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The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1887
Biographical Sketches, Shelby County TN
Transcribed by Helen Rowland

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Dr. D. D. SAUNDERS, one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Memphis, Tenn., was born at Rocky Hill, near Courtland, Lawrence Co., Ala., February 26, 1835, and was one of a family of eleven children born to Col. J. E. and Mary F. Saunders. The father was born in Virginia in 1806; he was a lawyer by profession, and engaged in the practice of his profession in Alabama, where his parents had moved, for a number of years. His health becoming delicate, he quit the law, and became a commission merchant in Mobile, Ala., until the war; since then he has devoted himself to his planting interests in Lawrence County, Ala. The mother was a Miss Mary F. Watkins, daughter of R. H. Watkins, of Elbert County, Ga. She was born in 1808. Both parents are still living at the old homestead near Courtland, Ala. Dr. D. D. Saunders was educated at La Grange College, Ala., receiving his diploma from that institution in 1852. He then began the study of medicine with Dr. J. C. Nott, of Mobile, Ala., and four years later received diplomas from the medical universities of Pennsylvania and New York. He then spent some time in Europe prosecuting the study of his profession, and in 1859 located in Memphis, and was soon elected to fill the chair of surgery, and afterward that of anatomy in the old Memphis Medical College. During the war of the States Dr. Saunders served four years as surgeon, filling various positions, among the number, assistant medical director of hospitals of the Army of Tennessee, and surgeon in chief of the reserve surgical corps on the field of battle, and was required to be on the field during most of the battles fought by the Army of Tennessee. In 1861 Dr. Saunders was married to Kate S., daughter of Seth and Mary (Cook) Wheatley. She was born in Nashville in 1840; was raised at Memphis. She died at Marietta, Ga., in 1863, leaving two daughters: Mary Lou and Kate W. Dr. Saunders was elected to fill the chair of surgery in the Memphis Hospital Medical College, and, after delivering one course, resigned the chair in 1886. In February, 1867, he married Mary E. Wheatley, a sister of his first wife, and by this marriage has two children: Dudley D. and Lizzie W. Since 1860 Dr. Saunders has been a Mason, and is now Master Mason of the order, and a member of the K. of H. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of Tennessee, of which he has been president, and the Shelby County Medical Society. In politics he is an ardent Democrat. Dr. Saunders has been a man of marked energy, and has labored earnestly and enthusiastically for all that tends to the advancement of the medical profession. He is known as an eminent physician throughout the State.

Lemuel A. SCARBROUGH, of the firm of L. A. Scarbrough & Co., cotton and grain merchants, is a native of North Carolina and a son of A. B. and M. L. (Morrison) Scarbrough. This firm is a continuation of what was formerly A. M. Scarbrough & Co., who established their business in 1871, the present firm beginning in 1881. For some years previous to this L. A. Scarbrough had been engaged in the same business in Savannah, Ga. Our subject came to Tennessee in 1846, and in 1859 located in Memphis. In May, 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service, Company E, Thirteenth Tennessee Regiment, and remained during the entire war. He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, which rendered him unfit for active duty, though he remained with the army until the surrender, except about six weeks, when he was held prisoner. In 1866 he married Ednie E. Malone, daughter of Robert C. and Elizabeth (Harper) Malone, of Tipton County. Eight children were born to this union�three daughters and five sons�one son died in 1873, and an infant son born and died February 16, 1887. Mr. Scarbrough and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Daniel SCHLOSS, clerk of Shelby County Circuit Court, was born in Yngenheim Rhine, Bavaria, Germany, September 30, 1837, and was reared and educated in his native country, learning in youth the tailor�s trade, which, however, he has never followed since. He came to the United States in 1854 and spent four years in Philadelphia, with an uncle in the clothing business. In 1860 he came to Tennessee and engaged in the mercantile pursuit in Huntingdon and Union City and in 1861 came to Memphis and was a member of the local militia here during the war. He spent 1865 in Natchez, Miss. In 1868 he located in La Grange, Tenn., where he followed the mercantile business one year and then returned to Memphis and clerked until 1878, when he returned to his native country on a visit. In the spring of 1879, he engaged in the dry goods business in Memphis, which pursuit he conducted successfully until 1886, when he was elected clerk of the circuit court, and is now faithfully and efficiently discharging the duties of that office. Politically he is a strong Democrat and as such was elected to his present position. Mr. Schloss has a high reputation for integrity, and has lately served as receiver for two large business firms of the city which had failed. In 1868 he was united in marriage with Miss Johanna Besthoff, and by her had two children. In 1873 his first wife died of yellow fever and in 1875 he married her cousin, Rachel Besthoff. This lady died in the autumn of 1881 and in 1883 he married Miss Tilly Lazard. A boy eleven years old, by his first wife, was drowned in 1880. One of the three children of his second wife died in infancy. Two children by his third wife are living. Mr. Schloss belongs to the following orders: I. O. O. F., K. of H., K. & L. of H. and A. O. U. W., and belongs to three Jewish societies and is a member of the Jewish Church. While on his visit to the old country he brought his father, Joseph Schloss, back with him, and the old gentleman is now residing with him, and is in his eighty-fourth year.

