City: Memphis<\/p>\n
FINLEY, Spence Lamb<\/strong>, <\/b>real estate dealer; born Lebanon, Tenn., April 16, 1857; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John B.<\/strong> and Elizabeth (Lamb) FINLEY<\/strong>; <\/b>father\u2019s occupation physician; paternal grandfather, O. G. FINLEY<\/strong>; <\/b>began his business career as typesetter for country newspaper, at Searcy, Ark., Jan. 4, 1870; married Emma BAILEY<\/strong>, <\/b>Dec. 10, 1884; Past Grand Regent Royal Arcanum of Tenn.; member K. and L. of H., National Union, W. O. W., A. O. U. W., Loyal Addition, 32d degree Mason and Business Men\u2019s Club; Democrat; former printer until May, 1877, then entered treasurer\u2019s office Old Miss. & Tenn. Ry. as cashier, and continued as same three years; from 1880 to 1888 was joint ticket agent L. & N. Ry., M. & T. Ry., and Memphis and Little Rock Ry. at Memphis, Tenn.; in May 1888 formed partnership with A. D. Allen, under firm name Allen & Finley, which firm bought the Memphis property for the Bridge Co., promoted and built the Electric line from Memphis to Raleigh, also promoted and built the car works at Binghamton, Tenn.; in 1906 was cashier Bankers Trust Co., but entered real estate business again in 1907 and is now with W. S. Biles & Co., selling farm and timber lands developing the Yazoo Valley Delta; member of Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis FINLEY, Spence Lamb, real estate dealer; born Lebanon, Tenn., April 16, 1857; Scotch-Irish descent; son of John B. and Elizabeth (Lamb) FINLEY; father\u2019s occupation physician; paternal grandfather, O. G. FINLEY; began his business career as typesetter for country newspaper, at Searcy, Ark., Jan. 4, 1870; married Emma BAILEY, Dec. 10, 1884; Past Grand […]<\/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":[261,4410,102,4419],"tags":[1043,2794,1502],"class_list":{"0":"post-7942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-f","8":"category-wilson","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bailey","11":"tag-finley","12":"tag-lamb","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942","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=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7944,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions\/7944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}