It made two-thirds of the cigarettes in the state. was the top taxpayer in the state of North Carolina, paying $1 out of every $2.50 paid in income taxes in the state, and was one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Reynolds' brother William Neal Reynolds took over following Reynolds' death, and six years later Bowman Gray became the chief executive. He was so integral to company operations that executives did not hang another chief executive's portrait next to Reynolds' in the company board room until 41 years later. Īt the time Reynolds died in 1918 (of pancreatic cancer), his company owned 121 buildings in Winston-Salem. In 1917, the company bought 84 acres (34 ha) of property in Winston-Salem and built 180 houses that it sold at cost to workers, to form a development called "Reynoldstown". Winston-Salem was the eighth-largest port of entry in the United States by 1916. The Reynolds company imported so much French cigarette paper and Turkish tobacco for Camel cigarettes that Winston-Salem was designated by the United States federal government as an official port of entry for the United States, despite the city being 200 miles (320 km) inland. The Camel cigarette became the most popular cigarette in the country. 1907's Prince Albert smoking tobacco became the company's national showcase product, which led to high-profile advertising in New York City's Union Square. The company produced 25% of America's chewing tobacco. 1910Īt the beginning of the 1900s, Reynolds bought most of the competing tobacco factories in Winston-Salem. George Washington, early cut plug tobacco brand manufactured by Reynolds, c.
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