City: Napier
VOORHIES, David Luther, merchant and farmer; born Wayne Co, Tenn., Aug. 25, 1855; English descent; son of Thomas and Eliza J. (Nichols) VOORHIES; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents, David and Alice (McBride) VOORHIES, maternal grandparents, David Porter and Emily E. (Rickets) NICHOLS; educated in the public schools of Lewis Co., and Nashville, Tenn.; early life was spent on farm, then became general superintendent of Columbian cotton mill at Strathmore, Tenn., 1884-89; was a merchant at Summertown, for one and one-half years, and commissary manager for Napier (Tenn.) Iron Works, 20 years; married Mattie E. CRAIG Nov. 11, 1875; member F. & A. M.; Democrat (regular); former justice of the peace of Lawrence Co., Tenn.; notary public, and postmaster at Napier, Tenn.; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church; stockholder Napier Iron Works; merchant and farmer, owns farms in Lewis and Davidson counties, Tenn.
