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The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.
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Descendants of John Wilkinson (ca. 1730-1806), a planter, who died in Wilkes Co., Georgia. He was probably born in Virginia. The earliest known records of him were deed records of Lunenburg (later Mecklenburg) County, Virginia in the late 1750s. He may have been a son of Francis and Mary Wilkinson born in Kent Co., Va. He had at least thirteen children. Includes the descendants of David Wilkerson/Wilkinson (b. bef. 1740, d. 1819), possibly a brother or at least a relative of John Wilkinson. He died in Granville Co., N.C. Family members and descendants live in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Texas and elsewhere.