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Caughlin, Thomas M., the able and popular manager of the Caughlin Grocery Company, of Vicksburg, Miss., with which he has been identified since December, 1905, is one of the progressive busi- ness men of Vicksburg. He was for nearly a decade and a half in active service as a valued member of the board of aldermen of his city. Mr. Caughlin was born in Vicksburg, Oct. 3, 1860, and prac- tically his entire life has here been passed, while he has attained to prominence in business and civic life through his own well directed efforts and straightforward course. He is a son of James and Elizabeth (Walsh) Caughlin, both of whom were natives of the Emerald Isle, having come thence to America about the year 1854 and having taken up their permanent abode in Mississippi, where the mother died during the memorable cholera epidemic of 1866, the father still remaining a resident of Vicksburg and being now venerable in years. Thomas M. Caughlin was afforded the advan- tages of the common and parochial schools of Vicksburg, and in 1875 became a salesman in a retail grocery, being thus employed until 1880, when he engaged in the same line of enterprise on his own responsibility. In 1884 he connected himself with the United Gas and Improvement Company, of which corporation he was made superintendent in 1889, as well as that of general manager of the fine plant and business controlled by the company, which positions he retained until 1905 when he resigned to go into the grocery busi- ness. He is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and he has long been active in public affairs in his native city. On Dec. 5, 1890, he was elected to represent the first ward on the board of aldermen, of which body he remained continuously a member until 1904, having been its president during six years of this long period of effective service. He is a communicant of the Catholic church and in a fraternal way is identified with the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Knights of America and the Knights of Pythias. On Feb. 14, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Caughlin to Miss Mary E. Fisher, of Vicksburg, and they have five children : Irene, John J., Thomas M., Jr., Charles J. and William.
Chamberlain, Charles T., M. D., holds prestige as one of the able and successful physicians and surgeons of his native city of Natchez, where he is also proprietor and manager of the Chamberlain sani- tarium, a finely equipped and thoroughly modern institution. Doctor Chamberlain was born in Natchez, July 18, 1879, and is a son of Charles T. and Mary (Fleming) Chamberlain, the former of whom was born in Jefferson county, this State, and the latter in Natchez, where they still reside. The father entered the Confed- erate service when but sixteen years of age, having been a member of Captain Dorden's battery and having proved a gallant and faith- ful soldier. He is now one of the representative merchants of Natchez, where he is a member of the well known firm of Cham- berlain & Patterson. After completing the curriculum of the schools of his native city, Doctor Chamberlain was matriculated in the med- ical department of Tulane university, New Orleans, where he was
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graduated as a member of the class of 1901, and where he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon after his graduation he became house surgeon of the Natchez hospital, in which he rendered most effective service and gained valuable clinical experience. He held this position until the spring of 1904, when he withdrew to enter private practice, in which he has been distinctively successful. He has recently erected and equipped the Chamberlain sanitarium, a two-story brick structure of modern design and facilities and capable of accommodating about twenty-five patients. The sani- tarium is under his personal supervision and is open to the use of other physicians. Doctor Chamberlain is a member of the American medical association, the Mississippi medical association and the Adams county medical society. He also holds membership in the Prentiss Club and the Kappa Alpha college fraternity. His polit- ical support is given to the Democratic party. He is popular in the social circles of his native city and has the high esteem of his pro- fessional confreres.
