Hugh T. Inman

Who is Hugh T. Inman?

Hugh Theodore Inman was the wealthiest man in Georgia at the time of his death.

He was born in Dandridge, Tennessee son of Shadrach Inman and grew up there with his brother Samuel M. Inman. He engaged in the cotton trade in New York City until moving to Savannah, Georgia and then ultimately Atlanta where he continued in the cotton trade.

He owned the Kimball House Hotel in downtown Atlanta which he gave as a wedding gift to daughter Annie and son-in-law John W. Grant.

At the time of his death he had amassed an estate exceeding $2,000,000 making him the wealthiest man in the state. In August 1910 he went to a sanitarium in New York City suffering from neurasthenia and died there three months of pneumonia.