A. B. Pope, a leading business man of the county, was born November 26, 1848, in St. Lawrence County, N.Y. H. G. and Eleanor (Pohlman) Pope, his parents, were natives of New York, where the father followed farming. The mother died about 1851, when our subject was quite young. The father is still living in Nebraska. A. G. was reared on a farm in Wisconsin and secured but a limited education. He remained with his parents until fifteen years of age, when he enlisted in Company B of the Twenty-second Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers and remained in the service until 1865. He received a wound in the ankle at Robertsville, S.C. He then engaged in vending drugs in Wisconsin for one year and in Iowa for three years. He was then engaged on railroads and filled the different positions of brakeman, baggage master, freight conductor and passenger conductor, being on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad from 1870 to 1879. He then engaged in the stave trade at Stewart for two years. He then began general merchandising and has very successfully continued that trade ever since. He is postmaster, railroad agent and express agent at Stewart. He chose and wedded, June 8, 1876, Jennie R. Salisbury, the result of this union being two children: George A. And Henry B. Mr. Pope is a Republican in politics and a very prominent citizen of Houston County.

Transcribed by Susan Knight Gore

Source: Goodspeed, Weston A, and John Wooldridge. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston Counties. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1886.