May McEwen Kaiser Company records, 1913-1948

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Summary

Abstract:
Collection comprises 80 volumes, including account books, balance sheets, trial balances, ledgers, journals, cashbooks, voucher registers, operating ledgers, cost ledgers, sales journals, sales summaries, incomplete stock books, and other records of a Burlington, N.C., manufacturer of rayon, cotton, nylon, and silk hosiery. There are records of the Daisy Hosiery Mills and the May Hosiery Mills, which consolidated under the name May McEwen Kaiser, as well as a chart of accounts that was prepared in 1948.
Extent:
10 Linear Feet (80 volumes)
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11111

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises 80 volumes, including account books, balance sheets, trial balances, ledgers, journals, cashbooks, voucher registers, operating ledgers, cost ledgers, sales journals, sales summaries, incomplete stock books, and other records of a Burlington, N.C., manufacturer of rayon, cotton, nylon, and silk hosiery.There are records of the Daisy Hosiery Mills and the May Hosiery Mills, which consolidated under the name May McEwen Kaiser, as well as a chart of accounts that was prepared in 1948.

Biographical / historical:

May McEwen Kaiser Co., Inc., a manufacturer of full-fashioned and seamless rayon, cotton, nylon, and silk hosiery, began in 1913 as the May Hosiery Mills, a co-partnership of William Henry May and his brother, Benjamin Victor May. The early business produced ladies', mens' and children's seamless hosiery. The opening entries of the Journal, 1922-1927, include an explanation of the organization of the May Hosiery Mills, Inc., in 1922 as a consolidation of Daisy Hosiery Mills of Burlington and May Hosiery Mills.

In 1927 the corporation absorbed the National Dye Works of Burlington, another enterprize with which W.H. May was involved.

In December, 1934, May Hosiery acquired two additional manufacturers in Burlington--Mohawk Hosiery Mills and Whitehead Hosiery Mills.

On September 1, 1940, the corporation consolidated with McEwen Knitting Company of Burlington and in December amended its new charter by the adoption of the name of May McEwen Kaiser Company, Inc. Burlington Industries absorbed the company in July, 1948.

The wholly owned subsidiaries of May McEwen Kaiser included the Dothan Silk Hosiery Co. of Dothan, Alabama, and the Grabur Silk Mills, Inc., of Burlington.

In 1945 May McEwen Kaiser formed a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Sidney Knitting Mills, Inc., of Burlington, to absorb the Scott Hosiery Mills of Graham, N.C.

The corporation also owned Vance Knitting Co. of Kernersville, N.C. By 1946 the total assets had grown to more than $10,600,000.

Acquisition information:
The May McEwen Kaiser Company Records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 1966.
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[Identification of item], May McEwen Kaiser Company Records, 1913-1948, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.