L. M. Elder

        L. M. Elder, a legal practitioner of the firm of Elder & White, is a native of Trenton, Tenn., and a graduate of the University of Virginia in 1873. He then returned to Trenton, where he was admitted to the bar the same year. He practiced law alone for about one year, after which he was a member of the firm of Jones & Elder until the date of his coming to Chattanooga, November, 1876. In 1875, he married Miss Mary Saffarans, a native of Memphis, who bore him five children-one son and four daughters. Mr. Elder practiced in the firm of Elder & Elder until 1882, after which he practiced alone until June of the same year, when the present firm was formed by our subject and George T. White. Our subject was president of the Y. M. C. A. of Chattanooga during 1880 and 1881, and is now a member of the board of directors. His father, John W., is a native of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and is at present president of the Gibson County Bank at Trenton, Tenn. The mother of our subject, Martha G. (Houston) Elder, was a native of Blount County, was reared in Alabama, and died at Trenton in 1878.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887