Bette Nesmith Graham for USD $47.5 million in 1979. At the time, her company employed 200 people and made 25 million bottles of Liquid Paper per year. Bette Nesmith died on May 12, 1980, at the age of 56, in Richardson, Texas. From the start, Graham ran her company with a unique combination of spirituality, egalitarianism, and pragmatism. Raised a Methodist, Graham converted to Christian Science in 1942, and this faith inspired the development of her corporate "Statement of Policy". Part-code of ethics, part-business philosophy, it covered everything from her belief in a "Supreme Being" to a focus on decentralized decision making and
Frank Nesmith Parsons Frank Nesmith Parsons Frank Nesmith Parsons (September 3, 1854 in Dover, New Hampshire – 1934 in Franklin, New Hampshire) was a lawyer, politician, and Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1902 to 1924. Some sources spell his middle name "Naismith". Parsons was the son of Rev. Benjamin F. Parsons, a prominent New Hampshire Congregational minister. Parsons was educated at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire and at Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of 1874. After teaching for several years, Parsons studied law and passed the bar in 1879. He became the law partner of Austin F.