Webb store (later Sharp-Coleman Company)

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1. July 18, 1904 H. W. and J. C. Webb take over the James Webb Jr. & Bro. store H. Winder Webb and J. Cheshire Webb bought the stock, trade and good will of James Webb Jr. & Bro. from the estates of its late partners and put up their own sign at the old stand on Churton Street. The old firm was dissolved except for collecting its debts, which John Cox Webb took in hand. People: James Webb Jr., H. Winder Webb Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 21, 1904, p. 3
2. by April 2, 1925 Hillsboro's old Webb store is sold and becomes the Sharp-Coleman Company The Webb store in Hillsboro, held by the Webb family since the Revolutionary War according to the Weekly, was sold to C. M. Sharp and H. G. Coleman, who had clerked there, to be run as the Sharp-Coleman Company, a corporation capitalized at $34,000. The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 2, 1925, p. 1

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