McBee, Vardry, 1775-1864
Biographical notes:
Southern businessman.
From the description of Letters, 1818-1857. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39390405
Planter and businessman of Greenville, S.C.; developer of textile industry during antebellum era, including Camperdown Mills on the Reedy River; born in Spartanburg County in 1775, McBee was called 'The Father of Greenville.'
Vardry founded many business and civic organizations; he contributed land for various churches and academies in Greenville, and was instrumental in relocating Furman University from Edgefield to Greenville in 1851, and in securing for Greenville in 1853 its first railroad, the Columbia and Greenville, for which he later served as president.
From the description of Vardry McBee Papers, 1842-1855. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 56339616
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Subjects:
- Slavery
- Accounting
- Business enterprises
- Real property
- Railroads
- Retail trade
- Road construction
- Textile industry
- Textile machinery
- Wells
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- South Carolina--Greenville County (as recorded)
- South Carolina--Greenville County (as recorded)
- Greenville County (S.C.) (as recorded)
- Southern States (as recorded)
- South Carolina--Greenville (as recorded)
- California (as recorded)
- Reedy River (S.C.) (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Greenville (S.C.) (as recorded)
