From the Tennessee State Gazetter and Business Directory, 1876-77, by R. L. Polk & Co.

UNION CITY.

A rapidly improving town of about 3,000 inhabitants, in the northwestern part of Obion County, 10 miles from Troy, the county seat, 33 north of Trenton and 156 west of Nashville. It is located at the crossing of the N. C. & St. L. Ry. and the M. & O. RR, and is comparatively a new place, dating its principal growth from 1866, although it was settled 12 years earlier. The lands upon which the town is located, and which surround it for a considerable distance, are extremely level, and the soil rich, deep, and highly productive. Cotton, corn, tobacco and wheat growing luxuriantly. Hard and soft wood timber is abundant, poplar, oak, hickory, walnut and maple covering a large area of the county, and often growing to an enormous size.

The place has 2 saw and 2 planing mills, 2 flouring mills, 1 woollen mill, 2 shingle mills, 2 brick yards, 2 plow factories, 14 stores, 2 druggists, 2 jewelers, 1 hardware store, 2 hotels, 2 newspapers, and various saloons, shops, etc. The Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian and Christian denominatoins have handsome churches. There are a select and several common schools. Express and telegraphic facilities are offered by the Western Union Telegraph and South Express Companies. Lumber, grain, flour, tobacco and cotton form extensive shipments. Mail daily from every point. Benjamin F. Scates, postmaster.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

