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• 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.
• 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.