City: Franklin
MAYBERRY, Henry Hunter, capitalist; born Williamson Co., Tenn., Jan. 5, 1861; English descent; son of H. G. W. and Sophronia (Hunter) MAYBERRY; educated at Franklin, Tenn., and University of Tenn.; his father was a director and also assisted in actual construction of L. & N. Ry., the first steam railway in Tenn.; 1885 to 1904 he was interested in the hardware and banking business at Birmingham, Ala.; retired in 1904 and moved to his farm near Franklin, Tenn.; aided in the upbuilding of Birmingham, Ala., also helped to organize a steel company with sufficient capital to demonstrate that steel could be made from Birmingham Iron ore; helped in construction and successful operation of Nashville Interurban Ry. as president of the Co. in 1908, being first electrical interurban line in Tenn.; married Marietta Watson Dec. 3, 1885; member Hermitage Club and Golf Club Nashville, also clubs, Birmingham, Ala.; member of the Methodist church.
