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| Repository: | Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection |
| Creator: | H. Cone and Sons |
| Title: | Collection 130. H. Cone and Sons Collection, 1876 - 1976, n.d. |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University. |
| Abstract: | The H. Cone and Sons Collection contains a Cone cigar box and business papers generated by H. Cone and Sons. H. Cone and Sons, previously Cone and Adler, conducted business in Baltimore, Maryland during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Some of their enterprises were the manufacture of cigars and a wholesale grocery business. Eventually, the Cones formed a North Carolina textile company named Cone Export and Commission Company. |
| The collection consists primarily of business correspondence from 1876 to 1900. One item is dated 1976. Also included is a Cone cigar box and two notes from Ceasar Cone II. | |
| Extent: | 0.5 linear feet, 1 archival box |
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[Identification of item], Collection 130. H. Cone and Sons Collection, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
Provenance is unknown. The accession number is MCH. This collection was opened to the public on July 31, 2002.
Processed by Deborah Bell, Kathryn Staley, July 2002
Encoded by Kathryn Staley, May 2005
Adler and Cone was a merchandising business owned by Herman Cone and his brother-in-law Jacob Adler. After going into business with his sons Moses, Ceasar and Monroe, Herman renamed the business H. Cone and Sons. It primarily sold groceries but also had a component that sold cigars.
Brothers Moses and Ceasar Cone were the eldest children within the Herman and Helen Guggenheimer Cone family. Although born in Jonesborough, Tennessee, they were raised in Baltimore, Maryland with their eleven younger siblings, Albert (died at 3 months), Etta, Dr. Claribel, Clarence, Carrie, Dr. Sydney, Julius, Bernard, Solomon, Frederick, Monroe. Herman Sr., Moses, Ceasar and Monroe incorporated into H. Cone and Sons. Later in life, they became textile industrialists. The brothers established the Cone Export and Commission Company in 1890. Five years latter, they built their first cotton mill, Proximity, in Greensboro, North Carolina.Moses married the former Bertha Lindau and Ceasar married the former Jeannette Siegel.
Moses and Bertha Cone were the owners of the Flat Top Manor. The Cones were childless and Mrs. Cone willed the estate to the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro. In 1949, the hospital board donated the property to the National Park Service. The estate was named The Moses H. Cone Memorial Park and is managed by the Blue Ridge Parkway, a unit of the National Park System.
This collection is organized into two series: Correspondence and Ephemera.
| Cigar industry -- Maryland -- Baltimore |
| Cone family |
| Grocers -- Maryland -- Baltimore |
| H. Cone and Sons -- Records and correspondence |
| Collection 130B. Ephemera Series. (n.d.) | |||||||||
| Ephemera Series contains one wooden cigar box, measuring 4" x 9 3/4" x 4 3/4". Pictures of Herman Cone and sons Moses, Ceasar, and Monroe are on the inside. | |||||||||
