Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Hamilton Inman was a capitalist who invested in cotton, coal, iron and steel, and railroads, especially in the impoverished post-Civil War South. While he is remmembered as a tycoon in the age of laisse-faire, cut-throat capitalism, he nevertheless helped the economic development of his native state and the South in general. John H. Inman was a member of one of the best-known families in Tennessee.