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PROMINENT TEN? SSEAN
SKETCHES
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS
CONTAINING
BIOGRAPHIES AND RECORDS OF MANY OF THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE
ATTAINED PROMINENCE IN TENNESSEE.
COMPILED ANT) EDITED BY
HON. WILLIAM S. SPEER.
NASHVILLE
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Entered according
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in the office of the Librarian ■ i Washington.
INDEX TO SKETCHES.
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\n,li i h Mottley, M.D
uh Rhea
Willi) d T., D.D.S ...
Atkins, Hon. J. I). C
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. Prof. \. I', i L.D
\.M., D.D.
Bate, 0 ' R
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iV.G., M.D
.:!-, M. D
Blankenship, John P., M.D
1 .. M.D
adford H . M
A.M.. M.D
William T.. MD
' W
Bro« n, Col. A. J
Brown, Hon. John Weslej ..
. Hon. Neill S .
P, W
vmlri'W H
h.i R., M.D
Stanford G
Burns, Hon. Michai 1
Burma, Hon. Fletcher K....
Butler, Hon.
c
Callender, John Hill, M.D
pbell, Gen. Alexander W ...
i !lapp, Hon. I. W
Col. Moses II
t bldwell, Judgi i il
n. William
[on, William I '
286
257
90
152
216
190
131
7
158
40
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12
:ili, M I I. .
D
KM., M.D
Deaderick, Hon 5
tt, Hon. W 192
Kick. M.D 182
Dodd, Rev. rhomas .).. D.D.. 141
E
Hon. Edward II
lames...... 150
99
t, Hon. William V . . . . . 120
■■ ; ' 153
ord M ...
n, \ M . M.D.
Ew iug, Hon. Edwin Hickm
V
Faio, <iei!. John 218
Ferriss, Hon. I un C
Fleming, Hoi . William Sluarl
. Ma . Wi
■ I, John R., M.D
1. R. I >u.' ,
nan, Ion. Thomas -I .....
Frierson Hon. 8 imuel !' •■■ ies 17
ell, jion. John 170
Fulkers Hon F. M 246
G
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100
GalJa i
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Hon. Willi
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Willi;!,. 1-28
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McMi I., M.D
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1 B., M. I1
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. Hon. Willia, i;
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Muse, 11.
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I, Williar
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Overton, Hun. John, jr
P
, Paim H
id I
Josiab -
Pettibone, Hon. Augu
Phillips, Be\ J. W., M D .., 161
Fitman, John, Ml'
romee D., M.D
Porter, I [on. James 1 1
Q
Quai li ludgi [ames M . ...
R
Rainbaut, Maj. Gilberl V
Randolph, Hon. William M
113
; . Nick D., M D
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n E.....
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,rd, .Tames M.rrill, A..M . Ml'.. !'! D ..
I ol. William
Saun i D., M.I'
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r, Hon. D. W C
. I i an, M.A., D.D
. William C, D.D.S
T
irles Brysi
Smitl ...
Smith, . I„ In, IV. M.D
th, Hon. William M
Q. W
[on. William B
Stark
1
I.William I'
Temple, Hon. Oliver P
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Thuri
Tinm >
505
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njamin W., M D
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264
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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
GEN. WILLIAM (J. HARDING.
\ i -uyii.i.i:.
C^ EN. \\\ I.I.I \M G. HAKDING, the eminent
j agriculturist and breeder of thoroughbr
■ i i epl imber 1">. 1808, in a log cabin, still stand-
on his presenl celebrated and magnificent Belle
Meade six miles From the city of Nashville.
■ , w up "M i bat place when the Indians « i
ful in its neighborhood, and it has been his I
since, except during the six j 1
planting on his Stone's river Farm. Said he, " I am to
tlir manner born," and alluding to his birthplai
1 abii man. \ nd ic is a
splendid illustrat ion of the vi 1 of thi • •
as a factor of success He is 01 1 the few 1
personal records appear in this volume, who an
yhere thej were born, and such men areas a
rule, eminent examples of -urn-.- in life.
1 ., 1 I larding was 1 Id schools
until he was Fourteen years old, when he went to the
Cumberland College (predecessor of the Univcrs
Nashville), under Prof. Philip Lindsley, and
studied t\> 1 displaying the char 1 w hich
foreshadowed his manhood, resolution. He then said
to his Father, " I want to go off in search of an educa-
tion, for I 1 one here, surrounded, as I am, by
c chums, h ho do not -1 udj and will not perm
udy." His Father, immersed in a largi
could give neither time nor thought to his sou a req
and not compreh -inline « h,\ he could no
1 ion nearer homi rjiluctanl !.\ j ielded to Ins req
1 ini funds, and told him to go to anj school he
ect. lie \ isited 1 tie, II in trd, and Prince
ton, inspecting their met I d at last Fo
system, order and studiousness which hi
the American Military Academy, at Middletown, Con
neetieiit. tinder Capt. \hleii Partridge, then having
two hundred and fifty students. He had no acquaint-
ances there, and did nol want to find any. The ab
id' acquaintances was to his liking, for those he w
to form slowly and with proper care. Lfti c Fouj
he graduated with the highest honors, h
attained the first position in the I He
to tl gratified >n of his father
and mother, bringing with him as his guest old Capt.
Partridge, this ; Inter- first visit to any of the
ifter their ai j paid
a visit to the Nero of the Hermitage," a man whom
Capt. Parti d in man; Andrew
.1. Donelson, the pri ta f Pi idenf Jack-
son, w West Point when Capt. Pari i ■
was superintendent, prioi to his organizing the Military
Academy at M idd ; of instruction at
this institution combining, as it did, thi terns
and ai methods of military
ed with lit icrsed with
the thoroughly practical, and consisted of marches over
New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, laying "lit
roads ineering plans • anad locks,
buildi 1 teducts, etc., and was of im-
advantage to the n ho, at the age
of sixteen, had the audacity tn inspect for himseli
merit lucational insti-
tutions of the country.
In attendance at the military ai pith \ a
Harding were ex Gov. Hai 1 3ej moui
...... Horati urbide, sou
oftbe I [oxico 1 ol. M. H. Sandford, ofNew
iTork; ex-Gov. Hoge, of North Carolina, and many
equally distinguished in the military and
of tl tion Th nation
- apt. Partridge s own ham
ug words:
• l be uinicnd ffm. G. Harding as a scholar, a
gentleman and a soldier.
At the age of twenty Gen. Harding married Miss
Selene McNairy, the history of whose family is else-
where given, and 1 ! life on a tract of six
hundi md with forty live dollars in money.
Then close
I'KOMINENT Tl I VNS
applii
methods wliieli
I and In
him a r:mk uni
men in the ' licniaini
patrimonial inheritance on ■
until 1830, hi ion of the
hundi >l land nnd ■ hui
II the
i" his plantation, and adding adjoinii
hi for ill
Hi' « his fathci in had I"
purchasin
slaves to the i
would Mn i in n cotl ■
kepi his slaves nuclei' his immediate suju
ncrally thought to bi n ethod
of working slave labor, but by him d the
more humane. During the civil war his slavi
faithful i" him, and a goodly numbi with him
at tlii> wi iting, 1 1 kness and
<It 1 1 as formerly. They arc happy
well clothi An
incident is told illustral
!ii \vi<li which they welcomed their old masters
return home in 1802, after hi
political prisoner ;ii Mackinaw. A number uf them
met the vchich
home, took him out of the carria i him,
with great exultation, on their sin I In arriving
at the front yard he wanted
his wife, but they said, " No ; old
faithful groom of the
thoroughbred - shot by the Federals
on account of his '
in Ins abs aud afterwards
returned I i lily.
Thus, c ■ ! on his
ions and the b
.uni the tuanagcmcni w i i li intelligent dir
" ly has he
adhered with if the
thoro lorse, brin nd ro-
il funds in
often! his iiobl
of mules, he has continue
of animal ind
in his rs, hi
win- ili:.
horse stock li i md to
ithcr tl Ill world or I
of linn resolution,
• in The
time ■ il) an old-
he held to thai
girth to his saddle until
libs old enough for sale, when he
buy bluin
he lambs to Nashville,
ble pride of charai been
in tin body, He
n of life for their cl
irt and in than
atellecl .' itlmii! thi He is
I which !
the industrious of both
but hi
erous and elegant hospitality, and at his palatial
S man of promi
that li ; has visited I li a of the I
William II Jack law, « ho lias
lived with him dot* I lard-
ing: "In his coursi of conduct and bearing towards
low men he has fulfilled literally the golden rule,
hi any man I I either in or "ill of
the church. As il the difference I have
known him
iIh coll off when he bad
reached a i that that was price
-■It ; and, again, when a young
red him one dollar
ami fifty cents per bushel for his wheat, he remarked,
' Young nini, 1 am afraid you are u wheat
1 ufficiently
luality for that price, and you may have it for
one dollar .> fill commentary
upon the grasping, sordid times in which we live. This
- I ml natural, when
' hi> life. II
up ill man and man
■was almost universal, thi uired ;
when good and neighborly feeling was the rule; when
i neighbor to shuck his corn, roll
dear bin; when the iucar-
hvillc
ii ripple i he public
mind, ami when honesty and fair dealing were tin
with He attaii
fifty yi i . he belie\ ed thci iu the
world who would l""k him in the Rice and tell him a
man, illustrative
h rather I
.1 in him.
All ien. Hard-
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in:;'* character by one fully competent to speak, will
recognize it as a true picture of a, truly aoble Tennes-
sean. Such iutegrity of life could not help producing
like effecl on those surrounding him. During the war
his negroes buried a barrel of solid silverware that had
been awarded him at fairs as premiums, and when the
danger was over unearthed the treasure and brought it
home, every piece of it.
Gen. Harding has lived as he was born, a "dyed in
the wool" Dei sral of the Old Hickory school. When
Tcnih i ded he was appointed a member of the
State Military Board, which expended five million dol-
lars in the equipment of the Tennessee soldiery of all
arms for the Confederate service. He had i hei
connection with the war, having been taken prisoner in
April. 1862, and rel< ased on his parole of honor, which
he observed most sacredly until the end of the war.
His title came from bein d brigadier-general of
militia, about I
Though a leading t urfman forty years or more, enjoying
the confidence, • steem and high regard of every man of
his acquaintance who ever dealt, in thoroughbred horses,
yet he has been absolutely Free from any of the
attendant upon the race course. He lias never wa
race, but has at all times taken a broad
view of the high and important mission of the thor-
oughbred horse, which is to improve all of the equine
race; and believes that hi,- chief mission is not, as
in ...... contl ibute to the amusement and
pleasure of the public on tie rac. course, but sub-
Scribing to the idea that without tin- t licit. F the world
would ne\ i r have known those distinguished d< 'in
of human character in all its phases, SO without the
.' course — the theater of action and competition of
the thoroughbred horse — the intelligent breeders of this
animal would never have discovered the most valuable
strains of blood to propagate.
Gen. Harding has also been an advanced thinker as
an agriculturist, keeping pace with the latest improve-
ments in farming machinery and the most valuable
modes tin- the recuperation and culture el' tlie soil.
Occupying through life prominent positions in the
different bureaus of agriculture of the State, he has
at all times taken an .olive interest, in all measures
tending to build up Tennessee. He was the first fa
who ever shipped grain from Tennessee to the Ch
ton market; the first to ship a load of hay to New
Orleans; the first to Buggest the idea of building ile
Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, opposing bin
penditure of our money fur the building of roads lead-
ing North, believing that we should connect with our
natural markets of the South, and lei the North e spend
her own money in reaching our sout&ern connections.
ten Harding's lather was John Harding, a nativi • I
Virginia, who came to Tennessee in 1805, with his
father's family, consisting of two daughters (Sallie,
who married a Mr. Page, am! Patsey. who married
Matthew Johnson), and four sons, besides himself,
Giles, William, Thomas, and David Morris, who all
ee excellent farmer-, and were a hard) pii
who did the first (faring in their respective
localities, and were noted for their hospitality and
fondness for field sports. They '-.ere all men of the
strictest integrity, truth-tellers, and fair in their deal-
ings, hut linn iii contending lor their rights.
John Harding married in Davidson county. Novem
her. 1806, Miss Susannah Shutc, daughter of .John
S 1 1 nt.'. a farmer from the vicinity of Carlisle. Pennsyl-
vania, and of German extraction. To this marriage
were hum Amanda (win. married frank McGavOck),
William Giles (subject of this sketch), and Elizabeth
(who married Joseph Clay). Gen. Harding's father
died in September, 1st;,"), at the age of 87; his mother
died September 1-. 1845, at the age of 60. Prom a
brief biographical sketch of John Harding in the His-
tory of Davidson County, it appears that he wa- a warm
friend of education, a member of the Christian Church,
a prosperous farmer and stock raiser, a large land and
slaveholder, and a man of energy, industry and \er-a-
tility ..f talent.-. He purchased the Belle Meade place
and built the log cabin in which his distinguished son.
the subject of this sketch, was horn. No man in this
country ever made fur himself so high a Reputation as
a hard and constant worker Gen. Harding relates of
his father that he was the only man. as the imported
"Priam" was the only horse, whom he n
saw resting, alternately, mi either leg. No one ever
saw him in any positi I standing erect or sitting
erect * hi this remark being repeated to the file veu-
erahle Dr. W. K. Bowling, he quietly replied: "G n
Harding might have said he never saw his father stand-
ing on one foot or two, tor he wa- always going.'' lie
a rocking chair or lounge up to the age of
seventy. He was a tall man, six feet high, and of very
gentle presence, mild in expression, careful of speech,
never going above the mark in assertion. 1 1 i> motto
was, " If you had tried a little harder, don', you think
ould have got a little further?" He was possessed
of indomitable will, and had an iron c institution, \t
the age of seventy, at one end of a crosscut saw and
the best negro man of two hundred and fifty pounds
that he owned at the other, he would go through the
toughest tree of H\e feel in diameter without stopping
to blow. \ the age of seventy, having cleared up
farms in Tennessee and one in Louisiana, he pro-
ceeded to Arkansas w ith eight hands, and at that ad
d age, chared anil put in successful i p. ration a
magnificent cotton plantation, near Plum Point fiend.
which he gave to his grandson, John McGavock, and for
which he was offered and refused one hundred and fifty
nid dollars in gold. In I860 In 1 to
ille, ami lived in his city home, bewildered in
his old age l..\ the war. lie could never he made to
Mod lew people i Id take thin-- which did
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
not belong to them. Il< to the
Christian < 'hurch, of ivh mem-
ber, and Poi n. i i. \ ara w: its prominent support.
Ilia name, wherever known, was the synonym of honor
able and upright conduct. Such was John Harding, a
factor in the earl) development of Middle Tenm
and of more than our of ii- ndustries. He
left hi- sturdy, vigorous lity impressed upon
memories of thousands of his survivors, and is
therefore a Tei i haraeter, more im
Hit than hundreds of noisy politicians, his
raries, who died and left neither sign nor name.
The mother of Gen. Harding was likewise n person
of strong el r, a lady of marked individuality,
exceptionally kind and ■•. and of proverbial
candor. 1( is reported of her that .-he would not. out
nn.il courtesy, invite any one to visit her
whom she did not want ; it was her
devotion to truth, rt is e; '
of the old family back of ( !en. Hari ned in him
a character which is but a reproduction of their
Gen. Harding first married in Xashville, November
17. 1S20, .Miss Selene McNairy, daughter of Nathaniel
McNairy, and niece of Dr. Boyd McNairy and Judge
John McNairy, of a prominent North Carolina family
• The count) of McNairy in Teni
was named for Judge McNairy. Mrs. Harding's sister,
Amanda, is now the widow of James Porter, a mer
chant of prominence at Nashville, and is a lady re-
markable as a business woman and manager of finance.
Her youngest sister, Kittie, married John Kirkman,
now president of the American National Bank ol
Nashville. Her mother was Catharine Hbbson, of a
Virginia family, sister of Nicholas Hobson, noti
his sterling integrity and suci banker; a man
who enjo) ed t lie unlimited of the i om
munity; a man of simplicit) of character, truthfulness,
and kindness of heart. Mrs. Harding ated at
the old Nashville Female Ai rid was a lady id'
domestic and • I habits, and a member of the
Christian Church. She died in 1836, at the i
twenty-four, having borne two children : (1). John, a
graduate of the North Carolina University
Hill; married first Miss Sophia Merritt, daughter of
Embry Merritt. of I. lie. Virginia. She
irs after marriage, leaving one child,
Sophia Harding, now the wife of Granville S. Job i
ami mothe! of two children. William Harding and
Morgiana John Harding next married Mrs. Philip
Owen, ne< Margaret Murphy, of Mississippi, who bore
him three ehil ' lenc McNairy, William Giles,
■el John Selene McNairy Harding is now thi
of Prof Charles P. Curd, of Washington University,
St. Louis, author of several educational text-books,
and a brilliant man oi iromisi They have
one child. Ilayden T. William Giles married Mi-^
Bessie Caruthers, of N usl ville. (2) Nathaniel Mc-
Nairy, t ten. Harding's second son, died at the age of ten
years, his death being caused by a fall from a horse.
Gen. Harding's second marriage, which occurred at
Franklin, Tennessee. January 2, 1840, was with Miss
Elizabeth Irwin McGavock, daughter of Randal Mc
ck, a large landowner and farmer of Williamson
county, and a large holder of city property in Nashville,
ami the first county clerk of Davidson counts. The
McGavocks are of Scotch-Irish descent, and are numer-
ous in Williamson and Davidson counties, and in Vir-
ginia. Her youngest brother, Col. John McGavock, one
of the most prominent citizens of Williamson, is a highly
educate, I i in i,.;u in. thoroughly posted in the careers
of the public men and measures of the government,
and hi n the private secretary of Hon. Felix
< I rinelv while at Washington, he is regarded as a typical
gentleman of the school of those days. Her mother's
sister was the wife of Felix Grundy, and was the lady
to whom Washington society deferred in all matters of
etiquette and court manners. Mrs. Harding's
lirother. .lames I!. McGavock, was a line fanner in Wil-
liamson county, possessed of a m ile ;enerous heart,
given to large charity and overflowing hospitality: of
great sympathy for the struggling masses, the soul of
honor, and a general favorite and standard man in hi-
county. He married his first cousin. Miss Louisa
Missouri, a lady of sterling qualities,
.similar to those of her husband, :,t'd their sons and
daughters are notable likewise for their RbcraHty ami
hospitality. Mary Cloyd McGavock, Mrs. Harding's
sister, mar; icil .1. .). I!. Southall, a nephew of Gov.
Branch, of Florida, and lived in princely style at their
Etosi nioiii." three miles from Nashville. Her
striking characteristics were a strong will-power, a very
highly cultivated intellect, and the highest order of
Christian virtues. She gave her only son. Randal
McGavock Southall, to the Confederacy, saying, "My
son. you ai'- all I have to give to the Southern cause."
and placing her hand on his head, added, " Go, with
my blessing.'' Mrs. Harding's mother was Miss Sarah
Dougherty Rogers, daughter of John Rogers and Mar
M. Dougherty. Her father was a descendant ol'
John Rogers, the Protestant martyr.
By his marriagi with Miss McGavock, Gen. Harding
has two children: i 1 ). Selene, bom April .">, 1846, at
Belle Meade, where her father and her own children
were horn. She was educated at the Nashville 1'
Academy under Rev. C. D, Elliott until the war broke
out. when she was .-.ail to Philadelphia, where she
1 a \ear in .Madame Ma se's private French
il, She married December 15, 1868, Gen. William
II, Jackson, a planter of West Tennessee, whose sketch
appears elsewhere in this volume, and has three eh.il-
Kunice, William Harding and Selene Harding.
(2). Mary Elizabeth, born February 5, 1850, at Belle
Meade, educated at Nashville, under Rev. Philip Fall ;
married Judge Howell E. Jackson, present United
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
States Senator from Tennessee, and has three children,
. Louise, and Harding Alexander. Si
Jackson's sketch elsewhen in this volume.
Thus surrounded by his children and his grand-
children, and living upon the goodly inheritance
bhed him by his father, Gen. Harding lias wisely
made himself his own executor, and disposed of his
among his heirs to theii
passing the evening of his life in happiness un-
alloyed, undisturbed by the cares of business or distress
of mind caused by the bad conducl of any of his
descendants, and is free from the petulance ami little
- and weaknesses so often attendant upon old age.
His i dually passing out smoothly, serenely
and quietly, with (lie consciousness of years well and
without a wrong inflicted on his fellow-
man.
(Jen. Harding professed relig the preaching
uf Rev, Sam. Jones, in May, 1885, and immediately
thereafter connected himself with (he Christian church
in Nashville, being received into the same by Rev. 1!.
Linn Cave, its paster.
BON. JAMES W. DEADERICK.
iBOROVGB.
THE present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Tennessee was born in Jonesborough, Wash-
a county, on the 25th of November, 1812. lie is
the youngest child of David Deaderick, a native of
Winchester, Virginia, who died in 1823, at tie
of sixty-five. Judge Deaderick's father was a soldier
of the Revolution, and paymaster of a Virginia
ment which served in that war. He moved to Jones-
borough al hi early day after the close of the war for
independ and was president of tin- branch of the
first hank of the State of Tennessee located in that
town, lie also at one time represented Washil
county in the General Assembly of the State. He was
a warm personal friend of Gi I son, who, when
Circuit Judge in East Tennessee, made his home at
Mr. Deaderick's house. He was one of the most intel-
ligent men of his day. hut was chiefly noted for his
unswerving integrity in all the relations of life. So
marked was this characteristic that no higher praise
could he bestowed upon a person than " He is as
honest a man as David Deaderick," and this saying as
to him passed into a proverb throughout the region in
width he lived. During most of his life he was en
in mercantile pursuits, and a common saying among his
patrons was : " We can get as much for our money from
him by sending a child as by going ourselves." He was
possessed of a vast fund of information, was verj fond
of reading, and made it a point to give all his children
the benefit of the best scl Is accessible in those earlj
days.
Judge Deaderick's paternal grandfather and grand-
mother were Germans, who settled in Winchester, Vir-
ginia. They retained the German form of the family
Deitrich — master-key — which has beer
into Deaderick by their descendants. Besides the
father of Judge Deaderick, this worthy couple had
other children, one of whom. Michael Deaderick, set-
tled in Nashville at an early day, as a merchant, and
was also president of the old State Hank of Tennessee
ihout 1810. Deaderick street in Nashville was so
called in his honor. Another son, Thomas Deaderick.
was also among the earlj settlers of Nashville and one
of the pioneer merchants of thai i ity, as was a younger
brother, John Deaderick. who was engaged in bush
with his brothers, but who died quite young. Judge
Deaderick's only paternal aunt was the wife of David
Murrell, ol i. nchburg Virginia. Of her children,
one is a physician of that city, one a tobacco merchant,
and another, John Murrell. was at one time a million-
aire cotton merchant in New ( hleans. The mother of
Judge Deaderick, Margaret Anderson, was a native of
Delaware, daughter of a Mr. Anderson of a German
family. She had ^rx brothers in the Revolutionary
army, all of whom were officers. Her oldest brother,
Joseph Anderson, was the first United Slates Senator
from '1 one ot the first federal judges
in the Slate, lie was for main years, and up to a short
time before his death. Comptroller of the Treasury at
Washington, where he died. Another brother, William
Anderson > I Congtt man from the State of Dela-
ware, [nslee Anderson, another of the brothers, was
killed in one of the battles of the Revolution. Dr.
Thomas Anderson, of Tullahoma, Tennessee, is a son
of Judge Joseph Anderson, mentioned above. Judge
Deaderick's maternal grandmother was an Inslee. His
mother died al Jonesborough in 1856, at the advanced
age of eighty five. She was a lady of Hue literary tastes,
of extensive reading, and possessed a remarkable
of information upon a great variety of subjects. She
was by nature kind, affectionate and generous, and a
working member of the Presbyterian church. It was
truthfully said of her, ': No better woman ever lived
than -1m
In his youth Judge Deaderick enjoyed excellent
educational advai a After a course of primary
training at home, he entered Hast Tennessee Coif
G
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
Knoxville (now the University of Tennessee) (id
afterwards Centre College, al Danville, Kentucky, I lion
miller tin- ptt i of John (' doling. While at
Danville, be becam I to his wife, and married
her before completing bis college course, being at the
time under twenty years of age. Soon after his mar
riage he settled at Cheek's Cross-roads, in Jefferson
. Hamblen) county, where he commenced merehan
disinu in Is:;:;, on a limited capital, carrying on a farm
at the same time, Generous and confiding, without
business experience or knowledge el' men. and fond of
living and the manly sports of the day. he sunn
ran through his moderate patrimony, most of ii goin
to pay security debts for friends for whom he had
endorsed. In 1841 he left Cheek's Cross-roads and
weiii to Iowa, under an appointment from Pn ■
Tyler as Indian agent for the Pottawattomies. He
remained there only some six or eight months, when
he returned to Jonesboi'ough and commenced the study
of law, Judge Linker lending him honks and
him some instruction, lie was admitted to the bar in
1S44, at Jonesborough, by Judge Luckey and Chancel-
lor Thomas L Williams. Judge L. remarking, when he
presented himself in be examined tin- license. " You
need no examination.'' lie opened an office at .) s-
borough and practiced in that circuit with reasonable
-s until the close of the civil war. [laving been
a sympathizer with the South in that unfortunate
u Ii he was, alter its close, subjected in much
trouble and ai yance from the ''truly loyal'' pi
of thai section, to avoid which he removed, in the
spring of 1866, to Bristol, on the Tennessee ami Vir-
ginia line, where he remained for about a year, when
he removed to Knoxville, remaining there until In
d i mi of the judges of the Supreme Court in
1870, under the present Constitution of the State,
which was adopted in thai year. Since his elevation to
the Supreme bench he has made his home at Jones-
borough.
[n the division of parties which prevailed from the
majority til! the disruption of the old Whig
organization, some years prior to the civil war, Judge
Deaderick was an ardent follower of the great Harry of
the West. Alter the war he allied himself with the
Democratic party, but having been on the bench for
most of the time, has taken no active part iii politics.
I In has frequently occupied public stations, and always
with honor in himself and ad\ those whom he
served. From 1833 to IS41 he was postmaster at Ch
Cross roads, and in the last-named year was agent for
the Pottawattomie tribe of Indians. In KM -52, he was
chosen Senator in the General Assembly from the dis-
trict composed i tnties of Washington, Sullivan,
Carter and Johnson. At thai session he served as chair
mail of the committee on internal improvements. This
was the session of the Legislature at which the internal
improvement act. known as tin "omnibus bill,"' was
passed, which loaned the credit of the State to sev
railroad companies, The bonds issued under this
a.t and subsequent enactments are the obligations that
:ely into the polities and legislation
of the Stai. si, me the war. Judge Deaderick advi
and voted fir all thi internal inn .-urns
adopted at that session. In I860 he was elector on the
Hell and Everett ticket for the first congressional dis-
l rint As before slated, he was (deeted to the Supreme
bench in 1870, and re-elected in 1878. In 1875, upon
the death of Chief Justice A. ( ). P. Nicholson, he was
chosen Chief Justice by his associates on the bench,
ami unanimously re-elected in 1878.
Judge Deaderick is a member of the Presbyterian
church— the church of his mothei a an also his wife
and all their children, lie has never allied himself to
hut one secret society, tin- Odd-Fellows, which order
he joined in L845.
He was married at Danville, Kentucky. Novemb
1832, to Miss Adeline McDowell, daughter of Dr.
Ephraim McDowell, known in his day as "the great
ion of Kentucky.' Dr. McD. was a Virginian by
birth. He studied his profession in Edinburgh, Scot
laud, and i- inn well and widely known in ni i d further
mention hem. He died in 1829, at tin- age of sixty.
Judge Deaderick and his estimable wife, who still sur-
vives to bless hiu, in his old age, celebrated their golden
ling in Jonesborough on the 8th of November,
1S82. Mrs. Deaderiek's mother. Sarah Shelby, the
first white female born in Kentucky was the daughter
of Gov. Isaac Shelby. Her death took place at Dan-
ville, in that State, wl had always resided, at the
;.,' five. Shi' was a member of the Protestant
pal church, ' the corner-stone of that church in
Danville," a « rigorous mind, highly culti-
vated, of fine presence, and prided herself greatly on
her domestic qualifications. Her mother, Susan Hart,
of North Carolina, was the daughter o! Nathaniel
Hart, of thai State. Her brother, Nat. Hart, was a
prosperous farmer at Versailles, Kentucky. The Harts
were all wealth\ men. gentlemen of elegant leisure. Mrs.
Deaderiek's only surviving sister, Catharine, married
in. Addison A. Anderson, who repre-
i ci tj in the Tennessee Legislature in
19. He died in 1883, in Monroe county, Missouri,
where his widow- mm resides. Mrs. Dea lerick was edu-
cated at I >anville and Lexington, Kentucky, and is a lady
of most admirable trails of character, a wise and safe
counselor, and a helpmate in everj en i her dis-
tinguished husband. Even in her old age she is always
busy, believing, as she says, it is a sin to be idle.
To Judge Deaderick and his worthy wife have been
born ten children, as follows: l 1 l. Arthur, a farmer in
Washington county; married Miss Ad. lie Walker, of
ter of James Walker a farmer of
that place, and has six children, viz.: James William,
McDowell, Lizzie. Lula, Charles and Monroe.
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
Shelby, who was killed iii the battle of Chicamauga,
September 21, 1863, leaving one child, a son, John
Wallace; his widow, Louisa Brown Deaderick, is a
daughter of Maj. Byrd Brown, of Washington county.
(3 \ ii mi Mary, widow of William 1). VanDyke, form-
erly a prominent lawyer of Chattanooga, who died in
1883, leaving four children, Annie Thomas Nixon,
Fannie and Carey. (4). James G., a lawyer, now
residing in California, engaged in fruit culture, who
married Miss Lizzie Savers, of Virginia, and lias two
children, Ella and Howe. (5). D. Frank, a commission
merchant, and at this writing mayor of Quincy, Illinois,
who married Miss Nannie Haynes. daughter of Col. J.
G. lla> ■. of Washington county, by whom he has
seven children, viz.: Mary. Fannie, Nannie, Frank.
Lavinia, Carrie and Fred. (6) Wallace, a merchant
and lawyer of Creeiieville. Tennessee, who married
Miss Sarah Hardin, daughter of Chief Justice Morde
cai Hardin, of Kentucky, and has two children, Sallie
and Mary, (7). Allied Shelby, a lawyer, livin
Jonesborough ; married .Miss Carter Luster, daughter
of Rev. Mr. Luster, of Fincastle, Virginia; has four
children, Kate. Lucy, A Idic and .lames. (S). I
a farmer in Washington tounty ; married Miss Nannie
Bayless, daughter of Byrd Bayless, a farmer of that
county; has two children, Addie and Byrd. (9). Charles,
a merchant at Hamilton, Missouri; married Miss Sue
Anderson daughterof Addison A. Anderson, previously
mentioned ; ha Id, Pauline. ( 10). Add'n Mc
Howell, a graduate of Dr. Ward's Seminary, Nashville;
unmarried,
Judge Deaderick owes his success in life chiefly to a
firm adherence to the principles of honesty instilled into
him by his father, and to a faithful discharge of every
duty devolved upon him in the various station,- he has
been called to occupy. His steady persistence in this
course through his whole life has made him troops of
friends, and secured the unbounded confidence of the
people of his State, who have elevated him to the high-
est judicial position in their power to bestow. Natur-
ally one of the most modest and diffident of men, he
put himself forward — never seemed to know the
value of himself: but the people, quick to discern true
worth and ever ready to appreciate and reward the ex-
ercise of noble qualities and high purposes, have singled
him out and crowned him with the enviable distinction
of their approval. When about to enter upon the
practice of the law. he was somewhat despondent, in
of the rather unpromising prospect which pre-
I itself to him in the profession. At this time he
was much Strengthened in his purpose by the late
T. A. II. Nelson, who remarked to him: 'It
seems to me you look discouraged; hut T know enough
of the law and enough of you to feel sure that if you
will persevere you will succeed." Taking courage From
these wolds, he went forward and has achieved a
ire of vii, cess attained by hut few men in the
profession. It must have been peculiarlj -ratifying to
the generous and noble hearted Nelson to find, in after
ars, the young lawyer whom he had thus encouraged
in his earl} struggles, occupying a seal on the Supreme
bench with himself.
HON. NEILL S. BROWN.
,\ i\//i //,/./•;.
THE life of this gentleman may be considered as
coeval with the history of Middle Tenni
His father came to Giles county in 1809, ai
born the next year. Then' is a wonderful unity of type
in these early pioneers of Tennessee, who settled in its
central valley during the first decade of the nineteenth
century, and impressed their best qualities on their
descendants, who arc now the leading families of the
State. They cam< from the Carolinas or Virginia,
! re known to be of Scotch or Scotch Irish
tit bhej were Presbyterians of the old school;
plain, industrious farmers, who brought a moderate
supply of the world's e Is with them, and with it
their frugal, simple habits and well-directed industry.
Discipline was strict in their families, and a plain Eng-
lish education was usually attainable by the young, an
education, however, which was largely into
with work on the farm, in truth, it was general!} thi
i system of six months' schooling and mx
n ths' work on the farm; an arrangement contem-
plated with high disdain hy those trained on the modern
high pressure system, hut which gave our Websters to
the North, our Clays to lh-' West, and our Wrights
and Drown.-. Friersons. Coopers and Flemings, and a
host of other great men, to Tennessee.
In such a community Neill S. Brown manfully strug-
gled on his way from obscurity to distinction. His sur-
roundings were depressing and discouraging to youthful
ambition beyond what was common, even in that modest
settlement. The limitations of liis home must have
amounted to actual poverty: for, whether from de-
ficient of means or from the need of his labor on the
farm, his education did not commence until his -.
teenth year. Most mind- would have been crushed and
deadened tnder such depressing circumstances: not so
the indomitable spirit of Neill S. Brown. He was only
8
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
above the humiliating level in which he found hi
From the little known about his boyln sei ins in
have been thoughtful beyond his
but eviden lie aspiral ions thai
in more u fc. lie was, even then,
in break through 'I,. . iment thai hemmed
him in. W hen, at leugl I
did commence his school education, it was by his own
savin and,
when these wci
to acquire me rthor instruction.
In 1831 he entered what was called the Manual
Labor Academy in Maury county, and studied there
two sessioi which he chool in
ity for a short I
[n 16 . the study of law w ith Chan-
cellor Bramletl al I
bar at the ! Irani-
lett. and Stuart. 11 ened an office al Pn
at w hicll place, « itll us, lie |tra<
law till 1 S IT. The firsl interruption »,i
\av in is:;."), to I"- tl
lucrative pracl i< but not ui
ttgemi n d to Tennessee the sane year. In
lie enlisted in Armstrong for i he £■
mile war in Florida. lie was in the battle on the
With! 13, IKit). lie went out as
a private ami was promoted to of his
regiment, the F
1 1 i- polil ii al li fi m u i i ..hi ,
turn from Florida lie was nominated by the Whig party
candidate for presidential elector on the ticket of the
Hon. Hugh L. White. Ill ill
sire presidi ir the
Whig i is in the same in 184(1,
I'm- Cen. Harrison, and in 1S44, for Henr.\ ( 'lay.
In 1837 he was a membei
lature. wherein he served for a
member in it.
[n 1847hi
one term and has since resided in Nashville, He was
the youngesl man ever elected to the gub
office. When it is taken into consideration that hi
tn s,-h, ml for the first time in hi ' , tut in
only twenty inn. e years had so impressed the people of
Tennessee with his merits and live at
their hands the highest office the) v
of I i"\ . Brow n in..
unii|ii ■ in the records i I chief
faculty by which this eminence was al
matchless power of addressing crowds of men. Sprung
himself from the very heart of the people, he knew
what was in that mighty heart, ami could com
every throb, ami hi ,,f a man
rieuee had been the same. Tl trained orator
cannot meet such a man bef< i pulaci without
Hid at the
In 1830 he was commissioned by President Taylor as
minister to Russia, in which capacity he resided in that
countr) tin
Ctl ! tn the State
member for Davidson county, and. when the \
hly met. n I by it Speaker of the llou
lleprescntatn
In ISoti he was ;( elcnienl pular
>tate
at large in the ; Mr. Fillmore, this time can
nivcrsal n
tion ■ ■ erful chau | i V\ hig
.iles.
In 1870 he was member for Davidson county of the
to modify the instil n th ?o as tn adapt
s which had been
ht about by tin- abolition of slavery and the
results el' the recenl
This political pos ! by < fov.
i from
the dignified ami peaceful retirement which he had
5S0, when ,
mi in rel i question, the
itforni
and put in and honor
Siate. lie n e old
loquent, pleading w ith impaired pi
but with undiminished lire, the cause of righteous
dealing, and though that idea was unavailing, it will be
remembered in the coming years, when the pi
eration of politicians 1ms passed «"'•'*•, and a fn
■ ans may ! i econsider
calml) 1 in the heat of party ani-
mosity.
In polities Gov. Brown has bcen-a life-long Wh
least SO hum as the Whig party had an organized
exist) n the war has acted with what is now
styled the l'en, tarty. He has. however, nb
stained for seme time from party conflicts, preferrii
give his valuable SUpporl I measures which
i party lilies. Among these the foremost
is that ni popular education. Amonj icated
fouud
than that of observing how they look upon education.
:ss delights in disparaging every better educated
man than themselves is a pedant and dreamer: tl
not the magnanimous elass. Another, on remembering
the disadvantages which clogged their own early career,
i by it to vow that mi meritorious j
lie future shall .1 at
the threshold of life i; ami to this
class belongs Neill S. Bi alous and
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
M the Teni i
of the present.
The father of Gov. Brown was Duncan Broi
rtson county, North Carolina, who mar-
ried and emigrated to Gili I in 1809,
where in 1810, he became father of the future I rovernor,
hered from what has all said.
thai he wa i man. lie was a farmer, and, from
ti when the Whig party was firsl organized
a \\ hig, ami to I if his death. lie was a man of
stron bul of m i mal advanl
II -,• m : man of poetical turn, a
none of 1 1^ I h n e are I
e published any poetry. It is the I
i .nan was
much,
for both of men,
Hi- fathei [I her to the Governor), was Angus
i. horn in Scotland and settled in Rob
county, N I I he middle of the last
■i-y. There he lived and died a farmer. He
n in the Revolu i car iindi
Marian. 1 1 ,■ lived m be abou
All these people have bi farmers, in i L
circumstan nd re-
spected in their day- as fair dealing, upright citizens.
Brown married at Nashville. December 26,
1839, di- Mart \im Trimble, daughter of Judge
of tli. u city i posi-
tion ami intlni nee. of a Virgin Her mother,
Letitia Clark, was born in East Tenness
Morris Clark, a merchant and farmer from Vii
M . Brown's brother, Hon. John Trine
a member of I L and once district
attorney general. He was a noted leader of the Union
pari}' in the days ol Her sister Lou i sa, died
e. it.- of John l!eiil, a prominent lawyer at Nashville.
Her sister, Eliza, married A. V. S. Lindsley, a la
al \ i-h '. lie . -'in of I h. Philip Lind-Iey. I I er
Susan, married Col. W. Ii. A. Ramsey, of Knnxville.
f Tenness nov dead. M rs.
. ii is a lad t, of pi
amiable manners religious, and endow, d with thi I
and native politeness which are beautifully manii
in the practice of a gi nial and elegant hospitality.
B; this in ii i iage < rov. Brown has had eighl
(1). James Trimble, born al Pul . 25,
1842, a lawyer: married Miss Jennie I''. Niehel. sister
of Dr. William L. Nichol, of Nashville; died M
1878; he ■
children, William Lytic. Elis I Trimble.
i.:i). George Tully, born al Pulaski, December, 1843; a
i at Nashville; married Miss Lou Ezell
of P. II. I. I). Neill 8., born al Pu-
1, 1846; now reading clerk in the
House of Representatives tl Washington; married
MissSusan Walton, daughter of Col. W. B. Wall
". . has two children, Neill and Walton;
army four year-. I I ). Dun-
can, horn at Nashville, \- is i. 1848; died July 8,
: he II ivid-oii ( 'oiini\ Ci ■ 1 ime
of his death. (5.). Susan Louisa, horn at Nashville,
November 5, 1850; nol married. (6). Henry A, born
at Nashville, Maj 7. Is'"' I igent on the
Atchison, Topeka k Santa Fc railroad, and was I
' -7, 1881 : unman ied
Letitia, born at Nasi J line 27, \<\h ; wife
of Capt. ' merchant at Nashville.
John ('..horn at Nashville. December 28, 1858;
ma 'I agenl ; unmarried.
r of Go) Brow ii is confidently offered as a
mi i-i in-t ructive lesson to -n men as, H
themselves possessed of the abilit; above the
ordinary level of humanity, find themselves impeded
shackled b
vantages of the Governor's youth were limited to a
pure, simple and frugal home, with religious training
and a necessity loi constant industry; itsdisadvanl
i P educational I traitened
finance, and distance from center of population. No
in in who i- now complaining of hi ob tacles to
self-elevation w ill find ling I lie abo^ e sketch,
that they were greater tha which stood in the
i Brown, who practiced no arts bul
-ell' denial, industry and perse vera i lie : and yet, twenty
I I education on the
means, he was Governor ol the State
three years alter that was ambassador in one of the
How was it done? This question wa- pul to the
( io\ ernor hy tin md his answer shall be
in his Is. He points out his first advanta
being " the manner in which I was raised by my pai
who were -triei 1 1 id pi iua rians, instilling correct morals."
i. of himself : "1 had a native ambition
" ity and make myself useful in i he
world; to shine and be distinguished. A pains-taking
father and mother inculcated moral and religious prin-
ciples, without which no success is worth anything.
- I started life on nothing,
any man in Tennessee who i \ er became
11 known."
erev ere no methods beyond taking hold
do and doing it with all liis
might, observing, the while, those principles ol strict
morality in which he had been trained. That i- your
method, young man; it never failed, and there is no
other.
Gov. Brown is six feet two inches in height, a little
bowed rsofage; perfectly accessible,
his manners those of a man who, being at ease himself,
puts till who approach him al case and conciliates their
confide: iners w liieh h i en him acceptance
in the courts of great monarchs, and which make the
WINKNT I'M NNKSS KAN'S
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I 'KM MINI-: NT TENNESSE VNS.
11
of law His 1 k i 1 few.bi
ed. Tl:
keen insight in er and mol i\ e, an impn ssive
earnestness of manm :| in the expn
is, combined « ith a po immending
them i" the ju n. It has lieen re
marked that, while his ju I nenl n the bench were
charai ness and concentra
tion of thought and language, his pleadings al tl
lifft ivi u i i
could have anj possibl
and it should it if he commem
moderate ainounl of book lore, his subsequent studies
as his incea
verj i ■ ;
ii] i be issues before bim.
ln 1835 • inole
war, under Gen Armstrong, and in company with
othi r noted 1
Dr. Cheairs, Gen. William Ti •> . Neill S.
Broi\ ii, I [e and Brow n were at tl
dential eh
Burcn t ickel Demo n that of 1 1 ugh
I,. White ( Whiji I Tl tied from the army to
just before t be clo ie of i be war and, wit Ii
military eai
He married, in 1837, Miss M
daughter of Dr. Elisha Eldrid f eini-
ind a Methi New
Hauip
of tin- chii
I ii 1847 be was Don
■ in i riles count
. in, during which he held thi i ijI position
F cha I iinitl
• i r held polil ii
: e to the rout ine i
with or the ma rtisan
tions, which he
belii ■■ tipi liimeni
to i hi if public i
II is i lal pra
i he da j hi i pon it, and
planting, his plantation beinj
ippi : lie also had
ty in Tui nil at
At
i hundred and eighty I > lollars. \-
ilthy man. his
bad i un ndustry intelligently di
and its
notes or speculated, i
ods of nly rich.
1858 he v
m G ll.n ris to fill a vacancy,
and v,
scat, which he did al Knoxvillc in September of the
his as-.., Robert I. Caruthers
ami Robert J. McKinney. All threi d the
me bench until the war. Judge Wright's term
expired it he was arhitrarilj di pi d
by Gov. IJrownlow in 18(55, and Vlvin Hawkins ap
d in his pi
of his life, J udge Wright once
dit pari I
■ ■hi inn which nominated M r Fusscll for
■nor in 18 - ' indidate for the State
In I mi 1 1 he v. defeat
ust be
looked ii] rat I i as a ieal can
didaturc for office.
The wifi lid Wright was, as lias
!' a New Hampshire
n and M I
ied in 1833. On tin
led from t he noble Irish family of
Dillon, a memb I the close
i ' the last century, I d was
She was
in Pulaski, Ti ii d is a prominent and
Met hi dist church. Fo I i chil-
ly by Jud
I, nl.. E. Wright, educat
of Mi a fine scholar and accomplished i
. j: .■ .! . ner, a
i. rady
promi level of his fat her - high
! h married Miss I-
ie Fat
four . Anna, Luke E., junior, and
icated by the widow of < len,
uml and man
1 iw partner i lit.nl
(3). Lizzi
. ! right, named
Elisha Eld iver-
pel I till, I I first
from the ham
Buchanan a c Hawl I [Lstory of
North a prize i' i He was
killed "1 ni' his i . . M ur
.1 ud was a di the Planters Hank
at Pulaski irds of the Plat
Memphis, i i tys looked
md respon
i powerful
frame. .1 and mora and
•IMMINENT TENNESSEANS.
(inn of in i ind dishonesty. Ilis manner was
-ii'li - to repi ! indiscrinii nati familiarity bul to al
the friendship of the noble and the i I. tie bel
to a ] i w hose ([ualities are
now ;it n discount, bi by the more superfi-
cial element of popularity. It will I"1 well for 1
sec when her cl lers shall be nun stamped with
the same high • I hat gave to Jud lit the
powerful and extensive influence he exercised when
alive.
The opinions and deeri i from the Su]
bench of Tennessee by -Indue Wright, in 1 1 be found in
the Reports of Snoed and Head, and tin rsl \<d
umes of < 'oldwell.
HON. WILLIAM F. COOPER.
\ I iUVILLE.
Tl I K maternal ancestors of this gentleman w ere
ibevs of the same colon} . originally Scotch
Irish, which mi i mi South ( 'arolina
uite ;ii the commencement of the present century,
and settled in Maury county in 1 -
in detail in the memoir of Chancellor S. D. 1'r
in another part of this work. He and Chan
\V S Fleming are related to the late chancellor
our aunt her.
franklin, in William.' on county, is the placi
Cooper's birth, which to< March 11, 1820. and
in i ti t I to the permanent resi
of the clan, as it maj I, in Mauvj county. His
father was a man of education and literary
him the best education attainable in
days. 1 Ic attended school mi ri con j ears
old and then entered the class of 1834 at Vale ('
graduating there in 1838. This class comprised the
names of man} men afterwards prominent in life;
among them arc the following, the first three of whom
Joseph l> \ armim.
member of Congress from New Vork, many years in
the New Vork liCgislatu Richard S. Donncl,
member of Cot in North Carolina. (3). Wil-
liam P. Lyndc, of Milv
from Wisconsin. (4). William S. Fleming, chancellor
of the Columbia district. (5 J, Knox Walker, pri-
vate secretary to President Polk, ((i I tiin S
Edwards, of Springfield, 1 llinois, man}
that State. (7). Francis P. Blair, a general in the Fi
army during the lati
dent on the ticket n '
A fter the completion of hi
was not Mr. Ci first love, but a brief flirtation
with medicine preceded his i ourtship oi the profession
to which he was finally wedded. He studied medicine
two years at Columbia with Dr. Hayes of that city, and
took one course of lectures in the medical department
of the University of Pennsylvania, when he disci
thai law rather than medicine was his true vocation.
He thou studied law with S. If Frierson, afterwards
the celebrated chancellor, and. on admission to the bar,
became his partner. His admission to the bar w
March, 1841, Judges Vuderson and Dillahunty partici-
■ in that cercun
His partnership with hi~ i Mr, Frierson,
lasted four years, and in 1845 he moved to Nashville,
where he lias since resided. Here he became a partner
with A 0. P. Nicholson, afterwards Chief Justice of
ted to thai office 1870, died 187(5). This
second partnership lasted only one year, and he prai I
until 1851, when he became partner of the Hon.
i\ Kwing I iced with him ten years.
In 1 elected one of the judges oi the
me Court of the Stale, but the war causing the
closing of the courts, and Judge Cooper being stronglj
southern in his sympathies, William G. Brownlow, as
military governor, interdicted him froi t! exercise of
Ills ofl
Returning to the bar. he formed a partnership sue
ccssively with Judge Robert I.. Caruthers and with his
brother, Henry Cooper. This latter gentleman was
elected United Slates Senator in 1870. After two
gain removed from the bar by
haucellor of the Seventh, or Nash-
ville, district, bj (low John C. Brown. He was
Mile post bj the people, and held it
till 187S, when he « d to the Supreme bench
for eight yi in this election -Judge John
L. T. Slleed, who had beaten hilll ill 1853, when both
of them were candidates for the office of attorney-
ral.
While nearly all his family connections were W
[ havi It I -'ill are 1'iv-
riaus, he has always been a D and has never
joined ail} rel ation. Neither is he a
member oi cl societ.\ . he is eminently an
pendent thinker, and not willing to be bound in his
thoughts by any organization, religious, political or
.1 ml has been successful ill life in a financial
point of view, his property 1" war amouiitiug
r one hundred thousand dollars in value. He
attribute- bis success in this respect to constant and
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
13
close attention to business, and always living within his
means. These two obsei ranei rut h i he i
tion of all success in lid . the exceptii i o rare
ami accidental thai they form no guidi
dint. Thejud
In stating the ancestry and family conn
William 1''. Cooper, Samuel l>. ! and W. S.
Fleming separately, many repetitions must inevitably
for the members of that Mi ntj colony,
several tim ied so
frequently with one another that the i of one
arc the relation- of all. His maternal grandfather was
one ol th iginal members of the colony, which
sixteen sections . with
the Presbyterian church in the middle, the first building
ip on it. and the si hool I
memoir on i thei pa eof'S. I1 Frierson]. His father,
Matthew D. ( looper, was born in 1793, in ' Ihestcr district,
South ( Carolina. Hi
of Cumberland College al Sashville, sine.- known as
the University of Nash\ i 11.-. in the same class with the
lion. John Bell, onci United
W. l'> Tut hi. lie married in
.Maury county, inklin,
ami afterwards enga business in that
town in partnership with Dr. William C. Dickenson.
In 1822 he moved i" Columbia in the mercan-
tile business till 1827 when he became a comm
merchant in New Orleans. 1
for thirty-five years, but continued to make his home
in Mam \ countj h hei e, "in il 1867, In
tanner. I le died I lea '
lie was a lieutenant ami acting captain under Jackson
in t he I Ireek war. He was a man oi
well educated and of literary tastes. His whole prop-
i lo commencement of the war vested in m .
and men bandisi
than one hundred thousand dollars, all the >
ertions, His cred igh as a business
man. From 1840 to 1862 I • was pi f the
n liia branch of the Union Bank. His
mother of Judge Cooper, was a daughter of William
Frierson, the acknowledg of the Frii
ii Maury county in
1805, and was first cousin to tl i of Chancellor
S. 1 1. Frierson. She died in 1833, at Columbia, lea
four children, v i/.. : (1). Will,.. if this
sketch. (2). Edmund, a graduate of Jackson (
Jumbia, now a lawyer at Shelbyvilli Ii
ral years a member of the State I.' both
re and since the war, and assistant - if the
i v under I 'resident Johnson. 1 3). Hen
ated al Jackson College, Columbia; for many years
practiced law in hip with bis brother Edmund,
at Shelby ville; appointed circuit judge bj Gov. Brown-
low, ami held the office three or four years, ami
wards became a professor in the law school at Lebanon;
ed tii Nashville, and practiced law there
in partnership with his : William F. : in 1869
ami I ented I >a\ idson county in th.
ted I ii i t . 1 1
rs; in
ilumbia, retun
of the law. He was killed by robbers near Culiacan,
Mexico, on Februar, I. 1884, while returning from a
silver miii' lountains. ( 1 1. .Mar Judge
Cooper'.- only full -i ..| fr0m the Columbia
Female Ins rid married Richard S. Sansom, a
! where his
still resides. 1 le was i member of the
i -I it me : i, Idren : Edmund, who
i lied a i when twenty yen- old. Cevantha, Uich-
ard, Maryand William. JudgeCooper'shalfbrothersand
sister- i : .. I ' presi nted Maury and
Williamson counties in ihe Legislature of 1881 82
(2) lerk in a government offii
5). Martha Ami. Alice and Emma
tie Columbia Female Institute, and
are living in that city unmarried nil. Eloisc gl
-1. ami man ied A. W. Stocli
lawyer and edit I with
the .i !. and residing at Nashville.
1 7 i F innie, died th I Mil net eaving
du - eemoter paternal ancestors migrated
from Tyrone county, in I •■ i n h of Ireland, considerably
I ilutionary war. Thi of Scotch
[rish derivation. Ai ig them we find a great grand
father who died in South Carolina al the age of one
humli nally an Irish weaver, hut
iii this country The J ml e i ndfather, by
Made a blacksmith, was a captain in Sumnerls brigade
during the Revolutionary war. IF ... handsome
man. and n. match with a Miss Hamilton,
daughter of a rich Philadelphia merchant, who had a
brand. I menl al Mobile. She was a lady highly
ted and o baracter. She edu-
her own children, and in 1803, after her husband's
ii all in a carryall to Nashville, and
i iii Davidson i ar the old town of 1 '
5hi
in Mississippi at the age of ninety tin- Sh gave
birth to and raised twelve children, of whom Matthew
I)., the .1 ud I or. wa- ii est The
number of her distinguished descendants is a < Grma-
li (' the general belief that intellectual qualities
generally descend in the female Hue. J
mother was also descended Prom Scotch [rish ancestors
who emigrated from the north of Ireland.
Dm lt the d u.i era
ing in Europe, chiefly in England, Scotland and Switzer-
land, visiting also the cities of Koine. Naples, Paris.
Berlin, Vienna, Trieste and Venice. He has published
three vulin ports of ca ed in his own
II
Toihh
In'-
S
IHItl «
ink of
I'KOMINKN r TKXNKSSK ^NS
An '• i>, compactly built,
pounds . has
lli> mol |uick.
eon versa
1 1 is
the nio.-i promi-
TUOMAS 11. OOLDWELL.
- I V I 01 v
He
-
-
,:il ot the S I Re| 'ter of the.
and in M i) the
serving
fen volumes of the
I
it pan of his \
w hili entered ;i
lie to the Supreme
out of the
which, in ths summary
nany of his
if the
M thod-
- the M
He 1
-
iinty
-
-
ritral
Tenm
of the
which tron-
J
well i
in tli' ; L the
II. i- DOW
ll<:
if the
ion held ii
nit of tin;
In .
Coldv
appoited comm
the Centennial
He i
on man; of thi tni]
lent of thi
jr II e
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He
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r and
■
He
I
firm i.'
I '■] . M .
who
;an.
HENRY CRAFT.
'■in.
times an in their
ili-tin'
nd ii is i'i hod to the
61 himself, Ion i in virtue
if the
different i
I., i the readi i with the
!, now pi i him tli.,
of Col. I. Houl He will thus find,
!i in hi-: i '•or is
ikful-
but diffei
other of t !.
It I. have
IM10MIN i'\ r ti:w KSSK \xs
II.-
it has boon ili.
i>t' tli
tin. mi
1
In IS -
'■
S
■
- 11
V.. £
CI ■■ .. \ N '
I ribu table
illl ;l know
His mot bod in law
h .1
il rii Itor than
nil
i I'ailuro.
mrts, his
ill with my on the
i nt
tli ' Shiloh, but retired from th vith
orable dis i health,
it h.
In ' ', n io the war.
bill has
er token
\ er bold
li nbi r of
lut-
he I'um-
md an elder in the con-
I itlj
nplanted
ambition beyond
e of his
the
ami all
ive ;
life as a pi
He i -tally
iitment in
if the So .it.
li family, who
stern
. in
■ li from his un.
w
- at
ant
L
> C *7K^r?
PROMINENT TENNKHSKANS.
17
I merchant till the , i when
be fa to Holly Spi
Bere he was a land id died in
He wan a si pic) < i ian of the old
urcli work I hat of thi
school.
Judge Craft married in Nashville, No 1856,
M i Ella D. Bodd of Elijah Bodi
Sumner count] ] inent f '<in
inty, frequently in the I.
tun The
Boddice area well known North Carolina family
mner county. Mrs.
Craft - brother, Charles E Boddie, i- a farmer in Hum
ner county. Her istei Elizabeth B widow of William
I!. Elliston i Maria is
ife of Carrington M rings,
. now an Memphis, and
anothi Mar) , is the wife of Rufus K.C
of II' Her mot her, Maria Elli
an il I county fami] lly from
Carolina. Her uncle Col with < ten.
on at New Orleans, and a noted stock raiser and
turfman of Sumnt r i educated at
the old Nashville Female Academy, under Dr, Elliott,
and is noted for bei retiring
tastes and habits, and ber intense religious devotion.
By 1. itli this lady, J ift has had
sis childri
!■'., born 1 361, (3) Henry, born
a young the name
which be inherits. CI). Charles Kortrecht, born in
deceased. (5). Paul, born 1870.
born '
Judge t'ral'i had one full sister, Martha C. widow of
i. now deceased I!', hi
marriage were born five otl
Mr. Richard Venahle., now di
of Holly Sprin Mississippi I ! , now
in M< • imb pi. ( it. Stella, widow of
•I B. Hill, no ly Springs, Mi sippi. (5).
Helen, wife of Prof. Anderson, at Hollj - 1
pi.
Jud nal grandfather, John Pitts, m
to Hai 15. He and al
Methodi Hancock
t hat II ugh I lary E. ]
of which ii
lady was born In I7'J9, and ed I lill
North Carolina. She ninently devoted Mi
The Pitts family have all
farmers and Method
baptized by Mr., afterwards Bishop, Capers. N s of
them
inond I i Methodist prcachi I ict ion
i hem politicians except Pe ton T,
f Mi II ugh < 'raft, v, ho, at one time,
In the < icorgia Legislat urc.
1 drcd, on both
IIOII-
II. Init making it their chief aim to keep their
void of • and man. and
to bring ii|
of the Lonl.
.1 ud h ilar ;
eading ha thoroughly dige ted
and assimilated an intrinsic element
in his into,
of quo bought « hich pours
1 of illusl i he undei
to elucidate ; tl, light from his
tored inti : I warmth from his inl
mora' It diffei a from th
petuous declamation of the stump orator a
away
the
and bear ;hted flccl
mercc on it- bosom. Hi «pi ech on the Sunday law is
in point, wherein I whatever
her divine or human, «
o \ no rii of the A n
W'lia' ii- capa-
iuii of hi
by the beaut) and translucent i of his rhel
known in Tel) i good man, a
;
nan.
HON. 8AMUEL DAVIE8 FRIERSON.
' OLUMJiJA.
PERHAPS no community contributed more to the
honor and wi i
first half of the pr< iry than Maury county,
ii and bar a I Wright, a
i a Flemin Church the two i minent
prelates, Bisho] 0 "I Polk ; to th nd to
scienc tin- arm- of her country a Pillow,
a Brown and a Polk; to the capital of the United
the men
i.i- community « ill now be i
IS
IM10M1NKN r ri'WI'ssi: \\s
:
s
l tho
:it ho
-
-
-
-
*
.lull of :! nil II IVesidotl
tho I
II,' •
\\ illiiuii I!. I .1 him i.' till the
m l>y the
- to the >!.
letily, like that of liis fiither.
II. ■ in
>r{ tiino oontiimed to hold liis
I I heen
hoi v iroh 11 . lSiio. look
• at tho ri
■lol 1. ll-.lil ;l
md died that
ii menibei ureh.
His
usrh ho li friendship for
ih.
ntial
ilio war the
ui whieh the beneh
rally
him
i - tho
nty,
'oluuibia
h n
i
not
-
ss and
-
Inn.
■
-
■
kiu-
-
■
PltOMINENT TK.NM
V.t
Jt vv'al wit ■
that li.
and, ' '
coming
than the H<>
memory
l<y whom ln<: i
virtu1
Iti order r.h:it ire iijay pi
and tr .it i«
■ tbc next
entered on their rei
the pro-
people of thi mm pie of as honest and g
eedingi
m.
published in the
Callum, Joi
circuit and
county eov
Mr. Whiteon, Maj. Ri lirown
■: bar relative to the public and private
James McCallum, '
Natiia» Adam?,
Chancellor W. 8. Fleming, who aidcl in
pilation of this mem< in referen
procei :'l of tlii- excellent
man more gratifying to hi niplinient-
t r j • - profession in which hi wat a shining light,
or more honorable i" the bench which h<: adorned by
rig, his impartiality and hi
integrity?"
*******
\ - the i of both bodily and
iction with the
author of these memoirs, and
with a family which n many illu
Tenm
' >f Samuel Fi r • > f ' 1 1 1 < • < lhancellor,
irried
Sarah Wilson in 17-7. who was a member of that Wil-
which emigrated from South Carolina at the
time with her husband.
-
i
who )■
tch-Irish
ith the A i
at Ki.'
I
:
whom
J married < li
J liege,
larried M
Pbilli
commission mi i
child) L Lucira
of the Chancellor, i
I .liua.
I
married M
f John F. Moi -
1 dvin Mi
of Knoxville. John F.
