City: Memphis
KING, Thomas B., cotton merchant; born White County, Ark., July, 1861; son Thomas B. and Eliza B. (Thomas) KING; educated in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; married, first Mollie WILLIAMS, Brownsville, 1887; second, Fannie KING, Memphis, 1904; mayor of Bells, Tenn., 1884-85; member of Tennessee Legislature 1887 from Crockett County, Tenn.; moved from Arkansas to Tennessee 1881; lived Bells, Tenn., 6 years; lived Brownsville, Tenn., 1887 to 1901; owned and edited Brownsville States-Democrat 1896-99; moved to Memphis 1901; was President of the Y.M.C.A. from 1903-10; has been four times elected a delegate to the General Conference of the Southern Methodist Conferences; member Methodist Church, South; Democrat.
