City: Memphis
DAVANT, Arthur R., commercial agent Southern Railway Co.; born in Gillisonville, Beaufort district (now Hampton county), S. C., July 1867; received education under private tutors until fourteen years of age, then went to Montgomery, Ala., and attended school until twenty years of age, when he went to Knoxville, Tenn., and entered the service of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad Company as a clerk in the freight department, where he remained seven months; in Oct., 1888, he secured a place with the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, and went to Memphis as rate clerk in the general freight office at that point, where he worked his way up to chief clerk; when that road was absorbed by the Southern Railway in 1898 he was traveling freight agent, and continued with the Southern; member of the Baptist church; member of Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos.
