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Memphis Biographies

This page is all about prominent Memphians you may or may not know.  Some are famous and some are not.  They're often associated with a well-known local business or event in Memphis history.  On the pages listed below, you'll find photo-bios of these individuals and the business, or simply photo-bios about well-known Memphis businesses.

 

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A - B >

 J.P Alley - Cal Alley  
 ... Editorials and Hambone		 Bob Berryman        
 and the Silver Slipper Nightclub		 Mr. Bowers             
... and his Grocery Stores
       
    Hu Brinkley
and the Lyceum Theatre		  
       
 
       
  D. Canale & Co. 
and Old Dominick.		 Samuel T. Carnes 
Telephone, Electricity, & Automobile.		 Tony "Monk" Cassatta
 Memphis' favorite eccentric
       

C  >

 Robert Reed Church
 The first black millionaire.		 Sol Coleman
 Cigars and Ko Ko Tulu Gum.		 Barron G. Collier 
Father of Streetcar Advertising

 

      
  Clara Conway            
+ the Clara Conway Institute		 Cortese Brothers     
+ the Music they brought to Memphis		 E. H. Crump
Historic "Boss" from 1910-1954.
       
 
       

D - E >

 Rowland J. Darnell          
and The 19th Century Club		 Dinstuhl's Candies
 In Memphis since 1902		  
       
 
       

F - G >

 Maude Fealy
The Beauty and the Actress		 Oliver-Finnie Grocer Co.
A Memphis Institution		 French - Thoni White
 Postcard-Memorabilia Collection
       
  John Gaston
...Restaurant, Hotel, Park, + Hospital		 Colton Greene  
...and the Mardi Gras, the Water
Works, and Library		 Carl Gutherz  
...and his beautiful invitations for the Memphis Mardi Gras
 

 

 

  
 
       

 

 W. C. Handy
...and his "Memphis Blues"		 C. C. Hanson   
And his Hansonhurst Creamery    		J. C. Harbin   
And his Motel, Pool, and Dairy

H - L >

      
  Thomas Hannah, Jr.
Civil War Letters from Memphis		 Hayes Funeral Home     
 ...oldest Black Business 		Jenny M. Higbee      
and the Memphis Higbee School
       
  O. K. Houck
 and his Memphis Music Store

"Machine Gun" Kelly
 Captured in Memphis Hideout

Tom Lee         
...the Memphis Hero
       
  Henry Luehrmann
 ...his Saloon, Hotel, Restaurant

 

  
       
 
       

 

 Mayors of Memphis      
 ...1827 to the present		 Menken Bros Dry Goods 
the forgotten Department Store  		Elizabeth  Meriwether 
...Rebel, Writer, and Suffragist

M >

      

 

 Frank T. Montgomery 
and Memphis Majestic Theatres		 Henry A. Montgomery 
and Montgomery Park Race Track		 William R. Moore
and the Moore School of Technology
   

 

  
 
       

N - P >

 Oak Hall      
 and the Memphis Halle Family.		 Orgill Brothers & Co 
Oldest Memphis firm.		 Photographers.. Coovert,
Hooks, Newman, Poland, Speer
       
 
       

R - T >

 Clarence Saunders
 And the Piggly Wiggly		 A. Schwab
  - since 1876		 Theatre Showmen
 Early Impresarios and Moguls
       
      Tony's Fruit Stand
A Memphis Institution
       
 
       

 

 Madame Vincent       
 and the Crystal Palace Saloon		 Peter Van Vleet
Van Vleet Drugs and Old Tech High		 Ida B. Wells 
and The People's Grocery.

 

      

U - W >

 George Whitworth
 Memphis Books, Photos, Memorabilia		 Paul Revere Williams
Architect to the Stars		 Hoyt Wooten
World's largest private bomb shelter
       
  Frances Wright
         ... and Historic NASHOBA		    
 

 

    
 
       

Y- Z >

 Otto Zahn
Master Bookbinder		    
       
 
 

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