Bettis rainsford biography

          General Note:"Published upon the occasion of the wedding of Bettis Cantelou Rainsford Jr. Geographic term:Edgefield County (S.C.)--Biography.

        1. General Note:"Published upon the occasion of the wedding of Bettis Cantelou Rainsford Jr. Geographic term:Edgefield County (S.C.)--Biography.
        2. Bettis C. Rainsford, JD. President, Rainsford Development, and Historian on Edgefield and South Carolina, June 9,
        3. © , Bettis C. Rainsford, Sr. During the past decade, and particularly in the last year, the long-standing discussion about race in America has.
        4. Now entering its second quarter millennium, the house has new owners, Bettis Cantelou Rainsford, Jr. and Melissa Logan Vann, who are beginning their married.
        5. Erwin Maddrey and Bettis Rainsford, the founders of Greenville-based Delta Woodside Industries Inc., are the top entrepreneurs in the state.

          6. © , Bettis C. Rainsford, Sr. During the past decade, and particularly in the last year, the long-standing discussion about race in America has..

          One-man economic engine

          Forbes called him an iconoclast, a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions.

          Without having set foot in a textile mill, Bettis Rainsford began a 17-year career as a textile tycoon, starting a Fortune 500 company out of the need to save one particular textile mill in Edgefield, S.C.

          He has countered any belief that you need to be a golfer in order to create a professional-caliber golf course.

          For rural and mostly undeveloped Edgefield County?

          "Most of us around here would have never believed that we would be selling lots for $200,000 in Edgefield County at the golf course.

          His vision was out there, and it panned out to come true," Edgefield Mayor Ken Durham said of Mount Vintage Plantation on Sweetwater Road.

          As a student at Harvard in the early 1970s, Mr. Rainsford challenged the rampant counterculture, the following of the throngs involved in the Vietnam War protests

          "Protested the protesters," Mr.

          Rainsford said. "It was shocking to me. I