Messrs. Schoolfield, Hanauer & Co. established their business in 1865. The firm is composed of W. W. SCHOOLFIELD, Louis Hanaer and Henry G. Miller, although at the beginning the firm contained two other members who have since died. They were Jacob Hanauer and Henry Thomas. W. W. Schoolfield is the son of John W. and Frances (Dudley) Schoolfield, and a native of Virginia. He came to Memphis in 1855 and clerked for some time in a grocery. In 1860 he married E. M. Thomas, of Virginia, the daughter of Joseph Thomas and to them was born one son, Dudley T. Mr. Schoolfield is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Louis Hanauer, one of the members of this firm, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1820, and is the son of Marks and Lena Hanauer, both of whom died in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of eighteen Louis Hanauer came to the United State, locating first in Cincinnati, and when twenty years of age went to Pocahontas, Ark., where he engaged in the mercantile business. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army, and was Gen. Hardee�s staff officer. He remained but a short time and then returned home. In 1862 he came to Memphis. Previous to this, in 1845; he had married Susan Kelley, daughter of James and Sallie Kelley of Missouri. She died in 1885 in her sixty-fifth year. Henry G. Miller, the junior member of this firm, is a native of Fayette County, Tenn., and the son of Henry and Evaline Miller, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia respectively. They came to Tennessee in 1832. In 1859 Henry G. married Lizzie S. Hart, a native of Fayette County, and the daughter of John M. and Mary M. (Armour) Hart. To Mr. Miller and wife were born three sons, one of whom died at the age of eighteen. In 1863 Mr. Miller moved to this city. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Thomas M. SCRUGGS, director of the Memphis Law Library and a member of the well known legal firm of Frayser & Scruggs, was born in Alabama in 1855 and came to Memphis in 1878. He became associated in the practice of law with the firm of Frayser & Scruggs. Mr. Scruggs was educated at the University of the South and at the University of Virginia, graduating from the law department of the latter institution in 1875. On the 3d of March, 1877, he was admitted to the bar at Grenada, Miss., but began the practice in this city. Mr. Scruggs is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the K. of H. He is an only child born to P. T. and Elizabeth Marshall Murphy Scruggs the father a native of Tennessee and the mother of Alabama. They were married in Alabama, and resided in that State until the father�s death in 1856. The mother afterward married again, and died in Mississippi in 1878.

Miss M. L. SCUDDER. Among the settlers at Salem, Mass., in the latter part of the seventeenth century, was the Scudder family, of English and Scotch-Irish descent. From there they spread west and south, furnishing prominent ministers, teachers and doctors for many of the States. Among them was Samuel E. Scudder, a native of Princeton, N. J., and a graduate of the college there. When young he immigrated to Georgia and became one of the noted educators of the State. While there he married Eunice B. Safford, by whom he had seven children�two sons and five daughters. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. He died during the late war, but the mother still lives in Georgia. Miss M. L. Scudder was born in Greensboro, Ga., and educated at the Synodical College of that State, taking a classical course. After teaching some time elsewhere she was elected to the principalship of the Leath school in 1883. Her study of the classics has not only well fitted her for the position she now holds but furnishes a solid foundation on which to build higher.