• BEDFORD, James & Co. – planing mill.
• BELL, David D. – lawyer, cor. 1st and Washington.
• BELL, John – clerk chancery court, cor. 1st and Washington.
• BERRY, Wm. – photographer, 1st.
• BRACKIN, John A. – hotel propr., near N. O., St. L. & C. RR Depot.
• BRACKIN & Son – general store, 1st.
• BRYANT & COFFIN – merchant tailors, s s Mary.
• BUSH, Rev. J. D. – Methodist.
• CALLICOTT, Leonidas A. – photographer, Depot.
• CARDWELL, Lucius D. – lawyer and insurance, Planter’s Hotel.
• CARY, Geo. H. – flouring mills, s end 1st.
• CATHEY, W. N. – blacksmith, Main.
• CHAMBERS, Daniel W. – publisher Union City Herald, depot.
• CHEATHAM, Joseph R. – stoves, cor. 1st and Mary.
• COX, Mrs. R. B. – teacher.
• CREWS, Alonzo M. – jeweler, s s Mary.
• CREWS & FOUSHEE – boot and shoe mnfrs, s s Mary.
• CUNNINGHAM, E. F. – sec’y Obion County Grange.
• CURLIN, J. V. – teacher.
• DAVIS, Lycurgus C. – saloon.
• DERMON, Frederick W. – hotel propr.
• EDWARDS, Thomas J. – oculist.
• EDWARDS, Wm. I. – physician.
• ELLIS, Charles D. – confectioner.
• EVANS, Samuel T. – physician.
• FOLZ, Leopold – general store.
• FOSTER, Miss Fannie A. – teacher.
• GARRETT, Jesse – grocer and saddler.
• GARRETT, Jesse – saloon.
• GIBBS, Charles D. – general store.
• GIBBS, Geo. A. – city attorney.
• GIBBS & WADDELL, lawyers.
• GIDDINGS, W. B. – plasterer.
• GODWIN, LITTLETON & PEARCE, physicians.
• GREEN, David C. – carpenter and builder.
• HALL & Bro. – brick mnfrs.
• HAMILTON, Wm. – grain.
• HARRISON, Jesse J. – blacksmith.
• HARRISON, J. B. – physician.
• HARVEY & COBB – shingle mnfrs.
• HAWKINS, Hiram P. – grocer.
• HAYDON & BARRY, – commission, produce, machinery, and agriculture implements. Railroad n of Main. (see adv – bottom of page)
• HELLEN, Robert – flouring mill.
• HUFFMAN, James W. – confectioner.
• HUGHES & KELZER – shoemakers.
• INMAN, W. J. – town marshal.
• JACKSON, Mrs. Naomi F. – millinery.
• JACKSON, Robert C. – broom mnfr.
• JOHNSON & HUGHES, saddlery and livery.
• JONES, Rev. J. H. W. (Cumberland Presbyterian)
• KELZER, Fount – painter.
• KROGER, John, grociers and liquors.
• LATTA & DIETZEL, wagon and plow mnfrs.
• LAYNE, Geo. W. – mayor.
• LAYNE, John B. – druggist.
• LAYNE, John B. – general store.
• LEWIS, P. E. – plasterer.
• LIEP, Nicholas – gunsmith.
• LILES, Rev. Michael. (Cumberland Presbyterian)
• LONG, W. S. – nursery.
• LUKENS, James – watches, clocks and jewelry.
• McCAMPBELL, Wm. C. – dentist.
• McFADDEN, Jacob S. – lawyer.
• McFADDEN, Mrs. J. S. – teacher.
• McFADDEN & Co. – grocers.
• MARSHALL, Thomas H. – saloon and confectionery.
• MARTIN, Wm. M. – contractor and builder.
• MASSENGILL, Wm. P. – physician.
• MASSENGILL, Wm. Z. – undertaker.
• MAY & MORGAN – merchant tailors, over L. Folz’s store, n Mary.
• MOFFETT, BECK & BRANSFORD – furniture store, wooden coffins and lumber mnfrs. S of N., C. & St. L. RR – general store, Main nr M. & O. Depot.
• MOORE, Felix W. – lawyer.
• MOORE, Mrs. R. – dresskmaker.
• MOORE, Walter S. – agent M. & O. RR
• MOORE Bros. – insurance agents.
• MORTON, Jacob H. – City Recorder and Justice of the Peace, Mary.
• MORTON, Neil B. – publisher and propr. Reveille (newspaper), Mary.
• MOSS, Wm. G. – drugs and stationery.
• MOSS & WHIPPLE, leaf tobacco.
• NAILLING, Robert F. – express agent.
• NEBLETT, Roy – house painter.
• NEBLETT, Wm. R. – physician.
• NEEL, S. G. – master Obion Co. Grange.
• NOLEN, Patrick R. – constable 13th district.
• NORTON, Rev. R. W. – principal school.
• Obion County Grange Store – W. H. FARRIS, agent.
• ORLEANS, Joseph – house painter.
• OSBORNE, Thomas B. – general store.
• OWNBY & Son, blacksmiths, wagon and plow mnfrs, and boiler and machinery repairers, s s Mary w of 1st.
• PATTERSON, John M. – telegrapher, Depot.
• PETTUS, William – woolen mills.
• PIERCE, Rice A. – district attorney general.
• PIERCE & GIBBS, lawyers.
• Planters Hotel – F. W. DERMON, propr, s w cor Exchange.
• PLAUT, Jacob H. – general store, n e cor Mary and 1st.
• PRIEST, James M. – propr City Hotel.
• REASNER, Wm. – confectioner.
• Reville – Neil B. MORTON, publisher and proprietor.
• ROULHAC, Rev. J. H. (Christian)
• SCATES, W. D. & Son – meat market.
• STANBROUGH, John Q. –  general store.
• STANFIELD, A. J. & Bro. – groceries, hardware, and queensware, Mary.
• SUTHERLAND, J. C. – plasterer.
• SWIGGART, Wm. H. – lawyer, court building, room no. 1.
• TANKSLEY, Richard S. – agent N. C. & St. L. Ry.
• TREVATHAN & OSBORNE, grain dealers.
• Union City Herald – D. W. CHAMBERS, editor and propr.
• WHITSITT, John S. – furniture.
• WILLIAMS, Rev. Gilbert (African Methodist)
• WILLIAMS, G. L. – meat market.
• WILLIAMS, Theodore – salon.
• WYATT, Andrew J. – insurance.
• WYATT & CARY – grocers.
• YATES, James – brick mnfr and contractor.
• YOUNGER, Rev. Henry (Missionary Baptist)
• ZIMMERMAN, Charles R. H. – barber.