include: Amazon Cotton Mills, Thomasville, N.C.; Durham Hosiery Mills; Efird Manufacturing Co., Albemarle, N.C.; Tuscarora Cotton Mill, Mt. Pleasant, N.C.; Buck Creek Cotton Mills, Siluria, Ala.; and Paola Cotton Mills, Statesville, N.C.

Basic information about these textile mills can be found in the annual volumes of Davidson's Textile Blue Book. The size and products of many of the factories varied over the years.

The huge Cannon corporation also had related business interests and community involvements that are represented by organizations and record series in this collection. They include: Cannon Mills, Inc., the selling agency in New York City; Cannon of West Coast, Inc.; L. T. Barringer and Co., a cotton brokerage firm in Memphis, Tennessee; the Brown-Roberta Foundation, a community philanthropy; J. A. Skipwith and Co., cotton brokers at Concord, N.C.; Klumac Cotton Mills, Salisbury, N.C.; P. M. Morris Real Estate Company, Concord, N.C.; Rowan County Farm Life School; and the Trading and Commission Company, a selling agency and holding company.

The series in this collection represent executives, offices, a department, subsidiary companies, affiliated companies, and related businesses and organizations. The general arrangement of the 47 series is: reference information; members of the Cannon family; executive offices; executives; a department; and numerous companies, businesses, and organizations, these arranged mostly alphabetically.

The surviving files and volumes represent only a small percentage of the original archives. Some parts of the company have considerable papers in this collection, but no series is anywhere near complete. Some series are quite small. Record survival was random, but many important and useful files and account books are available.

Information about particular topics, companies, and individuals is often scattered in a number of series in this collection, and the container list serves as a guide to many of them. It should be remembered that company activities may be reflected by bookkeeping entries in the account books whether or not relevant files are available. Because of the interlocking relationships of the various companies, information about one firm may not be exclusive to its own series.

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Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

Textile industry.
Real estate business--North Carolina.
Textile workers--Southern States.
Investments.
Decedents' estates--North Carolina.
Freemasonry--North Carolina.
Stock ownership.
Industrial life insurance.
Banks and banking.
Cotton trade.
Corporations--Charitable contributions--North Carolina.
Agricultural education--North Carolina.
Home economics, Rural--North Carolina.
Public relations--Corporations.
Construction industry--Southern States.
Labor and laboring classes--Southern States.
United States--Economic conditions.
North Carolina--Industries.
South Carolina--Industries.
Georgia--Industries.
Alabama--Industries.
Tennessee--Commerce.
New York (N.Y.)--Commerce.
Kannapolis (N.C.)--Commerce.
Young Men's Christian Association of Kannapolis, N.C.
Cannon, James William, 1852-1921.
Cannon, Charles Albert, 1892-1971.

List of Series in Collection

Information Series

James William Cannon Series

Charles Albert Cannon Series

Eugene Thomas Cannon Series

Martin Luther Cannon Series

Secretaries' Office Series

Executive Office Files Series

Executive Office Files, 1950, Series

Executive Office Files, 1952, Series

Executive Office Files, 1970, Series

Executive Office Files, 1971, Series

Executive Office Files, 1979, Series

Harold P. Hornaday Series

Joseph C. Ridenhour Series

Hearne Swink Series

Cotton Department Series

Cannon Manufacturing Company Series

Cannon Mills, Inc., Series

Cannon Mills Plant at York, SC., Series

Cannon of West Coast, Inc., Series

Central Mills Series

Inventory of the Robert L. Eichelberger Papers, 1728-1998 (bulk 1942-1949)

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Inventory of the Robert L. Eichelberger Papers, 1728-1998 (bulk 1942-1949)

