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Betty Grueninger Stearns and niece Dorothy Grueninger
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Digital Collection: Picturing Appalachia, a Digital Initiatives project in partnership with Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina University.
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This 1941 image of Betty Grueninger Stearns, sitting in an automobile, with her niece Dorothy Grueninger is part of the Stearns-Grueninger Collection. Irving Kip Stearns (1895-1942) was president of Carolina Wood Turning Company from 1928 until his death in 1942. Stearns’ grandfather, Jeremiah Shank, started the company in 1903 as Bryson City Pump Works and it grew to be a thriving industry for the community. In 1911, Stearns was in the first graduating class of Bryson City High School. He had one son, Joseph Pease Stearns (1917-1948). In 1935, I. K. married Betty Grueninger (1896-1971).