Biography of 	TREZEVANT, Marye B., Memphis, TN., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 437-438.  Edited
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Trezevant, Marye Brooks, general manager of the New Orleans Association of
Commerce, and widely known in connection with the activities of this
organization and other similar associations, was born at Memphis, Tenn.,
Nov. 9, 1872; son of Marye B. and Susan (Simmons) Trezevant, the former a
native of Memphis, Tenn., and the latter of Charleston, S. C.  The
Trezevant family originated from the French Huguenots.  Two brothers of the
family name came to America in 1668, first locating at Charleston, S. C.,
but later removing to Virginia.  Marye B. Trezevant, Sr., the father, is at
this time a practicing attorney at Memphis, where the mother also resides.
At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted in the Confederate army as
second lieutenant of the Shelby Greys, of Shelby county, Tenn., and served
throughout the war.  He had attended a military college prior to the time
of the war, and after the surrender took up the study of law, in due time
being admitted to the bar and beginning the practice of his profession in
the city of Memphis, where he has since remained in active practice.  The
paternal grandfather, Maj. John T. Trezevant, was the first mayor of
Memphis.  He also served in the Confederate army, with the rank of major,
and had charge of the arsenal at Charleston, S. C.  Major Trezevant died in
the year 1887.  Marye B. Trezevant, the son, subject of this sketch, was
the 3rd of 6 children born to his parents.  In the course of his education
he attended the public schools at Memphis and later a private educational
institution, thereafter matriculating at the University of the South,
Sewanee, Tenn., from which he graduated within the regulation time.  When
his education had been completed he entered the service of his uncle, Theo.
Brooks Trezevant, in mercantile business.  After 10 years passed in this
connection he resigned and, in 1897, came to New Orleans as a reporter on
the Daily States, there remaining 6 or 7 years and successively filling the
positions of reporter, city editor, and ultimately assistant manager of the
States.  While in this connection he was also a contributor to the columns
of the Harlequin, a weekly publication, and, having some time previously
been a student of art, also furnished cartoons, for the Harlequin.  At the
end of this term of service he went to New York and for a time was
connected with the New York Mail and Express.  After a time in this work
Mr. Trezevant was appointed advertising manager for the Southern Pacific R.
R., with headquarters at Houston, Tex., and proceeding to that city he
filled the latter position with conspicuous ability until the year 1906,
when he returned to New Orleans as secretary of the Progressive union.
Later he was advanced to the more important position of secretary and
manager, and upon the reorganization of this institution, when its name was
altered to the Association of Commerce, July 1, 1913.  Mr. Trezevant was
made general manager of the Association of Commerce.  Mr. Trezevant is a
member of the Country club, the Chess, Checkers and Whist club, the
Louisiana Historical society, Tulane society of Economics, National
Geographic society, the Ad. club, the South Carolina Huguenot society and
the Philharmonic society, and Louisiana Lodge No. 102, Free and Accepted
Masons.  He was successively president of the Louisiana Commercial
Secretaries' association, president of the Southern Commercial Secretaries'
association, and president of the American Association of Commercial
Executives.  Oct. 19, 1907, Mr. Trezevant was married to Miss May Randolph,
who was born in the City of New Orleans and is a descendant of the Randolph
family of Virginia, her parents being John and Emma (Perham) Randolph.
Mrs. Trezevant's father was formerly a prominent cotton factor of New
Orleans.  Mr. And Mrs. Trezevant are members of the Episcopal church.  A
devotee of athletics, Mr. Trezevant was at one time southern champion at
100 yards, and a football half-back on the Memphis Athletic club team,
champion of the South at the time.