Existing comment:
Chattanooga's First Citizens:
In June, 1837 the fifty-three householders living on the two hundred forty acres bounded by Tennessee River. Georgia Avenue, Ninth Street and Cameron Hill elected commissioner to represent them in securing legal title to their individual parcels of land, thus becoming the First Citizens of Chattanooga.
Residing in the Northeast Quarter Section were:
COMMISSIONERS
John P Long • Aaron M Rawlings • George W. Williams
CITIZENS:
Isaac Baldwin • George W. Cherry • Arsley Cope • Samuel H. Davie • Thomas Edmondson • Joseph Ellis • Andrew Evans • Samuel Fitzgerald • Matthew Frazier • E.H. Freeman • Charles Griggsby • George B. Gwathney • Berry Jones • John Keeny • Thomas W. Munsey • Abram Perry • Joseph Rice • Eliza Russell • James Woods Smith • Wiley Starling • Lewis Webb • Samuel Williams • Abner Witt
Residing in the Southeast Fractional Section were:
COMMISSIONERS:
Allen Kennedy • Albert S. Lenoir • Reynolds A. Ramsey
CITIZENS:
John C. Cathey • S.S.M. Doak • William B. Gilliland • Nathan Harris • William Hill • Matthew Hillsman • Benjamin K. Hudgins • Carey A. Jones • M.W. Legg • William Long • John T. Mathis • Thomas Anipass Moore • David G. Perry • John A. Porter • William G. Sparks • William Thraikill •
William Thurman • James W. Tunnell • Jane White • Matthew Williams • Darlen A. Wild |