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LUTTRELL, Samuel Bell

City:  Knoxville

LUTTRELL, Samuel Bell, merchant and banker; born Knoxville Tenn., July 23, 1844; Scotch-Irish-English and French descent; son of James Churchwell and Eliza Carr (Bell) LUTTRELL; father’s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandparents, James C. and Martha (Armstrong) LUTTRELL, maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eliza (Sanders) BELL; educated in private schools, and attended University of Tenn, one year; in early life was news boy, and Clerk in Post Office; married Margaret McClung SWAN, Oct. 9, 1866; Independent Democrat and Prohibitionist; former Alderman of Knoxville, Tenn., for several years; Mayor of Knoxville 1878-9; served as Corporal in U. S. Army; member of M. E. Church, South; engaged in wholesale grocery, wholesale and retail hardware business, banker, real estate dealer, coal operator and manufacturer.

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