Claude Newell Ledgerwood

Background

Ledgerwood,, Claude Newell was born on March 19, 1926 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Claude Newell and Vera (Tallent) Ledgerwood.

Education

Student, University Tennessee, 1946. Student, Emory & Henry College, 1947.

Career

Mechanical draftsman Carbide and Carbon Chemical Company, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1947-1948, Patchen & Zimmerman Engineer, Augusta, Georgia, 1948-1949. Sales and estimating department Gray Knox Marble Company, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1949-1954. President Marble Shop, Inc., 1954-1988.

Special assistant to general manager Luck Stone Corporation, since 1988. Marble and granite consultant CNL Associates, Knoxville, since 1988. North America representative World Stone Conference, Verona, Italy, 1983, 84, 85.

Chairman marble committee Southern Tile, Terrazzo & Marble Association, Jackson, Mississippi, 1975-1982.

Membership

With United States Army, 1944. Member Marble Institute of America (board directors 1976-1978, 81-83, president 1983).

Interests

• Outdoors, hunting, fishing.

Connections

Married Cecile Routh Ledgerwood, June 28, 1947 (divorced April 1964). Children: Claude Newell III, Clifford Kent. Married Mary Webb, July 3, 1965.

Children: Julia A., Laura Jane.

Father:

Claude Newell Ledgerwood,

Mother:

Vera (Tallent) Ledgerwood,

Spouse:

Mary Webb

Spouse:

Cecile Routh Ledgerwood

child:

Julia A. Ledgerwood,

child:

Claude Newell III Ledgerwood,

child:

Clifford Kent Ledgerwood,

child:

Laura Jane Ledgerwood,