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OLIVER, Joseph N<\/b>., 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 continued until he was twenty-four years of age, with intervals of travel both in America and abroad; in 1853 he went to Cincinnati and took charge of a hat store; six years later he formed a partnership with <\/span>Samuel D. GREAR<\/b>, a wholesale produce dealer and grocer of Cincinnati, and in 1860 a branch of this house was established in Memphis; in 1862 the firm was dissolved and the business discontinued; he then went into the retail grocery line as head of the firm of J. N. Oliver & Co.; this firm continued until 1869, when he organized the firm of Oliver, Finnie & Co., wholesale and retail grocers; in 1887 the company was incorporated as the Oliver-Finnie Grocery Co., strictly wholesale; he is now president of the Memphis Cold Storage Warehouse Co.; married <\/span>Ella GREAR<\/b> in 1860; member of the Second Presbyterian church, Memphis, Tenn.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 continued until he was twenty-four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,84,4062,4419],"tags":[3449,2424],"class_list":{"0":"post-10342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-o","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-grear","11":"tag-oliver","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13228,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/13228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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