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William E. Lindsay

William E. Lindsay was a hosiery manufacturer in West End, the mill village that became Carrboro. In 1902 he and his partners chartered the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company, named for his wife, and with Isaac W. Pritchard he ran it on the second floor of Thomas Lloyd's Alberta Cotton Mill before they moved to their own building on the street later named for him.

Source: The Alamance Gleaner, March 4, 1902

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  1. The state charters the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company at West End The secretary of state issued a charter to the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company, formed by W. R. Lloyd, T. J. Hogan, John Lloyd and W. E. Lindsay to make hosiery. The company began on $6,500 in stock, with leave to raise it to $15,000. People: William E. LindsayDigitalNC: The News & Observer (Raleigh), March 4, 1902, p. 5
  2. A Christian Church congregation is organized in Chapel Hill The Christian Church congregation later called United Congregational Christian Church was organized in Chapel Hill and built its church in 1914. People: William E. LindsaySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 303
  3. The Blanche Hosiery Mill Company is chartered again with $100,000 in authorized capital Four years after Julian Carr's company bought the first Blanche mill, W. E. Lindsay, Blanche Gilbert Lindsay and W. S. Robertson took out a new charter for the Blanche Hosiery Mill Company. By late April its new plant was finished, with 58 knitting machines and work for about 40 hands. People: William E. LindsaySearch the index · DigitalNC: The News & Observer (Raleigh), March 9, 1913, p. 19

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