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MATTHEWS, Robert Leedy<\/strong>, real estate and insurance; born in Memphis, Tenn.; most of his life was spent in Mississippi, where he acquired his preliminary education; graduated from Eastman\u2019s Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; he returned to Memphis, and at age of eighteen years secured a position with Farrington, Stewart & White, then proprietors of the Gayoso Hotel Company; he remained with that company for three years, then resigned in 1890 to accept a position as teller in the Manhattan Savings Bank & Trust Co.; in 1894 he left the bank to engage in business for himself as a member of the firm of Farnsworth & Matthews, private bankers and insurance underwriters; in 1898 the firm sold out to engage in manufacturing lines in the East; he returned to Memphis in 1900 and established the present firm of R. L. Matthews & Co.; member of the Industrial League, Business Men\u2019s Club Chickasaw and Country Clubs, Memphis Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis MATTHEWS, Robert Leedy, real estate and insurance; born in Memphis, Tenn.; most of his life was spent in Mississippi, where he acquired his preliminary education; graduated from Eastman\u2019s Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; he returned to Memphis, and at age of eighteen years secured a position with Farrington, Stewart & White, then proprietors […]<\/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":[261,82,4419],"tags":[50],"class_list":{"0":"post-7627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-m","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-matthews","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627","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=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10615,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions\/10615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}