Chapman, James H., a representative merchant and popular citizen of Pope, Panola county, is a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of the State. He was born on the old homestead plantation, in Panola county, Miss., Oct. 9, 1855, and is a son of James A. and Emily O. (Gleaton) Chapman, the former of whom was born in Alabama and the latter in Mississippi. Of the five children of this honored couple three are living. The father came to Mississippi in 1844 and he developed one of the valuable plantations of Panola county, being a man of good business acumen and sterling at- tributes of character. He was a valiant defender of the Confederate cause during the Civil war, having been in the regiment of cavalry commanded by Col. H. H. Chalmers, who became a member of the supreme court of Mississippi about a decade after the close of the war. In this command Mr. Chapman saw much arduous service, and during the latter part of the war he was in the commissary de- partment. Both he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives in Panola county, held in high regard by all who knew them. James H. Chapman passed his youth on the old homestead and after leaving the preparatory schools he entered the University of Missis- sippi, at Oxford, where he did effective work as a student for the ensuing two years. At the age of twenty-one years he became identified with the mercantile business, and four years later he pur- chased his father's plantation, buying the interests of the other heirs, and here he was actively engaged in farming for the following seven years. He then went to Arizona, where he passed a period of seven years, engaged in mercantile pursuits. He then returned to Panola county and devoted his attention to his plantation for two
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years, after which he located in the village of Pope and opened a well appointed general store, which he has since conducted, while he operates his fine plantation of 600 acres by leasing the same to good tenents. He has served as village clerk and trustee since the town was incorporated, his political allegiance being given to the Democratic party. Fraternally he is identified with the local organ- ization of the Woodmen of the World. In 1878 Mr. Chapman was united in marriage to Miss Tommie Draper, daughter of Thomas and Fannie (Lowden) Draper, of Panola county, and five children have been born of this union: Clyde W., now the wife of J. H. Kimbrough of Indianola, Miss .; Walter E., associated with his father in the mercantile business at Pope; C. Cecil, now of Port Gibson, Miss .; Robert H., and Lydia B., attending school.
Chandler, Andrew M., is a native of Clay county, a member of one of its honored pioneer families, and is one of its successful planters and popular citizens. His also is the distinction of having rendered gallant service as a soldier of the Confederacy in the war between the States, and in the private walks of life his fidelity and integrity have been as distinctively in evidence as was his loyalty during the dark period of the Civil war. He was born on the homestead plantation, in Clay county, April 3, 1844, and is a son of Roy and Louisa (Garner) Chandler, the former of whom was born in Virginia, in 1814, and the latter in Fayetteville, Tenn., in 1810. Roy Chandler was a grandson of Timothy Chandler, who was a soldier in the Continental line during the War of the Revolution, and was a son of Willis Chandler, who passed his entire life in the Old Dominion State. The Chandler lineage traces to staunch Eng- lish origin, and the progenitors in America were three brothers, one of whom settled in Massachusetts, one in Kentucky and the third in Virginia, the last mentioned being the direct ancestor of the sub- ject of this sketch. Louisa (Garner) Chandler was a daughter of Brice M. Garner, who served under General Jackson in the War of 1812, taking part in the battle of New Orleans, and having previously served under the same commander in the Indian wars in Alabama. In 1839 Roy Chandler came from Virginia to Mississippi, and in 1841 he purchased 320 acres of land in Clay county, later disposing of this property and purchasing another tract, of 640 acres. In 1849 he bought another plantation of the same area, now the residence of his son, B. S. Chandler, Sr., who entered the Confederate service in 1862, serving under Forrest and Wheeler, in Miller's Mississippi cavalry, which command formed a part of President Davis' escort, surrendering at Washington, Ga., May, 1865. Here Roy passed the remainder of his life, honored by all who knew him. He met his death in 1854, having been thrown from a horse and received in- juries which resulted in his death. His widow survived until 1867. After the death of the mother the sons owned all of the property in common until the incumbrance of $10,000, assumed by their mother prior to the Civil war, had been paid through their earnest and persistent efforts. The subject of this sketch then bought the plantation of 320 acres which his father had first secured, his uncle
