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partner, ran the company beginning in the 1880s as Wilgus's health declined. After Wilgus's death in 1893, the two established Tandy & Byrd where Tandy was business manager and the face of the business and Byrd was the foreman. By 1894, the firm employed about 50 workers, both Blacks and whites. The
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