Born on this date in 1837, James Lide Coker, my 5th cousin, 4x removed.
Photo found at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12291661/james-lide-coker
He was the founder of Sonoco Products Company (not to be confused with Sunoco) and Coker University (which was Welsh Neck High School, then the Coker College for Women, now Coker University).
“He was able to hire so many people that were in desperate straits after the war that he just uplifted the progress of everybody, black and white, urban or rural. He also was a leader in racial and social progress,” Dr. Will Joslin (his great-grandson) said.
Click the video below (no sense in recreating the wheel, there are many websites and videos about him.)
Read more at
https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/3/resources/40
https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/coker-james-lide-sr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lide_Coker
Founded in 1899, Sonoco Products Company is a United States-based international provider of diversified consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packaging supply chain services and the world’s largest producer of composite cans, tubes, and cores. Wikipedia
Stock price: SON (NYSE) $60.71 +0.07 (+0.12%)
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Headquarters: Hartsville, SC
Subsidiaries: Sonoco ThermoSafe, MORE
CEO: R. Howard Coker (Feb 2020–)
Number of employees: 21,000 (2017)
Revenue: 5.237 billion USD (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)
Founder: James Lide Coker
Founded: May 10, 1899
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