Hill's Charlotte (Mecklenburg County, N.C.) City Directory [1947], Part 2

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1947
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1218

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There are four railroads entering Charlotte, one of which has two branch lines. These are:

Southern Railway (main line New York-New Orleans) Statesville Branch

Columbia Division.

Seaboard Air Line Railway.

Norfolk-Southern Railway.

Piedmont & Northern Railway (electric).

Many passenger trains arrive and depart from Charlotte daily, 21 trains handling express, and nearly 200 solid carloads of freight. One hundred thirteen package cars leave Charlotte daily to serve the manufacturers and distributors now located here.

Charlotte is served by the Eastern Air Lines, which operate 14 planes into the Municipal Airport, carrying passengers, express and mail.

Charlotte is the center for motor transportation for the Southeast-over 75 different carrier lines either have headquarters, branch offices or stations in the city.

WATER

The city has just completed a new water plant at a cost of over $1,000,- 000. The intake is now being carried in a 30-inch and 24-inch pipe, with over 10,000,000 gallons of raw water per day being taken to the new plant. Of this quantity the City of Charlotte consumes 8,500,000 gallons daily. The source of supply is the Catawba River, nine miles from the center of the city, which has a flow of approximately 7,000,000,000 gallons daily. The lowest mean monthly flow on record (November, 1925, 1052 CFS) was 680,000,000 gallons daily. Plant capacity, 16,000,000 gallons.

LABOR

Sixty per cent of the total population of available workmen in North Carolina are still engaged in agriculture, a labor reserve adequate to meet any industrial demand for years to come. Since direct immigration from Europe into the South stopped in 1760, the population is 99.3% native-born of old American stock, 69% of which is white.

The labor in Charlotte is of a better type than in the older industrialized sections of the North and East, intelligent, loyal, easily trained, 100% Ameri- can, and inclined to be contented with decent treatment and fair wages. This labor is constantly streaming into Charlotte from the farms and villages, and there is apparently an unlimited supply. The city has trained them to make full-fashioned hosiery, automobile tires and textile machinery; to assemble

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Ford cars, and to perform other operations requiring a high degree of skill. There are in successful operation at the present time, seven cotton mills in Charlotte, but there are altogether 324 different factories, small and large, making over 175 different types of products, including silk weaving, full- fashioned hosiery and other textile specialties.

CHARLOTTE DISTRIBUTING CENTER

Charlotte is the shopping and distributing center for a radius of 150 miles. Because of this fact, a great proportion of the people in Charlotte are employed in banking, department stores, offices, and various distributing enterprises, and are of a slightly higher grade of intelligence than is found in most of the strictly manufacturing towns. This means that in each family there are young people growing up who are a little above the mill type of intelligence, but are nevertheless, available for employment, and to these people the better paid, more attractive work of the specialty mills appeals. This exceedingly high- grade labor is hard to find in any city much smaller than Charlotte, and there is still an abundance of it available here, of both sexes. In addition to this, there

Looking North on South Tryon Street

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are the opportunities for social and recreational activities, which a city of the type of Charlotte offers, not found in smaller places.

Wage-earners of the better class require social contacts such as Charlotte offers, and which are not found in smaller towns, either in the North or the South. They require opportunities for entertainment, movies, parks, golf courses, good roads for automobile driving, etc. Charlotte offers facilities for this type of diversion that are unexcelled outside of the large metropolitan centers.

CLIMATE

While the matter of climate is not always a major consideration in manu- facturing, nevertheless it will probably be of interest that Charlotte has a very equable climate. The average temperature for January, for the last 44 years, was 41 degrees F., and for July, 78 degrees; the mean average yearly temper- ature was 60.2 degrees F. Average rainfall, over similar period, was 46.86 inches, and the mean relative humidity at 8:00 A. M. was 78.5% and at 8:00 P. M., 62.0%. This means, in a few words, that the cost of maintaining an even temperature in buildings is much lower here than at any point in the North.

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Looking South on North Tryon Street

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TRADING CENTER AND IDEAL DISTRIBUTING POINT

Charlotte has a greater population within a 50-mile radius than Rich- mond; a greater population within a 100-mile radius than Atlanta. Char- lotte is the geographical and business center of the Carolinas. 50-mile radius 100-mile radius

Richmond 468,000 2,124,000

CHARLOTTE 583,000 1,972,000

Atlanta 711,000

1,904,000

Charlotte's Trading Territory

Population of city and suburbs, approximately

150,000

Population within 25-mile radius,

250,000

Population within 50-mile radius, ..

