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Queve Woody and Joe Ghost

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  • This 1941 image of Robert Queve Woody, Sr. (1893-1963), Carolina Wood Turning Company plant superintendent for several years, fishing just below the third bridge from the trailhead up Noland Creek with Joe Ghost is part of the Stearns-Grueninger collection. Irving Kip Stearns (1895-1942) was president of Carolina Wood Turning Company from 1928 until his death in 1942. Stearns’ grandfather, Jeremiah Shank, started the company in 1903 as Bryson City Pump Works and it grew to be a thriving industry for the community. In 1911, Stearns was in the first graduating class of Bryson City High School. He had one son, Joseph Pease Stearns (1917-1948). In 1935, I. K. married Betty Grueninger (1896-1971).