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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.
• Lorenzo "Lon" Alexander Warner
  Photograph of Lorenzo "Lon" Warner, managing editor of the journal The Tradesman, published in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His wife, Lillian, was a social editor with the Chattanooga News.
• General Francis Marion Walker
  Photo of Francis Marion Walker, born in Kentucky on November 12, 1827 and died on July 22, 1864 during the Battle of Atlanta. He moved to Chattanooga in 1854 and practiced law and served on the alderman board from 1858-1859. Walker was attorney general for the Tennessee 4th District until the start of the Civil War. General Walker led the 19th Tennessee Regiment of the Confederacy.
• Frederick J. Virgin
  Photograph of Frederick Virgin, born about 1844 in England and died June 15, 1926. He immigrated to the U. S. in 1873.He worked as auditor for Railway Express Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• William "Will" Cooper Sheperd
  Photograph of William Shepherd, born October 11, 1881, and died in Chattanooga on July 29, 1947.His father was Judge Lewis Shepherd. From 1909 to 1918 he worked on the editorial staff of the Chattanooga Times. In 1919, he bought the Hamilton County Herald and wrote and published for that newspaper until his death. He was an officer with the Half-Century club, charter member of the Civitan club, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
• John Schiller
  Photograph of John Schiller, born in Germany in 1861. He is pictured in the uniform of a fire or police officer. He died in Knoxville on May 27, 1897.
• Selden Samuel
  Photograph is of a painting of Selden Samuel, who was born in June 1862, He was the manager of Brooks Oil Company in Chattanooga. He died September 4, 1907,
• Ralph Runyan
  Photograph of newspaper editor Ralph Runyan, who was born in Ohio around 1870. He died on February 29, 1928.
• John Ross
  Photograph of lithograph of young John Ross, titled John Ross, Cherokee Chief, originally found in History of The Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, assembled by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall between 1836 and 1844. John Ross (1790-1866), was Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828-1866. He established a trading post known as Ross's Landing which later became Chattanooga. His home in Rossville, Georgia is still standing. John Ross left on the Trail of Tears in 1838.
• John Ross
  Sketch of older John Ross, created by Walter Edward Blythe, from a colored lithograph in History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, assembled by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall between 1836 and 1844.John Ross was Principal Chief of the Cherokees from 1828-1866 and led one of the groups from Chattanooga to Indian Territory in the Trail of Tears in 1838.
• Edward Gould Richmond
  Photograph of Edward Gould Richmond, born in Attica, New York on October 29, 1851, and died in Chattanooga, November 29, 1903. He invested capital in Chattanooga, creating Richmond Hosiery Mills, Richmond Spinning Mills, and the Richmond Cotton Oil company and many others. He was a trustee of the Chattanooga Library, leader in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, a Mason, and a member of the Mountain City Club.
• Daniel Ritchie Rawlings
  Photograph of Daniel Rawlings, born in Greene County, Tennessee in 1801, moved to Chattanooga in 1851. He died in Chattanooga on February 14, 1876. He operated a boarding house in 1860 and was known for his beautiful and expensive house on 4th Street.
• William P. Rathburn
  Photograph of W. P. Rathburn born February 12, 1822 in Rutland, Ohio. He came to Chattanooga in 1865 and established the First National Bank and became its president, a position he held until his death. He assisted in the reorganization of Roane Iron Company and was president until 1879. He was the first president of the Chamber of Commerce. He was twice chosen as mayor of the city. He died January 11, 1884 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• William P. Rathburn
  Photograph of W. P. Rathburn born February 12, 1822 in Rutland, Ohio. He came to Chattanooga in 1865 and established the First National Bank and was president until his death. He assisted in the reorganization of Roane Iron Company and was president until 1879. He was the first president of the Chamber of Commerce. He was twice chosen as mayor of the city. He died January 11, 1884 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Malcolm Rice Patterson
  Photograph clipping of Malcolm Rice Patterson, govenor of Tennessee from 1907 to 1911. He was born June 7, 1861, in Somerville, Alabama and died March 8, 1935, while living in Memphis, Tennessee. He served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1901 to 1906 and as a circuit court judge in Memphis from 1923 to 1934.
