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BenjaDlin Carr
Hartsville, Tenn.
MR. CARll is a prosperous farmer who spends his summer on
the farm at Hartsville, and hi winter in ashville, forty mil
away.
He was born in Tennessee in 1862 on the farm of his mother'
former master. Up to the age of
twenty years he did not attend chool a
single day. Fle was early obliged to go
to work upon the farm. Hi fir t wages
were $30 a year, for doing work that
boys now receive from $10 to $13 per
month for. This sum his mother appropriated
for the use of the family.
He worked under discouraging circumstances
until he was able to earn $10
per month and his board, and he finally
saved $75. He borrowed $25 from a
Benjamin Carr white gentleman, and bought a piece of
land. He borrowed a pair of mule
from another white man, borrowed a cow from another man,
and started farming for himself.
The first year he made nearly enough to pay for the farm and
it equipment. He then took time to go to the district school
long enough to read and write. After a few years he went to
Roger Williams University at a hville, and added to his education
a that he was able to do bu ine s for himself. He i now
a trustee of the universiity.
Careful management and steady, hard work have developed
the farm of about four hundred acres, with fine pa tures, good
orchards, and a two-story, seven-room house, and two tenant
houses, several barns, with teams, horse mules, heep, cows,
hogs, etc.
Mr. Carr was one of the speakers at the rational Tegro
Busine s League at Louisville, in August, 1909, giving an addre s
on " Succeeding as a Farmer." In addition to his property at
Hartsville, he has a home in Na hville, where the family pend
the winter in order that the children may attend Fisk Univer ity.
Mr. Carr says, "I have been handicapped in my own efforts
because I lack the proper literary training, but I hope to a
thorougWy equip my boy, now two years of age, that he can
take care of an agricultural experiment station, if he so desire ."
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Rev. Preston Taylor
Nashville, Tenn.
PREACH Ell. undertaker, landlord. owner of a park proprietor
of a cemeter.,·, and a busine. man of rar abilitv. •
H was born in hI' v port, La., November 7, 184!). of la\'e
parent. In early childhood h expr . ed a de. ir to b come a
minister, and this ambition'becam the
potent factor in hi life. Thi he regard
as hi chief calling, th ugh a man
of large bu ine affair.
He preaches twic every Sunday at
the Lee Avenue Chri. tian Church.
Nashville. of which he ha. been pastor
..ince 1892, and conduct· the regular
weekly prayer meeting. He allow'
nothing to inteIT re with thi duty.
In 1864 he joined a band of oldieI"
marching along the road. and aw ervice
at Richmond and Petersburg. and
Rev. Preston Taylor wa at Appomattox when Lee urren-dered.
After the war he learned the
trade of a tone cutter and marble worker, and, thouO'h he
became a killed workman, he wa unable to cure work on
account of th fact that white men refu ed to "'ork with him.
He worked on the Loui ,'ille & Chattanooga R. R., four year .
He joined the hri tian Church, tudied for the mini trv. and •
has been a pastor for more than thirty-five years, fifteen of which
he pent in Mt. t rling, Ky., and the remaind I' h been in
ashviJle. He i tru tee and financial arrent of the Loui ville
Bible allege. He can tructcd part of the Big andy Railroad,
at a cost of $75,000, winnin rr the commendalion f . P. Huntington,
pre ident of the road.
Mr. Taylor is a public-spirited, philanthropi citizen. and
many tories arc told of hi uno. tenlatiou yet most helpful
chari tie . He condu t one of the large t undertaking e-tablishments
in the South' own Greenwood emet r.y, a tract of
forty acre, about four mile from ~ashville; has recently purchased
and improved" Greenwood Park," for color d people,
and for one half of which he was offered. 40.000; was one of the
prime mover for the purchase of a ":Mru onic Home" near
Greenwood Park, and i. a director of the One Cent avinrrs Bank.
His wife was one of the orirrinal " Fi k Jubilee Singer-."
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