City: Jackson
ANDERSON, Hugh Crump, banker; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Feb. 2, 1851; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William Tayler and Mahala (Wisdom) ANDERSON; father’s occupation, farmer, merchant; paternal grandparents, Thomas and Mary (Davis) ANDERSON; maternal grandparents, James and Susan (Seargent) WISDOM; educated at West Tennessee College, Jackson, Tenn., and Cumberland University, Lebanon, graduated from latter Law department with B. L. degree in 1873; entered the practice of law in early life at Jackson, Tenn.; married three times, first, Helen BOND, Nov. 1876, second, Emma BURDETTE, May, 1889, third, Lena MYERS, Sept., 1895; member Elks, Masons, and K. P. ; Democrat; served two years as City Attorney of Jackson, Tenn., 1874-1875; Mayor 1884; later fifteen years as Mayor of Jackson, 1893-1908; member of Legislature of Tenn., 1879, also 1881; Tenn. Com. To Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904; Election Commissioner of Madison Co., Director of Tenn. Centennials, 1896; served as Asst. U. S. Attorney under Cleveland’s first administration, for Western District of Tenn.; at present he is Trustee of University of Tenn.; has been member of the Board of Education in Jackson, Tenn., for 18 years; and for twenty-two years President of Peoples’ Savings Bank, Jackson, Tenn.
