City: Memphis
NORFLEET, Frank M., born Holly Springs, Miss., April, 1846; son Jesse P. and Jane H. (CARLOCK) NORFLEET; English descent; educated Holly Springs, Miss., Chalmer’s Institute and St. Thomas Hall; married Octavia STINSON, November 14, 1867; member Chickasaw City and Country Clubs; member Mississippi Legislature, session 1884; member Company C, Eighteenth Mississippi Cavalry Regiment; President Cotton Exchange and other institutions; vice-president and official board of banks; was in Forrest’s Cavalry for nearly two years; farmed in Mississippi from the close of the war to 1884, where he still owns and operates a large planting interest; established the firm of Sledge & Norfleet, cotton factors, in Memphis, and has been at the head of said firm for twenty-six years; Methodist, St. John’s (this city).
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
