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GARNSEY, Cyrus Jr.

City:  Memphis

GARNSEY, Cyrus Jr., general manager and treasurer Galloway Coal Company, General Manager and Treasurer Patterson Transfer Company, Active Vice-President of the State National Bank and the United States Trust and Savings Bank; born Seneca Falls, N. Y., April 10, 1861; son Cyrus and Eliza Goodwin (Hoskins) GAINSEY; educated public and county school; married Carrie D. DOBYNS, December 1888; started work as messenger boy in 1875 in small bank; in 1880 went West, found employment as clerk in rolling mill office; in 1883 rolling mill failed; he went to work for iron concern in Cleveland, O.; in 1885 Chief Clerk to cashier of the K. C., F. S. & M. Railway in Kansas City; 1886 Auditor K. C., M. & B. Railway Birmingham, Ala.;  stockholder in the companies he is now officering; member Presbyterian Church.

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