appropriations; Crump, E. H.; government; immigration; law; legislation; military; pardons; parole; passports; politics; post office; public service; rural routes;
Kenneth McKellar was born in 1869 near Richmond, Alabama. In 1892, after receiving a Bachelor’s, Master’s and law degree from the University of Alabama, he moved to Memphis. He began his extensive political career when he was selected as a...
The Ernest B. “Tony” Vacarro Collection contains mementos reflecting a career of more than thirty years as a reporter for the Associated Press. Photographs taken from Vaccaro’s scrapbook and from an album given to him when he retired as...
Board Members of the Memphis Chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (L to R): Mrs. Nelson Coppedge (Elizabeth) - (2nd) Past President; Miss Merrill Parish Hudson - (1st) Past President, organized Memphis APTA; Mrs....
arts; business; cemeteries; funerals; landscape architecture; libraries; market research; Memorial Park; postcards; public service; sculpture; women;
Katherine Hinds was born in Mississippi and spent her early years in Tupelo. She attended Randolph Macon Woman’s College in Virginia, but transferred to Southwestern College (now Rhodes) in Memphis and went on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa in...
arts; business; clubs; education; family; government; mayors; neighborhoods; public service; religion; shopping; social life; suffrage; theater; women; women's clubs;
Mary Graham Love was born July 27, 1884. She was the daughter of Memphis Mayor George Collins Love, who held office from November 1915 to February 1916, and Mary A. Graham Love. Mary Graham Love graduated from St. Mary’s Episcopal School for...
A small group of people organized as Citizens to Preserve Overton Park with the goal of preventing Interstate 40 from intersecting Overton Park. CPOP, as the organization became known, successfully stopped the construction of an east-west segment...
Edward Hull Crump was born near Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1874. He was raised by his mother, Mollie Nelms Crump, after his father, a cotton planter and former Confederate officer, died during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. When he was 19...
The firm of S.B. Williamson and A.S. Hancock, Grocers and Commission Merchants, was established at 49 Front in Memphis around 1850. Like similar businesses of their day, they sold a variety of items including groceries and farm supplies, and also...
attorneys; law; mayors; military; politics; public service; railroads; transportation; World War I; World War II;
Roane Waring was born in 1881 in Memphis. He graduated from Christian Brothers College and received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1902. Returning to Memphis to practice law, he represented the Memphis Street Railway in several...
Bates, Samuel Ogden; courts; duck hunting; family; government; Irish Society of Memphis; law; Lenox; mayors; politics; public service; social life;
Samuel O. Bates, a major figure in the Memphis legal community in the 20th century, was born in Ogden, Arkansas, a town named for his mother’s family. In 1899, he came to Memphis to attend Christian Brothers College and graduated with honors in...
agriculture; business; clubs; festivals; law; military; public service; secret societies; social life; warehouses;
A. Arthur Halle was born in Memphis in 1889. He attended the Linden Street School, Memphis University School, Betts Academy in Stamford, Connecticut, and Yale University, where he studied law. Halle’s time at Yale ended prematurely because of his...
law; libraries; civil rights; desegregation; Russell, Edward P.; Creson, Larry; Montedonico, John S.; Randolph, Wassell;
A copy of a letter from library board president Wassell Randolph to attorneys Russell, Creson and Montedonico: "Gentlemen: -- The Board of Directors of Cossitt Library have resolved that in view of the city ordinance requiring separate rest...
A copy of a memo sent from the Library Board President to Mayor Edmund Orgill. The following resolution is attached: "Resolved that the Mayor and the City Commissioners be requested at the next meeting of the City Commission to pass a...
