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MACRAE, George Wythe<\/strong>, born in Fauquier Co., Va., May 28, 1838; son of B. W. and S. J. MACRAE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; educated Montgomery Masonic College, Clarksdale, Tenn.; in 1855 he went into a grocery store as a clerk, and three years later commenced business for himself as a grocer in Clarksville, Tenn., and member of the firm of Miller & Macrae; in 1859 he disposed of his interests and moved to Memphis, associating himself with the late Dr. D. T. PORTER<\/strong>, in the establishment of the wholesale grocery firm of Porter & Macrae, which business continued until 1862 and operations of Civil war interfered with its affairs; he went South shortly before the capture of Memphis, taking charge of the firm\u2019s business at Atlanta and Grenada, selling out and investing the proceeds in cotton at Americus, Ga.; later he went to Chattanooga, where Bragg\u2019s army was at the time, and volunteered, though exempt by reason of physical disability; he was detailed for department service at Chattanooga, and was there until Confederate forces moved out, then he was sent to Richmond; in 1871 he resumed the wholesale grocery business as member of the firm Ford, Porter & Co., of Memphis, Tenn., in 1882 the firm again became Porter & Macrae, and thus it remained until dissoluton \/sic\/ of the business in 1896; in 1894 he was made president of the Memphis National Bank, and in 1895 of the Savings bank; he is a member of the Second Presbyterian church; married twice, first Fannie M. MORRIS<\/strong>, second, Blanche I. AVENT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis MACRAE, George Wythe, born in Fauquier Co., Va., May 28, 1838; son of B. W. and S. J. MACRAE; father\u2019s occupation farmer; educated Montgomery Masonic College, Clarksdale, Tenn.; in 1855 he went into a grocery store as a clerk, and three years later commenced business for himself as a grocer in Clarksville, Tenn., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[151,600,261,82,4419],"tags":[2880,2728,465,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-7565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hamilton","7":"category-montgomery","8":"category-shelby","9":"category-surname-m","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-avent","12":"tag-macrae","13":"tag-morris","14":"tag-porter","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10430,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions\/10430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}