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John Wesley Hanes

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John Wesley Hanes

Birth
Davie County, North Carolina, USA
Death
22 Sep 1903 (aged 53)
Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
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John Wesley Hanes owned a Winston-Salem, NC tobacco company in partnership with his brother Pleasant Henderson Hanes. They sold the business to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and in 1901 John Hanes founded Shamrock Mills to manufacture stockings. The company later changed its name to Hanes Hosiery Mills which over the years became a major international operation and one of the world's largest producers of hosiery and underwear. The John Wesley Hanes and Anna Hodgin Hanes Foundation was established for charitable purposes.
Children
Daisy Hanes (b. 1880)
Alexander Stephen Hanes (1881-1944)
Frederick Moir Hanes (1883-1946)
James Gordon Hanes (1886-1972)
Robert March Hanes (1890-1959)
John Wesley Hanes, II (1892-1987)
Edward Hanes (b. 1892) (twin)
Ralph Phillip Hanes (b. 1892) (twin)
Lucy Hodgin Hanes (1895-1949)
John Wesley Hanes owned a Winston-Salem, NC tobacco company in partnership with his brother Pleasant Henderson Hanes. They sold the business to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and in 1901 John Hanes founded Shamrock Mills to manufacture stockings. The company later changed its name to Hanes Hosiery Mills which over the years became a major international operation and one of the world's largest producers of hosiery and underwear. The John Wesley Hanes and Anna Hodgin Hanes Foundation was established for charitable purposes.
Children
Daisy Hanes (b. 1880)
Alexander Stephen Hanes (1881-1944)
Frederick Moir Hanes (1883-1946)
James Gordon Hanes (1886-1972)
Robert March Hanes (1890-1959)
John Wesley Hanes, II (1892-1987)
Edward Hanes (b. 1892) (twin)
Ralph Phillip Hanes (b. 1892) (twin)
Lucy Hodgin Hanes (1895-1949)

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