600,000

Population within 75-mile radius,

1,200,000

Population within 100-mile radius,

.. 2,000,000

Population within 150-mile radius,

4,500,000

Charlotte Country Club

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Charlotte offers the finest opportunities of today as the logical location for new industries, distributors, wholesale houses and business interests of every description that wish to take advantage of the manufacturing and trade opportunities in this rapidly-developing section, the richest trading territory in the South.

Note-Branch Federal Reserve Bank of Charlotte.

Radio Station WBT, 50,000-watt station; WAYS and WSOC (three radio stations-Columbia, Mutual and National systems, both Red and Blue networks).

CHARLOTTE'S GROWTH

Population

1940 .252,468,994.05

1850 U. S. Census

.1,065

1941

314,725,041.27

1860 U. S. Census

2,265

1870 U. S. Census.

.4,473

1944 445,731,086.39

1880 U. S. Census.

7,094

1945 . 547,886,404.50

1890 U. S. Census.

11,557

1946 .533,952,669.13

1900 U. S. Census

18,091

1910 U. S. Census 34,014

Bank Deposits

1926

$40,005,709.48

1920 U. S. Census 46,338

1927

46,479,955.20

1928 46,475,693.14

1932 30,563,805.15

1937

69,937,000.00

5-mile-radius (including

Charlotte)

150,000

Industrial Plants

1900

1910

108

1925

200

1930

167

1939

277

1943

285

1945

310

1946

324

Bank Resources

1900

$ 3,900,000.00

1928

658,895,377.79

1920

41,111,524.00

1932

1404,084,638.69

1923

42,143,554.00

1936

651,731,959.03

1924

47,333,988.80

1937

726,253,626.91

1925

60,000,000.00

1938

769,108,200.00

1926

66,593,522.28

1939

735,226,831.37

1927

77,207,866.92

1940

847,446,979.74

1928

77,587,836.44

1941

1,159,172,561.00

1932

47,331,867.00

1943

1,868,817,678.00

1937

79,304,000.00

1944

2,052,448,000.00

1938

94,452,735.77

1945

2,303,316,718.00

1939

221,531,351.89

1946

3,078,797,756.00

Federal Reserve Bank

The Carolina Branch of the Fifth District Federal Reserve Bank cleared:

1936

8,652,009 checks valued at $1,803,371,000

1938

9,464,000 checks valued at

1,811,118,000

1939

9,899,000 checks valued at

2,093,793,000

1940

11,182,000 checks valued at

2,603,114,000

1941

13,823,000 checks valued at

4,067,416,000

1942

14,265,000 checks valued at

5,132,640,000

1943

15,825,000 checks valued at

5,777,406,000

1944

17,731,000 checks valued at

6,244,514,000

1945

19,849,000 checks valued at

7,046,219,000

1946

22,708,000 checks valued at

9,025,297,000

422,502,265.02

1945

.517,472,586.99

1946

.501,188,906.53

Bank Clearings

1926

. $599,069,907.54

1927

654,758,277.97

1910

9,970,000.00

1929

294,663,259.19

1943

385,567,229.00

1940 U. S. Census 100,899

1946 Estimated

115,000

1938

86,845,519.40

1939

206,288,680.25

1940

234,012,455.99

1941

1944

725,602,773.24

1930 U. S. Census 82,675

1943 . 406,690,971.00

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Carloadings Inbound

1938

36,793

1939

40,852

1940

45,552

1943

57,839

1944

60,072

1945

51,256

1946

63,047

Outbound

1938

11,241

1939

13,963

1940

16,439

1943

31,027

1944

34,174

1945

24,131

1946

25,426

Express Receipts Air and Rail

1915

$ 315,000.00

1927

above 700,000.00

1943

713,617.86

1944

841,064.00

1945

949,540.00

1946

1,195,008.00

Real Estate Taxable Value (2.3 Cash Value)

1939 (City and County)

above $139,331,525.00

1940 (City and County) 145,230,795.00

1943 (City and

County) 163,434,015.00

1944 (City and

County )

164,338,505.00

1945 (City and County ) 165,383,395.00

1946 (City and

County ) 168,527,520.00

Tax Rate

City (1946-47) $1.50

County (1946-1947) 1.15

Total $2.65

Telephones

December 31, 1945 32,353

December 31, 1946

39,744

Value Building Permits

1923 $5,263,340

1925

7,363,805

1927

5,449,364

1928

7,415,612

1936

2,741,270

1937

3,513,708

1938

2,917,576

1939

5,379,120

1940

4,285,729

1941

4,835,966

1944

806,168

1945

4,135,664

1946

9,300,000

Note: During 1939 two new U. S. Housing projects, named the Fair- view Homes (for colored) and the Piedmont Courts, and in addition, two new hospitals (Presbyterian and Memorial) were started, with build- ing permits totaling more than $2,- 364,000. This explains the high building figures for 1939.

