Marker text: JAMES CARROLL NAPIER
James C. Napier (1845-1940), Nashville Negro lawyer, educator, member of the city council, delegrate to four Republican national conventions, Register of U.S. Treasury, 1911-15, was a trustee of Fisk, Howard, and Meharry, advocate of public schools, and founder of the One-cent Savings Bank, later the Citizens Saving Bank and Trust Co.
The Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, Erected 1970