Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-04
MEH or THE MOUaTAlAs
Of East tennessee, Who Have
Sought Wider Fields,
And Lead in the Southern Boom
The Colony at Atlanta.

East T~ennesseeans are proverbially
inclined to omigrate. A restless, ven
turesome disposition, inherited from
ancestors who came from beyond the
Blue Ridge, when a rife, shot pouch
and powder horn were as essential at a
camp meeting as a hymn book or Bible,
led many Of them to seek new fields Of
effort and adventure long before the
sound Of q steam whistle ever reVer-
berated through the valleys and
mountains of that broken region. Up
to that time nearly all the towns Of
that romantic locality we're much the
same as they we're when first planned
and settled by the hardy pioneers who
braved the tangles of the mountain
Businesses and made the wilderness
echo with reports Of their rifles and
the rapid blows of the ready ak.
During the past forty years there has
been little change in the population
of the settlements remote from the
lines of railroads. But this is easily
explained by the fact, often observed,
that for every old mar who dies, or
young one who leaves, a baby is
born. Longevity is a leading char
acteristic OF the East Tennesseean.
After a vigorous life of full three score
and ten he passes peacefully away in
the bosom Of his beloved mountains,
while the young man, as he watches
the departing soul, unconsciously
allows his spirit to follow it over the
mountain range and beyond into i'm
measurable space.
These young men, like their fathers
before them, grew restless Of the re-
straint implied by the high and rocky
horizon which bound their vision, and
and are now to be found, singly and in
communities, in all the Western and
Southwestern States, from the blue
Wautauga" to the green waters of the
Pacific ocean.
Fifty or sixty years ago a strong tide
OF emigration went out to Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois, and has not ebbed as to
the last named State to this day. They
are to be found spread over the bound
less prairies of Texas and Arkansaw
and peopling their towns, and in Mis-.
souri, they, or their descendants, are to
be found in almost every county. Even
in California and far off Oregon quite
a number have settled, and generally
succeeded we'll. Scattered, like the
Jews, they are said to be equally as.
clannish.
A large number emigrated to the
city Of Atlanta, Georgia, aud it is
worthy of remark that in nearly every
individual instance they have risen
way above the dull level and estab-
lished themselves in high places of
trust, honor and profit in the social
and business circles of that city, WELD
ing apowerful influence for its pros
perity-the men honored for their
probity and enterprise, and the women
for the glory Of the sex.
Prominent among those whom the
writer can mention is r. j. Lowry,
who was born at G~reenville, and with
his father, Colonel VIM. Nj. Lowry, a
native OF Virginia, removed to Allan
ia at the close Of the war, where they
are now among the leading bankers Of
the place.
John II. Inman, a native of Jeher-
son county, though a resident of New
York, owns a valuable property in
Atlanta, and is a frequent visitor
there. He has made large investments
in coal and iron in Middle Tennessee,
and is thus spoken ofby a recent writer
in the Atlanta Constitution: He is
destined to become one of the most
tremendous influences at work in the
great industrial development Of the
South. He is just getting fairly
started" MIR. Innman is also a prin-
cipal member Of a leading New York
cotton house.
Major Campbell Wallace, a native
Of the obscure little county Of Sewer,
now occupies the position of n of
the Railroad Commissioners, whose
duty it is to regulate all the charges of
railroads in the State of Georgia, aud
to stand as it we're like a stone wall
between the people and the grinding
monopolies Of the day. To this re-
spOnsible position, and he has held
many, he worked himself by
an uutiring application to business,
and to the cultivation Of those brad
and manly principles which seemed a
part Of his nature. His father was
Jesse Wallace, who removed from
Sewer to Blount county, where he
died at the ripe age of ninety years
and his wife was Susan Lyon, Of Knox
county,
General Alfred Austell, lately de
ceased, was horn zeal cambridge, JET
terson county, and at the time OF his
death was one of the wealthiest and
most highly honored citizens of Allan
ia. He was P~residenttf the National
Bank, the strongest in the Oity, and a
member of the firm of Austell &
RICE, cotton brokers, on Broad street.
and left and estate valued, in round
numbers, at $500, 600. But, better
than all this, General Austell' died in
the fulness Of integrity without a blot
on his name, leaving to his children
the legacy Of an honest and stainless
reputation,
Judge John i. Hopkins was born
in Monroe county, and graduated at
Hiwassie College, and began the prac-
tice Of law at Madisonville with the
Hon. D. M, Key. After the war he
removed to Atlanta, and in 1870 was