Charlotte's Post-Office Receipts

1920

$ 431,490.00

Air Lines

1921

460,003.00

Passengers

49,725

1923

600,000.00

Mail

393,436 lbs.

1924

661,567.00

Express

295,067 lbs.

1925

722,672.54

Freight

13,5 11 lbs.

1926

752,937.75

1927

785,125.57

Miscellaneous Statistics FIRE LOSS

1941

$209,347

1942

136,823

1931

727,720.75

1945

304,630

1932

736,605.66

1946

387,484

1933

766,641.92

BIRTHS

1935

890,870.69

1942

3,365

1943

3,969

1944

3,943

1938

1,046,183.24

1945

3,902

1939

1,122,790.68

1946

4,739

1940

1,190,044.36

DEATHS

1941

1,274,644.33

1942

1,054

1943

1,418,584.00

1943

1,187

1944

1,670,490.47

1944

1,219

1945

1,731,637.14

1945

1,280

1946

1,810,335.00

1946

1,238

1928

842,857.07

1929

843,330.53

1930

788,094.41

1944

413,597

1934

834,760.21

1936

950,589.00

1937

1,028,553.02

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INVITES INQUIRIES

The Charlotte Chamber of Commerce extends an invitation to outsiders to visit this city and experience the Charlotte spirit of good-will and cooper- ation. The Chamber, with C. O. Kuester as business manager, gladly supplies information regarding Charlotte to all who write or call. The Chamber of Commerce also invites the outside public to tune in on WBT, Charlotte's 50,000-watt radio broadcasting station, one of America's finest and best.

MECKLENBURG COUNTY Gained 23,855 Population, 1930-1940

Mecklenburg County, according to the 1940 U. S. Census, had a popu- lation of 151,826, an increase of 23,855 over 1930. The increase was approxi- mately 18% for the ten-year period.

The population of Charlotte was established as 100,899 by the 1940 Census, an increase of 18,224 over 1930. This means that all but 5,631 of the increase in the county's population was within the city limits of Charlotte.

The Census revealed that Mecklenburg County had 3,136 farms.

The population of Charlotte Township, which includes a fringe of land all the way around the city limits, was set at 113, 163. Nearly all the county's population gain was in the city and Charlotte Township. Estimated, 1946, 115,000.

Charlotte is alive, aggressive and progressive.

Charlotte citizens cooperate in matters which prompt the civic, commer- cial, religious and welfare of the community.

Charlotte is a friendly city. It welcomes the newcomer, be he from the North, West, East or South.

Showing the Federal Reserve Bank and the Masonic Temple, South Tryon Street

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STATISTICAL REVIEW

Slogan-"Watch Charlotte Grow"; also "Queen City of the South."

Form of Government-Council-manager.

Area-19.6 square miles.

Climate-Mean annual temperature, 60.2 degrees F .; average annual rainfall, 46.86 inches.

Altitude, 779 feet above sea level.

Parks-23, with total of 352 acres, valued at $600,000.

Bonded Debt-$8,465,000 (net, $4,052,203.56).

Financial Data-2 national banks, 2 state banks and 4 industrial banks, with total deposits of $501, 188,906.53 (Dec. 31, 1946), and total resources of $533,952,669.13 (Dec. 31, 1946). Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond located here. Clearings for national and state banks for 1946, $3,- 078,797,756. 3 building and loan associations, with total assets of $12,032,- 445.75 (Dec. 31, 1946).

Postal Receipts-$1,810,335.00 (calendar year 1946).

Telephones in Use-39,744.

Churches-175, representing 18 denominations.

Building and Construction-Value of building permits, $9,300,000 (1946).

Industry-Chief industries of city and surrounding territory: Manufac- turing, 55%; agriculture, 45%. 324 manufacturing establishments, paying wages of $12,750,000 annually, and having products valued at $57,915,697 annually (last available report, 1940).

