Background
He was born in Dandridge, Tennessee, son of Shadrach Inman and grew up there with his brothers Samuel M. Inman and John H. Inman, who were also successful cotton traders and industrialists.
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Hugh Theodore Inman
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He owned an interest in the Inman, Swann, & Company of New New York He engaged in the cotton trade in New York City until moving to Savannah, Georgia and then ultimately Atlanta where he continued in the cotton trade. He was a founding member and first president of the Exposition Cotton Mills, which was founded in 1882.
By 1890, it had 500 employees and had spun fifty million yards of yarn.
lieutenant was Atlanta"s first steel hoop mill. By 1902 it had 300 employees and was producing 1000 pairs of pants per day.
At the time of his death he had amassed an estate exceeding $2,000,000 making him the wealthiest man in the state. In August 1910 he went to a sanitarium in New York City suffering from neurasthenia and died there three months of pneumonia.
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November 14, 1910 (aged 63)