death_date birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name occupation alma_mater
july 1955 madison county , north carolina august 15 , 1881 founder of u.s. foil company richard s. reynolds , sr.
 richard samuel reynolds , sr. . businessman university of virginia
richard s. reynolds , sr.

richard samuel reynolds , sr. was the founder of the u.s. foil company .
reynolds was born on august 15 , 1881 in madison county , north carolina .
he was the nephew of leading tobacco producer r.j. reynolds and the son of major abraham david reynolds -lrb- b. august 13 , 1847-d .
september 1925 -rrb- .
he married julia louise parham on december 21 , 1904 .
reynolds was the father of richard s. reynolds , jr. -lrb- b. 1909 - d. 1969 -rrb- was the founder of reynolds & co. , a brokerage firm that merged with dean witter & co. in 1978 to form dean witter reynolds .
reynolds left the university of virginia in 1903 to join the r. j. reynolds tobacco company , working for his uncle , who had founded the company .
reynolds was in part responsible for the company 's switch from the production of chewing to smoking tobacco and the launch of camel cigarettes .
in 1912 , reynolds left r.j. reynolds to go into business for himself .
shortly after world war i , reynolds founded the u.s. foil company in louisville , kentucky .
among the company 's early partners were r.j. reynolds and the british-american tobacco company .
the company 's original business was to roll tin and lead foil for cigarette packaging .
among other innovations , reynolds devised a moisture-preserving tobacco tin .
later the switch to aluminum foil was made .
in 1947 , his company introduced reynolds wrap .
it was sold around the world , it transformed food storage .
reynolds metals was the second-largest aluminum company in the united states and the third-largest in the world .
the richmond , virginia , company was bought by alcoa in 2000 .
