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• Helen Watkins (Mrs. Richard)
  Photograph of Helen Whiteside Watkins, born August 17, 1849 and died January 13, 1928. Her father was James Whiteside, part of St. Elmo development, and her husband was Richard Watkins.
• Helen Carlilse Nieland (Mrs. Frank)
  Cabinet card photograph of Helen Carlile Nieland in her wedding dress, taken in Philadelphia. She was born in Pennsylvania on January 11, 1859 and died in Washington on January 9, 1932. Her husband was Frank Nieland, secretary and treasurer of Citico Iron company. She was the daughter of Mayor Carlile who died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
• Marie Harris Burris
  Photograph of Marie Burris, who was born in England, April 20, 1838 and died in Ridgedale, Tennessee, on August 29,1917. She was for 50 years a member of the Iowa Methodist Conference. She and her husband Rev. F. Burris came to Chattanooga in 1886. She was president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, assisted with the Frances Willard Home, and established Soldiers' Rest Home duriing the Spanish-American War. She was a writer and active in civic circles.
• Harriet L. Whiteside (Mrs. James)
  Photograph of Harriet Whiteside, born Harriet Straw in Wytheville, Virginia on May 3, 1824. She came to Chattanooga in 1843 as music teacher to James Whiteside's children. In 1844, she married Whiteside and bore him 9 children. After his death in 1861, Harriet managed his large estate and protected the family holdings during and after the Civil War. She died February 1, 1903, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Florence Whiteside
  Photograph of Florence Whiteside, at the age of 30. She wasborn February 18, 1847, and died August 14, 1917. She was the daughter of James and Harriet Whiteside and never married. She was an early student of Mary Baker Eddy and one of the early adherents of Christian Science in Tennessee.
• Emma Crutchfield Whiteside
  Photograph of Emma Crutchfield Whiteside, born 1862, wife of Charles Cook Whiteside, died October 6, 1914 in New York City. Her father was William Crutchfield, associated with the Cruchfield House hotel.
• Jane and Leroy Yancey
  Photograph of Leory and Jane Yancey, well known during the early 1880s. Mrs. Yancey, as the former Mrs. Jane Weaver, owned a Milliner shop on Eighth Street. The portrait was made by Judd Photography.
• Almira Steele (Mrs. Walter)
  Photograph of Almira S. Steele, born Almira Derving in Chelsea, Massachusetts on July 23, 1842. She married Walter Steele in 1871 but was widowed 2 years later. She was a teacher and missionary, sponsored by the Women's Home Missionary Association of the Congregationalist Church. In 1880, she came to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to organize and conduct a school for African American children left homeless by disease and poverty. The Steele Home for Needy Children began with 3 small girls but would eventually care for over 1,600 children, Black and white. Almira Steele converted to Seven Day Adventist practices and ran the orphanage based on those ideas. She died June 6, 1925, and the orphanage closed.
• Laurena Read (Mrs. John T.)
  Photograph of Mrs. John Thomas Read, born Laurena Caroline Rankin in March 24,1827 in Jasper, Tennesse and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on January 3, 1903. She married John Thomas Read iin 1848. Together, Mr. and Mrs. Read operated the Read House Hotel on Broad Street, offering both advice and shelter. Mrs. Read kept a large garden at the rear of the hotel.
• Emma Bell Miles with her child
  Photograph of Emma Bell Miles, born in 1879 in Indiana. Her parents brought her to Chattanooga as a child due to health issues. There she became well known as a naturalist, poet, journalist, and artist, working at one time as the head of the art department of Cadek conservatory and again in the social department of the evening newspaper. She was the author of several books of poems and short stories illustrating life in Appalachia and had stories published in such magazines as Scribner's and Harper's. She died of tuberculosis on March 19, 1919.
• Mary and David McMillin
  Photograph of David McMillan and his wife Mary McMillin. He was born April 10, 1819 in Washington, Rhea county, Tennessee and moved to Chattanooga in 1837. He originally engaged in the merchant tailor business then went into banking before and after the U.S. Civil War. In 1851 he was elected alderman to the first board of mayor and alderman after Chattanooga was incorporated. Since then he has served as City recorder, mayor, member of State Board of Railroad Tax Assessors and Secretary of the Board of Public Works in Chattanooga. He died November 26, 1897 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mary was born April 22, 1826 in McMinn, Tennessee as Mary Letitia Campbell. She married David on May 24, 1843 in Athens, McMinn county, Tennessee. She died October 4, 1873 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Virginia (Jennie) Drane Lyerly (Mrs. Charles A.)
