Tompkins, Daniel Augustus

1851 – 1914

• A builder of the New South
• American commerce, its expansion
• Building and loan associations
• Company K, fourteenth South Carolina volunteers
• Cotton and cotton oil
• Cotton mill processes and calculations
• Cotton mill, commercial features
• Cotton values in textile fabrics
• History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte
• Manufactures
• The cotton gin
• A plan to raise capital for manufacturing