City: Memphis
GUNTHER, M.H., cotton buyer; born in King William Co., Va., in 1852; educated at Hamburg and Altona, Germany, and after returning to his native land he attended the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, and James P. Holcombe School at Belleview, near Lynchburg, Va.; after completing his education he went South, spending a year at Griffin, Ga., and a year at Macon, Ga., after which he went to New York for about two years, from there he went to New Orleans, La., and in 1878 located at Louisville, Ky., where he engaged in tobacco business, to which he later added cotton brokerage business; in 1896 he went to Memphis and became member of the firm of M.H. Gunther & Co., cotton buyers for American and foreign cotton mills; member of Tennessee Club, and attends the Episcopal church.
