History:P133. Entry # 470 in book "Portraits in Tennessee Before 1866." See also #29782 & 29784.
Notes:Lawyer, railroad promoter, land owner. Built & owned Gayoso Hotel in Memphis. Robertson Topp was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, on the 20th day of April 1807. At the age of sixteen he left his home, entered the office of his brother, John S. Topp, then a distinguished lawyer in Lebanon, Tennessee, and commenced under his guidance and tuition to prepare himself for the bar. He served two terms in the Legislature, and afterwards declined re-election. While attending the Legislature, he met Miss Elizabeth L. Vance, who afterward became his wife, in 1837. In the spring of 1841 they were living in their home on Beale avenue where he lived the balance of his life. He died in June 1876, survived by a widow, and eight children, being sixty nine years of age at the time of his death.
