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Charles McClung McGhee (January 23, 1828 – May 5, 1907) was an American industrialist and financier, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. As director of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway (ETV&G), McGhee was responsible for much of the railroad construction that took place in the East Tennessee area in the 1870s and 1880s. His position with the railroad also gave him access to northern capital markets, which he used to help finance dozens of companies in and around Knoxville. In 1885, he established the Lawson McGhee Library, which was the basis of Knox County's public library system.〔East Tennessee Historical Society, Mary Rothrock (ed.), ''The French Broad-Holston Country: A History of Knox County, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: The Society, 1972), p. 448.〕 Historian Lucile Deaderick wrote that, "perhaps more than anyone else," McGhee "brought about and symbolized the Knoxville which developed in the last third of the nineteenth century."〔East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), ''Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), p. 42.〕 A descendant of Knoxville's founders, McGhee established a pork packing operation during the Civil War.〔East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), ''Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), pp. 24-27, 42-45.〕 After the war, he formed a syndicate that bought and merged two railroads into the ETV&G, gained control of several other railroads, and financed a railroad construction boom that connected Knoxville to most of the eastern United States. McGhee established one of Knoxville's first suburbs, McGhee's Addition (now Mechanicsville), in the late 1860s, and cofounded Knoxville Woolen Mills in 1884, at the time the city's largest employer. He also helped finance the Roane Iron Company (which established Rockwood) and cofounded the Lenoir City Company (which established Lenoir City).〔 ==Early life== McGhee was born near modern Vonore in Monroe County, Tennessee, the youngest son of John McGhee and Elizabeth "Betsy" McClung McGhee. His father was a wealthy planter of Scots-Irish descent who owned roughly of land in the Little Tennessee Valley.〔 His mother was a daughter of surveyor Charles McClung, who platted Knoxville in the early 1790s, and a granddaughter of Knoxville's founder, James White. McGhee spent much of his childhood moving back and forth between his father's plantation and Knoxville, where he spent a great deal of time with his mother's relatives.〔 In 1846, he graduated from East Tennessee University.〔 Upon his father's death, he and his brother, Barclay, inherited the family's plantation.〔 Around 1860, McGhee relocated permanently to Knoxville, where he established a thriving pork packing plant on Gay Street. At the outbreak of the Civil War, McGhee pledged his support for the Confederacy, and agreed to supply the Confederate Army with bacon and other pork products. He was given the rank of colonel on the army's commissary staff, and for the rest of his life he was often referred to as "Colonel McGhee."〔 Confederate diarist Ellen Renshaw House wrote that during the Union Army's occupation of Knoxville in 1863, McGhee gave her scarce fabric with which she and her friends sewed blankets for Confederate prisoners of war.〔Ellen Renshaw House, Daniel Sutherland (ed.), ''A Very Violent Rebel: The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1996), pp. 17, 209.〕 Nevertheless, McGhee took the Oath of Allegiance and agreed to support the Union Army in 1864, and quickly mended ties with the city's Unionists.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles McClung McGhee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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