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Richard Joshua Reynolds

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Reynolds Tobacco Company

In R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
…the post-Civil War era, when Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918) began trading in tobacco, first in his native Virginia and then in Winston, N.C., where in 1875 he established his first plug factory. In 1899 the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was incorporated, with Reynolds as president. The following year it entered…
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina

In Winston-Salem
Richard Joshua Reynolds founded his tobacco company there in 1875, and tobacco still dominates the city’s diversified industry, which includes the manufacture of textiles, beer, food products, apparel, batteries, and swimming pool filters and pumps. In addition to manufacturing, Winston-Salem is a large financial centre…
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