City: Memphis<\/p>\n
FALLS, James N., <\/strong>business man; born Fayette Co., Tenn., Feb. 1, 1841; of German descent; son of\u00a0 Gilbreath\u00a0 <\/strong>and Frances (McNees) FALLS<\/strong>; <\/b>educated in the city schools of Memphis, Tenn.; in 1861 he enlisted with the Bluff City Grays, an independent company, which afterward became Co. \u201cB\u201d 154th<\/sup> senior regiment of Tenn.; two years later the company was mounted and transferred to Forrest\u2019s brimade with which he remained until the end of the war; he was in battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Nashville and Franklin, and several minor engagements; wounded at Shiloh and captured at Murfreesboro, escaping two months later from Jeffersonville; at close of war he was paroled at Gainesville, Ala., and rode his horse back to Memphis; in early life he was identified with the firm of Falls & Cash; when the Merchants Cotton Press and Storage Company was formed he was elected president, and is also president of the Dixie Cotton Oil Co., of Little Rock, Ark.; he was one of the pioneers of the cotton seed oil industry, having built a mill at Friar\u2019s Point, Miss., in 1873, and later the Valley Oil Mill, Memphis, Tenn., of which he was president a number of years; in 1892 he organized the Falls Grocery Co., and in 1900 he virtually retired from business, retaining his interests in the companies with which he is connected; married Clara DUNN<\/strong>, Nov. 1871; member of Country Club; member of Presbyterian church; director in First National Bank, Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis FALLS, James N., business man; born Fayette Co., Tenn., Feb. 1, 1841; of German descent; son of\u00a0 Gilbreath\u00a0 and Frances (McNees) FALLS; educated in the city schools of Memphis, Tenn.; in 1861 he enlisted with the Bluff City Grays, an independent company, which afterward became Co. \u201cB\u201d 154th senior regiment of Tenn.; two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[798,261,4410,4419],"tags":[2313,2974,1711],"class_list":{"0":"post-7801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fayette","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-f","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-dunn","11":"tag-falls","12":"tag-mcnees","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15061,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/15061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}