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Morehead Patterson (October 9, 1897 – August 5, 1962) was an American businessman, a diplomat, an inventor, and president, CEO and chairman of American Machine and Foundry, the company founded by his father Rufus Patterson.
The CFA first met on April 27, 1949. Todd Belfield of Cochran Foundry was the organization's first chairman. Membership reached a high in 1974-75 with 110 sustaining companies and 379 associate members. CFA held regular meetings which focused on educating the people working in member foundries on "how-to" of foundry operations.
[2] [7] She founded Stoudts Brewing Company in 1987 on the grounds of Black Angus Restaurant and Pub and was the sole proprietor. [2] Stoudt was not a homebrewer and knew little about making beer, though she had a background in chemistry and microbiology. [8] She attended the Siebel Institute and had Karl Strauss and Greg Noonan as mentors. [8]
International Molders and Foundry Workers Union of North America was an affiliated trade union of the AFL–CIO. The union traced its roots back to the formation of the Iron Molders' Union of North America, established in 1859 to represent craftsmen who cast wrought iron metal products.
Patterson left the University of North Carolina to work with inventor William H. Kerr. [4] In 1891, he went to England to introduce the Kerr tobacco machine. After studying mechanical engineering in England for two years, he returned to Durham, where he became associated with James Buchanan Duke and the American Tobacco Company in 1898, of which Patterson later became a vice-president in 1901.
The American Tobacco Historic District is a historic tobacco factory complex and national historic district located in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings and three contributing structures built by the American Tobacco Company and its predecessors and successors from 1874 to the 1950s.
In 1971, American Machine and Foundry was renamed AMF. For many years, the company produced a wide variety of sport and leisure equipment, including Roadmaster bicycles, Harley-Davidson motorcycles (1969–1981), Head snow skis and tennis racquets (1969–1985), snowmobiles, lawn and garden equipment, (including manufacturing for Sears Craftsman.
Bell's Brewery, Inc. [3] is an American craft brewing company [4] operating out of Comstock and Kalamazoo, Michigan. It consists of a brewpub and a store that sells merchandise and homebrewing supplies at its Kalamazoo location. Bell's was initially a homebrewing store in 1983, and began producing beer in 1985.