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DARNELL, Rowland, <\/b>lumber dealer; born Freedom, Ind., Dec. 9, 1854; received common school education and spent one year at State University of Ind.; began his career as employee of J. T. WILLIAMS<\/b> of New York City, he remained with that house for three years; then went to Indianapolis, where he became associated with Bell Bros. lumber dealers; in 1876 he went to St. Louis with this firm, and in the fall of 1880 he came to Memphis as a member of the firm of Bell Bros. & Darnell; a year later he sold his interest in the business and formed a partnership with his father under the firm name of I. M. Darnell & Son; they operated in Dyer and Lauderdale Cos., Tenn., until 1888, when the principal officers were located in Memphis; in 1898 the son withdrew from the firm and established firm of R. J. Darnell (Inc.); member of Business Men\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
City: Memphis DARNELL, Rowland, lumber dealer; born Freedom, Ind., Dec. 9, 1854; received common school education and spent one year at State University of Ind.; began his career as employee of J. T. WILLIAMS of New York City, he remained with that house for three years; then went to Indianapolis, where he became associated with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[261,4408,4419],"tags":[2730],"class_list":{"0":"post-6733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-d","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-darnell","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}