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Interview no. | I-0098 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | I.2. Business History: North Carolina Business History |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1999, with leaders of traditional and emergent North Carolina industries, such as furniture, banking, tobacco products, textiles, poultry, food and food services, tourism, pharmaceuticals, computers, and steel. Interviewees describe the origins and evolution of their companies; changes and problems they confront; the impact of businesses on the communities in which they operate; and regional, national, and global developments that will affect future prospects. |
Date | 4 February 1997 |
Interviewee | Hayworth, David R. |
Interviewee occupation | Executives |
Interviewee DOB | 1928 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Darr, Dorothy, 1946- |
Abstract | Discussion of the Hayworth family in North Carolina since 1750, Quaker heritage, father's early career in furniture at the turn of the 20th century, his parents' marriage, the beginnings of the furniture history in North Carolina, growing up in High Point, Southern identity, education at Woodbury Forest School, Orange County (Va.), and college years (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, class of 1952), early jobs in the furniture industry, description of mother working in the furniture industry throughout the Depression, family background surrounding those who worked in the company business, discussion of the passing of the era of family-owned businesses, changes coming today in the furniture industry. |
Subject Topical |
Furniture industry and trade--North Carolina. Business--History. |
Citation | Interview with David R. Hayworth by Dorothy Darr, 4 February 1997 I-0098, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | I0098_Audio_1 |