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- John E. Lloyd, is a native of Wales, and came to America in the spring of 1860. He spent the first two years, after landing in this country, in traveling quite extensively throughout the United States, prospecting for a company of mining capitalists at Philadelphia. He then settled at Dupont, Penn., as superintendent of mines belonging to Geo. Dupont & Co. He was with the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company for three years as contractor. In 1872 and 1873 he was a member of the Tuscaloosa Mining and Transportation Company who were prospecting with a view to opening up some coal lands in Tuscaloosa County, Ala. He then moved to Rising Fawn, where he was engaged by a New York company, who were engaged in operating the Rising Fawn Iron Furnaces. He then came to Chattanooga and engaged in the real estate business. From here he went to Fort Payne, Ala., to open up the Beson Gap Coal Mines for a New York company, and this proved another failure. He afterward engaged in land surveying in DeKalb County, and moved from there to Soddy, where he has since remained. . He was superintendent of the mines of Dayton in 1882 and 1883 under John H. Furgason, after which he went to Texas and Arkansas to open up mines for Carson & Louis, of Weatherford, Tex. For the past two years he has been located at Soddy, where he has been looking after the ventilation of the mines owned by The Soddy Coal Company. In 1886 Mr. Lloyd was the Democratic candidate for the Legislature from this Legislative district, cutting down the great majority by which the county is usually carried to 200. During the late war be commanded a company in Fitz John Porter's army corps. He engaged in all the battles and skirmishes in which his regiment took part up to the time of his separation from the army. He married Miss Annie Morgan in 1870. She was a native of Wales, and came to America, September, 1870. This union resulted in the birth of five children three of whom are living: Katie, Arthur, Emma, Eudora, Theophilus (deceased) and Elizabeth (deceased). Mr. Lloyd is a member of the Congregational Church as was also his wife. He bas been quite a successful geologist and practical miner, and has walked over every foot of the mineral lands of East Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama. His father lived and died in Wales. He was a soldier in the Peninsular war, engaged in the battle of Waterloo, and ranked as colonel in the British Army. He died when our subject was quite small.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee." 1887
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