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• Charles Herron
  Sketch of Charles R. Herron who was born March 25, 1844 in Leitrim, Ireland. His family came to St. Louis in 1850 at where he learned the trade of iron moulding. He came to Chattanooga in 1889 and organized or assisted in organizing several foundries and industries including Ross-Mehan in 1888, the Southern Malleable Iron Works, the Southern Ice Machine Company, the Herron Pump and Foundry, and the American Brake Shoe and Foundry. He died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on September 5, 1908 and is buried in Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery.
• Captain Heman W. Grant
  Photograph of Captain Heman Wilcox Grant, born May 29, 1842 in Columbia, New York, and died May 26, 1912 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He served with the Union Army with the 4th Michigan Cavalry during the Civil War and established Grant Brothers real estate and insurance firm with his brother Major Marcus Grant (1839-1896).
• Thomas Giffe
  Photograph of Thomas Giffe, who was born in 1829 in Ireland and served as an officer with the 16th U. S. Colored Infantry, where he was promoted to Captain on April 25, 1964. As a civilian, he worked as a carpenter until his death on July 17, 1919.
• Fenton Allen Gentry
  Photograph of Fenton Allen Gentry, born in Virginia on February 27, 1856 and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 29, 1925. At the time of his death, he was general manager of Western Union.
• Patrick Fleming
  Photograph of Patrick Fleming born in Ireland on March 17, 1851 and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 3, 1890. Patrick and his wife had come to Chattanooga in 1872. She died during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. Patrick worked as a plumber.
• Hiram Sanborn Chamberlain
  Photograph of Captain Hiram Chamberlain, who served in the Second Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War; he was president of the Chamberlain Richards & Co. rolling mill, Roane Iron Company and Citico Furnace Company and vice president of First National Bank.
• Judge William W. Draper
  Photograph of William Wallace Draper,born in Chestnut Mound, Tennessee on September 10, 1860 and died on September 20, 1927. He began his law practice at the age of 21. In Hamilton County, he worked as assistant attorney-general. He was also a member of the law school faculty.
• Colonel John L. Divine
  Photograph of John L. Divine, born in Maryville, TN on May 12, 1818. He moved to Chattanooga in 1838 where he worked with D. C. McMillin to establish the first tailor shop in the city. In 1860 in preparation for the war, he was made provost marshall. He owned a newspaper that the was the predecessor the Chattanooga Times. At the time of his death on December 3, 1892, he was president of the Chattanooga Mill Company.
• Tom Crutchfield
  Photograph of Tom Crutchfield, owner of the farm Amnicola. Born May 17, 1830, he was twice mayor of Chattanooga and owner of the Crutchfield House. He died March 25, 1886.
• William Bradford Cleage
  Photograph of William Bradford Cleage, born August 28 1877 in Athens, Tennessee, and died January 14, 1919 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He worked as a reporter before he established the Hamilton County Herald in 1911. He was publisher and editor until his death in 1919. He served in the Tennessee House 1903-1907 and again in 1909. He served as Chattanooga city treasurer in 1909.
• Edward Ward Carmack, Sr.
  Reproduced photograph of Edward Carmack, Sr., born in Sumner County, Tennessee on November 5, 1858, and died in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 9, 1909. He was an attorney, newspaperman, and United States Senator from Tennessee from 1901 to 1907. He was shot over something he wrote in the newspaper concerning Duncan Brown Cooper.
• 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.
• General Henry Van Ness Boynton
  Photographof General Henry Van Ness Boynton, born in West Stockbridge, Mass. on June 22, 1825, and died in Atlantic Ciy, New Jersey on June 3, 1905. He led the 35th Ohio in the Battle of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, where he earned the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 25, 1863. He was promoter of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park and Camp Thomas Commander in 1898. The Cameron Hill Garden Club erected an historical marker for him in Boynton Park on Cameron Hill in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Colonel Creed Fulton Bates
  Photograph of Creed Fulton Bates in formal dress. He was born in Cleveland, Tennessee on October 13, 1848 and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on March 21, 1928. He practiced law in Cleveland until moving to Chattanooga in 1882. He was on the boards of several colleges and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
• Nelson E. Barker
  Reproduced studio portrait of Nelson Barker, who was the first president and organizer of Chattanooga Savings Bank.Barker was born at New Haven, Conn. in 1857 and died in California in 1912. He came to Chattanooga in 1880 and organized the bank. He resided in Chattanooga for 3 years.
• Dr. Bachman home, 227 McCallie Avenue
  Retouched photograph of late 1800s era home viewed from the street
• George Washington Ochs Oakes
  Photograph of George Washington Ochs Oakes, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 27, 1861, and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on October 26, 1931. His original name was George Ochs but in 1915, he added the surname Oakes. Oakes began his journalism career as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times in 1879. In 1896, he became general manager. He was associated with several publications including the Philadelphia Times, the New York Times, and Current History. He held offices on several boards including president of the Chattanooga Library Association for 6 years.
• Colonel J. W. MacGowan
  Photograph is of Colonel John MacGowan, born in Ohio, served with Ohio Infantry, commanded First United States Colored Artillery while in Chattanooga.He practiced law in Chattanooga and was city attorney. He edited the Chattanooga Times from 1872 until his death.
• Unidentified man
  Photograph of older man.wearing military style dress. Caption on photo reades The _______ Scenes in the Sunny Southland Sunny side of life.
• William Wadley Yonge
  Photograph of William W. Yonge, born in Augusta, Georgia on September 15, 1856 and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on September 9, 1885. He came to Chattanooga in 1876 while clerking for W. R. King. He became associated with Ochs in the industrial publication The Tradesman. He took out several patents on his inventions.
• David Woodworth
  Photograph of David Woodworth, Jr., born in 1838 in New York and died March 1902 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He came to Chattanooga in 1876 and organized the Fayerweather and Ladew Tannery . He also engaged extensively in real estate.
• Samuel Williams
  Photograph of the "Father of Chattanooga" Samuel Williams, born in Paint Rock, Alabama in 1807 and died in Indian Territory in 1898. He and his brothers engaged in land companies and owned several lots in what would become Chattanooga. Samuel owned an island as well which he farmed. It was known as Williams Island and still is.
• Thomas Wilcox
  Photograph of Thomas S. Wilcox, born in Belfast,Ireland in 1857 and died in Chattanooga on September 10, 1935. He is photographed in his volunteer fire fiighters uniform as a member of the Vulcan Volunteer Fire Company. He later became fire fighter chief. He served as chairman on the Board of Public Safety and Board of Public Health. He was an alderman and great political organizer, being chairman of the Hamilton County Highway Commission at this death. In business, he was a master plumber and established the Wilcox Plumbing Company. Mr. Wilcox came to Chattanooga with his brother Harry after the Civil War.
• Harry Wilcox
  Photograph of Harry Wilcox, born in Belfast, Ireland 1842 and died April 23, 1904 in New Orleans. He came to Chattanooga with his brother Thomas S. after the Civl War. While he worked as a plumber and was involved with poltics,he is best known for his role as fire chief and leader of the Lookout Volunteer Company. Their fire wagon was named the "Harry Wilcox."
• Harry Wilcox
  Photograph of Harry Wilcox, born in Belfast, Ireland 1842 and died April 23, 1904 in New Orleans. He came to Chattanooga with his brother Thomas S. after the Civl War. While he worked as a plumber and was involved with poltics,he is best known for his role as fire chief and leader of the Lookout Volunteer Company. Their fire wagon was named the "Harry Wilcox." This photograph shows Harry in complete fire fighting uniform. He left Chattanooga around 1892.