Chattanooga, 1865-1900: A City Set Down in Dixie

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r Index African-Americans: attitudes towards, 25; during Civil War, 4; and education , 25–26, 41; and Jim Crow laws, 117–18, 120, 122; in labor force, 9, 18, 25, 69; living conditions of, 9, 26; and patronage, 44–46, 76, 78; and prohibition, 110–11; as voters, 34, 36, 78, 82 Allen, James A., 86–88 Andrews, Garnett, 119–20 Banks and Banking, 9, 56, 101, 127 Billings, Dwight, xiv Birmingham, Alabama, 94–95, 103–4, 126–27 Boosterism 7, 19–20, Bourbon Democrats, 32, 76–82, 116–17, Brownlow, William, 10–13, 55 Carlile, Thomas, 29, 43 Chamberlain, Hiram, 3, 7, 16–18, 20–21, 25, 35, 95, 96, 99, 65, 127–28 Charter debates: of 1883, 78–82; of 1885, 84–85; of 1888, 115–16 Chattanooga: Appalachia and, xvii–iii; in Civil War, 2–4; early history, 1–2; population, 20, 96; ethnicity, 23–24; ward structure, 31, 35, 75, 116 Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, 102, 105, 116, 128, 130, 132, 142–43 Chattanooga Daily Democrat, 76–77, Chattanooga Land, Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, 99–100 Chattanooga Medicine Company, 101 Chattanooga Times, 51–53, 56–57, 81, 98, 113, 137 Chattanooga Weekly Commercial, 74, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 137–38 Cholera, 27–28 Churches, 9, 23, 24, 103 Citico Furnace Company, 96, 126 Citizens’ movement, 57–59 Civil War: demobilization in Chattanooga , 4–6; occupation of Chattanooga , 2–3; reunions. See Reunions Cleveland, Grover, 113–14 Clift, M. H., 90 Coal, Iron and Manufacturers Association , 95, 102 Colburn, Webster, 65, 84, 87–88 Committee of One Hundred, 112 Cooper, Alice, 6, 22, 102, 128–29, 138, 142 Corbin, David, xvii Crime, 74 Disease, See Cholera, Yellow fever epidemic of 1878 Dortch Bill, 116–17 Doyle, Don, xiv Elections: of 1868, 12–13; of 1873, 35; of 1875, 35, 38; of 1878, 36; of 1879, 71; of 1880, 71–73, 146; of 1881, 73–76, 186 Index Elections (cont.) 146–47; of 1882, 76–77, 147–48; of 1883, 82–83, 148–49; of 1884, 83–84, 149; of 1885, 90; of 1886, 107–9, 150; of 1887, 112; of 1888, 114–15, 151; of 1889, 118, 151; of 1890, 119–20, 152; of 1891, 119–120, 152–53; of 1892, 121, 153; of 1893, 131–33, 154; of 1895, 135, 154 Eller, Ron, xvii Evans, Henry Clay, 3, 5, 7–8, 18, 21, 43–44, 66, 74–75, 77, 81, 95, 99, 135, 141 Fort, Tomlinson, 35, 38, Floods: 1867 flood, 6; 1875 flood, 39–40; 1886 flood, 67, 97 Germans, 23, 37, 40, 43, 46 Goldfield, David, xv Grady, Henry, xiv Hart, John, 72–73, 118 Hewitt, Abram, 8, 16 Hill, Jesse, 36, 57 Hodge, William C., 74, 76, 82, 108 Hooke, Robert, 38, 40 Infrastructure: parks, 46–47; sanitation and water, 27, 39, 136; streets and lighting, 20, 38–39, 43, 93, 164n3; electrification and streetcars, 103 Iron and steel industry, 101–102; collapse of, 125–26; demand for products, 15, 124–25; establishment of, 8–9; labor force, 17–18; quality perceptions, 16; and race relations, 18; raw materials and fuel issues, 17, 124–25; steel production, 96, 104–5, 125 Iron Age, 16–17, Jackson, A. B., 46 Judaism: and anti-Semitism, 60–61, 87– 88; attitudes towards, 60–61; Reform movement, 53, 59–60; Orthodox community, 100–101 Key, David, 9, 10, 12, 65, 117 Knights of Labor, 113 Labor: child labor, 21; social characteristics , 22; wages, 21 Land boom: collapse of, 99; origins of 96–97; and population growth, 100; and speculation, 97–100 Lee, Tom, xvii Lewis, David, xv Loveman, D. B., 60, 128, 138 Lynchings, 26–27, 88–90 MacGowan, John E., 32, 50–51, 61, 68, 74, 76, 80, 83,87, 89, 105, 114–15, 131, 135; later years and legacy, 142; and prohibition, 110–111; racial views, 72, 77–78, 84–85, 108; relationship with Adolph Ochs, 54; temperament, 55; and yellow fever epidemic, 56–57 Market House, 43–44, 134 McAdoo, William Gibbs, 93, 103, 109 McCallie, Ellen, 24–25, 103 McCallie, Grace, 25 McCallie, Thomas Hooke, 2–3, 6, 9, 103, 109 Montague, Dwight, 23 Montague, Theodore, 7, 23, 96, 99, 101 Mugwump Democrats, xvi–ii, 32–33, 47, 52, 55, 57, 71, 78,79, 82, 84, 108, 110, 113, 123, 130–31, 135–36 Nicklin, John B., 1, 7, 112–14 Index 187 O’Brian, Michael J., 73...