James B. Frazier

     James B. Frazier, of the legal firm of Shepherd & Frazier, is a native of the Sequatchie Valley of Tennessee, but was reared principally in the city of Nashville where he had exceptionally good school advantages. He pursued the regular course of study at the University of Tennessee, located at Knoxville, from which institution he graduated in 1878, and then began the study of law under the tuition of his father who is recognized as one of the ablest attorneys at the Nashville bar. He was admitted to practice in 1879, and the year following removed to Chattanooga and embarked in the practice of his profession, where he has acquired a good and steadily increasing practice. He continued alone until Jannary 1, 1884, when the present firm of Shepherd & Frazier was formed. Mr. Frazier is a member of the Masonic fraternity, is an able attorney and a first-class citizen in every respect. In 1883 he wedded Miss Lou Keith, who is a native of Athens, Tenn. His father, Thomas M. Frazier, is a native of Greene County, this State, but since 1869 has been a resident of Nashville, where for twelve years he served as judge of the criminal court. The mother of our subject was Margaret M. McReynolds, a native of Bledsoe County, Tenn.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887