John and ,;am
■ William
ville. mnty.
from
Ireland. Willi rwards at
ille, an') .Jam re he
■
tor from I.
lucated in Her
rial grandmothi amed Wil-
liam I' -one.
Lue vitli Mi-- Mi
born
June born
Align jr., horn March
nuary
26, 18!
l>u<-
Lodgi * lommander of
DeMol
il with the banking inl
Columbia.
I'ROMINKN I' TKNNKSSK l\s
COL. KOHEUT l-O-H-NSTONE CHESTER.
- \
C01- IUM5KUT I I'll KSTKl!
tuarkable for I
tioldiau manners, his ehi ■.
lor el
eount\ , Pennsylvania, .lul >d, iill
tin- age of twoi
in IVoembi
old field -.
under the lute
Ho « w I'1'11
\ '.
■ m'ii.
IK vehni
Kenni
- uiuel
x fhird ■ into
\
;i. commenced bu
lihea count} , in w hieh tl
le M
deelai
hi Jul)
for merch
the firm name et Robert I. i
business and 1 •
made him
mill on K
lu
■ vii\ uf -tuil iiiii
luitrter.
1 1 .1
. turned to Jackson
May I ud deputy
i- for the \\ tistriet, which latter gave him
ipportuuil ■ i speculate in I
Hi' lias been ell
'.nils.
> at night w ife,
inis until
both m their industry and i Reiug
: n men ill
built the Presbyterian ohurob
le Institut i)d in
form
In ISCiT President \ appointed Col. Chester
I irshal for ennes-
ned undci iuiin-
!. with three
administration. During
arried about him a
trouble in the
His high standing
in this ed in letters, still in his
n and
man eould
nade a
His
State is f the
The
em-
When ■.
- fifty
all of
rt IV Hurl
-
.re iu
!
U'l
1 -71 ~ii I i the mi in!.- 1 ■ of ( i
M - Pn id il I
.ifi-. Col. * 'In -i' r, then
Polk :
" I ho
wanted tomi I liin iod I
lial.ii Tho ii h tn
A mon
and colli ' long life
int. 1 1
with lii
and d I thi
him.
What a bonanza of ii lie would
i
in politic
campaign and
I'n, in I
■
1
t.i; Wa
land and Hendrick
man he -'hi in'" thl
lip of paper. Mr. ' !leveland
hull a
glad • If an
hour ' ion, Mr. '
tur Ii
- the oh I
I nil'
V Hi
Knit'lit Templar, Ii
I
■I < 'ouncil
Tennessee. II der in ti.
church, which
He mai i 3
'•I i i
^ 1 1 * ' • '.r Mi ■ '
-mi. Her in'. ili' . ...■ -I
of Col. John I '
died in N
She wae a beautifu
tian, and
I
honoi
children, Aphis I
I
■
;. tin:
whom I l/ut
ilitili:
mplar
I
arried
I
—\ Dr. L.
April
John,
1
i. I)
Ella
I
bland
in the
torn April 10,
' child, I.
M.
■
rank W
Her m
l
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
i Welshman, born in Limerick, Ireland, He
came to Pennsylvania, and was quartermaster in the
Pennsylvania line in the Revolutionary war ; after the
war a United States revenue officer. He m;
Klizabeth Patterson, of Latark, near Carlisle P
vania. He had lour children: (1). Dr. William Pal
terson Chester, who moved in 1793 to Jonesborough,
Tennessee: Ins wife was \li-s Mary Adams; died a
m rj old man (ninety John Blair, a
:r el' ( longress of some dist inetion, marric
■ lin. father of the snbji
this sketch, was raised a coppersmith; married Mary
Greer, in Carlisle. Pennsylvania. She was lie
id' Samuel and Rebecca I freer. Samuel ( ireer was born
in Dublin, Ireland, and was in the Revolutionary war.
John Chester moved to Jonesborough, Tenner
1796; became a farmer and trader: died in ]x:;i>, in
Hawkins county, Tent settled the phi
as Bowling Green, near Jonesborough; was a man of
great energy, self-sustaining and successful; of
common sense, without the finish of an education.
(.'!). Richard, a silversmith: married in Met '.da
town, Pennsylvania, to a Dutch woman and
childless. (4). Maty, married an Irishma
William Contiell, a merchant at Huntingdon, Pennsyl-
vania, and i family. ( !ol. * 'h
grandmother, Elizabeth Patterson, lived with her
daughter Mary, at Huntin ter the death of her
md. Her two sons, William and John, being in
Tennessee she rode horseback by herself seven hun-
dred miles to see them when she was fifty
old, and returned, after a few months, in the same way.
She died at Jonesborough in 1810. It will thus be
seen thai the Chester family on both -ides are long
lived.
All of Col. Chester's sous, John, Robert, William li.
and Samuel, and his grandson, li. Bon in the
Confederate army, and fought through the war. Jehu
commanded the Fifty-first Tennessee regiment, and
was in most of the hard foughl con the war in
the \\ i Perr>"\ tile he lost one hun-
dredandsi ded and had his horse
killed and bat shut through at Murfreesborough. At
the battle of Chickamauga Gen. Bragg put him into t he
medical corps, ' I can make generals, hut I
can't make doctors.' ^fter the Chickamauga fighl he
and ('el. John 1". House and Gen. Poj5e Walker were
tiir the Anny of Tennes-
ind he held that posil ion until the .1
war. William l>. Chester was marshal to that court.
The Chesters and the < irecrs were in the Revolution,
and in every war since — a feailcssh brave people.
II)'. John Chester, the second child and eldest sun uf
; '< whom brief reference is made in the
family record, was a man of mosl am
traits of character, high and in whose lih was
and useful actions a- to deserve mure
than a luei i notice in I di. I le died at
hi, eii dune ). 1877, of small-pox, which di
traeted in performing a charitable operation on a
nnian He wa sful physician and skillful
is at all times as ready to obe; the calls of
whom he knew could never pay his fees, as of t
whom fortune had showered her gifts. An
intimate personal friend, the editor of the Jackson
Whig Km/ Tribune., writing en the occasion id' his
death, said of him: "Tie i suuviter in modo in
and an electricity in his pleasant faci
cheerful, witty word* which, it is proverbial, were sun-
in the chamber of tl rid thrilled the suffer-
of the patienl with something like the glow of
health as soon as he entered the sick room ; and for many
ip to the close of his career, he did a very large
and in ractici His death threw lie whole
into mourning, and the entire community ]
out its grief al the loss of one of its nobles! citizens. The
--house- were closed and dt mourning,
and the ] pie, with one accord, assembled to commemo
I uesofthedistinguised dead At thismeeting
there was a large attendance oh ladies, who felt that in
tlie death il Dr. Chestet almosl every family in the
.ad been bereaved. The meeting wat
1 1 en. V lexander W i lampbell, who appointed
the following gentlemen as a committee to give formal
expression lumunity on the sad
occurrence, viz. : B. A. Knloe, chairman, II. W. I taynes,
Thomas S. Vincent, Rev. Iv McNair and d. L. II.
Tomlin. The committee submitted the follo.wing
The Id bly thai is here to-day portray.-, in a manner
tent til. ui language can express, the heavy affliction that
has fallen upon this community. The sail whispering of ovcry
is, that "Dr. John Che d;" the noble man, the
sincere triend, the disinterested philanthropist, the pure Christian,
g embalmed himself in all hearts l»y his ui
ish anil pic eminent life ol usi words that we can now
employ could add anything to the universal sense of our great
loss. H omplete and well rounded in every
i of life, that the moment we touch it or attempt to express
our appreciation of what he was, we are burdened with a
of our inability to tell what is keenly felt by all, and is far more
vividly spoken by the dark pall which hangs over us to-day.
" Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, the end
peace," Dr. John < 'he -ter was horn in tin.' city of Jackson,
May IS, 1827; was educated in West Tennessee College, where he
i his first honorai - he graduated he
■ onded t t1 mtry, then engaged in war
with Mexico. Uaving served his country with distinguished gal
lantry, I to his hotm a the
en i o of los lite. In the late war he igain found
ho knew him
well, ai ro with him in the conflict, is that a braver heart
1 upon thi i han his. While
affectionate companion in social life, he rose to the dignitj
I rei rei :e of a
the prudoni a a of a father ; as
' -n lie was over a. par' physician, he manifested the
• professi to which he died a martyr;
the magic inspiration of his faultless manner he eneour-
PROMIN BNT TEN N ESSE ANS.
23
aged, comforted and blesied his patients, and demonstrated his
own greatness and the influence of a great, mind aud character.
Reaolved, That in the death of Dr. .John Chester suffering
humanity has lost a nohle benefactor, whose ear was ever open to
the call of distress as his h:;nd was willing to tender relief: society
one of its brightest members; the medical profession one of its
noblest and most devoted exponents; the church a true and tried
member, whose life was a living witness to the beauty of Christian
charity; the State a self-sacrificing and disinterested patriot; the
world a man whose character justified the declaration that "an
honest man is the noblest work of God."
Resolved, That wo, the citizens of Jackson and Madison county,
in mass meeting assembled, do, with one voire, give this expres-
sion of our sense of the loss we have sustained in the death of a
citizen so eminent and useful in all the walks of life, and we heg
leave to tender to his bereaved family our profoundest sympathies
in this hour of their deep distress, and to join our prayers witli
theirs that the love of a merciful Father may bring the consolation
of the Christian's hop'- to heal the stricken hearts of his family
and friends.
The preamble ami resolutions were adopted by a
rising vote, every person in t in- vast assembly, many of
whom were in tears, voting in the affirmative. Eloquent
and heartfelt tributes to the memorj of Dr. Chester
were also adopted by all tin1 Masonic bodies of Jackson,
the Ancient Order United Workmen and the Knights
of Honor, of all which he was an active ami zealous
membei
HON. JACOB THOMPSON.
\n \IPMS.
THIS gentleman, like a great many prominent
Trim. --rans. was lioni in North Carolina. His
fa'her seems to have combined the business of a tannery
and harness factory with agriculture on a considerable
scale. The subject of this sketch was born in Caswell
county, North ( 'avolina. May 111. 1810,-and was one of
eight children, six male and two female. His education
up to fourteen years of age was obtained in the com-
mon schools of the county, and then he was placed at
the Bingham Academy in Orange county, at that lime
quite a renowned school. After a preparation hi re of
three years, he was entered at the University of North
Carolina, where he graduated in 1831. The graduating
class of that year consisted of thirteen si udents, nearly
all of whom became distinguished in after life. Among
them were Chancellor Calvin M. Jones, of Tennessee,
Judge James Grant, of Iowa, the Rev. W. W. Speare
and Dr. Steadman of the Episcopal and Presbyterian
churches respectively, the latter of whom died at Mem-
phis, and Prof. Hooper, now of the University of
North Carolina. That he had acquired the -nod opinion
of the faculty was proved by his appointment as tutor
in tlie University on the day of his graduation. This
office lie held for eighteen months, when lie left the
University and entered the law office of Judge Dick, of
G-reensborough, North Carolina, as a law student. In
1834 he obtained his first license, and his second in
1835. The former authorized him to practice in the
lower courts of the State and the latter in the higher.
The same year (1835) he -emigrated to Pontotoc,
Mississippi, where he commenced practicing, ami con-
tinued to do so successfully till 1839, when he Was
elected to Congn -- For the Northern District of Miss-
issippi. He served uninterruptedly in Congress for
'twelve years, hut in 1851 was beaten by Mr. 1!. D.
Nab irs, a Whig clergyman. Ii was'during this canvass
that .Mr. Thompson made one of his characteristic
humorous speeches. He commenced. "Gentlemen, I
have now been your Representative in Congress for
twelve years and understand all the routine of business
there, and have ustained all the impressions which
the life in Washington City is capable of making upon
a man's character ami morals. Now, if you send Mr.
Nabors there, you will spoil a good prearher and make
a very poor Congressman, and I confidently predict
that if you do send him there he will never preach
again. I know the influence that society at the capital
has upon new men.' Nabors was elected and the pre-
diction was verified — he never preached again.
To go hack a few years, when Polk was elected I'ns
ident, in 1844, Gov. Brown of Mississippi appointed
Mr. Thompson United States Senator to fill some n
expired term and sent the appointment to the Secretary
of State'. Robert ■!. Walker, for some unexplained
reason Mr. Walker failed to communicate the appoint-
ment to Mr. Thompson, which is the more remark-
aide, as it was through the earnest solicitation of
Mr. Thompson that Walker was admitted to the cabinet.
()n his return to Mississippi he was1 unanimously re-
nominated by his party for Congress, and, when Gov.
Brown insisted upon his accepting his appointment as
b.i dei lined, inasmuch as he had accepted the
nomination, and was elected that fall to Congress by
the largest majority ever given to a congressional can-
didate in the Stair. Early in 1857 he was appo
Secretary of the Interior in Mr. Buchanan's cabinet,
entered upon the duties of the office in March of that
year, ami made a peculiarly favorable impression by
hi.- manner of conducting the business of the
No recommendation made by him to Con
failed of being prompt!) acted upon.
In 1861, after the agitation of secession had corn-
ed, an cent occurred productix e of much scandal
at the time, and which was made the pretext of much
IMIOMINKN l' ri'W i S! \ \
v
\ tuont,
15m ill
N
hi .ui.l
SluulkTs
been
to till'
ill,' part of till
■ iho other
li niimlotl f. Milrnu'u,
i on ilu'iu
thorn. One purpose
prisoners
ms in the x
- ih, mul ii has been
mpLitoil :iiil tn tlu'in
iously
lu-otigli tin- natural
mmil tlu'tn-
ional tu'i<
rthern
-lill
of the
limit in '
Mr,
Thou
Juriiij:
iitiino. il
s, Mr.
-
1 1 ;i \
-
I until the
Maine.
in he
rmit-
I'KO
Mi l
the C
While I '
Mr, I. iir
Thoiiipwon in j/' r ',n and infoi tn I
ampli
arid "
i i. a,
.'III'] Ol In:,'
A III', lit' ill' II,
A I''
iii Memph
Hi:
tin I.
ding both
Hi 'lii-M
At ilp- time I'
tlii: impre
little
■
Will
II
1 1
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and I
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had
rim.MINKNT TKNN KSSK \.\S
MA. I. JOHN W. CHILDRESS.
M\.i John w i in i . i > i :
i uiio 1, '
raine I I
11 III'
l
II i M urfroi
held till' a]
Whii
1
\| i Chi
Presi-
dent -1 nines K.I Dr. Win. II l!i
ne] 1'.
in his
it under Uev. Hubert I
nugh. In
Carolina, it ( 'hapel 1 1 ill
i Ten
tin office K Polk,
ami remained under I.
the offici > ndcr-
I hildress, at Murf
nineteen I
as Stuart
lie MurlVi
bu ma, and
-. hut
in a
lit of ill health, being threatened w i .
,1 his lite, with the linn i thrill -
In 1855, Andrew -I idinson, then t
in the
I i li.' iw I ii ill inn was in a
< if i ho
lifleen din I tun
\ i livill
Col. John Mi <■ Min. When the Plant-
1 died a hraucli at M ur-
'' I ■ Chili .at the r I .Mr.
-itioti with
tl draw n
■'
.1. lie was line!
i . i until the haul
f Vlurt'ree
lircctor of that banl until
n . Mr. Kin
and ten
so inn " count <>f incr
id was sueeeeded by Mr I'.. I.. Jordan, whose
in this voltune. Durill
me
wed a dollar to
'I. and in ■
i OUgllt. I le Was also
: a director of the Nashville. Chatta-
llailroad, serving in thai capacity
years in all, and in both instances the
il houl pre i ' i t hi ii hi.
■ • it. and lived a
in« his first vote for Andrew
IS2S. I lr i.i'\ cr In ical office
"k a lively
Ii principle, patriotism, ami on
his friends. In 1848 he wa ate to
Baltimore,
lent,
in June, 1831,
h, to Miss Sarah Williams, daugh-
r in Ruth
Philip Philips, of Pennsylvania, a largo land
• here were
mi • M, V\ent.
I mother of
. w ho mar-
if Dr. Ben. W, nd died in
Klisha, who ei
fennessee
' \\ :n B Bate, and died
if Shiloh. I t) John \\ ..
\ Ii and junior
Iress; mar-
PROMINENT Tl. HANS.
27
ried Mi Wai L Di Jami
Lyon, an eminent Pi
count; I ilum-
and for ten or in the
' I . ■
there an three children. At the beginning of tin
■ adel al I he vVi stern Military I
Nashville, and left th>
• in a- drill Ibi rl
Sidni n, and joined th< command the d
fore thi battli ; I ; i ' '■ ■
On
with the rank of lieutenant, and held thai rank until
the battle ol Bentonville, win ptain.
( >n i hi ions durin
menl
nt of the in v. regiment. < !apt. < 'Id)
lirmau of thi
Democratii
wife John '
ii the
the mother of four children
of tin;
war al the ■■<■- f fifteen ; aft< i I Vlollie,
the ds f Hon. Edwin A I
borough, at oni
the Tenni of the
Confederal
man
and in i >ci
•hilipB,
daughter of Jm h Philips, of E
ty, uncle of the first Mrs. Childi
j of 1812, and at the
of that v.. in [llinoi le the
i ritory of Illinois, and «
t he Bupi i
firs! married in lllin
i l.i- Peo]
He
died in Rutherford count;
eond mat riage Maj. I
children: (1). William, a farmer of Ruthi
ICS! Wad.
Wad.
helley
< 'all-
vo childn
Smith i
ueral of the V trict ;
I his
mcmbei church; but he
ligation,
with but little of
and '
ti> the front. 1 1 dealt on a cash 1
prop-
wners
in Etui home when iIhj
terized the
1 l.i- earlier manhood was brought to bi
Maj. I'll
in iin.iii' i
l,j. f,.]),,v. i iherish the memory of his
GEN. ALEXANDER W. CAMPBELL.
JACl
THE subject of this sketch was born in the city ol
Nashville, June I. 1828 ' d, on
the !
the north of Ireland, in 1--'-"' nettling first in Lani
count; I
Ann ! mdfather, with
of the same colony, afterward* moved from
Ami I n Virginia u the
ow embraced in Wasl ind Wythe
William Campbell,
was born in Wythe i ^ i
A ash-
w hen ' born, in i i
Willi , in of Col
1
PROMINENT TENNESSE W>
who fell in the Revolutionary battle of Hut
William Can;; lie time one of the
merchant* lianies. his
business eonnei - 1 the
Ohio I \ important
basin, >• n the t >hi The
• tinaneial
I his fortunes that he r
from commercial pursuits ami accepted the
ntendent of the mineral lands \A' the Nortl
tendered him is hi- intimate
ial ami political friend, bis boa- - being
. ilena. Illinois. Whili here the
ut, and lu
maud volunteers from tl £ F 1 111-
Whi'.e the father of youth
William Cam pi to the
Greeu mtry, in Kentucky, and made bis home
in Greeneville, where lu d the first bank in
that part oi' tin S which bo made his son, then
only nineteen years obi. the cashier. Aftera eonsidera-
ither's
bank, the father of (ion. Campbell, who had
ry educati kinsville, Kentucky,
entered Pickii - Pennsylvania, from which
In the meantime,
Campbell had u "x - which place bis
ire. and studied and
comm
in the study and practice of '
Peyton,
lleun \ W is . l'\ in \'.' • n and
Fran 527 Miss
Jane K. Porter, da;.- m ler Porter,
the pioneer merchai - Nash' re bo bad
well . - n. in which bis
talon; ellent training pron -
i nion bank was chartered, and thei
w who bad an
iugh isitiou
in w est Tennessee, to which point bo i and
533, bis
_ family i S tuber.
He i of the afl bank lor
when bo retired and d
himself to bis planting interest, dealing larj
wild lands in V- his planta-
tion.
and one sister. The former, ] boll, lived
for many years at Ashport. Ti d in plaut-
milyof children, an
which plaoo 1 Paducah, Keutuck
pre\ ■ il war. 1 1
57
married firs - muel K. Campl
Lieuteuaut < b orgi NY,
McGehei \Yesl Point, who
t an earl) S rwards married Mr. John
Siddnll, of Illin died of yi r in New
Orleai - with her only child.
Johu 0 McGehee, in ( 'oncn
The maternal grandfather of impbell, \
auder Porter, was born in Ireland, and first settled at
di. in K where he married
5 isan Massengill. While living at Jouesborough,
the Irish rebellion out, and his eldest
brother. Rev. J tor. a Presbyteriau minister,
oue time i liemistry in the Universi
Dublin, became involved in the troubles of the country,
which determined him to return to his native island to
look after the welfare of bis relatives. Hi- brother
i • • i ■ a charge of treason, convicted and
•d. His youuger brotl I and William,
n making their escape from the country.and
came to America with him. He afterwards brought
over ' Alexander and
James
ert diod unmarried. His brother William first lived at
Carthago, in Smith county, from which plaoo he re-
. to Maury county, where lu died, leaving throe
children, Louisa. Man and William. Louis:! married
John Morgan, and Mary married Samuel Mayes, mer-
chants ubia. William Porter, jr., died during
the civil war. leavinga widow and several children
uloi- and dan Rev.
James Porter, both road law while living with the grand-
father of Gen. Campbell, in Nashville, and after tl
quisition of the territor) siana by the United
I there and commenced the
their <
eruuii exander v
the the Supi t. and bis brother
; Attorney-General. They both ens
,nired la xan-
iio State ot' Louisiana in the
Senate of the United S intimate friend
of Henry ('lay. Hi- only child, a daughter, married
Mr. A South Carolina.
. young, leaving no children. Thi
James Porter, and now living in
Attak isiana. Alexander P
. married Mr. Allison, who loft, surviving her,
,udor All ! Irew Alii-
\ ■ • noil,
maternal grandfatl
r, and his S Mas --ill. bad seven chil-
dren, to-wit : James A. Por
married Robert NY I niar-
I John W.
Campbell, bis 0 illiam
r first
man ■ lly Ann M
he had oue child, Ca J Porter, now living
PROMINENT TENN1
in X:i.-]i\ ille, Hi- econd wife
is also living in thai oil VI rs. Matilda Green died in
l-.'!l in Decatur, Alabama, and left linn- children,
■ i Jane, A lexandi and Matilda
I'., nil of whom arc dead except the last, wl o married
< W. A rin in \ bi
] I I lliza, the mother "I ( len. ( lampbell
in December 1849, i i children, viz.: Alexan-
der W., Susan Ann. Ann Matilda, Pei Porter,
.lane Eliza. Cynthia Roberta Mary Madeline, John
-•it Porter,and Allison Woods. Ann Matilda
Pi nclope Poi
Sterling, died in L872, leavii < P.
and Carrie M ; John Jami was killed at the bal
Shiloh when n rt and Allison
died in L850, ■ •! in Nashville; Jane Eliza
ried Dr. Preston I!. Scotl , of Lot
where she now resides ; the othei ■ I
the exception ol Mary, whose home i- in \\
City.
The subject of this sketch n is primary and
riate training at I he -I ai ' m Male \ i
Wt st Tennessee Colleg nd 1 i ation
in the law department of Cumberland University, at
Befori entering the law school he had pur-
sued his 1 i more i ban a year under the
late Judge A. W. 0. T
On January 13, 1852, he married, at Lebanon, Mi^s
Ann Dixnn Allen, a native of Nashvilli ir and
only child of Dixon Allen, a lawyer, who
;uished himseli of a most bril-
liant c
Mrs. ( lampbell'e grandfather, Col. V lien.
il thy merchant of Carthage, wi I terms
a member of ' ' -n; his district. 1 1
was a daughter of George W. Gibbs, who
Sparta
Y>-I,ville about 1*12, where I,
land bolder and as a la dii il the
hi ad of his profession in i : artment.
a native of Germany, who came
earlj li: ttled in East
nessee as a farmer. Mrs. Campbell ofJoseph
\V. Allen, a retired banki h\ ille. I
first married Judge William L. Brown, of
one of the leading lawyei - wards
Be the wif a Allen, and after his death
married the fat lampbell. Mrs. Campbell
red her education at the Jackson I titute,
and the Columl I graduated
at both of these schoi Is. She i- a lady of finished edu-
cation, fine literary taste, am
know] looks. Ber acquirements in this r<
thorough irate as to enable hi
ready referenc for her husband whi
recur to a forgotb n quota-
She is noted for her devotion to the dut
n .ill the i h
i ember of the Epi
churcl
i ily.
In 1
upon
I ii 1 -'.V i ied a
tinned until the breaking out of the civil war. II
appointed I Initi
nted in i He
ition in 1 - K
aide
Campbell's record during the civil wai
; nit of the
and bclii ■ the pol
doctrines and COnstil ill l ' I ht by
the immortal author of the Declaration of [ndi
and his ■ rary, Mr. '-
the tl'i
l.osii ion of the relal
incut and the Suite,-, he did not hesitati ineiit
upon which side he should taki 1 when the war
I. < )n the first call
.n of the
South, he enro If as a private in the Inde-
ion, which
part of the Sixth T
rvice,
Assistant
■al in tie nal army i '
time in ii.
izing the West
GF, and
remained on staff duty until ' ' year,
when he « ii ty third Ti n
The first battle in which he v
6t h and 7th of
April, IHti.!. whi If for
gallant hat fought in I
the field. At this battle Gen. Campbell
h the left arm, shoulder,
, i. but did i I
in the fi'-d1' ded in the right foot, am
his horse killed under hi. the head of his
the battle of Perryville, fought on the Huh
and 11th of October. 1863, where hi ightly
in the thigh. At the battle of Mu
OIIL'll.
that
eed in
ii of a portion of Middle
Tennessee, with headqua
.ted until Jul; n < ien. 1 •
nd fell ba II.
was then sent to West T
.'ill
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS
1 ty. in
u Septeu lie rii' i il
Island until September 16. IN64, i day,
when he was taken with othei nl and ex-
changed While a prisoner al Johnson's Island, the
authorities at 11 m inf'orii
li npture, promoted him to (he rank ol
General. Alter his
ed to dun
brigades, and served in that command until the surren-
der of i !en. Forrest's t n i ille, Ala
May ."). L8G5.
This brief record ■
hell in the war between the Si intent.
It ulls the simple stor.\ -
duty, and w lin had made up his u
sary, in its aceomplishment. It is if any man
is pri |
in any business or p intil he ha
to himself affiriuativi Can you die
it' duty call.- in the 1 r calling '.'
Tlii- quest in tin affirmative, all the
troubles im
111. HI
The war over, ttpbell returned to his home
at Jackson, and took n i • the
in partnership with \V. < >. T
ili nl' tin
• ' 18G7 H until
IS70 when he associated will U. \V. McCorry,
formerly a law student under him, and practiced with
him until IS75. when he formed a partnership with
Hon. Howell K. Jackson, with win I until
.1 udge Jackson ; uate,
in 1881, After this lie v dnirt time in partner-
ship with John I.. Brown, but since April. 1883, he has
practiced alone. During his ; d career he has
taut bank-
brity in the
*
uum i mention of them here.
Although he ha id lucrative practice,
i i .! brtable circum-
i of wealth
Besides beir
with almost the entire support of two or thn
he has paid twenty thousand dollars of his father's
His ni"' li life has been " Be honest ;
.my. and let 1 1 lences take care of
( ien. t 'ainpbell has alw i a marked de-
i he community in
which he has spent his life. Jackson has been his
iiu Nashville, in
1833, when he « I le « as mayor of I be
city i president of thi Bank of Madison
from -Tune, 1866, to February, IS81 ; was a director in
the M id compari ; n 368 to
to 1872; and is a director in the Jackson Gas light
ny. In 1868, in New York, and in 1876, at St.
Louis, he i "in Tennessee to the National
In 1S70, he was a deb
from Madi
"ii the judiciarj committee of that
body, of which the late Chief Jus n was
chairman. IK served as
specia i the Supreme b he State.
Campbell is a man of span build, with keen
black eyes ami a face and forehead the
with 1 1 f thought. His niin
: and whih
bilities, he has about him tha
I
in the words,
•■us."
By his marriage with Miss Allen have been born six
children: (1). Dixon Allen: died in infancy,
ted at Jackson Female Institute:
married I ' of Union City, Ti
iniied to death iii 1S77, by her clothing accident-
ally taking fire. (3). Anne. Mien; educated at Jackson ;
married W. K. Mcintosh, a merchant and general
southern freigh ' icsapeake and Ohio
railroad company; has one child, Campbell. (4).
W : born due Katharine Fi
mder W.
HON. ARCHELAUS M.
Mi >Ni ! the nii n uished lav county
HUGHES.
J~\ the bar of Columbia famous during the middle
of the pres illiant
than that of \ . M '
He in Stokes county, North Carolina,
nber 21, 1811. His t'atlu r ha\ iug moved to Maury
n 1828 teen years oi
in. and that county has been his home
lie was principally educated at the Patrick
Henry Academy, Henry county. Virginia, where he
studied two years.
After leaving school he engaged in teaching at Cedar
PROMINENT TENNE6SEANS.
31
Springs, then in Maury county, but whic
included in th< Marshall, and was
lerk in the firm of Frier
on for fou 1 !■• then
rdner Friersou in mercantil This
12, hut did
no< pn isful.
II had itely studying law in his 1
lently
looked forwai d to 1 And
almost nil our lawyers wl
in their pi
era! busin
r in othei them
])r:i(-t itb the
knowledge which
; in a profession which brings men in ci
ict « ili bi ill its forms.
Hi
study of law iii
-
thirtj Dillahunty. He comm
practice at Columbia, which has been his
, and where he still occasionally take- part in
the conduct of importan
In 1847 I I for Columbia
judicial circuit, and a
half after this the constitution was changed, and he
thrown oul of office, but
holding the ther I'm- thirt Be
pre-
when tli ;' the
astitution of 'I nded him
to private pract
district attorney ui intment from Presi-
dent ■
Hi- was a Whig before the war. and was m
candidate for political office except in 1861, when he
looted as a Union delegate to the constitutional
ntion by the counties of Maury and Willian
but the convention n iwn by the
peo]
' loan.
and has attended nearly all the State con'
trty, and received many ballots for nomination as
blican candidate for governor in the convent
1881, He attended as an alternate the cor
mati which Dominated Mr. Hayes for president.
Educated by Methodist pari nts, he j<
ian church about L848, all h from
the time that he fin lumbia having been
11. became a Mason at -. and
Knight Templar He has been thi times
Grand Master of t! is the
oldest grand ma-tor in it. He has bi
II
In the ] Judge 1 1
-fid. having built up a !
fortune by his own unaided exertions; he 1.
his children a fin
His methods in the conduct ol life, d by
hin ildren, at
He m
■i ulation other in
than tl m. The higl
hundred The
his life ha I her
in private While
eral he did lonvicl the guilty,
is influeni
- much his duty to let the innocent
fn the guilty. In tale,
indicted on a criminal cl he thought,
I the
at in favor of her whioh was granted by
1 tillahunty with ah ttor-
ral.
.1 mi-
Hi- first man
h <;.. daughter of
Thomas B ful farmer oi a Virginia
family. 1 1 Martin, d
Matt. .Martin, now deceased. The first Mrs.
Hughes' grandmothi f Rachel Clay, and
sin of Henry Clay, of Kentucky.
By his first marriage, Judge Hughes has had two
children: (1 ). I I in her thirteenth
ih, graduated at the Columbia Female
Institute, and is still lit
firsi Mrs. Hughes died in 1- hind
ri putatio
hiL'h moral elevation and all the accomplishments of a
finished lady.
Ili- -■ cond m Bed rd county.
Mattie B.,
John L. Neil] . who was in the war of
1812, captured December 23, and a prisoner till after
ttli of \ 1815. Her mother and
he first Mrs. I '
being • of Capt. Matt. Martin, menti
By his second marriage the Judge has five children
A. M. I1ul; Sidney,
is a lawyer by proi dum-
2 William Neill Hughes, educated at Earl ham,
Indiana: nam in the Thirteenth infantry.
1'niti - rmy. appointed from civil life.
Edmond l>. Hughi 1 at the ity of
.;■_'
VIINEXT TEXXK
in til.
mi the
lid now li\
Thi
for i
the 'i
el' tli. ntury. 1 ill the
J
irt in
nia.
•In.;
halt' i ~ lina, father
-
in the Mi
William II. Hughes, :i Met]
'Id.
their Ion
;i .
ternal aunt
;ornal aunt ...
.... Aunt, still alive at ninety..
ver
70
GEN. K. KIUI'.Y SMITH.
THE 1 "n
Cumberland the
'Kiine
stands at th
-t there 1 1
'^s for tli.
-
cliara
than that of the reality
with I What v
. ial mid. I
tleman who, at firsl
■
and his neighb.
with fur
acquaintam
stern -
ind truth. B
such a ma. iph ; i; lias
1 by a st i.
mnd Kirl.y Smith
I
in thi
r'l:. II birtli-
. when, his father bavins
;.. the
lexandria, Virginia.
ears, when, obtaining an ap-
there
and . John
W, F. Smith. B. : iordon
D I ■ - nd many other oflb
military a
n Indian campaign cannot I here:
be tri-
umphs
', the- warn-
:
■
t his
i bim
_ illant and
uduet. in the
E ilia nt and
The wai sed, however, it
that the military authorities had
1 in him in • which
attach ntry in the tield. for
N
PROMINENT TENNESSE \.\s.
33
Military Ai.nl. m and when, afterthe Mexican war.it
ime necessary to survej the new Frontier established
by the results of thai war. in L855, he acted as botanist
military commission detailed for that purpose.
Botany, entomology and conchology have been and are
still his favorite studies. The professorship he held for
three years. In 1855, he was appointed captain in the
econd ■ avalry, and with this command was constantly
engaged in frontier warfare from this time till the out-
break of the civil war. Like many of the best soldiers of
the Confederate army, he was opposed to secession until
it was a fait accompli, but then offered his sword tnd
liis life for the defense of the new government. His
offer was gladly a icjepted, and his promotion rapid, as is
testified by the following list of his commissions : (1.)
Colonel of cavalry as the first organization of the Con-
ite government and army at Montgomery, 1861.
(2.) Brigadier-general, June 17. 1861. (3.) Major-
it al, October 10, 1861. (4.) Lieutenant-general,
October 9, 1862. (5.) Full-general, February 19, L864
Beheld important commands a ely in Virginia,
Tenne ee Kentucky, and the trans Mississippi depart-
ment; in the first In- was present at the first bat
Manassas; in tin' two last fields of operation hi
left to his own discretion, and conducted mas-
terly campaigns in both of them.
For his brilliant victory at Richmond, Knit ucky, I he
Confederate Congress, on February 17. 1864, voted him
a resolution of thanks, stylii i ion the only really
decisive battle of the war."
This expression points to the fact that his merits as a
commander consist not so much in winning pitched
battles, as in so disposing his troops, both before and
lie fight, as not only to obtain victory but to
i i tantial advantages to his government as its fruits.
In his trans-Mississippi campaigns he had to create the
resources with which he operated. II I not
only his militai 3 command but thi iven ment.
n his financial resources were raised by means of
the State Legislature, which he in basing its
operations upon the cotton at the disposal of th
ernment. The Texas Legislature twice voted him
itions of thanks for services in that State. It can
not he doubted that the department administered by
him was left in a better condition for future pros] i
than any other which had been th. war-
fare.
When the end came, and the surrender at Appo-
s proclaimed disarmament to the forces of the
South which still kept the field, and while it was still
uncertain whether criminal charges would nol bi
Mist the let rs of I he Soul hern army,
Gen. Smith found it necessary to lejtve the I nited
States for a time, lie first surrendered his army to
Gen Canby, Maj 26 1865, and bade farewell to h
voted soldiers in a solemn and touching address from
i we extracl I he foil wing ] ' four
5
present duty is plain ; return to your families, resume
do' occupations of peace, yield obedience to the laws,
labor to restore order Strive, both by counsel and
to gi in1, to both life and liberty, and
may Cod ill his mere;, direct ^ii aright and heal the
wounds of our distracted country. Hi- own life dur-
ing the last twenty years ha- been ti beautiful and im
pressive realization of this counsel.
\ftor doing all in his power for liis army, he went
through .Mexico to Cuba, and alter two months, finding
that it was safe to return, sailed for New fork and
thence repaired to Lynchburg, Virginia, where hen
joined his family and then moved to Louisville. Ken
tucky.
Here he assisted in organizing the Atlantic and Pa-
cific Telegraph company, and became its pre- .
which office he filled till thai -orbed by
the Western Union company.
In 1867, In became president of the Western Military
my, Henry county. Kentucky, and held the office
for two years, when had link again followed him: the
buildings wen- burned down and he was again without
employment. Hut his talents and great administrative
abilil ■ I I known and he became chancellor of
the University of Nashville.
After six year.-' honorable service in this capacity, he
was invited to take the chair of mathematics in the
University of tic South, at Si wanei Tennessee, in the
duties of which he ha- be I to the pri
idolized by his pupils and comm ling the respect-
ful esteem and sympathy of the whole South, for w hose
hi gave hi.- splendid talents his powerful influ-
and four of the besf years of his life.
The military experience of Gen. Smith is in many
respects unique. In constant military service for
twenty years, holding commands in Mexico, On the Texas
frontier, in Virginia, in Kentucky, in the States west
of tile M ississippi, he never knew defeat. In the Mexi-
can war he was pro-eni at every battle, both in Scott's
and Taylors lim that of Buena Vista, when he
i ed in the siege of Vera Cruz. He was never
prisoner, and his command never retreated before
i ho enemy : he was never in an unsuccessful engagement,
' as subaltern or as in chief command.
I . i.v expedition he organized was successful, and he
organized the brilliant raids of Morgan, Forrest and
others. It was he who commissioned Forrest as briga-
iii i al when organizing the expedition from his
department which, dashing into Tennessee under For-
rest, captured the entire brigade, infantry and cavalry,
... e .no of the ii. est bril-
liant coups of the wai
lie had thirteen relative- and is in the
Mexican war: all hi- i pie for generations back have
be i oldiers; all hi- nephews are graduates of West
Point, as he is himself, and a- was hi- brother, Ephraim
Kirby Smith, who fell in 1847, at Molinodel Hey. One
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divines produced by this oountry, and especially noted
as an itn|>i ■ Protestant Episcop
He wasa lawyer in North Carolina before liisordi
nation, and author of a well km ry of thai State.
( ren. Smith's Hint her was a 1 1
nplished : shr was educated ai
Pennsylvania the Epi
church, as were all Gen. Smith's relatives on both
She kepi up with the litei
tu the day of her death. 1 1 • <
astonishing; when the first Fi boat arrived al
St. Augustine, she wenl out and urged the citis
Sgh id offered to command them, thou
years old. When she found that they would nol
she with her own hands, helped to cul down tin
staff, then went to her room and locked In
in. Refusing to take the oath, she was impris-
oned by the Federal authoriti th she
manifested ber extraordinary energj of will; I.
luring life thai she would
die, she finally i post ure in ber ti
fourth year. Shi lefl two children, the general and his
sister, Franci 3 Marvin, who died in 1881, widow ofCol.
I. B. VVi bstcr, of thi I nited States artillery.
Gen. Smith married al Lynchburg, in 1861, Miss
born at Lynchburg, Virginia, dau
of Samuel L. Soldi n, a lineal descendant of the lei
Her ni"1 : Miss
of a wealthy tobacco manufacturer in
Virginia.
.Mrs. Smith b ted al the Catholii
i, I listricl ' member of the
Episcopal churoh, much esteemed in society, and the
careful and conscientious mother ol imily.
Theii Seldon.bi
Lynchburg, Virginia, t >i 62 . Fra h
born at Hampstead, Texas, July 7. L864; Edmund
Kii'h.v. born at Louisville, Kentucl
born at Louisville, B
Men. born al N Kcntuck,
lizabeth Chaplin, born at Nashvill
see, Janui mild .Marvin, horn at Nashville,
. 1 William Scldcn
Scwauee, Tennessee, February 27, ls7ie Josephine,
born al Sewance, Tennessee, October 11, 1878; Joseph
born ul e, Vpril 16, 1882;
I m Kirbj
I i ;. itors wen
membi pal church, and has
Mian, senior warden, lay reader and Sun
ndenl in a great number ofchu
in that communion. He is a Mason and Knight
lar.
[n politics he is a Democrat; was opposed to si
when it v, lied, was the firsl to
offer I be South, and th
v. ii. 1 le was t be first Confi derate i Ificer t"
enter \ irginia
Mum i depots and tu muster in troops.
Anion bosc were tin' Tenm i i iments
of Tu and Mai
igh has been stated to show that hi - oldier
by inheritance, has always been a correct, conservative
in!1 .i ilways
in i he hail. He began life on no capital, has supported
his in tnd having been de
voted to military life, has never gone into mercantile
busin
GOV. JAMES DAVIS PORTER.
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IT has been said ol Gov. Porter that a promise from
him is equivalent to its fulfillment, and thai a state
nii'iii from him is a of its truth, h
couragi I lissimulation or
■ ii. Hi' has n calm, judicial mind, and hisspi
and written ear, concise and pointed. As
of bi ing laborious, dei
! frank 1 1- owes his pi to no sort
simulation
not the i
ir art, Inn
lit tu
for himself. His mind is more characterized by
ih than brilliancy I !• n ceivu the
firsl giving the sub
ma! ure tin i I when he does i ic to a con
elusion he can not I i from it. or persuaded to
thei
stubborn, Cor on minor matters of difference, no m
ield for the sale of I
he was painstaking and careful,
whether in a<h ing ; ng an
opinii lious not to mislead and anxious to
I and more
than that of most men ; but hi
not like to dwell on absti tions,
while the practical, concerning cither the present or
! to has in
tentions to the politician, Th mind
I'UOMINKN I Tl'WKssi'. w-
mid his luiliits of thou ■■In forbid ibis II
public qui based on bis belief us (o their
.mi ilif i-ouiitry, mid mil lion tin
likolj to alloc! his personal niiibil ii
thnl ho is nut iimbitious, bill
is ol ii kind which prompts li i in rather to .1.
approval than temporal-,! 1 1 1- . Ini
lor truth, candor, honest) mid inl
strict attention to details in I both publi
privati II. i- :i mini of decided opi ml liis
.iii.l persi
a forinidiible ml No mmi in Ten
contidem i
ill.' intell the country, mid
those who have fell called on honestly to join issue \\ iib
him, award to hitn the virtues .>l sin. unosty
and .'.'in.. \
r CStilliati IS a man
.in his messages to the licgislitui .
the mcnsui uno of
which are imperishable in. .inn
entitle him to the gratitude of ilii* and
In his inaugural
submitted the follow n lan-
eharaeteristie of the philanthropist and builder:
\ political revolution in public sentiment has
ml in the
- of the I ni. ni. What inlln
evil it is to have on the eountrj remains to be
but our dntj is a plain one to avoid the errors that
have brought disaster to the best ii the coun
ii \ foremost among them is iliai spirit which
lined such an . . (ho mil
a^ lias caused them to sul
make them mvI. party approbation rather than tl
'. an.l prosperity o{' the
■ will
direct the popular energies to useful pursu
if im-
1(1011 ill.
agriculture tin school houses, an.l
1-iall.N is ill.- great b
imor obli> i.l anini. ■-
and tor tin
ol brotherhood among the people lie S
the I nion,
" fhankin i . for the d
ilii'\ have conferred upon me, 1 will lal \ ibis
: .• dial tin
fiiithfulb
int to
which the
ilium is th
theii rument, not onl> in ii> right*, bin
■ an.l influence Ii i^ vain to hope thai the prim
i nin. an can I. <• pies. r\ cd or that
in from i unnim. into the nbsolut
lilcbed uway, an.l their d .■ I. .si
In In-- in the Tliirtj ninth (ieneral Wemblj
il inn us would all'.. i.l llm
i he public schools to
• hi tli he said : " I recommend
thai you im i our |..'.>
without i
n ics I
oil thai lb to im prove
ilio M It 'umberlnnd ri\ ers; and
deral L'on
gross Mexican vol rans upon the
p.'ii-
dministral i euditiircs
I n lii- Tli,'
eurroii I ho State government for tin
0-1 I. II kOO mi of
milium , I nenl shows n redue-
if the cm i hi in ten years that
be full of I'm-
ther large redu i he made by the adoption of
eertaii inmeiided in this nd in
the able n the comptroller. The ourren
I5S-0D amounted to
<l , fortho years 187(1 71 u wi
for is?:; 71 it 1,03-1.00; for IS75-7G il was
The appropriation bill passed upon his reeomim
lion ; neral Assembly was the first
compliance with the constitutional provision thai no
drawn from the treasury bin in i
ipriations made by law ; and bo earnesth
imended " . odent, not
tutiomil duty v\' maintai slative
authoriti an.l responsibility, but as the only meth
securing certain tiou."
■ .1 ol' Health
than Suite im; .1 upon 1
coiuun Dr -l I1. I'lunket,
who was his adviser on that sub - Dr Plunket's
ii i,;i
led under bis admillistr
■ llic |!iir. i \ ilture, S CS and
Miin- iimen-
•: iial arraii
of the improvement \
f I be
ill. In in.v m,
to tli.
PROMINENT TENNEHSEANS.
rccoiumendati
removal to some poinl bi low the city on i he
of the river, where I !
perfcel ventilation an pendi
till'.' oi
m r he lab I ppro-
priated to i he | of : I her «te, and for the
ui'i i i in of a new prison. ' he term of
the presi nl lea -• il v. ill it to four bundrc
id dollars. With this sutn a prison
can b ditable to the humanity and
rh. 'acti r of thi Stati Thi i
tfommodations fi
and « ■"■ and in t he construction of a new i
provi of offenders. I fpon
the 'Ii ! a convict, the lessees furnish him with
a suit of clothes and tran portation to the place of his
. mi hi I thai In- !
.villi m few dollars in money for I
from i he prison to hit home.
Ill- exerei c of thi
I ..il the bill I
tin- losing party with the it he bill
iucing thi
in- the office of count} superintendent of sch
The editor is not competent to discu tical
involved in the State di : is of the
opinion tha '■ Porter's highest honor lie* in the
unequivocal position he tool The
ion of i In- payment of di b c or |n-i\ at
bankrupt laws, repudiation acts or other subtct
popular in Am eric i ill be. Thi
hi i he State « ho i commercial honor i
by the prompt paymentofone hundn ! on the
dollar, principal and interest, will I- I and
shunn<
Porti latiou to the I. i 1 ■ i .irl i
tone in it thai all men, nol pi
politician • and commend to their chil-
dren of manhood and of statesman-
ship, 1 [e laid : " Thi it of tlii- debt is
param
the ,: ral \ ssembly ; it invul .
honor and I and honor
in of it- <iti/ a liability that was
ml whethi
ated or not, can not now be a question. I hold, and
have alwa hat in the lighl nl' mural and
legal nl' commercial honor and of
best settlement oi
iiil'l be to pay the entire di to the
ti'iiii,- of the contract
James Davis Porter
Di ember 7th, 1828. II aded from John, the
born in 1590, al Kenilworth,
Warwickshire England, and in Wraxhall Abbi
many of theii
>er arc buried. John ]
led from
Do l ■ 1 627.
1 1 John Porti i . who came to A
1027, wa ii.. Put nun. and 'li<l not old coun-
1 1
[any ol
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the I John
John, boi i in
rried Mai
• I 1 1 n i f'ot 'I i lonnei ticut. Thi had Ivi children.
' fourth -mi 10G4. II.
settlcdjin Chi
1 1 is William, born in 1695, .
!
mi the 3rd of May. 17W. i I
.- William, born in 1729 'I to.
iuiiI P tia, and married Sarah -
I'li'i'.'l of Del van lie died in 1 302, His wifi
re buried al ]
lurch. 'I'ln.. had and
four .1 William
Hannah Kennedy, the paternal U'randm
Thomas Kenn
who was born in < 'In
t led in May, 1791 . on a farm on the Oh
which the citj <>\' Covington nofl III wife,
Diana 1 1; r of Jami from
whom Gov. Porter imc. Thi I
•Ii(;r.
for whom hi icd. Thi lattci was Prom the north
nl Ireland, and
Ivania. He icttled on Brandy'ine
buried in the chui ndy-
hurch. William Porter, the paternal grandfather
of Gi . after his mat i first in
franklin county, Kentucky, from which placi h
I :
intil his deaths in 1833. His wife died in 1820
1 i cond
son, Thomas Kenned Porter, the father of Gov. J
D. 1' 19, 1 -nl. II-
O'J Kentucl
< '■,! Tli odorc ''Ii
tied 'i I
in Pebru i
in. Horl
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did fjualil
high*
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i never niakin
He
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unanimously. The high coniplinn yed in his
nttnent to the position ho n rthily and
. by the consid-
n that it I without solicitation or
en an applicant
tor this ither place under the administration of
Mr. Cleveland.
tor's methods ^\' life have been
hile a lawyer, to
- put into his hands ito the
r the fullest preparation, ;t coursewhich
enabled him to compete with any opponent.
Third his income. In this his
1 him. an Iways been
a rule with them never to buy anything until able to
•• has paid
s than any man in
with his • - '-i of court
when - vbich came from his
— what he
wills '1 without • ■■■. what ho
oil.
\Yh V ild as
such w - da member of the
the firs - r held. He was a mem-
nvention - that nominated
Mr. B - nt Ih never hold a civil office,
- hat he did not derive di-
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hildren, viz. : S - innah
M : — Fanny
\ . 6. Bibb, who
N'as -
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HON. J. W. CLAPP.
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disruption Whig
and I » roken up and i
eal or. nion and
rhich followed. In
of Mississippi which
and b I for
At tl. Mr. Memn : if the
pi, part of Alal
and pari of I.
this cotto n fron
which he
■ forward to Richmond, and
which he turn< Richard
He held this position d
federate armies, and then turned
his hands to the Federal
Oanby very kindly insisted that he should retain the
office, fixing his
but the offer v. ned.
Prei the war Judge Clapp had an
about ten thousand dolli innm. and ov.
land. lie lingly
went to Memphis in June. ImJo'. am
if law. Ii .ut in
a Tilden • i the
r the
■ during i
nominated for I
of tv, part in the
■ MemphU
in which I
of the leaders of thi While
in thi - le chairman of the
mi Federal rclati
Mr. ■ at Abie.
Virginia, in 1836, hut afl . r eon-
.
Holly Sprii
and yards made an elder in thi
rian church of
madi in which up to
the pi
I
Mr
FIc
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and tl idren and
I
tleman of
ed in
I
Mr. '
P. W.
Vir-
ginia.
!
partner of Frederick P. 8
Holly
and
owned
?
By this
children
the wife of II. A. I the
four chil SV. Clapp, born in
fMeinpl
childi
iw firm of Clapp «t
rried Miss Lamira M. Parker, and has four
child. •• born
! I
married Mi B. Kennedy, dai D.X.
child. (5). Rva Walton Clapp, born in " .the
A. M. A. M. Wi
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married
Alice D. P
I 7 i. Leura L. CI ' ■
TKNN I
HON. wn.i i \m STUAl? r im.i'.mim;.
r i "MIS
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the ■
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I'l'U'V
. lor :i
ii imliis
I our
wil until
II i~
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1 . « - 1 >
wn, Tlic
lil'iil.
Iiomo
I culture. I lore ho
P Tennessee in
ir, wlion ii li'll into the
n lire .iikI
: with :il including
mis
r valuable
.,'il to
uul
suspen
ill, i';ltlll. - than n
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hoth-
Ho hail
eeuth
■lions
I tlli>
n tlio
r tiio
- « iii
:' him.
it ions
they
?/ . ■ . ££
z^t
PROMINENT TKNNK
l.'i
had lost, the details of which
uf tin in 1 "Tii
eellor of i
chaiici '
elected for a second term
In-ill'.' Judge T W, Tii!
i. V, I
includes the four iuiportaril eouni iet ■ if xl
Williamson and Marshall.
ii ure of J
used him for public
nial addn i d in his h
of thi
n!' a lit.,'
political journal
file* of which were anion
burning of 1*1-
are in ■ ith bench and bar
generally been confirmed when referred to higl
ier of tin
byterian church, in which he and .-ill hi
ruling
elder in the Firsl V in church of Columb
II. Odd 1 in which
The family of Judge Fleming migrated from Scotland
to the north of Ireland a( a period i
thence to Williamsburg disti th Carolina in
1732
John Fleming i of the
r date thi imily.
He married a lady named Wil
descent, and the fruit of that m
Fleming, who ci lather from li
when a boy He married tl I wife
mother of J udgi Fh mil .< andfather -
mentioned. By hi- second wife he bad
of whom . in which
;,i- -on. William B., and hi- l
Fleming irt.
Jami Flemii ''father of
of this memoir, married Mai
son, Thorn ming, fatl
ming He, wil i. ;
three younger brotl Williamson county,
Tenm Here
onion of the grant of
twenl by the Rcvolution-
I, Nathai
military services. Theii
the fa mi I I
nele to •) udge Fl< n John
l». Fleming, who. with hi- elder brothel Thomas, fol-
lowed Jackson in all hi- war- participating in m
includin
William Stuart !■'!■
J
iuan of fiin
of all
I
memo hini-
all who kl
uiline
I
Ider in thi i eh.
The firsl
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I h Carolina he-
with thi
thru! and belovi r new
I ! Ull Of
him at his home in Maui 'I
Mrs. .laiiie- Flemii
Hi- lc:
tth Carol:
with his father, wh red in
children,!
of whom died in infancy. The surviving children
Mary Whil arried A. N. 1' arnier
Willi: - mar-
er, half-bi m. F.
r, and died Au
! F.. and
who ri army,
which
in tin
and afl hieli
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n \\ kssi-; ws
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li
V :i ill,'
III!
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ly 1 riiilil'nl mini
kl'> 1111,1 :1U,'-- I III - Ittltll
i ill,- lips of ill,'
,1 if lu- should mu K lo
li :i shrinking of ilu-
iho
i':iU,Ii,,,',I wlu'ii spokon l>> ilu- lip--. Inn which tho
,-,,uiu- - Thoro i^ no
-1,1 iluplii
illll'lll illtl
\ |< mi, in, litmsotf :i llioivii: lilv ivh.il'l, wit
SilUl 1,' ill, ihoso -k, ',, lios II, is olio of ill,
, \ ilo n, "i in, .in Truth
ii is vorj ,.i-> to
■ '. in In-- pi
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II,- to ilu' modioli
In ho\
strict
haw omloavotvil 10 msiko m\
lll> proill
- :l,llllil';ll'h .ul.lpU',1
\i our first
healthy I imuy
■■in. m other times a >lili
Itool, iiiul in; in
•m -ui,r
\ Mill}! up a
health :u
is the
ul iii
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of law,
It than
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Sciltt, till II L'l llllllilll
sliurl furlough, iluri time ho dropped li
ndrin, proci
on tin I the ordi-
iianei Vpril IT
Doing in I
lined until lie i
a littli liim threi
liward. Immediately after 1
hi the ('"ii egulars by the authoritii
goinery. < hi i .
uiont, 'I'm
and Holm
it. He served with Tu
1801 . I" May 1 . 1802 ; was in the eanipn
I'. Johnson in if \ irginia I eaehed Ma-
- .Inly '_'l
troops had taken place, and mo
tin Peninsula, at which time his
with the first Tenn
II. was then assigned to duty with (leu. K. 1
Smith, win 'i commanding tin departim
■d with that army ii
Tennessee ami
instructor
iian any other man in th<
ut •) tily 1. 1SG3, 1" - in-
valiy with Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
a position whicl
proini i Wheeler with
the rank of colonel in tin
dered on an expedition i
On the retreat of I '■
diers ami small
"1 tl" \ or, ami i nt u>
collect thorn, with such
could got, into pro> i nd operate with
them until further instructions. On r L'.'J,
n a fight neai' Win th infantry and cav-
alry. In was captured by the .1
nded himself. II" was taki
crd, where I tnmauder
court-martial ami -hot. Afterwards I
and oi urn the pi Vndrcw John-
son, military goverm
i the
the I Holmau
Id try
the rope I'm- a .1
he would take
I
that he was a prisoner of war in the hands of the United
ami claim uch, remarking that
differently would certain
aid which he declined tu further
talk. He was then si I to the
nor waited on him, and stated that he "would he per-
mitted t" Johnson next morn 1 Hol-
inan replied thai he did n ay man named John-
\ ernor "(' Teni I if such a
man wanted tu see him he would doubtless find him at
th" penitentiary. The ■ II, but ouc
marked that ti or had said
that " Holman
r being d Nashville penitentiary three
• lllin. win
was transferred i" Johi
I, wh< re h" ren il ( >ctober, 1804, w hen he
was put upon 1 1 ."li to
Richmond, beii d until January 1. 1865. At
'iv. as .i-- I
,~. Kiiliy Smith, commanding the
ind attached t" tin army
I! Magruder, "!' tli" department of 'I
inent until th" terms
upon by i (ens. Kirhy Smith
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that pi i dinglj he moved to the
■ ml remained there until he
d that the government would nut deal
with him, and then returned to Houston.
• ami surrendered to Gen. Canby, Jul;
gave his parole, and received |
i 'ion, and returned to his father's '
in Li : his "iitii e..ii-
I :i" clothing I: i lm\ ersack, and a
shirt.
ae li" commenced reading
(hi November 21 married to Miss Eliza-
beth ('. Kinibr . Bradley
Kimbr \ ''■. his wife, like the noble
woman she is, pro] make
o support them until he couh
law By the aid helpmate
Col. Holmau su i in L867, at the March term
of the Lin ty circuit rn in
as a pi il" theu formed a partnership
with his brother, Col. D. W. Holmau. who had been in
th" war In \
Flolman was elected atto ral of the
al circuit Inch office he tilled
until (J -77 when li" tendered his n
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civil practice, in which be has been active]
ever since.
After being elected attori leral he was indicted
in the Dnited States circuil court for the middle die
(net of Tennessee for holding office contrary to the
fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the 1
States, \t the same time quo warranto proceedings
instituted in thai court to remove him from the
office. He was am -t< d and gave bonds for his ap]
anci be! court, when a demurrer was filed, both
to tin- indictment and quo warranto. Jud
ding, sustained the demurrer, and discharged Col.
Holman from further attendance on that court. The
I fnited States disl rict atfc laled the ca -• to i hi
United States supreme court, where it is understood
the decision ol the district iudgi was affirmed, though
no report of the case has ever been made.
In 1878 Col. Holman was appointed by Gov. Porter
a commissioner for Tennessei to the International Ex-
hibition at Paris. He attended the exhibition, and
while in Europe he and Mrs. Holm I the prin-
cipal places of interest in Great Britain, France, Switz-
erland, Italy. A ustria and < rei m >
In politics Col. Holman is a Democrat, as wen
paternal ancestors. His grandfather and people on his
mother's side were Whigs. In 1880 hi was a "State
credit" candidate for Conj but was defeated by
Hon. Richard Warner.
Col. Holman became a Mason in 1866, and is at pre
cut a member of the council. Religiously he is inclined
towards the Primitive Baptists, but is very liberal in
lii- opinions, and belongs to no church. Mrs. Holman
is a member ol the Missionary Baptist Church, gradu
ated in 1860 at Mary Sharp College, Winchester, Ten
and taught school some three yi ai tftcr her
marria
Col. Holman began life without property, and resoh ed
never to go in debt nevei to pend money until hi had
made it . never to contract an obligation until he knew
hi could certa inly mi et it to trust nothing to luck ; to
go without his supper lie tore he would a.-k credit for it ;
to kee. ;i ions mile ! ble to lose
the amount of money he invested; never to go security
unless he could pay the liability of his principal; to
comply with every monetai I y day
promised; to deny himself none of the necessities of life,
lie never linn ni foi a client who does not
ti rst make out his case by his own statement ami | I
that lie i- able to bring forward. He always accepts
the statement ol h > client as prima facie true as to the
Kiel-. Inn givi - the client no control in the conduct ol'
his controversy. When he sees that a client i- about to
lose his cause, or that he is likely to make nothing b
litigation, he immediately so inform- him. ami if he re-
fuses to ml. i ... . . in (hat 'He rgency the client is re-
i 'I to employ other counsel ; Holman retires from
the ease lie brings no law-suit, either civil or crimi-
nal, for a client whose sole objeel is to annoy ami vex his
onist, and will not be a party to his ill will towards
an adversary. He always aids a your ' er, and has
a reputation for i ving up the cause of his client
-o long us he thinks he i- right. There is hardly any
sacrifice he will not make for a meritorious cause. He
throws hi- whole nature into his -nits, ami assumes
All.
Col. Holman's law library is one of the finest in the
financially he is on a good footing, one of the
t, w lawyers who are good financial -nee,
GEN. WASHINGTON CURRAN WHITTHORNE.
' OLUMIilA.
THIS gentleman is of mingled Irish ami A met i
extraction; his father, William -I. Whittle, m,
, me ,1 him after i he two ets of hi-- admiral ion
in hi- native ami adopted i ountry, whose names he now
hears.
lie was horn April 19, 1825, near Petersburg, in Lin-
coln county; thence he removed with his parent- to
Parmington, Bedford county, and received an a
country school education there, working at his father's
trade when not in school. In his fourteenth year he
was sent to an academy at Arrington, in Willia/nson
county, where he studied eighteen months, and then,-,
to the Campbell Academyin Lebanon, which was the
nucleus of the now well- known Cumberland University.
After studying there two sessions, he entered the Uni
'. i-iiy of Nashville, then umhr I>r. Philip Lindsley,
and after a session and a half there matriculated at the
East Tennessee University, at Knoxvillc, under I'resi
d,nt Joseph Esterbrook. Here he graduated after a
two -ear- colli'- e.
