Background
Adkerson, JOseph Carson was born on February 10, 1892 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Alonza Thomas and Lizzie Lillian (Carson) Adkerson.
Adkerson, JOseph Carson was born on February 10, 1892 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Alonza Thomas and Lizzie Lillian (Carson) Adkerson.
Assistant engineer, Piedmont-Manganese Corporation, Lynchburg, 1912-1913;
assistant engineer, Oxford Mining & Manganese Corporation, 1913-1914;
engineer, manager, Powells Fort Manganese Mines, Woodstock, Virginia, 1915-1919;
vice president, engineer, manager, Hy-Grade Manganese Company, Woodstock, 1919-1936;
vice president, engineer, Hy-Grade Manganese Production & Sales Corporation, Woodstock, 1929-1932;
vice president, engineer, National Metals Corporation, Damascus, Virginia, 1940-1942. President Raw Materials National Council, 1936-1968. Construction engineering Cuban American Manganese Corporation, New York City, 1940-1945.
Chairman Joint Conference of Unfair Russian Competition, 1930-1933. Investigator, researcher manganese, tungsten, other strategic materials.
Member session Woodstock Presby. Church, 1978-1980. Member American Manganese Producers Association (president 1927-1962), Masons, Shriners, Rotary.
Married Anne Winfield Clower, March 11, 1961.