City: Memphis
MATTHEWS, Robert Leedy, real estate and insurance; born in Memphis, Tenn.; most of his life was spent in Mississippi, where he acquired his preliminary education; graduated from Eastman’s Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; he returned to Memphis, and at age of eighteen years secured a position with Farrington, Stewart & White, then proprietors of the Gayoso Hotel Company; he remained with that company for three years, then resigned in 1890 to accept a position as teller in the Manhattan Savings Bank & Trust Co.; in 1894 he left the bank to engage in business for himself as a member of the firm of Farnsworth & Matthews, private bankers and insurance underwriters; in 1898 the firm sold out to engage in manufacturing lines in the East; he returned to Memphis in 1900 and established the present firm of R. L. Matthews & Co.; member of the Industrial League, Business Men’s Club Chickasaw and Country Clubs, Memphis Tenn.
