Mr. Childress was born in Murfreesboro, TN. He arrived in St. Louis in 1893, taking a clerical position with the St. Louis Drayage Company. He was then a clerk with the freight depart-ment of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, eventually being named the commercial agent at Shreveport, Louisiana. He returned to St. Louis in 1902 and was employed by the Columbia Transfer Company, becoming its president.
It was from this position that he formulated plans that resulted in the establishment of the Columbia Transfer Company in 1902, of which he is traffic manager, and the Columbia Taxicab Company, organized in 1910, of which he is president. From the outset of his business career he has been identified with transportation interests in and has given close and discriminating study to the branches of the business with which he has been associated.
A native of Tennessee, Mr. Childress was born in Murfreesboro on the 20th of March, 1876, and is a representative of one of the old families of the South. His grandfather was John W. Childress, whose sister became the wife of James K. Polk, president of the United States. His daughter, Betty Childress, married John C. Brown, one of the early governors of Tennessee and afterward president of one of the Gould railroads.
He was the son of William S. Childress, who was devoted to agricultural pursuits, and was a graduate of the University of Sewanee, Tennessee. His mother was Inez Wade Childress. She was a daughter of Mrs. Virginia Barksdale Wade of Mississippi. John W. Childress, uncle of this subject, was a circuit judge at Nashville, Tennessee.
On the 7th of October, 1903, at Wickliffe, KY he took as his wife Lucy Marshall Turner. They had three children, Wade, Fielding, and Lila Marshall. Lila was the Veiled Prophet queen in 1935.
Mr. Childress was born in Murfreesboro, TN. He arrived in St. Louis in 1893, taking a clerical position with the St. Louis Drayage Company. He was then a clerk with the freight depart-ment of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, eventually being named the commercial agent at Shreveport, Louisiana. He returned to St. Louis in 1902 and was employed by the Columbia Transfer Company, becoming its president.
It was from this position that he formulated plans that resulted in the establishment of the Columbia Transfer Company in 1902, of which he is traffic manager, and the Columbia Taxicab Company, organized in 1910, of which he is president. From the outset of his business career he has been identified with transportation interests in and has given close and discriminating study to the branches of the business with which he has been associated.
A native of Tennessee, Mr. Childress was born in Murfreesboro on the 20th of March, 1876, and is a representative of one of the old families of the South. His grandfather was John W. Childress, whose sister became the wife of James K. Polk, president of the United States. His daughter, Betty Childress, married John C. Brown, one of the early governors of Tennessee and afterward president of one of the Gould railroads.
He was the son of William S. Childress, who was devoted to agricultural pursuits, and was a graduate of the University of Sewanee, Tennessee. His mother was Inez Wade Childress. She was a daughter of Mrs. Virginia Barksdale Wade of Mississippi. John W. Childress, uncle of this subject, was a circuit judge at Nashville, Tennessee.
On the 7th of October, 1903, at Wickliffe, KY he took as his wife Lucy Marshall Turner. They had three children, Wade, Fielding, and Lila Marshall. Lila was the Veiled Prophet queen in 1935.
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