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Hon. Thomas B. YANCEY, United States marshal for the Western District of

Tennessee, was born in Fayette County, Tenn., October 10, 1843, and is the son

of Alexander L. and Elizabeth (Bragg) Yancey, both natives of North Carolina.

Thomas B. passed his youth in his native county without noteworthy event, and

having graduated in medicine and dentistry at Baltimore College he entered upon

the practice of his chosen profession in Somerville, Fayette County.  He at once

secured an encouraging practice which steadily increased until he left to accept

the position he now holds (September, 1886).  During the war Dr. Yancey served

two years in the Confederate service as a private and two years on the staff of

Gens. Preston Smith and Vaughan, ranking as first lieutenant and afterward as

captain.  In November, 1884, he was elected to the State Legislature and served

in the session of 1885-86, securing his election from the Democracy, of the

principles of which party he is a strong supporter.  He is a member of the Odd

Fellows’ fraternity and of the Episcopal Church.  In April, 1871, he was united

in marriage with Miss Narcissa J. Warren, and by her has a family of three sons

and three daughters.



James YONGE, a member of the firm of Mullins & Yonge, cotton factors and

commission merchants, and a director of the Home Insurance Company, is a native

of England and came to America in youth.  He returned to England to educate

himself, and then again came to the United States, locating in Georgia, where he

connected himself with the lumber and manufacturing business until 1870, when he

came to Memphis and became superintendent of the Memphis & Tennessee Railroad.

Two years later he became a member of the firm of F. M. White & Co., wholesale

grocers and cotton factors, which firm existed about one year, when Col. White

withdrew and the firm of J. W. Caldwell was formed and continued to exist until

February, 1885.  In August of that year the present firm was formed.  It is now

doing a handsome and profitable business.  In 1866 our subject was married to

Miss Wilson, of Augusta, who has borne four children, all living.  The parents

of our subject were natives of England.  The family remained in that country,

while the father followed boating along the American coast, where he finally

died off of Georgia.



James W. YOUNG was born in Memphis, Tenn., July 17, 1852, and is a son of Dr.

James Young, an eminent physician, who was born in Chambersburg, Penn.,

September 13, 1800.  He was raised and educated at that place, and graduated in

medicine from the University of Pennsylvania; then moved to Tennessee, bring

with him letters of introduction to some of the leading citizens of Nashville,

and by their advice established himself in Jackson, Tenn. and was soon

recognized as a successful practitioner.  In 1832 he married Miss Rebecca R.

Hogg, daughter of Dr. Hogg, a well known physician of Nashville  Soon after his

marriage Dr. Young moved to Nashville and formed a partnership with Dr. Hogg in

the practice of medicine, and from Nashville moved to Natchez, Miss., where he

continued to practice until 1840; then moved to Memphis, Tenn.  His wife died

without children in 1847, and he afterward married Mrs. Mary N. Coffee, a

daughter of John Brahan, who was a native of Farquier County, Va.  Two sons and

two daughters were born to this union, three now living:  our subject, William

B. and Rebecca L.  The mother was born in Huntsville, Ala., May 10, 1817, and is

still living in Shelby County.  She had one son by her first marriage:  John D.

Coffee, who died at Devall’s Bluff, Ark., in 1874.  Our subject was raised on

the farm, and well educated under Prof. Tutwiler, of Alabama.  He was married in

Shelby County, Tenn., December 14, 1876, to Miss Kittie McConnell, daughter of

James McConnell.  One daughter, Mary, was born to this union.  Mrs. Young died

July 13, 1881, and June 18, 1884, Dr. Young married Miss Louisa Johnson,

daughter of the Rev. W. C. Johnson, D.D., of the Memphis Conference of the

Methodist Episcopal Church.  She was born in Holly Springs, Miss., February 24,

1859.  Dr. Young is a prominent Democrat, and is at present a member of the

executive committee of the county, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist

Episcopal Church South; his mother and sister are members of the Presbyterian

Church.  He owns 160 acres of land four miles northeast of Memphis, on the

Raleigh Road, which is devoted entirely to garden planting.  Dr. Young is well

known in social, business and political circles, and is a man of influence and

integrity.