  Photograph of Virginia (Jennie) Drane Lyerly, wife of Charles A. Lyerly. She was born in January 1860 (estimated year) in Mississippi and married on February 6, 1874 in Enterprise, Mississippi. By the time of the 1900 census, she was living in Chattanooga, where she died September 21, 1921.
• Elizabeth Lenoir Key (Mrs. David M.)
  Photograph of Elizabeth Lenoir Key, wife of David M. Key. She was born January 28, 1838 in Chattanooga and was married in Roane County July 1, 1857. She died October 2, 1926.
• Margaret Hackett Kennedy (Mrs. Allen)
  Photograph of Margaret Hackett Kennedy, born in 1800, who married Allen Kennedy in 1818. She died in 1867. Photograph is of a carte de visit in case.
• Sarah Meredith Vincent James (Mrs. Jesse)
  Photograph of Sarah Meredith Vincent James, the second wife of Jesse J. James and mother of his children.
• Blanche Chandler James (Mrs. John W.)
  Photograph of Blanche Chandler James, wife of John Walter James. Born December 26, 1845 in Hamilton county, Tennessee. She was married to John W. for more than sixty years at the time of his death in 1928. Died November 23, 1929 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Mary Jane Haley (Mrs. James M.)
  Photograph of Mary Jane James Harris, daughter of Jesse and Sarah James and mother of Franklin Harris, who became treasurer of the Chattanooga Union Railway.
• Caroline Walker Green (Mrs. Lapsley)
  Photograph of Caroline "Callie" Mary Walker Green, wife of Doctor Lapsley Green, Born May 26, 1928 in Kentucky. Married to Dr. Green July 3, 1851 in Paris, Kentucky. Died June 10, 1903 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Katie Dickinson
  Photograph of Katie Dickinson Tucker, daughter of Col. Lawrence Thompson Dickinson. She was born March 18, 1873 in Cumberland, Maryland. She married George Cllingwood Tucker in 1893. She died May 7, 1957 in Keokuk, Iowa.
• Harriet L. Whiteside (Mrs. James)
  Photograph of Harriett L. Whiteside, born May 3, 1824. She was a noted businesswoman, born in Virginia and educated as a teach in North Carolina, she came to Chattanooga to teach music to the children of widowed Col. James A. Whiteside, who became her husband in 1844. Upon his death, she inherited his estate and managed his business concerns, later forming a turnpike company on Lookout Mountain and attempting to control access to Lookout Point; her battle with a rival company became known as the "War of the Mountain Roads." Her divorce suit against a second husband, Varney A. Gaskill, involved her in further notoriety. She died on February 1, 1903.
• Mary Thayer Montague (Mrs. Theodore Giles)
  Photograph of Mary Montague, wife of Thedore G. Montague who was president of First National Bank in Chattanooga for 25 years. She was born in New York and married Theodor in 1878. Active in social, religious, civic, and charitable circles.
• Catherine and Henry Manz
  Photograph of Henry and Catherine Manz. Henry was born August 9, 1852 in Germany, owned a meat market on Market Street. He died September 18, 1912. Catherine Baker Manz was born in 1853 in Pennsylvania and died March 12, 1934 in Chattanooga.
• Jessie Lee McHann
  Photograph of Jessie Lee McHann, born in June 1864, was an editor for the Chattanooga Times who also wrote poetry and hymns. She died of tuberculosis on December 26, 1908.
• Colonel and Malvina John E. McGowan
  Photograph of Col John Encill McGowen pictured with his wife, Malvina Marie Johnson McGowan (1836-1896))
• Catherine Chandler (Mrs. Benjamin)
  Photograph of Catherine Newell, who married Benjamin Chandler in November 1844 at the Whiteside mansion, was the sister of Mrs, John C. Burch. Catherine nursed wounded soldiers in Chattanooga during the Civil War.