Occupations and Professions of Selma
From "Selma; Her Institutions, and Her Men" by John Hardy, pub. 1879:
COTTON BROKERS.-- J. C. Graham & Co., Welch & Keith, Partridge & Co., A. G. Stollenwerck, Lotspeich, Golson & Co.,
ATTORNEYS.- Brooks & Roy, Satterfield & Young, Reid & May, Pettus, Dawson & Tillman, Sumter Lea, I. N. Suttle, John F. Conoley, B. F. Saffold, W. T. Crenshaw, J. C. Compton, A. H. Gardner, W. R. Nelson, Richard M. Morrow, Sterritt & Mabry, John, Fellows & John, White & White, W. E. Boyd, R. D. Berry;, W. C. Ward, h. S. D. Mallory, J. S. Diggs, F. L. Pettus.
PHYSICAINS.-- Richard Clarke, C. J. Clark, c. D. Parke, W. H. Johnson, T. F. Gage, J. P. Furniss, B. H. Riggs, J. A. McKinnon, J. H, Henry, J. T. West, H. S. Hudson, J. H. Williamson, J. F. Mullen.
JUSTICES AND NOTARIES.-- S. M. Grayson, A. Jones, Richard M. Morrow J. W. Mabry, John F. Conoley.
MACHINIST.-- S. C. Pierce, G. L. Stuck, P. L. Campbell, a. H. Haywood, T. C. Pierce, Henry Pierce.
PHOTOGRAPHERS.-- Turner & Dinsmore, G. L. Rosenberger.
LUMBER AND SHINGLE DEALERS.-- W. H. Welch & Co., J. B. Howison & Co., Gayle & Vernon, M. H. Smiths, F. F. Wise.
MISCELLANEOUS.-- Merritt Burns, real estate dealer; Geo. L. Stuck, engineer; John Hayes fisherman; Jack Hinton, clerk; P. Cohen, hide dealer; M. Bemish, tanner; B. Eliasburg, agent; Wm. Barley, A. Benjamin, kA. H. Owen, Mechanics; Geo. Ferguson, clerk; C. H. Lavender, R. R. ; G. M. McConnico, F. A. Woodson, coal dealers; J. E. McMullan, clerk; Henry Pierce, John Riggs, mechanic; James Allen, Engineer; A. W. Archer, mechanic; A. Richey, carpenter; Mess M. D. Doyle, fancy hair worker; R. J. Fowler, public wharfinger; C. Kuhne, upholsterer; John R. Kenan, compress; T. T. Tallman, compress; A. J. Mullen, brick maker; E. A. Rainey, coal dealer.
Col. W. B. Davis, Superintendent of the express office.
Capt Wm. M. nettles, Superintendent of the telegraph office.
P. D. Wadsworth, general telegraph line repairer.
Capt Norman Webb. General Superintendent of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, one among the best business men in the South and a most clever gentleman.
Capt. J. G. Ellis, Superintendent of the New Orleans and Selma rairoad.
Capt J. M. Bridges, Superintendent of the Alabama Central Railroad.
Mr. Sitton, Master Mechanist of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Shops; And many other business men whom we cannot recollect.
Gillman’s Hall, a most complete and capacious hall for public entertainments, capable of accommodating 1,500 people.
Edwards’ Opera House, neatly arranged and capable of seating 1,000 people.
Armory Hall, capable of seating 800 people , with several other smaller public halls an club rooms.
Two first-class hotels-- the St James, Col. J. M. Dedman, proprietor, and the Southern Hotel, John M. Tillman, Proprietor, besides the Central City Hotel, Mrs. Rafferty, proprietress, with quite a number of first-class private boarding houses, among them we will specially mention those of Mrs. Winnemore, Mrs. Braser, Mrs. Tredwell, Mrs. Woodson, Mrs. Medley, Mrs. Tinch, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Deseker, and Mrs. Hooker, all affording ample accommodations to the public.
Some six large warehouses, for the storage of cotton and all other kinds of freights, among them is the large and splendid fire-proof warehouse of C. Lovelady.
Railroad compress, thought which at least 60,000 bales of cotton pass every season, before shipment to the manufacturers.
One daily newspaper and three weekly papers, and two first class job printing offices.
When all these men and their occupations and professions are looked at, all doing a prosperous business is it not reasonable for us to anticipate a magnificent and prosperous future for Selma?
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