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Document Details


Title: Reminiscences of M. A. Higdon
RLIN number: NXCP88-A68
Document type: Oral history
Accessibility: Free Only
Repository: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
Collection: Continental Group Project
Description: Importance of forest products industry to North Carolina; family history; growing up in North Carolina; early connection with paper industry; early paper mills; art of papermaking; job safety; assessment of Gair and Fort Wayne operations; Continental Can merger; expansion prospects at Port Wentworth; supervision of Hopewell plant; new products work at Augusta; management organization of Continental Can.
Extent: Transcript: 99 leaves, Tape: 1 reel
Restrictions: Access: Written permission required from Continental Group. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for inforamtion.
Original Language: English
Time span: Not indicated ... to 1975 (Year of interview)
Speaker: Higdon, M. A., 1914-
Speaker date of birth: 1914
Speaker occupation: Production manager
Age at speaking: 61
Document date: 1975
Interviewer: Nackman, Mark E.
Topics discussed - ASP terms: Consolidation and merger of corporations
Topics discussed - Other terms: Continental Can Company, Inc; Factory management; Higdon, M. A., 1914-; Paper containers; Paper industry and trade; Supervisors, Industrial
ASP release: 2005-06
Document code: OHI0020248-15690