Sigmund Sternberger

• American

Sigmund Sternberger was born in Darlington, South Carolina, on May 8th, 1887. In 1899 he moved to Greensboro, where his father, Herman Sternberger, and uncle, Emanuel Sternberger, built the Revolution Cotton Mill, a cornerstone of the city's all-important textile industry. Following graduation from the Eastman Business School in Poughkeepsie, New York, .in 1906 and an apprenticeship in the various departments of the mill, Sigmund Sternberger was named assistant treasurer and a director of Revolution in 1916. Three years later he succeeded his father as the mill's treasurer. In 1948 Revolution merged with the Cone Mills Corporation, of which he became a director. - NRHP, 11 November 1992