Rev. Davis SESSUMS, rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, was born July 7, 1858, in Houston, Tex. While growing up he had the best educational advantages, having taken a full course in the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn. He graduated from the literary department of that splendid institution in 1878, from which he also received the degree of A. M. Early in 1882 he was ordained deacon, and in August of the same year was ordained priest. He then became rector of Grace Church at Galveston, Tex., and held that position until 1883, when he was called to his present position. Father Sessums is an earnest worker, and presents a commanding appearance in the pulpit.

Dr. H. J. SHAW, a physician of Memphis, Tenn., was born in Robertson County, Tenn., in 1825, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah Shaw, both natives of North Carolina. The father was born in 1798, and came with his parents to Davidson County, Tenn., in 1802, and some time afterward moved to Robertson County, Tenn. He was surveyor and colonel of the State militia of that county for a number of years. He was a farmer by occupation, and died in 1839. The mother was a Miss Binkley before her marriage, born in 1798 and died in 1881. Dr. Shaw was educated in Robertson County and studied medicine under Drs. James and R. J. Mallory, then attended lectures at the University of Louisville, Ky., and in 1854 graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and two years later graduated in the medical department of the university at Nashville, and located near Thomasville, Tenn., where he practiced medicine until 1863, then spent two years in Philadelphia and New York, studying various branches of his profession, and in 1866 located at Memphis, Tenn., where he has since carried a most lucrative practice and is regarded as one of the best posted physicians in the State. In 1859 he married Miss Nannie W., daughter of Zachariah and Nancy Sherron. Mrs. Shaw is a native of Montgomery County. Dr. Shaw has been an earnest student in his profession and is a physician of wide experience, having always had an extensive practice. He is a Mason of long standing.

Chamberlayne Jones (deceased) was born in Virginia, and in 1827 came to Shelby County, Tenn., where he made his home and became a very extensive land owner. In 1853 he married Mrs. Ann (Smith) Lewelling, a native of Baltimore, Md., who when young came with her parents to Louisville, Ky. She here met and married Mr. Lewelling, a native of North Carolina, a farmer and a commission merchant. He died in 1851. Her second husband, Mr. C. Jones, was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He died in 1869. In 1881 she married Mr. John SHIPP, a native of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Shipp are both members and active workers in the Methodist Church.

Howell SIGLER, superintendent of the business of the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company at Memphis, was born January 9, 1850, in Orange County, N. Y., and is the son of Peter H. and Julia A. (Howell) Sigler, both natives of Orange County, N. Y. In early life the father worked at the tailor�s trade, and afterward became a commercial traveler; later still he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1877. The mother is still living, and is a member of the Baptist Church. Their family consisted of three children�two sons and one daughter. Our subject was educated and learned telegraphy in his native county. When only fifteen years of age he took a position as a telegraphic operator, and later still operated for the Central Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Western Union until he came to Memphis in the interests of the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company. In 1874 he married Lucy Berlin, a native of Virginia. By this union they had two children�one son and one daughter. Mrs. Sigler is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Hon. David C. SLAUGHTER, chairman of the Shelby County Court, was born in Greenville, N. C., August 25, 1831, and is the son of Abner and Mary (Cannon) Slaughter, both natives of North Carolina. In March, 1832, the parents moved to Tipton County, where they located and passed the remainder of their lives on a plantation near Covington, both dying in 1871. They were most exemplary citizens. Our subject was reared and educated on his father�s plantation, and in 1858 was elected sheriff of Tipton County and served four years. In March, 1866, he was re-elected to the same office, and in 1868 was again re-elected, a merited recognition of his standing and prominence in the county. In August, 1869, he resigned and was elected State senator. He served until 1871 and then followed agricultural pursuits in Tipton County until February, 1877, when he removed to Shelby County and located on a small plantation where he yet resides. In 1878 he was elected magistrate and became cashier for George B. Fleece, county trustee. He served as cashier two years and as magistrate ever since. From 1882 to 1885 he served as adjuster of claims against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and in January, 1886, he was elected chairman of the county court, in which position he is yet serving, to the acceptance of the people. In 1850 he married Susan A. Overall, of Tipton County. They have three sons and three daughters living. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the K. of H., K. & L. of H. and the A.O.U.W., and himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

