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This trend continued throughout early American history, with much of the first veterans' pension under the newly formed United States offered to retired naval officers in 1799. [ 2 ] The United States Congress later created the Bureau of Pensions to oversee an increasing number of veterans' pensions in 1832 following the granting of pensions to ...
The bank began, in Nashville, as the American National Bank and later (1930), merged with James E. Caldwell's Fourth and First National Bank, to become First American National Bank. It continued its growth through the 1980's and 1990's by acquiring smaller banks throughout the state, such as Blout National, Park National, Northern Bank of TN ...
The University of Memphis first opened as the West Tennessee State Normal School in 1912. Christian Brothers University was founded in 1871, first on Adams Street downtown before moving to its current location on East Parkway. Rhodes College, then known as Southwestern at Memphis, moved to Memphis from Clarksville, Tennessee in 1925.
On September 4, South Memphis was divided into four wards. The treasurer for the first corporate year made a report showing that the revenue amounted to $6,266.17, and licenses, etc., to $3,750.50. John T. Trezevant was mayor in 1847-48 and A. B. Taylor in 1849. The last meeting of the mayor and aldermen of South Memphis took place December 31 ...
The 40-year experiment with a do-it-yourself model for the American pension system is failing. ... of the state of American retirement income security. ... age to 55 or 60 and make it first-payer ...
Weaver Road, Shelby Drive, Byhalla Road SR 176: Getwell Road SR 177: Germantown Road SR 204: Covington Pike, Sargent Walter K. Singleton Parkway SR 205: Collierville-Arlington Road, Airline Road SR 277: SR 300: SR 385: Bill Morris Parkway, Future I-269, Winfield Dunn Parkway (a.k.a. Memphis Outer Beltway), Paul Barrett Memorial Parkway SR 388
The first station in the district was on Calhoun Street, built c. 1855 by the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad.It was replaced by a newer Calhoun Street Station that was demolished when Memphis Central Station (originally Grand Central Station) was built on the same site in 1912–1914 by the Illinois Central Railroad and a subsidiary, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad that ran south ...
The senior members established a funeral home, and built a broad network in the black community. Their political prominence dates to the era of E.H. Crump in the early 20th century in Memphis and the state. The best-known member of this family is Harold Ford, Sr., who represented most of Memphis in the U.S. House from 1975 to 1997.