Trade Area-Retail area has radius of 50 miles, and population of 583,- 000; wholesale area, radius of 75 miles, and population of 1,131,000. 1,700 retail stores in city, with annual sales of $50,997,000 (last available report, 1940).

Newspapers -- 2 daily, 1 Sunday and 3 weekly.

Hotels-8, with total of 1,350 rooms. Newest hotel opened in 1940 (200 rooms).

Railroads -- 4: Southern, Seaboard Air Line, Norfolk-Southern and Piedmont & Northern (last an electric line).

Highways-U. S. 29, 31 and 74; State 27, 49, 262 and 271.

Airports-2 privately-owned, 21/2 miles from center of city; I municipal, 5 miles from center of city.

Mint Museum of Art

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Amusements-Largest auditorium in city (also the largest in North Caro- lina) seats 5,000 persons. Total seating capacity of theatres, 7,500. 13 golf courses in city and suburbs, including 1 municipal course.

Hospitals-4, with total of 783 beds; also 4 others.

Education-Queens College (for women) ; Johnson C. Smith University (for colored). 33 public schools, including 3 senior high and 2 junior high. 1 parochial school. Number of pupils in public schools, 17,912; in parochial, 180. Number of teachers in public schools, 554; in parochial, 8. Value of public school property, $4,294,587; parochial, $150,000; college, $1,000,000.

Public Libraries-7, including branches, with total of 60,000 volumes. 30 library service stations.

City Statistics-Total street mileage, 320, with 150 miles paved. Miles of gas mains, 94; sewers, 276; motor bus routes, 121. Number of light meters, 28,500; gas meters, 7,085. Miles of water mains, 275; value of plant, $5,505,- 000. Fire department has 126 men, with 7 stations and 18 pieces of motor equipment. Police department has 101 men, with 1 station and 20 pieces of motor equipment.

AS A MANUFACTURING CENTER, CHARLOTTE OFFERS:

1. Low power rates for manufacturing purposes.

2. Close proximity to the sources of all materials for finished products.

3. Cotton, cotton yarns, cottonseed, cotton oil, tobacco, peanuts, kaolin, wood pulp, lumber, etc.

4. Logical location for a manufacturer of commodities for export through the ports of Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah.

5. A very desirable type of high-class labor available to manufacturers.

6. Mild climate conditions throughout the year. There are nine months of exceptional open-season weather.

7. The adequate transfer facilities of four railroads, with daily terminal facilities of 5,200 carloads.

8. Desirable living conditions and unusual residential developments.

The quality of Charlotte's water is excellent. The supply is abundant, with a modern filter plant, completed at a cost of $1,000,000 or more, a daily capacity of 16,000,000 gallons and an average daily pumpage of 8,500,- 000 gallons. Electricity, ample and at low rates, has been probably the greatest factor in the industrial and commercial development of Charlotte.

Charlotte's rapid growth as a manufacturing and business center has de- veloped financial institutions commensurate with the demands of the rapidly- growing city and section which they serve.

CALENDAR OF HISTORICAL DATES

1748 First permanent settlers in Mecklen- burg County. Governor 1749 Earliest land grants from the Crown. Josiah Martin, Thomas Polk is auth- orized to call a meeting of delegates from each district.

1750 Trade routes with Charleston, S. C., es- tablished over Indian trails.

1754 Meeting of King Hagler, chief of Ca- tawba tribe, and commissioners ap- pointed by the governor to establish amicable relations between Indians and the settlers.

1762 Mecklenburg County created.

1766 Log court house built.

1767 March 15. Birth of Andrew Jackson in the southeastern section of Meck- lenburg County, now Union County. Thomas Polk's sawmill and grist-mill begin operation.

1768 Charlotte is incorporated. County divided; upper half becomes Tryon County.

1771 Presbyterian ministers perform mar- riages, a privilege theretofore re- stricted to ministers of the Estab- lished Church and justices of the peace.

1774 Charlotte made county-seat. Popula- tion. 200.

Queen's Museum becomes successor 01 Queen's College.

1775 May 1. Because of dissatisfaction with the administration of

May 20. Assembly held in the court house in Charlotte.

Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen- dence approved and read. Captain James Jack deputized to take docu- ment to Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

May 31. Assembly reconvenes and draws up another set of resolutions. called the Resolves.

June 23. Captain Jack arrives in Phila- delphia with the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Congress is preparing ad- dress to the King, repudiating desire for independence, so Declaration is not presented.

