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Names listed on page 96

Two pictures of the Woolen Mill on South Main Street which made
blankets. It burned in 1909. The picture above shows the employees of
the mill. The large man in the center is Mr. Jim Crews, manager of the
mill. Names listed on page 96 him $100.00. Kerner & Greenfield brands were Success,
New Era, Free Trade and K & G. After Mr. Kerner's
death, Mr. Greenfield continued the business alone and
later converted to a hosiery mill.

W. H. Leak & Co. Shore, Kerner & Adkins
Plug and Twist Tobacco Tobacco Manufacturers

W. H. (Mr. Bill) Leak was the guiding spirit of this This firm occupied the large brick building adjacent
firm and associated with him at various times were J. N. to Kerner & Greenfield. The firm consisted of Dr. Elias
Leak, B. A. Brown and N. W. Sapp. This business Kerner's son, James F. Kerner, and his two sons-in-law,
started in Kernersville in 1873. It appears that Brown, Mr. Henry Shore and Mr. James Adkins. This business
Sapp & Co. built the three story brick building on Main was later converted to a woolen mill for the manufacture
Street in 1884. This was later the W. H. Leak factory of blankets. It was then operated by the Crews Brothers
and more recently it was converted by Mr. Leak to a of Walkertown. It was in full operation when it burned
knitting mill. W. H. Leak & Co. tobacco brands were in 1909.
Leak's Best and Cock of the Walk. Their building is
Lowery & Stafford
now used in the operations of a furniture. company.
Tobacco Manufacturers

Kerner & Greenfield
This partnership consisted of Mr. W. A. Lowery and
Plug and Twist Tobacco
his son-in-law, E. J. Stafford. They erected a substantial
J. M. Greenfield, a native of Lexington, N. C., in building where the Dairy Queen now stand on South
1881 joined T. E. Kerner, his brother-in-law, in the man- Main Street. This later became a hosiery mill owned
ufacture of tobacco. They built the three story 40x80 by W. A. Lowery and his son, Will Lowery. This build-
brick factory on South Main Street which is now the old ing was later used as a garage by J. C. Ragland and
part of Crawford Machine Shop. This was built about ultimately torn down.
1884. In comparing building costs Mr. Greenfield stated
that the brick in the wall cost $5.00 per thousand and
the carpenter foreman worked 100 days and they paid
A 1922 picture of Huff's Garage. Years before the turn of the cen-
tury it had been built by Mr. W. A. Lowery and his son-in-law, E. J.
Stafford, for a tobacco factory. It was later converted by Mr. Lowery and
his son, Will Lowery, to a hosiery mill.
Dr. S. Leo Record received
his M.D. degree from Bowman
Gray School of Medicine and
interned at Lloyd Nolan Hospital
in Birmingham, Alabama. He es-
tablished a family practice in
Kernersville in 1966. In 1968 he
was drafted into the Army and
served in Vietnam and Womack
Army Hospital. He returned to
private practice in October 1970
in association with Dr. Wesley
Phillips in the Kernersville Fam-
ily Practice, P.A.

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