His father had by this time removed to a housi
Nashville, and from college he made a visit of three
month- there, and then went to Study law under Messrs.
Polk and Thomas, the former gentleman being James K.
Polk, afterward- President of the United I lei,
he studied until 1845, when he was called to the far.
i examination by Chancellor filial and Judge
Dillahunty. This, it will he remembered, w
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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS
Cecil, a farmer and stock raiser near Danville, Ken
tucky: they have three children, Charles P., Jan ic and
Sarah. (3). Klla. married to Alexander Harvey, a
manufacturer residing in Baltimore; they have one
child. .Ian ie. (-1). The single daughter, Mary, attending
Mount Vernon Institute, Baltimore. (.">). Washington
('.. jr.. ami (G), Harry, attending Center College, Dan-
ville, Kentucky.
The earliest principle Gen. Whitthorne adopted for
his conduct in life was to live within his income, lie
says that he has had many ups and downs in lite, and
that his circumstances have uniformly been prosperous
or adverse according as he adhered to thai rule or
departed from it. In any undertaking, whether it was
a lawsuit, a speech iii Congress, or committee work, or
a stump speech, he was always successful, provided he
had previously made himself thoroughly familiar with all
the details iif the matter in hand ; on the other hand,
whenever he has failed to do this, he has met with em-
barrassment and uncertainty in the result. In all eases
it lias been essential to success to give hi- undivided
attention to the business before him.
The revising editor ventures on tl pinion that an
important element in this gentleman's political success
has been fidelity to party leaders. In the earlier stages
of his career he received valuable aid from President
Polk and Andrew Johnson, ami these services he repaid
by devotion to the interests of his party chiefs. The
writer is aware that such c luct is in the present day
est eein ed inconsistent with originality and independence
of spirit, but he always suspects that independence
which leads a young man to disdain the guidance of
more experienced statesmen 'to arise much more from
self-conceit tin riginality of intellect.
lien. Whitthorne is five feet eight inches high; weighs
one hundred and sixty-three pounds, ha graj eyes and
hair, with features of a type partlj Grecian, partly
Irish: his manners are graceful and easy, and may be
pronounced those of the typical lawyer and conj
man.
HON. RODERICK RANDOM BUTLER.
MOUNTAIN CITY.
THIS gentleman, like his political associate, Mr.
I [ouck, is one of the self-made men of East Ten-
nessee. He was born in Wytheville, Virginia, April 8,
L830. His father died while he was an infant, and he
was raised in his mother's family till he was thirteen
years old, when he was apprenticed to a tailor, John W.
Ilauey, of Newbern, Virginia, with whom he served an
apprenticeship of six years, and then emigrated to
Johnson county, Tennessee, where he now lives, lie
states that he arrived there with a bundle of clothing
tied up in a handkerchief, on his hack, and seventy-five
cents in his pocket. He commenced working at his
trade at Taylorsvillc, the county seat of Johnson, which
has recently adopted the inure romantic name of Moun-
tain City. Here he worked till he was twenty-one years
old, when he commenced studying law with Carrick W.
Nelson. He was called to the bar in November, 1853,
being licensed bj Chancellor Tl as L. Williams and
Judge Seth Luckey. He was at te taken into part-
nership by his preceptor, C. W. Nelson, with whom he
practiced in Johnson and Carter counties from 1853
ti. 1861.
When the war brok it . he tun], the Union side and
was commissioned bj Gen. Burnside to raise a regiment
of infantry. Col. Miller was at the same time similarly
engaged, and when each had partially succeeded their
respective contingents were consolidated into a single
regiment, of which Miller became colonel, and Butler
lieutenant colonel. He resigned at Nashville, in 1864,
on account ol impaired health. Priorto actual hostili-
ties he was several times arrested by the Confederate
authorities, and tried for treason at Knoxville, but ac-
quitted. ,
Prior tn the war he had attained the following posi-
tions: (1). Elected major of first battalion of Tennes-
see militia, about 1850, before be was of age. (2).
Appointed brigade inspector on Gen. JamesT. Carter's
staff. (3). Elected judge of the county court in L855,
and held the office two years. ( I,). Elected to the Leg-
islature from .loh 1 1 -on county, and served in the session
of 1859-GO. (5). Re-elected and served in the session
of 1801-62, and was one of the sixteen who voted
against the military organization and the other meas-
ures which resulted in the secession of the State.
As soon as the war was over and the Legislature re-
established, In- was elected ill) State Senator from the
counties of Johnson, Sullivan. Washington and Carter,
and .served in the session of 1865-66. During that
session he was appointed by Gov. Brownlow (7)
judge of the lirst judicial circuit, comprising the coun-
ties of Sullivan, Washington, Johnson, Carter. Greene,
Hawkins and Hancock. This post he held till (8) he
was elected to Congress, in 1867, from the first congres-
sional district, comprising the counties of Johnson,
Carter, Sullivan, Washington, Greene, Hawkins. Han-
cock. Grainger, Cocke. Jefferson and Sevier. (9).
Elected to the four ensuing Congresses, serving eight
years. Throughout this period he acted steadily with
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the Republican party, and served mi many important
committees, those on Indian affairs, elections, educa-
tion, labor, and the revision of the laws: lie was the
youngest member on the last-named committee, and was
also chairman of the committee on military affairs, (lo>.
In 1878 he was again elected to the State Legislature
from Johnson and Carter counties, and served in the
sessions of that year and 1879. He was re-elected in
1880, 1881, L883,and (11) in 1884 he was elected flotcrial
representative from the district composed of the counties
of Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Washington, Greene and
Unicoi.
In all he has served fourteen years in the State Legisla-
ture and eight in Congress. He was successively dele-
gate to the national Republican conventions which
nominated Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and .Garfield, though
he was prevented attending the latter by ill health.
He was a Whig before the war, and as sueh was ap-
pointed postmaster of Taylorsville, and held the office
for four years. When not serving in Congress or in the
Siate Legislature he practices law, being a member of
several law firms, sueh as Butler & McDowell, in Bris-
tol; Butler & Donelly, in .Mountain City; and Butler
& Emmert, at Erwin, in Unicoi county.
Judge Butler is a man made for popularity, and has
been recognized since Ids first entrance into public life
as a political leader of consummate ability, second only
in Bast Tennessee to Andrew Johnson, whose origin
and early start in life present a remarkable parallel
with his antecedents. In his own county there was
but one vote east against him in each of two elections.
He has a commanding presence, being six feet high,
with a weight of two hundred pounds; upright in atti-
tude and jovial in bearing, always ready to express his
views and aide to defend them : knowing the people and
known of them. In political work he is indefatigable,
never resting while there is an end to lie accomplished
to which he can contribute his efforts. In the State
Legislature, while his influence is supreme with his
own party, there is no man with whom his political an-
tagonists are so ready to discuss points of common
interest, and lie enters into sueh discussions with an
engaging IVankno-s that disarms political animosity.
He drinks no whiskey, uses no tobacco, sleeps barely
six hours, and is never idle when awake. His rule id'
life may be expressed in his own words: " Never de-
sert a friend or pander to an enemy: especially never
desert an old friend for a new oni — rivet your friends
to you and let your enemies go."
Judge Butler said to the editor, " If my time were
to go over, I would attend to m\ profession and nothing
else; I would never go into polities; there is no money
in it, it is a dot's life; the politician is a pack-horse for
everybody, has to go everybody's security and neglect
one's private affairs."
To all which this editor is profoundly skeptical, firmly
believing that, if the time were to go over, if R. It.
Butler were again only twenty years old, and a political
opening were visible, lie would jump iii. even as young
due!-- take to till' wale]-: yes, though lie knew all he
does now: if lie knew, as lie does know, that politics
involves much loss and but little profit; if he knew
that he should meet with treacherous friends and un-
scrupulous enemies: if he knew, as lie well knows, that
the politician's merits are constantly nibbled at by de
tractors and bis errors proclaimed from the house-top,
lie would still lie a politician and nothing Imt a politi-
cian. The strife of parties is the only element in which
his faculties can find their field of action, the storm of
political agitation, tli ly atmosphere in which he can
breathe. B. R. Butler is a politician by nature and
Naturam expellees f 'urea tamen itsqiu recurret.
.Indue Butler married in Johnson county, Tenm
January 7, 1849, Miss Emmeline Donelly, daughter of
Richard Donelly, an old-style Virginian gentleman
who emigrated from Albemarle county, Virginia ;
noted in his day as a splendid horseman. His father
emigrated from Dublin to Albemarle county. Virginia,
and settled there ; he was a soldier in the war of 1812.
.Mrs. Butler's mother, Rebecca Doran, was a daughter
ofMaj. Alexander Doran. a large farmer of Washington
county, Virginia. He, too, was a soldier of 1812. He
served as a member of the Tennessee Legislature from
( 'arl ei- county, the first repre-eiitat i \ e of that part of' the
counts' which lies east of the mountains. He was brig-
ade inspector under Gen. Taylor.
By his marriage with Miss Donelly. .Indue Butler has
seven sons and two daughters: ( 1 i. Richard H., has
been county court clerk; is a farmer and merchant at
Mountain City. I'-'), .lames (I., married a Mi^s Gray-
son, and is a physician of high reputation. (.'I). Ceo.
((..now in Oregon sheep farming. (I). William B.a
prominent physician; married a Miss Grayson. (5).
Samuel S. D. G., a fanner in Johnso unity; married
a Miss Kiser. (ii). .John Bell, sheep farmingin Oregon,
with his brother George. (7). Edward Bast, reading
law. (8). Virginia, wife of James If. Church, a lawyer
at Mountain City. ('.')■ Bessie, wife of W. B. Keys, a
teacher and proprietor of the Tennessee Tomahawk.
Judge Butler's father. George Butler, was horn in
Maryland, raised and married in Virginia, and died in
Wytheville, Virginia, in 1829, at the age of forty, lie
was a school teacher, a graduate of a German college;
tall and handsome: an independent man of decisive
character. He was the only man ill his county who voted
for Adams against Jackson for the presidency, he being
sheriff of the county at the time.
The grandfather of Judge Butler, the Rev. John
George Butler, of Cumberland, Maryland, was a minis-
ter of the Lutheran church. A grandson of his, the
Rev. Dr. Butler, is known as pastor of the Memorial
Lutheran church at Washington City, which was
''dedicated to Almighty God tin- the preservation of the
union of the United States." The Butler- ale a tier-
:c promixkxt texxessk vxs.
man family, of which 1'nitod States Senator Butler, ol lie lias a 1 health and great constitutional v
!i Carolina, is a member; another branch .'I the and promises to be si man of influence in political
faniilv il to Ohio fairs lor many years.
Judge Butler's mother, was of Scotch-Irish origin. \ prominent lawyer of Rasl Tenn ssei writes to the
born in Tyr county. Ireland, neai Newton * litor as follows "I have known Judge Butler inti-
,| |)i Samuel Leiti I < Her matolj ever since tin- war. II'1 went on the bench in
mother, Rebecca Hay, of Tyrone county, Ireland, died lSlCi. and pn irtiality. AT
w evillc \:i in. i 1817, leaving two children, terwardshe was four times elected to Congress. \ i i\\
Nancy, mother of J udge Butler, aiid Rebecca, yer, he stands al the head of the profession ; as an ndi
Judge Butler's mother died in ISTiil, leaving four cate, he is superior ; sis a man, he is noble and generous,
children, (ieorgi Gustsiv Olivei and Roderick Kan faithful to his duties, true to his friends, and liberal to
dom, all of whom are now di i the last named, hi- i as a politician, he is shrewd and cunning,
subject of this sketch. He has succeeded by hard and most general!} carries hi- point Socially, he has
work and indomitable resolution; has given his chil- few. if any. superiors, lie is now, as he has been ever
dren a good education ami trained them to work for since 1 have known him twenty years a consistent
their living. By industry and economy he has acciimu- but linn, unflim Inn Bepublicaii, and a strong udv oeate
lated a respectsible fortune in spite of the loss of fifteen for temperance in all iis forms, lie is a member of no
thousand dollars security debts. Without disn church, vol attends church services more regularly
public opinion, he has never yieldi than n >sod Christians In manners and in
ions, policy or principles to it ; he accepts flatter} lie is an except ionsibly pleasant gentleman,
what ii is worth sind laughs detract ion < • 1 1 1 ofeouiiteiianee. ami a man win' commands 'In- respect of all with whom
IK' became a Mastei Mason al Taylorsville. in 1852. he comes in conl
HON. HENRY J. LIVINGSTON.
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rT^lIE iiumed I Ion. Hem I I the v I N Curb mer in Haywood eoui
ingyton wore S lb I'arolina stock. Hi- ..•">'<, Thomas <>.. de< b"). Caroline I-'... w
father, Thomas Price Livingston, was horn on \V. C. McCoiiico, a farmer in Haywood county.
,1 sillies Island, in front ol Char'. - nth Caro Henry J. Eivii sborninOi district,
linn, March 29. lSt»7. II. was a cotton planter and South Carolina. Februarv 20, KM He was brought
slaveholder; a class-leader rd'hi the Metho- up to work on his father's farm, picked cotton and
dist church: a man >>( uncompromising integritx and a plowed corn there until 1 > 17. when his father removed
strong advocate -l' the South during the war. He t" '! and the young man continued the same
removed to Tennessee in 1847, locating first in Homy occupation, gsiiniug in health, muscle and industry, as
county, and in IS4S settled in Haywood county, where he grew in years. His literary education was obtained
he died. April l!>, 1877). at the best schools in Brownsville, and included a fair
Judge I s mother was Rachel Livingston knowledge of Latin. Greek and mathematics, with au
Slmler. The Shuler I'amih- are «{' German dness for the latter and subsequently for the
riietion and one among the Herman fami- study of law. as early a* his tweutieth year. Hebe
lies in the Palmetto Siato. Her father was Daniel reading law January 1, ISoti, under Gen. I.. M. Cauip-
Shulcr. and her mother, Catharine Bin Brownsville, and after eight months' active and
S uh Carolina. Mrs. Livingston was born in 0 -notions preparation, entered the middli i the
burg district. South Carolina. December 21. IS' Law Department oi' the Cumberland Cniversity at
married there : and died in Haywood county. Tom Lebanon, Tenn. — . He remained al Lebanon from
„ .June IT - was an excellent and most September, 187)ti to June. 1S7>7, at which time he gradu-
inan. sxted under Pr IV Nathan tireen. Sr., Nathan Green,
B\ this marriage there wi bildren : (1\ Jr.. .Vbram Caruthers. ami President Robert L. IV
Janics I... now a farmer in Haywood county. Tennessee. ruthers. After graduating ho was licensed by Chan-
this sketch. t,3V Lawrence eellor B 1. Ridley and Judges Robert L. Caruthers.
\\\, who was a Confed lier under Gen. Price, Robert -I. McKinnev am! William R. Harris, of the
and was killed in A; v I S nolo He began pract.ee at Brownsville, in
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tuber, L857, and practiced there up to the war,
and ;il-''. a ftei i lie war, unt il hi went on i he bench
thus i si I' staj ing pow< r which
in 1 1 ~t be reckoned always as a factor of Dur
arly all iliis time he was a partner of \ tt ■
I tenj iinii! .1 Lea t be firm being Lea &
1 ton,
1 1 \ ii "ii-i. 1872, fiov. John ('. Brown appointed
Hon. Henry J, Livingston chancellor of tin' tenth
chancer; dh f I hi Si ati of I em e ■ compris-
ing ( he counl ies of I [ardeman, Lauderdale, Fa
Madison, Tipton and Haywood, and undi ■ mmis
sion lir sen ed I w o of two I !i"" and five
hundred dollars per annum, He has sit
elected to the same place: first, in 1874, to (ill out the
unexpired term of Judgi James Fentress who had
resigned I in 1 ^7* for a term of eight
which ex) ires Sepl
.1 udge Livingston also erved witl
as a < lonfed i lier. He i he array in
I -til , at Jai ! -"M Tenm Be, Hay-
w I Range
II. W. I laywood, and served in thi ill he
This company I
Si", mi li Ti i ■ i '. . ii" , egiment . Forr
mand. Livingston was made a lieuti nun'
i - I In ■ ■.in an tnd rcmai ida Hi utenanl then in
until its Burn in I. r til < lainesville, Vial
r\ ice in Tei • ■ M issouri, Ken
Mississippi and \ labama, and in all tl
battles where Forrest led. He command. iment
in the li^lit at Wyatt, on tjie Tallah itchi
in Mississippi, He was taken prisoner Ni
L862, ;ii Lamar, M i nd exchanged at
burg, December 3, L862. At Columbii I anessee
November 25, 1864 in tin fightwhen Hood was moving
upon Nashville, he was wounded in the left shoulder by
a lninnic ball, an igementin « hii h he par
ticipated he bore himself « ith i hi
soldier,
I n polit ii Judgi Livingston i m un-
ring I democrat. I fe was a I >i dhood,
a Breckinridge Democrat when the war came on, and
uci i he war a n ;ular, st raight party man.
squat el In the I democrat ic State convention of
1872, which nominated John C. Brown foi
Judge Livingston opposed the nomination of C
for president In I i 1 ith Hon.
.Inn. i M, Fleming, of Knoxville; Hon, D. M, I-
1 1. n. William A. Quarles, I [on. T. I!.
[vie, < !ol. M C. I lallav ay and others I on the
committi i rm, and advocated I demo-
crat as the national i I Messrs,
Quarli [vii and Livin i ised the majoi
.in, I pi , ,iit irl a minority report . -I udge
Living >ton makii I ech on it, but the
minority report wa hat time he
since been i lb) men w ho opposed him in
,i ion I'm and he toi
He ha i hr\ ed in
or half
.1 udge Livingston has n
kind. In i
having joined that church in 1873. He was raised
in a Methodist fat
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tianity.
Judge Livingston married, at Stanton I1 « I
countj , Ten M is.* Tempe J.
Si. in."
North Carolina, November 10, 1850. Mrs. Li
father was Joseph Brchon Soini rvell, a large planter, of
firm character and son of
lervell, it lawyer of abilit e in North
Carolina. James Somervell was the son oi John
ervell, who w;i< the son of John Somervell, mhi of
II. of Ke x, the last being a licneal
ndant.of A\ tner veil, who came from Nor-
iili William, the Conqi 1066.
! :is the daugh-
ter of William Dul a prominent citizen of
North Carolina. William Duke ■'
pan d mother Cook," the
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Ann. ii- ' Imol her Cool
, : I. J I 'I ' ! ' ' l I'll ll.
ii. iii. and -I udge Thomas -1 an, the lal
the Supreme Cburl of the State Mrs. Livit
graduated at the Memphi I emale I nstitute
Dr. \ mos W. Jones. She it also a a
lethodist chun
:, ri i !h i tian lady. A i | lishments,
id, indi '.I
- omen, all
who maki the : ;ht.
Four chil i I his happy marriage : ( 1 ).
11 born \ ii 'ii ' 31 ' Henry J
born Januarj 2, 1875 (3). Rosa Gibson, born V]
1877.
In , Family, Judge Livin
aid : " It out childi i nding
ill not have been the
fault of tl
rvell, his wife's father, I
Ihr hundred dollars' worth of prop
mcher,
if lir I m and
lunds,
and this, although ii
v
I'KOMIN, VNS,
\ ml l,i
1 1 \M CI I 1 OM.
N
I?
, li 1 1,.. i I the
< 1 1 • n I I"- turn in of principle and
inliood ili
m hi r nini I Com I h
(I) Tillman, who ran awaj from homi when fifteen
n in the
I I - 1 ..'
to lllino
father of II I. Cul or of the
lllino, I • lited
tor IVo in • (4). Al if tin:
i
ml, i-i i,l ' ' and
tic and di
Jam< » M the oi
in public life. Hen <
A. W 1 1 Totti ii ''I' ' he 'I i ■
and of Hoi B
Alfred Phillip
Illinois, and died th ■ one
of tin bri men in the • n her
P i, ili<"l thi Win.
treme
,,r eon ii in |.i i'.n . ili<- wife ol
CIO;. Will eh. (11) I.
wil'i' of John Hart, i
of ( I
of i hi lorn.
Cnllom
when
'
mcanwhili
partmi nl of I
hi up,
tlio H !
the Wlii ■ '1 him
for i fa
hundred, and b
In 1 - ■ 'lonl,
ling I
domi
thi Hen
net.
In 1835 be had bi ',)'tli<:
• i
irhich hi held
In l I from
[1 .; ;
I. I. '
for ili' '
of A n,
i fill':
i thi I
hill hi
lint lii- political li i' i
n, bi bad
any
■I, he had
('nil', in
for ('!;, 1 1 l the
timi H
th': n
llOlllil,
I
man,
' •'
i few who
In pol
,! tli'' W'ii
III i
to thi
.(olin ' ' bi
Of till;
When
1
ellor.
In Novembei
him i
.
While
men
PROMINENT TKNNKSSE W-.
Uitly show.
<1\ hj plan ice I le began life
hi liniilril
iol .'ii rainy day
I! ■
■I'll, hi-< fl unirr. his
re, liis ob>
a ii.l I I
I' his
r and all
mbor
\v p. iii
a hank
childl'i
n ty to
lllc Ti
i
i a member of the S
stitutional
hildren.
Perry,
I1 Kill wife of Rev. Dr. Booth, a Methodist minister
in till Leslie, a lawyer at
Coin
\'\ I itrrod in White
I h ii Ii M i iriflith
Culloni has eight children ( 1 I Minnie, wife of Rufus
chant at Clinton, Tcnm is two
childi il I'M McCarthy. (2). Florence,
wife of John Raster, a railroad engineer. (3). Clara.
ney Johnson. (5). William. (6). Klla.
ii llcndei
U iili a^ great an amount ol s any one man
i heart overflowing with kindness, with
men and property, one of tin
of tin most companional man . with
hardy in debate and cour-
ith an inherited mercurial tempera-
Williani Cullnm's
,1 and financial- lia> been almost phenomenal.
nd ~1.'\\ to go in debt. His
numerous and warm. It i> said o\'
his neighbors at Clinton, he never harmed
a human being. Rrilliai rand, noble old
man' The State has honored him, but not more than
he has honored I
JOHN W. MADDIN, A.M.. M.D.
Di'll\ W M VP1HN lumbia
. hood
Kent ncky,
ling liter
of til) > una. where
P Maddi
a hall ! institution hi
\ M
and Ii
Ilium
uently
\ <
luates
S unuel
- Hutehi-
mates
uition
ii his
brother in-law, Or, Frank Steger.a distinguished prac-
titioner of S\ ma, who is novi prac-
tly he
« iili Dr. I S'ashville,
i iddin attended medical lectures in
the medical department of th -hville.
\\ . I'. in the - - under
Paul I is R. Jennings, W. K.
K. Winston, A. II.
and Robert M. Porter.
- J l>r. Maddin practiced medicine
in \\ s. In February, ISil-J. he entered the
n federate arm; on of the post inge
ibama, where he had graduated. S
1 to duty in the general hospital
th, Mississippi, pending the battle of Shiloh,
i ial hos-
pii ■ wounded at Corinth. H ordered
f the Thirty-fifth Alabama r
mental the first bombardmant irg, where he
remained ii wth his command until it
siana, where he estab-
lished the first field hospital at the battle there. In
PKOMINENT TENNESREANS.
57
A M ■nsi, L862, he was transfei i
to the i pans Mississippi dep md ■
for duty to < fen. E. K irby Smith, al
Louisiana. Here he was assigned to duty as surgeon of
the Thirtieth Texas cavalry, and subsequentlj was
made medical purveyor in the trans-Mississippi de-
pai i mi in . « itli ( len. I feury E. Met lullough'e d
of the army, headq 'ters al I '.-nIi.hu. Texas, al which
place he was on duty al I hi clo e if the war.
Iiiiini'ili.iii i cl e of i In' war. Dr. Vladdin
remoi ed his family, in 1866 Nashville,
Tennessee, and began the pi u u dicine in part-
nership with his brother, Dr. Thomas L. Vladdin, one
of i he foremost phj ■ ic id i ;eor th South,
a full biogi aphj of w hom i h here in
Dr. Maddin has in Nashville without
rliaii ocation, and it is probable no
two men in this peried of time have done more profes-
sional labor in all the branches of medicine than these
two brothers.
Dr. Maddin was married, September 25, 1856, to Miss
Annie Downs, daughter of Maj. W. W. Down
many years an extensive r,chant and planter at
Leigh ton, Alabama, a man ol high standing and
public spirit, who infused himself into every publii en
terprise in Alabama, and in Ins i i home in
Maj. Downs attained large wealth and influence
before I he war. and m<'\ '''I to W in 1856
i numbers ol persons who eeking hon
aboul i hat i ime \ isited him for coun
is to local in" in that distant State. He buill a
Methodist church and a female college at Waci
a present of the college to that city, together
with an entire square of ground in the hearl ol thi
With the excepti I Mrs. Maddin, all of Maj. Downs'
connections arc .still residing al Waco represented in all
departments ol trade and business, people of influence
and position. .Mrs. Maddin's mother, net Henrietta
Sparks, of a leading Q-e i family is still living at
W ai the age of se\ enty six.
By his marriage with Miss Downs, Dr Maddin has five
children : (1), [da Belle Maddin, born at Waco ;
uated from Ward's Seminary, Nashville, and fin
her education al Mrs. Sylvanus Read's school, New
York city; married, in 1878, to William J. Bass, son
of Dr John Bass and \ rand on of Hon. John M. Bass,
of Nashville. Hi- if the
Hon, Felix Grundy. (2). Percy D. Maddin, I al
Warn, iii 1861 : I in his i ducal i
at the high school, Nashville, went through all its
grades and graduated in 1878; next entered Vanderbilt
University, remaining i trs, taking u ersity
course and the degree of Bachelor of Science; next
graduated from the Vanderbilt Universi chool,
■■ii m It- 1 P idenl Thomas II. Maloneand Profs. Ed. Bax-
ter and William I!. Reese ; isa finished scholar, and, for
ffine merit and promise
John W. Maddin, Ji , M.D.,born al W: lucated in
the Nashville high school and al Vanderbilt I 'niversity,
and in 1884 jraduated M. D, from the medical di
if thi I niversity of Nashville and Vanderbilt
University, under Profs. W. T. B i Th as L.
Maddin, Thomas Mcnees, Thomas A, Atchison, John
II Callender, Van S. Lindsley, W. L. Nichol, Charles
S. Briggsand Orville Menees. Dr. J. W. Maddin, jr.,
i inl clinical ii uncle
and father. He is now assistant lecturer to the chair
tetrics in the University in which he graduated.
He lias fin> | 1 1 1 i i e (4) \ nnie Maddin,
at Warn ; educated in i he high scl 1 of
ind finished I" i udy at the Nashville
Y'liur- Lad Rev. Dr.
W.F.Price. (5). Lo Maddin, born at
Nashville, now a little girl of eight years, a pupil of
Dr. Price's Nashville College for Young Ladies.
Dr. Maddin's family is a Methodist family. Politic-
ally, the doctor has always l>een a Democrat, but has
held civil office Financially, he is in comfortable
circum I he income from his pr i-1 ic always
I" in - i er; I in a family of extremely
'il'. taught i hi less f frugality,
life on no inheritance exi epl as good an
cation a- could be afforded in that day in this country,
and the legacy of a family character and family name
ed all over the land. When asked how he had
eded in life, Dr. Maddin replied I ba\ e made
m.\ profession the exclusive business of my life; I have
endeavored to prepare myself thoroughly for my work ;
I have been kept busy in it, and il has amply compen-
\- an ill ust mi ion of the retiring nature of
Dr. Maddin, il m I thai al theoutbreak of
il cholera epidemic in Nashville, in L873, Hon.
Thomas \ Kercheval, mayor of the city, selected and
appointed Dr, Maddin as thi health officer of the city,
but he dei lined ii because he preferred i he private
walks of his profession to public position.
I>r. Maddin has been an active member of all city,
count)' ami State medical organizations with which he
has been associated. He is a member of the American
Medieal Association. He has contributed a number of
scientifi i irganizations, and always
ticipates, with much pleasure, in the discussions of
medical subjects before i hese societies.
I>r. Maddin has the air I he man
of a modesi n tirin ; man of dignity and clearness
of character, and carefulncsss, accuracy and promptness
in business. He seems a combination of the rigid
princi] bis father and the tenderness ol
mot hi
I 'oi a m 1 1 di tailed account of the life of Dr. Mad
din's parents, see the sketch of Dr. Thomas I, Maddin
in this \ olume,
PROMINENT TENNESSEE \NS.
HON. BEDFORD M. ESTES.
Tl 1 1". -
i splendid
mor
ii the
liville
I
up to which time he
\i ili
the 1"
rship
with 11. C Warinu
In the in
Mr. K - nty in the I lo
■
In v
.lames 1> "
W 1-! 'I with
L R 51 held
the \
M 1 Sarah
and the 'join
died in 18U7, at the
six ehildi
! in IS73 ' lie L.
Female S
is a supi i, and has
n riter. (3). Emma A. I
planter in Florida
Female Semi-
married James ('. Bell, of
; A ugustfl
nton, Vii du ited al
i nstitute, I i xiugton, Kent
Female [nstitute, I
•
Air !. al Memphis, Mi^> I.
r of II. Ii. Uuion, Esq., deeeased,
of tli her was » M -- McMillan,
duugh dcMillan, of a North Car-
olina t'aini rteriau divine, who
preael an sermon in Memphis.
Walnut Hill. Rev. Dr.
Hull ■ I, near Lexington, Kentucky, and also
nt the Nashville Female Academy, under Re\ Dr. C,
IV Elliott. B.> this marriage Mr. Estes has five
children: Li sie, Henry With< Blanche
and
Mr. m elder in the Presbyterian church,
and 1 nty-seveuth year.
uul all of their children "1<1 enough are members
of tli onuuunion Mr. Estes was a prime
f the Lauderdale -
tribu-
the purchase of the lot and ! the
1 \\ ithoutdebt on it.
In ' church of the United
if the southern
rubly called the
erian church ol the
if the war, the
s chai G noral
: church in the United
The churcl i maintained i
he war and shortly thereafter
hurch had made delivi - f the
luthern church.
- ore " fraternal
the churches, and in 1ST I each
chun
rnal relations. The
Dr William Brown,
7Y ; v /
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
59
of Virginia, Rev. Dr, B M. Palmer, of New ('i
Rev. Dr. I' rri ), of M
Mr. B. M. Estes, of Mi
comna
sionei church in Baltimoi
and spent aboil
did nol
comm |uently,in stubs pted.
and
\|. Bstc < : ■
\ ■
of tli«' ch il
■ and most lucrative pi
and a d in th<
Id his
rank
The distinguishing traits of Mi-
ami thon
No amount
the I
perfect ci mprehension i
lit is based. When th
applies t'p them a
i i't. thon ined in tl
Mr. K.-i'
in the southwest a- he
aen in th
Mr.
life. He bega d dol-
lars, and is now among I he - >lid m f Memph
only financially, but bo regard
B Bank
of < 'ommerce, and in i he Hen
I hful and
li>>ll I
I
in in
ling worth, i
le. W'li ■
speak i
i \Vliii' until t!
Tin nt. Mr.
■ edford
r.v and pi
Mr.
Mary L.
Haiti;. Villiam V.
Tiptoi
'
\\ ilson,
- and his i
plen-
in public lif'-.
Mr.
men of
or numbei him well.
I MIL'.
JOHN HILL CALLENDEB, M.D.
11. I.E.
JOHN HILL CALLENDE]
v Davidson count) Te
Iphia,
Penns i ishville in
I li^
occupat He
was an alderman of
nt. His i
..ii. Id .. ,- the only son of James Thom
Uallender, a native oi Scotland, wl
political exile in Yl'sl, mi account of the publica-
if radical! ititled
II, ii'iin. Shortly
administr
i ill mils
oppoi
rendered liim
Durin
Ill)
l'i;oMI\i:.\T TKNNESSKANS.
John Vilnius admini
i'nl e\ cuts, 1 1] IT'.'-
Vdams nml ill
Sedition Act. Ho was then
\ i iniu. IJcii i by birth, he was
this publication under i!
deuounci d id was
the firsl nf the few
defended b,\ Will un \\
trial, Justice Chase
of the I ni
id fur man;
i i in that
1806.
The mother of John II. t 'allendi
I
I
Her
temher l.ri, 18 17.
John II
;it Xasln ille, id. ntered
the 1 N'ashville and i i until
of his
A Houston, S'ashvil
i of the 1'im Louis
Hie ill H -• if lii
suspended and final
St. Louis, and was em
Christj ,\ ( '■
W est, 1 11 1 S5i
the stin
department oi the I I' n IS55.
Deeembei i and editor
of tin N and so
In that year he was madi • ia mediea
therapeutics in the Shelby Medical College, Nash-
ville, I I filled that position until 1 1
pensii seel by the ei\ il Mar in
'flic same year he was appointed surgeon in 1 1
T un Miami of ( J-OIl. Zoll
and then i ueky, wlr
lie resigned in Cebruai
with the v-
'inn until ISG'J.
He v
' II anil
.! ISGS
which nomina Hair.
I » 1 1 r I
;illil til
if the Tennessee I lospitu
the I nsane, which positio i dds. Tin
the brain
and in i 'in in the mi irtment nl the
mil in 1880 was transferred to
the chair i in the mi
and Win-
ni (he
Tenni
cal Congi ut I In 1881 In- \\ .i - made
i itend-
cuts ill American 1 nslititl imis for the Insane, ai
i
evi r li ■ i of ili«'
,n the
hi the i|uestiou
in pro
■ed him ii - itli a
It will tli
i to li;i> ii in mer
I and indepcud-
laiutainin I fully train
the eln nl and reader, of
Hess mem
imiI figured
i
entitle
of an
idual and in his
opinions and <-: incisive in
ns. 1 1 \s :i - this bent
In r than a l"\ e for pal
tlirt that prompted Ii ship of
ier of tli. i > a men
ad nl' the Wli
vents,
lir prin ed hinisi of his
dfather.
\ • teacher he is tli i lassie in style, and
purely didactic in Ls an essayist on many
literal
in Ti
ed from hisassociati i ished
honor, and in I
which he presides, In ginal,
equal to the best in the land.
" Tl i I »r. Tl as \ i
Dr. Callender, " i- the tj'pical man of our faculty. \
I,, culture .un! tine literary tastes ; he
himself befor without due preparatiou.
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
6]
He composes rapidly and brilliantly, and speaks from
miles from which he reads elegantly, as if peal ing im-
promptu. He is one of the brainiest men in the State
ilikI is a light in medical literal ure. 1 1 e has a lo
analytical mind, an elegant presence and easj man
ners. '
Dr. Thomas L. Maddin furnishes the following high
Inn just estimate of Dr. Callender's character : " He is
of liberal education and I id scholarship. His tastes
run alter classical literature. There is no trash
him. He has cultivated liis profession with
industry and success. His tastes run more particularly
toward medicine, and in cultivating ii for its science
and literature. As a professor, he is profound in his
teaching, 9uen( in his disc 'se, clear in his demonstra
tions, and always commands a pre-eminent position in
the esteem of his students and his colleagues in the
faculty. At times he is eloquent in his diction and
conception of his subject. As a man, he is of uublem
ished integrity, of broad views and general cultivation,
standing high in public estimation for his ability and
familiarity, not only with his ina.re-~iuu.liut with the
politics of the times. He has a ready command of his
resources, both as a speaker ami a writer. In fact he
is a man of high order of intellectuality, assisted b; a
mi. -i extraordinary and remarkably retentive memory;
but he does not excel simplj in memory, but in his
conception of what he undi rtakes to learn
Dr. Daniel F. Wright, of Ularksville, writes the Pol
lowing tn the editor : " ^ ou request me to give you my
impressions of the professional and personal character
of Dr. John II. Callender. Y sould not set
more grateful task ; in executing it I will coufine myself,
as in such eases should always be done, to what I have
known of him l..\ pers 1 observation. I was first
made acquainted with Dr. Callender when I became
his colleague in the Shelby Medical College, Nashville,
he holding thi chair of materia medica and t herapeutics,
and I that of physiologj and pathology. I have a lively
recollection of his lectures, which had for their main
subject the mode of the action of remedies in the
human system. In treating this subject, he manifested
a profound acquaintance for so young a man with the
subject of pathology and therapeutics, and applied
that knowledge with an originality ..I' thought still
nun.' remarkable, At the dissolution of the college bj
the events of the war, I lost sight of the Doctor tin- a
long time: nil his lleeiililill^j -II peri II 1 1 Hi 1 1. -lit of the
Insane Asylum, however, I had frequent business inter-
course with him in the way ..I recommending path uts
to i lie asj linn. This led to mj paj in ; ft [Ui at visits
there, and enabled me t>> observe the combined intelli-
genei and humanity with which he alleviated the
sufferings of his unfurl uati pal icnts.
■■ A.dded to all this, Dr. < !allendcr's persunal cl
ed upon principles of the strictest integrity,
unites with a dignity and ;c of manner onlj
combined in the person ..I a finished gentleman. I
appreciate him as a faithful and reliable friend and as
a '!>li .In Pul companion.
"Of Dr. Callendei - standing in his profession, and
of his eminence in the special department of il to « hic'h
lie is devoted, it is superfluous for me to speak. He is
facili priuciqjs in Tennessee as an authority in cases of
.1 the nervous -\ stem, and among
alienists of the United State whose really recognized
experts may he counted on the finger peei
annul.'-' the prone
lii personal appearance Dr. Callendar is tall, portly
and stately, with the air of a student rather than of a
i of l.i- profession. Before lecturin I, iccus-
i in pace the floor of the privai i
as if preparing him elf for the ordeal of appearing
audience u hei e every i ilpel. But
i ures are plain, practical ami direct, setting forth
the facts in his subject rather than making efforts
at oratory. i'el h didactic, his
fine literarj finish .and are delivered in scholarly style.
Dr. Callender i- m .t a communicant of an; church,
ugh his religious training was Presbyterian. It is
rstood that he hold- liberal view.- on religious
topics, but is not to be .'! cs. In
politics he was raised a Henrj Clay \Vhig,andstoo
uiun until compelled to ay. Since
the war his political affiliations have beeu with the
Demo irty.
Dr. Callender married at N'ashvillc, Tennessee, Feb-
ruary 24, 1858, Miss Delia .Jefferson Ford, daughter of
Dr. John Pryor Ford, of that city. Dr. Ford was born
in Cumberland countj Virginia, in 1810, and rem
to .Nashville from lluutsville. Alabama, iii 1842, and
leading practioner and teaehei of medicine until
his death in 1865— bein or of obstetrics and
diseases of women and children from L858 to 1862.
His wife. Ann Smith Jefferson, was born also in
Cumberland county, \ it md was collaterally
ndated to Thomas Jefferson, of Monticello. Mrs.
Callender is a great grand-niece of I 're,- idem Jefferson,
and a niece of Gen. John K. Jefferson, o
Texas. Her religious connection is Protestant Episcopal
By his marriage with Miss Ford, Dr. Callender has
I, ui one child dan ' \nnie .Mary Callender.
born August 5, 1864, and a graduate of the Nashville
( lollege for Young Lad:
PROMINENT TKNNKssi: \\s.
HON. JOHN NETHERLAND.
RSI ,'/././:.
II
on JOHN m:tiii:i;i. \mi.«i,„mi|| i;Vi
his home in Rogersville. was born September 20
I SOS, iii Powhatan county, Virginia. I lis parents
removed to Tennessee while he was yel an infant,
settling ai Kingsport, in Sullivan eounty, in 1811,
They were thus among the priniith
eharaeter to the civilization of the eastern portion of
our State. < M' a family of eleven children, of whom
he was the youngest, he is now the sole survivor. 1 1 is
early faeilities were fortunate in his daw He was -nit
when quit is a pupil to the \ enerated Dr. Sam
uel Doak, who was pioneer with the famous Dr. Coffin
in education in Tennessee Completing his academic
.our-,. ;n ihr of fourteen, he further prose-
cuted hi> studies ai home, in the nature of a
under the tutelage of Mr. Henry Hoss, a
much celebritj
In 1828 he entered upon the study of law in the
office or under the instruction of Judge Samuel IV well,
of Ro set s\ i Ho. ll>' was licensi d to
1821). In LS80, catching the fei a western
movement, he left Blountvilh ik up his home
in franklin, Williamson eounty, for the pr;
profession. His residence in franklin w xtend
ing onlj about two years. The sickne loath of
his fathei in back to Kingsport.
\t an carlj a a he manifested an interest in the
political affairs f\' the State and nal
capacity for public service. In IS'!!'., when he was but
twenty-five years of age, he was elected to tin ?
Senate from the district comprising the countii
Hawkins, Sullivan and Carter. On a month's notice,
he canvassed the extended district in horseback
and was elected h rity of more than throe
hundred votes. \- a State Senator he look a very high
stand for a young man. One of the leading mea
before the Legislature, which some philanthropic |
have always considered harsh, was the hill extending
the law over and finally resulting in the removal
few remaining Indians from our State. Vgainst this
measure he protested in an able and eloquent speech,
which was extensive!} circulated in pamphlet Conn.
The bill passed, but that speech of young Motherland
will remain of record as a testimonial, i of his
regard for constitutional rights, but
for tli, of humanity.
'flu' State eon vent ion of 1834 to re\ ise the St ate consti-
tution, inserted a pio\ ision in the constitution, as is well
known, fixing the minimum age ^( State senators at
thirty years. This gave a temporary pan-, i
lolitical prospects as to State offices. llow-
:u 1835 he was eleeted a> representative from
Sullivan eounty in the Legislature, and it was while
-en mil; in this capacity that a te-i was presented which
developed John Motherland's independence of thou In
and character. The famous resolution was pending in
the I'uited Slate- Senate, known as the "expunging
resolution," intended to strike from the journals of the
Senate the vote of eel is ore previous!} passed upon 1 1 en.
Jackson, then president of the Ini ted States. A resolu
tion was introduced into the Tennessee Legislature in
struct ing the senators from Tennessee to vote for the ex
punging resolution. A primary convention of the
people of Sullivan county passed a resolution instruct-
ing him to vote lor this resolution. Believing that the
1 of the I'niteil State- Senate was designed to be
a record of truth, and that mutilation was not to be
tolerated, M.r. Motherland, in one of the most creditable
aei- of liis life, surrendered hi.- commission as repre-
sentative of his eounty and returned to private life.
John Motherland is not a man who has had "an
itching palm. Public office has occasionally come to
him. but almost invariably without his seeking. Rack
in the times when old parties were breaking up- when
Jackson men and White men and Bel! men were taking
their stand on u,w issues, John Metherland, true to his
instincts, became a pronounced Whig. (Of course
this biography is reciting facts, not proposing to propa-
gate politieal ideas. !
In 1837 Mr. Metherland removed to Rogersville and
opened his law office Two years afterwards he married
Mi.-s Susan McKinney, daughter >>i' the late John
\ McKinney, and has ever sini I in Kogersville.
Of the six children l>orn to them only two are living,
to wit : Eliza, the wife of Judge Carrick W. Heiskell,
of Memphis, and Margaret, the wife of Mr. Joseph ('.
Stamps, who, with his family, now occupies the family
man-ion at Rogersville.
Back in the old days of Whiggery and Democracy,
Mr. Metherland was often called into service. In the
LS39 10 II. when folk was defeating Cannon
and James C. Jones was coming upon the politieal
scene, there was a demand for local politicians of
eharaeter and influence, folk had defeated Cannon
and carried the Legislature. The next year the Whigs
deterini 1 to secure the State. Hawkins eounty was
missed battle ground. Mr. Metherland was pressed
into the service as a candidate for representative, and
although Gov. folk had carried the county by -ix
hundred and twenty-five majority, Mr. Metherland was
only defeated b} the seam majority »i' one hundred
\ otes.
It should have been stated that in 1S36 Mr. Mether-
land was elector for Judge Hugh Law -on White tor
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the presidency. Twelve year- later, in 1848, be was
elector for the State at large for Taylor and Filln
his associate on the ticket being James C. Jom
The ticket was succi ful in thi 3tat< a in thi Union,
by a handsome majority. In this contest Mr. Nether-
land chief competitor was Judge William T. Brown,
of Memphi I hough hi had - era! d with
Hon. Aaron V. Brown, who was on the Ca
ticket,
In 1851 Mr, Netherland was elected reprt enl
from Hawkins county, and served his county most
honorably.
In 1-5:1 the Whig or " Opposition " party, with but
little prospect of success in the State, demanded a
candidate, and Mr. Netherland, being unanimously
nominated bj of the mosl creditable conventions
ever assembled in Nashville, accepted the nomination,
and was 0f course defeated But few of the intelligent
men of his pai ty had expected any other result, nor had
Mr. Netherland himself
Upon the breaking out of the civil war Mr. Nether-
land's convictions led him to adhere to the cause of the
I Ihion. I ndeed, « hile 1 he quest ion >.-, as 3 • 1 an open
one, his outspoken and eloquent opposition to thi
secession movement, in co-operation with Andrew
Johnson, Thomas A I!. Nelson and other popular
leaders of like opinions, did much to develop and 1 on
firm that devoted feeling with which a majority of the
people of East Tennessee clung to thi Union through-
out tin' war. After the conclusion of pi ici ho
although he had keenly felt, in person and property,
1I1. consequences "I' his own personal position through
out iIh- struggle, he became at once tin- champion of
toleration ami Forgiveness. He approved the main
features of President Johnson's administration, ami
inci that period, though -till cherishing with knightly
affection his "old Whig love," In1 has given hi- ■
thies and support to the Democratic party.
In 1870 Mr. Netherland was chosen a member of the
convention i" revise the Stair constitution of Tennes-
see. His services in that body were conspicuous for
t heir conservative character.
Mr. Netherland never held nor seriously sought any
position in tin- Federal government. A foreign mission
was tendered to him by President Johnson, hut ho re-
spectfully declined it.
'I'ln- later years id' Mr. Netherland's life, until mis
fortune in tin- shape of a serious bodily affliction
pro n it'll him, were devoted to his profession of tin-
law. In tin- brief space allowed to thi biographer
full justice can scarcely be done to such a representative
'l''i 1 1 Hon. John Netherland. It is not solely
as a lawyer that In- ha- iu.nl. his distinguished reputa-
tion, although in his profession he has long command, d
thi ery IV1.n1 rank a- an advocate at the bar Few
ers in East Tennessee win. have .". er en it ri d
him will in. 1 I'l.ni . .1.' 1 hat he is oni 1 most sue
er made an appeal to an East
Tennessee jury.
But, as we have intimated, it is not a- a lawyer or
politician that Mr. Sutherland's characti r best appears,
[t is not too much to say that there is no man in all the
State who has better ami more charming command of
a social circle than John Netherland. A political rival,
win. afterwards became hi- devoted friend, once deris-
ed him "the tall and stately Netherland."
! ippellation has often been repeated in kindness by
hi- friends. The designation was universally recog
nized a- a most apt one. I'm- while Mr. Netherland —
being but little abov. ... not of re-
' when in \ 'igorous health, he had
a certain stateliness o\ bearing that rendered the de-
scription nC " tall peculiarly appropriate, [ndeed, in
hi- prime, I man of remarkable personal figure,
one calculati d t.i attract attention on any promenade or
11 r throng [n addition, he had. in a mark, d di
what may be call kh of physiognomy. His face
wa- most striking and impressive -even- as wrath it-elf
when indignation or other strong feeling moved him.
ami yet. a- hi- imn.il chat tening into a counte
nance thai attracted by it.- pli I char
acteristics ally noticeable in his efforts at the
bar, ami contributed much to his wonderful powei
1 1. •■.11!. I . If. et as much by a look and a nod,
a- a^y man the writer ever saw. It was often remarked
by those, who had seen both men. that in many
respects he was ■ of Gen. Jackson, lie was
fond uf polite society in which he was ever a favorite
Hi- manners were always courtly. Gentility is a part
nf his mil I' ' .
None hold, or ever held, Mr. Netherland in higher
e-i... m than hi- brethren of the bar. With him pro
fessional courtesy was ever a cardinal virtue, ami a
breach of professional honor was abhorrent to his
nat ure. lie-iil. lid .1 qualities, enliven-
ing always the otherwise tedious hours of a slow drag-
ging court term, or the long dreary rid.- around the
circuit, as in the olden time, made him a favorite com-
panion always among hi- associate lawyers, to whom his
inimitably-told and continually-flowing stories were
as food and drink along the way. In the traditions of
the East Tennessee bar the "anecdotes" of John
Netherland will live through get tions.
'I'll.- sum of his personal afflictions has been heavy.
Tin- loss of children "m- a lovely daughter, under
hocking accidental circumstances; the other, an
only son. bearing his name, a noble, generous and gifted
young lawyer, full of promise that he would worthily
his father's nam.- these, added to a most
severe personal injury, which has made him a per-
manent cripple, won]. I -.-.-in tu have been enough to
break the spirit of a man of si vi n. Yet, while
this biography is being prepared, there is not a brighter
spirit than John Netherland's, nor i- there a parlor in
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Tennessee in which the visitor is greeted with a more liis charming discourse. Throughout his life he li
genial entertainment. His fund of anecdote and wit. been a mosl " neighborly " man, having sacrificed most
from which bis conversation was always most piquant l.\ of bis hard earned fortune in the interest of friends.
and enjoyabl) enriched, remains still unexhausted. Of course bis lengthened span of life is now measured
His memory of the events of his own life and of bis and has not much further extent. But his record is
very extensive reading, remains undinuned, and bis secure lie will leave to his descendants a rich legae)
old friends 1 neighbors find no icial pleasure in tin- memory thai he lived 1 died an honest
i ban in "dropping in and listening to the real music of man.
GEN. JOHN M. D. MITCHELL,
LIVINGSTON.
TIIK subject of this sketch, a nephew of Hon. W.
\Y. Goodpasture, was born in Jackson (now Cla) I
county, Tennessee, April 12, 1851, the sen of Dennis
Mitchell. His mother, Margaret G [pasture, was the
daughter of John Goodpasture and wife, Margery, nn
B ry an .
Mr. Mitchell was educated in the schools and acade-
my of Overton county, and was himself superintendent
of public instruction in that county some two years.
lb- administration of ibis trust passed with most
favorable criticism. After reading law one year#ith
his uncle, Hon, \Y. W. Goodpasture, he entered the
law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon,
from which he graduated in 187(1, his diploma bearing
the honored names of lions. Robert I.. Caruthers,
Nathan Gr distinguished members of
that faculty. In l^Tti, Gen. William Gullom having
id the office o! attoi ral of the sixteenth
judicial circuit, for the purpose of running for Congress
in tin1 Knoxville district, (!ov. James I). Porter coin
missioned Mr. Mitchell to fill the vacancy. At the
November. I87(i, lerm of the circuit court of Anderson
county, Tennessee, Judge l>. K. Young presiding Mr
Mitchell appeared for the first time, both as a 1.
and attorm tl, wit bout an) practice as ;i I
or experience He was somewhat awkward.
being unfamiliar with court proceedings, and with
nothing to recommend him but bom nrpose, the
ability to succeed, and an unc picrable will to know
and do his duty. By constant application, assisted
[hilly by his admiring friend. Judge Young,
the rough ashlar soon became the polished marble. In
a rcmarkabl) short period in bis official career, he
developed into a power that was felt in all the counties
of the circuit. In the prosecution ofhis official duties
i brought into contact « itb such ex d and
• (Jen. William Cullom, of
Clinton. Col, W. A. II
orator. Col. Henr\ R. Gibson ami Ma.i. I.. A. Grata, of
Knoxville. and ' an and ox-Jndffo John P.
Murray, of Gainesborough, and proved himself on all
dons a man among men.
At the genera] election of 1878 be was a candidate
for election before the people of the circuit, and made
t be race against two gentlemen of acknowledged ability,
ami by reason of the satisfactory manner in which be
discharged lii- duties under (low Porter's appointment,
he was triumphantly elected. Up to this time be bad
developed into an efficient prosecutor, and was a terror
to wrong doer-. He was admired most for stating his
propositions of law clearly and in the fewest possible
words, limiting his speeches to about ten minutes, riveting
' the facts upon the minds of his jurymen, and in an unusu-
ally large number of ease- securing convictions.
But the main characteristics of Gen. Mitchell as a
prosecutor were, that be- knew bis eases, knew the facts,
and would never let his grand juries make mistakes.
He was as careful that the innocent should not lie
falsely accused as thai the guilt) should be convicted.
He stood like a wall of fire around the ii cent, but
against the guilt) be proceeded as with a two edg< d
sword. In a short notice ok bis death, written by
Judge Young, occur these words: "The power of the
man consisted not in education and culture, but in the
force of native intellect, and the confidence tb<- people
bad in bis integrity."
As a friend be was genial and companionable. They
loved him most who knew him best. His morals were
good. It is said he never swore an oath. Shortly
before bis death be professed religion, was baptized and
received into the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
lie never married. Hi- father having died when the
-on was only four months old. be was raised by bis
widowed mother, and was a self made man.
His mother. Mrs. Margaret Mitchell, is still living at
Tennessee, with her other son, Isaiah \V.
Mitchell, a prosperous farmer. The subject of this
si, i. b died dune 18, 1SS4, aged thirty-three years two
months and six days, and was buried at Good Hope
church, mar Livinsston.
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At the firsl court held in the judicial circuit of
which he was attorney feneral. at Wartburg, Morgan
county Tenne & after his death, a memorial meeting
of the bar and people was convened in the eourl In. use,
the first Monday in July, 1884, which adopted resolu-
tions highly complimentary and heart-felt, which
demonstrate his standing as a representative lawyer
and representative Tcnnessean. He died in the prime
of life, and it is -till said in judicial and legal circles,
his circuil will scarcely ever see his equal as a pi
cutor. Judge SToung, under whom he practiced during
his entire official term, said of him: "He was the
most efficient prosecutor I have known during mj
cut ire life as a lawyer or as a judge."
ROBERT FRANK EVANS, M. D.
SHELBYVILLE.
DR. ROBERT FRANK EVANS was born Vugu I
24, 1821, in Caroline county, Virginia, and re
moved to Bedford county, Tennessee, in \<>'l. with his
hither. David S. Evans. His mother was Judith
Bowlware, and was a worthy representative el' that
grand old family. There was a lane family, but
Robert was the only son. His father enga d in farm-
ing until 1837, when he tools charge ol the leading
hotel at Shelbyville, the house, which still stands,
''The Evans House," having been built by him. The
son was partlj educated in Virginia and partly at the
Dixon Academy, Shelbyville, and in 1843 commenced
the study of medicine with Dr. <i. W. Fogleiuan, who,
at that time, was doing a large and lucrative practice.
Tii the autumn of 1845 he went to Louisville, Kentucky,
goi tg through the country in a buggy, and attended the
medical department of the University of Louisville,
and listened to the lectures of such eminent medical
educators as Profs. Gross, Drake, Cobb, Miller, Cald-
well and others. Returning home, he pursued his
studies until tin' following autumn, when he went to
Philadelphia, and entered the medical department of
the University of Pennsylvania, where he had the ben-
efit ol the teachings of Profs. Horner, Gibson, Wood,
Hare, Chapman, Jackson 1 Meigs, who, at that day,
were regarded as great lights in the profession. Receiving
his degree ami diploma in April, 1847, Dr. Evans
returned to Shelbyville, and practiced his profession
there until the spring of 1851, when a partj of friends —
four other young men beside himself — went to Cali-
fornia, being attracted by the wonderful stories of that
wonderful country. Dr. Evans also feeling the ne-
cessity of some change to repair the ill health he
had fallen into from too much confinement ami
application
The party left home in April, 1851, ami went to New
Orleans on the steamboat "America," and from New
I Irleans to Chagres on a sailiioj vessel. I tiring a native
ami a innle to transfer baggage, they walked across the
isthmus of Darien to Panama, where they hail to wait
twai weeks for an opportunity to get to the land of gold.
Finally they secured passage on hoard a French ship,
which getting out <>f provisions ami water, and meeting
with severe storms, had to put into the Sandwich
Islands, ami they spent ten days at Honolulu. They
landed at San Francisco, August 12, 1851. Strikim.'
out for the mines, they were soon in the rough and
I mining region of th.it time. Tim kind of life
they led working with pick and shovel and rocker,
sleeping on the ground in the open air, and having only
a very plain diet i restored Dr. Evans' health and
strength, ami when the keen relish of the new life had
Worn off. he returned to his home and resumed the
practice of medicine in the summer of 1852. lie lias
continued steadily at practice ever since, leading the
life incident to the calling going at all time-, in all
kinds of weather, trying to help the afflicted and dis-
tressed, and do -nine good fir hi- fellow man.
Dr. Evans has been a Mason for many years, and pre-
sided as Master of Shelbyville Benevolent Lodge, No.
122, for sis or seven years, and as High Priest ol Tanne-
hill Chapter, No. in. Royal Arch Masons about the
-"ne length of time: was created a Knight Templar in
Nashville < 'omnia, nlcry. No. 1. in 1859, ami retain- his
membership in all the branches of Masonry at the
presi tit time, and ha evertried to live up to the d
standard taught by this noble order.
Dr. Evans was an early advocate of county medical
societies, ami upon the organization of the Bedford
count\ society, served as secretary ami president for
! term-. He is also a member of the Shelbyville
Board of Health, ami has I n since its organization in
1879. He became a member of the State medical
society of Tennessi e mani years since, has been a regu
lar attendant upon its annual meetings, and is a con-
tributor to its literature, as well a- to the medical pros.
At the State society meeting in .Memphis, in 1878, he
was elected president, and served as such fir the year
(re-election not being allowed under the rules). As
pie ident, he had the good ami interest of the society
at heart, ami desired that it might e doing good,
benefitting the profession and the people of tin- State
His medical reputation i- with the people of his own
ami adjoining counties, where he i- content to leave it
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he < 1 i .1! I'll ■. :> i hi summons liini to rest from
his lain
In a financial -.ii- Dr. HIvans is in excellent cir-
cumstances, nwi : : ! : ■ I !<i director
of the Shclhy\ ilk' N;ii ional Bank.
Dr. I'iVan married Miss Julia Iv Greer February
11. lSTid, and (here were two children born to them, a
(Liu .-l, The mother died in < (etober, IS59,
and in ihf folio wins summer both cdiildren went to. join
her in the blessed country where there is no sickness or
death.
He married a second time, December 24, 1867, Mrs.
Man Coldwell Fite, maiden name Man Summers
Coldwell, widow of Jacob (' Fite, who had two ehil
dren, both living (1) Dr. Campbell Coldwell Fite,
who studied inedieinc with I 'r, I 1 practiced
in partnership with him nearly sis years, until he
moved lo Nashville, in ISSIS, to practice there, having
been i ected cretarj and executive officer of the State
Board of Health. (2). Jennie Nixon Fite, who married
\ M M 'e, of the I nited States navj . There
are two children b.\ the present marriage, Stella and
Mavj Frank lOvans.
Dr. Kvans has always been noted for his quiet and
i'iiI methods of life, has the respect of his entire
acquaintance, and is held up as an example of what a
man should be in all the relations of lili\ He is a
member of the Protestant Fpiseopal church, and has
been for years senior warden of the church at Shelby-
villa. Christianity with him is not a theory, but a fact.
Only those who know him intimately know his greatest
virtues,
1'. 11. McBRIDE, M.D.
WAll.
Dll, P. II. McBBl DE, N'oah, Tennessee, was born
December 27, IS25, at Beech Grove, Coffee
county, Tennessee. 1 1 t ■ — boyhood days were spent on
the farm and in attending the county schools of that
place. He early manifested a desire to study medicine,
but not having the means to do so, apprenticed himsi Ii
to a blacksmith, and at the end of two years, having
mastered his trade, began business foi himself. In
1846 lie enlisted in ('apt. L. D. Newman's company for
the Mexican war. and was elected second sergeant.
He served twelve months, the term of his enlistment,
and. on account of sickness, was honorably diseh i d
at New Orleans, Louisiana, in May. 1 ^ 17. ^fter re-
turning home he finished his education in the winter of
LS IT 18, :ii Manchesl m.\ M inchest r, Tennes
see. From IS4S to 1S51 he was a farmer and black-
smith, dividing his time between the two occupations.
From 1S51 tn 1861 he added to, his tasks the study of
medicine, making it a rule to read until twelve o'clock
at night, and catching a preceptor whenever he could.
When the war between the States broke out he volun-
teered in Col. John II. Savage's Sixteenth Tennessee
regiment, and served for twelve mouths as color bearer
of thai gallant command. In 1862 he was commis
by Hon. Judith P. Benjamin, Secretan ir the
ederate States, to enlist a company of mounted
men, to be selected from the Sixteenth Temi
Mounting and i his men, lie attached his emu
ma nil to Col. Staines' ft ginient at Chattai ga, in ISG2.
His command was theil made the advance guard of
Gen. Iv Kirliy Smith's army in the Kentucky campaign,
and participated with credit in the sanguinary battle of
Kichinnnd. Kentucky. After returnini; from this
campaign, lie was attached to Gen. Forrest's emu ma ml
until October, 1864, during which period lie was in all
the numerous battles, skirmishes and raid- of Forrest's
cavalry. His company was considered one of the very
best in the Confederacy, ami was among the last to
surrender. Owing to great exposure ami the awful
■ of the campaigns through which he passed, Dr.
McBride's health again broke down, ami in October,
1864, he was ordered to the hospital indefinitely, being
unlit for duty. In the November following, being able
ivel, he returned home, where he remained the
rest el the war.
