Dalton L. McMichael
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Dalton Larkin McMichael March 10, 1914 Wentworth, North Carolina |
| Died | July 27, 2001 (aged 87) Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Resting place | Woodland Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Occupation | textile business executive philanthropist |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Louise Ragsdale Hanne Andersen |
| Children | 4 |
Dalton Larkin McMichael, Sr. (March 10, 1914 - July 27, 2001) was an American textile executive and philanthropist. He was ranked among the top fifty most influential textile executives in the twentieth century by Textile World Magazine. He was inducted into the Class of 2003 American Textile Hall of Fame by the American Textile History Museum.
Dalton Larkin McMichael was born in Wentworth, North Carolina, the youngest of seven boys, to James Pleasant McMichael and Annie Adele DeShazo McMichael. He was named after his maternal grandparents, Susan Victoria Dalton and Lieutenant Larkin DeShazo, a confederate soldier who served in May's Company of the 45th Infantry Regiment. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for pre-medicine, later switching to accounting, graduating in 1938.
McMichael's first textile hob was for the Cost Accounting Department at Burlington Industries in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later moved to sales in the hosiery division of the company. He then moved to New York for three years where he met William Johnston Armfield III, the general manager of the hosiery division at Burlington Industries. Together in 1946 they formed the Madison Throwing Company in Madison. In 1954, they sold an interest in the company to Burlington Industries. Madison Throwing grew to over three-thousand employees before becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Burlington Industries in 1970. Armfield's son, Billy Armfield, joined Madison Throwing Company in 1959, eventually becoming president. Dalton went into business with Billy Armfield, creating Macfield Texturing Company in 1970, which was sold to Unifi in 1991.
In 1982, McMichael, along with other textile industry leaders, formed Vintage Yarns, which was sold to Unifi in 1993. In 1992, McMichael created Mayo Yarns and Dan Valley Yarns. These two companies later merged, and then merged with Frontier Spinning in 2000, when McMichael retired.
In 1998, McMichael received Textile World's Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the textured yarn business.
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