Edmund Rennolds interview 2 (2004-06-23)

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Interviewees

Rennolds, Edmund Addison, 1916-2006

Interviewer

Hill, Kathryn Colwell

Description

Ned and Mary Anne Rennolds were founders of the Richmond Symphony and sponsors of many local musical programs, including the Mary Anne Rennolds Concert Series at VCU. Mr. Rennolds was co-founder of the brokerage firm Branch & Co. He was President of the Center for Palladian Studies in America and the James Branch Cabell Associates, and a life-long student of history and architecture. In this interview, Edmund Addison Rennolds, Jr., discusses his early life; his service in the Navy during World War II; his marriage to Mary Anne Pinder and their family life; the Branch family home and Quaker Hill in New York; the Branch, Rennolds, Addison, Pinder and Fizhugh family histories; the banking industry in Richmond; and experiences with the Gottwalds of Ethel Corp.

Personal Name Subject

Rennolds, Edmund Addison, 1916-2006 -- Interviews; Rennolds, Edmund Addison, 1916-2006 -- Family; Rennolds, Edmund Addison, 1916-2006 -- Homes and haunts; Rennolds, Mary Anne; Rennolds family -- History; Addison family -- History; Branch family -- History

Topical Subject

Banks and banking -- Virginia -- Richmond

Geographic Subject

Richmond (Va.) -- Commerce -- History

City/Location

Richmond (Va.)

Genre

oral histories (literary genre)

Local Genre

oral history; sound recording; text

Type

Sound; Text

Digital Format

audio/mp3

Language

eng

Rights

This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

Collection

VCU Oral History Archive

Source

Oral history and related materials of Edmund A. Rennolds, Jr. (Acc: 2004-12-15), Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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ohi_rennoldsedmund_part02.mp3

Edmund Rennolds interview 2 (2004-06-23)

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