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having been the owner at the time of this transfer, and he has since added to his landed estate until he has 1,280 acres, being one of the successful planters of this part of the State and having a home of which he may well be proud. The father was a member of the Masonic fraternity and his religious views were in harmony with the tenets of the Baptist church which he regularly attended, his wife having been a devout member of the Christian church. Andrew M. Chandler secured his fundamental education in the common schools of his native county and thereafter continued his studies in Summerville institute, a well ordered institution conducted by Prof. T. S. Gathright, in Noxubee county. He was aiding in the management of the home plantation at the time when the grue- some pall of Civil war began to obscure the national horizon. He promptly manifested his loyalty to the cause of the South, having enlisted as a private in the company raised at Palo Alto, in August, 1861, and mustered into the Confederate service as Company F, Forty-fourth Mississippi infantry, under Col. A. K. Blythe and Capt. D. F. Coopwood. He proceeded with his command to the front and was always to be found at the post of duty during the long and weary struggle and turbulent warfare which ensued He was never reprimanded or received punishment of any sort during his entire military career-a fact whose significance is unmistakable. Among the engagements in which he participated may be mentioned Belmont, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. At Murfrees- boro he was promoted second sergeant, for gallantry and uniformly good conduct on field and in camp. In the battle of Chickamauga he received a wound in the right leg, the injury being such as to cripple him for life, but he continued in service until the close of the war, though several times tendered an honorable discharge. He received his parole, at Columbus, Miss., in June, 1865. He is a member of the United Confederate Veterans and is held in high esteem by his old comrades in arms. In politics Mr. Chandler gives an unswerving support to the Democratic party, and he served four years as justice of the peace, having been appointed by Governor Alcorn and having accepted the office only at the earnest solicita- tion of his many friends. He is affiliated with the Knights of Honor and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Christian church. On Feb. 6, 1866, Mr. Chandler was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Ivy, daughter of Sterling G. and Isabelle (Gates) Ivy, of Chickasaw county, and she was summoned to the life eternal March 14, 1878. Following is a brief record concerning the children of this marriage: Roy H. is engaged in the wholesale dry goods and grocery business at West Point; Benjamin Sterling is asso- ciated with his elder brother in the enterprise noted ; Thomas K. is a retail grocer in West Point; Loubelle is the wife of John H. Turkville, of Jackson, this State; and Andrew M., Jr., is a carrier on a rural free mail delivery route from West Point. All of the children were born in the same dwelling but in three different counties, as the homestead was originally in that part of Chickasaw county which was later made Colfax county, and still later Clay county.
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In November, 1880, Mr. Chandler contracted a second marriage, being then united to Miss Rowena Coopwood, daughter of William C. Coopwood, of Clay county, and the only child of this union is Mary Ivy, wife of W. Harry Dodenhoff, of West Point.
Clarke, David Gage, manager of the Great Southern hotel, at Gulfport, one of the finest resort hostelries of the South, is a native of the city of Chicago, Ill., where he was born March 25, 1872, being a son of Robert G. and Clara (Gage) Clarke, the former of whom was born in Chicago, being a member of one of its pioneer families, while the latter was born in New Hampshire, being a daughter of David A. Gage, who was long one of the most prominent hotel men in Chicago and one of its best known and most popular citi- zens. He was, at different intervals, proprietor of the Grand Pacific hotel and the Tremont and Sherman houses, whose names are prominent in the annals of the great metropolis at the foot of Lake Michigan. David Gage Clarke completed the curriculum of the public schools of his native city, including that of the high school, and when nine- teen years of age he entered the theatrical profession, with which he was identified for a period of nine years, within which time he was a member of such well known organizations as those sent out under the management of Hoyt and Frohman, having been also in the company of Digby Bell and in those of other artists of equally high reputation. In 1890 he became associated with his uncle, C. H. Clarke, in the hotel business, in the operation of resort hotels at St. Clair Springs, Mich., and at Pass Christian, Miss. In 1902 he was assistant manager of the Lincoln House, in Pittsburg, Pa., and in January, 1903, he came to Gulfport, Miss., as assistant man- ager of the Great Southern hotel. Upon the death of his uncle, C. H. Clarke, in April, 1904, he assumed the management of the busi- ness, succeeding his uncle in this responsible position. He is specially well fitted for the office, both by heredity and experience, and in the connection it is interesting to record that he was born in an hotel and has lived in hotels every day of his life thus far, while he has visited every city of appreciable population in the United States, principally while en tour with the theatrical com- panies of which he was a member. The Great Southern hotel, of Gulfport, is recognized as one of the most modern and beautiful of the many great resort hotels of the South, and its popularity is fully attested by its representative patronage. The building is lo- cated near the shores of Mississippi sound, facing Cat Island, and from the broad and attractive galleries of the hotel may be seen the masts of all manner of craft lying at anchor or moving about in the great harbor, and a seven-mile channel, twenty-five feet deep and 310 feet wide, connects directly with the pier at Gulfport. The hotel
