OHB 0077 | Oral History

OHB 0077

Owner and operator, Griffith’s Independent Ginner, Weinert, Texas. Family background; education in Texola, Oklahoma; part-time employment as cotton picker; involvement in building cotton gins and operating drug stores, West Texas, 1920s; operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, Weinert, Texas, 1927; comments on buying cotton and retaining cotton seed; variations in cotton prices; comments on Depression in Weinert; sale of coal to farmers; buying grain for Kimball Milling Company during off-season; description of dry land farming; reasons for decrease of cotton gins; use for cotton burrs and seed hulls; sale of cotton gin business, 1946; operation of gins in Sherman, Texas and grain department in Woodward, Oklahoma for Kimball Milling Company; comments on Weinert cotton gin personnel; significant changes in cotton ginning business during thirty years; explanation of ginning procedure; civic and trade association activities.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 72 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview November 4, 1982

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