\lier the war. his property all gone, lie again took to
hi- trade, at which he continued until 1868. when he
i io Noah Fork on Duck river, where he now
lives, and where he began the practice el' medicine.
Quite a number of old and successful practitioners live
in his neighborhood, but 1 > \ closely applying himself.
Dr. McBride has gained a good practice, and has.
especially, the treatment of nearly all the chronic cases
around him. More than this, he has built up a good
name, as an honorable, straightforward man, correct in
all his dealings, and is a citizen of first-class standing
and urea! popularity.
Asa politician Dr. McBride is known a- :i Democrat.
staunch and true. In 1S70 be was a candidate for the
State Senate, having a- his competitor Hon. George
MeKnight and Col. -I. II. Hughes. Dr. McBride
received a large majority in his county and everj x"i«'
in hi- ci\ il district. In ISS2 he made a short canvass for
representative, hut as there were so many candidates in
the field, he withdrew before the election, so as not to
defeat the partvlicket leain, ill 1SS4, he Was a Can-
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didate for the Senate from his districl and wa elected
I,-. .1 handsome majority, the full Democratic vote. He
served with ability and influence in the Tenm
Legislature of L885, and made many additional
friends by his firm and unflinching stand on all vital
quest tons.
His faith has alwaj been in the Methodist church,
of which organization lie bas been a member for forty
years. His family is also "I' tin- same faith, excepl one
sun. He has always heen a careful, prudent, econom
ical man, though of a liberal ami hospitable nature,
lie forms hie plans with deliberation ami caution,
ami then concentrates bis vehole mind in accomplish
them.
Dr. McBride married, \nvn-i 17. 1848, Miss Eliza
In ih S. Emerson, daughter of Gen. Hiram S. Emerson.
She is a woman of manj 1 traits, religious in ber
nature, and a model wife and mother Fivi children
have been born to them, four sons and one dau
1 I). William II. McBride, born al Manchester, Ti n
uessee; now merchandi ing al Noah, Tenm mar-
ried Miss Ella Farrar, who died in January, L884,
leaving two children I md Arthur. (2). Tl
.M. McBride, born Maj 9 1850; now farming at Noah.
(3). P. II. McBride, born Jai rj 24 L855; now a
merchant al Morrison Station, Warren county, Ten-
married March I. 1 385, Miss Mary Lee Keel,
daughter of J. W. Kei I (4). B. II. McBride, born in
now a farmer al Noah. (5). Mary C. McBride
born July 2, 1862.
The McBride familj are of Scotch-Irish descent. Dr.
McBride mdfather was Dr. Daniel McBride,
of Dublin, Ireland. His son, John McBride, i ami
from Ireland, lived a while in Virginia, and then emi
grated to Tennessee and was one of the firsl settlers of
Bedford county. His son, William McBride, father of
Dr. P. II. McBride was born December 28, 1791, at
i.ni e Virginia. William McBride wa
id propi iiy. and for many years was a magistrate
and chairman of the countj court of Bedford county.
From 1851 to 1855 be was revenue collector of Coffee
county. Il«' wa married in Bi dford i i Miss
Millie Conwell, daughter of John Conwell, who -■
the whole of the Revolutionary war as a private.
HON. ROBERT McFARLAXl*.
M OlililSTO WN.
HON. ROBERT McFARLAND, at present one
of the Supreme Judges of Tennessee, was born
in Jefferson county, Tennessee, \|>nl 15 1832. He i-
the -"ii of Col. Robert McFarland, a native of thi
county, who in earlj life was a lieutenant in the regular
United State armj serving during the war of 1812 at
Lundy's L Fort Erii and other m
ments. Soon after the wai bi resigned, and returned
tu his native county, married, and settled down as a pri-
vate citizen, following the occupation of a tanner. He
wa colonel of militia, and for many years a justice oi
the peace. He died in Kentucky in August, I- II
while mi his return from Missouri, at the age of fifty-
five years. He was a man of the highest personal in-
tegrity, ami commanded universal respect when
was known. One of his great purposes in life was to
give bis children all the educational advantages with-
in his reach. He was in religion a Presbyterian and in
politics a WIhl'. His father was also known as Col.
Robert McFarland, and was a native of Virginia, but
removed to Tennessee at an early day: was thi
sheriff of Jefferson county ; was a noted Indian fighter
in the early settlement of tl tnt; a man of vigo
run- character, and prominent in hie county during his
life. His death occurred about 1838. The McFarland
family originally came from the highlands of Sco
Judge MeFarland's mother was born in Jeff
county, Ti m ci I he da lighter of Jami - Scott, a
Scotch Irish Presbyterian, who, with bis wife, emi- rated
from Ireland and settled in Jefferson county at an -
, In i e In- spent the remainder of his life, an ardent
Presbyterian elder. His daughter, the mother of Judge
McFarland oman of most '-■ celleni characti r,
of quick mind and remarkable energy, and was loved
and respected by every one. She was also a Pn
rian. Her death occurred in February, 1866 at thi
of sixty six.
The brothers and sisters oi Judgi McFarland, in the
order of their agi n follows: (1). Isaac B. McFar
land, a half-brother, of Brenham, Texas, who for many
ha - been judge of I he districl court in that Stati .
(2). William McFarland, who, for a short time
of the second Tennessee circuit by appointment
of Gov. D. W. C. Set represented the first Tennes
i | ii'ict in Congress Prom 1-71 to lv7d. and is still a
prominent and leading citizen, and resides at Morris
town. (3). Mrs. II. M. Barton, the wife of Judge B M.
Bi n. now oft Ihattai ?a. I I > Mrs Jom - w h
many years ago, the wife of Thomas M. Jones. (5)
Mr M C Smith thi f Rev. VV. II. Smith. (6
.Mrs. Emma Kidwell, the wife of R. J. Kidwell. 7
Robert McFarland, subject of this sketch. 8), Mar;
A. McFarland, I tngesl who died in 1-7H. the wife
of Wm. II. Turley.
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There was nothing in the boyhood of Judge McFar
land i" attract attention. He was regarded as a rather
dreary, listless boy. An eccentric Irishman once made
a remark about him that afforded infinite amusement to
his brothers and sisters. Said the Irishman, "B
poor boy, will never be wise. He attended the com-
mon schools of the county, where he acquired such
knowledge and instruct ion a- could not well be avoided :
afterwards attended Tusculum College for ;i short time,
ami also a high-school ai Greeneville, but bis school
ell iicai ion was very incomplete. V i the age of nineteen
In- began the study of law with hi- brother-in-law,
Judge Barton, at Greeneville, making hi- house bis
home. Ho does nol remember, however, that the se-
lection of tin' law as bis profession was ever determined
upon by himself; bis brother and brother-in-law merely
determined to make a lawyer of him, nolens rolens, and
be simply acquiesced. He gratefully acknowledges bis
obligations to them, ami in fact to the entire family, for
their assistance and encouragement. He resided sev-
eral years at Greeneville, at the home of Judge Barton,
ami tn the assistance received from him and Mrs. Bar-
ton be attributes the greater part of whatever ;ui
i with in after life.
Mr was licensed in 1854 bj Judge McKinney, of the
Supreme Court, and Chancellor Lucky, and I
practice in the counties oi Greene, Jefferson, and others
adjoining, his partner in Greeneville being Col. Robert
Johnson, sun of the late President Andrew Johnson,
and in the other counties he formed partnerships with
bis preceptor, Judge Barton, and the late Montgomery
Thornburgh.
On May 17. 1859, he married Miss Jennie Baker, a
daughter of 11. 1!. Baker, a merchant of Greeneville.
They shortly after tool, up their residence at 1 landridge,
Jefferson county, hut their home was soon broken up
1>\ the war, Judge McFarland volunteering in the Con-
federate army in the hitter part of 1S61, Lie bi
if Col. Bradford's regiment, Thirty first Teun
infantry, afterwards mounted, and in thai capacity
served to the end iA' tin- war. participating in tin- Ken-
tucky campaign, the defense of \'icksburg, with Gen.
Jubal Early in his raid mi Washington Citj in 1864,
and in many cavalry engagements.
After the war lie returned to his native county.
where, however, it was verj difficult to remain, owing
to prejudices engendered by the war. and the mob spirit
prevailing against returned ) te soldiers, lie
did remain, however, being countenanced and sustained
by a few personal friends on the 1 uiou side, and be es-
1 tally acknowledges the generous and manly treat-
ment be received from Col. J. M. Thornburgh, of the
federal army. who. though an antagonist in anus, was
a warm personal friend, lie also mentions oilier- to
whom he is under like obligations, lie resumed the
practice of the law in the same counties, in partnership
with lv. M. McKci . Esq., of Greeneville. and Col.
Thornburgh in the other counties. In 18(59 Tube was
on two or three occasions appointed special judge of
the Supreme Court bj Gov. Senter. On the resignation
of I Ion. 'I' ho-. A. If Nelson, he was appointed bj Gov.
John C. Brown, December 11. L871, to till the vacancy
on the Supreme bench. In August following In
elected to the ollioe. defeating Col. J. B. Cooke, an able
and popular lawyer of Chattanooga. At the geucral
election in August. 1878, he was again elected for the
term expiring September 1, 18S6.
The element- of success in Judge Mcl'arlands char
acter, or such as his friends attribute to him, are i- h
and simple, but they have enabled him to overcome
many obstacles. In the first place he has steady, well-
formed moral habits, and i- noted for bis perfei I hon-
esty. He has succeeded in impressing those with whom
be has come in contact with his faultless candor and
high sense of fairness. In the next place, the -election
of the law as hi- profession was. in the light of after
developments, verj fortunate He think- it doubtful
if he would have met with even moderate slice.-- in
any other calling, hut. as was said of him by the late
Chief Just ii < Nicholson, " He i- a horn lawyer."
He possesses an almost intuitive perception of legal
principles and the faculty of practically applying them.
He i- not a systematic student, nor very industrious,
: when actively engaged in the management of
causes, or on the bench, wheu he works with earnest!] --
and vigor. At the ha r he was not an mat or or an advo-
vocate, but was regarded as a close, zealous, intense,
and logical legal debater, tn social life he is rather
diffident and retiring, but in the management of causes
he has sufficient self-confidence to enable him to act
with promptness and decision. He is not of a popular
turn, and mixes poorly with the general public, but he
is apt to make fast friends of the few with whom he is
intimately associated. In all his c luet there is an
absence of anj effort at display, a contempt for .sham
and pretense. As a judge he is laborious and careful.
His mind i- well balauced and eminently judicial in its
character. He has few, if any hobbies, and is as free
from improper influences as a judge well can fe. [f bis
judgment i- ever disturbed, it is by bis sympathy for
or and oppressed, for notwithstanding his calm
and quiet exterior, he has the gentlest emotions and
tenderest sympathies. The controlling motive of his
actions is a sense of duty, a love of justice aiTil the
right.
Judge McFarland has been most happy in his domes-
tic relations. His wife is in every sense a congenial
spirit- gentle, quiet, affectionate, and faithfully devoted
to her husband and family. Thej have three children,
Misses Anna and Emma, educated at Ward's Seminary,
Nashville, and Henry, a youth of seventeen, w ho says
he is destined for the law. Judge McFarland and his
wife are Presbyterians, and he is in politic- a Democrat,
and a lloyal Arch Mason, lie is live feet, ten inches
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in beigbtj and of very light, slender build. For the
past two years he has been severely afflicted with rheu-
matism, but rarely misses his posl of duty.
Judge Robert McFarland died at his home in Morris
town, on the morning of the 2d of October, 1 - - 1 mi
rounded by his wife and children, his brother and one
of his sisters, and ;i few other friends, apparently in
possession of his faculties almost to the moment of dis-
solution. He had been laboring under an attack of
rheumatism for nearly two years, and had visited riot
Springs, Arkansas, and spent part of the previous
winter in Florida, in the hope of .obtaining relief, but
without success. The ri mi dies administered to ai
the disease seriously affected l; ich, and at last,
his lungs becoming involved death ensued. No man
ever displa i pal ience oi moi e i esignation to his
fate He was long confined to his room, and saw but
few persons, excepl such of his personal friends as
call* '1 upon him ; yet he \ ev< cru erful, and often,
in his way, indulged in pleasantry with those who called
to - " him.
He was a quiet, unobtrusive, retiring man, distant
and diflident in his inters h he world, ai
formed for popularity with the ma o well was
he known and appreciated by the people, thai he had
the unbounded confidence and esl I al] |
Dying in tin- midst of the people with whom In
born and reared, he died without an enemy, [f there
is a man in the limits of the State who ever doubted
his honesty ami integrity, we have never heard of him.
His brethren of the bar throughout the State have
testified as to their appreciation of his character as a
man. and as to his ability as a lawyer and a judge.
From the tribute to hi.- memory, adopted l>\ the
Supreme court bar of Easl Tennessee, shortly after his
death, we copy the following .in si i si im tte of the
character of J iidge McFarland :
Considered, as nun or judge, the simplicity and purity of his
character is a delightful object of contemplation. His sentiments
were 1 of I I eanor modest and unassuming
to diffidence. He was kind, liberal ai as, Blow to pi
scrupulously faithful in performance ; grateful for personal favors,
and never forgetful of obligation. Though lacking in effusive
affection, there was unswerving fidelity in his friendship, Strong
in convictions of right, he was singularly free from bigotry and
fanaticism. Courteous and polite in his association, he had many
friends; but his confidence and intimacy were reserved for a few.
He met cordially men of all classes, but commanded respect for
his office from all by the quiet dignity of hie character and unpre-
tentious purity of his life. He was do politician, and do one ever
ed him of fa ■ "' or policy in his judicial ol ( I
without display or pi iri table witho
ostontat on, 1 I con-seei ated to dul v.
ace, vanity or sell : to the
I exposition
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remarkable degree, the trust o
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His disposi a nd habit was, if p ■.-■ ible, to
detennini cas< application of fundamental princi]
law to the fa sts. In thi
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unadorned, void of slm \h
will ever seek his opinioi
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His sense of ju tice of right pro
above all to* ■ for la w. If" could i ■
to permit hard cases to make bad law.
1 n a mars ed io, be had the judicial tem] ent, and
ilar freedom from the pride of opinion. He weighed and
ments with n I be law and its re-
quirements. If he had prejudice, he conquered it: if prei
tion of the law, he I it, and listened patiently to adverse
views; if he had erred, In was open to o rrection, and readily re-
called an erroneous opinion.
No impertinent sugges ion, Icration,
i to divert bis mind from the matter to be decide I.
entirely judicial was he, so de/oted to the solution of tin* legal
problems before him, that nothint rupt his
steady and even pi - conclusion; this was reached only
after ;i painstaking investigation and impartial consideration of
all the material facts in tin e him. Hi- personality
never obtrusive, was lost, or rather absorbed, in legal refl
so that when he announced his decision, i
so much the opinion of the court, oin an<i
inevitable judgment of the law.
[n correctness of decision, the highest test of a supreme
l.i had no superior. He was not as learned a la v, yer as ft) ■
as exact and precise as McKinncy, but in clearness of perc<
soundness of judgment and ceision, he rivaled
either. The country cai n Story, a Kent and a Mar-
shall; East Tennessee has had her Reese, her McKinney and her
McFarland.
The judicial record of Judge McFarland's el
years' continuous sen ice on the Supreme bench of
Tennessee is contained in the Reports from 3 Heiskell
to JO Lea, inclusive, id i free from error as any in
the annals of the judicial history of the State.
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borough and Nashville, and putting under contract
tlic unfinished portion between Evansville and Nash-
ville. He next, with the aid of his own and his friends'
Murk, boughl fin- his company a controlling interest in
the Western ami Atlantic railroad, from Chattanooga
to Atlanta; afterwards contracting for his company to
lease the Central railroad of Georgia, together with all
its branches and leased lines, about one thousand miles,
with its splendid steamship line. He then had control
of two thousand miles uf road : but, having flanked his
rival, the Louisville and Nashville railroad company,
in the West and in the Smith, that company bought in
New York city, in January, 1880, a majority id' the
stnek in the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway, and Mr. Cole resigned.
He was for twelve years vice-president, and one of the
lessees of the State road of Georgia since 1871, and siill
holds the latter relation to that road. On May 27. 1880,
he was elected president of the East Tennessee. Virginia
and Georgia railroad company, having control also oi the
Memphis and Charleston railroad. While president of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, he
formed in New York the syndicate with Mr. George I.
Seney and others, by which he extended the line of his
road to .Meridian, Mississippi, and to Brunswick mi the
Atlantic, and by extending the Knoxville branch to
the State line of Kentucky, and by contracts with the
Kentucky Central and the Louisville ami Nashville,
secured connections from the West to the Atlantic, via
Knoxville and Atlanta. Having large private interests
requiring his personal attention, and desiring some
recreation after many years of close attention to busi-
ness, he resigned the presidency of the Mast Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad in May. 1SS2.
Since then .Mr. Cole has contributed largely to the
prosperity of Nashville by the erection of several large
business blocks. The one on the corner of Union and
Cherry streets, the Cole building, is considered the
handsomest in the South. In the room at the corner
of this building, fitted up with all modern improve-
ments and almost without regard to cost, Mr. Cole
inaugurated and opened to public favor, September 1,
18S3, " The American National Bank," with a capital
of six hundred thousand dollars. The rush to
subscribe for stock in his bank was unprecedented
in the history of banking in Nashville. He took the
presidency himself, and after managing this financial
institution tin- about six months, witli the assistance of
his able cashier, he established its credit so high that
lie was enabled to consolidate with it the Third National
Bank of Nashville, an old and prosperous bank, well
established iii the confidence of the public. This per-
mitted him to withdraw from the details of hanking,
which are not particularly tasteful to him. lie was
mainly instrumental in reorganizing the American
National Bank after its consolidation, with a capital of
one million dollars, and electing John Kirkman presi
dent, John M lea and Edgar -Jones vice presidents,
ami \ W. Harris cashier, accepting himself the place
of chairman of il xeeutive committee. I nder this
strong organization this bank has become one of the
most important financial institutions in the South.
In the basement story below the American National
Bank, a story absolutely lire-proof, with tiled tl ing.
elegantly lilted up offices and coupon rooms, and an
enormous burglar and fire proof vault for the public,
containing eight hundred safes or apartments for pn lie
use, Mr. Cole inaugurated the Safe Deposit, Trust and
Banking company, which is destined to be a bli
not only to Nashville but to die surrounding country.
Nothing, however, seems too much for his indomitable
will and energy to accomplish. Ili< powers of combi-
nation are wonderful, and while not neglecting the
minutest detail, his mind seems to grasp readily and
with ease and to put together aggregates in harmonious
relation- that would stagger and confuse most mind-.
.Mr. Cole's persomu 1 is very striking, lie is fifty eight
years old, id' tall, commanding figure, weighs two hun-
dred and twenty-five pounds, is remarkably well pre-
served: Ids manner is grave and polished. He has
almost magnetic influence over men. which is partly
accounted for by the justness and liberality of his
opinions and actions. As an illustration of this may
be mentioned his opposition to extreme railroad b-L-i -bi-
timi by the Tennessee Legislature of 1882-83. Contrary
to tic- advice of friend.-, he stood up against such
legislation, ami in a most elaborate and exhaustive
speech, at the grand opera house in Nashville, mi Feb-
ruary 27, 1883, against the measures op the lull then
pending in the Legislature, drew public attention to
the matter : and what was known as the caucus railroad
commission bill, with plenary powers, was superseded
by one only advisory in terms.
Mr. Cole has Keen pecuniarily a verj successful man.
He is by long odds the largest owner of city property in
Nash\ tile, besides having extensive real estate interests
elsewhere. At the same time he has been a liberal and
public-spirited citizen: there is scarcely one public
enterprise, educational, religious or charitable, in the
city built in his time to which he has not been a con-
tributor. In politics In.' is a Democrat, in religion, as
before said, a Methodist, but he is broad-minded, and
never finds fault with others about either their political
or religious views, lie is an active and influential
member of the Slate Board of Health and of the
Tennessee Historical Society, is a Mason, and a patron
of literature, music and the fine arts. His home.
Terrace Place, in Nashville, is noted for its elegant
hospitably, and fully illustrates u ithin the motto. Salvt ,
over its entrance. I' has recently been remodeled and
improved, and is now. beyond doubt, one of the hand
-otiie-t and most truly palatial places in the South.
Mr. Cole has been twice married. first, to Miss
Louise McGavock Cytle, daughter of Archibald Lytic,
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miral in the I'nited States navy; James I' T.
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admitted i" the bar in the fall "I' 1858, and commcni ed
I >i-.-t< • i ice in i ei ln|' with i iicm I n Jnnuur; 180!
Mr Frizzcll retired from the linn, and Colyai A Mark
pi d i her. The nexl month Mark was [>nt
forward as the Union c lidatc for the c tul
convention, the Hon, Peter Turncj being opposed to
him as the secessi :andidatc, Mark liad hitherto
been idenl ified wil li the Brcckinrid if the Dem-
ocrat ie party. The 1 wo men had been inti irsonal
friend and 1 1 gh diarael ricallj oppo ed in politics,
made the canva s together, boarding lodging and riding
togi 1 her 1 hroughoul 1 hi e 1st, li is well known thai
Marl '...1 defeated and the State seceded. War bav
ing broken oul in con equence the two friends ran a
singular} parallel course. Both became cominaiidei
ol regiments, bol b « ere 1 fcrel; ■•■ uunded md bol li
» ■ e al 1 he ame 1 ime confi I to 1 heir beds I tn
for their wounds al Winche tor. To complete the
parallel, both I" 1 exactly the same number of men by
1 he ca 11 1I1 1' of war.
,1 udge Viark entered 1 he ' Confederate sen ii 1
captain of * ' pauj K Se> entei m li Tonne see regi
ini'iii of infatitrj . Tin regimi ril was included in < ien,
Zollicoffer's command, and was in all hi engage
tn the date of his deal h, al 1 he di a I ba 1 Ie of
Fishing Creek. In the affair al Llock Castle, oul of
eleven thousand 1 ly eleven were killed, and six
of these were members of Mark company. The rca on
of this was thai thai part of the bill attacked which
u.i opposite i" Mark command, was alone accessible,
while the troops lither side of it were unable to
ascend, so that the brunl of the battle was encountered
l.\ 1 li.ii one company. \ fter 1 he defeal and di al h of
Zollicoffer 1 he regimenl « a 1 ran ferred to 1 he com
iii.ni'l of 1 ren. Bushrod Johnson of II irdee corp
and participated in the engagements around Corinth,
where Marks became major, May, I862,and in the June
following assumed the command of the re al
colonel. This was when the armj was reorganized, and
the Seventeenth Tennessee formed part of Bucknei
command during the Kentucky campaign of 18CI2. In
this campaign he was appointed by Gen. Buckner to
the honor of receiving the surrender of the Federal
troops which were defeated at Mumfordsville, in Sep-
tember, 1862.
On the return of Buckuer's command to T
Gen. Buekner himself was ordered to take chargi
the depart me f V labama, with Mobile as hi head
quarters, His division was transferred to thi command
of < ren. Pat. < lleburne and with it, of cour 1 Marl
1 ni-iii. 1 11 1 his command 1 he regi 1 •■■■■ a 1
:m the battle of Murfreesborough, December 31, 1862
I there Col, Marks received a verysevere wound in
his right li"-' from a canister-shot, which ned itated
amputation below 1 he knee. To 1 he editor of 1 hi 1
ketches, on being a ked 1 he cause of his Iamene he
answered " through trifling with the I 1 \i the
same time hi compal ri nize in the mi
the c\ idi iici that he did his duty in defen
In 1 11 countr; I people. The Si 1 ntei nth
incut in that battle captured thn • battel ii I two
hundred and foi I) ix mi n I illed and wounded, and
upon the 1 ecommendation of Gen < lleburne I
, 1 . - 1 , t \)a; if placed il colom I naim 11] 1 he roll
of h ir. This terminated the milil 11 career of < lol.
Marks.
\ |'i, r 1 he close of the war he practici -I law for two
, I,, partner hip with hi former pal tin r V. S.
1 !(,] iir tin n Mr. Colyar moved to Nashville, in I Wfl
Mi partners then were! lapt. J. B. Fitzpatrick and I
T. I>. Gregory, with whom he practiced until 1870. A.I
1 1 . 1 latter date he wa elected chanci llor of the fourth
, hancer; divi ion of Tcnui cc to « hich offii e hi \
n - 1 1 ,11 he expiration ol his f i it term, 1878. II'
gained great credit while on the bench bj the 1 n
wit li which he pu died forward 1 he b hich had
accumulated through the proverbially dilatory pr d
ii,- of that court, but, though re elected, he did not
: h rough ii -iccoiid term. The year of hii re elec
nun I 110111 lateda 1 he Democratic candidate
for governor of the State, and elected to that offie'e in
the November of thai year. He served for two yi ar
I, ut declined to alio' I nc to go before 1 In
I leuioi i al ic convent ion for re elect ion. The dh ision
in the Democratic party, occasi I by the State debt
qui 1 ion, had alreadj manifi ted itself during the
election of 1878, and he was . atisfied that, in 1880 hi
could not, if nominated, obtain the united Democratic
vote and would therefore be very probablj defeated.
.1 udge Marl wa 1 he la 1 governor of Ti 1 e who
received the united vote of the Democratic pi
Hi- resumed the practi f law in Franklin and the
adjoining counties until 1883, when he rejoined his
relative and former partner, A. S. Colyar, al Nashville,
where was established the firm now known as Colyar,
Mark & Childress.
In politics Gov. Marks is a Democrat by inherits
1 ;, I,- com ii-i ion. Prior to 1 heir -• tl lemenl in
1 hi family were Virginians, who lived near
1 h, , ,1 ,,!' Thomas Jefferson, and followed 1 he political
fortunes of thai gentleman throughout, and when the
old Republican pai iy separated into Whigs and Demo
crats they gave in their permanent adhesion to the
latter party.
Gov. .Murks married, April 29, 1863 Miss Novella
hi 1 vi of W ilson county, T - -- e He had
been engaged to this ladj before he lost his li - and
and when he recovered, tilated in body and broki 11
in fortune, he b rablj offered to release her from
her engaj emenl Thi same offer was made to many
southern ladic during and after ■ civil war, and
this editor knows of no sinj I i e in which
- of 1 hem in ailed herself of hei lovci [>ermi
r,ii.,in! \li Davis was one of the last persons who
I'Romint.nt tknnkssi-: \ns.
could I ed to do m«. ami she cladh claimed the
fulfillment nf |] inont. devoting hersell tli
Mi redoubled affection to (lie happiness of
her wounded : \n\ intelligent person en
the pi an introduction to Mrs Marks, at once
that ho 1im> formed tlio aoi)uaint;inoi
superior woman; superior, that is. intollootually. mor
all\ and in porson. Sho in faot combines the elements
of a perfect lad) in person, elevated in mental
qualities, a fine scholar, ami brilliant in conversation,
the ornament of society, and Mill domestic ami prac
tical in tin' management ''I her homo, sho seems
now here out of place, but, whatever she undertakes,
. ihly as il' (hat alone had
the occupation of her life. It is said that when her
husband was chancellor, and necessarily absent from
hom. il. she managed the farm with the skill
ami energy of a first rate practical tanner. On the
other hand, that her intellect ami culture were made
available in training the minds of her children is mani-
fested by the high position tlicj too dars when
sent to school, It is believed that her cultivated intel-
lect stimulated that of her husband, ami that her tow
ering ambition kindled his to it* !. Ports This
estimate of the wife i f (i x! . - stifles the editor.
as he think-, in giving her a distinguished place among
the eminent T. c included
in this collection.
revising editor also, having himself been
mined to the honor of a brief acquaintance with this
lady, cannot refrain from adding his testimony to the
nobility i>t' her character and the fascination o\' her
crsation. He r< in her a porfeet type of
the grandeur with which the southern I to the
oinorgi - - - ami. with-
out ceasing to be refined ami cultivated ladies, showed
them- l-saerificing and practical wonn
coping with the ad\ i died on all by that terrible
calau
R) hi- marriage with this lady. (! M ',- ha- two
Vrthur Handly. born at LaGrange. Georgia,
March S. lSlvl . a scholar o\' high standing at the I'ni-
versin of the South S Albert Davis, born
at Winchester, 'fen- -- September 1. 1867 : now
finishing his education at the Winchester Normal
foil.
Mrs Marks is a member oi the Cumberland Presby-
terian church. Her father was the lion. John li.
Davis Wilsoi county. Ten - member of the
General Assembly - - : 62: a planter
ami a major in the Confederate State- army: of a family
.ally from North Carolina. Hi- father was
Thomas Davis, one of the early settlers o( \\
xl - ) was Caroline Hunter, a
Wilson county, and also of a North Carolina
family.
S Mai k- was i nai
Loudon count) \ i, but emigrated in early life
with his father to Daviess county, Kentucky, The
father died there at the age of thirt) one years.
Wish: his patrimony ami lived long on
the farm in Daviess county, his mother living with
him. Both inherited a comfortable fortune, hut made
mi effort to increase it. No member of the famil) has
ever boon insolvent. Hcmarried Klixahctli Lashbrook,
whose mother was a Mi— Colyar. sister of the father
>'\' \ S t'olyar. Gov. Marks' grandmother was a member
of the Daniel t'aniily. of Virginia. Hi- mot her died in Da-
viess county, Kentucky, in 1ST)!), leaving live daughters
and two -ons. all now deceased except the governor's
sister, Margaret, widow of Capl -i B I'itzpatriek, and
Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Robert Handly. of Winchester,
and Gov. Mark-' brother, Dr. Kdward C. Marks, who is
practicing medicine at T Citj fennessei His
father'- and grandfather's families were all pious ami
devoted Methodists, The following letter from a ven
erable Methodist minister will -how the estimation in
which the} w.rc held by the ministers and members
of that church :
lU'SSKi.i.vu.LK, Kv.. August 21. 1-"-.
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Dk.»r Sir 1 was greatly delighted to see from Iho p:ii- rs that
ii n;> tol by the l.Uo Democratic convention of your
State .is candidate governor, ami 1 write to con-
rablc distinction.
In 1812 I was appointed as preacher i shorough circuit,
s State, where [remained two years. Your father's house
. ptaces, an I y best homes.
randmother. your father's m led with him,
-:, of the ohi type, and one of the most
pious persons I ever knew, site soemed very much to me a- my
own in- t!i. r. 1 was thou a young man. and her counsels and ad-
father and mother wore
i in > wore distinguished for that warm hos-
pitality . which Ion-
I, moreeuiincntly, however, in
> . than in I You were then a small boy, 1 would
think., i rs of age t hildren, as 1
recollect. Yon were the favorite ol youi grandin ither. who had
tue a Methodist preacher,
the highest distinction, in her estimation, to which you could at-
tain. You we:,- a great : mine, and you became very
i You, like little hoys generally, wen' very
Hoi nearly always when I would arrive, you
would ride mv horse to water, and to the stable. I made it a rule
1 was allowed. But when 1 Would
. to aid me. and i\o
theridii of nearly forty year
1 with sadness,
indmother : entered into her heav.
also your lather and mother. Your father was a man
ot more thai: » high-toned, hon-
cman. Your mother was a model of all the virtues
that make in. She was amiable and sprightly
and remarkable for her personal beauty. Your maternal grand-
! s ■' . [or her fine sense and ex.
eellel.: - . and a Methodist.
1 w ., s on the
iched her fui ery large congregation.
You will, I am su ivith me in thus writing to you. My
Always been very strong, especially those
. 1 feel an interest in the children of my early
is if tiny were my kindn
When, at Na-hvilU. in 1STS, I spent some days with Col,
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
Colyiir lation of yours, who gave mo your history in Ti an*
see. I bad the pleasure al o "I Beoing two of your Bisters, who
ea lied on mi' .
I failed (strangely) t.'> inquire il you wore a prof B*or of religion,
and a member oi the cburcb I would be happy to kn.-w if such
bo the case ; l"i*. permit me to say, that whatever distinction ;i
man may gain among men, I * i h lifcisa terrible failure il ae hs
failed to I i %■ * ■ ;i religious lid', and thus prepare i"i ittei and
higher ts te. Yours truly,
X. II. I.F.K.
Questi <] as to tin- methods observed by him in
attaining success in life, Judge Marks answered I
feel i hat labor and temperance havi been 1 1
in access. My course has been a strange one in one
i I have never had to wait. Ever inci I have
been al I he bar I ha ■ e been In II; occupied. I have
always tried to perform the duties that lay nearest to
in.
RI< HARD B, MAURY, M.1>.
MKMPUIS.
R [CHARD B. MAURY was born in Georgetown,
l>. ('.. February 5, 1834, but hi- father mo
first to Norfolk, a few weeks after he was born, and ub i
quently to Fredericksburg, Virginia, he grew up al the
latter place. He curly manifested a desire to study
medicine, and when but a lad of seven years, having
heard a lecture by a Chinese missionary, he came I ■
and, with boyish enthusiasm, announced to his mothei
thai he intended to become a physician and go to < Ihina.
Id' had the advantaged a careful training b; i of
the most faithful of mothers, a most refined and con
scientious woman; and after leaving her hands all his
Bchool boy day- urn- -pent under the instruction of
Thomas II. Hanson, who for twenty five years was the
prominent teacher in Fredericksburg. He then entered
the Qniversitj of Virginia, of which he is an alumnus,
having graduated from several of the literary schools of
that institution, The next four years he taught school
in Petersburg and Fredericksburg, at a salary of about
six hundred dollars per annum. He then re-entered
tbr University of Virginia, and in 1857 graduated
thence in medicine, under Profs. James L Cabell, John
S. Davis, S. 8. Maupin and Henry Howard. He
iiixi went in New York, and, after standing a competi
tive examination, was appointed an interne to Belle
Vue hospital, and while holding that appointment took
the degree of M.D. in t li<r University of New York — a
second medical graduation, Al the close of his hospi-
tal career, being threatened with disease of the lungs,
he decided to go to Mississippi. Soon after, the war
broke out and Dr. Maury entered the Confederate army
as surgeon of the Twentj eighth Mississippi cavalry,
and after one year of service in i he field was transferred
in hospital duty and served the Confederacy until
the close of the war. in charge of hospitals al Brook
haven and Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, and at
i ii eenville, Alabama.
The war over, he moved to Memphi in 1867, where
In' has resided ever since, devoted exclusively to
bis profession. In 1869 he was elected professor of
physiology, and in L870 professor of the practice of
medicine in the Memphis Medical College. He how-
ever took an active interest in public education, and on
account of bis eminent fitness, was elected and served
t wo years as president of I lie Mi mphis board of educa
lion. Dr. Maury has contributed frequently to medical
journals, among the most important of his papers being
"Topical Medication in the Treatment of Chronic
Dysentery," and various articles on gynecological
subjects. In 1885 he was elected professor nf'<' m
cologj in the Memphis Hospital Medical College.
Dr. .Maury is a valued member oi the Tennessee State
and Shelbj county medical societies, and a Fellow of the
American Gynecological Society. For the past ten eat
he has devoted himself especially to thi di i ises of
women, much of his work being urgical, in which he has
liu ill up an ho 'able and enviable reputation. A ph;
cian's life, even though he maj be studious and have
ai his command a vast amount of brain, skill and
experience, is necessarily uneventful and quiet, so far
a- the outside world may know. The very nature of his
studies I of his practice is private, unsuited for gen-
eral publicatioi I hence his name does not make
half the noise in the world that an ordinary politician
does with one-half the mental ability. For this reason
the writer lake- especial pride in n cording the livi "I
these medical gentlemen whose actions are at '>ui-<' a
service and asacrifice" for the welfare of their fellow-
men.
Dr. Maury married, first in Port Gibson, Mississippi,
Miss Ji S. Ellett, born in that town, June 14, 1840.
Mrs. Maun was the daughter of Hon. Henry T. Ellett,
a distinguished lawyer, now of Memphis, formerly on
the Supreme bench of Mississippi, and a member of
Congress from that State. Her mother, Rebecca C.
Seeley, was a daughter of Gov. Seeley, of New Jersey.
Mrs. .Maury was educated at Natchez, Mississippi. She
died in Memphis, April 10, 1875, leaving six children :
il ,i. Richard B., born March 25, L862, in Port Gibson ;
educated in Virginia; now on a cattle ranch in Texas.
(2). Kate Ellett, born August 27, 1864, in Greenville;
graduated al Miss Higbj - high school, Memphis. (3).
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heall li m all
work save that of commissioner of agriculture, while
he sought rest and reeo\ cry.
Ilr returned to Nashville in January, 1874. and he
tween that time and Jul} fourth, with sonit
; i d tin- " Resources of 1
twelve hundred most thorough and comprehen-
sive treatment of all that w Inch m ti-i be the found
of future material wealth, ot' all the connections of the
wonderful resources of the
world, and of the way to make thi ble. It is
complete in general and in detail, 1
to be added, and y the till
here and there o\' outlii , rhl} >k
1 ilii- most im-
portant office of uiak ns know their own
State and its value. It was for Teunessec tl
ing the first step to iiiiui ' and sub-
sequent intellectual and moral greatm i>n it,
tho first Mop toward know thyself." It
oughly circulated and sought for in all parts ^i' tho
northern I'niti widely in
demand and un :i any
kind, and many.
I'rof II uxlej . in .
ber 7 1 am in l< bted
work, of which a >
report of the i ch, in my
judgment, does infinite credit to tl
tor it. and to the per*
do not to have r which 1 have
of tho
structure of this
Mr James t\ Baj
said ;
the world is indebt
sition ot tho natural than,
so far as I know, has bee
only w ish that tho your
people in seeurins: i;
cor. and in plac ''.and tho I
ney to t!
genuine emulation, fi
is still in great demand. In It- with
d, .Mr. K lished tho
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In - ~ hapel
niotu or merit,
after graduatie
-I he remained commisj
thirty
voluu
the nam
industries of the State. These include broehun
husbandi baooo; tli
m the mineral
interests ot tho State, in the aggregate about ton
show-
i! and other mineral
iphieal map of tho State, which i- now a standard
authoi
During Mr. Killebrew's term of office as commis-
ulture, ho traveled in tho North, and
ially in Now England, deliveri n the
South as a field for immigration. These attra
wide attention and received hi iums from many
while they have
fruit.
In 1- \ Walker,
superi irt on
id traveled in
all th tho Tin;
tho result being tho publication ot a 4to volume by the
nment which 1 oil with great favor
by th. lustry and the
In ■'
for tho grand southern cotton and wot sition
at Atlanta, that enterprise,
with.>: irt. tendered Mr. Kille-
. runout oi' min-
-. With his characteristic promptness
e the
o. and although the
time was far too .-In n uiplish tho great work in
hand, ho -
the mineral and forest
wealth inborn States ever shown at one place
and at one time. H
oily was t1 on. at that
bitiou o( tl d natural wealth of
•iieiit of i 1 the
lit upon i nt, intelligence and skill,
and w tho thou-
- to that gri - tion.
idmiuistration,
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elf to his private it hich had somewhat
IK has been re usouabl}
ear than in ten
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whither he made
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berl Mr K [Hebrew lias an inti i Family of
children, four sons and two daughter
Iiiis in ■ died in in fane; Th in all Si
physical, moral and intellectual manl '1 and woman
hood. He <li\ ides his time bel wei n his 1
his home upon his farm, where he, v. hen al hom
In ildren in h
plain, old ;' hioned bospit 'lit entertaining usua
houseful of young gm > from all parts of the South
during I hi ummer taoti ■
Mi I Hebrew in life bol h as a n prac
tical laborer, with keen jui private affaii
as mi tic and di ited workei public
weal To his
practical ma
the in'li-i i : imaginati
control of a strong will and of thi | ide of his
Notwiths i mathema
benl which
in his case, with the linguistic faculty , hi
only rapidly sui si i il ion of ancie
modern languages, but al
own tongue Few ha h exa lied him ini i imple
and i edingl; pure English style in writinj
speaking, in 01
I powers, or in graphic description, and n b
popularly called "word painting." With a mind well
d to a rare d
in the economical, industrial a il history of Ins
own i iti ill illuminated I
human progress in other land - a able
to present, in attractive a lar form, the dry in-
dustrial, productivi and practical ec nil al prob
il question icriptions of n sourci - with a
1 development, and i i er he
has undertaken to present to the public.
From L865 to 1870, with a mind well
from the study of law and from practical and skillful
management of business under the sla
oughl; ii Mi-. I ..III .' imical and industrial
conditions, he was one "I" the firsl
to adapl himself to thi The
faculty of imagination, the power to li d and
the habit of looking ahead, found him level witl
times. It was becausi il quality which
held lii rit successfully close to bus i
well reined in a i ead him beyond bounds or into
vagaries, had led him to I I and thus, with pro-
... though! he was abreast the times. With cash
paymi ind kiudu with
firmness he was om
i - w itli the new labor, and al
't I'm i he public the i
the i hi ■•■in.
Dui uue period, 1865 to 1870, while attend-
fully to pi Idi
iliiiif and
publishing pamphlet
count} ten at hi own ex pi plete
irith prac-
t ical . eonomical tho insulating
That hi ' hit
ally in. that tin.
i the timi
public tn I/., generally kc] lit. He was widely
i' field, ;i li own
That i
.tin- |-' uided
in a wild |" many
of In - him a dreamer as t<
;iiici1,s and materia]
that he as multitudi
nuns ]
inja with plain judgn ■. n privati
( )ne of t he most strik ing facts in his eh I life
the abilil nun
it h rare it
ami unerrii for the pu
ir himself everything
Tim hi ed svith a r pi ictical
true liui for his people,
and contenl If h ith using lii- own pr
thought for himself within a narrow practical field,
fi his
icfore him.
His a - ad-
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in the '-..11111111- of il.
lie " Itcs'.i "I in lii.s
niiiii' i iics. addresses and thirty odd pam]
for Tennessee, the New South and the
■ I conditions, what the views of that eminently
I ir Bow . wi re for the < >M
b with tin ... That I >> Bow was
able to see that nd slaver} alone) vitiated all
while Mr. Killebrew saw
clearlj the true il and inevitable lines of pro-
which the Smith is now pursuing, with his own
unlike tho
■ . were marred b} i heir realization,
ilways present difficult} of ving fb.ssilisra
I. To t nd nan
South lias contributed more.
He 1 in private business, Rarely
with ima ■ him above the narrow,
practii
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law at Clinton in Andi
counl where h( resided thirti
doing a lucrative practice fron II s first effort
in polii m the Bell- Everett ticket
in I860, and after tl of Lincoln he attended
I ille, Ten-
1 1 1 political ■ interrupted by thi
as a private in Company II. I ] infantry,
Col. R. K. Byrd, and served in Ki W.-t Vir-
ginia and i ee. He took part in the battle of
Mill " id in the skirmishing that resulted in
i i ,ii. of i Cumberland Gap (Gen. G. W. Moi
campaign). Afl
icating with hea
at London, Kentucky, where, An;
nt took plai >. ich he commanded.
M'trr this battle he wen) to Cumberland Gap, thence
with Morgan (x c West Virginia, and then
Nashville. He was in the first two days' skirmishing
in the battle of Ston i ards took part
in what is knowi D • ■■ creek expedition, in pur-
suit of Wheeler. After the battle of Murfn
and -' (iii'iit -kinni
i Tei I resigned. His firs
sion was as lieutenant and quartermaster in the
■in-lit. He served on Gen. Thomas staff
at the battle of Fishing Creek, and was immediately
I I'liii-'l Ten-
i 'J as colonel from February
3, 1862, to the day of hit > m, April 5, 1863. He
ilid his duty as a good soldier, v, ithi
tensions to militar;
He attended, in 1865, the Republican convention or
sailed by Andrew Johnson. Gov. Brown-
low, Mr. Maynard and ol The pur-
of till— in' eting was to consider the pi
,i up by these gentlemen and sub-
d by them to the convention. Mr. Houk op]
tlii- measure, especially the disfranchis
I ■ '1 constit utional com ention.
His proposition was defeated by a majority of eigh
and Johnson's measure was carried. Had Mr. II
acted upon, he belies et that Teni
would have been Republican at this day. II
tor 'in the Lincoln and Johnson ticket in 1864.
In 1866 I iteenth judicial
circuit of Tennessee, comprisii of Ander-
' Cumberland, Pent ress Mot gan and
He held this ofiice for four years, when, finding
apport bis family, he went to
Knoxville in March, L870, and practiced law there
till 1
In L868 he was a delegate from the State at lai
the national Republican convention which nominated
( ren. < rrant for |
In 1872 h and A nd
in the Stati Li gislal ii- hairman of the
financi committee. He introd
and conducted through the House the measure on
which
publican nomim aker of the 1 1
■:i 1-71 to 187 ioner
under the
In ! . with
id four hundred and fifty [n
with a I- I and
■ I. majority five thousand
hundred and fourteen. Hi me of
eight givin I iblican majorities in the
United States. In I ited, with a
rity of ten thousand three hundred and ei
two.
He served in 4 i of the war claims
committee, and acquired much popularity with lii
)ili- for tl, -ith which he
advanced their interests. In 1884 he was also a dele-
tion which nominated Frank
luiil for governor, and to the national convention
which nominated Blaine and Logan He was in favor
of the Humiliation of Arthur, but returned a zealous
iter of ' he Blaine ticket.
Mr. Houk i- a member of scept
the Knights of Pythias. II" is a member and ti
of the Methodist E ipal church at Knoxville.
Judge Houk possesses in an eminent degree the
qualities which combine to make a successful party
and self-assertive, the atmosphere
of poli lement in which he breathes
freely. He himself, when aski lead-
ing principle of his life, answered that it was never to
inflict a wrong and imit to one without
• i 1 1 ir it. Risen from a position in which he earned
his daily bread by his daily manual labor, he know
million who —till occupy that position ; he knows their
wants and wishes, their likim:- and animosities, and
knov. : address them with effei
always ion, conciliate then tonfidence
and warm their sympathies. Always ready to converse
with i iy grade, his conversation is genial and
jovial, full of humor and reparb and adapted to every
collocutor. Let him on the Other hand meet with an
antagonist, and I till he has demolished
nl all possibility of future opposition.
The way in which i education maki
say that he did not Bpend his time in frivolous
He describes a dayin his sixteenth
when lying on the root of a tree reading, he for the
ketched out a definit of life for him-
self. He determined that " hi body,
that he had as many rights in the world asanybody,
that he would do no man an intentional wrong, or if he
did he would repair it. and that no man should do him
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
:i wrong without his resenting it, :i n >1 that he would
impro
From his earliest years he was fond of politics
attended publi ud felt inspired to obtain
the power to mould the policy of his country.
Flis first read the Bible and Brownlow's
ville Whig, to both of which lie freque
in his speeches. His s; mversation,
abound with anecdote and incident, told with tra.
humor ; but th them coi
of re set than from a
ind keen m of current e\ ents. Thi
the efforts i m, earnest
of impressing his idea- upon his hearers. His
ments from the bench v. and intelligent, and
generally impartial, but I tl to a
man of his temperament than the bench, and the polit-
than either. The Republic:
East Tennessee have had no such leader since the deaths
of Brownlow and Andrew Johnson.
Judge Houk's first wife was Miss Elizabeth M. Smith.
whom he married in Knox county, '
2S, 1858. Her fat! Bamet Smith.
Carolina, her mother a Walker, als< ' h Carolina.
By this marriage he had eight children, two of whom
died in early childhood. The r are as
irn Febru 10 : already-
adroit party mat;
most popular young men in Knoxville, win
tiees law with success.
bcrl8,18f>3; a law stud political speaker at
Willi. mm ('.. born Februar
(4). Ellsworth C, born May 18, 1-7
burn January 15, 1874. (0). Edmond Spence, horn
The first Mrs Houk died exactly a month after the
birth of this last child, at the ibout fortj
She was a member of the Metl hureh,
a woman of extraordinary good sense, and. as a mother.
etiotialK devoted.
He married his next wife in Baltimore, Maryland,
her 20, 1880, - Miss Mary Belle Von-
rn in Canada and educated in the island ol
Jersey, in the British chann [■] father was an
Austrian, and her mother an English lady. Her par-
married by the father of the i I Mrs.
try, and she wa 1 with
that lady. Her mother died when she was two years
old. Her father still lives at Jaci
engaged in farming; i a skillful architect. The
judge has one child by his second man! born
Oct, .her 6, 1882
The present Mrs. Houk is a member of the E]
pal church 5 highly educated and accomplished
lady, speaks, read- and write- French, Germat
Latin. She was raised by her grandmother, Mrs.
Goldie, in affluent circuin ind prior to her mar-
bool days, in travel.
After her marriage, however, she devoted hersell
duties her husband's first family, whose
rued and i by sedulous and maternal
.ids her winters with her husband in
Washington, where her social tact and high breeding
: her the ornament and delight of society. Her
mplishmcnts, though brilliant, are
icial, but 1 1 ind exact.
The Houks are a German family, the name being
originally spelt Haugch. The grandfather, John Adam
■ ni in Germany, emigrated to Pennsyl-
vania, afterwards to Botetourt county. Virginia, and
finally i East Tennessee, in that portion now
■ county. He raised a lame family, two hoys.
John and Martin, and four girls, three of whom,
Sally. Polly and Elizabeth, married three brothers
named Hicks, and the fourth a Mr. Hunt. The old L'cn-
tleman was a thrifty German farmer, one of the pio-
" county.
The father. John Houk, was horn in Virginia, and
with his father when a small boy.
uiii' to work. In- was sent out about the £
mean to watch for Indian.-, and warn the settlers if
they approached. He died I 28, 1839, I
.. his son. the subject of this sketch, being then
ild. He was a man of sensi
inform ter educated than the average settlers
with v had some knowledge of law and
ntly wrote deeds, etc., for his neighbors. He was
a farmer and cabinet-mak rved two campaigns
under .lack lin in the war of 1812-14, and
was at the battle of the Horseshoe. After he returned
iiiajor of militia : betook a promi-
nent part in the lay, but was never a
1 ii man in the first cam-
i supporter of Hugh Lawson
White and a Whig to the end.
Judge Houk'.- mother - uth Carolina lady,
ter of Thomas Gibson, who died in South Caro-
her moth I with her to Sevier county.
where she married Maj. John Houk. She wa- a person
1 natural it of little education : 1.
- though he had but slight school ad-
Mrs. Houk. moth
Methodist, originally a Lutheran. She died, in 1 Si IT ,
at the age of fifty-eight, leaving two children, viz.:
; of this paper, and, by her mar-
with dames Ray, a son also named dame- Ray, an
eminent criminal lawyer, late of Jacksborough, Tonnes-
i« dead.
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
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DANIEL T. BOYNTON, M. D.
KNOXVILLE.
DANIEL T. BOYNTON was bom in Athens,
Maine, February 8, 1837 ; the son of Joshua Boyn-
ton, a nativeof that State, a farmer and cattle dealer, who
moved to Elyria, Ohio, in the fall of 1837. Joshua
Boynton was known as a man of iron clad integrity, of
proverbial fidelity in friendship, a member of the
Congregational church, a Whig, and afterwards a R,e-
publican. He died in March, 1881, at the i
seventy one.
The grandfather of Br. Boynton was Capt. Joshua
Boynton, a sea captain, who crossed the Atlantic in his
sailing vessel sixty-two times, and was one of five
brothers, all ship commanders, born in Newburyport,
Massachusetts, where the family settled in lii:J7. The
Georgia Bo; ntons are a branch of the same family, and
the name is numerous in several other States. Capt.
Joshua Boynton married a Miss Delano, of a New
England seafaring family. The original ancestor was
of Irish stock, and took his name from the celebrated
river Boyne. Among the more distinguished members
of the family are, Hon. W. W. Boynton. formerly chief
justice of the Supreme court of Ohio, (Dr. Boynton's
cousin), ami Gov. Boynton, ex-speaker of the Georgia
Senate, ami the successor of Hon. Alexander II
Stephens as governor of that State.
Dr. Boynton's mother. Parmela Emerson, was a
daughter of Daniel R. Emerson, who wa> born in 1774,
at Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was a farmer and
miller, and a religious and industrious man. He died in
Elyria, Ohio, in 1846. Mrs. Boynton's mother was a
Miss Cartel', of an old New England family. Mrs,
Boynton died at Elyria in 184!*, at the age of thirty-
lu\ rag borne nine children.
Dr. Boynton's family were a religious | pie. much
given to talking religion and quoting Scripture, espe
cially on Sunday afternoons. In this respect they were
typical of the New England families of fifty years ago.
It is said his mother substantially knew the Bible from
Genesis to Revelation, and was famous as the " story-
teller" of the family, often repeating the tales of the
Arabian Nights Entertainments, stories of travel, etc..
fir the entertainment of children, hut the Bible was
the liter, J lire of the family.
Dr. Boynton grew up at Elyria. working on the farm,
and when not at school, traveling with his father witli
-fork from .New York to northern Wisconsin. He early
acquired a taste lor literature, especially for biographj
and history, and became astudi r of Shakspeare.
At the age of fifteen he made up his mind to become a
physician, and read am! studied somewhat with a view
to that purpose. His literary education consisted of a
range of English literature, history and the classics
12
illy. Heentered, August 1,1860, the medical office
of Dr. Jamine Strong, at Elyria, Ohio; matriculated in
the medical department of the Western Reserve Uni-
versity, Cleveland, Ohio, October 7, 1860 ; attended the
fall and winter coi ' 1860-61 L861 62and 1862-63,
graduating in the class of February, 1863 lie imme
diately entered the United States army as first assistant
surgei f the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio volun-
teer infantry, Twenty-third army corps, and wa- inn
united to surgeon of that regiment in January, 1865
He served in Kentucky under Gen. Burnside the
summer of 1863; in the East Tennessee expedition,
tall of 1863; Lamar House hospital, Knoxville, in the
winter of 1863-64, and throughout tin- Atlanta campaign
on the operating staff of the Twenty-third army corps;
was with Gen. Thomas in Middle Tennessee, the fall
and winter of 1864-65, in the Twenty-third army corps,
commanded by Gen. Schofield, including tin' batth - of
Franklin and Nashville. After the battle of Nashville.
which virtually terminated the armed struggle in the
southwest, he was transferred via Cincinnati and
Washington, and by ocean transport to North Carolina,
and rejoined Gen. Sherman's army tit Goldsboro in
March, 1865.
After the war, he went to New York city and took
the fell and winter course of 1866-67, in Bellevue
College Hospital, under Profs, .lames R. Woods, Wil-
lard Parker, Austin flint. sr.. Frank Hamilton, Doremus
Taylor, Elliott. Fordyce Barker and Alonzo Clark,
taking also a course in microscopy under Prof Austin
Flint, jr. He returned to Knoxville, Te ines ee, mar-
ried in January, 1866, located and has p there
almost continually since. His natural taste runs toward
surgery, hut he has done a general and leading practice.
He served as adjutant - general of Tennessee and
private secretary to Gov. Brownlow from October,
1807, to March, 1869. He was United States pension
agent at Knoxville from April. 1869, to duly. 1883, and
disbursed some fifty million dollars among seventeen
thousand pensioners in the southern States. He also
practiced his profession meantime. He is ranked among
the prominent surgeons of Knoxville.
Dr. Boynton married at Knoxville, January 17. 1866,
Mrs. Sue Sawyers, who was horn iii Elizabethton,
Carter county, Tennessee, July, 18.'!7. the eldest daughter
of the famous editor, preacher, Whig politician
ei nor and I Inited States senator, William < I. Brownlow.
Her mother was Eliza Ann O'Brien, daughter of John
O'Brien, of Pennsylvania, of Irish descent. Mis.
Boynton was educated tit Knoxville, ami is characterized
by fidelity as a wife tied daughter, and devotion as a
mother, adopting her father's religious and political
PROMINENT rKNN — W->
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HON. MICHAEL BUI
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Tin -
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and has i
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two railro
Michael Bui land.
-i:; Hi- fatl ' I I bis
motber, Catharine Clark, were botl
I and held
of the hi
and in [*>int of inl il
mothi
I Id when hie I i and
i at the death of hie mother. I ool in
Id country
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in July. 1831 (then ind shortly
after went to Montreal.
York city, and them main-
ing in Nashvilli
Rutherfon
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Idlery
hardware and leather business until the civil war I
out.
In hi al make and his mental
and manners, Mr. Bn
n, of bro ind down-
right in hi
sunny in h ion. He has a bri
ident.
hville that
Mike
of the Nashvilh Iroad, and
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Third National
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with T dr. Burii-
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of (li, atou in i
TotinOSSOO IK
w i(li Andrew Johnson \t lien I
wards \\ hen ho became president, cularly
admit'i vo him an
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army called after hint \nill,i\ but he
rebel, though lie 1 i \\ iili
the Siad- in ilt>- rebellion, hi rt> all
t the
whon it seceded 1m
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army t lii-ni :i
shin, both
iif the until
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iiimii " \\ hi 1st ni W it, in IStU, I < ulled upon
when I was promptly admitted to
mil he ap| 1 had called
on hint pi lilroad bn W hilst wo
and t i hint, ' 1 >eni lor yon I
w hat know have ol the prisoners \n ho are to bo
il thai
ho I,- nit, who was .t native of Khodo
. that 1 1 i on liini a
lasl ti r lii^ mother and sister, with whom ho
tiled; had shed tea implored his rate.
that, under :t
ted nexl day . tellin
of the eirenntsi their desertion I asked hint
nit me to words in extenuation of their
orime. He ask why the sentence
when 1 *:iiil thai it iipp
,ut m the regular army,
- wore stationed
and thai I no thousand dollars
for men « ho were drafted to
in the army: thai (his appeared a very large sum
id that thi i sent the mot
mil wenl to the
:lu the i e his
,nk in tin- itriiiy and liis
! for his filial act the
• kill liini.
Had neuty I would
Mr. 1 • ,1, « iili aiiima-
ti, 'ii. that ho would pardon them, they ^ It , > t» Kl not die,
it oral
kindness oC his I sil of a reason for
i iime up whore
ry instance
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■i 1 left, but \\a> urgently
Mr Hums never took th of allogiaui
either government, but \t s that
lerate 11 1> policy during
the \-
in which he Durin
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tin- mate-
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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
93
May, 1865, after Johnson became president, h
order from him to bring out cotton, and secured about
one thousand two hundred and fifty-four bales belonging
to the road; sold some in Boston, depositing the money
in a New York bank to pay interest on the road's in
debtedness. The balance he sold in Liverpool, deposit-
ing the money in the Bank of the Republic, New York.
to pay coupons due there, all monies going to build tbe
unfinished road and to pay its indi I His judg-
ment and management gave him a place on the roll of
honor which i'ew men ran boast.
An investigation by a committee of the State senate
in L870-71 resulted in a long report to the en tte show-
ing, what his whole previous life in all relations, p
and private, had already shown, that Mr. Burns is an
honest, square man. The senate coi ittee in this re
port says (see House Journal Appendix, 1870 7!
821, ' t Si q.) : "At the time said road was turned over to
Mr. Burns, in September, 1865, of the ninety two miles
west of the Tennessee river only about fifty had
been constructed, and that bad not been operated for
years. The iron bad been torn up by the I oiled States
authorities and removed for about thirty miles of the
route. The embankment had washed, cuts caved in,
and cross-ties rotted, as well as all bridges and trestles
of every kind and that part which was left had grown
up in wild growth, so that it was as costly and difficult
to rebuild that portion of the road which had been
built as that which had never been touched. The
committee here beg leave to call attention to the
economical manner in which Mr, Burns, as president
of said company, husbanded the small means at his
disposal for the construction of said nim miles
of road, to which must be added the immense bridge
over the Tennessee river, and the committee deem it
but just to .Air. Burns also to commend the dispatch
with which said herculean task was accomplished.
Ninety three miles of railroad built in eighteen i iths,
with the bridge over the Tei ssee river, is a feat, the
like of which is not often performed in building i
and is not only in happy contrast with the tardy pro-
made by his predecessors and others who have
undertaken the construction of railroads ; it also com-
pares favorably with the rapidity with which the
Pacific was built."
Mr. Burns was married in Nashville, March 14. 1842,
tn Miss Margaret Gilliam, who was born in Ireland,
daughter of William Gilliam, a quei merchant,
who was lost in the ! in in 1856. Hermother
was a Donnelly, also a native of Ireland. To his wife
Mr. Burns attributes in a large degree his financial
success, as he never did any good until he got married.
After his marriage he managed to save one hundred
and fourteen dollars, with which he began business and
laid the foundation of his handsome fortune. His
partner in all of his successes, the sharer of his strug-
gles and the true helpmate of his life, departed this life
after a brief illness, in Nashville September 1. L885.
She was a member of the Methodist church atthe
of her marriage, while Mr. Hums is a Roman Catholic,
but she joined the Catholic church in 1844.
When the writer asked Mr. Burns how much lie i>
now worth he replied. Well. 1 am not in debt.
When questioned a to what methods he had employed
in succeeding, he answered: I never made a promise
unless 1 intended to fulfill it. and did fulfill it. I never
failed in business, and was never sued tor a debt of my
own. Always ambitious to stand in the front rank
among men, my credit in Nashville was above that of
many men worth more than myself. When other men
were frolicking around havingagot 1 time I was attend-
ing to business. T kept my own books tin- a number of
years, and did my own correspondence. My motto m
business has a'\ Honesty. I never sold an
article to a man for good unless it was good, or if the
purchaser found it was not so 1 made it good. 1 did
the heaviest business in my line that had ever been done
in Nashville. 1 never kept a poor man out of his
money. T had fairly e 1 youth; never
abused mj system; read everything that, came in my
way. Among my companions I was popular, and was
something of a guide to them. 1 always felt that to
meet great men as my equals and to control them was
my right. I have been well treated by great and
men, and through life never paid less than one hundred
cents ou the dollar.