• Julius Ochs
  Photograph of Julius Ochs who was born June 29, 1826 in Furth, Bavaria, immigrating to the United States is 1845. He is a veteran of both the Mexican war and U.S. Civil War siding with the Union. He came to Chattanooga in 1878 and was the treasurer of the Times Printing company of the Tradesman Publishing company. He was also a rabbi of the Jewish congregation in Chattanooga, a mason of high degree, and a member of several civic fraternal organizations. He died October 26, 1888 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 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.
• Robert Morrison
  Photograph of Robert Morrison, born in Cleveland, Tennessee in 1851 and died August 30, 1916 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was a partner in the drug firm of Nicklin and Morrison in 1880. He was president of the Morrison Lumber Company and conducted the affairs of the Acme Kitchen Furniture Co. until his death. He served twice as a Chattanooga alderman and worked on the relief committee during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic.
• Theodore G. Montague
  Photograph of Theodore G. Montague who was born in Chester, Ohio, on December 8, 1836 and died in Chattanooga,December 2, 1910. He established the First National Bank with William Perry Rathburn and worked there until his retirement in 1905. During the Civil War, Montague was Adjuntant with the 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was stockholder and director in many industries including Roane Iron Company, the Cahill Iron Works, the Lookout Water Company, the Chattanooga Gas Company, the Forest Hills Cemetery Company, the Chattanooga Pipe and Foundry Company, the Shelton Mills, the Crystal Springs Bleachery and the Columbian Iron Works. He helped organize the Second Presbyterian Church.
• George Fort Milton, Sr.
  Photograph of George Fort Milton, Sr., newspaper publisher and Democratic political activist. was born July 16, 1869 in Macon, Georgia, and died in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, April 23, 1924. In the 1890s he edited the Knoxville Sentinel and in 1909, he bought interest in the Chattanooga News. In 1912, he moved to Chattanooga to manage the News exclusively. He served as first lieutenant in the Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish American War in 1898. He supported women's suffrage, tax reform, and peace in Europe in 1915.
• Randolph Miller
  Photograph of Randolph Miller, former slave who started and edited the African-American newspaper the Chattanooga Blade from 1898-1914. He came to Chattanooga around 1864 and worked for Adolph Ochs as pressman on the Chattanooga Times. He organized a successful boycott of public transportation in 1905 in Chattanooga in response to segregation laws.
• W. H. "Hank" Mayett
  Photograph of William H. Mayett in his police uniform. Born n New York in 1842, he enlisted in the Civil War in 1863. In 1866 he was an officer in the Chattanooga police force. In 1870, he worked for the railroad in Chattanooga and resided with wife Caroline. By 1900 he was living in Oklahoma.
• Captain John Promfret Long
  Sketch of Captain John Promfret Long created by Walter Edward Blythe. Long was born in Knoxville November 25, 1807. He moved to Chattanooga in 1836, where he opened a general store which he continued to run until 1860. He also served as Chattanooga's first postmaster from 1838 to 1844. In 1860, he was elected city recorder of Chattanooga, and filled the position three years, until the city was evacuated by the Confederates. Prior to the evacuation, in 1862, General McCown appointed him provost-marshal. After the Civil War, he worked in real estate and law until his death on January 30, 1889.
• Dan Kennedy
  Photograph of painting of Daniel Allen Kennedy, born 1841 and died in January 1876. He was the son of early resident Allen Kennedy and operated a drug store at the corner of 9th and Market Streets. He served as a Confederate soldier in the Second Regiment, Tennessee Infantry.
• Judge Marion Monroe Hope
  Photograph of Marion Monroe Hope, born September 18, 1848 in Roane County and died in Chattanooga on September 5, 1909. He practiced law in Chattanooga beginning 1871 and held many public positions, including city alderman for 2 terms. He served on the county court for 20 years and received the title "judge" from his service on the city court. His office as a justice of the peace was on Cherry Street between 8th and 9th.