Early Business Career
Following graduation, Comer returned to Spring Hill and helped to manage the family plantation. He primarily grew corn and cotton on what became a 30,000-acre (120 km2) plantation. He continued to operate his Barbour County plantation, with his brother John managing it, after he moved his family to Anniston in east central Alabama in 1885.
Read more about this topic: B. B. Comer
Famous quotes containing the words early, business and/or career:
“We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)