THOMAS L. MADDIN, M.D.
NASHVILLE.
^rMIlS gentleman, whose name will descend in the
J_ medical history of Tonne-- eminent
among the prominent members of the medical profession.
Dr. Maddin. as co-editor of the Monthly Record of
Mediciru try at Nashville, from 1857 to
a- professor and lecturer in Shelby Medical college
Nashville, Tenn meofthe most successful sur-
geons in the South, having performed exceptionally diffi-
cult and 1 operations; by the num-
ber of yea en 1857 and L885, that hi
ied various professorships in the Nashville
medical schools, and asa successful private practitioner,
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PROMINENT TENNESSE \\s
jusl forty five cents in n
came ichor,
because teaching paid b li than in the north.
in Dyersb ent. He had taken
boat for Memphis, intending
\\ i him
1 sil nation nl I >ycrsburg. H [u that
from Hickman, Ki
ount ('apt. Latta often
alls himself an ori He
i. and is still living in t! ipied,
(me half mile
Ele began sti
fifth year, under his I 'ol. T. E.
ardson, and n ;i- John W. 1
and J d. He I
in Dyersbnrg from the date of hi-
till th thirty-fi
te and in all !
n, but prefers chan liarity
I
il ion, and ;
than most la\v\
on the merits of hi
nid has always got along pleasantl;
bench and bar.
In May, ISM, he took a company, " The I1.
of which he was captain,
and joined Col. John V. Wright's (afl i \
J. Vaughn's) Thirteenth Tennessee inland.
He fought at I ! Belmont and Shilol
left the army af tint of
domestic affliction which compel!
t. Latta was raised by Presbyteria . and.
indeed, hi hodox
Presbyterians for two huudre d the
i in IS38. and for the last twent;
: ibly at Kuoxville i I imes
in synods and pic-' time
continuously lor fifti
intendent.
Cap
I liar for dollar the
It «■,-
witli which he lias held
his n
havii
tiin
In 1S52 ('apt. Latta was m Mason in
Hess Lodge taken the
Chap1 1 filled all is in both I
and Chapter. H in 1851, and
1 all the d Kncam]
lie 1
In 1S70 P.- was appointed a director in the Mississippi
l!i\ .
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nuite i ' sburg,
feral unimproved tracts in Dyer county. Paying
ion i" hi- btisiness and by tr
: inciple i uniu-
ag that it
turn out cation and
let hi' i " If 1 had
ice said. " I do not belie i I
ount. Bi ire pushed
out ai rely on themselves, make better
-i money." lit- has
ry liberal eharitabl
putatioi: in this lit him a
lly. At no time in hi- life has hi
-ipati'd. 1 n ii isincss he
mostly lor lands. Inn lias
mptly, and was never sued on his own
married at Rati inly. Ten-
Si 1852, Miss Maryr Grainger Guthrie,
mty. East ■•■. tin- daughter
of John Guthrie, a Scotchman, and an iron manufac-
day. Her mother
was Miss Minerva Wear, of Eas Mrs. Latta
graduated in 1851 at the Columbia Female Institue,
( 'olumbia, Tennessee, under Rector Smith, and is a lady
is the happy faculty of making everybody her
-position, loved especially
by theyoun popular with all her associates, and
evil! and tine intellect. Losing her parents
at an early i was raised amor -.and like
her husband, had to make her way in the world. She
taught --ion after
her marl'
By his marriage with Miss Guthrie ('apt. Latta has
six children lin G. Latta. horn June 21. 1857;
edueat Massachusetts, and ;'t Poughkeep-
hers at home, and is
tic Meri al ional 1! ink, Little
Rock, Arkansas lie married Mi-- Lee Poland, at
Marshall. 'I i- liter. 1.
(2). K i. horn October IT. 1859: educated at
home by private teachers; married Prof T, C. Gordon,
ml has three children. Mary.
Winfield 0 ?arah K. Latta. horn
February 12. 18b'2; educated by private teachers at home;
Mary Sliar . Winchester. Tens
Jary E "*) Latta. born
March S), 1S64: educated by private teachers at home.
(5) Frank Wal ta, born July 1. 1866: educated
I Fniversity, Clarksville, I
Samuel Grainger Latta. horn August 5. 1871.
('apt. Latta is a tall man with a flowing silvery beard,
and has tie a the world and has
1 ' l',( ) M I N E N 'J" T E N N ESS E A NS .
little ambition for inner, he i
spoken, pointed and emphatic. In all his dealii
tult. His
and in hie children, whom he has happil
raising with credit. Moral and great families make I
i who
client
to mean or little things, or to dishonoral
crooked methi
JOHN WESLEY ELDER.
TRENTON.
JOHN WESLEY ELDER, the well know
banker and man, was horn in Ruth /ford
com -In!;.- 1. 1819. His education was
ly in the counting-room. When only
clerk in the store of Niles
& Elder, at Murfreesburough, his broth
Elder, 1" inior member of the firm. H
mained with them four yi
a few months with some relatives, then
in a store at the villagi
Milan now stands. Here he clerked eight months at
ten dollars per mouth, one half of which he -
From .Shady Grave he returned to Trenton and
emplo; two hundred doll: er his
brother, Benjamin 1 merchants
of W W hile doing business for him, he
16 an invitation from a Rutheri
friend to go to Jacl Alabama, and clerk for
four hundred dollars per year. II d, and went
by way of Florence, Tuscuml ir and Gunter's
Landing, walking from tl nville,
a disl sixty miles over the mountain- i.
mained at Jacksonville until the latter part ol
when lie went traveling to Mobile and New Orl
and finally hack to Trenton with about MX hundred
dollar.- that he had made and saved — a verj -
for a hoy just turned nini
On Januarj 1, 1840, he went into partnership with
his brother, Benjamin, and these two did bus
me twenty year.-, with
In 1852 he v i the
branch Bank of Ten
elected president of the same institution, but res
during tie year. When the war
out Mr. Hide)- was in i handsome
rty, the fruits of his exemplary industrj
my.
However, the hap] I of Mr. Elder's lif
eurred in .June. 1841, % \.
he married Miss Martha G i! 'on. It was a true-
match, and the newly married youi
their life-Ion- 1
Jacksonville to Trenton, a distance of two hundred and
sixty
ra of rail r
almost unknown in that section, and when it was diffi-
cult to find houses at whi Mi.-s
ighter of Maj. Matthew Mi I
he Hou and McClung fami]
grand-
father of the • were
Her mother. M
ter of Esq. Joh i i of Blount county. 1
ed at Trenton Jul
her with her father and mother, Maj. M. M.
Mrs. Elder's only hi' i - M. lie
iy reputable merchant, i
- r was edu-
Christian, wife, mother, friend and neighbor. Her
I unerring, and to her husban
1. and all
that a good woman with a i and a good heart
could be.
Ten children were born unto thei n are
- and four dead. The latter were: (1). Henry
Elder, horn August 17, 1M^: died M
L854 (2). .Mary Eloise Eld< V)
'• i ■ i- i 1 23, 1854.
1854; married Alexander B. Whit
Paris. Tenneseee, 0
Robert Elder, died in infam
The children now i nder
lie Elder, born duly 16, 1847; graduated at
en ton ; and t"
the In
. a ; married, in 1876, Miss Mol
1 has three child:
and G< 1 in
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and
graduated in medicine at Belleruc Hospital Medical
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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
College, New Vork : has two children living, Tom and
Horace. (3). Mattie I . > u isc Rider; graduated at Jack
son, Tennessee, under Dr. -I. E. Bright ; married Robert
I' Ross, a hardware merchant .-it Trenton, and has one
child, Albert. (4). Lucie Belle Elder ; graduated at
Clarksville, Tennessee, in L879. (5). Gracie Elder;
ation at Pulaski under Prof Wil-
liam K.Jones, (fi). Albert Sidney Elder, bom Janu-
i. 1862; educated at Trenton, and since 188]
in the banking business with his father.
The Elder family i> from Virginia, but originally
came from England. Mr. Elder's father, William
Elder, came from Dinwiddie county, Virginia, to Ruth-
erford county, Tenm iut 1810, and lived a
er. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1837,
■, i'il t<> < ribson count i and died I here
j] . at the good old age of eighty-1 He
was a passionate mat:, of florid complexion, high-strung
temperament, and remarkable for integrity of chai
fin- his word was liis bond.
Mr. Elder's mother, net Miss Mary Towler, was the
daughter of Benjamin and Martha Towler, of Charles
City county. Virginia, dimond. B<
ler was a soldier in tin' Revolutionary war.
Mrs. Elder was a lady of remarkable pat
most inflexible Christian, of great strength ami forti-
tude of character, yet ol a singularl) calm ami
disposition; deliberate and phil in her views of
lite. She was a great lover of Christirn literature, and
always had in herhouse her religious papers and period-
icals. Sin- died in January, 1865, at her son's house in
Trmton. leaving six children, only four of whom are
now li ' Benjamin Elder, now eighty-one years
old. living on his farm one mile from Trenton. ('_').
James Elder thi tit banker at Memphis, v
portrait ami sketch i hei in this volume.
and which should be read in connection with this biog
raphy. (3). Monroe B. Elder, now a farmer and stock
raiser, four and a half miles from Trenton. (1). John
Wesley Elder, subject of this sketch.
When the late war came on Mr. .John W. Elder, who
although as has been seen, was a quiet, successful
man. considered it his patriotic duty to volunteer
in defense of the Confederate cause. He enlisted as a
member oi Col. Hill's Forty-seventh Tenm
ment, and at the bloody battle oi in April,
1862, was I i mded bj a minnie Kail, which made
a permanent indentation in his I i , in acorn cup.
A I'd having lo y> trs of time, as well
as hi- nd most of his other property, he went
icinnati, i ber, 1865, to try ami retrieve
his fortunes. He did business for Duncan, ford ,v Co
fs, three month.- in 1865, and
1866, on a -alary, at first, of two hundred dollai
month, which was raised to five thousand doll
On January I 1867, he was admitted as a mem
the firm, which conducted business under the style of
in, ford A; Eld lining in that firm in the
wholi msiness until December 31, 1878
lie then returned to Trenton, and organized the Gibson
county Hank, of which institution he was elected |
iitiniieil in thai position ever sine" He
is : lso a director in the Trenton Cotton Seed Oil Mills,
ami in i he ! Cotton Factory Company.
In polities Mr. Eldi r i- ■> Democrat, ami east his first
vote for James K. I'olk for governor of Tennessi
He belongs to the Methodist church, which hi joined
in 1833, and has n class-leader steward, Sunday-
superintendent . ami l.e i o, annual eon-
He was one year lay delegate to the confer
cue. at Paducah. lie is the only living member of the
.: hoard of Trenton sti mized in 1839.
Something in his 1 hich he is verj proi
the fact that he has been superintendent of the Sundaj ■
3i hool thirty-three years. Very early in life he became
identified with his church ; his parents were pious, and
he has from boyhood tried to walk worthily of the Chris-
tian character, and to square his life by the Wi
God, which leaches one to be both fervent in spirit and
diligent in business. It may he said, he was horn indus-
trious; there is not a drop of lazy blood in his system,
ior he loves work, loves to hi' honest, and to deal on
principles of square justice and equity. Asa business
man he has sought to inform himself through all
channels accessible to him, ami has kept wide awake,
as the presence on his table of such works
Merchants Magazine" " Tin Bankers Magazine,
other such eminent authorities amply testily. His
nd his methods furnish ashining example to
the young business men of Tennessae
CO I.. JAMES L. GAINES.
NASHVILLE.
COL. GAIN! - irn in Knoxvill lucated at the University of North Carolina, at CI
3, 1836, but in his thirteenth year moved with his Hill, ami graduated there in LS59. II course
father to Buncombe county, North Carolina, where, as completed, he studied lav, lor a year under Judge Bailey,
in Knoxville, he did I as a merchant, lie was at Black Mountain. North Carolina, and obl
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license from Chief Justice Pearson, of the Supreme
Court of that Slate; he never, however, practiced law
in his life. He moved the same year to St. Ch:
Missouri, and became professor of mathematics in the
college of that name, but in 1861 returned to North
Carolina and entered tin- Conf ti army, his father
furnishing him a horse and equipments, and hurrying
him off, ''lest," as he said. " he should be too late for
the fight" (the first battle of Manassas) ; hi was too late,
but participated in every other in which his comi
was engaged. He commenced service in the first North
Carolina cavalry as a private, tinder the command of
Col. Robert Ransom, brother of the present. United
States Senator from North Carolina, and was promoted
sergeant, lieutenant, adjutant of his regiment, then
adjutant of the North Carolina cavalry brigade, after-
wards colonel of the second North Carolina cavalry.
and was recommended by W. II. F. Lee for a brigadier's
commission, too late for the recomn nda i bi acted
on, the calamity el' Appomattox intervening. He
at first in Wade Hampton's divi erwards in that
of W. H. F. Lee, but always in the great cavalry corps
of J. E. B. Stewart, under whose command he p:
p.tted in the retreat from Centreville, the battles around
Richmond, 'lie fight at Brandy Station, in the first
Maryland campaign, the Pennsyvania campaign, includ-
ing Gettysburg, and all the subsequent great battles,
including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the
campaign around Richmond and Petersburg. At the
battle of Five Forks he was wounded in the elbow joint,
and amputation became m cessary. This occurred onhj
ten days before the surrender at Appomattox, at which
he was present, having traveled thither in an
bula nee.
To anticipate matters a little, on arriving home he
presented himself with an empty sleeve to the lady to
whom he wis engaged, offering to release her o
count of his mutilation and his poverty. She refused
to be released and a mar: ■ followed.
As soon as he was able to travel, Col. Gaines returned
to St. Louis, covered with the honors of war, but
stripped of every thing else. The marria
alluded to took place. The lady was .Miss Belle Porter,
a native of St. Marj 's, ' >hio, only daughter of Erastus
Porter, a wealthy retired merchant of that place-. The
marriage took place November 22, L865; Mr. !
died four years
After his marriage Col. Gaines moved to New York
and engaged in the whol QeSS, the
style of the firm being Harris, Gaines & Co. The firm
established a branch concern in Savannah, Georgia,
and Col Gain ent to that city to m busi-
ness I '
In 1869 he moved to Knoxville and n the
! in partnership with his brother, \ n
Caines. and was so occupied till elected comptroller of
the S: nv. when lie removed to Nashville. He
I d to this office by the ire of
in 1875, and r< I in 1877 and 1879,
serving in all six years, under Govs. James D. Porter
and Albert S. Marks.
e his first electioi nptroller he has n
in Nashvill tow ol the firm of Duncan &
okers, miners and coal merchants.
The grandfather of Col. Gaines was Ambrosi
originally from Culpepper Court house, Virginia, but
d in Sulln an cout 1 ee, and became i
I as a pioneer and farmer there. He was of the
sami family with Gen. Kdir 1 IYndloio,i il nines.
Matthew Gaines, his -no. was the father of Col. Gaines,
is born in Sullivan
county, Tennessee, but was living in Knoxville when
Col. Gaines was bom. Some years afterward
i to Buncombe county, North Carolina, where he
was long engaged in business. He is now living with
his son in his seventy-ninth year. He is a member of
the Methodist church, of which he ha
and steward. He is also a Royal Arch Mason, and a
Democrat.
Col. Gaines' mother was a Miss Margaret Luttrel, a
native of Knox county, Tennessee, daughter of dames
C. Luttrel, a hug' farmer and slaveholder. She is now
li\ ing in Nashv ille with Col. Gaines, in her sixty-eighth
Her mother was Martha Armstrong, of the
East Tennessee family of Armstrongs. Col. Gaines'
maternal unci James C.
the treasurj of Tennessee in 1855-6 7.
Mrs ( 1-aines, wife of the colonel, wa educ ted at St.
Charles, and at St Louis, Missouri. She is a member
Episcopal church, and is noted for her bi
and her remarkably youthful appearance. They have
had three children : (1). Ambrose I'orter. born in New
York. November 6, 1866; now a student at Nashville.
.' . Lilli: ' born in Savannah, Georgia, December 17.
1868, died ;;f Nashville, April, 1876. (3). .lames L
born in the Maxwell Hou ashville, Septet
1878.
Col. Gaines is a member and vestryman of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church, a Master Mason, a me
of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Knights of Honor.
he is a Democrat, but not an active partisan.
Requested to state his method- of life he answered:
"1 have always tried to do my duty in whatever posi-
tion I h.n
He is six fi ei high, if weighs one
hundred and forty eight pounds, without his arm. has
a long head cleat forehead. To this
editor he appears an exceptionally modest and retiring
i ontent to do his duty and take his share of the
world's work.
MINENT TK \.\S.
THOMAS LIPSCOMB, M.D.
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i first to Mississippi and then to Tarrant county
5, where he died, April 5th, 1885. I
receh ssical education, he determim
•i the language in which they were writ-
mi after he bi a
red Greek. Latin and Hebrew without a teacher.
The mother of Dr. Lipscomb
Cook, daughter William Cook, a Baptist inin-
in Louisa county. Virginia.
Dr. Lipscomb ha< been twi.-e married: Fir
to Miss R<
Ireland, who came to the Uni This
union sed with ten children, all .lived
to adult age: (1). Mary Ann. married John Davidson, and
is now dead (2). Harriet E., who married her c
Waltei 8 I , and died leaving two childrei
in \Y: Sarah J., married to I . E. Peacock,
of Shelbyville. (4). Virginia, who married William C.
Little, and is now a widow with two children
I Shelbyvilli
William K.. who was a soldier in Forrest's com:
and was killed during Hood's Tennessee cam
James S.. now married to Miss Lula Allison, of Wil-
liamson county. (8). Emma F., wife of Evander Shep-
hard. (9). Tl i A.
Columbia. Missouri. {V
Mrs. Lipscomb died Deceml
382, Dr. L Mary A.
t, and
in families ille.
Tin ue to
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and extra-. n evil. When he .ding
! he alwa; - ; .nd in the
evenii - While at Philadelphia 1
thrown wit
-. but he had gone there
■ly, and the only time he ever w>
. Christmas-day. when h Peel's museum,
and spent twenty-fir At night he would read
over in the test-' rything that had
leettii lay. He has alwaj - bard-
student ; yi
with faithfulness and honesty, discharged all duties
devol him.
BOX. FLETCHER E. BUR1 -
MURFREESBOh
THIS gentleman was born. September 1G. 1K44, in
Rutherford county, Tennessee, and has always
lived in that county. The Burrus family are of Scotch-
Irish origin. His great grandfather Burrus emigrated
to America and Amherst county. Virginia, in
the early part of the eighteenth century, and was a
larire planter and slaveholder. His grandfather,
Joseph Burrus. was born in Amherst county. Virginia,
in 1765, and at the age of fifteen enlisted as a vol
in the American Revolution, and participat 1
private soldier at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at
York town. He was >everal times a member of the
House of Bui - S Virginia. He
removed to Rutherford county, Tennessee, in
and, upon the advice of Gen. Jackson, purchased lauds
on Stone- river, and remained upon his plantation until
hi< death, in 1821. He left a large family -
daughters who have intermarried with prominent fami-
lies in Tennessee and oth ; md his descendants
are numerous, several of whom have figured with credit
and ability in the political history of the >outhern
He was a man of vei
the hi ii-r of morality, and of cultivated
Judge Burrus' second - Lafayette Burrus.
father of Judge Fletcher R. Burrus. th :' this
sketch. Lafayette Burrus married, wh
Miss Eliza Ready, daughter of Ch;. , who
1 in Rutherford county, in 1 died at
ville. in 1- ninety years. Char:
wife wa- Miss Palmer, of a Maryland famib
ol. Charles Ready, was, prior
leading lawyer in Tennessee, and served three terms in
the lower 1 >ne of his daughetrs.
Miss Nancy Ready, married Joshua Haskell and became
the moth.. William T. Ilask if the
sifted ami brilliant orat .untry has ever
produi ' W. C. J. Burrus. an in tcher
R. Burrus, wasa prominent political man in Tenn
and - -nil terms in ad an
aunt on thi first wife laron
V. Brown. The Burrus and ;
inently kni
additional matters of int. with the family
of Fletcher R. Burru- mother, thi
to thi J. B. Palmer. Hon. W. H.
Williamson, and Hon. A. B. Martin.] ! Bur-
rus was born in Amherst county, Virginia, S
21, 17',»7. and died in Rutherford county. Tenn
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than whom
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1' rn ai Hov it, Kentucky,
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1 in medicine from the Tran-
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[her three years
ami upon his
Anatomy in
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in !n">'_'. where he ' I ever
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medicine with the
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Dr. Watson — the
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>f the i - Nashville.
• - - lent of the
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the founders of the
vss ion, and its president in
sen president of
the International
Washing S tem-
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volumes, and i- -l man of careful and profound re*
following the b nd im|>r<.
In lii- youth Dr B
principles, and it will %
retain rid old
H'-ii f I rid that during
southern n
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though out of the impti
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In 1850
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communicant. Hi
mother, and to her I
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management of them.
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mothi I
children have been born: H
the |irominent youi *
sal anatomy and o]
partmi
University, a fall bioj
in this volume. (2). Dr. Wald
< ir<-'-n. K' 2, 1854; f
from ; ille and Vanderbill
1877
doner of surgery- '•
and o]
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born in Nashville, February 11
ville and at Baltimore, and is <;d in
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and probably di medical life.
\>r '.'■ .ii M. Briggs, M.D
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native of • With
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going
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and graduated from
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in the Confcdi
After the v,ar he marrh Jil :
county, and no children : Joseph,
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Clara Alexander, rl ■ ider of
Dixon
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II i • William I
Lumpkin, of Memphis, .
Kmma, Mar and Anna Lumpkin, all of
I' . Emma
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'lr«:ii . Eugenia ;>n<f Marie Brown, b
their grandfathi . I. >anon.
II •;■ la 'li':'l 0
tj'I )ii- -I l>r.
Anderson'e fir-' child, Edwin P. Andi
from the Jefferson Medical College, Phi lad
died, unmarried, i r. 'I old.
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Virginia, came to Wilso .-. and
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. RUFU8 POLK NEELY.
GRCFUS POLK NKELY, of Boliva
in hi me of
the early settler* and no f llar<J<;-
man e ort of encyclopedia of
political and b f his
fine '
a* his high character and ilroad
an<] other leadii romi-
nent among th<- repi men of I - while
hi- military record is enrolled among th .f the
nation.
The Neely famih,
interesting
meml nd worthy
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horn of Iri liddle
Tenm rjklin
lied in hi- one hundredi
Franklin i
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who married G
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promixkxt tf.nnkssi: \\>
(71 Catharine Xeoly, who married Pr Stephen Dox)
(81 lil >da Nee - who married firsi Col, I1' razor, first
sheriff of Franklin Uabatna; ami secondly,
l'i Si iiii '' .lane Neely, who married Thomas J.
Friersou ■' Maury count; T
The children of Hoi Neely's aunt, Sophia Neely
('■•Ik. I w idow of Alexander N
who died at Bolivar. She is now living at Corinth,
Mississ |>] Col. Charles Perry Polk, now living
:ii Corinth, Mississippi. (3). Benigna, who m
William II. W ■ Memphis (41 Hen. Edwin
Polk, who was speaker of the Teni essee S at the
time of his death, in 1850. His widow. Miss 0
via Jones, daughter of (Jon. Cah North
Carolina, is now living at Bolivar, and has one daugh
Ter, Octavia, wife of T. I'. Brooks, of Si Louis.
Capt. Charles N'eely, father of H en. K. IV \
horn in Botetort county, \ inia, and was an
under Hen. Jackson through all li i^ . lie
married Miss Louisa, daughter of Col. Ezekiel Polk,
in Maun county, T His occupation was that
of a farmer, but hi I the army soon after
his marriage, In' engaged I'm little in the bin
until alter the war of 1815, when he settled in
Franklin county. Alabama, near Tuscumbia, where
he died in 1820, thirty three years of age, loavin
children : (1). Rufus P. Neely. subject of this sketch.
Mar) i N'eely, now the widow of William W.
A tweed. Austin, Texas. She has three children i
Mary Josephine, wife of Major Burst, Austin, T
Adelie. wit'e et Mr. Palm, near Austin; and Octavia,
who married Prof. Bittle, of Roanoke College,
Virginia. The only son oi' Mrs. Atwood (Rufus)
died in hospital iii the Confederate service after
being wounded and taken prisoner. (3). Vdelie
C N"i who i- now living without children, the
widow, first of James (i. Bel S unity. Vir-
ginia; secondly, of Thomas Chanibliss, of Memphis,
Tennessee; and lastly of Col. John Pope, the famous
cotton planter ol Memphis, and author of articl
the subject of cotton cultivation. (4). Col. dames
Jackson Neely. who is now a leading physician at Boli
var. He was a colonel commaudii gade (Rieh-
ardson's) in the Confederate sen ice. He niarri.
Fannie Stephens, daughter of Rev. Dr. Stephens, an
Episcopal minister at Columbia and Bolivar, and
of Judge William II. Stephens, now of Los \
California.
On the maternal side also Hen. Nee]\ is of Irish
descent. His mother, Mis- Louisa Polk, who
said, was a daughter of Col. Ezekiel Polk, wln.se father
was William Polk M cklenburg county, North
lina. and whose mother w is Miss Wilson, of the same
State both families of Irish origin and Loth of high
standing in the early days of the Old N rth State."
kiel Polk .lied at Bolivar, in \
S maternal uncles « I William
Polk, born in North Carolina, lived in Maun county,
Hardeman county, Tennessee, and then moved
i Walnut Bend. Arkansas, where he died, a large cot-
ton planter. (2) Maj Sam Polk, father of .lam. K
dent ot the Foiled States. (3). Thomas
of Robertson county, Tennessee, lien. Neely's
maternal aim;- were Mar) Polk, who married
' Thomas Jones Hardeman, for whom Hardeman
county is named. He was a captain in the war of 1815;
ken prisoner by the British and whipped over
the head with a sabre for refusing to give information
as i" Jackson's position when Packenham attacked the
Americans at New Orleans. (2). Clarissa Folk, who
married Capt. Thomas MeXeal, of Bolivar. Her son,
Maj I', ckiel Polk MeXeal. now living at Bolivar, is
among the most prominent planters and capitalis
Tennessee. His individual sketch appear- elsewhere
in this volume. (3). Matilda Polk, who married John
Campbell, of Maury county, Tennessee,
Hen. Rufus Polk Neely was horn in Maury county,
Tetiin - \ vember '_''i. 1808. He grew up there
until nine years of age, and went to school on Car-
ter's creek. In IS17 his father moved to Franklin
county, Alabama, and died therein 1821, when, with
his widowed mother. Unfits returned to Maury county.
In 1823 he moved to Hardeman county with his uncles
Hardeman and MeXeal, and has lived there ever since,
being partly raised by his grandfather, Col. Ezekiel
-: men of mark. Gen. Neely's earl) edu-
cation was limited. He attended liurrtis Academy at
llville Alabama, under the celebrated Dr. Cart-
wright, and afterward- went to school in Maury enmity,
Teinn
He began his business career as a clerk in a dry
blishment in 1825. selling goods to the earliest
settlers of Hardeman count) and to the Indian- \ -
soon as the county was organized, he was made register
of deeds before he was of age, and had to wait until he
attained his majority to be sworn in. He held that
office until 1-."-".. when he was eleeted county court
clerk, and served in all, as clerk and deputy clerk,
thirty two years. Meantime he was in various other
positions. In August. 1839, he was eleeted to the
- '.at lire and served in the session of IS40. In
1>U he was appointed a commissioner t«> clean out
and pay for the improvement of the Biu Hatchie river.
to tit it for navigation. In isn' he went to farming, at
which he was quite successful. After this he returned
to hi- old office of county clerk. His elections were by
the court up to 1832 is",, and by the people after 1S36.
lien. Neely has seen considerable military life, having
been connected with the war ; tween >l
am! Texas, the Mexican war and the late war between
the Siate-. In 1S36 he was eleeted brigadier-general of
f "■ - 'iul Tennessee militia brigade, covering
Shelhy. Fayette. Hardeman and Mc
N Fiider the proclamation of Gov. Cannon in
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1836 he raised I aid Gen. Edmond P. Gaines
and ' i • : f j . Sam Houston, 1 1 ;ling for Texas inde-
pendence "ii the Sabine. Gen. Neel "d a
regiment al Jackson, Ten essei i leeted its
colonel, Inn the troops were disbanded b, rnor,
al the instance of President Jack he United
States were then al peace with Mexico. After
mustered out of si r< hi but kej
companj he took from Bolivar 01 until Gen.
called foi troops to remo^ e I hi * !hi roki
Creek Indians. With his company he reported to Gen.
Scott al Fort ( l rokee Nation), and (served in
ig the Indians west of the Mississippi river until
ifter which he was quiet till 1846, when h<- aided
in raising a company for thi ■' in war. Although he
red part of the troops into i it Memphis,he
'I i ' 1 not himself go int i ervice in M
The - "'I Monday in May of every year the survivors
of his old company have a reunion and dine with Gen.
Neely at his hospitable home. There
the members of the compan ng.
In 1855-6 7 hi in building and operating
the Mississippi Central and Tennessee railroad, now a
part of the great Illinois Central system. He operated
the road as president from 1856 until the warbrokeout,
and has been connected with the road from the first
of dirt (which he himself threw) until now.
either retary, superintendent, president -
er.
in 1861, after a visit to Montgomery, Alabama, in
company with Jefferson Davis, to be present at the
uration of President I' Vici President
nder II Stephens, he returned home and in
company with Hon. Milton Brown, went to Nashville
to confer with Gov. Harris and Gen. Zollicoffer on the
, t. of secession, independence of the S
ing of troops, •■•■ G at once set about raising
a regiment for the Confederate Hi wentoutas
captain of the " Pillow Guards" of Hardeman county,
which com a part of the Fourth Ten
infantry regiment, and at the organization of the regi-
ment at German town, Tennet Gen. Neely was
enthusiastically elected colonel, and under him that
gallant regiment acquired it- celebrity. With Col.
John V. Wright's Thirteenth Tenne i and Col Knox
Walker's Second Tennessee regiments. Gen. Neely
went with his command from Memphis to Randolph.
r fortifying that place he was ordered to Fort
Pillow, and it was he who struck the first lick there.
ll<- remained there until relieved by Gen. Leonidas
Polk, who ordered him to Island No. 10, but before he
got there Gen. Pillow ordered him into Missouri in
connection with the regiments of Col. John V. Wright
and Gen. Preston Smith. He took his command to
Bentonville and then back to New Madrid, and up the
Mi sissippi river to Hickman and Columbus L
the battle of Belmont, Missouri, ' len. Neelj commanded
and the Twelfth
L
Al the battle of Shilofa Gen. Neely was conspicuous
for lii nd eflicienc 1 I- i nl into the fight
at the head of hi and cap-
tured a Federal b 1 d day he also eom-
mandi regiment,
which bad been cut to piec I ml I hi i
■ hick and ! al additional i were
his command, and in thi
ittery off the field, which he
of the unerring ril i Fourth
Nol only at Shiloh but again at Perryville, the Fourth
I distinguished itself, under command of Gen.
:ing confined in prison at Alton.
Illinois. T from Memphis with
one thousand and sixty three men educed by
il Shiloh to five hundred and odd. ' <
Polk and Pillow both bad great faith iii the regiment,
and il ced where it would get hurt.
At the close of tb<; war the regiment surrendered with
men.
In the latter part of 1862, Gen. Neely was captured
and kept a prisoner at Alton. Illinois,
until released by special order froi rant. He
returned home on parole to remain within the Federal
lines until exchanged, but was rearrested shortly after
and i to the Alton prison in the winter of
H sent from Alton to Camp Chase, Ohio,
in May. 1863, to prevent him from persuading Confed-
erate prisoners against taking the oath of allegi
From Camp Ch Point, Virginia,
and exchanged in the fall of 1863. He report
Richmond and was commissioned to gather up the
troop- said to be behind the Federal lines in Tennessee
and unable to get out. 11 iged in that -on of
work until the close of the war. and surrendered at
Bolivar in 1 365.
Neely 1 ms in the war. William and
Charles Rufus. Another ofhis - ns, Dr. James Neely,
-.in to the war when under fifteen years of age,
and came through unharmed.
Since the war Gen. Neely has been prominently iden-
tified with the railroad interests of Tennes
ceiver and resident direct md also as
direr-tor in the M. & T. : as president of the M. & K.
(now M. &N.); and tor in the Canton, Aber-
deen and Nashville, and the Yazoo Valley railroad-.
i , '. Dei 1 oi In- family con-
been, and in State politics he i- known
:,. a ''sky blui He and - Gov. James I>. Porter
were delegates at large from Tenne - to the national
Demo nvention which nominated Gen. Winfield
g Hancock l'<>r president in 1880 He has also been a
member of the press, having owned several ni
a! Bolivar— the Bolivar Democrat, the Bolivar Palla-
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Mrs \ bora
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1 at Canton Mississippi, now
is the wife of K L. Walker, a elaiui
$ Central railroad, at Bolivar, by whom
child, N. 1 iiiisa Xeely, now the
I' \ \ Coleman, who died of yellow fever in
: -7- she had five children, John R. and Fannie now
\ n wife of Thomas Collins, a farmer
nr children, Linda,
Kathh \ IWilliam. [6). Elisabeth Xeely, who
s Fentress au eminent law-
is three children, Elizabeth, Frauk
mes -1 V - !,> . graduated at
ppi, and at Bellevue Medical College,
\ S ii" at Bolivar. He married
om is II. Smith, of Memphis,
I - mas and Frank
\ lust in Miller, a lawyer and
farmer at Bolivar; has one child, B Prudence
Not \ lied iu childhood.
Siu •' - - rd of this honorable and
ily — a rei finch the venerable
\-h may well '. - k upon with affection and
\ _ life owning only a little tract of
let the celebrated Davy Crockett, his
: several yeai-s. In his busy career he
.. /
si much by insurance
- war, and by going security. He did
1 men when he was young, was econom-
'■ into wilduess and dissipation, but
mself diligeutly to whatever he undertook.
He has en ambitious to be merely a millionaire
but in aecuuiul; - liad in view the laud-
table, and above
all. to uue His s - have boon
- -me to him
through salaries - t enhancement of stocks
fair terms, honestly, without
- wild speculation — a
form - and a name that will never
he cheeks of his offspring.
EDWARD L. JORDAN.
'~r~,u is j
I ?17. youngest $
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- -v is the oldest > William
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Mr Jordan's - Walker, daughter
family and a na-
mother was
PR0MIXKN1 TK
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a Mi-- Jeffries, of the family so well known in Virginia
until tli<; present time Archer
Jordan, father of the buI b, in 1794,
and went with lii- father's family to Lexington, Ken-
tucky, wi. remained on* year and then i
to Davidson countj 'I ed in the
Maxwell neighborhood. It is mentioned as an inl
ing incident of their trip I hat they <
the Cumberland river on tin all their
After remaining in the Maxwell neighborhood foui
they bought land near Triune, in Williamson county,
and settled there permanently, and there died, I
twelve surviving children, all of whom married and
achieved ' - in life. Of these twelve children,
five are now living, the oldest of v. ;
oooga am
railroad, is eighty!; of age. and the nei
Jordan four, while ti.
subject of this sketch, u
ard L. Jordan was brought up on a farm until
the death of his father, which took place in 1835. His
rtunity for education was but moderate, being
fined to the old fieli for he never went
college or an academy, fn 1836 he entered tl
Thomas F. PerkinsA: Co., at Trium rk. and re-
mained with them until January. 1839, whi
nection with Col. William I' :
' 'annon. ),< out the firm.
continued together for I ■-. and then Cannon
married and left the business, which was carried on by
Mr. Jordan until 1844, at which time he sold
of good-. He then retired from merchandising
bought the old homestead of Hon. Meredith P. Gentry,
in Williamson county, where he lived until 1351, when
I
following merchandising as well as farming, until the
war.
Immediately after the war Mr, Jordan
Mnrfri ok, and w;; -idem
up to the time it was merged inu> the First National
Hank of Murfreesborough. 3
made president of the last named institution, which
re the war Mr. Jordan was a Whig, and during
the war was a staunch Union man. though lie- did much
to aid the soldiers of the Confed ading his
for their relief. Since the war be-
ing for 1.
how .
■rat/; a' Tl
and 1.
Mr. Jordan has been tl
'laughter of M
and
uneh rk and
r of the
and her grand ;
I
of whom are m
After the death ol
liter of James
franklin. '.' B
children.
latter pi
ird wife. Mrs. Mildred Will if Dr.
iunty,
and v. f her
Jren. V,
jrch at K
child, a so . with
the railroad office at Murfreesborough. Mr. Jord
children now i
wife by her former marriage, and ti.
grandchildren.
Mr. Jord
church far back in the fami;.
member of that church f I thirty
ow well known
- have all
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Jordan began life a poor boy with the idea
a man should be industri
alwa;. -
hieved success in life and accumulated a hand-
some pro)"
HON. FRANK T. EEID.
VILLK.
Tiff* distinguished gentleman
and one of it- best repi
prominent notice in the sprit;. as the nominee
of the Republican - vernor of
19
lulled
de in the speech a' miua-
tion. to carry the party banner placed in hi-
•able defes
114
PROMINENT TENNESSE W-
■ in in. •!< than lwcnt\ seven thousand
i ii 1 1 1 1 his
'. principles were clearly
ami l)i)ltll ited. llf was in the habit of statu
that his lather and all hi- family being Whigs, he, as a
uler that influenee; that he never drew a
Democratic breath in I' ind that, following the
rines of the old Whigs i.> their lo elusion,
i-t hi- first presidential vote in 1872 for Gen. ( Irani .
ami had been a Republican ever sin ating a
protective tariff: the Blair educational bill; internal
improvements by the general government : the payment
ut' every dollar of the State debt : a free ballot ami a
State railroad commissi >n : and
denouncing the system of leasing out the labor
- an iniquitous abomination.
Judge Heid was born in Williamson county. Ti
March !', 1S45, at bis uncle"s, Dr. Frank '1'. lb-id.
ti'i- whom he was named, but crew up in Nashville,
where bo has resided et except the war epis
in bis life, ami twelve months' travel in Eur
In I8li2 he joined company F. Startles' cavalry regi-
ment, hut was transferred, just before the battle of
Chickamauga, in the fall of IS63, to Capt. John W.
Morton's battery, ami served in Ti da,
Mississippi and Alabama till the close of the war.
having taken part in all the battles ami skirmishes
in which Forrest's command was engaged, from the
battle of Thompson's S the end. When t;
ferred from Starn ut he was promoted to first
of the battery.
Hi- father, John Ibid, was horn in Williamson
county. Tennessee, in LSlli, at the In. mo ..I' hi- grand-
father. Abram Maury (after whom Maury county was
named). »ns of the early settlers of the State. He was
a lawyer -having been State senator, ami occasionally
having acted as special chancellor. Ho died at Nash-
vill. \ - 11, 1SS5
Judge Reid's grandfather, Maj. John Reid. who mar-
ried Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Abram Maury, above
mentioned, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in
17S4. He received a el - education, read law, and
in 1807 removed to Tennessee, first settling at Jef-
ferson, in Rutherford county: but on bis marrii
in 1809, bo changed bis residence to Franklin, in
Williamson county, where bo w :ed in the
successful practice of bis profession when the war of
1S12
Judge Reid married in Nashville, June t. IS72. M -
Jos :: Wi ds, who was born at her father's, ouH
street, in that city, May 25, 1852, daughter of R
F. Woods, a merchant, formerly a sugar planter of
Louisiana, of an old family of early settlers in Davidson
county, from Virginia. Her mother. Marina Cheatham,
was i- of Gen. George Cheatham, a
raiser in Robertson county. The Cheathams of Ten-
nessee are all of the same family, and originally from
North Carolina. Mrs. Ueid ».i- educated at Nashville,
ami i- a member of the Episcopal church.
By his marriage with Miss Woods, Judge Reid has
three children: th. Nina, born February 23, lv77.
(2). Louisa Trimble, born November 12. 1881
John, born February .">. 18S5
Ho began the study of law in 1860, under his father,
Judge John Reid; was admitted to the bar in IS67,
.1 by Judges Frazier ami Cooper. His first
partner was Neill S !; rn,jr.,18t)8 1872. after which
he became partner with his father.
He inherited from hi- mother a quick, mobile ami
emotional nature, combined with very great gentleness,
exquisite sensitiveness, and the nicesl sense of honor.
, man who revels in the luxuries of learning ami
iCSthetics, lives in a world of ideas, ami if a man -
library may bo taken as an index of his tastes, he is. by
st, fond of p 'i try. works of imagination, tales ami
essaj 8, rather than of metaphysics ami kindred subjects,
For bis literary taste ami cast >>{' mind bo is more
deeply indebted to Mr. Carlyle than to any other
writer. It is probable that from him ho imbibed that
hatred of sham, boldness of utterance, and keenness of
satire that characterize him as a stump speaker. It is
noteworthy thai in hi- • • he makes low quotations,
either from prose or poetry, but delivers bis own
:,ts in his own language. Hence, hi- public
addresses are novel in conception, fresh in mak
genuine in purpose, ami presented in forcible stylo.
strengthening the strong, fixing the wavering, ami
attracting an enthu
Judge Ibid never had a collegiate education. When
he attended primary schools, ami was a year or
more in the military college or Cniversity of Nashville,
but at the age of sixteen he joined the Confederate
army, which closed hi- scholastic career. His informa-
tion is due. not to the school-master, but to hi- efforts
..ate himself, and especially after the death of his
mother in 1S4D (when ho was only four years old), to
tlie rearing he had under the care of his maternal aunt.
Mrs.Gov. Neill S. Brown, and to hi- association with
tin best people in Davidson county. \t the
twenty lour I IS6TI), he made a trip to Europe, and spent
twelve months traveling over the continent " to see the
rid."
In August, 1878, he was elected circuit court judge ><^'
the eighth judicial district, term expiring September 1.
LS86, and his decisions on the bench have been given
under a hiub sense of the moral responsibility of a
tn mete out exact justice, according to the law
and fait- in the case. Like Chancellor Kent, ho makes
himself certain of the facts, and the real point in the
controversy. Any judge with a clear head pursuing
this course will have little difficulty in deciding a
cause, for once the real facts are clearly established,
the answer is at his elbow. The same rule applies to
the bar; for if a lawyer once gets thorough knowledge
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115
of tlic facts of a case, he will readily discover the point
of merit upon which it rests, and can then easily turn
to his library for authorities, should they be needed, to
fortify bis conclusions. But Judge Reid has very little
sympathy for that class of the profession who have run
mad after authorities after the letti r of the law rather
than its spirit— for case and precedent lawyers, and he
himself never decides a case unle he is clearly satisfied
in his own mind what the right decision is.
Judge Reid's gubernatorial canvass of the State in
L884 made Republicanism respectable in Ten
won For himself friends all over the State in both
political parties, and fully sustained the reputation of
Tennessee stump oratory. His style of oratory was
earnest without vehemence, logical but not cold, and
his delivery was stamped with the sincerity of convic
tiim. The editor has heard but one opinion of Judge
Reid as a speaker, and that is, that he ranks among the
must finished orators of the State, an accomplished
gentleman, a man of letters, a thinker, an original
investigator, always speaking the thought that is within
him, and loyal to his own convictions. The editor
heard him three times, and noted that he never lacked
foreword; was elaborate without prolixity or repeti
tion; that his diction was scholarly and chaste; that
lie enthused his audience without resort to anecdotes
unbecoming the dignity of a statesman, and that his,
tastes are very different from those of the ordinary
politician, Though a candidate for high oilier .,,
during the heated and hitter canvass, no reproach or
tigma or suspicion oi taint was urged against his
character.
His opening address as the Republican candidate for
governor abounds in passages of remarkable force and
brilliance. A few are selected :
"It was from under the roof of that honored and
eloquent old Whig leader, ex-Gov. Neill S. Brown,
where the greater part of my life had been passed, that,
a sixteen year old hoy, I left to join the ranks of the
Sum hern army. * * * Because I enlisted in
that army did that commit me. for the' balance of my
life, to the support of the political doctrines of John 0.
Calhoun? Was it loyalty to the doctrines of nullifies
tion, State sovereignty and the constitutional right of
eci don that led those of us who were hied in the
school of Henry ("lay to enlist under tie- Confederate
flag? What was it that did lead US? It was the wild
enthusiasm of that wonderful hour that preceded the
uprolling of the curtain which disclosed the terrible
four years' tragedy of a nation's struggle for life; when
lie air throbbed with the tierce heat of drums, and was
rent with the martial cries of war-intoxicated men."
*******
" The impartial student of history now sees that for
twenty years and more before the breaking out of the
war, this country was rushing with awful velocity upon
ruin and death-, [t was shooting Niagara. The storm
of war purified the foul pestilence-breeding atmosphere
that was sowing i ir political - 3ti m the i ed "l cor-
ruption and death. Unwittingly we fought against oui
Selves, and tied saved US from our own madlie--. The
stars in their courses fought against Sisera."
* * * * * *
\ hoy. I fought in the ranks, undei the Confedi
flag, bare footed in the depth of winter, and in rags;
and because, upon mj restoration to American citizen-
ship, a grown man, my matured reason said to me that
ii was vastly better for the best interests of mankind
that that flag had gone down in defeat, albeit covered
with glory; that the Republican party was the true
■ ■■ poni nl and representative of the principles that had
triumphed, and which we who had appealed to the
sword were in hi ■ bound to accept, and which the
God of I Jatt lc- had declared should mould the future
historical development of tin- country; because I re-
fused to live among the tombs and wear crape for the
dead, believing it to be my duty to " live in the living
present," forsooth, I am deno 1 i- a renegade, an
apostate, a traitor !
After referring to the oppressive measures of the
Republican party during the period of reconstruction,
he said :
" At any rate, when in 1869] lefl this country, and
for a twelvemonth traveled through the countries of
the old world; when I saw the condition of the masses
of the people there and the character of the govern-
n - under which they groaned; when I saw tyi tnl
and aristocrats with their heels on the necks oi my
brothers manhood abased and our common humanity
di honored— and then saw in their seaports and towns
the starry flag of the American republic, floating proudly
and loftily among their emblazoned ensigns as though
it felt the spirit of God and freedom consecrating its
folds, proclaiming 'to tin- kin;;' on his throne, to the
slave on his knee." the equality and brotherhood of till
men, as Christ proclaimed it. and died to sanctify it
with hi.s hlood ; proclaiming ' the rank i- but t he gxi
stamp, the man's the gold for a that, I confess my
heart leaped with a feeling for which \ can find no ex-
pression in words in the proud consciousness of Ann ri
can eit izenship.
Discussing the national idea of the Republican party,
and contrasting it with the Democratic doctrine, In
said :
" Mr. Tilden embodied the Democratic doctrine when
he defined the Union as ' a federativi agency. What do
tie survivors, on that side, think of this Democratic
definition? What do those think of it win., when the
tocsin of war sounded like an alarm bell in the n i i_- 1 1 1 .
and the cry rang out from the capital, 'Arm, citizens,
the country is in danger?1 rushed forth by thou
from their -Imps and farms to follow the great fla < oi
ile Union ' down to the fields of glory? Again I catch
in;
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
a glimpse of that awful vision. Again the earth trem-
bles under the shock of struggling armies, and the air
is wild with affright from the mad roar of the cannon
and tin' fierce scream of the shell, Amid the storm of
battle thai rages above the clouds on Lookout mountain
the life-blood ebbs from the heart ol the color bearer
of Tattersall's regiment, and away Minder on the west-
ern prairies, as the sun sinks below the horizon, a little
curly-headed girl plays with her doll, all unconscious
that her father, who, but a year before, had trotted her
nil his knee, is lying mi the yellow leaves with the pic
tun- iif home and wife ami children risinu up before
him nut nl' the gathering mists ami gloom of death.
Oh' how the thought must comfort and strengthen
him in that dark hour, that he yielded up his life in de-
fense of — 'the federative agency.' Ah! it is a cruel
slander, lie knows, if Mr. Tilden dues not, that he is
dying for his country; that the Nation may live; that
the great Vmerican republic, the mighty defender of
the rights of man. whose mission it i- to Christianize
the world, may not pass awaj from earth: may not he
whelmed
' In that great ocean of Oblivion
Where already, in numbers numberless,
The graves of buried empires heave like passing waves.'
It is that thought that lights up his poor wounded laee
with a glad smile, and gi\ es him strength imi hisper his
last words mi earth into the ear oi the dark, tender-
eyed Angel of Death who stoops over him: ' Yes. it is
SWeet to die tiif one S country.'
" It was restored love of country, love of the Union,
that led me into the ranks of the Republican party."
The literary productions of Judge Reid would of
themselves make a charming volume. Space can be
given onh to a few passages in prose and in verse, lot-
he writes both with equal facility and elegance :
" l>oes it not cause iii US, at times, a fearful feeling
to reflect that we can never he children again : no more,
through all eternity, return to that quiet time when we
lay mi a loving mother's bosom, or prat tied at her Lie 1
*******
"The great aim of our life should lie, to aggregate
together ami to fuse into a whole all our particles of
spirit ual intelligence ami strength. Mete vague, dreamy,
spiritual aspirations are nothiug, except in so far as
they indicate spiritual capabilities. We appear in that
other world the same identical spirits we were in this.
If we were to lose our identity, we would not I.,- our
selves. The real spirit of anything is a portion of the
universal Spirit, or God. If particles of spirit can
grow and develop themselves into higher forms, would
it not follow that the Universal Spirit is stantly
growing ami developing into higher forms of spiritual
being, ami consequently not all perfect?"
" Fa ir flowers emanations are
Ot Beauty's spirit everj ** hero :
In .-uii an.t moon, and stars met sky.
In streams and lakes, aid mountains high.
Spirit ttiat lurks each form within,
Bvoh in- life Irom death an.t sin.
Life aid love, tin: lily ami rose
Each to 'lark earth its beauty owes.
Of tin' oyster is born the pearl.
And high heaven <»t our low world.
Spirit of beauty in everything,
Always changing and fashioning —
Gradually, slowly fitting its shell.
In which higherliorms "f life shall dwell."
Mans mission is to earn his bread — natural and
spiritual bread — by the sweat of his brow and brain.
This city-dotted globe was once but a waste- tangled
wilderness, ami two human beings stood herein with
only fig tree coverings; and see the change wrought by
their >ons and daughters — by those of them that have
worked' We are born children of order, and enemies
of disorder. The carpenter makes smooth plank of
rough, gnarled timber; tin1 sculptor transforms flinty
rocks into symmetrical, life-looking bodies; the me-
chanic converts mountain ore into useful implements
and machines. Thus are we engaged in bringing
about that ' far off. Divine event, to which the whole
creation moves.' If till men would but work, how
much longer would we have to journey on through the
Desert ; if all these innumerable yawning idlers, waiting
for God to mend matters, would but help him to mend
them'.' Work is man's mission, his highest act of wor-
ship— ' its litany and psalmody the noble acts and true
heart utterance of all the valiant of the sons of men: its
choir music the ancient winds ami oceans, and deep-
toned, inarticulate, but most speaking, voices of Destiny
and History, supernal ever as of old.' "
"What an Aceldama this world is1 I sometimes
wonder if it must not vex the ear ot' Heaven, the
countless sighs and groans and shrieks that human
hearts and lips pour out upon the empty air! If all
that have escaped since time began could but be vol-
unicd forth in one great cry that should go forth to
search the universe for God, the fearful sound would
crack the very globe it-elf. Or if each scene of human
suffering, since first the pitiless sky vaulted this charnel-
house, the earth, could be transferred, life-size, upon a
canvas wide and high as heaven; and power of vision
granted us to grasp each smallest object, what a picture
would be unrolled to mortal eye-. God sees it thus:
and yet there tire who say He is an angry and a jealous
God."
*******
"Thank God, some days the sky look- down upon me
with a face a- noble and serene a- any Spartan mother's,
and all the air is full of music, and the fall of feet upon
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1 1 « < ■ pavement sounds like the tramp of armies marching
onward.
" One who has left behind him the ' dreams of his
youth;' who has squandered his inheritance in carnal
company and riot, or attained the end of his ambition
in having secured great wealth, or fame, only to realize
the desolate cry 'all is vanity!' passes along the street,
of a calm Sabbath morning, and hears the voices of
children singing an old, long-forgotten hymn, which he
himself sang when a child, telling of a beautiful land
beyond the valley of the dark Shadow, when' all tears
will be wiped away, and the lather will again feel the
little arms of the child he buried so many weary years
before around his neck, can it lie that that within him
which forces the tears into his eyes will heir no other
fruit or blossoms than those which fade and wither or
turn to ashes on the lip?"
"A hot July day. The long, white, dusty macadam-
ized turnpike, steaming. A drove of sheep panting, with
tongues out, and with tender, appealing eyes. Little
lambs, footsore, and limping by the side of mothers
powerless to help (the unspeakable anguish in those
supplicating eyes!), driven by human beings, made in
the likeness of God, with heavy whips in their hands;
and down in the town a red-faced butcher, with a sharp
knife, waiting to draw it across their tender throats!
But how would the world exist without spring lamb and
green peas?"
naturally lit up at tines with huge flames
fire."
d bursts of
"Some -years ago I was in Naples. In front of the
hotel, and lying along the sea, was a garden and public
promenade. Here, in the cool of the evening, a fine
baud of music would play for hours, and the elite and
fashion display themselves. It was a rare pleasure, after
returning from the day's ramble, to secure a good seat
on the side nearest the bay, and listen to the music and
the long ripple and splash of the waves on the clear
white sand at one's feet: to watch the gaily- dressed,
animated crowds, lovely ladies leaning on the arms of
handsome gentlemen, and beautiful little boys and girls
running hoops, or engaged in some other childish sport,
while the hum of the wonderful and busy city in the
distance came subdued and softened on the evening air.
In the soft, mellow twilight, what a weird feeling would
creep into one's breast while sitting here looking out
upon the great sheet of water, undulating, rising and
falling like a mighty carpet by gusts of wind underneath,
carrying on its bosom white-winged sailing vessels, fish-
ermen's smacks and ocean steamers ; at the great dark
fire-mountain opposite, which one knew, and could not
but recall, had in the past thrilled and horrified so
many human beings with its terrible vomitings forth
of fire and red-hot stones and ashes. One could see the
people of Pompeii and Herculaneum fleeing, horror-
struck, in all directions, in (he greal darkness, preter
"The day 1 visited Mount Vesuvius was wonderfully
clear and bright. A lew white, fleecy clouds drifted
across the sky, which only seemed a. short distance
overhead, and extraordinarily pure ami blue. All the
ground we had come over lay immediately beneath us,
ami could be distinctly viewed; the huge upturned.
crested rocks; the serpentine windings of mig lit y streams
of petrified lava, and vast fields of dust and ashes. Far
off to the left, stretching for miles in a semi-circular
form along the beautiful bay, lay Naples, its house-tops
and cupolas and spires glittering under a brilliant mid
day sun. Hundreds of sailing crafts lazily floated mi
the blue waves, and steamers, leaving long lines of
black smoke in their track, were coming and going.
On the side nearest the sea could be seen charming
villas, surrounded by the most picturesque fairy scenery;
here standing out mi jutting promontories, at whose
base the great waves lashed themselves into angry foam,
and here, half hid in deep gorges, whose sides were
covered with orange and lemon trees laden with golden
fruit, the white rock turnpike leading from Castel-
lemmare to Sorrento could be caught glimpses of now
and then breaking from some deep ravine and winding
like a silver thread along the sea-coast, up steep de-
clivities, to where some iron or stone light-house stood
lonely, looking out U] the sea, or where an old tine
worn ruin spoke of long forgotten sieges and battles."
" Hark! that heavy, pompous tread
Tells of one well cloth 'd and fed.
Here comes one whose cold heart ne'er
To the eye can force a tear.
Ragged children round him weep.
' Feed my sheep, oh feed my sheep!'
But he counts his rich gains o'er.
Robs and cheats to swell the store.
And grinds the faces of God's poor.
Lives respected, and will die
In the odnr of sanctity."
ON THE HEATH OK A CHILD.
In a darkened room a mother kneels
By the side of a trundle-bed,
Where a little child with folded hands
And closed eyes lies dead.
Outside, the glare of the blinding sun,
And the noises of the street,
Shrill cries, and the rattle of vehicles,
And the patter of children's feet.
Hi.- torn straw hat brings op on a peg,
And his well worn suit of gray,
Th;it his mother will brush, with breaking heart.
And (old and lay away.
And dear grandchildren, in far-off years,
Will gather around her knee,
Their little dead uncle's suit of clothes,
I ided and w-u n. tu -c .
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While hunger and woe fiercely look out
trough Ivor tear stain'd, lrl«htou'd eyes.
Out on the street a reveller reels,
» ■ ,, ■- nnee a stainless man,
The dreams of his youth forever fled
Or changed to nightmares wan.
\ ,vay down
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it thinks he he's practical,
\ : . rotten and gi
The hearth re left behind, and out
white turnpike creeps
The slow prooessiou ; the mourners talk and laugh.
The poor sad moil
Here where the tall gi • overgreous
Stand hush'd and soleiuu round,
ad uuooneern'd
A pit dug in the ground.
■ the spoken words of prayer that
The silence how profound '■
iff and heavy thud of clods
Che only at • >uud.
kinen crack theit race :
Kach trie: unci ;
family Mends arc in great h .
I'o get hack home to dinner.
The pall of night falls down ; the hot, foul stench
From gutters and alleys
And cool and pure and still the gravestones stand
choking heart, in yon gas-lighted room,
Sec here this peaceful grave ;
I'pou it shims the light of all the stars-
Be patient and be brave.
bints have hid their heads :
The dowers have gone to si.
infinite serenity that's
V-ut for the storm the rainbow would not arch
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utau's real character aud nature better than could any
>urs.
Judge Reid s lather was Johu Reid, au eminent mem-
\ - - haracter is well de-
scribed in an obituary notice, from the pen ot'
rieud, that appeared in 7*A August
^- and from which we make this extract \
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walked, honor aud strength were by his side — a
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HON. NY I LI 1 VM Y. ELLIOTT.
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THIS ayntloman. one of the leading - of
11 in Rutherford county,
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building mills. and in other useful enterprises in the
thei
- man in all his undei - ;1
iruij in tl)
He was the - four brothers - - of William
\ >rth Carolina a short time before
the he father having pre-
- S fated lands, to tht -
ys.
William Y. Klliott's mother's maiden name
Idaline Bowman. She was tin Samuel
Bowman, who earn '- herford county, Tennessee,
\ Una about lSOt>. a- : in tin-
no the celebrated t
fhere the tan.
.... S inuel Bowman
the An..
tion and tool; ving's Mountain.
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the ehureh, both in North Carolina
and Tenness
\lc . s iu coin for rvum-
- tud kept him at the bes ...
-: >>t' the time up to his li year. He
's at Mur
irtner in the
tiru, \ in the dr\
ss of hostilities
h\ e v " DUl :
lepubliean wheu that party was .'din
Tenness - uum
the war ho has sisteiu Republi-
eau. Ho ■■ • national
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- rved a term .
in that body. While in the Legislature s made
ehairman ol the eounnittee on ways and moans, a posi-
tion in which his tine business ^ualitioations were ably
S~0 Mr KUiott was a director of the
Murfn !i Savings Hank, and also served one
year in the same capacity in the First National Hank of
Murfreesborough. He « - director in the First
\ mil Hank of Nashville tor five years, declining
lection iu 1^7;: because of his appointment as
i ■- ites pension agent at Nashville. This latter
■ii ho hold more than four veal's, at the expiration
of which time, the ageney having boon consolidated
with the Knoxville agency, ho wont out of office. Since
that time he has not held public position of any kind,
devotiug himself exclusively to his private interests
Mr. KUiott was made a Master Mason in Mt. Moriah
S 3 at Murfreesborough, dune 12,
Nreh Mason in Pythagoras Chapter No. '_';;. Mur-
freesborough. October 15, IS32, and a Knight Templar
\ - Commandery No. 1, Nashville, 1S59.
Mr. KUiott was married October 13, 1S70. at MeMinn-
v -- V tret '• Johnston, daugh-
tl imes W Johnston, a paymaster in the United
States army during the late war. originally a lawyer at
N - , Pennsylvania, who settled in Tennessee at
the close of the war, and being made a register in
. iptey, held that position until 1872. His father.
Rev. b< hnston. was a Presbyterian minister and
a pioneer iu Western Pennsylvania; of Scotch Irish
it, and a man ot' strong character, being distin-
guished among the ministers of his day. Mrs. Klliott's
family, on her mother's side, wore Is v . h de-
scent, her mother being Miss Ksther Loughry, daughter
of Jol ".v. a native of " Auld Scotia."
Mr. and J >tt have four children, all sons:
^1). William Y. KUiott. jr.. now fourteen years ol
James Johnston Elliott, a - ; Kdward
G. KUiott. aged ten years I Harry W. Elliott, tie
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Mr. aud v :t arc both Presbyterians, he hav-
ing boon a communicant of that church since lSi;i.
Mr. Klliott's life presents • - ration of a
self-made and successful bnsim SSI
fortune has him as the legitimate reward of
integrity and purpos
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COL. ROBERT F. LOONEY.
ifEMPII/8.
A distinguished gentleman of Memphis who baa
known Col. Robert F. Looney long and intim
ilii.- high, but just, estimati
"Col. Loom though in business a pushing man, i-
noted among his acquaintances for his modesty. I
;i man of great mavitj of manner,"who i- certain
gratiate' himself into the favor of all whom he meets.