John D. SLAUGHTER was born in Tipton County, Tenn., in 1850, and is a son of Dr. Wyatt and Mary Ann (Fleming) Slaughter. The father was a native of North Carolina and the mother of Tennessee. Dr. Slaughter was a practicing physician in Tipton and Shelby Counties for twenty-five years, then moved to Fort Smith, Ark., where he now carries an extensive practice. John D. Slaughter was educated in Tipton County. He spent some time clerking after finishing his education. He married Miss Mary M. Stewart, a daughter of J. D. Stewart, a well known farmer of Shelby County. Eight children have been born to this union, only five of them living. Mrs. Slaughter is an earnest member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In 1885 Mr. Slaughter established himself as a merchant at Stewartsville, in Shelby County, and has conducted his business in an enterprising, liberal manner, and has a large patronage. He is independent in politics and a man of generous disposition, and broad views.

Charles M. SMALL, a farmer of Shelby County, was born in Giles County, Tenn., November 7, 1836. His father, George Small, was born in Mecklenburg County, Va., and immigrated to Giles County, Tenn., in early life, where he was an overseer for different planters in that part of the country for a few years, and married Mary J. Jones, a native of King and Queen County, Va., and daughter of James Jones and a sister of G. W. Jones, who represented the Lincoln County (Tenn.) District in Congress for sixteen consecutive years, besides filling many other prominent positions in public life. The father moved to Shelby County, Tenn., in 1846, and settled at the place where our subject now lives, and engaged in farming until he died in August, 1880. The mother died in 1873. Charles M. Small was raised on a farm and received a common-school education, and has made farming his occupation. He enlisted in the Confederate Army and belonged to Owens� Arkansas battery, serving until the war closed; he was at the bombardment of Fort Pillow, and the evacuation of Corinth, and was surrendered at Meridian, Miss. Mr. Small has never married; he makes his home with his sisters, Mary J. Small and Mrs. L. J. Bilderback. He is a Democrat and a K. of H. and cast his first presidential vote for S. A. Douglass. He owns a half section of land five miles south of Germantown, and is one of the progressive farmers of the county.

Gen. William J. SMITH was born in Birmingham, England, September 24, 1823, and came to America when a child, and served four and a half years at the painter�s trade, in Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y. In 1846 he removed South and joined James Wheat�s mounted rangers for the Mexican war. He participated in all the battles from Vera Cruz to Mexico City, and on that memorable campaign was one of Gen. Scott�s body guard. In July, 1848, he was mustered out at the city of Memphis. He then worked at his trade of painting in this city for ten years, and in 1858 purchased a plantation at Grand Junction, Hardeman County, which he conducted successfully until the breaking out of the last war. He opposed secession from the start. His opinions becoming known, he was arrested four times by the Confederate authorities for disloyalty to the South, but was released, as the arrests were found unjustifiable. Soon afterward he joined the First West Tennessee Cavalry, afterward known as the Sixth Union Tennessee Cavalry, and after two months was made regimental quartermaster, six months later major, and a little later lieutenant-colonel. In 1864 he was made colonel of the united Sixth and Thirteenth Union Cavalry Regiments. Soon after this he was promoted to brevet brigadier-general. In 1865 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention to reinstate Tennessee in the Union, and later was elected to the Legislature from Hardeman County, and two years later was elected to the State Senate from Shelby County, and in November, 1868, was elected to Congress. In 1871 he was appointed surveyor of the port of Memphis by President Grant and served three terms. In 1878 he was very active in relieving the victims of the yellow fever at Grenada and was taken down with the scourge, but recovered, having been sent home. He was married in New York City, by Rev. Dr. William Berryan, to Miss Mary A. R. Slack, a native of New Brunswick. They have had eleven children, three now living�one son and two daughters�Victor R., Irene and Lillian. He is United States commissioner and notary public, and has been engaged in the real estate, lumber and abstract businesses in company with L. B. Eaton, of Memphis, for several years. Two years ago he was elected to the State Senate from Shelby County.

