City: Turnersville DUNN, John William, physician, farmer, merchant; born Turnersville, Tenn., March 30, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John R. and Emma (Menees) DUNN; father, physician; paternal grandparents Johnnie J. and Rollie (Carter) DUNN, maternal grandparents Benjamin and Elizabeth (Harrison) MENEES; educated at Bowling Green, Ky., and Clarksville, Tenn.; graduated […]
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City: Townsend DUNN, Samuel Houston, lawyer; born Tuckaluchee Cove, Dec. 17, 1876; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William H. and Dorothy C. (Snider) DUNN; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Greene and Rachel (Henry) DUNN, maternal grandparents George and Susannah (Handley) SNIDER; educated at Porter Academy; began career as a teacher; admitted […]
City: Memphis FALLS, John Will, investor; born Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 17, 1878; son of J. N. and Clara (Dunn) FALLS; father’s occupation retired business man; paternal grandfather, Gilbert FALLS, maternal grandfather, W. B. DUNN; educated Toronto, Exeter, and Yale, N. H., graduated from Yale B. A., 1900; began his business […]
City: Memphis FALLS, James N., business man; born Fayette Co., Tenn., Feb. 1, 1841; of German descent; son of Gilbreath and Frances (McNees) FALLS; educated in the city schools of Memphis, Tenn.; in 1861 he enlisted with the Bluff City Grays, an independent company, which afterward became Co. “B” 154th […]
City: Maryville PARHAM, William Edmund, manufacturer; born Knoxville, Tenn., March 9, 1860; son of William Thomas and Mary Jane Susan (SNODDY) PARHAM; paternal grandfather Edwin Nelson PARHAM, paternal grandmother Mary Ellen (DUNN) PARHAM, maternal grandfather Rev. Robert Henderson SNODDY, maternal grandmother Nancy Hawkins (MOORE) SNODDY; English, Scotch-Irish descent; educated Maryville […]
City: Memphis CARTER, Matthew E., wholesale grocer; born Louisville, Ky., June 25, 1853; Irish descent; son of Thomas W. and Ellen (Dunn) CARTER; father’s occupation, contractor and structural work; educated Christian Brothers College, Memphis, Tenn.; graduated from University of Georgetown, Washington, D. C., A. B., June, 1875; married Mary GAVIN, […]
City: Knoxville PARHAM, William Thomas, woolen manufacturer; born Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 5, 1833; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of Edwin Nelson and Mary Ellen (Dunn) PARHAM; father’s occupation, harness maker, general dry goods merchant; paternal grandparents, Edmund and Mary (Bearden) PARHAM, maternal grandparents, Thomas and Ellen (Chambers) Dunn; born in […]