One of the representative young business men of Somerville is Hu Harry Cartmell, druggist. He was born in Madison county on the 28th of February, 1895, a son of Harry Martin and Ada (Warlick) Cartmell. The paternal grandparents were Robert H. and Jemima (Baldwin) Cartmell, natives of Tennessee, while the maternal grandparents, John and Nancy Warlick, were natives of North Carolina. Harry Martin Cartmell was born in 1859 and his wife was born in 1864. They are prominent citizens of Jackson, Tennessee.

In the acquirement of his educational training Hu Harry Cartmell attended the public and high schools of Jackson and subsequently enrolled in Union University. He then entered a business college in Jackson and upon the completion of that course came to Somerville and bought the Price Drug Company. He changed the name of the business to the Cartmell Drug Store and is enjoying well-merited success in its conduct. He is readily conceded to be one of the leading young business men of this community. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World war Mr. Cartmell was one of the first to volunteer his services and he enlisted in the army at Jackson on the 16th of April, 1917. He was sent to Camp Rye and there assigned to the First Tennessee troops. In July, 1917. he was promoted to the rank of corporal and subsequently to the rank of sergeant. In April, 1918, he sailed for France and was active in the battles of Ypres, Lys and in the Meuse and Somme offensives. He returned to the United States in July, 1919, and received his honorable discharge at Fort Oglethorpe in that month. Since attaining his majority Mr. Cartmell has given his political allegiance to the democratic party and the principles for which it stands. Fraternally he is a Mason, having attained the Mystic Shrine, and he is identified with the Loyal Order of Moose. His [p.363] religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Cartmell's friends are legion and he has won the confidence and respect of all because of the high and honorable principles which he employs in the conduct of the Cartmell Drug Store.

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