agriculture; Davis family; education; family; health; Price family; religion; social life; weather;
The Davis family and the Price family were joined when Carolina “Callie” Price married William G. Davis in 1879. William and Callie decided to raise their family in Gibson Station in Gibson County. The Price/Davis Family Papers date from 1841...
agriculture; automobile safety; cars; cattle; Cohn, Robert; cotton; crime; dairy farming; floods; immigration; Jews; Mississippi River; patriotism; prisoners of war; public service; rivers; silk production; theater; travel; World War II;
Robert Cohn was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1874. He moved to Memphis at the age of 26 and began working in the cotton industry. He then shifted his focus to the operation of the Heart’s Delight Dairy and Poultry Farm at Forest Hill, which served...
agriculture; Bedford family; cotton; Duke family; education; family; finding aids; Germantown, Tennessee; immigration; Nashoba; newspapers; public service; Shelby County; slavery; social life;
The Britton Duke Papers are a chronicle of an early Germantown, Tennessee, family. The papers were donated to the Memphis and Shelby County Room by Louise Duke Bedford, great granddaughter of Britton Duke, and her nephew, Edward C. Duke. The...
Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, via the Works Progress Administration, the National Youth Administration, housing changes, the Civilian Conservation...
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...
agriculture; Bedford family; cotton; Duke family; education; family; Germantown, Tennessee; immigration; Nashoba; newspapers; public service; Shelby County; slavery; social life;
The Britton Duke Papers are a chronicle of an early Germantown, Tennessee, family. The papers were donated to the Memphis and Shelby County Room by Louise Duke Bedford, great granddaughter of Britton Duke, and her nephew, Edward C. Duke. The...
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...
Flooding impacted the society, business environment and ecology of the Mid-South. These mostly man-made disasters interrupted and permeated all aspects of life until the mid-twentieth Century. Floods were so frequent and sometimes so devastating...
agriculture; authors; Bartlett, Tennessee; Bond family; business; Cordova; cotton; family; farming; government; medicine; politics; public service; railroads; slavery; writers;
Among the most prominent citizens of early Shelby County were three brothers, Samuel, John and Washington Bond. Samuel, born in 1804, was a practicing physician. During the late 1840s or early 1850s, he and his wife, Mary Lucy, built a splendid...
agriculture; art; banking; business; Civil War; cotton; education; entertainment; family; farming; floods; land grants; military; schools; social life; women; World War II; yellow fever;
Elizabeth Searcy was born in Memphis in 1877. Her father, Captain Mark W. Searcy, had served as a scout with Nathan Bedford Forrest and was the superintendent of the Memphis Board of Health. Elizabeth attended Miss Higbee’s School and studied...