List of Series in Collection
	Diaries, 1909-1961 (bulk 1940s-1950s)
	Correspondence, 1872-1962 (bulk 1942-1949)
	Military Papers, 1912-1960, undated (bulk 1942-1948)
	Writings and Speeches Series, 1909-1984, undated (bulk 1945-1960)
	Chiefly material about Eichelberger's army service. Arranged into subseries: Chronological, Subject, Press Releases, Dictation, and Published Works.
		Chronological Subseries
		Subject Subseries
		Press Releases Subseries
		Dictation Subseries
		Published Works Subseries
	Pictures Series, 1872-1984 (bulk 1942-1948).
	Printed Material Series, 1893-1962 (bulk 1946-1960).
	Clippings Series, 1918-1984 (bulk 1945-1955).
	Miscellaneous Series, 1911-1971, undated (bulk 1945-1960).
	Oversize Materials
	Accession #1999-0167, 1998

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Contract File, 1914-1922 (2 folders)

Correspondence:

1888-1915

1916: C, M, P, W (4 folders)

1917: C, M (2 folders)

Box 4

Correspondence:

1917: P, S, W (2 folders)

1918: C, M, P, W (4 folders)

1919: C, M, P, W (4 folders)

1919-1921 and undated

Estate of Aaron J. Bost (Uncle of Mrs. J. W. Cannon):

Will, 1916

Appraisal, 1919

Cashbook, 1919-1921

Cashbook for Stocks and Bonds, 1920-1921

Correspondence, 1918-1921 and undated

Box 5

Estate of Aaron J. Bost (Uncle of Mrs. J. W. Cannon):

Final Account and Settlement, 1921

Financial Papers and Memoranda, 1918-1922 and undated (3 folders)

Ledger, 1920-1921

Ledger of Farm Sales, 1920-1921

Ledger of Stock Sales, 1920-1921, and Related Correspondence, 1919-1921

Taxes, 1920-1922

Efird Manufacturing Company:

Financial Statement, 1916, and List of Stockholders, 1919

Estate of James William Cannon, 1922

Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, New York City, 1917, July-Dec.

Box 6

Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, New York City:

1918, Jan.-1919, Sept. (7 folders)

1919, Oct.-1920, Jan. 1920; 1921, Jan.; and undated

Accounts, 1917-1921

Financial Papers (Miscellaneous):

1900-1921 and undated

Box 7

H. Hentz and Co., New York City:

1907-1909

1910-1915

1916, Jan..-Dec., 1916 (4 folders)

1917, Jan.-1917, Dec. (3 folders)

1918, Jan.-Nov., 1918, 1919-1921, and undated (2 folders)

Box 8

Investment Memoranda, 1913-1914

Investment Record Book and Memoranda, 1899-1908

Investment Record Book and Income Memoranda, 1908- 1917 (bulk, 1913-1914)

Investment Record Book, 1917-1919

J. S. Bache and Co., New York City:

1916

1917, Jan.-Dec.

1918

1919-1921

Legal Papers: Miscellaneous, 1892-1911

Life Insurance, 1908

Life Insurance Policies, 1887-1904, and Stock with H. Hentz and Co., 1907

Box 9

Memorandum Book, ca. 1920-1921

Mill House and Other Buildings Construction by Jno. R. Query, Contractor and Builder:

1911-1912

1913, May-1913, Oct. (2 folders)

1913-1914 and undated

Ledger, 1912-1914

New York Office Correspondence:

1916

1917, Jan.-Dec. (2 folders)

1918, Jan.-Dec. (2 folders)

1919

Notes Payable, 1900-1906

Box 10

Office Fixtures and Furniture, ca. 1918

Oil Industry Development, 1919-1920

Paola Cotton Mills (Statesville, N.C.):

Correspondence, 1915, June-1918 Apr. (4 folders)

Invoices, 1915-1916

Post and Flagg Account for Investments of Mary Ella Cannon, 1921

Record Book of Financial Statements and Production, Cost, Labor, and Other Statistics for Mills in Cannon System, 1888-1903 (bulk, 1901-1903)

Schafer Bros., Wall St., New York: Investment Accounts, 1915-1916

Southern Power Company, 1907

Stock Increase of 1908 and Subscriptions:

Sept., 1908

Oct., 1908

Stock Increase of 1908 and Subscriptions:

Nov., 1908-1909 and undated

Box 11

Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School, Concord, N.C., 1922

Taxes, 1913-1918

Tiffany and Co., 1919-1920

Tuscarora Cotton Mills, 1908 and undated

Charles Albert Cannon Series

Boxed Files and Volumes

Box 11

Advertising:

1941-1944 (4 folders)

Box 12

Advertising:

1945

1946

1946: Information to Submit to Schools, etc.

