Rowland's History of Amory, Monroe County, Mississippi

Source:  Rowland, Dunbar, ed.  Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of 
Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in 
Cyclopedic Form.  3 vols.  Atlanta:  Southern Historical Publishing 
Association, 1907.

From:  Vol. 1, p. 112

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  Amory, an incorporated post-town in the north-central part of Monroe 
county, on the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham R. R., 14 miles north of 
Aberdeen.  It is surrounded by a fine farming region, filled with a 
thrifty and prosperous population.  It has telegraph, express and banking 
facilities, an excellent academy, four churches, and several manufacturing 
enterprises.  The Bank of Amory was organized in 1897 and has a capital of 
$20,000.  The Merchants' and Farmers Bank was recently established, 
capital $25,000.  The Argus is a Democratic weekly newspaper, established 
in 1894, owned and edited by W. A. Bean.  It has an electric lighting 
system, a steam laundry, a large cotton gin and grist mill combined, and 
two brick plants.

  The town of Amory sprang up in 1887 when the Kansas City, Memphis & 
Birmingham railroad came through this section, and at once absorbed the 
business and population of the old neighboring town of Cotton Gin Port 
(q. v.).  The town is growing at a rapid rate and is very prosperous.  
Population in 1890 was 739, in 1900, 1,211; and in 1906 it was estimated 
at 2,000.