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04/10/14

SHELTON, W. C. (1857- )

W. C. Shelton, one of the prominent attorneys of Houston County, was born August 28, 1857, and is one of M. F. and W. F. (Pope) Shelton’s family, who was born in Dickson County. The father is now retired from active business life, but was formerly a merchant and trader, being very prosperous in his business enterprises before the war. Both parents are now residing in Erin. Up to fifteen years of age our subject’s days were spent on a farm. He worked in a blacksmith shop six months, and then became salesman in general merchandising stores in New Providence, and also clerked in other stores in Montgomery County for three years. His early educational advantages were limited, but by application at night he secured a very good education. After his eighteenth birthday he was for three years with D. G. Beers as surveyor for county maps and atlases. He read law at different times, and read “Blackstone” in the office of H. H. Buquo, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1881. October 10, 1883, he wedded Alice Amos, of Warren County, Ky. One daughter, Lillie A., has blessed their union. Mr. Shelton is a Democrat in politics, and is one of the most highly respected and popular young men in this section of Tennessee. He is thoroughly self-made, and has been eminently successful in the practice of his profession. He is candidate for the office of attorney-general of his district, and, owing to his ability, his many excellent qualities and hosts of friends, bids fair to be elected.

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.

04/10/14

POPE, A. B. (1848- )

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.