1947

1948

1949

1949: N. W. Ayer and Son

1949: Young and Rubicam

1950: Cannon Consumer Education Program

Box 13

Advertising:

1950: N. W. Ayer and Son

1950: Young and Rubicam

1951

1954

1955

1955: Market Research Corporation of America Report

1956: Market Research Corporation of America Reports, Jan.-April

1956: Market Research Corporation of American Reports, May-Nov.

1957: Market Research Corporation of America Reports

Box 14

Allice Manufacturing Company, Easley, S.C., 1955

American Cotton Manufacturers Association:

Dr. Jules Backman, 1944-1946

American Cotton Manufacturers Institute:

1953

1956 (2 folders)

American Textile Manufacturers Institute:

Special Cotton Policy Committee, 1958- 1964 (3 folders)

Box 15

American Textile Manufacturers Institute:

Special Cotton Policy Committee, 1971 and undated

Amortization of Machinery and Girls Dormitory:

1917-1923

Crompton and Knowles Loom Works, 1917-1918

Dormitories, 1918-1924

Record of Invoices, 1919-1921

Schedule of Amortized Property by Ernst and Ernst, 1920

Annual Banquet Menu, 1925

Cannon, Laura (Mrs. Charles E. Lambeth), undated

Cannon, William Coltrane, 1953

Committee for a National Trade Policy, 1953

Concord Steam Manufacturing Company:

Minutes,

1836-1861 (Typescript)

Consolidation of 1928:

Agreement of Consolidation

Box 16

Consolidation of 1928:

Audit Reports, 1927, by Haskins and Sells

Barringer Manufacturing Company, Special Meeting of Stockholders, July 5, 1928

Cabarrus Cotton Mills, Redemption of Preferred Stock

Cabarrus Cotton Mills, Special Meeting of Stockholders, 1928, July 5,

Cannon Manufacturing Co., Special Meeting of Stockholders, 1928, July 5,

Cannon Manufacturing Co., Stockholder Proxies, 1928, July 5, A-Y (6 folders) B

Cannon Mills Co., Exchange of Stock of Nine Mills for Its Stock

Cannon Mills Co., Redemption of Preferred Stock

Deposit Agreement, Purchase Contract, and Related Correspondence

Financial Statements, Letters and Printed Material 1927-1928

Gibson Manufacturing Co., Redemption of Preferred Stock

Gibson Manufacturing Co., Special Meeting of Stockholders, 1928, July 5

Hobarton Manufacturing Co., Special Meeting of Stockholders, 1928, July 5

Kesler Manufacturing Co., Special Meeting of Stockholders, 1928, July 5

Box 17

Consolidation of 1928:

Norcott Mills Co., Special Meeting of Stockholders, 1928, July 5

Notices in Newspapers

Notices to Stockholders

Patterson Manufacturing Co., Special Meeting of Stockholders, 1928, July 5

Purchase and Sale of Fractional Shares of Stock

Receipts for Stock of Cannon Manufacturing Co. and Authorization for Dividend Payments, 1928, Nos. 2-293

Receipts for Stock of Cannon Manufacturing Co. and Authorization for Dividend Payments, 1928, Nos. 300-651

Stock Dividend and Exchange of Stock of Cabarrus Cotton Mills and Norcott Mills

Stock of Mrs. Adelaide Cannon Blair (Mrs. David H. Blair), J. Barnette Douglass, Adelaide C. Douglass, David H. Blair, Jr.

