Background
Cramer, Stuart Warren was born on March 31, 1868 in Thomasville, North Carolina, United States. Son of John Thomas and Mary Jane (Thomas) Cramer.
Cramer, Stuart Warren was born on March 31, 1868 in Thomasville, North Carolina, United States. Son of John Thomas and Mary Jane (Thomas) Cramer.
Graduated from the United States Naval Academy, 1888. Studied School of Mines (Columbia), 1888-1889. Doctor of Science, North Carolina State College, 1929.
Yale University), Stuart Warren. Married second, Kate Stanwood Berry, September 7, 1896 (died 1897). Married 3d, Rebecca Warren Tinkham, January 28, 1902.
1 son, George Bennett. Resigned from United States Navy, 1888. Assayer in charge United States Assay office, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1889-1893.
Engineer and manager D. A. Tompkins Company, Charlotte, 1893-1895. Mill engineer and contractor, Charlotte, designing or equipping nearly one-third of cotton mills in South, 1895-1918. President and treasurer Mays Mills, Mayflower Mills, Cramerton Mills, Inc.
Owner of Mayfarm and Orchards. Officer or director of various financial, manufacturing and railway corporations Granted about 60 United States and foreign patents as result of research in industry, trade chemistry and physics. Organizer and first commander North Carolina Naval Reserve, 1890-1893.
Member Board Visitors, United States Naval Academy, 1912-1926. Life member United States Naval Institute, 1889. State chairman for North Carolina of Navy League of the United States.
Member production engineering committee Council National Defense, World War. Was also member war service committee and advisory tax board of Treasury Department.
Member American Cotton Manufacturers Association (president 1916-1917), National Council American Cotton Manufacturers (president 1917-1918, 1920-1927), National Association Cotton Manufacturers (medalist 1913). Member National Industrial Conference Board. Member American committee of Internal.
Chamber of Commerce. 1923. National Committee on Inheritance Taxation, 1925. Member executive committee National Business Survey Conference, 1929.
Member Tax Committee United States Chamber of Commerce. Delaware to Republican National Convention, 1928, 32. Member of national advisory committee, President’s Organisation on Unemployment Relief, 1931.
Member President’s Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (chairman subcommittee on industrial decentralization and housing), 1931. Director and treasurer The Textile Foundation. Member Cotton Textile Code.
Married Bertha Hobart Berry, June 24, 1889 (died 1895).; married second, Kate Stanwood Berry, September 7, 1896 (died 1897). Children: Katharine (wife of James R. Angell, president.