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Moses H. Cone (1857 – 1908) was a textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age who was active in the southern United States. He began his career in sales and becamne an innovator who offered finished clothing, which was unusual in an era when textiles were normally sold as unfinished cloth, and carried unusual fabrics such as denim. Cone founded a company that became a leading manufacturer of denim and became a supplier to Levi Strauss and Company. A century after his death, the firm he founded remains in business supplying denim for Levis jeans. Mr. Cone and his wife had no children and donated substantial property upon their deaths. Their home Flat Top Manor has become a North Carolina tourist attraction that receives 25,000 visitors a year. It forms part of Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, which is run by the National Park Service. Their donations founded the Moses Cone Health System, a private nonprofit health care system based in Greensboro, North Carolina and its principal facility Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.
