The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-09-08

The may substantial benefits to the city of
Jackson resulting from the organization OF
the Board of Trade, makes 1t appropriate that
the Clarion-Ledger should have somewhat to
say of the gentleman who presides over that
body. He is emphatically the right man in
the right place.
DR.. Peoples was born in North Carolina, in
November, 1885, of parents of high standing
and refinement. His father moved with his
family to Mississippi in 1872 and engaged in
planting.
DIR. Peoples, as boy, worked ON the plan
tation, at the same time having the advan-
tage OF his fathers splendid teaching and
training. The writer has heard that DIR
Peoples taught school and worked to assist
his brother in a collegiate education, which
noble performance was reciprocated by that
brother, who afterwards became a gallar
Confederate officer and lost his life in his
country's cause on the fields of Virginia.
DR.. Peoples was educated physician, hav-
ing graduated at Jefferson NJ edical College,
Philadelphia. At an early age commenced
the practice of medicine, in Carroll and sur
rounding counties. When the war broke out
he had won for himself a name in his pro-
practice. He enlisted and was called to the
medical department OF service, where he
served with great credit and success, on field
and in hospital, doing his duty nobly to the
wounded amid bullet and SHE'LL and patient.
ly administering to the afflicted in plague
ridden hospitals. After the war he moved on
his plantation near Duck Hill, abandoned
the active practice of his profession and de-
voted himself to bringing order out of the
chaos, into which the results Of The war had
thrown planting and all agricultural interests
in the South. With that ma, ked ability and
sound judgment which has ever character
lied him when called on to act and where
ever his lines were cast, he wrung from the
confusion success, and won for himself the
reputation of being safe, prudent and skill
full planter, which reputation has grown in
the wider fields of planting, in which he has
been engaged, having planting interests in
the bottom as we'll as in the hills. He has
never returned to the practice OF medicine
though in 1873, when the yellow fever visited
Grenada and carried away more than four
hundred souls of its then small population
and the wings of death and disease lowered
iOS'hNNt
should tall victim to its cruel and deadly
touch, and 1t seemed as if the only way to
stop its sway was to move the material upon
which it fed, and all the vel were advised 10
leave-he remained to nurse and attend his
sisters and neices' families, and others. Here
it was that his splendid training and calm,
cool judgment, were eXhibited-nearly all of
both families were saved. He was finally
taken down with the dread fever but recov-
cred after long and dangerous attack,
His engagement in the hotel business was
purely accidental. Having made an invest
ment in hotel property, it became necessary
TO take personal control With his usual bus
mess sagacty he saw the only way to make
the property available was to give it his per-
Sonal attention and study. His success wa
so marked, that it became necessary and to
his interest to enlarge his busness-so from
being proprietor OF the Chamberlain House
he leased and controlled the Stonewall
House at Grand Junction; OAK Hail, Water
Valley, and the Edwards House, Jackson
Miss. He is now the owner OF the Chamber.
lain and Edwards Houses. His popularity
and skill in this business are we'll known
Many of the young men "who travel the
road" as drummers (than which there is no
more honorable calling, and TO which many
of the best young men of the State have been
called by a changed condition of business and
life) have looked to him and have always
found wise counsel and assistance.
Several years ago he permanently moved
his citizenship to Kinds county, having long
before been identified with the business o.