C. R. Gaskill

       C. R. Gaskill, president of the Chattanooga Iron Fence & Screw Company, secretary of the Chattanooga Street Railroad Company, and assistant cashier of the Third National Bank of this city, is a native of Georgia, and was educated at the capital of that State. In 1872 he came to Chattanooga and commenced reading law. In 1873 he accepted a position in the First National Bank as collector, which position he filled acceptably until 1877. Having in the meantime kept up his study of the law, he was then admitted to the bar and pursued the practice of the profession until 1881, when he returned to the banking business by accepting the position of book-keeper in the Third National Bank, and has been connected with that corporation until the present time, having served as assistant cashier since 1883. Mr. Gaskill is a member of the Masonic brotherhood, in which order he attained the rank of Knight Templar. He wedded Sallie Lee, a native of Crawfish Springs, Ga., and by her is the father of one daughter, Annie Lee. He is the son of V. A. and M. A. (Battle) Gaskill, who were natives of Rutland, Vt., and Georgia, respectively. The father is yet living at his birthplace in New England, but the mother died in 1867.

Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887