1776 John Phifer, Robert Irwin and John McKnitt Alexander, representatives of the county in Congress, instructed to declare for independence.

1777 Mecklenburg troops ordered north; en- gage in battles of Germantown and Brandywine; spend winter with

Washington at Valley Forge.

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1780 Sept. 26. Battle of Charlotte; Corn- wallis occupies town.

Oct. 3. McIntyre Farm skirmish (Bat- tle of the Bees).

Oct. 7. British Colonel Patrick Fergu- son killed at Battle of Kings Moun- tain and his force defeated.

Oct. 12. Cornwallis withdraws from Charlotte, referring to the place as a "hornet's nest."

1781 Feb. 1. 300 Revolutionaries defeated at Cowan's Ford, near Charlotte, by Cornwallis; General Wm. Davidson slain.

1790 Population, 325.

1791 George Washington visits Charlotte.

1792 Cabarrus County created from eastern section of Mecklenburg. Andrew Jackson licensed to practice law in Charlotte. U. S. Post Office established.

1795. Nov. 2. James Knox Polk, 11th Presi- dent of the U. S., born in one-room log cabin 12 miles south of Charlotte.

1799 Gold discovered in county.

1812-14 Five companies of Mecklenburg troops serve throughout War of 1812.

1818 Census shows 70 families.

1825 First newspaper established, "Catawba Journal."

1830 Population, 730. First fire engine pur- chased; cost $100.

1837 Branch of the U. S. Mint begins opera- tions.

1838 Charlotte Male Academy opens.

1840 Population, 849, including 301 Negroes. 1842 Union County formed from southeast- ern section of Mecklenburg.

1847 Company of dragoons, under Green W. Caldwell, leaves for Vera Cruz to serve in the Mexican War.

1849 Contract let for grading railroad from Charlotte to Columbia, S. C.

1850 Population, 1,065.

1852 First passenger train arrives; picnic attended by crowd estimated at 20,000.

1854 First steam power used in Leroy Springs' flour mili.

1856 Railroad from Charlotte to Goldsboro completed.

1857 Charlotte Female Institute organized.

1859 Charlotte Military Academy opens, D. H. Hill, headmaster.

1860 Population, 2,265.

1861 April. U. S. Mint appropriated for mili- tary organization.

May. Drilling of volunteers for the Army of the Confederacy begins. Faculty and cadets of Charlotte Mili- tary Academy taken to Raleigh to drill troops.

1862 Center of naval ordnance moved to Charlotte from Norfolk, Va.

1864 Jan. 7. Charlotte's depots and ware- houses, containing vast amounts of Confederate munitions and supplies, destroyed by fire at a loss of $10,000,- 000.

1865 April 15. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, arrives with his cabinet and 1,000 cavalry. News of Lincoln's assassination.

April 20. Last full meeting of Confed- erate cabinet held at home of Colonel W'in. Phifer on North Tryon St.

June. Colonel Willard Warner and 180th Ohio Regiment occupy Char- lotte.

1867 Biddle University for Negroes, now known as Johnson C. Smith Univer- sity, established.

1868 Mint reopened as an assay office. but coinage not resumed.

1869 Cotton sold at 35c a pound.

1870 Population, 4,473.

1872 Last of Federal troops depart.

1873 First graded school in state organized in Charlotte.

1874 Last stage line between Charlotte and Wadesboro discontinued.

1880 Population, 7,094.

1881 First cotton mill begins operation.

1887 Electric lights installed. Horse cars first appear.

1890 Population, 11,557.

1891 Charlotte Public Library organized.

1893 Electric power substituted for horse power in street railways.

1898 Two companies from Charlotte in North Carolina regiment land in Havana in Spanish-American War.

1900 Population, 18,091.

1904 Southern Power Co. organized by James B. Duke and W. States Lee.

1909 First skyscraper, the Realty (Inde- pendence) Building, constructed.

1910 Population, 34,014.

1917 Camp Greene, temporary U. S. Army cantonment, established in Charlotte.

1920 Population, 46,338.

1927 Charlotte branch of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond opens.

1930 Population, 82,675.

1936 American Legion Memorial Stadium Municipal Airport opens. completed. Mint Museum of Art opens.

1938 Buses replace street cars.

1940 Population, 100,899.

1943 Population, 105,000 estimated.

1945 Population. 115.000 estimated.

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Peoples' First Presbyterian Church, West Trade Street

