John H. Peebles

      John H. Peebles, superintendent of the union passenger depot and union ticket agent at Chattanooga, was born in Petersburg, Va., June 30, 1849, and is the son of William L. and Rebecca (Harrison) Peebles, both natives of Virginia. Our subject grew up and was educated in his native State. In 1865 he came South, located in Nashville, and was in the employ of the North Carolina & St. Louis Railroad, as baggage master, but later was passenger conductor until 1876, when he came to Chattanooga and was ticket agent at this place for the Western & Atlantic and North Carolina & St. Louis Railroads until 1882, when he accepted his present position. April 18, 1878, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth B. Lanier, a native of Nashville, Tenn., and the fruits of this union were the births of three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Peebles is a Democrat, in politics, a Knight Templar, a Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887