Turns out, it was just one guy — Bowman Gray, long-ago president and chairman of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem. Kind of a big deal, to say the least. He was quite the local ...
J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in June 1931. Last week Mr. Williams reported net 1931 earnings of $36.396,816. The previous high (1930) was $34.256,665. In contrast to his predecessor, Bowman Gray (now ...
The rest came from locals, a sizable portion of which came from the family of Bowman Gray Sr., the former president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. Gray, a Winston native whose father co-founded ...