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American Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidAMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW MAY 4, 2010 HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLI Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWINA LA-Z-BOY OFFICE Tony Bengel, InterviewerINTERVIEWER:KINCAID:INTERVIEWER:KINCAID:INTERVIEWER:KINCAID:Where were you born, and when?I was born in North Carolina - in Hickory in 1948.And I'm sure you had family in furniture.Yes, yes. My father was in the furniture business his whole life, and his f Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWather was in the lumber business, and so he had a direct relationship to the furniture business as well, so it was kind of a natural progression for mSteve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEW
e to get into the furniture business as well.And your grandfather and father were working in the Hickory-Lenoir area from the very beginning?Yes, in LAmerican Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidAMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW MAY 4, 2010 HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLI Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWghth grade. He was the oldest of eight children, and had to help support the family. And so my grandfather insisted he quit school toAmerican Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. Kincaidcome work in the factory. So my father started when he was 14 years old working at Caldwell Furniture in Len Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWoir. And that's how he got in the furniture business.INTERVIEWER: And Caldwell was a case goods maker?American Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -StevenSteve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEW
M. KincaidKINCAID:Case goods company. Sure was.INTERVIEWER:And was that a family-owned company?KINCAID:It was the Beard family that owned part of it.American Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidAMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW MAY 4, 2010 HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLI Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEW-owned companies, and this was one of those. They later sold out to what 1 guess was a predecessor to Thomasville, so that’s kind of how it started.INTERVIEWER:Did your grandfather ever get into furniture-making himself?KINCAID:He did. He and my father started Kincaid Furniture together in 1946. At Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWthe time, my father was working for Broyhill Furniture. He was a supervisor at the factory they had in Conover, North Carolina. And by that time, he hSteve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEW
ad eight children, and he was trying to support them all on the salary of a supervisor, and he couldn’t do it. So he started making little cedar chestAmerican Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidAMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW MAY 4, 2010 HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLI Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWe me, '46 -and started Kincaid Furniture along with my grandfather. That's how the company came to be.American Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidINTERVIEWER:Isn't there a little community up there called Kincaid?KINCAID:No, 1 don't think so.INTERVIEWER:So you were born in Hickory, bu Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWt you actually grew up in Lenoir.American Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidKINCAID:Lenoir. Lived in Lenoir.INTERVIEWER:And were you tSteve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEW
he first, middle, or at the end of the eight children your father had?KINCAID:Well, he went on to have two more children after the eight, so he ended American Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidAMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW MAY 4, 2010 HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLI Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEW number 9 out of 10.INTERVIEWER:I’m sure you're not the only one of those 10 kids that ended up in furniture.KINCAID:You know, all of US, except for two sisters who never got involved in the business. Everyone else at some point worked in the business. I'm the only one still in the business. I've go Steve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEWt some nieces and nephews in the business, but I'm the only one of my siblings still hanging around.INTERVIEWER:Well, did your father literally startSteve-Kincaid-Oral-History-INTERVIEW
making these cedar chests in his garage? How did this actually get underway?American Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidAMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW MAY 4, 2010 HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLIAmerican Furniture Hall of Fame Inductee -Steven M. KincaidAMERICAN FURNITURE HALL OF FAME ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW MAY 4, 2010 HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLIGọi ngay
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