He is of exceeding gentleness of nature, yet bold and
decisive; a man whose heart is ever moved by the
appeals of the oppressed or distressed ; a man
hi- family, lii- friends, his country and his church. He
ri churchman, and never fails to attend
Sunday when there is a church to
ached. As an orator, there are but few, if any, in
the State who excel him r of fine imaginative
powers, while classical and finished in lii- style, hi
. that gift of eloquence that influences the
multitude like power over the
masses, enthusing an audience of thousands by the tor-
i his eloquent logic in a single address. Hi- i-
the •■hi of firing the popular heart. In lii- family rela-
tions, In: may well be termed the youngest member. He
i- the one man "!' m li"- who has not a black
sheep in lii- flock or ;i skeleton in lii- closet. He has
and three sons, nil of whom are now
n and neither of whom have in any waj violated
the mandates and • f Christian parents. He
i- by nature endowed with an intellect and a physique
that give him prominence as a man of mark in any
company. In busi relations In- is quick of concep
tion, bold and venturesome, and when he sustains losses
In- sleeps well over them, and troubles neither himself,
lii- family or hi- friends with hi- fai bile, on the
other hand bis succi ssee He is a
inin of .■lilt enthusiasm in In- undei I
lli^ differences of opinion in business, in politics, or in
the other relations of life, occasion no severani
friendship. II" may oppose you ever so bitterly on a
matter of princ bis In-art will ever In- o]
■.on. and hi- latch string hangs on tin- outsi
ll«- i- peculiarlj adapted to large enterprises. Ili-
powers of persuasion, together with hi- earnestm
com iction, often enlist tin- co operation of large bodies
of influential men. He was the first inaugurator and
nizer in this of the immense mining corpo-
rations now operating in Mexico, out of which he has
realized large sums.
Robert V I." born in Maury county, Ten-
nessee, August 5, 1824, and grew up there, going to
school in that county until the age of twent II" then
commenced reading law under lion. Edmund Dilla-
huniv. (who had married hi- sister, Mi-- Sarah G.
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I h- was admitted to the bar in 1 - 15 by •! udge
Dillahunty and Chancellor Terry II. Cahal, and at once
In the sprii
1-17 1 to Memphis, bul r;k to Columbia,
married and settled there, practicing at Columbia from
tin- fall of 1847 lo the summer of 1852 fully-
niakiu In 1 %2 he moved hack
to Memphis and. omitting the hiatus of the war. prac-
law there until 1870. Sit
in a thousand things, the recital of which would
fill a hook.
In l-'il he ■■•"lit into the Confederate army as captain
of a compan i colonel of the Thirty-eighth
I regiment, and commanded it twoyears in the
I IG gia campaigns. He was at the bat-
tle of Shiloh, where he won great distinction
the battles of Farmington, Corinth, and other
engagements. II" surrendered at Oxford, Mississippi,
in 1865
Col. Loone. has ui er held a civil office in his life.
In politics he was a Henry Clay Whig before the war.
opposi on, and made about the last Union speech
that wa- ever mad" in Memphis before the com mi
mi-nt of hostilities. II" also spoke in vari
places in West I ion and for the
Union, hut after the £ I with her
and ea-t hi- lot with her. Sim-" the war he
with the Democratic party, one of the most zealous of
it- members, and highly valued for his great organizing
and. ibility. He was a delegate to the Chicago
Democratic convention, in 1884, which nomi-
nated Cleveland and Hendricks, and at which conven-
tion Col. Loonej was made the member of the National
Democratic executive committee from Tenm
Col. Loon iblic-spirited citizen in it- highest
and proves hi- faith by his works, subscribing
liberally to enterprises to improve the "ii. of Memphis,
to advance it- school facilities, and to church bei
tion-. II. i- a member of tin- Presbyterian church, as
are also the other members of hi- family. He joined
1 i Id Fellows wlnn a a, but has never be-
come a member of any other secret order.
Col. Looney's ancestors are of Irish origin. His
grandfather, David Looney, emigrated from Ire-
land and located iii Maryland, and afterward- in Vir-
ginia, long before the Revolutionary war. His son,
D L grandfather of Col. Looney, was a colonel
in the American army, a native of Virginia; afterwards
removed to Ten is a member of the convention
that framed the first constitution of Ten- i «a>
often a member of the Legislature from Sullivan county.
II mer, and left a large landed i
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busiiH ■-- - real est and fortune favored him,
ipplied to
Vdaius for a
which « - i His practice has been
in tlu' ch hit. where h is knowledge
of the land and tit U-s in i ga has been of
to liiin. Notwithstanding his -- - by war and
irity, he has accumulated a nice property.
When hi R> iss 1. nding I Li
terry and steamboat
found no post-office i - Is. tie 1
to tlu' ; department for a
which ted. and he was appointed ■
without compensation. The name of the post office
Chattanooga in 1838. I - held
ship until IS44. when he h;
1 - James K
In IS32 he r I Jen. Jackson ; his
I. White, and thenceforward he
the Whbj '-•.•m Harrison to Bell, since
which time he has been a Democrat. He attended the
tiveutiou at Murfri
- uominati
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President Lini
He was a] s a States rights man. a -
■e him. He has. however, never been
so warm a partis • the party ticket unh --
liked the men : always considered it a duty to vote, but
equally a duty to scratch ible names from the
Tn 1845 lie was elected to take his fathi - is an
in the Pp - church, which he had j
in 1843. He was a eomn u of Chat-
_a when the land t • • ry, and the
ants were entitled to pi Qtry. The
three commissioners. Aaron M. Rawli i W
Williams and (.'apt. Long, entered the
sold the lots, and made I the purchas
20, 1839, which was the day on which the town of
Chattauooga had its birth < power
i> illustrated in the fact that lie hi - - n the
i river, and of the large cities only a few.
■ Long was married to Miss Eliza Smit! \
< Dayton),
Mrs. L a January
"J.">. 1813, at Washington, B Her
was William Smith, a native of Massachusetts,
BOS; was as
and had for om • Dr. J. <i. M. Ramsey, the
He was one
comn I teachers 1 - Mrs.
. daughter of 1 'r.
i history of East Tennes
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History of Teni ss Mrs. Long's brother, Dr. Milo
Smith, was an aide physician, and for several terms
mayor iga, where he died in 1868. Mr-.
i it K new ille ; made a profession of
in and joined the church in 1S43. the same day
her husband m ssiou and joined. She has been
an iir. irt of her married life, but is
r her sweetness of temper. She is fond oi
m pa n y of young tMks ; has an unconquerable will-
that has carried her through all her troubles: is
notably cheerful and plea-ant. and. for one of her age,
remarkably aeti eially when "upon hospitable
cares intent.'' To this union there wi children —
all bom in Chattanooga. Five of these died in infancy
and childhood. The other- are : (1). William Pomfret
_ died nineteen years old. (2). Elizabeth Jane
Jai • ' -by I, one.
born December 2, LS44: educated in the Naval Acade-
my at Aunapolis; resigned and joined the Confederate
navy in 1861, attaching himself to the fleet along thi
eoast of North Carolina. He was in the fight at Roanoke
Island, the second in command of the Curlrw, ('apt.
Hunter. He was then transferred to the Merrimac, as
midshipman, and was in the famous naval fights in
Hampton Roads, and remained with his ship until she
nt. II was then transferred to Drury's Bluff,
and finally to Plymouth. North Carolina, and was on
board the irou-elad /" when she was blown up
b\ the United States navy. He next served under
('apt. Moffit on a blockade runner. After the war he
went into civil engineerii a
ernment works at Muscle shoals tor a while. II ;-
now a manufacturer of iron paint at Birmingham, Ala-
bama. He married at Elyton, Alabama. November 20,
1872, Miss Frances Walker, and has four children,
William Walker. John Pomfret, James Cozby and
Man'. i . John Pomfret Long, jr.. born March 4.
1847: '. Walker's Nineteenth Tennessee regi-
ment in May. lSt>4. at Dalton, Georgia : participated in
all the fights from there to Atlanta, and on Ji
led by a shell taking his foot off; died
March 1. 1880, unmarried. (5). Milo Smith Long, born
May In. 1850; graduated in medicine at Nashville, and
is now in Dakota. (6). Marcus Bearden Long, born
January 27, 1>54: now a civil engineer, and was for a
while • r in Mexico on the Atchison,
3 llta Fe railroad: unmarried.
< Ine of the aims of ('apt. 1. one's life has been t
his children somethiug to start upon and to help them
attain a standing ty, and he believes that every
man ought to have a home and a family, and next, that
he has duties to perform a.- a citizen, lie has di -
1 has been sometimes up and sometimes down.
but has always made it a rule to pay his debts. With one
ion he has always made a profit on whatever he
- - Id. He never swore an oath in his life, and was
jht up to regard the Sabbath. He ha- never been
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dissipated, though not always strictly I He
If- assertive man, and of quick temper. Beii -
oldest citizen of Chattanooga, resorted
an oracle on m
-"II-. families and property in that now important
- been a public-spirited man all along, and i-
uniformly spoken of as the bes( representative man of
the city where he located when it was -imply a river
landii rrounded
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REV. JAMES HOLMES, D.D., AND PROF. GEORGE D. HOLMES.
(fathee and son.)
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J[ sionary and preacher, a- well ■■
educator, was ordained to the ministry in 1846. He
wa- the son of Abraham Holmes, of Carlisle, Penn-
sylvania, in which place he was born in 1801. He
attended Princeton C ne or two years, and after-
wards graduated af Dickinson I
thi- he entered the theological department at Pri>
hut. on account of tailing health, m ipleted his
theological course there. He now became a lay mu
ary to the Chickasaw Indian- in North Mississippi, and
among them taught and preached from IS^o
When the Chickasaws were removed west, Mr. Holmes
ved to Tipton county. Tennessee, where, in 1834,
stablished the Mountain Academy, in which he
_ • for fifteen year- This establishment was atti ,
by a large number of pupils from Tennessee, Ark
ssippi, Louisiana, and other surroundii \ ~
In ]s4!.i he was appointed president of the
Tennessee College, at Jackson, and after filling this
office with credit for eight years, returned to Tipton
county, being elected principal of the Tipton Female
Seminary. Here he taught till 1868, when he retired
from active professional life, and himself to
ministrations of religion and humanity, visiting
afflicted and bereaved, and administering the solace of
religion to all who would receive it from him. Thus
employed, he died, February 4. 1-7 ing behind
him a name blessed by innumerable survivors who had
received from him either the prh Christian
education, or the consolation of Christian sympathy in
affliction. Many ministers oi I el are now doing
good service in pulpits throughout the southwestern
States who owe their first religion- impressions I
early training and teaching- of thi- man fG I Those
who remember his conversation, genial and
sympathetic, unanimously agree in the testimony that
no one was ever intimate! d with him without
being the better for it.
Hr. Holme- married Sarah A. Van '•'■ who
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en all her life, witl
eli I'r. Holn of
hildren, a- foil Emma,
D. 11. < founder and for mi r of
th d church
Dr. W. M. Hall,
D. Hoi' t of the s -ketch. (4). Mary
A., wife of Rev. L. McXeely. (5). William ft., mer-
chant at Danvi p.. book-
r in a bank and insurance agent at Bonham. T
7 Anna W., widow of Capt. T. F. Patt
Mem]
Abraham Holmes, the father of I>r. Holmes, wa- one
of the children of Andrew Holmes of Pei
vania. This Andrew was the son of an emigrant from
the north of Ireland, who may I the founder
of the familv in America.
Prof. George D. Holmes was third child and ■
f the above. He was born in Marshall county,
while his father was pursuing his missi
labors in that State, Xovember 13, 1831. He was
brought to Tipton county when two years old, and grew
up thi
He received 1 ;tory education in his fathers
1, and in 18 Xew
y, where he graduated in 1849. Alter graduation,
he had charge, for ■ 5, oi the preparator;
partment of West T .
In 1857 he settled at I unty,
and t . 1857
ciated with his father in the conduct of the Tipton
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merchant and planter, of a South Carolina tamilx Her
mother was M rtha Crenshaw !> h Carolina
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the father of three el N \ , born in
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tint \ ll« settled at Randolph, in
ty, in 1S:28, and engaged in trade there, and
ton, « heir he died Man h 10,
ISS-l leaving behind him a reputation for the strictest
ll\s son, Br. M. Munford, has. for over ten
md proprietor "I the Kansas Citj
Vnother son, Richard IV Munford, is teller in
the Southern Bank of I at Savannah. His
daughter, Ermine, is the widow of 4.V1. John txraeey
Hall, of Covington.
The mother of the second Mrs Holmes was Sarah
B., daughter of IV I.. Morrison, who died at Covington
in 1ST.'!, at tin \ty.
Mrs Holmes was educated in iho Tipton Female
Seminary, partly by I'rof. Holmes himself. She is a
member *<\' the Presbyterian church, anil is noted for
her energy and for the womanly virtues that endear
home to husband and children. By his second mar-
Brof Holmes has two children: ilv Embry M..
born Jul} 27, ISGT now at school in Kansas City,
Missouri 1 \.m\a Van, horn October 14,
died \
- attributes his success in life to the
methods and principles he inherited from his father.
which ma\ be summed up in the simple words, "a eon-
scienti of duty from day to day."
COL. A. J. BROWN.
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under Chi ics W Beaderiefc,
support himself while studying law,
and r cclusivel; lit. He was ad-
mitted to the I - rough, in 1S58, by. Indue
John C. (!aut and Chancellor Seth •' W. I.uekey. and
- 'ii at Jonesborough until the war
came up. He then, in company with Col. > K \
raising the Tenth East Ten: --
y. and in February is iuchoate regiment
hth Tennessee cavalry at
N nel and Brown lieu-
mel. The regiiueut saw ser\ ice in Tenu< ss
North Carolina Virgi I South Carolina. Col.
ued in tin - '.' I ! reetieville. Bull's
Morris - lisbury aud Morgan-
tou. North Carolina, aud iu almost numberless skir-
- From March L'J to May 1. 1>iM. Col. Brown
laded the regiment. Eighth Tennessee, in the
the war. from Kuoxville through East Ten-
\ ' i \ riuia, as far as
and returned to North Caro-
uiuiai led it at the battles of Salisbury and
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children. Kli'/.abcth, wife ol James Grisham: Byron,
Andrew -I , Vnn and Ulysses Grant Barnes.
Col. Brown's mother died February •">. 1855, She was
a Methodist, and a woman of strong native intellect,
which had been developed by a good education : indus-
trious and domestic in her habits, and devoted to her
children. The foundation of the son s success was laid
when a bov around his mother's knee. She was ln-
walkcd thirteen miles to recite his law lessons to Judge
Deaderick. Mis rule of life has been to accomplish
and encompass all he could by habits of sobrietj and
industry Too poor to buy candles while at school in
Carter county, he gathered pine-knots and studied by
the light of their fitful and flicki ring blaze To daj he
is a man of strong intellect, of eloquent oratorical
ability, of wide and remarkable legal attainments, uuos-
guide and teacher, and knowing the disadvantages tentatious in his mi ers, 1 lesl almost to diffidence,
under which her sun must be reared, she earl} inspired
him with an ambition to improve himself and avail
himself of every opportunity for improvement. He
was raised to habits of industry and economy. When
mi the road wagoning he carried bis books with him
ami read them by the camp fires at night, or while
his horses were feeding at noon, lie embraced every
opportunity he found for the education and cultivation
of his mind- While leaching school in the country he
yet n man of power, willing and competent to freely
discuss all subjects, except himself. His is but the his-
tory of nearly all the men ol success whose lives are
w fit ten in this vol time. Indeed, ii seems to be a law of
success, that no man shall become prominent in Ten-
nessee and worthy to be enrolled among " Prominent
Tennesseaus," unless he begins al the bottom and works
his way up, with courage in himself and fidelity to his
ditties.
HON. WILLIAM WALLACE McDOWELL.
MEMPHIS.
CHANCELLOR WILLIAM WALLACE Mc-
DOWELL was born in tiibson county, Tennessee,
June 2d, 1S35, and grew up there on a farm, receiving
his education at Andrew College, Trenton, Tennessee
He entered the law department of Cumberland Univer-
sity at Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1857. and graduated in
the summer of 1858, after which he read law one year
longer at Trenton, with Judge T. J. Freeman, now of
the Supreme bench of Tennessee, and iii lstiti began to
pract ice with him.
He has always been a Democrat ; in 1860 belonged to
the Douglass' wing <if the party, and opposed secession,
but went with his State after it seceded, and entered
the Confederate service M ty 13, lSb'l. receiving a com-
mission as first lieutenant in the Twelfth regiment
Tennessee infantry. At the battle of Belmont. V m
bet'. 1861, he received a severe wound from a bullet.
which he still carries in his body. At Shiloh, in April,
IMIL.'. he was again wounded, and shortly after this hat-
lie was made captain of his pany. Fearing to
remain in the infantry service on account of his old
wounds, about one month after the Shiloh fight he got
permission from the Confederate war department to
raise a company of ca\ airy. The company was composed
ol Tet ee and Mississippi volunteers, and he being
made it- captain, became connected with Col. Balcn
tine's regiment of 1 1 en. William II. Jackson's division,
and operated during the war in Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and Tennessee. During a portion of this time
Forrest, with whom he surrendered at Gainesville, Ala-
bama, May 13, 18(15, just four years from the dale he
entered the sen ice.
The war over, he returned to Tennessee and edited
the Trenton Gazette for one year, when he resumed the
practice of law in partnership with Samuel Brewer,
since distinguished as a minister of the Methodist
church. In January, 186S, he removed to Memphis
and became the law partner of Col. George Gantt, with
whom he continued in partnership for about e ghl years.
In 1ST1 lie was elected county attorney for Shelhj county,
and was re elected to that office for five successive years
at the end of which he declined re election. He was
appointed chancellor by Gov. James D. Porter, and
hold the office under this appointment until August,
1880, when he was elected by the people, receiving a
majority of four thousand five hundred votes over J. Iv
Bigelow one thousand two hundred votes more than
any candidate on the ticket, except Judge Horrigan,
who was nominated by both Democrats and Republicans.
This office he still fills.
[n 1872 Judge McDowell was district elector on the
Greelej ticket. Ho has \\r\*-r been a candidate for any
office, other t han I hose he has held.
He became a Master Mason at Trenton in 1867, and
a Royal Vrch Mason al Memphis in 18S1 ; is a mem-
ber of the Knights of Honor, and id' the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. He became a member of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church al Memphis, in
his command was connected with the cavalrj of lien. 1884.
PROMINENT TENNESSE \NS.
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The ancestors of Judge McDowell, the McDowells
and Irwins, emigrated from [reland to Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, some time prior in 1750. From there his
great-grandfather, who was born in L743, moved to
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, where his son,
John McDowell, was born March 18, 177"), and his
grandson, John D. McDowell, the father of the judge,
was born January 10, 1810, and moved to Gibs :ounty,
Tennessee, in 1832. The judge's great-grandfather,
Robert Irwin, also emigrated from Pennsylvania to
Mecklenburg. North ( 'arolina.
Judge .McDowell's fatl
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I). McDowell, was a
farmer by occupation and a zealous member of the
Presbyterian church, and though he never held anj
civil office, except justice of the peace, was a nun of
prominence and influence in his county. The family
is of Irish descent, and is the same family to which
the late Major-General Irwin McDowell, of the United
Static army, and Gov. McDowell, the famous Virginia
orator, belong. His brother, Hon. John II. .McDowell.
of -Union City, Tennessee, represented Obion county in
the Legislature of 1882-3, and was State senator from
his district in the Tennessee Legislature for 1885 6,
and is the author of the celebrated " gambling bill"
passed by those bodies. His other brother, Samuel
Irwin McDowell, is a prominent citizen and Demo-
crat of Memphis, Tennessee, and is now clerk and
master of the chancery court of Shelby county, to
which position he was appointed in November, 1884,
upon the recommendation of two-thirds of the bar of
that county. lie also has three sisters, Mrs. ( '. I''. II.
Harrison, Jennie S. Mitehum and Loura A. McNeilly,
the last two of whom are widows.
Judge McDowell's mother, nee Miss Nancy II. Irwin,
was the daughter of William Irwin, of Mecklenburg
county. North Carolina, and grand-daughter of Gen.
Robert Irwin, of Revolutionary fame, one of the signers
of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, who
moved from Pennsylvania to that county.
Judge .McDowell was married, March 27. 1867, to
Miss Anna Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones, ol Mem-
phis, and grand-daughter of Rev. John \V. Jones, a
Methodist minister of Gibson county. She is also a
cousin of Judge T. J. Freeman, of the Tennessee
Supreme Court, and of Judge Carthell, of Trenton.
Her mother was Miss .Mary Kimball, of Maury county.
Tennessee.
Mrs. McDowell died December 11, 1882, the mother
of four children: (1). Eulalia E. .McDowell, born
November 11, 1868. (2). J. dm 0. McDowell, born
August 11, 1873. (3). \V. W. .McDowell, jr., born Jan-
uary 111. 1875. (4). Annie I/. McDowell, born Decem-
ber 11, 1877; died May s, 1884.
On the 1 4th ofOctober, 1885, he married .Mrs. Lizzie
A. Freeman, widow of E. T. Freeman. She was born
June 26, 1853, and has one daughter, Edna A. Free-
man, who was born June 11,1877. Mrs. McDowell is
the daughter of Capt. Joseph Lenow, who is and has
been o f the most liberal, progressive and enterpris-
ing citizens of Memphis, Tennessee, for a third of a
century, and is known as the founder of Elmwood eeme
tery. lie was bom December 24, 1813, in Southampton
county, Virginia.
Judge McDowell has always led a strictly moral and
sober life. He never gambled, was never intoxicated,
and never swore an oath, lie has been a hard worker,
and has always had a large practice, lie is fond of
activity, and indulges iii hunting as a relaxation from
the labors of his profession.
One of the leading members of the Memphis bar
says: "Judge McDowell has made a reputation for
being a conscientious, painstaking judge, who thor-
oughly investigates all cases submitted to his decision,
and has the confidence of the entire community."
Another says: "When made chancellor he had not
had much experience in equity practice, but. to the
surprise of the bar. he exhibited from the first a high
order of capacity for the duties of the position. He is
gifted with a power .d' rapid comprehension, and a
tenacity of memory quite unusual. These enable him
to fix his attention upon the presentation of a case, to
grasp and group the facts, and to clearly perceive the
questions to be decided. His knowledge of men. de-
rived from actual minglingwith them, has greatly aided
him to understand tin- under currents of feeling and
motive that influence human action, and thus to ascer-
tain the real equities which legal contrivances involve.
His mind is of the judicial order. No trace of partisan-
ship or partiality can In- found in his judgments. He
listens patiently to argument, which fiu- li i in tends to
elucidation, but the quickness of his perception leads
him to discourage much of detailed discussion, which
might be acceptable and helpful to a slower mind.
Mere technicalities do not stand high in his favor: nor
does he plod willingly through the misty analogies of
decided eases, by which lawyers are prone to seek sup-
port for their positions. He looks much more to the
reasons and principles than to the number of decisions,
and much more to tin- fundamental right as between
the parties than the precedents that may seem to cor-
respond in general form and feature with the case in
hand. I Ie discriminates well, and in his discrimination
lies his strength as a judge. He is no innovator, and
always recognizes as settled, at least for him, whatever
our own Supreme ( 'oiirl has so declared. Appeals from
his decisions, and reversals on appeal, are as infrequent
as in the case of any chancellor in the State. His great
administrative capacity and tact in the dispatch of busi-
ness, enable him to keep well in hand a very heavy
docket, and also enable him, while performing immense
labor, to husband, in some measure, his physical re-
sources. He is yet a young man. He grows as a jud
by his judicial labor. His memory lets go oo principle
Or method which he has learned to be of value. On or
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[JON G. W. SMITHEAL.
Mlt, SMITH KA1 was b >rn < i\, Tonnes
\ - de his homo in
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lames Byars, a tine Kuglish and el holar,
;»s their teacher by many of th. men of
mty. I'ndor this eminent teacher he aei|iiired
a know f lireek, Latin and mathematics, and
then, at tli menced th
law in the office of !; Here he studied
irt of the time as deputy clerk of
the eh mrt through the appointment of .1
\Y. M Smith, now of Memphis 11. was licensed to
iv Smith ami •' ud.se
John C llimii '
inoe with 'in tlir Hi
Vt the commencement of the .;.\il war. he entered
ntederati States ilunteer, enlisting as
in Company 1. Capt. J, ti. Hall, of the Kitty-
first Tennessee regiment, in lien. Paniel S. Ponel-
i 'heatham - He remained in
me command throughout the war. an
promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and adjutant of
the regiment. He served with his command ii
\i -- -- . ', ia, and participated in the
battles of Shiloh, Murfroeshorough, Chiekamauga, Mis-
sionary Ridge, and all the bal cam-
from Palton to Atl i From Atlanta he was
il at Columbus, i loorgia,
where bo remained on post duty ti! raid, when
lu> surreti - paroled at Maeon,
Ho was elected major of his regiment in lStG,
but declined the rank.
He returned homo. In' \ and formed a law
partnersip with Col. 11 R. Bate, which has continued
sent day. Tins firm has bei i I in all
the important cases which have tor twenty years arisen
in th. ton and the neighboring conn
In politics, bo cast bis ; Millard Fillmore.
ami in tin
the war. hasacted with the 1'.
IK' several times declined i
the Legislature. In 1ST-! bo wasacand >ro the
nono : :i Humboldt I-
failed to receive the nomination by one vote. In lS7l>
bow sidential elector on the Tilden ticket.
In 1S> iported the Wilson wing of the demo-
cratic party ag;\iust John \ Wri hi foi tovernor. and
lidate for the Legislature on that ticket, hut
was defeated In ISS^ ho n a candidate, and in
the State convention of that year made persev oring efforts
to harmonize the divided part\ ; bo was nominated and
• i with the united support of both wings of the
(•any but the party was not harmoni ed In the
iinio In- was chairman of the committee on pub-
uul a member of several other important
commitees.
lie ha- served as alderman of Covington for ton
In religion In 1 of hi- ai
that of the I'resbytcrian church.
Mr. T. Smitheal, the father of (!. \V. Smitheal, was
bom in Rowan county. State of North Carolina, tli
of John I.. Smitheal, of that county. Ilo continued to
in North Carolina until ho became of age, and
then migrated to Tipton county, Tennessee, in tin- year
being among the first settlers of the county. In
ic was married i Miss Caroli 10 Voting, daughter
bert and Sarah Young. Mr. T. Smitheal died in
a the seventieth year ol his age, a deacon in the
.torian church, a consistent ami pious member of
that communion. 11 strict but kind parent, and
a faithful and trusted man in all the relations <<i' life.
Mr ti. \Y. Smitheal's mother, Caroline Smitheal, in,-
n in Hawkins county, Tennessee, in the
— She moved with her parent-. Robert and
Sarah \ I ion county in the latter part ^( the
year IS'U, ami was married in ISivS to Mr. T, Smitheal,
ami became the mother of four children: (1). Croon
\\\, the subject .>! this sketch. (-). William T . a mer-
ehant, N fesas Nareissa C. wife oi \Yil
linn Hamilton, merchant, Covington. Tennessee I
Bet tie T.. now living unmarried with her sister, Mr-.
Hamilton.
Mr. U. \Y. Smitheal married. first in Covington, Teu
Miss Florence Strother Menefee, daughter of
Br. B S Menefee, of that place, originally from Yir-
nnl a family distinguished for it.- refinement and
culture. By this marriage Mr. Smitheal had one child,
beth Maud, who died in childhood in 1S74. The
mother herself died the year following.
Mr Smitheal married next in Memphis, January 27,
t-,^,1 \|,„ Susan Dalton Jackson, daughter of Capt.
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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
Shepherd Jack on t ( lorinl h in ( hi
of the war. Mi -I u I son was Mi Vlai II tiris, :t
native of Fayette county, Tennessei a lad) of great
of heart, particularly noted for
bei ho pitality. Mrs. Smitheal was educated in a Catho-
lii i hool at Memphis and is a member of the Episcopal
church, a lady of intelligence, refinement and cul
By th man I lil beal has three children,
pherd, Florence Jacl on and G. W. Hmitheal, jr.
He has been a sober, self-contained man, who
lived within hi through cl ttention to
business has been successful in life, his •
make a safe and honest living, preferring a quiet dom< -
tic life to public position. II' i self-made; was unable
throuj
dent of law, manifested a degree of industry and talent
which induced iter, Mr. Bal b offer him a
partnership at the cl<
Hi i- a high toned, moral gentleman, and hi- influ-
i mi the side of right, is good and
sal u tn I ; vord or simple
who know him for truth.
He has natural rhetorical gifts which constitute him a
fine speaker, powerful especially before a jury : for this
i he has been largely employed in criminal
As a friend, a neighbor, a church member and a man.
mmands the high et with
him.
CHARLES 8. BRIGGS, A.M., M.D.
NASHVILLE.
THIS eminent young surgeon, son of the illustrious
eon, Dr. W. T. Bri biography ap-
in another place in this book, was born in Bowling
Green, Kentucky, March29,1851. Hi educated in
of A.M. in the regular
course from the literary department ofthi I
ill.-, in 1873. Accustomed from his earl;
hood to think of becoming a physician ai m, the
whole bent of his mind was trained in that direction.
Evi .1 hie classical eour ■■ studied with that end in
view. This,ofcours( . his father enthusiastically endorsed
raged, and although the history of the B
family has been given elsewhere in this volume, the
Bubject of this sketch has risen to such promineni
a practitioner, medical professor and • ditor, it is due to
him to have special mention made.
Immediately after graduating from the literary de-
Briggs began the study of medicine,
and particularly surgerj . under his father, and graduated
in 1 375 i- an M I*, from the medical department of the
University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University. In
1875 hi I to the clinical staff of Prof S.
I>. Gross at Philadelphia, and worked with him for .six
months, devoting himself while- there to surgery, path
1 hospital work. During hi
at Philadelphia, Dr. Briggs was elected demonstrator of
i tomj of his alma maU turned to Nashville
and began work in that position in the autumn of 1875.
[n this he ;ed three years. I n 1 378, in addi-
tion to that position, he was elected adjunct professor
of anatomy and held that place one year. On account
of sickness he resigned the demonstratorship in 1880
and ii after was tendered the adjunct professorship
of-surgery, in which chair he lectured three years on
genito-urinary surgery. In 1883 he was 'elected to the
position hi olds -professor of Burgieal am
and operat ry in the University of Nashville
and Vanderbilt University.
I„ 1876 Hi • lharles S. Brigg d with l>r.
\V. L. Nichol as editor of the Nashville Journal of
Medicine and Surgery,a.ii able periodical, found
Dr. W. K Bowling. In this position Dr. Briggs suc-
d his father, and so Dr. Nichol retiring,
Dr. Briggs is a memh
the State, county and city medical soi d has
contribute. 1 many valuable articles iniza-
tions, in addition to the able work he has done on his
journal. He is also a member of the American Asso
i tbr tin- Advancem.-nt of Science, and
sion at Nashville, 1878, took an active part in the
microscopical department.
hi Briggs has risen rapidly in his profession, and
already performed most of the major operation- in
hem, amputations of the shoulder joint,
ovario phining, ligation of the princi-
pal vessels, removal of the upper jaw (twii sion of
the elbow joint, and amputation of all the limbs. Having
had the ad fthe instruction, and of witnessing,
assisting in, and studyin
_' surgeons of this coui father and Dr.
it is not a matter of astonishment that hi
in life prominent in the line of his inherited and
chosi ii prof. --ion. Dr. Briggs' private practii
and rapidly increasing, his col now amounting
to about five thousand dollars per annum. Financially
\\'l, he was a leader in athletic, boyish
Now he is a well-rounded man of large propor-
tions, standing five fi inches high, and weighs
two hundred pound.-. His remarkabl ather,
[•KOMI \ l \ I' TKWI'ssi: \\s.
I 'i i i| ii M Uri nl How li li K , m nek
I!) this (list in mushed i.i m 1 1> inws it- standing
in i lu' medical world, while m lii- oig In uili year, -aid to
the subject of this sketeh, then si mere lad Charles, I
i live in mh 1 1 a wa) ili a i when yon are i
old, as 1 am, you max sa\ of yourself wind I can
sa,\ of myself, that 1 eanuol recall instance of
toy life of which I am ashamed That itdvici >
.'in will ultimately ennoble any family.
Pi Hriggs married in Louisville, Kentucky, V.pril
Miss Carrie ('arter, it native of that city, edn
Hill Wadent) Shclhyville, Kentucky,
and ai the Louisville I'Ymale High School, Her lather
i- a member of the large wholesale dn lirnt of
i i Hros At' Louis\ die. I Icr mother, i Miss
Hiunh I clativt of the Toombs famil) of
i . .iii.l remarkable for her charities and piti
life. H) In- ii. .'ili Miss Carter Dr. Hriggs has
hildreu I h Klsio. (2) liiiiiih I \) illianiT ,jr
l>r li spoken of a- one of the best cdui
-. 1 1 Nashville, and is a student in ever)
sense, but make- his learning subserve the one pit
of his life, to excel in hi- profession, lie is a strong
man, of broad, comprehensive mind, and empha
ever he undertakes, lie has n (rated look,
with it chin -mA general physit|tic iudicatitt
push, self-poise and boldness ((Utilities essential in a
-in' '...ii 1 1 1- future i- brilliant
MOV Wll.l.lAM M. BRADFORD.
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Till"- nished jurist, now chain ellor of the
Third chancery divisi il renuessec, was born
in McMinu county (now Hoik), Tennessee, I'Yhru
,n\ II. IS'_'T lie i- tin' son of Col. Hour) Bradford,
and was the youngest ivjj n, nine sons and one
daughter. Hi- father. Col, Hour) Hradford, was born
in Rurko county, North I December -I, ITTti,
r . . in 1TSHI
marrii l ■ hel \L Karl ind, of the I
the Supreme Court of
Tennessee, lion Uoberl MoFarland. She died in 1 STiL",
• II.' ancestors were from Scot
land, but no detailed history of tin- famil) has been
preserved Col Henry Hradford was an excellent gun
smith, and made the inn that Dav\ Crockett called his
" Lous! Hess." IL' was also a justice of the peace, and
performed the mart Davy I lekett.
He was an elector on the Madison ticket in 1812; and
represented .IctVerson county in tin
tine from ISM to 1821. II.- removed i" I'.dk county in
1821 and died there M i) 10, IST1. at the advam .
ol ninety live years, lie was a man of extraordinary
. and decision of character, and. tin' hi- time.-, el'
superior intelligence His father was Joseph Heunott
liia.l: Kaunuier county, Virginia, who died in
ly, North Carolina, in
ninety ti\e years Joseph Hi father
was Joint Hradford, of Kaiuinier county, \
■die tradition k^' the family , w its a
tun Wi lliam Hradfot d i M \
How i
Icr H Hradford, w ho « id in
tin- Florida war. and a major in Col. Jefferson I' vis
incut in tin Mexican war, was a double-cousin •■'['
Maj Henri Hradford
in the Revolutionary war in Harry Lee's brigade, who
wished himself lie was a cousin of Judge Hrad
lord- lather Man) of hi- descendants tin- Niehob
Cowden, Kail and Foster liunilios, ol Nashville, are
members ol the Hradford family There are also I'anii
lu- of Hradfords ai Iluntsville, Alabama, who are
idants of Judge Hradford's father's half-brother,
William Hradford, who had four sons, Joseph, Morgan,
Larkin and Fielding Hradford, who settled at Hunts
ville, Vlabailia.
The early lite ol J i- idford was spent iii the
healthy and salubrious mountain atmosphere >^' Hoik
county, Tennessee. Here be strew up, di I istes
and habits in the direction o\' attaining the best eduea
tiou thai could bo obtained in the rural distrii
which be li\ cd. He attended an excellent school, from
1 S li » to 1814. at "Forest Hill." Athens, Tennessee,
under the supervision ol' Charles P. Samuel, :i line
scholar and educator. \t tin' ag< >'i' seventeen be was
eleeted eoinuy surveyor ol' I'olk count) ; al eighteen
was appointed postmaster at Columbus, Tennessee, and
the same year began the stud) "[' law under the late
Charles K. Keith, lie obtained license to prao
tiee his profession at the age of twenty, from Judges
Thomas L. Williams and K M. Anderson, and als<
married the same year to Miss K K Inman at Han
dridgv, Tennessee, lie located at Dandridge, and the
next >iar, being but twenty one years eld, was elected
a justice of the peace. Vt twenty-four It runted
clerk and master of the chancery court at Dandridgo,
and held that position from 1851 te 1859. During this
period In- wa- also a merchant for five years, but never
of bis legal profession, studying and praetie-
ntinually.
In i nominal W volition for
I'UOMI I. 'I 'II.'- I. i
senator from JefFcr on II d II
ivithou tion, At the clone '/I the rn<;in<
,., of ill' I.' "' la( Hi'- I > ■
onfederab ai hi . and in I'VI/i'i
colonel of the'Fhirty lii i Tenm mounted in!
and -
1 II" participated in
m. in I,:. ill- and kirmi In and bore him •••If witlj
i In I ||r< \)
uf Mori i itown, T'-nii- H flap and Marion
i Ibampion II ! i, and othi
A i tin- terminal ion of thi ■■■ ar, in ; I
. i| tO A I In n I ill be
practice of la tner wit l> i be able Col. A.
l!liz^,! d tinued until Augutri 19, l-:7.">. On
' date the Hon. I). M. K< llor of the
Thil rl el 'hi of 'Pel n ap-
pointed to i be United J irrn I ' V
ited Col. Bradford to fill the place hithcrb
[
eleeti peoph Hon. i). t '■ I being bin
competitor. In Vugu ' 1-7- In • led for the
full tei ni of eight rear Hon I' B VIa> K< Id bi
competitor II- in now | al ' 'bal.ta
Judge Bradford married Mi- Klizabeth K. In man.
• |i; ni Dandridgi Teni
ill' daughter of Shadraeh and Harab Inrnari Hei
mother'* family wa» named II- Bradford
i - a ladj ■<) r< n i portment,
fine appearance, and of great puritj of eh
elated in nd under
inble to I
round her in the fam
Bradford are both membei ofthi P anchurch,
.-'until, ai Chattanooga. When Judge Bradf
in life a married man he had no When the
war broke out he had accumulated ab
and dollai
fortune« which befell him al the elo eofl ;
liim pennile - Hi bi gan life anew with
nothing for heo eh have all been
paid in full, and be i
He never promised a dollar thai be did not ,
demanded, Such fortum
mul;. :,:„■ he l>- noble
wife, for hi r ' !hi i stian forbi de in
rearing their children during thai trying and eventful
I; hi .i. ! [nman J :: dford
lia ■ fi .<- children living of el<
in infanc childhood. 'I
(1) Way Bradford, born in Jcfl ili<:n:
rial roof
Bradfo
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I. f'n of A tin i
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allowed his children to grow up in idleness, bul
always Pound something for them to do during vacation,
and George was taughl all kinds of farm work. Al
this time he made much betfc
handles than he did in the school-room. When hi
about fifteen years of agi • senl to the Male
Academy of Dresden, Weakley county, and board
ih the family of Maj. Alfred Gardner. Here
hestudied better, and began to feel the im]
an education, and was popular with his \ftir
to the academy in Dn sden fi
senl to Bethel College, al McLem I
ai that time one of tin/ mosl flourishing schools in tin-
Here In- found aboul three hundred youn
from all parts of the South; a will selected library of
,\ thousand books, a will filled laboratory, and a
corps of competent teachers. Her took
place in George. He joined one of the literal
took a greaf interest in tl d al once began
id books. Ili> taste first led in the direction of
light biography, then to history. The first ten months
fii a volumes < i 'I his
de dI a full course of studies. If
fond of books and reader since this period.
After remaining at Bethel Collegi years, he
"/ Union (Inn i Murfreesborough, Ten-
nessee took a full English course, and studied Latin,
French and German; belonged to the Calliopean so
and was elect* iver the commencement
address for < hal
In a few months after leaving Union Uiii
joined the Ninth Tennessee regiment, and in May, 1861,
was mustered into the s«; lu Stall of Tcnnessei
for twelve monl hs, al Jackson. T i I
nii'iit was al ' lolumbus, Kent u ttle of
Belmont was fought, bul was held in reserve, and did
not cross the river. When the battle of Shiloh was
fought, G. W. Martin was in the hospital in Mississippi.
II is term in the service of tin
pired in M and he did not enlist in the Confed-
.<•>■. If went to bis home in Weakley
county, and remained there for a few months, but
soon found he could not live there in peace, and re
d to leave th< until the war was
He left New Vorkfor Europe earlyin 1863, and remained
there until about the close of the war. He visited all
of tli' countries of Europe, and remained long
enough in each to become well a© d with the
manners and customs of the people. After an extended
tripof more than a year, he went to Paris ami t.n.k rooms
in the Latin quarter, near I he unn - i enienl
to the library of St. G e. He made this his head-
quarters for about ten months, and when uol en
in short excursions in and around the city, he ■
the library, reading up the b try he
Kad visited. Here he a < Alfred Townsend
(Gath), and for several months they roomed together.
peak i lie French and Cerman lang
speak either so a.- to In- under-
stood v. lien In first entered the i i lia<l
studied each al colli
If i.i urned months before the
war eldsed, and remained il it did close, when
my. He found
all the li'.' I he farm in a dilapi-
condition, the labor system thoroughly den
i/.i-d. He remained on the farm foi us. but was
itisfied with the results. He rented the farm and
aw mill at Gardner station, Weakley county,
i ! \'hv one year with !in<- n
and sold it.
In I ' ist mill, Sl ii ,!;ili
and wool cardii ' il ion. He
operated ilii.- machinery wil h
then sold it.
nded from
Jack. si I 1873,
and il i Chattanooga and St. Louis
railwa r his father's old homestead.
Hi' laiil off the town of Martin at the junction of the
two roads in M
mill, flouring mill, steam cotton gin, and built a
hotel, together with man note.
In ten years from the time tin Wart in was laid
oul it had a population of fifteen hundred inhabitants,
I two colored churches, a fine academy
with two hundred pupils, a lar imber
of tin'' brii ic pri-
W. Martin contributed I
in building up tlu- town, and always took an active pari
in all public enterpri
I i in I -ii- to 1880, his life was one of great activity,
andhemademoi He iiiadi no business
On the 23d of M lie married Miss Mattie
Williams, daughter of I). P. William- i Haywood
county. Ti Miss Williams was the grand-
1 Rev. Tl ner, of North Mississippi.
Her father came from Mecklenburg county, Vii
settled in 1 1 • :■ untj i ■ nn. ■->,.
Mr. Martin took a bridal tour to Europe, and -
the remainder of the
visitii position of Paris, and all
the principal European cil
Mr. Martin I i prominent part
in politics, and is a Democrat. II
the Thirtj eighth General Assemblj of
oi 'I em essee, foi - 1873 71. He
the public school - uuty when
unpopular, and aided in passing a law allowing
count .I purposes, and that law
basis of tin | m 'A the -
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I I - W be i ii villi;
in favor of the election of Gen. William H
son to the pre* • which he got into divers
diffie D e politicians and editors.
Judge Iv.viii'j - prominence and abil if
making bim a standing f the
Demoi iders.
In \Hl- be was a membi
tare from Davidson com
opposition. When
be '•'. chairman of the committee on .'■
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if 1845 h<
Dr. -Ill Pi ton brother of I
had been el< eted to repn ! ■
and Macon counties in the In
Judge E i in oppositioi
dale. He took bin seat in J
comn I been formed. In '
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the Mexican war. and t li«- river and harbor bill,
J and at e bim a
whicl
Hun. Alexander Stephens, then ii ' of his
tariff, it was tin- best he bad ever heard
on tl;
nued with hi- brother until April.
ii. hi- health failing from hi- largi
laborious law b ■. a trip to Ku
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land, traveling
try six hundred mil':.- on foot, meanwbil
ini' his health. Hi ad up the
Nile a- fa'
pyramids, the temples and other noted ruins; and, then
making a detour to S I down the Gulf of £
- ii, which ed : them
of Akabab u. on the
borders of Palestine, and the home of the pa':
Abraham. I I
Jerusalem ; to the river Jordan, and bathed in i(
thlehem, to tl. i, and then no
— the oldest of ci( Vbana and
Pharphar, and ascended to the I be famous
a. On thi
took in Baalhec and measured a eon in its
wall- - From Beirout I - ; ma.
thi-ii' tantinople, Trieste, Paris, London and
home. These travels in the E
who i- alv much
sought after bj ted in oriental plaa
historical intei
Not Ion:: after his arril died
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North Willi mi w illiams,
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l'ho Williams family came from
N ivlina, and wort' quite prominent people in
unty »They are of Welsh ox
soph Phil
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. .hior of Joseph Phillips, as is
Mrs V - - i Warnoi Mrs. Km
ami his thers, Andrew ami
sisteis, daughtois w
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daughter of Andrew Kwing. is tl
in Watterson, tho famous editor ol tho l.ouisvillo
- fivo hrotln - John 0 Kwing
- ian of imu'h merit ami prominence, hut
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John 0.. married a daughter \ ■ \ uidor Campbell,
the famous West Virginia preacher, and afterwards
marrii hn M. Pass ^ -
Henry Km t>rk ot tho county court o\' Pavid-
ii Nem V,>rk. \o> Albert I
ichor, and died at Kureka. Illinois,
lie married .1 line, da ugh-
rated Alexander Campbell, v.4 V Orville
he Planters Rank \ shville
for in broil a lawyer ho never prae-
\ as a member ol •
as a Democrat from w listriei lie died at At-
lanta. ■ Confederate
ot the permanent military - Army
of tho Tennessee. \\? left a reputation for being one of
the best common law lawyers the State over had. \\c
iker. and being a prominent
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has had four cl\ Josiah \V. Kwing. born in
luated from Rethany College, Wesi \ irginia.
undei ..nipbell ; married, in 1nV>.
f Thomas Hortl, a wealthy
and h : tanner and ret trod lawyer of Rut h-
■. children, Thomas II .
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Vcadomy . married Kmiiiot Kakin, who died durini! tho
war, and by hi in had four children, Rowena, Florence,
Sallie i 1 o\ \ thuv P The latter died al Mem
phis, at the ago of twenty, a professor in the medical
of that city. Viler the war Mrs Kakin became
Pr .lames V. Wendell, of MurfYoesborough,
ire him one child, a daughter, Jane, who died at
The mother died in 1 •-
Florence Kwiug, educated at Nashville
ami married, first, Andre* Fletcher, by whom she had
iildivu. F.dwiu, and one who died in intnnoy
Ulor Mr. Fletcher's death she married Pan P. Perkins,
of a prominent Williamson county family, and by this
marriage has two children, Rebecca and Sarah Lou,
, r Orvilh Kwing, who wont into the Confederate army
in Col. Joel \. Rattle's Twentieth Tennessee regiment
cant-major, and was badly wounded and taken
prisoner at the battle of Mill Springs, He was killed
in the battle .>f Murfi ;\. Wednesday, December
111, 1S<>_. the very day he was appointed to a position on
W illiam Preston.
J ml has one groat grandchild, Kthol Heed,
daughter of Florence Pood, who is the daughter of
Jane Caroline Kakin and wife of James 11, Reed, a
hardware merchant at Murfreesborough.
J ml - father, Nathan Kwinj: was clerk o(
unty court o\' Davidson county, a man who mi>
tained a character of exceeding honesty, diligence and
attention to business lie was the son o( Andrew
Kwing, who came from Rockbridge county, Virginia, to
Tennessee, in 17S0, and was the tirst clerk of the county
court of Davidson county, which, with Sumner county,
then embraced nearly all of Middle Tennessee. Judge
s father was born in Virginia in 177i>. The Kwings
are of Scotch- Irish, deep dyed. Presbyterian origin.
Judge Kwings mother, whoso maiden name was
Sarah Hill, was a daughter of Dauiel Hill, a farmer, a
native of North Carolina, who came to Tenni
when she was nine years old. l.iout. Con. D. II. Hill,
one of Hi Lee's most distinguished corps command-
ers, belongs to the same family. Mrs. Kwing's mother
Hickman, of North Carolina? Hickman county,
Tennessee, was named for the brother of J mi.
maternal grandmother, and for him Judge Kwing, him-
self, was named Kdwin Hickman. He was prominent
as an Indian fighter, was a surveyor and pioneer settler
in Tennessee. H ed in camp at night by the
Indians.
Judge Kwing's mother died in 1S,V>. at the age of
five, a model woman, of fine sense, of extensive
reading, a well-balanced mind and fascinating conver-
sational talents, fond of poetry and of quoting the
- imlarvl poets. She. too. - Irish origin,
but in her religious faith a staunch " Cainpbollito." She
h:i « to manhood, and made some
. ire in life, and there has never been ,; ,iin-
Irunkeniiess tttaehed to their
old.
church, arid
ri<i liberality of opinion. N
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thai had a large circulation until the publisher* failed
at the opening of the late irar. He was a man of ingle'
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ears, having professed religion in
1817. ni'l ii is said the church bell never rang that he
did not answer it. lli> daughter, with filial piety, has
n the Pulaski Methodist ehureh, in whieh
irsliipped so man} years, a memorial window, a
perfect gem of stained l_' la^^. in honor of him ami his
good wife, her mother. The window represents the
four evangelists with their several emblems the i
tli.' ox, tin' lion inn! the angel. These air expressed in
four medallions, twined together with oak leaves and
lilies, the whole representing the strength of the father
ami the purity of the mother.
for years Mr. Martin was a pillar in the church at
Pulaski, and attended to it- financial interest with the
same system and punctuality with which he mai
hi- own business. He was a man quick to decide, firm
in his purpose and prompt t<> execute. It is believed
thai to his influence is due in great measure the spread
ill' Methodism o\ er * riles count} .
Tin' financial revul 1837 38, a matter of no
interest now, is recalled here mil) for the purpose ol
showing Mr. Martin's splendid abilities as a manager.
During that crisis hr bei am.' accommodation endorser
for his rs to the amount of one hundred thous-
and dollars, ami the hank- having given him entire con-
trol "I' the paper, not a dollar was lost.
In IS lo II he, in connection with Andrew M. Ballen-
1 milt the turnpike road through Giles county, ami
at a later day he eo operated with Thomas Buford in
constructing the Southern Central railroad, ami after
the death •>(' Mr. Buford, was president of that com-
pany until after tin- war. Tim older citizens of Pulaski
still have reminiscences to relate of his kindness to the
iii.l sick, ami his efforts t.. reclaim the profligate
ami dissipated. The first high scl I for girls in Giles
count} . organized in 18 — . ami t.i whieh lie gave an en-
dowment fund of thirty-five thousand dollars, still hears
li.len name of ;l Martin female College," and is
oue o rished institutions of the Tennessee Con
ncc.
The moral of his lit'. — for there is much logic in a
life like this -was the illustrated fact that integrity,
ity ami persevering industry will, in the end. reap
amensurate reward. Few young men -tart in life
with slimmer advant I m he had, yet he became
One of the most influential citizens of the Slate, and a
standard man el' the time- Vs a financier, he had no
superior in Tennessee. Vcademies, school houses ami
hes received liberal subscriptions from him. lie
loved te aid industrious ami timral young men who
struggling te rise in tin- world. His benefactions
were, seme public, - : personal and private. lie not
only left his immediate descendants in comfortable sur-
roundings, hut. among other bequests, upon hi- elder
sister ami her sou-, he settle. I a tine estate of five
hundred acres of land in Sumner county. The
secret lay in his intense personality, energy, system.
tireless application, foresight, liberality ami total abste-
miousness from all sorts of spirituous drink- ami
from evil-speaking. lie was cheerful and buoyant
almost to gayety, and a hearty laugher. Gambling he
detested, ami car.!- he called "the Devil's darning
needles," for if used in sport they took up time, and if
in play they led to serious consequences.
Mr. Martin married in Davidson county, Tennessee,
October 12, 1S24, Mi- N. II. Topp, daughter ol John
S. Topp, an Indian fighter ami pioneer from North
Carolina, and a wealthy planter and mill owner. An
anecdote is told of the old pioneer, occurring early in
lite. While descending the Holston river, the Indians
tiled on him from the ambush of the dense forest
that, dark and still, grew even to the water's edge. He
fell from the boat desperate]} wounded staining the
stream with his blood. Hi- friends picked him up ami
supposed him dying, but he opened his eyes ami said,
with a brave smile and cheery accents, " Do not grieve
I shall not die I am not ready to leave yet.'' His
lather. ( 'of Roger Topp, was a colonel in the Revolu-
tionary war. and with his five brothers won meat dis-
tinction at the battle ..f King's Mountain. Col. Roger
Topp was a tine civil engineer, and he and hi- five
brothers wet.' rewarded by the I'nited State- govern-
ment with a large grant of land near Nashville. Col.
Topp was subsequently killed by a Tory, whose father
he had taken captive iii battle. The Topp family are
of English origin, and came to America from York-
shire. Dr. VV. \V. Topp, brothcf to Mrs. Martin, was-
on the staff of Con. Jackson ill his Indian war-. John
S. Topp (the tirst named i. also served under Gen
Jackson throughout the Seminole war. Another brother,
C.d. Robertson Topp, was a very successful lawyer and
railroad president at Memphis. She had two other
brothers who were lawyer- — I. Jin S. 'I'..].], and Dixon
C. Topp. Mrs. Martin's mother, net Comfort Everett,
was a very remarkable lady, combining the finest attri-
butes of a woman with the strong intellect of a man.
Upon the first arrival of her family at the fort near
"Nash- Lick," — now Nashville — the little orphaned
brother and sisier. under charge of Mrs. Topp (then a
staid matron of sixteen years), -trolled from the pro-
tection ol the fort, being enticed by the birds ami the
beauty and Id.. ..in of the surrounding wood-. They
were missing hut a short time when a party, beaded by
their fearless sister, went to seek and rescue them.
They were -ecu approaching, presenting a dread appear-
like two fountain- ..f 1.1 1' — having 1 n
Scalped and left for dead h\ the Indians. Mrs. Topp
gathered them to her loving heart, and with untiring
affection nursed them through long hours of pain and
delirium, back to life. The young girl thus tortured
became tamo us in after years for her beauty. Her rich
bronze brow n hair fi 11 a- a mantle about her. and none
dreamed that beneath the wavy tresses lurked the
mark of the 1 ndian tomahawk.
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By tliis marriage of Miss Topp and Mr. Martin, five
children were born: (1). Laura E.Martin; graduated
in Nashville; died in 1864, the wife ol Gen. Thomas
G. Blewett, of Columbus, Mississippi, leaving one
child, a sun. Claude Blewett, now a planter in Mississippi
and Louisiana, and living <>n the splendid estate
liim by his grandfather Martin. (2). William Mar-
eellus Martin ; edueated at Vale; married Lizzie Otis :
died December 13, 1867, leaving one child, a daughter,
Laura Marcel la Martin, now the wife "I Solon E. F.
Rose, a planter at Columbus, Mississippi ; living on the
splendid estate left her by her grandfather Martin.
(3). Cornelia Ann Martin, born in December, 1830
died August 10. 1832. (4). Ophelia Jane Martin;
educated at Pulaski by Rev. Robert Caldwell, and at
Nashville by private teachers; married Hon. Henry M.
Spofiford, of Louisiana, January 7. 1861, and has three
children, Eleanor Spofford, Thomas Martin Spofford
and Nina Spofford (5). Victoria Martin,
at Nashville; died single in 1858, aged twenty years.
Judge Abram Martin, brother of the subji ct of this
sketch, was circuit judge at Clarksville, Tennessee.
Hon. Henry M. Spofford, win. married Miss Ophelia
.J. Martin, was burn at Gilmanton, New Hampshire,
Si ptx mber -. 1821. lie was a graduate, with hi
honors, of Amherst College Massachusetts, and located
in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1845. and at once entered
upon the practice of law. He early gave promise of a
brilliant future, and rose rapidly at the bar. In 1 >-.">4 he was
elected to the Supreme bench of Louisiana, and filled
that exalted station with signal credit until he resigned
in 185K. returning to the practice of bis profession and
to the achievement of those honors which cluster so
thickly about his name and make his memory imperish-
able. Possessing great wealth, and having risen to the
highest attainable eminence in his profession, politics
had little that could allure him; he neverthoh
cepted an election to the United Stat'-,- Senate, in 1877,
by the almost unanimous vote of the Nicholls Legisla-
ture, but in the complication of the politics of the
times, he was cheated out of his seat, through no fault
of his, however, for he pursued it with unwavering
vigor from a sense of loyalty to the people ami Stati
who had conferred the trust upon him. After his death
the Senate admitted his title to tin.- senatorship by [lay-
ing to his widow the eighteen thousand dollars attach-
ing to the office up to the date of hi- demise. He died
at lied Sulphur Springs, Virginia, August 20, 1880.
Judge Spofford was one of the grand men of these
lator time's: profound in the sciences ; versed in history
and literature : eminent in law and politics; an eloquent
speaker; a beautiful writer, and a lecturer character-
ized not less by the penetration of hi- research and
the close analysis of the subjects h<- handled — notably
his lectures on Goethe, Dante and Milton — than by the
eh gance of his diction. He was a fine Greek and Latin
scholar, and often wrote hi- briefs entirely in French.
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But tie grandeur of the man was most conspicuo
hi- finely balanced character, in tin- refinement of his
manners, his truthfulness, and a modesty that betrayed
absolute purity of mind, lie had tie- ran- abilit
veil the keenest sarcasm with a tenderness so delicate
that it reminded on.- of a Persian -s<- i m i t «■ j- tempered
with perfume. With resolute firmness to carry his
point, his manners were those of a French statesman —
soft, dignified, pleasing, of exquisite tact and consum-
mate address II is was a repi - i both
in ii- symmetry and solidity, whether he- be viev
ii Amherst Col law-
yer in successful practice, a jurist handing down his
decisions from tin- Supreme bench, an author, a -
man. or a family man
Rev. Dr. W. M. Leftwich, who pronounced Judge
Spofford - funeral oration at Pulaski, give- a- the- factors
of hi- noble character, self-reliance, decision of charac-
ter, self-control, force of will, exclusive devotion to his
profession, a sense of responsibility, and great learning.
His was a separate- and distinct individuality, yet ho
was if i of centuries of English history. His
genealogy dates back eight hundred years to Gambolier
de Spofford, the Saxon thane, who built the Spofford
castle, -till standing in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
•John Spofford. a descendant of Gambolier de Spofford,
and the ancestor of Judge Spofford, came over in the
Mayflower, and became a factor in the religious and
political history of New England. Judge Spofford's
only brother, Ainsworth Spofford, is the well-known
and popular librarian of Congress, author of a series of
"American Almanacs." valuable a- books of political
reference, and is also co-editor, with Charles Gibbon
of the " Library of Choice Literature.''
The Spofford mausoleum, in Metairie cemetery. New
Orleans, is a Greek temple, cut of the purest Carrara
marble, and situated on a gently graduated mound.
The dome of the temple is supported by elaborately
chiseled pillars and capitals, and beneath is a lovely-
angel of large proportions, with graceful wings and a
wonderfully beautiful expression of up-turned face.
while it record- a favorite passage from the Holy 15ook
with its marble pen. A large gilt cross crowns tin- mon-
ument. This monument was designed and erected by
Mrs. Spofford and executed by celebrated Italian artists
in Massa-Carrara.
Injustice would be done the memory of Mr. Martin,
if more particular mention wen- omitted here of his
only surviving child. Mrs. Judge Spofford, and her
family. Mrs. Spofford, more than the wealth he accu-
mulated and the public enterprises he set on foot, is the
monument to his worth as a man and wisdom as a father.
Mrs. Spofford i- among tie- most brilliant women of the
South, remarkable for the reach of her learning, and
her tine judgment a- a business woman. She is an
accomplished artist in oils and pastels; a fine musician
and musical composer, and wields tin- pen of a ready
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HON. W. I, LEDGERWOOD.
KNOXVILLE.
THIS gentleman, whose name i widely known in
Tennesseeasa lawyer, a politician and a farmer,
was born in Knox county, Tennes ee June 1,1843, and
grew up :ii work on In- father's Farm, going to the
neighboi in ntry schools at intervals, which were the
only scholastic advantages he ever had. His parents
being strict Baptist people, he was rai ed under re-
ligious influence and early acquired s I moral habits.
In August, L861, al the age of seventeen years he
entered the Union armj as a private in company I!.
First Tennes ee infantrj commanded by Col. U K.
Byrd, and served as a private soldier in that regiment
until April 8, L862, when he wa transferred to the
Third Tennessee infantry as first lieutenant of company
I and servt 'I in that capacity until Maj 25, 1863, when
he became captain of the company and commanded it.
in the close of the war. He was mustered out February
23, 1865, at Nashville, having served in Tennessee, Ken-
tucky, Ohio, Alabama, besides taking part in all the
leading battles of the Georgia campaign. The last
battle in which he was engaged was that at Nashville,
between the force of Gens. Hood and Thomas.
The war over, he returned home and went to farming
again. In 1866, he was forced into politics and was
nominated by the Knox county Democracy for the
Legislature, but was defeated by Dr, M. L. Mynatt. In
lMi7 he was appointed by President Johnson second
lieutenant in the Eighteenth regular infantry, United
States army; was examined on Governor's island ;
d In examinat ion and recen ed his commi.< ion
served in that regiment until the army was consolidated
in L869,when he was transferred to the Eighth cavalry,
United States army; resigned in 1*7-. and again re
i urned to Knox county and the farm.
