City: Memphis
THOMAS, WILLIAM G., vice-president and treasurer Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Co., his parents moved to Memphis in 1868; received education in the public schools of Memphis; he left high schools the year before he would have graduated and entered the employ of Orgill Brothers, hardware merchants, as clerk, remaining with that firm ten years; in 1893 the firm of Thomas, Barnes & Miller, hardware jobbers, was organized; later he became vice-president and treasurer of Pigeon-Thomas Iron Co.; he is a member of the Knights Templars, I.O.O.F., the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos, and is a member of the Methodist church.
