Herman Warden Lay 1909 - Runner Genealogy

Herman Warden Lay Sex: Male

Birth Date	1909
Death Date	1982
Father	Jesse Newton Lay	Born: 1878	Died: 1851
Mother	Bertha Erman Parr	Born: 1883	Died: 1919

Herman Warden Lay
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Herman Warden Lay (1909 â€“ 1982) was an American businessman who was involved in potato chip manufacturing with his eponymous brand of Lays potato chips. He started H.W. Lay Co., Inc., now part of the Frito-Lay corporation, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. Early life Lay was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 6, 1909. His father, Jesse N. Lay, worked for International Harvester, first as a bookkeeper in Charlotte and later as a commercial salesman in Columbia, South Carolina, where the family moved. By 1920, they moved to Greenville, South Carolina. In 1922, his mother died of cancer and his father remarried. He then attended Furman University on an athletic scholarship for two years, but did not graduate. Career He began his career at Sunshine Biscuits and was fired because of the Great Depression. He then worked as a traveling salesman for the Barrett Food Company, when he delivered potato chips to his customers in his Ford Model A. His territory eventually expanded and his profits began to grow. In 1932, he borrowed US$100 and founded the H.W. Lay Distributing Company based in Atlanta, Georgia, a distributor for the Barrett Food Products Company, and began to hire employees. He peddled potato chips from Atlanta to Nashville, Tennessee. By 1937, he had 25 employees, and had begun producing his own line of snack foods. The H.W. Lay & Company merged with The Frito Company in September 1961, creating the largest-selling snack food company in the United States, the Frito-Lay corporation. In 1965, Herman W. Lay (Chairman and Chief executive officer of Frito-Lay) and Donald M. Kendall (President and Chief executive officer of Pepsi-Cola) merged the two companies and formed PepsiCo, Inc. A philanthropist, he helped found the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE). Personal life He married Sarah Amelia "Mimi" Hodges and had four children. He died at the age of 73 in 1982. His late son, Herman Warden Lay Jr., was a Dallas-based co-founder of a bottling company in Mexico for Pepsi and 7 Up. Legacy The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a room named after him. His alma mater, Furman University, offers a scholarship in his name. The Lay Ornamental Garden in the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is named for him.

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Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-
Jesse Newton Lay b.1878 d.1851	Joseph Barton Lay b.1853 d.1936	Leonard Simpson Lay b.1822 d.1865	John Vincent Lay b.1791 d.1836	Emanual O Lay DAR # A134370 b.1741 Prince William VA Colony d.1802 See Notes	Abraham Lay DAR #A067485 b.1701 Wovewnhoe Essex England d.1784 See Notes	Abraham Lay b.1675 Little Bromley, Essex, England, United Kingdom d.1715
							Jesse Newton Lay b.1878 d.1851
						Abigail Aylett b.1683 d.1761 See Notes	Thomas Aylett b.1655 England See Notes	Hugh Lay b.1628 England d.1704 See Notes
								Julia Nash b.1622
							Margaret Mary ? b.1655 England See Notes
								Margaret Mary ? b.1655 England See Notes
					Sarah N Grimes b.1714 Fairfax VA Colony	Nicolas Grymes b.1685	William Grimes Jr b.1663 Sheffield,West Riding,Yorkshire, England d.1738	WIlliam Grimes Sr b.1633 d.1676
								Joyce Green b.1641 Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England d.1715
							Anne Donaldson b.1662 d.1737	James Donaldson b.1642	James Donaldson b.1608 Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England	MORE>
								Anne Donaldson b.1662 d.1737
						Sarah Jane Donaldson b.1684	William Townsend Donaldson b.1658 Loudoun VA Colony d.1732 See Notes	William Andrew Donaldson b.1635 d.1695 See Notes	James Donaldson b.1610 See Notes	MORE>
								Elanor Foy b.1635 England d.1695	Daniel Foy b.1605 England d.1635	MORE>
							Mary Thurman Adams b.1662 Loudoun VA Colony d.1736	Thurman Adams b.1640 Virginia Colony, Virginia, United States d.1700
								Hester Waller b.1637 All Hallows, London Wall, London, England d.1700
				Sarah Scofield b.1750 VA d.1799



	Lidia Alice Copeland b.1858 Wayne, Tennessee, d.1936	Joseph Matthew Copeland b.1825 Madison, Madison County, Alabama d.1899 See Notes	James Copeland War of 1812 b.1791 d.1866	James Dugal Copeland b.1742 Orange County, VA d.1811 See Notes




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Bertha Erman Parr b.1883 d.1919

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