”City transportation had also received its share of attention. Soon after the War Between the States citizens reverted to interest in street-cars and in 1865 the Citizens Street Railroad Company was chartered and incorporated with these gentlemen as incorporators: Messrs. Wm. M. Farrington, president; Wm. R. Moore, I. M. Hill, S. B. Beaumont, R. Hough, Frank Taft, G. P. Ware, S. R. Wood, Fielding Hurst, P. E. Bland, Joseph Bruce, Abner Taylor, Thomas R. Smith, H. B. Mills, Joseph W. Eystra, Wm. C. Bryan, W. P. Hepburn and Frank Brooks.”

Reference Data:

Standard History of Memphis, Tennessee: From a Study of Original Sources, by John Preston Young and A.R. James, 1912, page 384