City: Memphis<\/p>\n
BOURNE, Edward<\/strong>, general insurance agent; born Memphis, Tenn., June 23, 1846; direct descendant of Samuel ADAMS<\/strong> family, of which the two U.S. Presidents, John and John Quincy Adams, were descended; son of James Treadwell and Martha Tucker (Freeland) BOURNE<\/strong>; father’s occupation, steamboat agent, railroad (fast freight line) agent and merchandising; paternal grandparents Benjamin and Mary (Treadwell) BOURNE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents John and Hephzebah (Adams) FREELAND<\/strong>; educated in public schools, Memphis, and Germantown (Tenn.) Institute; served in C.S.A. as private Co. “B,” 3d regiment infantry, Govan’s Brigade, Claibourn’s Division, Hardee’s Corps, Army of Tenn.; fought under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Gen. J.B. Hood, and surrendered with latter at Greensboro, N.C.; served twelve years in N.G.S.T., and held commissions as 1st Lieut. five years, Capt., three years, Colonel over four years, and is now Brig.-Gen., retired; also ex-Col. of the only Confederate regiment organized since the civil war; helped organize and for over 3 years commanded Co. “A,” C.V., of this city; began his business career as clerk in father’s office, later clerked in warehouse at Selma, Ala., and on Alabama river steamboats; married Jennie Garth McGARVEY<\/strong>, March 11, 1869; 1st vice-pres. Confederate Historical Assn., Memphis, Tenn., which is also Div. No. 18, “Confederate Soldiers of Tenn,” and Camp No. 28, U.C.V.; member of Business Men’s Club; Democrat; active member, a deacon and trustee of Central Baptist church, Memphis, Tenn., which he helped organize; was also clerk and treasurer for a number of years and superintendent of its Sunday school; was for three terms president of Baptist Shelby County Sunday School Convention; former vice-president and president of Memphis Board of Underwriters, serving two terms each; for a number of years was member of the firm of James T. Bourne & Co.; was in fast freight business 12 years, “Star Union,” Canada Southern and “Merchant Dispatch” lines; has been engaged in the fire insurance and casualty business for about 30 years; was also the first president of the Memphis Salvage Corps and for four years was a member of the Memphis Cotton Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis BOURNE, Edward, general insurance agent; born Memphis, Tenn., June 23, 1846; direct descendant of Samuel ADAMS family, of which the two U.S. Presidents, John and John Quincy Adams, were descended; son of James Treadwell and Martha Tucker (Freeland) BOURNE; father’s occupation, steamboat agent, railroad (fast freight line) agent and merchandising; paternal grandparents Benjamin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2687,261,4405,4419],"tags":[272,925,2641,2643,2642],"class_list":{"0":"post-6482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-germantown-institute","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-b","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-adams","11":"tag-bourne","12":"tag-freeland","13":"tag-mcgarvey","14":"tag-treadwell","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14716,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/14716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}