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has a frontage of 600 feet, has 250 guest rooms, each supplied with outside windows, telephone, hot and cold water, electric light, and all other modern facilities of the highest type, there being an average of one bath room for every two rooms in the house. The furnishing and general equipment of the hotel is of the standard maintained by the best metropolitan and resort houses, and the wide, airy halls and attractive verandas can not fail to appeal to the guests, nor can the fine rotunda, in antique oak, or the spacious dining-room, finished in Flemish oak. Other attractions are the café, billiard room, palm room, basket-ball court, etc. Insect-proof screens pro- tect the porches and rooms, sewage is carried a half-mile distant to the gulf, and the best type of steam-heating is utilized for heating the building in cold weather. Water for drinking purposes is sup- plied by an artesian well 840 feet in depth. The power house, adjacent to the hotel, furnishes heat, light and refrigeration. On the grounds is a nine-hole golf course and a tennis court, while boating, bathing and driving offer endless attractions and recrea- tion to the sojourners in this idyllic resort, Pass Christian and Biloxi being within easy driving distance, while the shell roads are unexcelled. For those or sportsmanlike proclivities there is to be found alluring claims in the matter of quail hunting from Octo- ber to April, while deer are to be found in the woods to the north. At the end of the hotel pier, which is more than a mile in length, is a fine club house, to which trolley cars run directly from the hotel every ten minutes. The hotel is operated on the European plan, and a fine orchestra is retained to furnish music for the reg- ular dinners and luncheons as well as balls and other special functions. The Great Southern is an ideal resort, both for winter and summer, and the management of the place is well entrusted to the hands of Mr. Clarke, whose ability as a hotel man is on a parity with his personal popularity. From Chicago this fine resort is to be reached in twenty-six hours, while an additional ten hours will bring the New York guest to the hospitable doors of the Great Southern.
Clark, Frederick, who died at his home in Cleveland, Bolivar county, June 8, 1905, was a scion of one of the dis- tinguished families of Mississippi, and in his signally gentle, noble and generous life he well upheld the prestige of the name which he bore. He had gained a high reputation as a lawyer and was one of the leading members of the bar of Bolivar county at the time of his demise. Mr. Clark was born on the Doro planta- tion, in Bolivar county, Miss., Dec. 22, 1852, being a son of Gen. Charles and Ann E. (Darden) Clark, the former of whom was born in the State of Ohio and the latter in Jefferson county, Miss. Gen. Charles Clark served as lieu-
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tenant under Jefferson Davis in the Mexican war, was a brigadier- general in the Confederate service and also served as governor of Mississippi at the time the Civil war was in progress. Of him further mention is made at various points in this historic compila- tion. Frederick Clark, subject of this memoir, was afforded the advantages of the common schools of Mississippi and Ohio and also took a literary course in the University of Mississippi. He was later graduated in the law department of the University of Vir- ginia. He then returned to his native county and located at what is now the town of Rosedale, where he initiated the practice of his chosen profession. In January, 1902, he established himself in practice in Cleveland, where he passed the remainder of his life. His was a distinctively deliberative and judicial mind, and he was known throughout the State as a lawyer of great technical learn- ing and practical ability, his success being of the most unequivocal order. It is believed that his assiduous application to his profes- sion brought about the peculiar and baffling malady which resulted in his death, after an illness of nine months. Within this period he was treated by some of the most eminent physicians in the United States, but none of them successfully diagnosed his ailment, and he finally passed peacefully into the life eternal, loved by all who had come within the sphere of his personal influence and ad- mired by all who knew his sterling qualities and fine talents. His was a noble manhood, kindliness and tolerance dwelt with him as constant guests, and there were few indeed in Bolivar county who did not know and esteem him. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Honor. It was but natural that a man of so broad mental ken should manifest a deep interest in public and civic affairs, and while he ever gave a loyal support to the Democratic party he invariably refused to ac- cept appointive or elective offices. He was a zealous and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, having been a steward of the church in Cleveland at the time of his death. Mr. Clark was twice married, his first union having been with Miss Margaret Winchester, daughter of the late Judge Winchester, of Natchez, Miss., and her death occurred in 1894, there having been eight children of this union, seven of whom are living. On Dec. 19, 1895, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Toney, daughter of William L. and Margaret C. (Kimbrough) Toney, resi- dents of Pine Bluff, Ark. Mrs. Clark survives her honored husband, as does also their only child, Helen Elizabeth, and she still main- tains her home in Cleveland, surrounded by a wide circle of devoted friends. Mr. Clark is buried in the old family burying ground on the Doro plantation where lie the remains of his distinguished parents.
