Jerome B Pound
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1888/00/00 | W M Bearden and Jerome Pound establish the "Chattanooga News" newspaper, first printed at 21 Market Square, today known as Patten Parkway. | Work | Market Square-Patten Parkway | Chattanooga | |||
| 1900/00/00 | In the early 1900s, J B Pound, the Chattanooga News newspaper owner who championed for a large hotel for Chattanooga, visits Sam Read, the owner of the Read House, about building a grand hotel. | Developer | Read House | Chattanooga | |||
| 1905/00/00 | With the help of Charles Alexander of Dallas, who had been talking with Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce officials about the idea of a new hotel, Pound persuades Z C Patten Sr and nephew John A Patten of the Chattanooga Medicine Company to finance a hotel. | Developer | Patten Towers | Chattanooga | |||
| 1906/00/00 | The 8-story News-Pound Building is built for $100,000 at 11th and A (now Lindsay) streets in Chattanooga, TN, for Jerome Pound. His Chattanooga News uses 3 floors while the rest is rented out, one renter is R H Hunt. The Pound Building was razed in 1989. | Work | |||||
| 1952/00/00 | Publisher and hotel developer, Jerome B Pound, dies. | Died |
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