He then read law alone at home for a year ; was ad
mitted to the bar by Judge E. T. Hall and Ch sellor
(). P. Temple in 1873, and began practice at Knoxville,
where ho lived, until lsst. when he moved to Cedar
Grove farm,' two miles from Knoxville, a property
which he purchased in 1883. Hi- law practice ba
been large from the beginning, for hi' has many warm
personal and party friends.
In 1874 Capt. Ledgerwood was again nominated by
the Democratic party as a candidate to represent Knox
county in the Legislature, and this time was successful,
being elected over lion. S. T. Logan, recentl) senator
from the Knoxville district. In the Thirty-eighth
General Assembly (1875), Capt. Ledgerwood was chair
man of tin- committee on military affairs.
In L880 he was electoi lor the Second congressional
district on tin- Hancock and English ticket. In L882
he was again nominated for the Legislature, was again
elected, and was chosen speaker of the House of the
F hird General \ en
In I884hi iminated for congress in the Second
Tennessee district, and though defeated by Judge L. C.
Honk, reduced his opponent's majority one thousand
and eight h Ired votes below the vote of James G.
Blaine, Capt Ledgerwood leading the Cleveland and
Bat i' li . about that majority.
('apt Ledgerwood has always been a Democrat -never
voted any other way. His father and grandfather and
collateral branches of the family were Democi
him, and the fidelity with v, hich hi has sen ed hi- party
no doubt will gain for him even more distinction in the
future.
In L866 Capt. Ledgerwood was made a Ma tei Mason
in Master's Lodge No. 244, Knoxville. Since then he
has been made Knight Templar in Coeur de Lion Com-
mander^ No 9 Knoxville, and a Knight of Malta; he is
also a member of Pearl Chapter No. 24, Knoxville.
His raihei.- family '..ere Baptists. His wife and chil-
dren are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
South, and while he is only a I'.i. in' member of the
latter communion, he. however, firmly hold- that Jesus
Christ came into the world to save -inner-.
Capt. Ledgerwood married at Louisville. Kentucky,
September 20, 1866, Miss Jo Strother, a native ofSum-
ner county, Tennessee, horn March Hi. ISI I. and named
"Jo" in honor of the celebrated and greatly beloved
Judge Jo. C. Guild. .Mrs. Ledgerw I's mothei
Mrs. I'eiiina Strother. her maiden name being Penina
I'itt, daughter of Gerald Pitt, an Englishman Mi-.
Ledgerwood's father. Henry Strother, was a native of
Virginia, and a merchant at Gallatin, lie died when
the daughter wa very young, and left three children,
Allen, Jo and Thomas. Thomas Strother lost his life
by an accident on the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
Allen Strother is now an engineer on the Alabama
Great Southern road, and is a somewhat remarkable
character; a communist; a pr tnent member of the
Brotherl d of Locomotive Engineers; of high scien
tific attainments in his profession, and an eloquent
speaker on subjects maintaining the rights of labor as
again I the i -y power. He married Miss Mary
llaslam. of Nashville.
Mrs Ledgerwood was educated at Louisville, and is
a woman of quiet, dome-tic habits, and though not
unsocial, is essentially a home maker and a home lover.
She is noted for her frankness, and for her generosity,
especially to those in distress.
By his mania"' vol. Miss Strother, Capt. Ledgei
wood ha- four children : 1 1 ). Claude, born August It!
1867, in Knox county. Tennessee. (2). Sidney Aline.
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horn Ma roll l">, 18159, al Sidney, on the Union Pacific
id, thru iii Wyoming Territory, but now in N
braski Samuel T., born September .'!»•. 1870, in
k county, Tennessee. (4J Willie, bom June I.
1872, in Knox county, Tennessee
of two names. Upon the
Irish side the family comes from St. Leger; upon the
English side from a family named Wood. \11 the
rv\ Is in the I uited States are of the same
family, oi Irish and English mixture. Capt Ledger-
randfather, James Ledgerwood, came
from England and settled in Botetourt county, \ ir-
was in the Revolutionary war and also t lie war
of 1812. He was a farmer and married a Miss Pierce,
of V irginia.
('apt. I. randfather was also named
He was born in Botetourt county. Virginia,
and was also a soldier in the war of 1S12, from Knox
under (.'apt. Gibbs. He married in
Greene county, Tennessee, and moved back and located
in Knox as a tanner. His wife was tlso named Pierce,
but no relation to bis mother's family. He nwn
Southern Illinois and died there, in IS46, aged sixty-
eight years, leaving four daughters (1). Mary, wife
of Caleb Treeci - Sallie, wife of Henry Johnson.
(3). Darthula, « aham Haukley. ( I). Luartha,
if Jefferson Bayless.
Tin1 first three daughters named married in soul
Illinois, and the fourth married in Knox county, Ten-
nessee, and afterwards moved to Illinois.
.lames I. id, the grandfather of the subject of
this sketch, also letl James. (2) Samuel,
father of the subject of this sketch. (3). John. (4).
William. (5). David. (IS] Joseph.
It was a family of farmers. Joseph, the youngest son,
losl his lite in the Mexican war. The father of Capt.
Ledgerwood (Samuel Ledgerwood), was born in Knox
county in 1808, and died October IS, 1884. He was
a magistrate for a number of years, and was a man of
incorruptible honesty, leaving behind him an es
cellent reputation as an honest, upright and useful
citizen.
Capt. Ledgerwood's mother, hci Miss Scena N. Ruth-
erford, was horn in Knox county, daughter of Absalom
Rutherford, a large farmer. He had been a soldier in
the Revolution from Virginia, was at the battle of
Monmouth, and afterwards under Gens. Hates and
e, in their southern campaigns, including the
battle of Camden, where he was wounded, having his
right leg broken below the knee, lie was a brother of
lien. Rutherford, of Virginia, who distinguished him-
self in the Revolutionary war.
('apt. Ledgerwood's mother died in 1867, aged sixty
v< irs She was a woman of great industrj and deep
and undoubted piety. She was the mother of seven
children: (1). Elliott. (2). .lames I, \nnie.
I Absalom P. (5). Mary. (6). Darther. (7>. Wash
ington Lafayette, subject of this sketch.
Of these, Elliott Ledgerwood married Peggj Delap,
and is now a farmer in I nion county, Tennessee. James
erwood was captain of compauj F, Third Tenues
see I tilted States infantry in the late war; married
Margarena Hansford, and i- now a tanner in Union
county, Tennessee, on a part of the old homestead.
Annie Ledgerwood died the wife of John Bayless.
Absalom IV Ledgerwood was a member of his brothel -
(James I,. Ledgerwood company, and died in the war.
lie married Elizabeth Ska-j-. and left three children,
Orlando, Granville aud Lafayette. Mary and Darther
ru ood died in infancy.
'I'he only money Capt. Ledgerwood ever had given to
him was live hundred dollars, presented b,\ hi- father
after his marriage. All else that he lias handled he has
made himself by close application to business, bj hard
work, and by practicing strict economy. Although \ erj
cautious about eudorsing, he has lost some by security
debts. lie never Sued a client or anybodj else in his
life on hi- on ii account, ami has never been sued by any
man. A close collector of fees, by niakinu his clients
believe he thinks them honest they make unusual ex-
ertions M pa\ him. Hi- standing as a lawyer ami a
politician comes of his ha\ illg been always a true man.
never lying to or deceiving any one. and fulfilling all
promises he makes. He is a man of strong like- and
dislikes. His tone of voice indicates a man of decision
^i' character and great self-reliance.
COL. lll'Ml'IlKKV R. BATE.
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HUMPHREY 1!. BATE was born in Bertie
county, North Carolina, December 23, 1813. lie
studied law in the office of Thomas 1' Devereux, esq.,
h. North Carolina, and in 1836 moved to the wes
tern portion of Tennessee. In 1838 he commenced the
practice of the law at Covington, in Tipton county.
where lie continued to reside till the .war 1884, when,
from ill health, he ceased to practice, ami moved to
Memphis.
\-.i lawyer he stood at the head of the Covin
bar, and is second to no lawyer in West Tennessee, or
perhaps in the State, as an advocate, in the thorough
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knowledge of hi8 profession, or in the successful man-
i i men* of difficult i
In politics he has al« Democrat, and a
great admirer of Jefferson and Calhoun, and their theo-
ries of government, He casl his first presidential 1'ote
lor Hugh L White, and has stood hy the Demoi
through thick and thin, ever since. Althou
:m office seeker, he was prevailed upon l>y his friends to
me a candidate for the Legislature in 1847, and was
elected to represent Tipton and Lauderdale counties;
w.i- ri elected in 1849 again in 1851, and again in
1 357 i he latter I mi n presenting Shelb; I
Tipton counties
In 1870 he represented Tipton, Fayette and Shelbj
counties in the State convention that revised thi
stitution, lii- great abilities as a lawyer making him one
'if the most usi fu] and pi omi lent members oi I hat 'li-
tinguished body.
'Id. qualities of his heart equal those of his head.
Although raised a Protestant he becami er of
tli.- Roman Catholic church in 1862, and i- ■-.
in hi- religion.
A- a neighbor, :i cit said to be
almost without a fault. 11'- has always taken great in
in all enterprises for tin- pub
modest to mil.'- himself i carrying them
forward. II constitution is naturally d d his
h Las never been robust, but with will power and
fortitude he has accomplished a fine professional sue-
er married and being without the
chief motive for the : iimulation of property, he has
is freely for his own comfort ; ha-
I however, to others, and i- now in independent
circumstances. Hi- townsmen speak of him with en
thusiasm as a pure-minded, lovely man
erous impulses, whose bearing and virtues illustrate
"the grand old nam" of gentleman, debased by many a
charlatan
ALEXANDER ERSKINE, M.D.
ill: il/'HIS.
THIS gentleman, who. for twei a years, has
been a general practitioner of medicine in theeity
of Memphis, Inn devoting himself more particularly to
tin- diseases of women and children, and who-' sm
financial and professional, has given him rank among
the foremost nun of tin- city, was born at Huntsville,
Alabama. September 26, 1832.
Hi- father, Dr. Alexander Erskine, who died in 1857
at thr age of sixty-six, in Huntsville, where he had
'••■'1 from l>l!i till hi- death, was a native of Mon-
roe county, ii'''.'' in W '•-: Virginia. He graduated in
1-17 at th' I in . ' r-ity of Pennsylvania, and spent the
two subsequent years in practice in the almshou
th. city of Philadelphia, and then settled at Huntsville,
where he made his mark on tin- profession in Alabama,
notably by his being one of th.- first to discover and
introduce into practice the virtues of Secah '
linn, upon which In- left a thesis, a- yet unpublished,
but showing depth andcarefulm f research. 1 1 » - was
also a pioneer in th.- usi- ..f quinine. Th.- character of
this remarkable physician deserves a careful study by
the younger men of the profession even at this late day.
Hi- was a taciturn man. especially reticent in regard to
Hi. secrets "f tin- sick-room. With phenomenal powers
of endurai linj mperal si tidying his
with careful discrimination, In- was ot f tin- best
diagnosticians "f hi- time. He was th.- father of eleven
children, the two eldest of whom died in infancy. Of
th.- others, Mary .Ian.- Erskine i- now the wife of James
11. Mastin, a prominent citizen of Huntsville; Dr.
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Albert It. Erskine, now a prominent physician at
Huntsville; Alexander Erskine, the subject of this
-ketch : Laura E. Erskine, who died the wife of Dr.
Wilkin-. hi. at Huntsville; Thomas Fearn Erskine,
.lam.- A. Erskine and Miss Kate A. Erskine, now liv-
ing at Huntsville; William M. Erskine. now I
and Dr. John 11. Erskine, who died of yellow fever in
Memphis, September IT. 1878.
Further mention should be made of Dr. John H.
Erskine. He and his brothers, Albert and Alexander,
through tin- wat- as surg i- in tin- Confed
army. He was acting medical director in Gen. Joseph
I-!. Johnston's army in North Carolina at the time of
tin- surrender, having risen from tin- position "I assist
ant surgeon, and was to have received bis comni
a- dical director. At the time of his death hi
health offici ity of Memphis, a position which In-
had filled for some time pi He fell a sacrifi.
the duties of his office, working night and day to stay the
spread of th.- epidemic of thai year. II.- was a man of
high character, bold, determined, decided in his judg-
ments, and fearless in tin- .11-' his duties. It
took a man of his stamp to compel compliance on the
f unwilling citizi ns with sanitary ordinances. He
gentleman much esteemed in Memphis, and
hed to himself warm friendships. His
lib- and character are an interwoven part of the history
of that city, and hi- name and memory among its rarest
jewels •'.'! J. M. Keating, the cautious, discriminating,
yet brilliant author of the history of yellow fever in Mem-
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phis, pays the following just tribute to the mci y of
I >r John Erskine: " Another ease, a t.\ i f the home
physician, is recalled. 1 1 < • was a man of large mold.
Physically he was perfect . verj tall, ver) stout, he was
the picture of health. Ilis handsome face was lighted
li\ :i perpetual smile. Hood nature, good heart, and a
cheerful soul were the convictions his manner carried
to e\ cry beholder. Me was a manly man. lie had been
a soldier, and he bore about him the evidences of gal-
lant service. Nervous and eager, devoted and anxious,
lie went down to bis grave the victim of overwork lie
was an inspiration to bi^ friends, an example of con-
stancy, steadiness, unflinching courage, and unflagging
zeal. To the sick-room he brought all these qualities,
supplemented by an unusual experience, an inexhaus-
tible stock "i knowledge, and a sympathy as deep as the
sad occasion. Tender as a woman, his heart ached at
the recital of miseries he could not cure. Besides bis
duties as health officer, John Erskine was earnest in
his attentions to patieiits, whose demands were inces-
sant. For days before he succumbed, observant friends
fell that he must fall. He bad tasked bis powers far |
beyond endurance. His heart was, to the last, keenly
sensitive to the sorrows about him; the mitigation of
them was bis anxiety. Me chided himself because he
could not do more for the people who loved him, and by
whom he will ever be remembered: and. In the last,
was questioning himself for a remedy for a disease that
has so often conquered the ablest of a noble profession.
No better man ever laid down his life in the cause of
humanity."
Dr. Alexander Erskine's grandfather, Michael Ers-
kine, a native of Pennsylvania, emigrated from Lancas-
ter county, that State, to Monroe county, Virginia,
w here be married Mrs. Margaret Paulee, net Manly. b\
whom he bad five children, Dr. Erskine's lather being
the third son.
The early history of Dr. Erskine's grandmother
(Handly) is among the most romantic Qf family tradi-
tions. Her first husband, Paulee, was killed by the
Indians, and herself taken captive and kept a prisoner
lor four years by the Shawnee tribe, in Ohio, the chief
adopting her as bis daughter. At his death she was
ransomed, returned to her family and afterwards mar-
ried Michael Erskine. [For an interesting account of
the incidents of her captivity, see I lardesty s Historical
and < teographical Encyclopedia, page 371]. She died at
the age of ninety years.
Dr. Erskine's mother. Susan Catharine Russcl, now
living, eighty years old, in Huntsville, Alabama, was
born in 18(15, in Loudon county, Virginia, near the
city of Leesburg, the daughter of Col. Albert llussel,
who was a lieutenant -colonel in the Revolut ionary army,
and was with Washington in bis marches. Me moved
from Virginia to Alabama in the early days of the latter
Siate. where he resided till his death. Me left five
children, of whom l>r. Erskine's mother is the third.
She is a woman of remarkable common sense, of fine
judgment, of high Christian character and principle,
and has been an ornament to the town of Huntsville
from her earliest years. She married in IS'JO at the
earl\' age of fifteen. She is a noble tj pe of the southern
women of the past time. She has been a member of
the Presbyterian church since I ">'_''_'. Her mother's
maiden name was Nancy II of an old Virginia
family. Her brother. Mr. Albert llussel. who died at
Huntsville in 1844, was a partner of her husband, Mr.
Alexander Erskine, lather of the subject of this bio
graphical sketch.
Mr. Erskine grew up at Huntsville, taking his aca-
demic course lor eight years under James M. Davidson,
t he ' [rish orator, alter which he studied four years in
i he I Diversity of \ irginia, where he graduated in chem-
istrj and German. He then studied medicine in 1855-
.">(! iii bis father's office at Huntsville. and returning
to the University of Virginia, took a medical course
therein the same class with Dr. R. 1!. Maury, who-,.
sketch see elsewhere iiu this volume. He then want
to the University of the city of New York, and grad
uated there in 1S5S, and in October of that year set-
tled iii Memphis. In 1859-00 he. in connection with
Dr. D. D. Saunders, (whose biography see elsewhere),
and the Mrs. Lunsford P. Yandell. sr. anil jr., late of
Louisville, reorganized the Memphis Medical College,
Dr. Erskine taking the chair of obstetrics. After the
breaking out of the war this faculty disbanded, but in
1SH7 the college was again reorganized with Dr. Erskine,
Dr. D. D.Saunders, Dr. It. It. Maury, Dr. G. B. Thorn-
ton and Dr. It. AY. Mitchell as the faculty. Dr. Erskine
being dean. These gentlemen carried on the institution
till 1872.
Dr. Erskine. though raised by a Whig father, has
always affiliated with the Democratic party. Mis family.
on both sides, have been Presbyterians from time im-
memorial, and he has for many year- been an elder in
that church. Me has been connected with the Second
Presbyterian church of Memphis for twenty-six years.
Me is a member of the Knights of Honor, of the Shelby
county and Tennessee State medical societies, and is
an occasional writer for tin' medical journals. Me is
now professor of obstetrics in the Memphis Hospital
Medical College.
The following is a bri ef resume of his army experience
He served with Gens. Cleburne, Cheatham. Bragg ami
Polk in the campaigns in Tennessee. Mississippi, Ken-
tucky and Georgia. He was with Gen. Bragg at the
battle of Perryville, Kentucky: was taken prisoner and
placed in charge of the sick and wounded at Harrods-
burg for six weeks, but was afterwards sent via Louis-
ville and Cairo to Vicksburg, where he was exchanged,
and from which place he soon rejoined the army at
College Grove, Tennessee. Me was at the battle of
Murfreesborougll, and upon the retreat of tin' army,
spent the winter tit Tullahoma, being at that time
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brigade surgeon in Gen. Polk's command. He was next
in charge of the Law hospital at LaGrange, Georgia,
and continued with it till the surrender.
Dr. Erskine iirst married, at Memphis, December 10,
1861, Mrs. A. L. White nee .Miss Law. She died in
1868. By this lady l>r. Erskine has two children, Alex-
ander and John II. Erskine.
His second marriage, which occurred at Columbia,
Tennessee. December 19, 1872, was with a cousin cit' his
first wife, .Miss Margaret L. Gordon, daughter of Wash-
ington Gordon, of Columbia. By this marriage he has
lee! seven children, Mary (who died in infancy), Louisa,
Washington < rordon, William, Albert Russel, Elizabeth
and Laura. Mrs. Erskine's lather. Washington ( rordon,
was a fanner in Maury county, and died in the Con-
federate service at Vicksburg. Lieut.-Gen. John B.
Gordon, of Georgia, is her cousin. Her mother was a
Miss Bradshaw, of Columbia.
Throughout his life Dr. Erskine has been guided by
the highest sense of conscientious rectitude, fidelity to
his trusts, energy, zeal and promptitude in execution,
and above all by high religious principles. He- has
always been a Very close student; has always tried to
be kind to the poor, and has instilled into his children
the same principles by which he was reared. His
personal boast is that his parents were of the strietesl
integrity and loftiest moral and religious character, II i-
mother is a deeply pious woman, and while his father
was less demonstrative, he was nevertheless upright in
all his life, anil died a Christian, in communion with the
Presbyterian church. Tic has left the impress of his
high character on that of his entire family. His son,
Alexander, has ever endeavored to emulate his father's
virtues, and has always stood among the foremost in the
ranks of his profession in Memphis. His name, with
that of his lamented brother, Dr. John H. Erskine,
has been long identified with the city, and will he
handed down to his children with pride, as pure, un-
sullied and elevated.
W. G. BIBB, M.D.
NASHVILLE.
THIS gentleman comes of one ol the most distin-
guished families in the South. Its members have
filled tic responsible and honorable positions of gover-
nor, circuit and supreme judges, State senators and
legislators, congressmen, United States senator, colonel
and secretary of the treasury. Of the subject of this
sketch, it may he said in the language of the challenge
given by the hero in the " Patrician's Daughter":
" It may be by the calendar of years you are the elder man.
But 'tis the sun of knowledge on the mind's dial shining bright,
That makes true time."
W. G. Bibb was born iii Montgomery, Alabama, June
25, 1854, He received his literary education at the
University of Georgia and the University of Alabama,
from which latter institution he graduated in 1S72. He
began the study of medicine in 1874, and attended one
course, in 1876, at the University of Virginia. He then
came to Nashville, and, in 1877, was valedictorian of his
class and graduated as an M.D., from the medical de-
partment of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt
University. Me spent the summer of 1877 in Paris,
France, visiting the hospitals there, and upon his return
went to New York city, and in 1K7S, graduated from
the Bcllevue Hospital .Medical College under Profs.
Austin Flint, sr. and jr., Sayre, Barker, Mott, Yan-
Buren, Janeway and others.
Tn March, lsTs. he settled at Montgomery, Alabama,
in practice and remained there until the spring of 1881,
when he moved to Nashville, having been in that year
elected professor of materia medicaand therapeutics in
tic medical department of the University of Tennessee
and Nashville Medical College. In 1882 he was ap-
pointed surgeon of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis railway, a lucrative position, which he held
during Gov. Porter's presidency of the road. Dr.
Bibb is a thoroughly enthusiastic lover of his profess-
ion,and his address on " Progressive Medicine," lately
delivered, is a credit not only to himself but to the insti-
tution in which he is a professor. As a lecturer his
style is rather conversational than rhetorical, his object
being to instruct in matters of fact rather than make
display. His manners are frank and cordial, and such
as characterize the typical physician.
In personal appearance Dr. Bibb is a man of medium
height ami weight. He is a zealous Mason and a member
of Nashville Commandery Knights Templar. He isalso
a Knight of Pythias. In politics, he always votes the
Democratic ticket, as he believes that ticket represents
the southern white man's idea. Nor could he well vote
otherwise ami conform to the examples and teachings
of his brilliant and distinguished ancestry.
Dr. Bibb's father. Col. Joseph B. Bibb, was a lawyer
at Montgomery when the war between the States began,
when he raised a company of volunteers, went to Mobile
and seized Fort Morgan and garrisoned it until the
State of Alabama seceded, when he returned to Mont-
gomery and, with Col. Beck, raised the Twenty-third
Alabama regiment, of which he became lieutenant-
I.lli
PROMIXKXT TEXN KSSK VXS.
nel. < hi the death of ( I ! lie succeeded to
the command of the regiment anil served us its colonel
in all tin us of the western arm) in Mississippi;
with (Ion Bragg in the Kentucky e;unp;ii,an ; with Gen.
Joseph K Johnston in the Palton campaign; \\ i t lx
[looil in his Nashville raid, and at i1 ini/.ation
of the arm) served with (ion. Johnston in North I
Una, surrendering with thai commander at G
li Returning home In 1 in planting in
Moi county. Alabama, until September 14, 18G0.
when he died of consumption, broughl on b) ;i wound
from the fragment of a shell lie received at the battle
Nashville Me was a man brave, generous and
philanthropic, with a hand open as <la.\ for meltii
charity, and i tu- words applied to th<' Prince of Oraii
are quite as applicable to him: '* Xo man ever knew
what that thing was that the Prince of I ' eared.
|)r. Bibb's mother was Miss Martha Dandridge Bibb^
daughter of the venerable Judge U.S. Bibb, now 1 i \ i n -■
at Montgom. :.■ - - i ight) se\ en
vears, Dr. Bibb is her oldesl sou, and her only other
Id is Pe\ ton I! I • i nsign I 'nited States n tv\ . at
-.-lit stationed on tin' I' -t in the l/uited
S ites hydrographie and geodetic survey. The mother
has been inspired with an ambition to make her sons
worthy of the illustrious name they have inherited. She
i- a most agreeable conversationalist, possesses a face
beaming with intelligi - radiant with good
nature, ami altogether is one of the most interesting <<i
the high-born southern women.
The maternal grandfather ami grandmother of Dr.
Bibb are both living, and are in possession of all their
[acuities. They have been married sixt) live years.
.Indue Bibb was horn in Klberl county, Georgia, Sep-
tember 30, 1790, and is now in his eighty-ninth year.
Of this distinguished gentleman the Savannah. Geor-
gia. Times recently contained the following interesting
sketch ''Judge Bibb comes of a noted family. His
elder brother, 1'r William Wyatt Bihl.. of Elbert
county, Georgia, the home ol the family, entered tin
congress of the I nited States in LS07, ami in 1813 was
elected to the senate. In LSI", when the territory ol
Alabama n d lorsettlement, he wasappointed ter-
ritorial governor by President Monroe, in 1810, wheu
Alabama « is .elm it u-d as a State into the Union, he was
elected governor, and died during his term of office in
IS'Jo. having scarcely reached the age of fort) years.
Such a career for a young man was wonderful, and an
.. nee of his high character. Hi- brother, Thomas
Bibb, was then president of the Alabama senate, ami
succeeded him as governor of the State for the unex
pired term. lion. B. S. Bibb, the surviving represen
tathe of this distinguished family, was horn in Klbert
county, and married Miss Sophia !■'. Gilmer, a sister of
Gov. Gilmer, of Georgia, and a relative of Geu. J. !■'.
Gilmer, of Savannah, and moved to Alabama sixty
years ago. Hi- uobilit) tctei was s i appre-
ciated, ami he was called frequently to serve the public.
He ha- filled many positions of honor and trust, been
1 a number of term- to the lower house of (he
I it nre and to t In Set was probate judge of the
county lor fourteen years, ami was tin- first judge of the
city ami criminal court of Montgomery, and was the first
judicial officer removed b) the Federal authorities after
the close of the war He i- now in the eight) ninth
year of his age. ami hit <sed the sixt) sixth anni-
\ ersary of his marriage. Ami now . with his noble wife,
who, during the perilous days of the late war, labored
-i earnestly and zealously for the comfort of the soldiers
in the hospitals, ami was known to thousands a- " dear
aunt Sophy,' he is passing ijuietl) and peaeefull) the
evening of a life full of honor, cheered b) the conscious-
ness that his days have been well -pent, ami that his
generation are a ere. In to lom
The ire. ii grandfather of Dr. Bibb was high sheriff
of Prime Edward county. Virginia, during the Revolu-
tionary war. \ Iter peace was made he moved to HUbert
count) , Georgia, w lure his family was reared. His w i to.
Sallie Wyatt, was a descendant of Sir [suae Wyatt
of the first colonial governors of \ irgiuia, and by blood
-he wa- related to the Peytons, Dandridges, Bookers
ami other first class families of \ irgiuia. The Bibbs
wiii originall) from Wales, and have been in America
over i w o hundred years,
vnother distinguished relative of Dr. Bibb was the
Hon George M. Bibb, of Kentucky, a leading jurist, at
one time udge of the court of appeals of Kentucky,
secretary ol' the treasury of the Tinted States, and
. .1 a term in the I'uited States Senate.
Dr. Bibb's paternal grandfather, Peyton Bibb, mar-
ried Miss Martha Cobb, of Georgia, daughter of Thomas
Cobb aud relative of Gens. Howell and Thomas Cobb,
distinguished in the late war On her mother's side,
she wa- kin to the well known Martin family of South
Carolina.
Dr. Bibb's maternal grandmother, Sophia L. A. (!il-
m er. wa- a daughter of Thomas Meriwether Gilmer, of
i' thorpe county, Georgia, a sister of (low Rocking-
ham Gilmer, of Georgia, ami a first eon- f Secretary
of the navy Gilmer, w ho was killed by the e>
amnion board a vessel on the Potomac river during
an inspection by the president's cabinet manyyeai
She was also a great niece, on her mother'.- side, of Gi ti
\ i i.l i vw Lew i- of the Revolutionary army
Dr. Bibb wa- married at Nashville. Juue 25, 1878, to
Miss Susie Dun lap Porter, who wa- bom at Paris. Ten-
nessee, September 17. IS5S She is the grand-daughter
..I Dr. Thomas Kenned) Porter, of Paris, Tennessee,
and the only daughter of lion James P. Porter, ex
governor of Tennessee, ex president of the Nashville.
Chatta ga and St. Louis railway, and at present first
assistant secretary of State in President Cleveland's
cabinet. Her mother, originally Miss Sue Dunlap, is a
. i, John I 'uulap, of I'm i-. Tenui --. i
PROMINENT TENNESSE \\>.
157
niece oft ten Richard I 'unla | iiished T<
gean the confidential friend of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Mrs. Bibb was educated al Nashville and is a lady of
in , ee, remarkable for ber wot il; ■.
her love of home and devotion to her family, and in all
thai constitutes true womanh I, she is as true as the
ii. edle i" i he pole. Bj I his man iagi there a i ehil
dren (1). James Porter, born December I. 1879. (2)
Mattie Gilmei boi n June 26 1 382.
Dr. Bibb i- al present junior member of the medical
if Cain & Bibb. Dr. Cain is from Okolona, Miss-
issippi, where i iterative praetiei He is
from the medical department of the Univer-
sity of Nashville, and served with credit and ability as
i of Tucki r's Mississippi
war.
P S Since this sketch was written, Dr. Bibb has
re "''1 to his old home in Montgomery, Alabama,
important private busiues atten-
tion t hi n
F. S. NICHOLS.
\n \l ru is.
'"T~MI K subject of tlii- sketch is, in ruanj respects, a
± remarkable person a true type of the self-madi
man. The family from which he came was of English
origin. His great grandfather William Nichols, came
from England and settled in Connecticut, Hi father,
William Nichols, removed from Litchfield, Connecticut,
to Michigan and thence to Iowa, where he engaged in
farming and died in L840. His mother, originally Miss
Sammons, was a native of Duche county, New York.
Her father Frederic Sammons, was a man of ]
in ai ■ in Revolutionary times, and was an officer in the
American army. He was made a prisi ,vhen New
Ynrk was invaded by Sir William Johnson, who had
been a neighbor of the family on the Mohawk river,
and he was confined three .Mar- at Quebec, after whicb
he made his escape. His brother, Thomas Sammons,
was a member of Congress from New York for several
i. mi during the administrations of Jefferson and Mad-
ison.
I S Nichols was born in McCombe county, Michigan,
February 27, 1828, and lived there until 1838, when he
went, with his father's family, to Davenport, Lowa and
grew up there, working on a farm till he was twenty
years of age. Reared in a new country, he was deprived
ul early school privileges, but from his boyhood he had
a great fondness for reading, and read everything that
fell into bis hands. Through this desire, which in
■ reased as he grew, he was led to cl se (In- printer's
trade, and his education was received in a printing
office. In 1848 he entered the office of the Rock [stand
i 111 | Advertiser, a Whig journal, and there rem
till 1851, when he established a Democratic papei in
the ami- town, and continued as its editor and publisher
till 1853. lie then took the gold fever and went to
Australia, where he experienced the ups and downs of
a miner's life for six years. Returning to the I nited
States, he settled in [owa and engaged in farming for
three years, at the end of which tinii he went into the
offii I' tin ( 'liiraL'u Times, h here he remained till I 36 I
Hearing that then tl demand for printers in
Memphis, he decided :" so to thai cit; I pon arrival
there he purchased an interest in the Memphis Bulk/hi,
owned by -I I! Bingham, editor, assuming the positi m
of foreman, and continued with that paper till it sus-
pi nded publication in 1870. He t hen b< i man
of the Memphis Avalanche. In 1877 he becain
of its i ctors, and in 1879, bei f proprie-
hi ii position. .-: ha bad
control of the Avalanche, it has improved in i
in chat ' journal, in circulation and in value as
a newspaper property.
II" has always been a Democrat, but has taken im
part in politics except through his journal. Il< is in-
clined towards indepi ndi nee and the expressions of
opinion tl h hi papei are not controlled by party
machinery. He supports a measure not because it is
Democratic, but because it is in itself good. Toej |
ii briefly, the Avalanclu is not a " party organ, but
wield.- a free lance 'in all subjects, bristling at all times
with original, unique and pungent paragraphs.
Mr. Nichols became a Master Mason at Rock Island,
Illinois, in 1851, and a Knight of Honor at Memphis,
in 1881.
He was married. August 20 I860, to Miss Josephine
Hughes, daughter of Harvey Hughes, a descendant of
a Virginia family, one branch of v. hi eh settled in Ohio
and another in Tenm ssee, where the family i- still rep-
ed. lie i- an architect h> i rade, and -till In ing
in Missouri.
One of Mrs. Nichols' uncles is the oldest banker in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and the president of Hughes Haul.
A nut her uncle is judge oi the circuit court in Ohio.
To Mr. Nichols and wife there was horn one child, a
daughter, now wife of William H. Forrest . of Memphis.
Mr. Nichols belongs to a class of men who are rarely
appreciated at their full worth by their fellow-citizens,
who pass through life quietly, often in a subordinate
capacity, and never displaying their real power unless
I'KOMIM'N [• rKXNKSSK VN8.
S \ \
-
-
•iu ho
him many personal enemies,
bring liim into general n bravo
iliink
u, ho
I ability anil in-
ln thi
Mr. N - " sky
.■I no
ehampiou than tho !
1' v S I, Mr.
F.S.N . n with paralysis, has died, and
i!u' .1 I into oilier hands, though it
still !■ - pendent Democratic
tor it acquired under his management.
REV, STANFORD G. lU'KNKY. WW. L.L.D
Tills
r. and
I with
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. by as
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i
n his
!i the
--
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>•, tho
\
Unman 1'
him at an
-
lunvh. and has
s to the learned Or.
■ -
th mon.
-
-
found - man and his relations to hi- Creator, ho
could have who to tho highest plaeo in that direction.
Hut his ability was well ri loaders iu
uvoh, and ho was in duo time called to tho most
ion in tho leading theological school of
nomination, whore to-day ho <tauds anions: tho
f her teachers. Ho has boon not only
nt of tho Bible, but also a student M' tho great
secular thinkers This has (rood him from those idio-
- usual with men who study only one side of a
von to him a balanced character
both in thought and ex| Ho combines the
philosophical character of a Solomon, with
ind tiro of an Isaiah. To splendid pow-
■iiH'iu as a writer, and as a
stigation of
- phy. human and divine, and i- regarded as a
every phase of thought iu the field o(
theolos - - i With a voice musical and
i ml a nature tender and gentle, ho yet has under-
neath - the tiro and zeal of his early tuau-
and appreciate tho actors on
the ft it public matters, both in church and
'•'tit only a t'ew know that iiuiet and thoughtful
men like Or. Burney are at last iu real control, and it
is the unseen hand that keeps any system together.
S nford G. Burney was born in 11 son county
Tenness \ ril !»■. 1S1 1 He is the son of William
Burney. a n r \ rth Carolina, born in 17<S. moved
county when two'.. - old, became a
ill fanner, and died iu IS married, he
- - \ by his first wife and five by his
He first married Mis- Annie Guthrie, daughter
Bex Robert Guthrie, a native ol' North Carolina,
PROMINENT TK
i til.-. | in Tennessee about 1800 and fin
to Missouri, and died then II ■smith.
1 1
of the Climb ian chui f the
men excommunicated Prom the old church. Hi
Of ' ■ t he first wife, Dr. ('urn'
of tlii- sketch, i- the eldest. II I, Bu
preacher in the Cumberland P in church, and
1 I .III Bui n< died
mer, John P. 15m n
educated al Princeton College, Kentucky, and died
twenl i •:
Confederate soldier captured al Fort Donelson
died at .-'' I. Eli Gunn Bui from
the Mi issippi I ni ersil Oal land,
M i *ippi,and watt for a time professor of lai
Cumberland I n Lebanon, Tenni
1 1: Bu rm f'athei econd wif<
Doni Of the five none by her, William Buruey
soldier an first Confederate troops rained
i Robi on county, and is now living on the old home-
I latcher Burnej joined the army and
Dalton during Gen Johi retreat. Hatton Bur-
ney in now living on the old homestead in Robertson
count ! B I in I 372. Kv. in Burney
i- ni, v. a lawyer at Nashville.
I»i- B randfat her wa John Burni
family in the North and South Carolinas, of Scoteh-
trigh descent. He married Mi Ma Pari lighter
..I i .■ oi Pari i alone] in the Revolution-
ary war from North Carolina.
Dr, I'.ni i ■ i'ii feeble,
alwaj • •!. speptic. II ■ inced a marked ta
"""I in advance in 1 1
thebo ol hi neighborhood, being particularly fond of
the natural sciences. After recei ceptionally
good common school and academic education, he at-
tended, two and a half years, Princeton College, Ken-
tucl luated in 1841. On the l-'li of August
following, he married Miss Susan Cray, of Prim
Kentucky, daughter of William and I. d a Gi form-
oa. Mi Graj was a n
farmer, trader and shipper. Mrs. Burney was edm
at Elkton, Kentucky, and i- a highly cultured lady.
noted for fine practical sense, prudenceand discn i
in her intercourse with - icii I
By this marriage Dr. Burney has had nine children :
(I ). Addison G Burm joint 'I i he Elevi
sippi Conl ind was killed a
vania Court house, Maj I-. 186 1, at
i ", o 1 1 lid of him " ao betti
ghouldered a musket for the Confederate cause. He
I" longed i" Col Joe Davi n giment, Earhj - dn ision.
Theod re C. Burney, born Januarj I, 1845, left
college with lii- brother, Addison, to join the army.
Both were wounded in the battle of Seven Pines; both
1 1
killed in
•I. M II
member of the Masonic order
ildren, M II
and Addison Tin
I ■ be) Si I - . ■
issippi
I '
Nannie McKei of William S. McK
sheriff of I.
' .
and is fin- ''•
Nannie Clyde, M
Louella Clarissa Bui
Colleg I • ippi : married ; - -
f tin-. I'ni I • l»r.
: i.-,
1 merchai
I. el Fields. (())■ Anna Z. Bu
• I Fnion I-', ii I I I rried
W. I!. Bin >r of the ' lumberlaud Pi
terian chui 0 :ford, Mississippi. '
Burney, graduated at I nion !
and i- now living '. m, Tennessee, with her
I I >. Burue; -• udent in Cum-
id University, Lebanon rinne
1 ni Leb;
Dr. Bun irdained in March, 1836. in Wilson
county. Tennessee, a minister of the Cumberland Pres-
Mi church, in which he 1
ince. He first located in Nasi
August, 1841, and preached there eighteen months. In
January, 1843, he toi demy
anklin, Tennessee, and taught He then
became the first agent for the Cumberland I
ndowment
of that institution. In December, 1844 I dona
farm near Memphis, and preached several months for
the First Cumberland IV ->. terian church in Memphis,
while the first church hou Iding. 1 1
ears preaching to a country church, and
associated with Rob ! editor and publisher
of the /»'■ llgiou* Ark, a Cumberland Presbyterian paper.
In 1848 he accepted the presidency of Mount £
county, Mississippi, and
ducted that institution two years In .la unary. 1 350
cepted the pastorate of the Cumberland Pn
church in Oxford, Mississippi, and filled the i".~iti'm
twenty-five years, with the exception of the year I860,
when Dr. C. H Bell was pastor. After the war Dr. Bell
and Dr. Burney filled the pulpit, alternately, until 1873.
'KOMINK.NT TKNNKSSK \.NS
[>i his
■ \ itn
I COIH
h tho
those
In
■ farm
In S
-
1*1". '' \ ' ■ -Liu
■ ■. llilU'
i In distinguished si 1 Ion.
Hi |iui his tirsi vote In thnt
V. iVili'd IIS .1
\\ ince the » hi' has been voting
I > IK hi- uo\ 1 1 hold political office,
>st mastership ,ii
|)i liuruev although ».|' delicate health,
icily, loving fun and pleasure, but avoided
He loved wine, loved
ml on one iHi-.i-.ion was present
ai a 1. . ii iniioi- was drank pretty I
and mi I tin In- ivtUvii-il that,
pleasure ran ilf lor a man, it
anil lie then ami there resolved mi a
ud right I i the principle
ii the line ol' duty,
hi i- that In- lite has suioothl.\ run
IK- has not seleeted his lields of labor,
hut has heeu urged into tln-in by friends ami force of
Hi-- father, who was a man ■ <( some
m- him two thousand dollars fur a start; by
is much more, ami during life he lias
il of money, hut like most ^( students,
uli- money a secou uderatiou. He Cro-
at eighteen years ol' age, commenced
u enty was ordained at twenty two, ami
fifty years, mostly in Mississippi, from
in- twenty-
seven years flic 1 male College founded by
him. i- tho oldest institution oi' ii- Mississippi,
|h !'. i- ii mostly re> iew «r
made him unite famous. The late
1>: fli mas 0 Summers, of tho Methodist church,
ilio first men of the
died ili-i . aeoted
mid theology, ami his
v distinctively
MA-i. E. V. M N'EAl
El'. MrN V, \ L. thi
- Mo
^ k. ^<\'
\orth - -in in
September
In IS
in which county ho grew into manhood, alternat-
:n with going to school, until his
ami family moved to Hardeman county, West
Tennessee, in Is.'- Hi- family were among the first to
iio country west •.>( the Ten
lii- grandfather, and also William Polk,
-•I Hardeman, and Thomas M Xeal litis father),
-in Hardemau county in the year IS22, by
tt hands to work, in advance of their arrival.
/yl>. f. u
PROMINENT TRNNESSRAN.^
161
on land* near the i of the town of Bolivar.
Thi the first ear of the i ttlement of Hardeman
count 'lii ,' nized in 1 23 and on the
! I, ..in. i VIcNi .I. one mile north "I i do
pi en1 site of Bolivar, a log courl house was built, and
I hi eounl i ibli hi 'I and kepi there unl il re
moved to l!<>lr ar in 1825.
In 1823 lv P. McNeal, then nineti
made a crop of hie own near where Bolivar i- nov
ated I n I 324 25 26 hi cu pied a* a su
West Tennessee district. In 1827 and 1828, he y
1 1., en ice of the I nited -
in ii li.ii undi r < ..ii Purdj marshal for the district_
In 1829 he mployed in a dry t I e in Bolivar,
which had t hen grown into a tow n. In
i 1829) he was placed in chai er, of i he inter-
etion with Col.
■Inli n Preston, of Virginia, and in the winter of 1830 31,
in connection with J. II. Bills, he buill and cai
from Bolivar to New < >rli I with
n to -.11 for there
Upon In- return home in 1831, lv P. McNeal formed
antile pai I nei hip w ith his broth* r in la .■. Maj.
John H. Bills and in April of thai yeai Vlaj McNeal
went in New Vnrk and Philadelphia by river and
to lui goods, which in those days was a tedious under-
taking, The firm of Bills & McNeal, merchants, <
i i it i if I in prosperous business from 1831 to 1846, wheu
i olved ■ ach partner going into em c intile
busini oi !i ii hi. K P McNeal conl inning
therein in Boli \ ar up to I 356. I n I he meanwhile Maj.
McNi in Tennessee Miss-
issippi and \ rkans is, and I in farming
in I In-. I. -in, in county, gi\ ing to lii- farm-
ing interest* the greater | time and attention.
Hi- closed out all of his mercantile business in 1856,
incc 1 1 1 nt date li d his attention exclusively
I ■■■ i estate
in Tonnes In this pur-
suit lie has been after the
immense I war in slaves, one
hundred and fifty In number, and other | he has
kept Ii oek to a IiIl-Ii standard, which but
few farmer* in the Soutl en able to do.
lv P, McNeal, in J . 'I to Miss
Ann Will of •). •) . Will i |.. of
Tin l Priscilla, who
died just "ii arrival at womanhood at the
eight* ■ " II >\ od wife, who had made home I
l'*,v fbi died in I 375
Thro II of his life Maj K I' McNeal has
t and modest man. I !• n charitable and
■ I with lii- means, w itl I ostentation. He has
-ihil'Iii public place. He has made and preserved from
yout Ii to manhood and old n to four scon
mi enviable record ofenci i mptness in busi
sincerity and truth in speech ; uprightness and honesty
in conduct, and in al with his fellow men, and
at tin- time he stands in the front rank of the men of
and strengthened, as
the years wenl b ilden n pul ition he has earned
and kepi tintarni hi da om am hi r pio
REV. J. W. PHILLIPS, M.I).
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T
HIS prominent physician and ui was born
in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, Januarj II
1820, worked in the corn field iill he was eighteen
old taught chool in hi^ nineteenth year at Durham-
ville, 'I i nm i e read medicine under Dr. \\ I >
at Trenton Ti nm ind graduated M I' in Ma
1 .- \i hi i In I in ■ i n of him-- ]■ ia, under Profs.
Nathan Chapman William B. Gibson. Roberl Hare,
Hugh I, I lodge William lv I Conn i 3am uel Jai
and George B Wood, in a fch Dr. A. L. C. Ma
gruder and Dr. Ill' Walton, of Norfolk, Virginia. Be
tween the sessions be attended Wills' Hospital for i li<-
and Blind, and Warrington's Obstetrical Deparl
mi-Hi. from each of which institutions he took a diploma
In addition to his regulai degrei He practiced medi
cine at Salem. Mississippi, from June, 1842, to Decern
ber, 1845 next practiced twi i in Hinds and
Madison counties Mississippi doin in i eepl onally
21
; e wealthiest people in thai
Ii i- fee - for eight
dollars per annum. He was in the yellow fever epi
demic at Brownsville, Mississippi, and in the cholera
epidemic of 1866 al Memphis.
When Missi sippi enlisted her minute men for the
( ',mli di i i ice, he h as .-',1111111- sioned b; Rev. T.
W. Casl igen ppoin d b the Legislal ui
1 1 ui Bolton Depol Hinds
county, Mississippi. Rx-officio he became surgeon of
Gen Charles B Smeed - brigade and served om
then refugeed to ^mitli 1 ril Texa to save hi
and there practiced medicine till the war was
over; then came to Memphis practiced om year; next
ai Mason's depot three years: al Brownsville three
mi, 1 atDyei ears He located al Tul-
lahoma \piil 15, 1884. He was al an early day a mem
ber of the Mississippi State Medii - ty, and in
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of twelve or fourteen, going to school and farming In
ISOS. lie wriit tn MoMinn Academy, Rogersville, in
which lie studied some two years, after which he was
;i student about fourteen months in the Hiawassee Col
lege, Monroe county, Tennessee. In ls7f he began the
study of law under Judge K. E. Gillenwaters, at Rogers-
ville. and was admitted to the bar in 1ST."), licensed by
Judge Gillenwaters and Chancellor II. ('. Smith, and
practiced at Kogersvillc From I87f> to 1881, when he
became founder and editor of the Kogersvillc /Vcs*
and 'Finns. \ Iter editing that pupci* something over a
year, he spent six months traveling in the northwestern
States, lie then returned home and resumed editorial
control "I his paper. November 15, 1881. he was ap-
pointed ti> a clerkship in the Nashville post-office, a
position which he resigned Vpril 30, 1882. to accept a
position in the Pension Bureau at Washington, District
of Columbia. This latter place lie resigned in < >ctober>
1882, to accept the position of file clerk ol the Forty-
seventh Congress. The political complex] f the
House changing with the incoming nf the forty-eighth
Congress, he went out ol' that office, and returned to
the management of his paper and to the practice of
law. in March, 1884. In the Republican convention
held at Jonesborough in July, 1884, he was nominated
for the State Senate, and at the general election. No-
vember I. 1884, was elected to represent the Second
Senatorial district, comprising the counties of Hawkins,
Hancock and Greene, in the Forty-fourth General As-
sembly of Tennessee, being the junior member of the
Senate, and the only unmarried man in it.
lie has been a delegate to every Republican State
convention since 1ST! I; was an alternate delegate to the
Republican National convention at Chicago, in July.
1880, from the First congressional district of Tennessee,
and cast the vote of that district: was also a delegate
from the same district to the Republican national con-
vention of 1884, and was one of Mr. Blaine's warmest
supporters. From 1870 to 1881, inclusive, he was chair-
man of the Republican executive committee of Haw-
kins county, and in 1880 was elector for Hawkins county
on the Garfield and Arthur ticket.
lie has been unswervingly Republican in politics
from his boyhood, and is ultra, aggressive, ami uncom-
promising in all his political views. He has never
sought an elective office except that of senator, and to
that be was elected by a vote of some four hundred
above the party strength. He has. however, a decided
taste fol' political life, and has taken a very active part
in the various campaigns. His speech in the Senate
on the bill pensioning Confederate soldiers was noted
for its vehemeuce and aggressiveness, particularly in
that portion where he denied the constitutionality of
the measure proposed. There chanced to be present on
that occasion a large number ol' visitors from northern
States, on their waj to the New Orleans exposition,
who. utter listening to the speech, expressed their
astonishment that he should dare to niter views so an
tagonistic to the doctrines entertained and taught by
the op p. is it ion. To use his own language, "my polities
have been everlasting]} Republican, and I have lived
and worked that way.
.Mr. Brown belongs to no secret organization, nor to
any church, though he is a firm believer in the Chri in
religion, and occasionally has acted as Sabbath sel I
teacher.
He began life without means, and is now in independ-
ent circumstances, the result of a rule to which he b
adhered, never to owe anything, and to limit his ex-
penditures to his actual necessities. If he makes but
little he also makes it a point to know he is clearing
money. With these views, by clear-headed judgment,
rigid economy and judicious! fading, be has accumulated
a respectable property. I le has never been given to dis-
sipation, and has never bet on anything. Though ruth
lessl.N assailed by politicians, his character is unblem-
ished. It is a singular fact that few persons are indif
ferent to him — being either his warm friends or bitter
enemies, a fact fir which it is difficult to account.
Senator Brown's father, Rev. Iredell ( 'am pi all Brown,
ol' the Methodist church, was born in Hawkins county.
Tennessee, and bad only the advantages of a common
school education. lie has been a local Methodist
preacher from his young manhood, and has the reputa-
tion of being one of the finest vocal musicians on the
continent. His business is that of farming and stock-
raising, and lie is now living at "High Oaks," three
miles east of Morristown, on the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad. His charity, sympathy for
the poor, and his perfect good will for mankind in
geueral, have attached all who know* him as bis
friends. His father. Thomas Brown, a native of North
Carolina, came to Hawkins county. Tennessee, early in
the present century, married there ; lived a firmer, and
died at about (lie age of seventy-live, leaving ten chil-
dren: (li. Mar} Brown, married Rev. William Wyatt,
and has seven children. Iredell Campbell, Thomas
Pendigrass, Samuel Pattoil, Sarah. Matilda. Nannie and
John. (2). Rev. Iredell Campbell Brown. (3). Jesse
Brown, who married Miss Nancy Charles, daughter of
Col Rogers Charles, of New Canton, Tennessee: died
in ISTf. Iea\ ing five children. ( 'harles. Solomon, Sarah,
Susan and Nancy. (4). Thomas Iv Brown: married
first Miss Eliza Dodson, who died, leaving no issue.
He then married Mrs. Mary Kyle, willow of Dr. Robert
Kyle, by whom be has two children, .Mice and Thomas,
jr. to). Dr. Owen M. Brown, married Miss Nannie
Fortner, daughter of Rev. Isaac Fortner, of Hawkins
county, and has four children, Luther Fairchild, Para-
lee, Emma and Owen M.,jr. Dr. Brown was the sur-
geon of the First Tennessee light artillery (Federal)
in the late civil war. (6). Clinton A. Brown, married
Miss Laura \. Crawford, daughter of l!e\ Roberi
Crawford, of Hawkins county, and has eight children,
TT.i >MINENT TENNESSEANS.
Robert A., Clinton, Thomas, Frank, Sallie, ^.ga and a
pair of twin boys. (7). Nancy Brown; died in 1885,
wife of Samuel Edison, leaving four children, Joseph,
Sallie, Matilda and Samuel, jr. (8). Sarah Brown:
died childless, wife of Joseph Anderson, of War Gap,
Hawkins county. (9). James Brown, married Miss
Rebecca Vermillion, daughter of William Vermillion,
and lias ten children, Theophilus, George and I'' rank
(twins), Tlnnnas. Clinton, Walter, Nannie, James, Fan
nic and John. (10). Matilda Brown, wife of Hiram
Herd, of Manchi ster, Kentucky : has one child, John.
Senator Brown's greal grandfather, Samuel Brown,
came from North Carolina to Ten f'ter his son
came. Hi' was a farmer, and had been a Revolutionary
soldier.
Senator Brown's mother was Mary Ann Willis,
daughter of James and Sally Willis, of Lee Valley,
Hawkins county. She is the grand-daughter of Larkin
Willis, ,-i native of Scotland, a uoted philanthropist,
espi 'dally kind and liberal in his donations to strangers.
It is said that be, on three different oci isi m . gave
horses to men who were complete strangers to him.
His wife was Elizabeth Sizemore, of North Carolina
Of the Willis family, Maj. W. W. Willis, was major of
the Eighth Tennessee Federal cavalry, and n
Hawkins county in the Tennessee Legislature after the
war. about 1866. Summerville I!. Willis, sister to his
mother, married Dr. 11. K. Legg, and lives at Selig-
man, Missouri. Another member of the family, Silas
Willis, is now a telegraph r at Stevenson, Ala-
M r. Bro ■ ■' ln-r was Sallie
Wilson.
Senator Brown has two bro! five sisters, all
I (1 Franci ^.sbut Bi - :> m Maj 15. 1851 ;
now practicing medicine and farming al Lee Valley,
Hawkins count; ed Miss \ r and
lias two children (2) Larkin Willis Brown, born
December 1,1854: studied law; was joint editor and
proprietor with his brother in the Rogersville Press
and Timrs on now farming; is unmarried.
He wa eel d i ounty supi i of public
instruction for Hawkins county; was assistant teacher
three years in t hi • ater Male Aca
Prof. J. L. Bachman. (3).
Sarah Elizabeth Brown; married James M. Johns
of the firm of Fulkerson & Johnstone, manufacturers
of boo and harness, at Rogersville;
has four children, Charles < Matilda, Mary
Annie Jackson and Mattie. Mrs. Johnstone is noted
fur her prai i i itali-
ties with the grace and dignity of the Laily Bountiful.
(4). Annie Rathbone Brown, now wife of J. J. Starnes,
a farmer and stock trader of Hawkins county. (5).
i ( 'athari , now wife of J. ii. I >
farmer near Whitesburg, Hamblen county,'!
(6). Mary Artemesia Brown, now wife of Win. A. Orr,
a lawyer at Jonesville, Virginia. (7). Mattie E. Brown,
now living with her parents at " 1 1 igh < taks.
JAMES M. LARKIN, M.I).
CLARKSVILLE.
THIS gentleman, an impressive conversationalist,
entertaining by the variety of subjects he dis
cusses, the scope and accuracy of his knowledge ol
and things, the remarkable tenacity of his memory of
names, dates, incidents and personal histories, and dis-
tinguished also for the magnetism with which he fixes
the attenti f his hearers, the many agreeable acquaint
ances he has formed, the earnestness with which he
enters into the discussion of any subject which the
occasion or the company may suggest, appears in rinse
pages as a representative of the medical profession in
Clarksville, and as one of the standard men of Tennes-
see. To the writer he appears as one of those men
about whom there is an air and manner of reserve force
and energy, ready to be brought into action at will.
thereby making him equal to almost any emergency.
Quick, clear, logical and forcible in his arguments, he
warms up with enthusiasm until he becomes oblivions
to all subjects excepl the ■ under discussion, his
interest in which is manifested by a flashing eye, ani-
mated gestures and a flow of words at once eloquent
and interesting. I me of his brother physicians in
Clarksville says of him: "Dr. Larkin is a close student.
and possesses a prodigious memory. Thoroughly honest
in word and deed, with no flattery for any man, he is
held in high esteem by a wide circle of acquaint! s.
Possessing a vast stock of general information on his-
torical subjects, as well as upon the general topi
the day. he is ever ready in conversation, and has at the
same time an amount of practical common sense which
makes him ready in carrying out the views which he
expresses. In spite of his feeble constitution, he is a
master of his profession, both in medicine and surgery,
and had not ill health put hounds to his progress, he
must have stood at the top round of the ladder. \- a
surgeon in the Confederate army he was faithful to
e\ ery t rust."
The subject of this sketch was horn ou the waters of
PKO.M1XKNT TKXNKSSK W-
! irkin and carried out, and became the moans of groat good to
Me_\ ' - - . ■ wouuded soldi
the war, finding the iron works where he had
and his oKl practice gone, he
■ ks\ ille, « has since resided in
nit :i^ hi* liealth would
all
I'r Larkin became Mastei Mason at Charlotte in
1847; was - nior Warden under a special dispen-
sation tout uioni lis after initiation ; i wards
i if liis I.' became
: lun m Vrch Mason in Clarksville Chapter.
Ual! II:- In earl \ life he voted for Martin YauBureu, a civilian,
-; Gen. Harrison, a military chieftain, casting no
it to ,;• Fillmore, and
\ -'on- then for John Bell, always refusing to vote for a inili-
'■■ : ■ x hi iii- tary candidate tor a civil office. All I » i — sentiments
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ii from principle, he however i sidcred Mr.
these Lincoln's call for troops, without the consent of Congress,
II tyranny, and entered most heartily into the
x '•'. u the war closed, and he came to choose
attend i where ho between parties, he was forced to vote with the Pemo-
< but since that party assumed its present policy on
rued to his the public debt ho lias refusi operate with any
iii.l in the a party, but voted for Cleveland and Hendricks,
trip - in the Dr Larkin's father, Joseph Larkin, was the sixth
11 lly, in the child and fourth son of John Larkin. who was horn in
- - re in Dublin. Ireland, thi i linen draper, and who.
war. Hi- practice when a boy, while spreading linen was. together with
- of the iron work- : S h lads, kidnapped and brought to I'liila-
I hi~ delphia. where he was apprenticed to a manufacturer,
financially and prol -- and learned the art oi weaving. After attaining his
s>7. the 1 S rity he moved to Guilford county. North Carolina,
him an In i .. iiue a member of the Alamance congregation of
He married Sarah McAdow. daughter
May. 1861. nth of James McAdow, who. together with his brother
Tennes commanded b.\ Col John, born in Ireland, came to North Carolina at an
-1 • K l'i - ii that capacity until his early day. The family name was afterwards changed to
1 1 rate In 17!'ti. as remembered by this writer.
John Larkin and his brothers-in-law, John McAdow,
his wife havi li . Samuel McAdow, ami the family of James Mc
Gen. Zollicoffer, Adow moved from Guilford county, North Carolina, to
return ami did ami settled in Dickson county, and founded
i w ith the regiment. However, rejoining the the Larkin and McAdow sett lenient on Jones' creek.
army, he refus ind The Rev. Samuel Mi \i> authography chauged to
■ 1 under a contract, doing hospital service und " McA isly mentioned, grand unci of Dr.
Dr. D. D. Satin i Mi bis, as post i, and Larkin, was a Presbyterian minister, and he, together
- medical director. In November, with Lev. Fiuis Ewiug and Kphraiin McClain. of
k, he obtained li Kentucky, and San. [\ \lahama. met al Mi
1'uia. ami was at Marietta Adow's residence ami constituted a presbytery, thereby
a his way to join thi news organizing and founding the Cumberland Presbyterian
church in Dickson county, Tennessee. February 1.
the Eleventh T 1S10. Si ■■. 1'. K Cossitt, chapter
ami si am. he conceived the idea 1 t. |
Joseph Larkin. father of Dr. Larkin. who died Sep-
thcii i liis plan to Gen. Fostet il was teniber '-'■•. IS37, in his ti 1 1 > second year, was married.
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tharine Dark rn iu
Guilford county, North Carolina the
daughtei : Hance Clark and Ma •
('lark was an Irishman, and. so the writer i- informed,
in of Hr. Adam 'lark, tl
cal commentator. M
• and Alexandei - tland.
Dr. Larkin was married in i1
■ 7 Hiss D • [well,
of I f - . j . Thomas H. Cold^
villi.-.; daughter of Abiram Coldwell, of Hawk
Tennessee, and his wife, Nancy Montgomery, formerly
of Richmond, Virginia. M - : augb-
ter ol
the niece of Gen. Richard M ry, who '
Qui ■
.Mr-. Larkiu died Aug - lady
of firm and decided character, but
in her manners, and by h
many friends. Four children were bon
(1). Josephine, born August 22, 1 352 ; died July 10.
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JOHN It. FRAYSER, M.D.
Dl: -JOHN I: FRAYSER was born February 15,
1815, in Cumberland county, Virginia
grew to manhood, or till he was twent
Be is descended from : -J. family. His grand-
father Fra 5 itehman, i
and settled in Hanover county, Virginia, :
mond, and a farming. Hi- -on. Rol
of the subject of this rnan of
charaeter. and rose from the anvil to the bench, 1.
it fir.-t a blacksmith and afterwai f the
court of Cumberland eounty. He died at Staunton,
Virginia, in 1831, a' I rs, leaving
six children, one of whom. Robert, went to St. Charles
count. M • tii he became iveplanter,
and married Miss Spear.-, niece of Judge Edward j
who was a member of President Lincoln's cabinet.
Another son, William, went from Virginia to Memphis,
where he remained a few years, and then removed to
Lexington, Holme- eounty. Mississippi, wh
came prominent a- a lawyer. II- re in 1842.
