Heman Edward Drummond

Background

Heman Edward Drummond was born on August 8, 1905. His mother was a homesteader.

Career

Drummond worked as a coal miner for the Debardeleben Coal Company, founded by Henry T. DeBardeleben. In 1935, Drummond took a $300 loan from a bank in rural Alabama and founded a coal-mining concern which became known as the Drummond Company. He used mules to drag coal out of mines.

He first sold the coal to neighbors, farms and homesteads in the area.

He died on April 5, 1956. He was buried at the Pisgah Baptist Church and Cemetery in Sipsey, Alabama.

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Achievements

• He was the founder of the Drummond Company, a coal-mining company.