James H. SMITH, cashier of the Memphis National Bank, of Memphis, was born in Shelbyville, Ky., July 6, 1835, and is the son of Abraham and Margaret (Campbell) Smith, both parents being natives of Kentucky. Our subject passed his youth and received his education in his native county, and in early manhood served as deputy circuit court clerk six years. In 1858 he came to Memphis and served as deputy sheriff of Shelby County four years. During the first years of the war he served as first assistant provost-marshal of the Confederate Government in West Tennessee. From the close of the war until 1882 he was engaged in the grocery and cotton businesses at Memphis. During the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 he was secretary of the Howard Association, of Memphis. In 1882 he went to Birmingham, Ala., and was made secretary of the Pratt Coal & Iron Company, the largest institution of the kind in the South, and he still serves as secretary and director of the same. In 1882 he was appointed postmaster of Memphis by President Arthur, and held the position until August 1, 1885. From 1879 to 1882 he represented Shelby County in the State Legislature. He was elected secretary of the Planters� Fire & Marine Insurance Company, of Memphis, in August, 1885, and resigned this position February 1, 1887, to accept his present position as cashier of the Memphis National Bank, of Memphis, one of the most solid institutions of the city, having a capital of $500,000. In politics he is a stanch Republican. He is married and has living three sons and two daughters. He is a deacon in the Linden Street Christian Church, of Memphis.

W. A. SMITH, proprietor of the Avery Gin Company�business located at 391 and 393 Front Street, and established in 1879�was born in Alabama in 1845. He spent his youthful days clerking, and afterward engaged in the grocery business. In 1855 he immigrated to Arkansas with his parents, William H. and Minerva (Leverque) Smith, and in 1866 came to the city of Memphis. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate Army and remained in service until the close of the war. In 1866 he was united in marriage to Miss Georgia Sheffield, of Memphis, and by this union became the father of seven children, five of whom are now living. Mr. Smith is a member of the K. of H. and A.O.U.W., and his wife is a member of the First Baptist Church.

Albert H. SMITH, proprietor of the Memphis Cotton Beam Manufactory & Scale Repair Works, established his business, which is located at 83 East Court Street, January 1, 1884. Mr. Smith is a native of Buffalo, N.Y., and served his apprenticeship in the Buffalo Scale Works; was also with the Howe Scale Works for some time. In 1874 he was married in the State of New York, and in December, 1883, he came to the city of Memphis. He is a skilled workman and makes a specialty of erecting and repairing scales.

W. M. SNEED, of the law firm of Myers & Sneed, was educated at Chapel Hill College, N.C., and afterward began the study of law and was admitted to practice at the bar of Oxford, N.C., in 1874. Soon after that date he came to Memphis and was associated with the firm of McRae, Myers and Sneed, which firm existed until 1877, when the present firm of Myers & Sneed was formed. In 1885 Mr. Sneed was elected president of the Woodruff Lumber Company, one of the leading lumber firms of this city. He has also been one of the directors of and attorney for the State National Bank of Memphis since its organization. Our subject was born August 7, 1848, and is one of a family of six children, all of whom are still living. Mr. Sneed is recognized as one of the rising young attorneys of the Memphis bar. His parents are W. M. and Louisa (Bethell) Sneed, and are natives of North Carolina, and were married in Granville County, where they followed agricultural pursuits. The mother died in 1863, and the father married Mrs. Sarah A. Bullock, who is also deceased.

John K. SPEED, senior member of the firm of J. K. Speed & Co., grain and commission merchants, and member of the firm of J. M. Phillips & Co., grain dealers in West Memphis, is a native of Kentucky, and in 1835 was taken by his parents to Chicago, and in 1866 came to this city with his mother and engaged in the retail grocery trade. A few months later he established the grain and commission business to which he has since devoted his attention. He was the pioneer grain merchant of Memphis and loaded and unloaded the first barges of grain at this port. In 1874 in connection with the grain trade he began the milling business, and the Memphis City Mills are now among the best in the city. In West Memphis the company has a large elevator and a wharfboat, said to be the largest in the United States. Mr. Speed was the first president of the Board of Trade and of the Board of Exchange. He is interested in the extensive grain elevator at this city and is vice-president of the Home Insurance Company and is a director in the State National Bank. In 1871 he married a Miss Clark, of Peoria, Ill. His father died in Chicago.

