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Object Description
Interview no. | C-0120 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | C.9. Notable North Carolinians: B. Everett Jordan Project |
Project description | Interviews, 1970-1993, conducted by Ben F. Bulla chiefly for his book Textiles and Politics: The Life of B. Everett Jordan: From Saxapahaw to the United States Senate (1992). Interviewees are family members, friends, political associates, business associates, and employees of Jordan. There are also background materials, drafts of some chapters, and a complete unedited version of the book manuscript. |
Date | November 8, 1982 |
Interviewee | Davis, Archie K. |
Interviewee occupation |
Historians Bank employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1911 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bulla, Ben F. |
Abstract | Archie K. Davis, a successful banker (see interview C-0039), was a good friend of B. Everett Jordan and at one point served on his board of directors. Topics include how he first to came to know Jordan, and Jordan's borrowing of money to construct a dam; Jordan's business and sales philosophy, and his love of the textile industry; his relationship with the board and tendency towards independent decision-making; his sons and their role in the business; Jordan and Luther Hodges; his personality and political and moral principles; and Katherine Jordan. |
Subject Topical | North Carolina--Biography. |
Subject Name |
Jordan, B. Everett (Benjamin Everett) Davis, Archie K. |
Citation | Interview with Archie K. Davis by Ben F. Bulla, 8 November 1982. C-0120 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | C-0120 |