City: Shelbyville
ARCHIBALD, William Whallon, lumberman; born Corry, Pa., October 17, 1868; son of Charles Edwin and Mary (Whallon) ARCHIBALD; paternal grandparents Varnum and Martha (Allen) ARCHIBALD, maternal grandparents Samuel Smith and Maria (Bell) WHALLON; Scotch-Dutch descent; father’s occupation, railroad conductor; educated and graduated at De Veaux College, Niagara Falls, N. Y., June, 1885; married May GIBSON, September 3, 1890; member Royal Arcanum and of all the Masonic bodies, Watauga Club, Nashville, Mountain City Club, Chattanooga; Mayor of Shelbyville, Tenn.; elected August, 1909, for two years; in the export lumber business, and for many years has represented in America the old-established house of William Foerster & Company, Hamburg, Germany; lived in Virginia ten years before coming to Tennessee in 1898; was located at Chattanooga 1900 to 1905; member Protestant Episcopal Church.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