Prof. Andrew J. STEELE, principal of Le Moyne Normal Institute, was born July 2, 1848, in Wisconsin, and secured his education at Milton College, in that State, graduating from the State Normal School of Wisconsin in 1870. He then came South and took charge of the normal department of Tongaloo University, near Jackson, Miss., where he remained till 1873, after which he came to his present position. His parents, Samuel and Olive (Pierce) Steele, were natives, respectively, of Vermont and New York. The father, when young, moved to New York where he met and married Miss Pierce. In 1842 they moved to Wisconsin. In the family were eight children�five sons and three daughters. Three of the sons served in the Federal Army. Our subject when only seventeen years of age left home without the consent of his parents and entered Company L, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and served nearly two years of the latter part of the war. In 1871 he married Amelia Crandall, a native of Wisconsin and a graduate of Milton College, by whom he had two children: Jessie (deceased) and Howard. Both Mr. and Mrs. Steele are members of the Congregational Church.

J. D. STEWART, a farmer, residing in the First District of Shelby County, was born in Gibson County, Tenn., in 1824, and is a son of James T. and Mary A. (Craig) Stewart. The father was a resident of Gibson County and engaged in farming. He was a moral and industrious man, highly esteemed in his neighborhood. Our subject was educated in the common schools in Gibson County, the advantages offered by the primitive schools in the country at that time being meager. He enlisted in the Confederate Army under Col. Aaron Burrows, in 1862, but remained only a short time as his eyes were seriously affected, and when he returned home the citizens of his neighborhood petitioned for his release, that he might manage a mill, that was at that time much needed. In 1848 he married Miss Mary Epperson, daughter of Joseph Epperson, a farmer of Wilson County, Tenn. Ten children have been the issue of this union, seven of them now living. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a Mason, but does not adhere to any political party. He is a well-informed man, and a genial companion.

Dr. Cyrus M. STEWART, a leading physician in the First Civil District of Shelby County, Tenn., was born in Gibson County in 1832. He is a son of James T. Stewart, who was born in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1802, and moved from that county to Gibson County, where he lived for twenty years, then moved to Shelby County and engaged in farming until he died, January 31, 1880. He was a member and an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He married Miss Mary A. Craig, a native of Tennessee, born in 1821, and a daughter of Maj. Craig, who was a prominent officer in the Indian war during the early settlement of West Tennessee. Our subject was but thirteen years of age when his father moved to Shelby County, Tenn. He was educated in the county, attending New Salem Academy. He has been practicing medicine since 1859. In March, 1860, he graduated in medicine at Cincinnati, and afterward graduated from the Memphis Medical College. Dr. Stewart was married February 16, 1860, to Miss Virginia A. Walker, a daughter of Rev. J. R. Walker, of Shelby County. They had two children, but both died, and Mrs. Stewart died August 18, 1864. She was a devout Christian and a member of the Methodist Church. Dr. Stewart was married the second time to Miss Kate J. Douglass, daughter of G. L. Douglass, a prominent farmer of the First District. Four children have been the issue of this marriage, only two of them living. Dr. and Mrs. Stewart are active members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a Mason and a K. of H. He ranks high in his profession, and has met with marked success in his extensive practice. He is a Democrat and an influential citizen of Shelby County.

Prof. W. B. STEWART is a native of New Orleans, La., was born in 1843 and immigrated to Memphis with his parents, E. P. and Mary (Battle) Stewart, in 1846. The father was an extensive building contractor, also handled cotton on the factorage system. He was the second president elected for the Elmwood Cemetery, and held the office at the time of his death, which occurred in 1859; the mother followed in death in 1865. In 1861 our subject left his desk in the school room and enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment Infantry, Confederate Army, and was discharged the same year at Columbus, Ky., on account of being afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism. In 1863 he re-enlisted, joining the Twelfth Tennessee Regiment Cavalry and remained in service until the close of the war. He then began teaching school and has continued in that business up to the present time. In 1871 he located in the village of Arlington, and has since made it his home. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a good citizen.

