James B. Duke Project
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
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- Abstract / Summary
- Through a series of interviews, the origins and subsequent activities of the Duke Endowment are set forth, with particular focus on the personality and career of the fonder. Associates of James B. Duke (1857-1925) and persons active in his manifold interest provide personal reminiscences, anecdotes, and comments on the Duke family, the career of Duke, the development of the Duke Power Company and various other business ventures designed to advance the Piedmont Region of North Carolina, his early interests in southern education, in particular Trinity College (now Duke University), and developments since his death.
- Field of Interest
- Letters and Diaries
- Content Type
- Oral history
- Format
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- URL
- https://oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu/document.php?id=ldpd_4074583
- Publisher
- Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
- Place Published / Released
- New York
- Subject
- Letters and Diaries, History, Daily Life, Social Movements and Justice, Biographies, Sociology, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, North America, North Carolina, United States
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos