The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-22

tion in Baltimore and the Virginia
Military Institute, graduating thore in
1881. After graduating he accepted q
position in the general freight and pas
senger office of tho Richmond and DAN
vlllo railroad, and in in 1883 he ac-
cepted the position of passenger agent
OF tho Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company, still residing in Richmond.
MIR. Pope came to Roanoke in 1887,
still remaining in the passenger bust
ness, and year after he went into tho
general freight office of the Norfolk
and Western.
On the LIST Of December last he won't
into the real estate business, establish
ing the firm of Terry & Pope.
MIR. Pope was married in Richmond.
April "A, 1887, to Miss Nellie Lottier.
J. L. KELLY.
J. l. Kelly, OF the firm of Davis, Page
e Co., was born in Allegheny county,
Md, December 90, 1858. He was edu-
Gated in Allegheny county and in the
high schools of Moorliold, W. Va, and
Cumberland, Md, and from the latter
place he came to Roanoke six years ago
and engaged in the grocery business for
three years and afterwards was in Audi
tor Coxc's Office of the Norfolk and
Western railroad for two years,
at the expiration of that time he be-
camo partner in the real estate irm
of Davis, Page & Co. He married Miss
Smallwood. of Harpor's Ferry, W. Va,
in February, 1885.
w. T. DILL.
w. T. Dill, of Dill, Tenant & Co.,
was born in Altoona, Pa, October .,
1857. He was educated at AWHILE Col
lcge, Lebanon county, Pa, and moved
to New York City in 1864, where he
lived for four years.
In 1868 he removed to Charlotte, n.
c., where he remained for two years in
terested in gold mines in Union county,
N. c., and where Mr.. Dill and others
sunk 1925, 900.
After n two years residence in New
berne, NJ c., he moved to Richmond,
where he engaged in the lumber bust
ness and railroad contracting.
Mr.. Dill came to Roanoke last Sep
tember and established the firm of Dill.
Tenant IL Co. He married Miss Mary
E. Fox, of Richmond, October -, 1879.
PALMER TENNANr.
Palmer Tenant was born in Norfolk,
June 81, 1869. He graduated at Bethel
Military Academy with honors in 1886,
and afterwards went to work with Nor
den, Rigg IL Co., Liverpool cotton fac
tors. Afterwards he served in the insur-
ance Office of w. Il. Walker e Son, and
again as rate clerk with II. b. Cooke,
general freight and passenger agent of
the New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk railroad.
Going to Portsmouth, he served as
chief clerk in the general passenger and
fpnt rlNf Dir ,,A,.
Danville railroad He came to Roanoke
last September and connected himself
with the firm Of Dill, Tenant & Co.
LUTHER MILLER.
Luther Miller, of tho firm of Spindle
&c Miller, was born in Huntingdon
county, Pennsylvania, May IS, 1889.
He attended the public school of his
native county, and served his appren-
ticeship as a machinist in the shops of
the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona.
Coming to Roanoke in April. 1884, he
worked in the Roanoke Machine WORKS
until March, 1880, when he went into
the real estate Office of VIM. M. wager
as salesman in tho real estate bust
ness, After six months he wont with
Fyancis d. Kemp e. Co., where NE re-
manned until Juno II, 1890, when he
withdrew to enter the real estate firm
of Spindle, Miller & Bury. Shortly
after Mr.. Bury withdrew, and the firm
continues under the style of Spindle &
Miller.
Mr.. Miller was married in September,
1888, to Miss Alice X. McCulloch, of
Greensboro, Pa.
JUDGE FARRELL.
l.. D. Yarrell, of the firm of Robinson
81 Yarrell, was born in Tarboro, n. c.,
July "a, 1856, and in 1874 moved to