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Today In Johnson City History: Jan. 17


Jan. 17, 1889: G.B. Horton, Henry Gildersleeve, and Eugene Horton had, as of January 1, 1889, formed a co-partnership with the name of Horton, Gildersleeve & Co. The business would “continue the business heretofore conducted by Horton, Yocum & Co., as the ’Watauga’ Tannery”, according to The Comet.
Jan. 17, 1900: The Knoxville Sentinel, with a dateline of Johnson City, reported, “Geo. T. Williams, of Milligan, Tenn., and J.C. Kingsley, of Greeneville, Tenn., are at the Greenwood Hotel.”
Jan. 17, 1903: The Chattanooga News reported very tragic news, with a dateline of Johnson City. “While a number of men were at work in the sewerage ditch at the Soldiers’ Home yesterday afternoon the banks caved in on them, and one man, Sam Grooms, of North Carolina, was killed, and two others, J.J. Stenson and Charles Leonard, were badly injured. The ditch was about 12 feet deep and two feet wide, and the ground thawing caused several tons of dirt to ....

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