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Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4] He had married Maria Poe, Virginia's mother, on July 12, 1817, [5] after the death of his first wife, Maria's first cousin Harriet. [6]
William Bedford (born 1963) — basketball player; Diane Meredith Belcher (born 1960) — concert organist, teacher, and church musician; Chris Bell (1951–1978) — musician; William Bell (born 1939) — singer; Charles T. Bernard (1927–2015) — businessman and Arkansas politician, died in Memphis in 2015; Big Scarr (born 2000) — rapper
Lewis' sons Clarence Lewis and Robert Lewis Jr. took over the family business. Robert Lewis Jr. became a business leader in Memphis, and was noted for his efforts at establishing T. O. Fuller State Park. Other noted achievements include advocating for the hiring of the first African-American firefighters in Memphis in 1955, being the first ...
The FBI set up E-Cycle, a bogus company based in Atlanta and claiming to recycle electronics by sending the electronics to third world countries. [1]The FBI sting operation ran from 2003 to 2007 in which eleven state and local officials were arrested for in relation to an FBI sting operation, using a fake company claiming to recycle electronics called E-Cycle Management.
The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
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Harold Ford Jr. (May 11, 1970- ), who served five terms in of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 9th congressional district, centered in Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. [3] Jake Ford (October 1, 1972- ), who twice unsuccessfully ran for the TN 9th District in 2006 and 2008.
A Memphis police officer was shot four times early Friday morning but has since been released from the hospital and is recovering, MPD said. Five charged in connection to shooting of Memphis ...