Martha Carlile in the office of the Segrest Gin Company, Dothan, Alabama, ca. 1960.

Martha E. Carlile (neé Wright), was born in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama, in 1926, a twin and the youngest of seven children of John and Susie Wright. She worked as an accountant beginning in 1945, and in the late 1950s purchased the Segrest Cotton Gin of Dothan, Alabama, and the Malvern Cotton...

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