Mayoral History

Irvin Clark Garner, son of Charles Calloway and Beulah Wadlington Garner, was born March 23, 1837 near Winchester. Irvin began clerking in a store at the age of fifteen and continued until the war. He enlisted in Colonel Peter Turney’s 1st Tennessee Infantry and remained until the end of the war. He then resumed mercantile pursuits until 1867 when he began his own general merchandise business. In 1866 he married Mary Catherine Pryor, daughter of former Winchester Mayor Thomas Moore Pryor. Irvin and Mary were the parents of two daughters. He was an alderman and, after Winchester was unincorporated, served as mayor until 1889, there being no record of the number of terms. In addition, he was on the Board of Trustees for Mary Sharp College. In 1896 he moved to Chattanooga where he died on October 31, 1899 and was buried in Winchester City Cemetery.


	Irvin Clark Garner, son of Charles Calloway and Beulah Wadlington Garner, was born March 23, 1837 near Winchester. Irvin began clerking in a store at the age of fifteen and continued until the war. He enlisted in Colonel Peter Turney’s 1st Tennessee Infantry and remained until the end of the war. He then resumed mercantile pursuits until 1867 when he began his own general merchandise business. In 1866 he married Mary Catherine Pryor, daughter of former Winchester Mayor Thomas Moore Pryor. Irvin and Mary were the parents of two daughters. He was an alderman and, after Winchester was unincorporated, served as mayor until 1889, there being no record of the number of terms. In addition, he was on the Board of Trustees for Mary Sharp College. In 1896 he moved to Chattanooga where he died on October 31, 1899 and was buried in Winchester City Cemetery.
	Mayor Irvin Garner
	188?-1889