City: Memphis
GOODBAR, James Monroe, wholesale shoe merchant and manufacturer; born Overton Co., Tenn., May 29, 1839; English-Irish-Scotch-Welsh descent; son of William P. and Jane (McKinney) GOODBAR; father’s occupation, merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents, Joseph and Mary (Masters) GOODBAR, maternal grandparents, Henry and Jane (McDowell) McKINNEY; educated at Sparta, Tenn.; began business career as clerk in store Sept. 10, 1867; Democrat; member of Board of Public Works, 1881-83, Taxing District of Shelby Co., Memphis, Tenn.; was captain and A. Q. M. 4th Tenn. Cav. C. S. A.; member of Second Presbyterian church, Memphis, Tenn., and elder in same.
