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Interview no. | I-0102 |
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 | 30 January 1997 |
Interviewee | Hayworth, Joseph A. |
Interviewee occupation |
Military personnel Executives |
Interviewee DOB | 1926 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Darr, Dorothy, 1946- |
Abstract | Topics include family background--the Hayworths, in the Piedmont of North Carolina since 1750, Quaker heritage, growing up years and early jobs in the furniture industry, comments on the socialization of boys, the death of his father in 1928, race relations, black servants in the home since his mother worked at the companies after the death of his father, and Joseph's early education. During his college years at Duke University, Joseph was drafted into the military and he spent quite a bit of time discussing his war service, in which he saw action, and his return to Duke after the war. He also recalls the military service of his older brothers who preceded him and how the absence of the boys affected his mother who had become CEO of the furniture companies after the death of her husband, keeping them from bankruptcy during the Depression and guiding them to prosperity during the war years. |
Subject Topical |
Furniture industry and trade--North Carolina. Furniture industry and trade--North Carolina. Business--History. |
Citation | Interview with Joseph A. Hayworth by Dorothy Darr, 30 January 1997 I-0102, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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