R. J. Reynolds
American businessman
Died when: 68 years 9 days (816 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Richard Joshua Reynolds (July 20, 1850 – July 29, 1918) was an American businessman and founder of the R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company.The son of a tobacco farmer, he worked for his father and attended Emory & Henry College from 1868 to 1870, eventually graduating from Bryant & Stratton Business College in Baltimore.
He sold his share of the family business in 1874 and moved south to Winston, (now Winston-Salem, North Carolina) to start his own tobacco company.
Reynolds was a savvy businessman and a hard worker, and he quickly became one of the wealthiest citizens of Winston-Salem; eventually, he was the wealthiest person in the state of North Carolina.
He died in 1918 of pancreatic cancer.
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