Stock of Mrs. Ashlyn L. Cannon (Mrs. J. Ross Cannon), J. W. Cannon, III, and Ashlyn L. Cannon

Stock of Charles A. Cannon

Stock of Charles A. Cannon, Fractions Bought and Sold, 1928, June-1929, May (5 folders)

Box 18

Consolidation of 1928:

Stock of Charles A. Cannon, Shares Bought from Safe

Deposit and Trust Co.

Stock of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Cannon

Stock of J. Ross Cannon

Stock of Mrs. Mary E. Cannon

Stock of Mrs. Ruth C. Cannon

Stockholders' Lists for the Nine Mills at Cease of Business, 5 P.M., 1928, June 20

Stockholders' Original Lists for the Nine Mills at Close of Business, 1928, June 30

Correspondence (Including Financial Papers), 1918- 1926, 1930

Correspondence:

March, 1938

March, 1938 (G. A. Batte, Secretary to C. A. Cannon)

1946-1967 and undated

Electric Power, 1923-1926

Employment Inquiry, 1920

Estate of James William Cannon: Executive vs. Collector of Internal Revenue:

Statement of Plaintiffs, 1925

Answer of Defendant, 1926

Petition and Exhibit B

Complete Report Investigation of James W. Cannon, Jack E. Buckley, Special Accountant

Exhibits R and AA-DD List and Exhibit AA

Exhibits BB, CC, and DD

Box 19

Estate of James William Cannon: Executors vs. Collector of Internal Revenue:

Figures for Consideration in Any Negotiations

Franklin Cotton Mills' Accounts with H. Hentz and Co., New York, 1916-1918 (3 folders)

Franklin Cotton Mills' Accounts with J. S. Bache and Co., New York, 1917-1918

Information on Franklin Cotton Mills, 1916-1927, Furnished to Walter G. Mitchell, Special Accountant, 1927

List of Correspondence and Reports

List of Records and Papers

Memoranda

Memoranda and Auditors' Report Papers Returned by Cansler and Cansler, Attorneys at Law, 1929 (2 folders)

Report of Walter G. Mitchell, Special Accountant, 1927

Stock of Mrs. M. E. Cannon

Estate of Ella Lowe Smith

Box 20

Estate Records of Thomas T. Smith, Jr., (Former Secretary of Cannon Manufacturing Co.), C. A. Cannon, Co-Executor:

1917-1940 (bulk 1930s) (6 folders)

Volumes

Goldman Sachs and Co., 1956

Halifax Cotton Mills, South Boston, Va., 1923-1924

Index to Inactive Subject Files Filed in WarehouseYear Ending Dec. 31, 1941

Insurance:

Family Policies, 1943

Jordan, Senator B. Everett: 1960, 1970-1971, (Photocopies from Jordan Papers)

Box 21

Klumac Cotton Mills, Salisbury, N.C.:

1933-1934

1936

Labor Troubles at Concord, undated (1900-1920s)

Lever Brothers, 1953

Life Magazine, 1954

Masons: Stokes Lodge No. 32, Concord, N.C.:

1918-1933

1934

Repurchase Agreement with R. L. Burrage, 1934-1944

Mecklenburg Mills Company, Salisbury, N.C.:

Letter, 1923, and Audit Report and Balance Sheet for 1922

Men of Achievement, Inc., 1952

Military Service Exemption, 1917

Monument Mills, Inc., New York, 1954

National Cotton Council:

1953

Projected Foreign Trade Program, 1955

Projected Production and Marketing Program, 1955

Projected Sales Promotion Program, 1955

Box 22

News Clippings, 1932 and undated

Niblock, F. C., Loan, 1931-1945

Norfolk and Western Railway Company:

Financial Statement, 1916, July-Dec.

