Jefferson County TN Archives Obituaries.....Parrott, Samuel Fain September 1910
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“The Newnan Herald & Advertiser”
Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia



NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, September 30, 1910



SAMUEL F. PARROTT TAKEN BY DEATH



Atlanta Constitution, the 27th inst.



Samuel Fain Parrott, part owner of the Piedmont hotel, president of the 

Atlanta Compress Company and one of the most prominent railroad men in the 

South, died at the Elkin Sanitarium last night at 7:45 o'clock, after a 

lingering illness. Although Mr. Parrott had been in poor health since last 

May, he was not considered dangerously ill until about three weeks ago, when 

he had a relapse and steadily grew weaker.



An attack of typhoid fever which occurred in the early part of May was 

passed in safety, Mr. Parrott convalescing after five weeks and taking a 

trip to Hot Springs, Va., and to his brother in New York. When he returned 

in July he seemed to be in better health than usual and took an active part 

in his business and other interests. Late in July however, another attack of 

sickness showed that his constitution had not recovered from the fever and 

on the 29th of August he became so weak that it as considered advisable for 

him to enter a sanatarium. He gradually grew worse and never again arose from 

his bed.



Samuel F. Parrott was born in Jefferson county, Tenn., on March 6, 1856. He 

was the son of Marcus J. Parrott. His mother was formerly Miss Cynthia 

Caldwell. He spent his early boyhood and went to school in Knoxville, Tenn. 

until the family, at the close of the Civil War, moved to a farm sixteen 

miles east of Knoxville. He remained on the farm until March of 1865 when he 

came to Atlanta to join his two brothers, George W. and Theodore F. Parrott, 

who were engaged in the cotton business under the firm name of Geo. W. 

Parrott & Bro.



The diligence from which he applied himself to learning the cotton business 

gained for him a wide experience which in 1880 enabled him to obtain a 

position with Inman, Swann & Co. of New York, as a buyer of cotton in the 

south Atlanta states. From this position he went to Texas in the employ of 

Parrott & Robards of San Antonio, the senior member of this firm being a 

brother. He returned to Georgia to enter the employ of the Chattahoochee 

Brick Co. to take charge of the company's railroad construction and other 

work. After superintending the building of the Columbus Southern railroad he 

became general manager of the road in May of 1897.



From then on Mr. Parrott's rise in the railroad world was rapid. He left his 

position in Columbus Southern road to become chairman of the Southeastern 

Freight Association with headquarters in Atlanta. In May of 1905 he was 

elected vice-president and general manager of the Georgia Southern and 

Florida, with offices in Macon. After about three years in that service he 

returned to Atlanta to accept the presidency of the Atlanta Compress 

Company. In the early part of 1909 he was made co-receiver with H.M. 

Atkinson of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad. He had also been 

for several years receiver of the Macon and Birmingham road. The three 

positions last mentioned he held up to the time of his death.



Mr. Parrott was one of the founders of teh Piedmont Hotel, the others being 

his brother Geo. W. Parrott and Governor-elect Hoke Smith.



He is survived by four brothers, two sisters and a nephew. Geo. W. Parrott 

of Atlanta, one of the owners of the Piedmont Hotel is one of the foremost 

capitalists of the South. Rev. John W. Parrott is a retired minister living 

in Loudon, Tenn. Marcus J. Parrott is a promiment cotton broker and a member 

of the New York Cotton Exchange. Alfred C. Parrott is a planter living at 

Straw Plains, Tenn. Thomas S. Parrott, a nephew of the deceased, lives at 

Newnan, Georgia. The two sisters Misses Kate and Lilly Parrott reside at 

Straw Plains, Tenn. The deceased never married.



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