agriculture; business; disease; economy; epidemics; family; home keeping; landowners; land speculation; political parties; politics; slavery; social life; weather; women; yellow fever;
Little is known about Anna (Annie) W. Conner; however, more can be ascertained about her ancestry. John O’Connor, the first of Annie’s ancestors to settle in America, migrated from Ireland in 1745 and settled in Culpeper County, Virginia, and...
Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, or Freedmen’s Bureau as it was commonly known, in March 1865 as the end of the Civil War drew near. An agency of the War Department, the Freedmen’s Bureau had two main...
African Americans; baseball; Birmingham Black Barons; business; death; entertainment; funeral homes; public service; recreation; sports;
Thomas Henry Hayes, Jr., was born in Covington, Tennessee in 1902. His father, Thomas H. Hayes, Sr., founded T.H. Hayes Funeral Home, which was the oldest African American-owned business in Memphis when his son joined as funeral director in 1928....
"...Stamm, whose family is in the clothing business here, is a graduate of Snowden Junior High School and Central High School. Interested in jazz since he was 16, the 42-year-old artist lives with his wife and two daughters in the small town...
"When George Coleman, Harold Mabern and Frank Strozier bring home their internationally known jazz music this weekend, they also will bring memories of why they had to leave Memphis to seek fame and fortune. -- The Manassas High School...
"All that can be said about Lena Horne is what has been said so many times before-- she's an incredibly beautiful lady and an inimitable performer. -- Watching her show at the Orpheum last night made it hard to believe that she's 62-years old....
"...Voice inflections weren't perfect, for the African tribal song was born 5,000 miles away. -- But Central High School band director James Harris, a Negro, seemed to feel the cowbell he was tapping and Mrs. Henrietta Boggs, Carver Junior...
"...Of the 120 freshman students who will begin classes Thursday, more than half will be women, said Dr. Seldom D Feurt, dean of the College of Pharmacy. -- Dr. Feurt said the percentage of women students in pharmacy has been going up...
One of many articles about Elvis' charitable contributions to organizations in the Memphis area. An unrelated news story about a draft board reprieve in 1957 is also mounted here.
Donated to the Memphis Public Library in 1989 by Marie Connor, the collection contains a wide range of aviation news and memorabilia from the Memphis area. These include articles clipped from local newspapers about aviation events and history,...
This small collection of letters was given to the Memphis and Shelby County Room in 1985 by Dexter Muller. The letters in the collection provide a great deal of information about the life of the Berlin family and the loss they sustained upon the...
W. W. Busby was born in 1893 and spent his early years in the Memphis neighborhoods known as Meacham’s Shinertown and Pinch. His father, John Busby, owned several markets in Memphis before the family moved to Texas in 1904. W.W. Busby attended...
Henry A. Montgomery was born in Fermanagh County, Ireland in 1829. At fifteen he began an apprenticeship with Thos. Karnahan & Sons, a timber, slate and iron dealership. He immigrated to Canada in the spring of 1848 and moved later that year...
business; corrections; criminals; employment; entertainment; immigrants; Jews; labor; law enforcement; parole; prisons; public service; television; volunteers;
Leo M. Seligman, who committed himself to helping men and women lead responsible and productive lives after prison, grew up in Germany in the early decades of the 20th Century. He was born in 1900 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany and served in the...