ABBREVIATIONS

acct accountant

adj ... adjuster dlv

agcy agency

agri agricultural do .. ditto or same

agt agent

al alley

alt . alteration

Am . American

appr apprentice

apts apartments

archt architect

asmblr assembler

Assn .. Association

assoc .. .. . assoclate asst assistant

atndt

attendant

atty attorney

aud . auditor es

auto automobile

av avenue

.telephone

Bapt Baptist

bet between bey

beyond

bgemn ..

baggageman

blbndr

.. bookbinder

bkpr bookkeeper formn foreman

bldg

building

bldr

builder

blk

blksmith .. blacksmith ftr fitter pass passenger

blrmkr .. boilermaker

blvd

. boulevard

branch

brklyr

bricklayer

brkmn .. brakeman

brnr

. burner

CSP .. Christian gro

Science Practitioner h

cabimkr cabinetmaker capt captain

carp

carpenter

cash

cashier

Cath

Catholle

hlpr

. helper

Church

hngr

hanger

chauf chauffeur hosp . . hospital 1'S Public School

chem chemist or

chemical

chf chief implts implements

chkr checker inc incorporated

civ

civil

ins

insurance

clk

clerk

inspr

inspector

clnr

cleaner

clo

clothing

collr collector

comn

commission

comnr

. . commissioner

compt .. comptometer

condr

confr

confectioner

Cong . Congregational cons consulting

contr contractor

cor

corner

court ct

custdn .custodian

ctr cutter

del

delivery

dep . deputy

dletn . dietitian

dir

.. director

dlspr

dispatcher

dist

district

reader

Railway

RyMS

Railway Mall Service

s or S

South

san

sanitary

Say

. Savings

sch school

mkt

market

southeast

mldr

molder

sec

secretary

mlnr milllner

electrical mn man

electrician mono monotype

nisngr

messenger

mstr

master

mtce

maintenance

mitrmin

motorman

multi

.... multigraph

spl

speclal

solr

solicitor

mus music sq square

88.

.. south side

sta

station

sta eng

stationary engineer

sten .

.. stenographer

stereo

stereotyper

stmftr

.. steamfitter

str

setter

stvdr stevedore

supt .. superintendent

opp

opposite

super

supervisor

opr

operator

surg

surgeon

optom

optometrist

southwest

swtchmn ... switchman

tab mach

tabulating machine

tchr

.. teacher

tech

. technlelan

tcl

tele phone

teleg

telegraph

ter

terrace

tmkpr

. timekeeper

tmstr

teamster

tndr

tender

trans .. transportation

trav

traveling

trnmn

tralnman

treas

trea urer

tstr

tester

twp

. township

typ

typist

undwrtr .. underwriter

prfrdr .proofreader Univ prin principal priv . private University uphol .... upholsterer US ... United States USA

United States Army

USCG

United

States Coast Guard

USMC .. United States

Marine Corps

USMS

United

States Maritime

Service

USN

United States Navy

vet

veterinary

vule

vulcanizer

w or

West

whol

wholesale

whsemn . . warehouseman

wldr

welder

wtchmn .. watchman ydmn .. yardman ydmstr .. yardmaster

ABBREVIATIONS OF GIVEN NAMES

Abraham

. Abr

Alexander Alex

Alfred Alf

Archibald Arch

Arthur Arth Elizabeth Eliz

Aug

Eugene

Eug

Michael Michl

Thomas Thos

Benjamin

Beni

Frederick

Fredk

Patrick Patk

Geo

Richard

Richd

Robert Robt

Samuel

Saml

Solomon

Sol

Stephen

Steph

Theodore .Theo August

William W'm

9-44

distr distributor į

Meth

... Methodist

dlvlslon

mfg

.. manufacturing

dmnstr

.. demonstrator

mgr manager

mlineo . . mlmeograph

drive mkr maker

drftsmn .. draftsman drsmkr .. dressmaker e or E East

elec

electn electro .. electrotyper elevator

elev

emp employee

eng engineer

engr engraver

Episc

Episcopal

equip

equipment

east side

exam

.examiner

exch

exchange

exec

. executive

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Hill's Charlotte (Mecklenburg County, N.C.) City Directory [1947], Part 2

Author: Hill Directory Company. Publication date: 1947 Publisher: Hill Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1218

Author: Hill Directory Company.
Publication date: 1947
Publisher: Hill Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1218