City: Paris OLIVER, Augustus A., physician; born McKenzie, Tenn., Jan. 27, 1884; English-Scotch-Irish descent; son of Dr. J. M. and Elizabeth (Haynes) OLIVER; paternal gradparents /sic/ James L. and Martha Ann (Southall) OLIVER; maternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (Dillahunty) HAYNES; educated at schools of Paris and Nashville, Tenn.; after three […]
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Among the merchants of Obion County probably none is more widely or more favorably known than the subject of this review, who has been engaged in business in the city of Troy for a period of forty years. His parents, Wm. H. and Temperance (Jackson) Bennett, were both natives of […]
City: Nashville OVERALL, John W., farmer; U. S. Marshal; born Liberty, DeKalb County, Tenn., February 7 1855; son Wesley and Arena (White) OVERALL; paternal grandparents, Jacob and Sarah (Lawrence) OVERALL; maternal grandparents, James and Mary (English) WHITE; English-German descent; educated DeKalb Public Schools, Cumb. University; graduated Cumb. University 1877; A.B.; […]
City: Memphis OLIVER, Joseph N., business man; born Newark, N. J., Aug. 14, 1828; received primary education in the schools of Newark, N. J.; he left home and went to New York at an early age where he engaged as an apprentice in a hat manufactory, at which business he […]
City: Memphis OLIVER, Alonzo B., physician and surgeon; born in Louisiana, Jan. 7, 1863; English and French descent; son of Benjamin L. and Narcissa (TUCKER) OLIVER; father’s occupation, merchant and planter; educated Memphis, Tenn., and University of Ark., Fayetteville, graduated Memphis, Tenn. M. D., 1893; in early life was merchant, […]
City: Medina OLIVER, George Weldon, physician; born Cleveland, Tenn., May 19, 1869; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Hillary L. and Valderia (DILLEHAY) OLIVER; father’s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents Hezekiah and Martha (LEWIS) OLIVER maternal grandparents Marcus and Mary (LANCASTER) DILLEHAY; educated in the public schools of Maury Co., Tenn.; graduated from […]
City: Memphis CANADA, Lucius T.M., lawyer; born Fayette Co., Tenn., 1861; son J.B. and Caroline (Dennis) CANADA; English descent; educated Jackson, Tenn.; graduated Union University literary course 1883; Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., L.L.B. 1889; married, first, Iola KITTRIDGE; married, second, Mrs. Florence OLIVER; member Masons; Representative Shelby County in State […]
City: Edenwold PARMER, Walter O., breeder of thoroughbred horses, etc., born Greenville, Ala., Nov. 18, 1855; son of Dr. Clinton D. and Eleanor (Oliver) PARMER; Scotch-Irish descent; educated A.&M. College, Auburn, Ala., 1872-73; married Lizzie DUNKLIN Jan. 2, 1877; member Knights of Honor, K.P.’s, Hermitage and Big Lake and Windsor […]