Atlanta and Inman Park
Further information: Inman ParkIn 1886, Inman moved to Augusta, Georgia and became a businessman. He joined with Joel Hurt that year to form the East Atlanta Land Company with the purpose of developing Inman Park, a residential suburb of Atlanta. They also formed Atlanta & Edgewood Street Railroad to provide adequate transportation to the area.
He moved permanently to Atlanta in 1867 to establish the S. W. Inman & Son cotton house with his father. The next year he married Jennie Dick of Rome, Georgia with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
In 1869, they changed the title of the company to S. W. Inman & Co and by 1889, it was the largest cotton business in the city and it had a branch house in Houston, Texas. Some estimated at that time that Inman was worth around $750,000 to $1,000,000, a sum that would have been much larger if not for his charitable donations. By 1889, Inman was on the directory for what was known as the Inman System, a group of nearly all of the railroads covering from Richmond, Virginia to Montgomery, Alabama and from Bristol to Savannah, Georgia.
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