Business Leaders
John Gary Anderson
John Gary Anderson was the founder of the Anderson Motor Company in Rock Hill, SC, which made automobiles from 1916 to 1926.
Mercer Silas Bailey
M.S. Bailey was a successful businessman in Clinton, SC, who owned two cotton mills and was active in banking and other local businesses.
Crandall Close Bowles
Bowles is the fifth generation to run Springs Industries and, as CEO, is regularly ranked among the top women executives in the country.
W. Melvin Brown, Jr.
Manufacturer
David Robert Coker
David Robert Coker was a Hartsville, SC businessman and philanthropist who founded the “Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Catalogue” in 1914.
James Lide Coker
Businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist born in Darlington, SC. Coker was educated at the Citadel and Harvard where he studied to better prepare himself for managing agricultural property.
Charles Ezra Daniel
Charles Ezra Daniel was a successful businessman and political figure in South Carolina.
Eugenia Duke
Eugenia Duke created Duke's Mayonnaise
Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott was a legislator, banker, and botanist. He is best known for his work, A Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia. The plant genus Elliottia is named after him.
Etu Evans
Shoe and accessory designer, interior design consultant, philanthropist.
William Gregg
William Gregg was the founder of the Graniteville Company, an early cotton mill in Aiken County.
Esau Jenkins
Esau Jenkins was a South Carolina African American Human Rights leader, businessman, local preacher, and community organizer.
Roger Milliken
Roger Milliken was a Spartanburg Textile magnet, Businessman, and political activist.
Darla Moore
Darla Dee Moore is an investor and philanthropist.
James C. Self
James C. Self owned several textile mills in Greenwood, SC.
Elliott White Springs
Elliott White Springs was a South Carolina businessman and an American flying ace of World War I.
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