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Moses H. Cone |
"It is [accurate] to state that the prosperous city of Greensboro is more largely indebted to Moses H. Cone for the marvelous growth of the past fifteen years than to any other man....The county of Watauga, in western North Carolina, was also touched by the wand of his inspiring skill and constructive genius. Seventeen years ago he purchased, near Blowing Rock, in the county, a large boundary of land on which he built a magnificent home. His orchards and vineyard...have won prizes and fame. The improvements, the methods and the model work of his farm have taught and stimulated the whole county. His contribution to good roads and good schools--those twin movements without which no county or state can go forward--made him the idol in that county, in whose bosom he sleeps today. (1905. Ashe, Samuel. A Biographical History of North Carolina..., Vol. VIII, pp. 113, 114.) "Without training or experience or help save that of his brother, he dropped his case of grocery samples in 1890, and within a dozen years controlled more spindles and looms and dollars than any other man between the Potomac and the Rio Grande. And with it all he did not worship the almighty dollar. Money for the sake and name of money with him was not an object. He wrought and toiled for the mere sake of doing and achieving something better. (1905. Ashe, Samuel. A Biographical History of North Carolina..., Vol. VIII, p. 114.) |
| Bibliography Ashe, Samuel, ed. Biographical History of North Carolina, Vol. 8. Greensboro, NC: Charles L. Van Noppen, 1905.
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