A. A. STRANGE is one of the wholesale and retail coal dealers of Memphis, with yards at the corner of Clinton and Beale Streets, and at the corner of Market and Front Streets, where he handles Kentucky coal. Mr. Strange is a native of Memphis, born in 1858, but when a mere boy was taken to New York City where he received his education. At the age of fifteen he engaged in the mercantile business and in 1876 he came to Memphis. He was engaged in different occupations till 1883 when he opened a coal yard. He began at first by hiring teams, but by industry and close attention to business has attained a position among the leading coal dealers. His father, W. R. Strange, was one of the first book dealers in Memphis. He died in 1861. The mother, Maria (Merrill) Strange, is a daughter of Dr. A. P. Merrill. She is still living. Our subject is an experienced coal dealer, having worked formerly for C. B. Bryan & Co., and having been, also, traveling salesman for a mining company.

Dr. A. S. STRATTON, of the firm of Stratton & Humphreys, was born in Athol, Mass., July 5, 1820. He is a son of David Stratton, who was a native of Athol, Mass., where he was raised and educated and married to Sarah Wadsworth, who was of an English family. Three sons and three daughters were born to this marriage, our subject being the fifth child. The father was a farmer and by trade a shoemaker. He died in his native State in 1854. He was of Scotch descent. The mother was born in Grafton, Mass., and died in Athol, Mass., in 1825. Our subject was raised, and educated in the common schools of Grafton, and his time has been given to the practice of medicine and to merchandising all of his life. In 1845 he immigrated to Mississippi and settled near Como, where he read medicine under Dr. D. W. Harris, and afterward graduated at the Memphis Medical College in 1848, and commenced practicing at Colliersville, Tenn., where he became a member of the firm of Moore & Stratton, dealers in general merchandise. Afterward Dr. Stratton sold goods at Centerhill, Miss., for a year and a half; then returned to Colliersville, Tenn., where he again went into business, with E. J. Kindred, but in May, 1868, their store was destroyed by fire, and he formed a partnership with J. T. Biggs & Co., which lasted sixteen years. In 1884 Dr. Stratton opened his present dry goods store under the firm name of Stratton & Humphreys. July 10, 1849, he married, in Shelby County, Miss Mary E. Chamberlain, a daughter of Jacob Chamberlain, who was a native of Connecticut. Mary Eudora, now the wife of T. H. Humphreys, junior member of the firm of Stratton & Humphreys, was the only child born to this marriage. Mrs. Stratton was born in Sharon, Conn., in November, 1821, and is a sister of the distinguished Rev. Dr. Jacob Chamberlain, who is a resident missionary at Manda Palla, India; also of W. J. Chamberlain, formerly secretary of the State board of agriculture of Ohio, and is now president of the Iowa State Agricultural College. Dr. Stratton has been successful as a business man, and popular as a physician. He owns a pleasant home in Colliersville, and in politics is an influential Democrat. Dr. Stratton and wife are prominent members of the Presbyterian Church.

John H. SULLIVAN, superintendent of the Kansas City Railroad, and of the Memphis, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad, was born in 1850, and is a native Tennessean in which State he was reared and educated. His parents were natives of Ireland, and came to America settling in Missouri, where the father followed agricultural pursuits. Our subject has been prominently connected with several railroads. He was with the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in various capacities in Missouri; was with the Northern Pacific Railroad as superintendent from 1872 to 1876, and with the M.K.&T. Railroad as superintendent from 1876 to 1878. He then returned to the Northern Pacific and was superintendent of that during its building through the Yellowstone Valley in Montana. In 1880 he married S. P. Orrick of Kirkwood, St. Louis Co., Mo., and to this union were born two children. In 1862 Mr. Sullivan was called to his present position. He has been an able and diligent official, as may be seen from his successive promotions.

Jeremiah SULLIVAN, secretary of the Memphis Board of Fire Under- writers, is a native of Memphis, Tenn., and was born December 7, 1862, being the son of Jeremiah and Mary (Powers) Sullivan, both parents being natives of the Emerald Isle. Our subject grew to manhood and received his education in the Memphis City public schools. In 1883 he became connected with the fire department and served in various positions�pipeman, driver, captain and secretary, to Chief Clary�receiving steady promotion for meritorious conduct. In September, 1886, he was elected to his present position, and is now faithfully and efficiently discharging the duties assigned him. He is yet unmarried, is a Democrat, and a member of the Catholic Church. He is chairman of the finance committee of the Memphis Fire & Relief Association, and is also secretary of the K. of I.