Clark, James Augustus, of Yazoo City, is the able and popular circuit clerk of Yazoo county and is one of the valiant sons of the southland who went forth in defense of the cause of the Confederacy during the climacteric period of the war between the States. Mr. Clark is a native of the State of Alabama, having been born in
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Wilcox county, Jan. 13, 1845, and being a son of Enos and Eliza- beth (Whitfield) Clark, the former of whom was born in Kentucky and the latter in South Carolina. Mr. Clark was afforded the ad- vantages of a well conducted private school at Rehoboth, Ala., and supplemented this by a high school course. He was but sixteen years of age at the inception of the Civil war, but his patriotism was quickened to responsive protest, and in March, 1862, he en- listed as a private in Company I, Third Alabama cavalry, with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, and having taken part in a number of the important engagements which marked the progress of the great conflict, including the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and the Georgia campaign, from Missionary Ridge onward, serving in the command of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and having been at Salisbury, N. C., at the time of the final surrender. After the war Mr. Clark returned to Ala- bama, where he remained until March, 1873, when he located in Yazoo county, Miss., where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, still having plantation interests in the county. He is a stalwart sup- porter of the cause of the Democratic party and has served in various positions of public trust. He was justice of the peace from 1882 until 1888, and in October, 1896, he became deputy chancery clerk of the county, retaining this incumbency until June, 1903, when he entered upon his duties as circuit clerk, to which office he had been elected and of which he has since remained in tenure. He is held in high esteem in the county and is known as a discriminat- ing and capable official. He is affiliated with the United Confed- erate Veterans and with the Woodmen of the World. Nov. 30, 1879, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Sarah L. Kirk, daughter of Jefferson and Olivia H. (Marshall) Kirk. They have no children.
Chisholm, Robert Benjamin, M. D., has gained distinctive suc- cess in one of the most exacting and responsible vocations to which a man may turn his attention and has risen to prominence as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of his native county, being established in the practice of his profession in Summit, one of the thriving towns of the southern part of the State. He was born on the homestead plantation, in Pike county, April 14, 1863, and is a son of Calvin and Harriet W. (Andrews) Chisholm, both of whom were born in Mississippi, where the respective families were early established. The paternal lineage traces back to stanch Scot- tish origin and the maternal ancestors were from Ireland. After proper preparatory education, secured in the schools of Pike county, Doctor Chisholm turned his attention to the practical duties of life, and for a number of years he was identified with agricultural pur- suits. He finally took up the study of medicine in a private way and then entered the medical department of Tulane university, in New Orleans, being there graduated, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, as a member of the class of 1903. Since that time he has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Summit, his services and ministrations being in demand by residents of
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all parts of his native county. He is a member of the Mississippi State medical association, is a Democrat in his political proclivities and is affiliated with the time-honored fraternity of Freemasons, as well as the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Wood- men of the World. He is a zealous member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, South, while Mrs. Chisholm is a member of the Baptist church. He is steward in the local church and also district steward. On Dec. 28, 1892, Doctor Chisholm was united in marriage to Miss Eloise E. McGehee, daughter of Theodore L. and Lenora (Spur- lock) McGehee, of Amite county, and the children of this union are five in number, namely : Hubert McGehee (deceased), Thomas Hil- ton, Lee Edwin, Hazel Watson and Robert Elise.
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