Odell Manufacturing Company:

Minutes, 1879-1899 (Typescript)

Minutes, 1899-1902, with Data, 1890-1897, on New England Mills Appended (Typescript)

Personal Files:

1921, A-Y (4 folders)

Pope, J. B., Loan Papers, 1927-1941

Rates Paid Per Week to Employees by Categories, 1922, Oct.-Nov. Southern Elevator Company:

Elevator at Cannon Residence, 1955

Box 23

Spindle-Hours Operated at Cannon Mills, 1954

Spindle-Hours and Loom-Hours Operated at Amazon, Central, Imperial, Social Circle, and Wiscassett Mills, 1954

Stock Sales and Purchases, 1920

Stock Transfers: James H. Dooley, 1924

Stocks of Wiscassett Mills, Cannon Mills, etc., 1925-1947

Stribling vs. Cannon Mills et al.:

Memorandum of Agreement between William A. Stribling, Cotton Buying and Receiving Agent at Atlanta, and M. L. Cannon, 1925, May 29 1928-1930 (3 folders)

Cabarrus Cotton Mills, 1925-1927 (2 folders)

Box 24

Stribling vs. Cannon Mills, et al.:

Durham Hosiery Mills, 1925-1929

Imperial Cotton Mills, 1926-1930 (2 folders)

Surplus and Depreciation, 1926

Taxation:

Federal Tax Litigation, 1928

Textile Committee on Public Relations:

1950

Companies Not Responding, 1952

Companies Not Participating, 1952

Companies Paying Dues, 1952 (Folders 1-2)

Box 25

Textile Committee on Public Relations:

Companies Paying Dues, 1952 (Folders 3- 4)

Companies Possibly Participating, 1952

Correspondence, 1951, Feb.-Nov. (5 folders)

Box 26

Textile Committee on Public Relations:

Correspondence, 1951, Dec.-1953, Jan. (13 folders)

Box 27

Textile Committee on Public Relations:

Financial Reports, 1951-1952

Fall Meeting, 1952, Oct. 21

Information, 1951 (2 folders)

Meetings, 1948-1950

Meetings, 1951, March-Dec., (4 folders)

Membership Lists, 1951-1953

Reports, 1951-1953

Box 28

Textile Committee on Public Relations:

Subscribers, 1951-1952

Subscription Cards, 1951 (2 folders)

Subscription Letters, 1950-1951

Subscription Letters, 1952, Feb.-June 19 (2 folders)

Box 29

Textile Committee on Public Relations:

Subscriptions, 1951, June 20-1951, Dec. (4 folders)

Valdese, N.C., Water and Sewer Bonds, 1932

Weaving Loom-Hours Operated, 1954

Weekly Order Reports, 1954

Volumes Shelved in Numerical Sequence

Volume 1

Charles Albert Cannon: Dividends

Received, 1933-1938 (bulk, 1933-1937); Interest

Received, 1933-1938 (bulk, 1933-1937); Cash

Receipts and Disbursements, 1921, Dec.-1932, Dec.

Volume 2

Ledger Prepared in 1928 for Estates of James William Cannon as Security Record of Securities Investments, 1913-1920, of James William Cannon and Mary Ella Bost Cannon

Eugene Thomas Cannon Series

Boxed Files

Box 30

Bank of Asheville:

Bank Statements, 1947-1948

Correspondence, 1947

Correspondence of Mrs. Eugene T. Cannon, 1946-1954 (4 folders)

Davidson Cotton Mills:

Letter, 1936, and Certificate of Incorporation and Minutes of Stockholders and Directors, 1923-1938

Estate of James William Cannon:

Will, 1921

Court Documents, 1923-1941 (2 folders)

Financial Reports of Trustees, 1926-1945 (4 folders)

Trust Accounts and Papers with City Bank Farmers Trust Company, 1938-1944

Box 31

Estate of Joseph F. Cannon:

Accounts, 1939

Estate of Mary Ella (Bost) Cannon (Mrs. James William Cannon):

Will, 1923-1937

Court Documents, 1938-1945

Trust Papers with City Bank Farmers Trust Company, 1923-1938

Eugene T. Cannon vs. Appalachian Hall, Inc., etc., 1942-1943, 1948

Taxes, 1937-1944 (4 folders)

Martin Luther Cannon Series

Box 31

Information Folder

Martin Luther Cannon's Insurance Agency Ledger, 1907-1918

Boxed Files and Volumes

Box 32