A third son, Albert, wa- a merchant in Powhatan
county, Virginia. Benjamin F., another son, graduated
with honor at the University of Virginia, and
successful practitioner of medicine till hi- death in
l -:.:;
John Ii.. our subject, was brought up on a farm in
his native eounty. obtaining his earliest education in
the "old field schools " of the neighborhood, and,* for
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if whom wa- William G
of the ui He era
in medicim md in the foil
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month in I H
Memphis by tl brothen
then li ther a law-
yer and editor of a paper in tl He lauded in
Memphis with just three dollar- in hi t, and
stopped at the old City Hotel, of which Tl . - D.
Johnson was proprietor. He toot the landlord into
told him that he was without m
and at ODi Ipathy and a prom
help. He boarded for three years with Mr. Jol
who became hi- warmest friend, and charged him only
lollars in irs; board, taki
balance out in practice in his family. He did not
enter 1840,
'-hip with
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Durinu the year Isin he formed a partnership with | born in L857. now shipping clerk to Lynn & Lewis,
Xew Orleans. (6 David, law partner of his brother,
l». Dudley Frayser.
In politics, Dr. Frayser was raised an old line Whig.
Dr. Hugh Wheal ley, who had solicited him to join him
in tin1 practice of medicine when he first came to
Memphis. At the expiratii f one year, Dr. Frayser
entered into partnership with Dr. Solon Borland, who,
after remain ins; witli liim one year, turned his attention
to politics, moved to Louisville, and, after practicing
medicine there for a time, went to Arkansas, took a
prominent pari in Democratic politics in that State
was elected I'nited States senator and afterwards ap-
pointed minister to Central America. At the beginning
of the late eh il Borland) entered the Confede-
rate army with the rank of colonel, and died while in
the service.
In 184!) Dr. Frayser formed a partnership with Dr.
James Chase, who con tinned with him till his death in
1850. lie then entered into partnership with Dr. E.
Willett, which lasted till 1878. when he took as
a partner Dr. B. 11. Helming, his son-in-law, who is
now professor ill the Memphis Hospital Medical Col-
lege. '
Dr. Frayser was married November I 1837, to Miss
Pauline A. Brown, daughter of William Brown, a native
of Virginia. Her mother was Miss Saunders, sister of
Romulus M. Saunders, of North Carolina, who was a
member of Congress from that Stair for several terms,
and afterwards minister to Spain. One of Mrs. Fray-
ser's half-brothers, Capt. Henderson, was an officer in
the I'nited States army and adjutant on the shift' of
(Jen. (iaiucs. Mi's. Frayser was left an orphan at tin
earl} age, but was tenderly cared for by Mrs. Dunn,
wife of Dr. Dudley Dunn, near Memphis. She received
her education at Huntsvillo, Alabama, and was a lady
of unusual intellectual powers and unblemished Chris-
tian character. She was a consistent member oi the
Methodist church from her sixteenth year to the time
of her death, which occurred February 28, 188-1
'fhe union of Dr. Frayser and wife was a most happy
one, and from il were born six children: (I). K. Dud-
ley, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in tin- vol
nine. 2 . Emma I,., born in 1846, now the wife of
Col. II. M. Smith, formerly of Xashville, now of New
Orleans; they have three children. (■'!'. Julia ( I).
Cornelia, born in 1852, now the wife o,f Dr, B. <!.
If lining, and mother of three children. (5). John C,
He was a ureal admirer of Henry Clay, for whom lie
always voted. Since the war he has voted the Demo-
ticket, though he ha- never taken an active part
in polities, lie has invariably refused to become a
candidate for public office, although often solicited to
do so. lie has several times I ii offi re, I a professor
ship in the Memphis Medical College, bul declined, be-
lieving that his duty to his clientele required his whole
attent ion.
He became a member of the Independent Order of
Odd-Fellows in 1837, hut ha- never hold any office in
the order. As in polities he has been a quiet Voter, SO
in the lodge he has been a sihni member.
Dr. Frayser has been successful in acquiring and
holding a very large practice, due alike to hi.- aeknowl-
e Iged skill and attainments, and the fidelity and
promptness with which he has always responded to the
calls of the sick. For the accumulation of money he
never displayed any special talent or desire. He has
been fortunate, however, in being associated with busi-
uess like partners, and thus abundant financial rewards
have accompanied his professional success. In the
year 1866, his professional income alone was sixteen
thousand dollars— perhaps the largest incoii 1' the
kind ever enjoyed in Memphis, lie has always dearly
loved his profession, and devoted all his energies to its
ice with becoming enthusiasm in the cause ol
humanity. I'ne of his professional brethren in Mem-
phis ,-ays of him; " Dr. Frayser is a man of high moral
character, has stood tit the head of his profession in
Memphis for many years, and enjoys an enviable repu-
tation." 'fhis tribute is siiupl,\ a just one. There i-
not in Memphis a more honorable, upright citizen, nor
one who enjoy.-, in a greater degree, the confidence of
the people.
Dr. Frayser has passed through all the epidemics with
which Memphis has been afflicted for the last fifty years,
In sinning with Asiatic cholera the first year of his resi-
dence there, and ending with the yellow fever in L879.
Dr. Frayser had the yellow fever himself in 1878, but
was spared for further usefulness to his fellow-man.
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HON. BENJAMIN J. LEA.
BKOW'KSYILLE
Till-', at stry of Judge Lea were English and
Scotch- Irish, but not tracable in this sketch be-
yond the grandfather, Bennett Lea,whowasa well-to-do
fanner in North Carolina. The father. Alvis Lea, a
native of that State, was a farmer ami merchant in Cas-
well county, lie was a member of the Baptist church,
a quiet, unassuming man. who looked well after his own
1 sehold, and also found time and means to make his
benevolent nature felt among his neighbors. He had
no ambition for any sort of public life, but was content.
" Along the cool, sequestered vale of life
To keep the noiseless tenor of his way."
He died at his home in Caswell county. North Caro-
lina, in lSTli, at the age of seventy-one years.
Judge Lea's mother, whose maiden name was Nancy
Kerr, was a niece of the celebrated P>a|itisi minister.
John Kerr, who, for several terms, was a member of
Congress from Virginia; and she was also a cousin of
John Kerr, jr., who represented a North Carolina dis-
trict in Congress several years, and died in 1878, while
on the superior bench of that State. Her father was a
North Carolina farmer. Her mother, originally Miss
Cantrell, was of a North Carolina family. The Kerrs
are of Scotch-Irish origin.
Judge B. J. Lea was born in Caswell county, North
Carolina, January 1. L833. lie was raised in that
county, working on the farm and going to school alter-
nately, until he entered Wake Forest College, from
which institution he was graduated in June. 1852
Having, at quite an early age, formed the determination
to become a lawyer, on quitting college he removed to
Haywood county. Tennessee, when' he engaged in
teaching school, carrying on his legal studies in the
meantime. In 1850 he was licensed to practice by
Judge John Reed and Chancellor Isaac B.Williams,
and at once opened a law office in Brownsville, where
he lias resided ever since. From 1858 to 1872, he was
law partner with Hon. II. J. Livingston, now chancel-
lor of that division. In 1859 he was elected represent-
ative from Haywood county, and served in the
Legislature id' 1859-60, being a member of the commit-
tees on the judiciary and federal relations. While still
a member of the Legislature, he was appointed by Gov.
Isham G. Harris, commissary in the provisional (Con-
federate) army of Tennessee, and, a few months later,
was elected colonel of the fifty-second Tennessee regi-
ment, ami remained its colonel till the close of the war.
having been re-elected upon its reorganization in 1863
by an almost unanimous vote. Judge Lea was taken
prisoner in West Tennessee, in .March. 1865, and kept on
parole until after the final surrendei
The war over, lie resumed the practice of law at
Brownsville, with great success. Like most ol his
southern brethren of the liar, he had then but little
left, beyond his profession, upon which to build for the
future, hut. with courage and hop. •fulness, he set him-
self to work in the new life. In 1876 he was appointed
by Gov. Porter special judge of the Supreme court on
account of the illness of oi f the judges, and served ill
that office about eight months. In September, 1S7S. he
was appointed by the Supreme court to tic position of
attorney-general and reporter for the State. This posi-
tion he still holds, and, during the seven years he has
held it. he has served the State with signal ability and
fidelity. The work of the Supreme court since he has
been in office has been unusually heavy, and his reports
are quite voluminous, though exceedingly well pre-
pared.
Judge Lea was married in Haywood county, June 15
1853 — the first year of his residence then — to Miss
Mary C. Currie, a native of that county, and daughter
of George and Judith Currie, both of North Carolina
families. Her mother was a Chandler. Mrs. Lett wtts
educated tit Brownsville. She is a member of the
Methodist church, and is a woman of much force of
character, possessed of sound practical judgment, gentle
manners, kind disposition, and skilled in till the better
ways of the g 1 housewife.
There Lave been born to Judge Lea and wife four
children: (1). Swannanoa, born October 20, 1854; grad-
uated from Ward's Seminary, Nashville. She married
Thomas I1. Baynes, now deceased, a lawyer of Browns-
ville. He was a lawyer of great promise and very in-
dustrious, having probably hastened his death by
excessive work. She lias since married Mr. J. I'. East-
man, of Lebanon, a lawyer. She litis two children.
Thomas F. and Effie Baynes. (2). Mary F., born in
1859, and died in infancy. (3). Katie I!., born in 1860,
graduated at Brownsville and Nashville, and married
John C. Sanders, a lawyer at Lebanon. She has two
children. Mary Lea and Richard. (4). Alvis G., born
April s. 1868
Judge Lea is a man of marked personal characteris
tics. Physically, he is a splendid specimen of his race.
In height lie measures over six feet, while in weight
he "tii>s the beam'' usually at two hundred and forty-
five pounds. His robust, hale and hearty look is always
suggestive of good living. His eyes are dark and keen.
ami fairly blaze on occasions of excitement, while his
heavy projecting brows impart to his countenance an
air of gravity that commands respect, a- by authority.
Yet austerity is not a characteristic of Judge Lea. In
temper, usually, he is as gentle as a woman, and. in the
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enial. Hi' lo\ es the
his friends, and, in friendly devotion, ill
no man more prompt or true.
*, Judge I. i.i has been a life-long Democrat,
cception ol'tlie legislative service al
ready inetltioned, lias never held political office. In
1872 lie was made chairman of the Democratic State
iition. In 1ST).") he Master Mason, and
afterw - the Chapter degrees, lie has served as
Master, King and High Driest. He is also a member
of the Order of the Knights of Honor, of the United
Workmen, and of the Golden Rule, lie is a member
of the Methodist church, in which he has been steward
ami lay delegate to the annual conference. Hi- per
sonal life is. in all respects, exemplary, regulated at all
times l'\ ilir highest standards of propriety ami
morality.
\- a lawyer, Judge Lea has been verj successful.
His qualities are of the solid, rather than of the bril-
liant order. Hi- reputation is that of the safe coun-
selor. Strong common sense, subjected to a rigid con-
scientiousness, is tin- sub-stratum of his character. His
■in- of professional duty are lofty and liberal.
There is nothing of the pettifogger in his nature. When
a man becomes hi- client, lie becomes hi- pnttegi ami is
e cause becomes his
own Where a remedy i- possible without litigation
he invariably urges it. though adversely to his own in-
terest. Kver since lie came to the bar lie has
upon the belief that very many of the suits brought
before the courts might be compromised by the par-
tie-, or their lawyers, more profitably to all concerned,
than by a warfare in the court-room; ami suit has
long been Judge Lea's custom, wheu consulted or re
taiued, to endeavor first to effect a settlement of the
matters in controversy, before resorting to legal process.
This failing, however, his zeal in the fighl i- quite as
marked as his previous desire for peace. Ami in the
court room Judge Lea is very effective A.s an advo-
cate he ha- few equals. Besides, his conduct before
court ami jury is marked bj a degr if candor and
fairness that wins confidence and secures couviction.
Smart tricks and "sharp practice are foreign to
his met hods.
Judge Lea isyel in hi- prime, physical b and mentally.
The future should have much laid up in store for him.
HON. JOHN FRIZZELL.
JUDGE JOHN 1'KIZZKI.I. i- of Scotch origin.
r> The original family emigrated to Ireland ami thence
Hi- grandfather,
were tobaeco plant-
America, settling in Virginia
Mm ■am Krizzoll. ami hi- brothers
er- in Maryland and Virginia, and from these descended
all the Frizzells in the United States, who -pell their
names in that way. Mu-aiu Frizzell's wife was a Mi-
William-. She die. 1 at the age of fort; five, he at the
about ninety. Judge Frizzell- father, Nathan
Krizzoll. wa- horn in Pittsylvania county, Virginia,
September 3, 1S08, and moved with his father's family
to Bedford county, Tennessee, in 1825, where In- father
liyed a few years, returned to Virginia, married again,
ami died in ISoS or 185fl Judge frizzells father mar-
ried. November 27, 1827, Miss Mary Jones, daugii
1 1 ugh .lone-, living near Beech I rrove, then in Bedford,
n..\\ Coffee county, Tennessee The Joneses were from
Buncombe county, North Carolina. Hugb -lone-,
i lie time over age, was a volunteer under
Gen. Jackson, at N'ew Orleans. He was a great lover
of hi- rifle ami passionately fond oi hunting, lie .lied
between eighty-five and ninety years of a ; i I'riz-
zell's maternal grandmother, .lone-, was of a North Caro-
lina family, ami. with her husband, settled in Coffee
county. Hugh Frizzell. Judge Frizzell's brother, was
elected, in 1870, clerk of the criminal court of David
son county, ami died in office, a tier two years' sen ice.
.Indue Frizzell- lather started out in lite a poor man.
lie worked on a farm, a- a day laborer, until, becoming
corpulent, he taught -<■! 1 for several years in Bedford
ami Rutherford counties. His teaching did not extend
beyond reading, writing and arithmetic, lie had the
reputation, among other attainments, of being an excep-
tionally correct speller, a very rare accomplishment even
among scholars. He received his education in Virginia.
In isil he removed to Winchester and sold goods for
a time. Shortly after going to Winchester, he was
elected magistrate, and served as chairman of the county
court. In March, 1844, he was elected clerk of the
circuit court, and was re-elected four times success-
sively. holding the office for twenty years without in-
terruption. When the courts were reopened after the
war he declined a reappointment to the clerkship
tendered him by Judge 1 [ickerson, then presiding, lie
ii honest man. faithful to every trust, benevolent
and just. He was a moral, temperate man. and. in
Democrat, lie
N-p-
polities, wa- a Jeffersoniau
tember 21. 1871.
.1 udge Frizzell- mother was a devoted member of the
Methodist church, and died in May. 18S2, at the
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
seventy four, leaving lour children surviving her, eight
having di her.
Judge Frizzell s experience in boyhood was somewhat
an usual, and it i- hardly too much i" the ef
fects of that experience are -nil seen in thi -tiikinL'
domestic virtues which characterize the man. II
rained in the homestead and ti do all manm
household work, in assistance of lii- mother. Id- had
hut little advantage of farm l.-<l»«.r or of school
privili ept as an irregular attendant at his fath
chool, when he could be spared from home. \'
tli'- age of about eighteen, however, his father sent him
in tli' icademy one term, \\ hieh was .-ill I hi
alar schooling he obtained. At tin- age of fourteen he
bad begun writing in the office of the circuit court clerk,
.in 'I in hi- fifteenth year, became deputy clerk. For the
!!■ i ten years, with the exception "ft In- brief period at
i In .11 .nil in hi ■• ■ mainl engaged 1 deput in his
father's office and in the other clerks offices of thi
county. It was tlii- early clerical training, no doubt,
that laid ili<- basis of that high business character which
he now enjoys. In 1849 hi ivas elected .1 the
land office at Nashville, by thi- Legislature, the mem
ber from Franklin county, Col. Ha; di n M ireh, present
in;/ his name in his absence and without his know]
He took charge of the office in December of thai
and, fiir three years, gave his personal attention to its
duties. Leaving the office, then, in charge ofa deputy,
eturned to Winchester, and, for about om
was in chargeofa mercantile establishment, meanwhile
assisting his father in his office.
.1 udge Frizzell was born, at arlier
stated, in Bedford (now Coffee) county, September 8,
1829 on the Garrison fork of Duck river. Excepting
while in Nashville, filling the office of land
before related, he lived in Winchester from 1841 tb
186 « hen he removed to Nashville, and has lived t here
I I i Hire.
Iii February, 1854 Judge Frizzell was li
practice law by Chancellor 1!. L. Ridley and Judge
Nathaniel Baxter and practiced at Winchester, except
during the war. till his final removal to Nashville.
From 1856 to the breaking out of the war. he was in
partnership with Hon. A. S. Colyar (whose sketch see
elsewhere in this volume Hon \. S Mark- was a
member of thi firm from L85S to 186] The partnership
was dissolved by the war. (See sketch of Hon. A.S.
Mark- iii this volume . For about two year-, after
1865, Judge Frizzell was associated in prai
Hon. Peter Turney, now on the Supreme bench of the
(See sketch of Hon. P. Turney in this vo]
For several years' Judge Frizzell was trustee of the
Robert Donnell Female Institute al Winchester, In
1870, after removing to Nashville, he was elected school
commissioner in what was then the seventeenth school
district of Davidson county He took an active part
in forming the voluntary association which conducted
the public F Davidson county until the pri
anized bj enactment. He hat-
been an anient friend of popular educ
■ izens in urging the
nder which the present -;. stem of public
schools in Tennessee was organized. For about
mber of the hoard of education in
the town of Edgefield, while it irate cor-
poration, an ter portion of the time, was presi-
ird.
i the first serious threatenings of civil war.
Judge Frizzell was in favorof resorting to all honorable
means for the avoidance of bloodshed. But when it
became apparent th mptly
took a decided southern position. He volunt
as a private in Col. Turney s regiment, but bi
he reached the command, he was intercepted
gram calling him to Atlanta, where he was placed
duty. >* - eommiss
as captain and placed in charge of tran i and
the auditing of railroad accounts. He remained in
department of the Confederal mainly en-
(] in auditing accounts, till th f the war.
The rank of major m bim just before the war
ended. During his term of service, he disbursed over
millions of dollars, and had his accounts a
and pas-ed "0 K" up to January 1, 1865, a i
that few disbursing officers of the Confederacy can
present.
In the rank- of Masonry Judge .John Frizzell is a
conspicuous figure, not only in Tennessee, but through-
out the t 'nio n. From the period of his intiation, his
" heart received the beautii - of Masonry," and hi
charmed with its work and its principles. There are
but two other men in T ssee, than .1 udge Frizzell,
who have presided over all the grand bodies of Masonry
Tenn Ma Wilbur F. Foster, Nashville, and
II. M. Aiken. Knoxville. Judge Frizzell's petition
to Cumberland Lodge No. 8, Nashville, is dated -
tember 8, 1850, his twenty-first birth-day. He was
initiated in October, passed in November, and I
December 21, 1850. Hi ! Junior War-
den and Master of Lodge, as Junior Grand Warden
(in 1853), Deputj Grand Master (in 1854 , Grand Mas-
ter twice 1858 59), Gr I Si cretary since 1868, and as
one of the committee to compile the Masonic Text-
ile was made a Royal A.reh M
April 27, 1852, served as High Priest of thi
[years; was Grand High Priest one year. He
received the Council degrees in 1852, and has been
Most [llustrious Grand Master of the Grand Council
of Tennessee; was made a Knight Templar, Nashville
Commandery No. 1, December IT. 1852, and was
elected Grand Commander of the State in 1867; re-
ceived the order of IIiliIi Priesth I in 1860, and has
been Grand President of the Order of High Priesthood
of Te — e. Sim-, 1868, be has been continuously
ri;<>\ii\i:\ r n wr— r w-
i rand Chapter, uu.l t J ran
riiirty-
third i \ >ui-h Rite
i ! cnera 1 Grand
ml Chapter of the
-^ . .■ - etoil I loin
i', '\\ Masons in the world ran pi
-iuli .. 11 Supreme
\ ■ . • i • ■ : . i
\ ! in mi
In politii -. -! i her, and
, I'n a Di moerat. lie li
s, hut has never held
any politieal offiee. In 1S.V. he ma criment tor
the Legislature as a candidate in Franklin county, and
hundred and seventy votes. This
n the
county on the prin >u. Since then
the count) - • hree teni| men to
the
Cuder the act of ISSo. authorizing thi
- s the three
S ill Was ap]
- John L. T. Sueed and S
Kirk] - - Kasi Tern <s
imed the i - a clear-headed,
pains
Judjri I: 11 married, in Rutherford county. July
23, l-.M Miss Matilda Win ford, a native of Winchester,
daughter of William and Sophia Win ford, both natives
ofTi -- Her lather died in tl revolution,
- : Mi-s.Winford ^her mother) died iu 1S52. She
'.ted herself and family by teaching school, and
due mind culture. Mrs. Friz-
zell is a graduati Mary Sliarpe Colli liester,
and has been of great benefit to her husband in his lit-
erary 1. - Slu possesses all the traits of a perfect
wife and mother, gentleness of disposition and tirn
of purpose being her chief characteristics She is, a-
also her Ini sistent and earnest member "I
imberhiml Presbyterian church. In regard to the
uld have been stated that he joined the
md has been an elder for the last thirty
II was stated clerk of the General Assembly
for eleven years, and in ISS-4. was elected Moderator
the first layman to till that position in an\ I'resbyterian
tieneral Assembly in the Tinted States II. «
inniiiiee that revised the Confession of faith
and Government ol the Church, and prepared for thai
committee the present constitution and regulations of
the church. In dune, 1884, the degree of LLC was
conferred upon him by Cumberland I'niversity.at Leb-
anon. 'IVi
Judge l-'ii.'/ell and wife have had five children: four
:? hie. John I!.. Maude and Charles I''., and
lead. Sallie.
In the narrative of the life of Jud ! I, we have
Mitliciently indi as a man and lawyer.
It anything more is lacking to com ey to the reader a just
if the man. his own frank utterances will supply
the complement. In response to an inquiry concerning
his life, he said " 1 started on nothing. 1 assisted my
father in raising his family. Whatever success 1 have
attained in lite. 1 owe to the faith 1 have had in the
providence of God. That God will lake care of and
prosper those who trust in llim. 1 honestly believe. In
business, my father taught me that whatever is worth
doing at all. is worth being well done. I'nder my fath-
rainiug. 1 have given great attention to detail-,
and thi- is the secret o\' success." This being the car-
dinal idea of .link. - life, it is easy to see how
me to the front as a business lawyer. He
in the vigor of manly strength, aud the Stale ha- -till
much in hope from him.
REV. N. M. LONG.
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Till', distinguished young minister, whose name
tch. was born in Somerville, Fayette
count Julv 27. 18411. When lie was about
nine s mother, who had marrii
id. moved to Sullivan county, East fennes-
ituij I. 'i - grew up mi a farm. He
received his education at Ixi i Bristo
M -7 rian of his
and the winner of the prize medal for oratory.
In his youth Mr Long had intended to become a law -
rian church in IS(>7.
he determined to study for the ministry. Therefore,
after leaving King College, he entered the theological
miliary at Columbia. South Carolina, and remained
there two and a half vear-. being called in the middle
of hi- third year to take charge of the Presbyterian
church ai Tallahassee, Florida. Here he remained four
rs. ai tin- expiration of which he was called to Pu-
laski, Tennessee, staying there' one vear. He then took
charge of Lauderdale street Presbyterian church,
Memphis, one year, and was next called to the Park
V venue church in the same city. In :i short time he
which had
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!
on, arid fa
Due ehurch.
Though brought up it
■ ' .
religion, and never submi
doctrines of hi- church. W
seminary he difl
When
being admitted. U
third- vote, in t)
there
elders
him U
federation of the matter the
eh I ■ ■ <:.
ion .Mr Li
October, 1882
■
tidicial case, and au appeal <Ji<l not lie. He
then withdrew from
-
that he withdre
he has remained in i
Church," which has greatly fl under his
care. Wh<
but it has increased tenfold, whil
are larger in proportion to membershi] - than
hurch in Memphis, and composed largely of the
il and leading I
.Mr 1 .
and I.
prohibition ' I
and widely circulated. In 1884 red a
- in day
I. : 1 the
other ministers of tl
• ational and destructive of tb
found imprecision, not only in Mempl
Tennessee and adjoining - mons
printed at,
The foil' merit on hi- second
:- from the editorial
columns of the Memphis Appeal: I
Church was filled .'
deli'.' non on the Sui II:-
fir-t i ffort created a decided
was looked forward to with unusual interest. In the
audi. with
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having
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Mr.
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and John I
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Maurx oountx ii
srraduatod Nashvill W. I -sit!, ami
utarriod, in IM>. (.VI Nioholas l.ony. who
slat. -.1. diod in I Sill In IS.">S, -In- mar Ulsin,
1 amos l> lilu v ouuix .
Max 17. ISSO Sho was a la.lv
ilont. ami \\ roto Humorous
inanx of xx In. li xxoro pub
in ill.- nvs
us I'rosbx lorian and
S ill lu-r HI.'. Il.'i I'alltrr was
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of 1I1. - in 1I1.' Si, u,'. II,' was il\.' author
if th.'
Mn how Kh.'.i s m. 'ili. 1 » M
■ ' 11I' I 'ol llol 1 ' Ion, of 1I1.
\ that nann M it I how
".mi, ,1 Mattlu " 1 iii.l
Mr, I i'i .1 in ili.' Ixox olutiou, an, I
itod a sword bx lion Naili.nn.'l (iroono for
1,1 ai iho hattlo of l i mil, 'i.l Court
N rth Carolina His faihor, llox dosoph Khoa,
' niinistor, « lio , 1111,' I
-■ IVniios lii I.111, 1 hoforotho devolution,
\ Ixoah " I : I'l'.'ll, « ho » as
1 imos 1 1 , .'I'
i ,1 11.- wis a oollsin of ill.' Ihikr .'I Vvsyl, and
look I'lii with liini iii 1I1.' 1 .-I" -Hi. «n of I"-' I
from 1 Wan, ho llod 1.' Iroland and
..1 hi- nam.- hx dl'0|>| 1 in pin : and Irons
ili,- " li, in I'.uinK nanio thereafter
\i 1 . M I I.OIIl! S llll, I.',
v nil,' Ill's! lioiltoiialll in Capl Uur
xx lii.-li u.i- raisod H inor\ ill,', and
forniod a pail of tho Thirteenth Tonnossoo Confederate
in II.' took uilli It t lit llir sword ulii.li had
boon presented to lib inoostor, h,\ In tiroono,
and .11 ill, Sox ember 7, IStil , \x hile
in i'. un ma ml of lii- oompaux . was killed, and lii- (, on pain
.in to llor rofiisinx! to surrender The sword
i.l has never hoon found. Tho event xxa-
..'inn hoailtiflll piH'in. xvi'ittOU and pub
lishod a short time after the battle, bx Mrs I \
ivoote ! •■ ' esses ili.' S.'inli has
lion. . I, dm Ixl ■ > ii .in Klir. 1 . 'ouiitx . 'I', 'nil,
- a hrothor of ilii' dfathor of
kotoh 1 1,' x\ a> ilii' lirsi inomhor of
' 1 . ami roprosontod tlio oastoru
roars Ho was 0110 of sovon lawyers
\ of x\ lii.'li I
mad.- iu Kill, -Iu, m 's v . lYnilossoo
Pi Vhrani Ixl ithor of Mr Louis's nn,'l,'\
i a pan of tho Tliit'ii'i'iith
and ii'l iinni— ion. xx.'in iu a- a
Vftor ilic lioltnoiit haul.' ho x\a- oallod Iroin
ili.' rank- for dui.x a- a suryoon, and aftowards heoaino
uoral undor 1 ion H 'li 1I10 rank oi'
lior, and xxa- regarded a- nil.' .'I' ill.' host -Hi
iu ih, 11 IV I 'Unix ,
Vnothor uuolo, Walt or Ixhoa, oonunandod a ooiii|«iiix <>['
- in iho lato xvar 11.' x\a- a proniinoiit
1 of Kayot to oounty. whore bodied in 1881
llobort llhoa, unolo of Mr, lionjj's mothor, served
tlll'oiltfll llu- xx.tr .'I 1ST' II, was oapturod a( llu- haul,'
,.(" Qui ipod from prison, was rooapturod in tho
\x, „,,!-.>: M other with his hrothor, dosoph Hhoa,
and xx a- ohaiuod upon his hack iu a prison ship lor throe
in, null-. Vftor iho war ho wont on hoard a Spanish
privatoor and sorvod sovoral yoars IVwards tho olose
TEXXI
of the wai o and England, hi*
burnt off the coast of Virginia, and the <
He tl
he ren
ight the ' '
3
th him. Though ■
d in a bom': guard company during
MAJ. A. J. McWHIRTEE.
IVILLE.
WE donbt if t1
popular gentleman in Tennessee than Maj. A.J.
McWhirter. Full)
hundred and ninety pom , blue
a large head with
expressing a kind and bi ;rtly,
winning manners that invariably convert
friends, this gentlen
to many people.
Be irai born in Wilson county, Tenm ■ 15,
I -_'- '.f Scotch-Irish pa
- farm, wh<
liool of his grandfather, George McWhirter, who
died in 1836, after which he attended ' ':= n< r - *»*- 1 1 - Acad-
• Lebanon, until old enough I I imberland
University, where he remained for twoand a half
and only withdrew to accept the depul
clerkship under Josiah MeClain, who rk of
Wilson county for fo In 1-17- II John
Bell tendered him a cadetship at W !' t, which he
declined, preferring I wmmereial life, which he
shortl lid with the wholesale dry
of H. & B. Don at
luable did he become to this then famous firm.
that on the first January, 1850, he was admitted into
the concern as a junior partner, and continued with
them in busim ing considerable wealth, until
1856 Retiring from this firm, he formed a
ship with Col. Thomas I. Bransfbrd an<l Russell M.
Kinnaird, and opened a who!
ment. At the expiration of three McWhir-
ter bought out the firm and ran the business on his
own account until the ci' ommenccd. II
an ardent Whig and bitter]
when he saw th - inevitab mpany
of one hundred and six men, known efield
Rifles, which became companj A,ol h Tcn-
■• infantry, then comma
J. )'. Palmer. As
captured at Fort Donelson, and after being exch
at Vicksburg, received orders I at Richmond,
J. F.
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It: 1867 be
clothii : livar If. (
iflnen-
which firm paid him I
I
1882 ' William B. B bim
now filling wit:
;' him. I: rious
-
I man of broad and
breatl rapid pro-
While hi wonderful,
to the
and if foil-
will revolutionize many things -
rn Immi-
gration Association od a.»
in its
McWhi ■ nded from
linas,
Virginia, K
I- MeWh
a 17-7. an rmer in Wilson an-
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oiirlity years, lie was a soldier
i mliau camp tigns, par-
rail I muekfaw and
1 Mi \Vhin<r.
nrj! countv . Xortli t 'arolina, in
17.">" i stinguishod He '.ekiah
Mocklonl I ' tdarati >n of
\ ! Ii of Balch. lioo M .
Whirter man widow. Mrs. Raich, who became
- sketch. Ho was
man who taught tho classics ill Tontiosseo; was
• mlont aii> i lilyoduoatod
lint time. 1 1 i me from
us whom were the I Ions John Boll,
.' nines (' -; V. I iuild, the Vcr-
I' nndfather changed
MacWl irter to M. \\ hirti r Mrs Baleh's
11 nnine w - M -. of Philadelphia, I'onn
syl\ was martyred on
I' byterian
M;i M Winner's William Mae-
Wii in, fl a- bor South
her ami mother eamc over from the
north of Ireland in tin of the so\ enteenth
rent tin . Tw i V\ . :: M o-\\ ; ■ i i . i - brothers eon
mid South (.'arolina, where
their deseendants are now living, and have changed the
spelling of the family name to McWherter and Me
Whorter.
he niaternnl side, our subject's mother was a Miss
She was born in l7!Vi, at Mul llerron Fort,
about ii Nashville, and is now living Her
father, Samuel Blair, one of the first settlers in Ten
born in Meeklenli - \ orth ( 'aro-
lina. in ITii'1. partieipnted in the defense "I' Buehanaifs
fert ami the battle of Nickaiaek. ami lived to the ripe
et\ six Hi- wife, Ma.i MeWhirter's mater
iiidrnotlior, was die daughter el' (Ion. Simpson, a
celebrated Indian tighter. He was killed ami soalped
l>\ I lie India n^ in IT!1 1, near a tort oil what is HOW a part
of the \ 'auk est ito, on the Franklin pike.
Maj MeWliirter married, in K"i.".. Elizabeth Mm
shall Bransford at Glasgow, Ken tueky. daughter of Col.
Thomas \. Bransford, who was then a wholesale mer-
chant, at once in Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville and
Memphis, Tennessee. Col. Bransford was a prominent
ami influential politician ; was the first president of the
Naslu Danville railroad; ofteu in the State
tun. mi, I a i times a Stale elector. He was hern
ami raised in Virginia. Col. Bransford's wife was Miss
Settle. Her mother was .Miss Pickett, of Virginia, who
■i . 1 to the Picketts ami Marshalls el
that State.
Mai MeWliirter has two sons, Louis ami George.
HON. JOHN OVERTON, JR.
•■
Till-', history el' the Overton lamily is intimatel.\
con ■'• nli that el' Tennessee. Hon. John
■ I l lei' 1. 1' the sllK h is sketch,
was oni irly Supreme judges el' Tennessee, and
a rene ui personal friend "I' Vndrew
in. He was the founder "I' tie' cit.\ el' Memphis.
and at em- time owned th" land upon which the ,ii\
- ha\ ing purchased ■• tract of ii\ e liundred
acres from Elijah Rice for the sum cf five thousand
dollars. At a subsetiuent period Andrew Jackson and
lames Winchester were associated with Judge
Overton in thoow nership of this tract. It wns conveyed
my, ami the tow n of Menipliis was
plain
Judge Overton was "I' Scotch-Irish descent, and
from Virginia about the tin
hi ui' N'asln ill.-. II i- s,,i: Col
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I ohn t (verton i- cue of the lending
the State. He is
an extensive real estate owner, was the founder and is
still one of the owners of the Maxwell House, Nash-
ville, and is also he a\ ih interested in the eitv el' Mem-
phis.
lieu. John Overton, jr.'s, mother was Mi" Rachel
Harding, daughter ol Thomas and Elizabeth Harding,
and a cousin el' (leu. \\ . <i. Harding, of Nashville,
whose biography appears elsewhere in this volume.
lion. John Overtoil, jr., was bom in Bavidson county,
Tennessee, Vpril 27, 1842, and grow up there on a farm,
attending the common -el Is until his fifteenth year.
lie then went to school for two years to Profs, frank
ami Charles Minor in Albemarle county, Virginia, ill
1857 ;.s Returning to Tennessee in 18(50, he entered
the Cnivorsity el' Nashville and there remained until
April. 1861, when he left to enter tin- service of the
loracj I le enlisted in tin1 Tennessee Stat,' troops
and became a member el' -he Fortj fourth Tennessee
regiment of infantry, in the company ofCapt. Reid, In
18(i2 he was transferred to the -tall' of I ;eti. Bllshrod R.
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
Johnson with the rank of captain, and served with him
till Gen Forrest transfi rred to the Western Dis-
trict, when he became a member of his staff, still with
the rank of captain, Heserved with Gen. Pom
the closi of the war II' p rl cipated in all the battles
of thi arm; of Tennessee up to the time he became a
membei ol Poi iff, including the battles of the
Kentucky campaign, Murfrei h and Chicka-
i. During the latter pari of the war he took part
in all the tii/lii- and raids of Porrest, including
Pillow, Tupelo, Nashville, and the battles of Hood's
campaign in Tennessee in 1864. He surrendered with
Porn ■ it G ■ ill«'. A laba i 13, 1 365.
In 1865 John Overton, jr., located at Memphis and en -
d in the real estate and brokerage business, which
he has followed up to this time, [n 1882 he took as a
partner Mr. Charles N Grosvenor and formi t ] i * - firm
of Overton & Grosvenor, which now represents the
largi real e tati interesl - of any firm in Teni
'I'Im ;. handle rent and sell on an average two mill inn- of
dollars worl b of property annually.
John Overtonjr., has been prominent!; connected with
all of the in.i-i important commercial and financial en-
i -i- of the city of Memphis for a number of
I li- ha 1 a direct ii hi Bank of ( lommi rce since
its organization, and al f the Peoples 1 nsurance Com-
pany from it- foundation to the present time. He i-
denl and director of the Planters [nsurance
Compan; president and director of the Vanderbilt
m which he has been a di
rector in numerous railroad companies, including the
Mississippi River railroad, now the Chesapeake and
Ohio; the Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis
railroad, and others. II1 is a business man has
b( i ii one of uninterrupted sua h the
vicissitudes of flood and pestilence he has main-
tained lii- position ii- one of the substantial men of
Mem]
Hun John Overton, jr., has alwa; Di mocrat.
In 1-7:: he was elected to the lower house of the Legisla
ture, i ■ the unanimous vote of his county, a larger
■, ..ii than has ever been cast for any other Candida
thi county. In 1875 he was elected to the Senati
an opponent who A about one hundred and
rotes out of sixteen thousand. \li<r one term in the
lection. While in the House
In- was chairm f the committee on commerce, and
during his term in the Senate was chairman of the com
in i 1 1 ii mi financi
When the old citj government of Memphis was abol
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be eh ■ ■• | pie, owing to his | with
all classes he was compelled to bi ididate for
membership on the board of (in- and police commi
a member of the same while
the great sanita ements were carried
'mi. After he had Ix-i-n a member of this board for
nd ii half years, upo on of I>r Porter
,- elected president of the taxing district and
I until the expiration of the term of office, when
he declined to be a candidate for re election, although
known he could have had the position without
ition. He has taken no part in politics except at
the solicitation of his friends, and has never been
didate for an office to which h ted.
Hon Jol 0 married on < >ctober 23d,
Matilda Watkins, of Davidson county,
Tenm ghter ofWilliam and Jane Watkins, and
grand- daughterol Col. Murk R. Cockrill, the well-l
stock raiser of Middle Tenn ■<■. Mrs. Overton was
educated in Davidson county, Tennessee, and in Phila-
delphia. She i- ii woman of strong and sterling traits
of character, and one who never neglects her duty. She
delights in the cultivation of flowers and the perform-
t household and family duties. She is a member
ol the Presbj terian church.
Hon. John Overton, jr., began business after the war.
barehanded, lii- father's property had been confiscated
but he took charge "f lii- business in the city oi Mem-
phis, and has been actively engaged for himseli and for
others ever since that time. He now possesses a com
fortable fortune. He has ever given close and enei
attention to his business. Whatever he had to do he
has done thoroughly. If.- has always dealt on a cash
basis, engaging in no reckless speculations, but going
gradually up the hill. First-class credit, a protection
of business character, and a thorough knowledge of his
business in all it- details, Ls tl t his sue
Moreover, he has b minently public-spirited
citizen, and has always taken a lively interest in the
prosperity of the city of Memphis, ever ready to do lii.<
duty in whatever promoted her welfare and advanced
her lines along the way to prosperity and metropolitan-
ism. A gentleman ol Memphis who has had amph
port unity to observe Hon. John ' >verton, jr., during the
whole of his business eareer,says of him : Th
cretofJohnO his strict integrity, sober
habits, close attention to lii- profession, rare g 1 judg-
ment, perseverance, and a strong and determined nature.
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DM -JOHN' PITMAN •■'..- bori
Virginia, October 14. 1807. II
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fidelity and zeal he has made the practice of medicine
his lite work. Since going to Memphis he lias never
been "in ol harness, remaining al his post of duty all
the lime, and passing through all the epidemics — five
ill' yellow fever and several of cholera, notwithstanding
id tin fc\ cr himself in IS73,
At one time, previous to the late war, he Kllnl the
chair of the practice of medicine in the medical college
,ii Memphis for two years, occupying the position up
to the time the college was dissolved.
Dr. Pitman became a Mason at Holly Springs, Miss
issippi, and took all the degrees of Ancient York
Masonry there, and filled nearly all the offices in the
lodge, but after going to Memphis did not connect him-
self with any lodge.
lie was raised a Whig, and like must other Whigs,
was opposed to secession, but when the war actually
came on he sympathized with the South. Since the
war he has voted the Democratic ticket, though not
considering himself as belonging to that party. He
has never held any political office, always refusing to
become a candidate, though often solicited to run. At
one time, while residing in Uabama, he was solicited
tn become a candidate for Congress, but declined to do
so, as he has all other political preferment.
Ih\ Pitman's father was Lawrence l'itinan. a farmer,
of Shenandoah county, Virginia. He was a man of
plain education, but was distinguished for his fine com-
mon sense, and noted a- one of the best farmers in his
community. He died about 1860, at an advanced age.
Dr. Pitman's grandfather, a native of Saxons, came
tn America at an early day and settled in \ irginia.
The late Philip Pitman, of Virginia, who was a mem-
ber of the convention which framed the former consti-
tution id' his Stale, ami also of that which framed the
present constitution, was a brother of the subject of
this sketch.
Dr. Pitman's mother was Miss Catherine Wills, of a
family of German descent, who settled first in Pennsyl-
vania, and moved thence to the valley ul Virginia at an
early day.
I>r. Pitman has been twice married. His first mar-
riage took place in Alabama, in 1836, to Miss Mary
Ragland, daughter of John Ragland, a native of Hali-
fax ci unity. \ irginia, who moved from there to Georgia,
and thence to Alabama, and finally, after the marriage
i! hi Pitman, settled at Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Mrs. Pitman's grandfather was Lipscomb Ragland, of
Halifax county. Virginia, a merchant and a farmer, who
was noted lor his love of line stock. By this man i
there wen lour children, three of whom died in in
fancy. The other, a son, Warren T. Pitman, entered
the service of the Confederate Stales, and was killed
at the sanguinary battle of Franklin, Tennessee, in
1864. Mrs. Pitman died in 1846.
In April. IS.")]. Dr. Pitman was married to his second
wife, Mrs. Watkins, who wasa .Miss Martha Armistead
Booth, a daughter of William Booth, of Virginia, a
wealthy farmer. This was the same Watkins family to
which Benjamin Lee Watkins belonged. Mr. William
Booth's wife was a daughter of Col. Green, ol Virginia,
and the mother of Mrs l>r. John Pitman, of Mem
phis, Tennessee. Mrs. Booth was the only daughter of
Col. Green by his seem id wife, whose maiden name was
Armistead, Mrs. Booth was the niece of the Amblers,
P lletous, Aliens, Pegrams, Seldons, Carys; and re
lated to a number of distinguished "Old Dominion'
families.
l>r. Pitman was raised a Presbyterian, but has been a
Methodist for man) years. His wife is also a member
of that church.
In early lili1 Dr. Pitman was a close and hard student,
and it was his love and desire for study that led him to
choose the noble profession of medicine, lie has fol-
lowed its requirements with commendable fidelity, and
kept fully abreast of the progress made in this branch
of science. His life has been one of constant labor
and conscientious discharge ofduty towards his patients.
Inspired by a love of humanity and a desire to amelior-
ate the condition of the suffering and the afflicted, he
has attended to the calls of the rich and poor alike
thus illustrating the nobility of " Tillan the merciful " —
for when the angel of affliction L deed at some suffer-
ers door, the first to hear and the sei 1 to call was
''Tillan the merciful. In his profession he has always
been successful, and has all the time had a large prac-
tice. In the cit) of Memphis al he has received
more than on., hundred thousand dollars in lees, though
much of the fortune he has made has been lost by
sympathising too closely with friends, and by endorsing
for those who failed to meet their obligations with
him.
JUDGE CAERICK W. FJEISKELL.
MEMPHIS.
ONE of the youngest col Is in the Confederate lived there upon a farm and attended the common
service, who won his title by his bl 1, was Col. ' schools until he was thirteen yen-- of age. He then
(now Judge) Carrick White Heiskell, of Memphis. He entered Kasl Tennessee University, now the University
was burn in Knox county, Tennessee, July 25, 1836. lie ! of Tennessee al Knoxville, and remained \ year.
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was abolished in 1879. He was an earnest colaborer
frith those who had the old government abolished, and
worked faithfully and ardently to have the present ad-
mirable system of city government adopted. He con-
Enued as city attorney under the new regime, brought
[be legal battles of the taxing district through its in-
fency, and served till March. 1884, when lie returned
to tin- practice of his profession.
Judge Heiskell was an old line Whig and a thorough
Union man up to the firing on Port Sumpter. He took
Ip arms in defense of his State, and though he voted
to call a convention to decide cm the question of seces-
sion, he also voted after he was in the army for Union
Relegates to the convention, being unwilling to go nut
of the Union till a majority of the people of Tennessee
hail decided that it was best. When the war went on
he hail no hesitancy in standing with his people. Since
tln> war he has co operated with the Democratic party,
hut has never been an ultra-partisan.
The Heiskell family is of German descent, Judge
I lei-hell's father. Frederick Heiskell, was born at Fred-
brickstown, Maryland, in 17*ii. and moved to Knox
county, Tennessee, in 1815. lie \va^ one of the pioneer
printers of Tennessee, ami established the Knoxville
Register in 1816, ami published it till 1836, All of the
statutes of Tennessee from 1820 to 1836, were printed
by him at Knoxville. In 1836 he gave up printing and
retired to his farm. He served several terms in the
Legislature of Tennessee, and died in 1882, at the ad-
vanced age of ninety-six. He was a. man of Strong,
practical, common sense, and met with tine success in
business. His brother, William Heiskell. was also a
memberof the Tennessee Legislature for several terms.
lion. .1. B, Heiskell, brother of the subject of this
sketch, was a member of the Confederate States' Con-
gress during the whole period of the existence of the
Confederacy. He was also attorney-general for the State
o!' Tennessee since the close of the war. and is regarded
a- d' the allies! lawyers in the State.
Judge Heiskell's mother, nee .Miss Eliza Brown, was
ol' Scotch-Irish descent, and a daughter of Joseph
Brown, of the earliest sheriffs of Washington county,
Tennessee, ami resided at Jonesborough. She married
Frederick Heiskell at that town in 1816, and died in
1854, Her brother, Hugh Brown, was a professor in
East Tennessee University during its early years, and
was also the partner of Frederick Heiskell in the print-
ing business. Her father emigrated from Ireland fco
I his country in his youth.
Judge Heiskell was married at Rogersville, Tennes-
see, < Ictober 21, 1861, to Miss Eliza Netherland, daugh-
ter of Col. John Netherland, an eminent lawyer of
Rogersville. He was a member of the Legislature for
several terms prior to the war : was several time- elector
on the Whig ticket, and ran against Hon. [sham (i.
Harris for governor in 1859. He is now living at Rog-
ersville. His father was a native of Virginia.
Mrs. Heiskell's mother was Miss Susan McKinuey,
182 PROMINENT
daughter of John A. McKinncy, a prominent lawyer in I
East Tennessee, during the early days "I the State, tlerl
cousin, Judge Robert MtKinncy, was on the Supreme!
bench of Tennessee for several years prior to tin
and was the colleague of Judge Archibald Wright oi
Memphis, and Judge Robert L. Caruthers, of L.eba
iihm
By his marriage with Miss Nether] 1, Judge Heis-
kell has seven children now living, four sons and four!
daughters. Mrs. Hciskell ha< been a member of the
Presbyterian church for many years. She is a lady of I
a remarkably genial disposition and possesses all the!
< ■ 1 1 ■ 1 1 1 < - 1 1 1 - of a ^ood wife and ;i stood mother. Judge!
[Ieiskell has also been a member of the Presbyterian
church for many years.
The secret of Jn Ige Ileiskell - success is energy. He
believes that |iersistenl hard work is the only talisman
in lili'. and thai we should unite with tins morality, hon-
est) and integrity of purpose, together with a Christian
walk and conversation.
< >ne ol.l ud ljc [Ieisk ell's brother-lawyers says of him: I
"The key-note of his character and hi~ success is his!
JAMES H. II
DR. JAMES II. DICKENS was bom in Ruth
erford county, Tennessee, June 11, 1823. His
father was I!. 1!. Dickens, a farmer, in moderate eircum-|
stances, a justice of the peace and an elder in the Chris-
tian church. He was a native of North Carolina, and
came with his widowed mother from that State when in
his fifteenth year ; lived in Warren and Bedford counties
until grown, when he settled in Rutherford county. lie
was a man of firm character, of conscientious conduct
and sterling integrity. lie married in Rutherford!
county, raised a family of eight children, and died in
I860, at the age of sixty-five. Of these children, only!
three sons ari' now living, James II. Dickens, subject of
this sketch, and .1. F. and W. B. Dickeus ; both of the
latter farmers. Two of Dr. Dickens' paternal uncles,!
William and John Dickens, settled in Jackson county, i
Tennessee, as fanners. William Dickens, the grand-]
father of Dr. Dickens, was a farmer in North Caro-I
lina.
Dr. Dickens mother, whose maiden nann' was Miss
Nancy Holt, was the daughter of Fielding Huh. a far-
mer in Rutherford (no\A Cannon) county, by birth a
Virginian, and i f three brothers born and raised in
Henry county, in the''01d Dominiun." Dr. Dickens'
mother was one of those kind, honest, unassuming, true
hearted hole- of the old school, so famous and so hon-
ored in Tennessee pioneer history. She died in 1855, at
the age of fifty-three.
PROMINENT
Leaving there he entered Maryville College, at Mar;
villi', Blount county, Tennessee, and graduated und<
Dr. [saae Anderson in 1855. II.' was I'ond of 1 1
inn! had little taste for farm lili'. His favorite studi
were mathematics and tin' languages, ami when he le
college hr was a good Greek ami Latin scholar, besid'
being well grounded in English, the natural scienci
mathematics ami kindred branches. Shortly after grai
uating he went to Kogersville. Hawkins county, Te
nessee, and Jtaught for two years in McMinn Aeadem
in the meantime studying law with his brother, J. .
Heiskell. At the expiration of the two years, he w
admitted to the bar at Elogersville, by Judge Pattersi
and Chancellor Luckey, and practiced there until tl
breaking out of hostilities between the States.
Young Carrick Heiskell was one of the earliest
enlist in his county, and became first-lieutenant ofcoi
pany K. Nineteenth Tennessee infantry regiment, tl
first company that went from his county into the Co
federate service. When the regiment was organized 1
was elected captain of his company, and served wi
this rani; through the Kentucky campaign with G<
Zollicoffer, and was with him when he fell at l-'ishi
Creek. After the battle of Murfreesborough he w
made major of his regiment, and served as such till t
battle of Chickamauga, where he was severely wound
in the foot, which compelled him to leave the servi
for twelve months. Rejoining the army before he w
able tu throw aside his crutches, he took command
his regiment on the retreat from Tennessee, alter t
II 1 campaign in 1864. The colonel and lieutenai
colonel of his regiment both having been killed.
became colonel of the Nineteenth Tennessee infam
regiment. He was with Gen. Forrest and command
the remnant of the brigade of Gen. Strahl, who fell
the battle of Franklin; participated in all the skir
islirs mi that retreat: remained with the army till I
close of the war ; took part in the battle of Benton\ i
North Carolina, and surrendered at High Point, Noi
Carolina. April 26, L865.
After the war Col. Heiskell located at Memphis a
engaged in the practice of law in partnership with
brother, Hon. J. I!. Heiskell, and Col. Muses White
Kiiiixville, Tennessee. Alter this linn had existed
several years he and his brother went into partners
with Judge W. I-. Scott, now id' St. Louis, the style
the firm being Heiskell, Scott & Heiskell, and wh
lasted till May 28, IsTU. He was then elected judgi
tin' first circuit court of Shelby county, ami held
position fin- eight years. That part of his history wh
illustrates his career as a judge has been written in
judicial records of the State, and will be found ill //
kell's Reports (volumes 1 tu 12), edited by Hon. J.
Heiskell.
Before leaving the bench Judge Heiskell was ele<
city attorney id Memphis, and as soon as his tern
judge had expired he entered upon the duties
the office ami served till the old city governn
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irnest, enthusiastic pursuit of what he believes to be
ght and a fearless discharge 'if what he feels to be his
it}'. It' lie has a fault it is over earnestness, but that
rnestness is always directed towards the right side
ling upon the beuch at a very early age, he made a
reful, faithful and eapable judge, and his decisions in
my difficult and important cases were sustained by
e Supreme court. Filling the office of city attorney
Memphis at a time when the- difficulties of the posi-
ni were greatest, he helped to engineer the affairs of
.e taxing district during the stormy period of its in
ncy, and fought and won for it many battles in the
arts at a time when many were doubting the success
this new form of government, and were asking the
icstion, " Will the taxing district stand th 'deal of
■ !uts? His life has been but a fulfillment of the
omises of his yout h. Entering tin' t !onfe lerate army
a very early age. he was one of the youngest colonels
the service, and it was this same earnestness and en-
msiasm that made him a good soldier. United with
ese traits he has a positive, decided nature-, habits of
rii t morality, and talents of a high order."
:ens, m.d.
•lames II. Dickens was raised on a farm and had a
ugh and tumble farmer boy's life. His early oppor-
nities were quite limited. Outside of the schooling
got in the county schools of his neighborh 1. his
ueation was obtained at \V Ibury and at the Milton
:ademy, under Moses W. McKnight, where he learned
it i 11 and mathematics, lie was a quiet and studious
■y, and obediently did all he could at whatever he un-
■rtook, bringing all of his ability to bear upon his
^k — a trait that has characterized him through life.
e was free from the vices common to boys, having
en trained bj his parents to control and keep himselt
thin hounds.
lie began the study of medicine in 1844, in the office
Dr. M. \V. Armstrong, at Milton. Rutherford county,
d read with him a little over two years, meanwhile
icticing a little. He attended two courses of lectures
the Memphis Medical College, in the years 1846-7-8,
tduating as an M.D., in 1S4S. under Profs. Cross,
■ant, Miller, Doyle, Donn, and Ramsey. lie began
ictice without a dollar of capital, at Readyville, in
arch, 1848, remained there till January. 1849, when
went to Carollton, Mississippi, in March, 1849, and
ictiecd there till Xoveinber, 1830. lie then returned
Readyville, settled permanently, and has been ac-
cly engaged in practice in Rutherford countj ever
ce— now about thirty-five years. His practice up to
Ts was \ en heavy, his attention being de\ oted exclu-
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sively to his profession, with the excepti f running
a farm, which at present consists of some eight hundred
acres, of which about five hundred acres arc in eultiva
tinii.
Dr. Dickens' success in life lias conic to him as a
natural sequence of his merit, and because he has first
gained the approval of his own conscience and judg-
ment, and has followed out his business on that line,
with whatever energy and ability he possessed. lie has
never used money to bring money in, but invested it in
property, mostly real estate, and before the war owned
a few negroes.
During the year 18(10 he was president of the Ruther-
ford County Medical Society, and was one year vice-
president of the Tennessee State Medical Society. In
politics, he was an old line Whig, and gave his first
vote for Henry Clay, but since reconstruction has been
a Democrat, at least lias acted with that party. In 1844
he joined the Christian church, of which he is still a
member.
Dr. Dickens married in Rutherford county. Tennes-
see, January '25. 1*40. Miss Melissa McKnight, daughter
of Capt. James McKnight, a farmer, originally from
Virginia. Her mother was Nancy Doran, also of A ir-
ginia. Mrs. Dickens was educated al the McKnight
Academy, in Rutherford county, is a member of the
Christian church, and is noted for her di stic virtues
ami especially for her industrious habits. It is said of
her, she is a self-supporting woman, and has made more
money than she has spent, which entitles her to the dis-
tinction of filling woman's divine mission, as expressed
in the words of the Creator. " I will make an help-meet
for man.' Her kindness and devotion to home duties
and relations are her chief characteristics.
Dr. Dickens has been a close student and a hard-
worker all his life, doing an active and laborious prac-
tice. Since early manhood he lias lived at one place
and filled all tin uditiuiis of success, and is an ex-
ample i.t' what a man can do for himself by the right
kind of a life, it is all a mistake that success conies
by chance. Ii follows a law. A man must be a g 1
financier and a money saver, without being miserly;
must be energetic and industrious, and taking Di .
Dickens as an illustration, must marry a woman of simi-
lar qualities, lie has been wise enough to avoid going
security. He has not been a close collector, bis disposi-
tion being to indulge debtors — resorting to persuasion
and not to coercion for collecting debts, and the result
is that he has not lost more than one-third of his
professional fees; before the war not more than one-
tourth.
In personal appearance Dr. Dickens is a man to 1"'
noted. He is about six feet high, looks tall ami slender-
lias blue eyes and plentiful gray hair, worn in a high
roach. He has always been a temperate man. and
though not totally abstemious has never been in the
habit of even taking toddies, and lias not used tobacco
for thirty years. He lias never gambled, know- nothing
practically about dissipation, and lias never bad a fight
since boyhood. He is literally surrounded by troops of
friends. He is the most successful physician in Ruth
erford county in point of property. His standing in
every way is very high as a citizen, a gentleman and a
physician.
THOMAS BLACK, M.D.
McMINNVlLLE.
THE original family of Blacks came from Scotland.
The great-great-grandfather of I>r. Thomas Black
was a Scotch clergyman. The great-grandfather emi-
grated to America and settled in Kentucky. The
grandfather, Samuel Black, a Kentuekian, moved to
Warren county, Tennessee, and there died. The father,
Alexander Black, was born in Kentucky, in 1804, came
with bis father to Warren county, and after bis father's
death was bound to Alexander Shields, a merchant,
and was raised in mercantile life, clerking for Shields,
at McMinnville. He also clerked, a year or two for
Kirkman & Irwin, merchants in Nashville, then re-
turned to McMinnville. went into business with P. H.
Marbury, as a merchant, until the year 1856, after which
he retired to his farm in the country, and died in 1 359
at the age of fifty-five. He was an elder in the Cumber-
laud Presbyterian church, lived a very exemplary life,
and left a name of which both bis family and town
-re justly proud. Henry Watterson, the distinguished
editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal, is a descend-
ant of the same stock, his mother. nee Talitha Black,
and Dr. Black's father being cousins.
Dr. Black's mother, net .Miss Mary A. Smith, was the
daughter of Meriwether Smith, of Kingston. Tennessee,
and, like her husband, left a reputation that is at once an
honor and an incentive to her descendants. She died in
Nashville, in 1873, at the am- of sixty-live, leaving seven
children— six sons and one daughter: (1). Samuel
Black, now a farmer. (2). John Black, now a lawyer
at Bentonville, Arkansas. (3) Thomas Black, subject
of this sketch ( i). Mary L. Black, now wife of K il
Mason, a merchant and farmer at .McMinnville. (5).
Robert Black, a merchant and manufacturer of stone-
ware at Smithville, Tennessee. (U). Alexander Black.
a merchant at Leiper's fork, Williamson county. (7).
Meriwether Smith Black, now in the hotel business at
Cincinnati.
Dr. Thomas Black wasbornat McMinnville, Tennes-
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see, June 13. 1837, and was educated there in the old
Can. ill Academy, -asionally clerking in his father's
store, and '• idness for general literature, ami es-
pecially for botany and chemistry, in which branches of
scicn.c he ha- since made line reputation.
He began the study of medicine in L857, in the
of I) is Hill \ Smart! at McMinnville Alter lea. 111!"
with them one year he began practice and continu
until the war. when he went int.. the medical depart
ment of the Confederate army, ami was detailed as a
hospital steward, bul sometimes acted as assistant sur
.-'•"ii- Having liploma at that time, he could net be
c missioned as surgeon or assistant surgeon, though
he practiced through the entire war and until the sur-
render at Greensborough, North Carolina. May Hi. 1865.
He served the entire tunc in Col. John II. Savage's
Sixteenth Tennessee regiment, and his history in con-
nection with that gallant command runs through Vir
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi. Kentucky and Tennessee, ami
includes the battles of Murfreesborough, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, ami the Georgia campaign from Hal-
ten te Atlanta.
After the war he practiced two years in Warren
county and then removed to Nashville. In 1868 he
graduated as M.D. from the medical department of the
University of Nashville, under Profs. Paul F. five.
Thomas R. Jenuings, W. T. Briggs, C. K Winston, j!
II Lindsley and Joseph Jones, lie lived in Nashville
eight year.-, practicing medicine and teaching chemistry
tn private classes in the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Nashville Part of this time he was professor
el' analytical chemistry and materia medica in the Ten
ncssi e College of Pharmacy at Nashville.
Dr. Black passed through the cholera epidemic at
Nashville in 1-7::. and iii November, 1-71. moved to
McMiuuville, where he has been doing a general practice
as physician ami -ur: rver since, ami occasionally has
contributed articles themistry and kindred topics to
the medical journal.-, lie is now a member of the fac-
ulty of Cumberland Female College, at McMinnville,
and is highly esteemed as a clear and forcible lecturer
on scienl ific subjects.
Dr. Black married at McMinnville. February 13, L867,
Miss I'imnia .1. Young, daughter of the late Dr. John S
of Nashville, formerly for eight years, from
1840 to IS48 secretary of State, during which time he
superintended the building of the Tennessee Hospital
for the Insane and other noted public edifices Mrs
Black was horn May !i. 18 15. on tin- site w here the State
capitol now stands. Her mother .< Miss Jean L. Col
ville, was the daughter oh Mai. Joseph Colville, one of
the founder- of the town of McMinnville. Samuc
Colville, Esq., the hanker at McMinnville, i- tin' son of
Lusk Colville, brother of Mrs Black's mother. Mrs.
Black was educated at Cumberland female College
McMinnville, and at the famous and dearly beloved
old Nashville Female Academy, under Rev. Dr. ('.
D. Elliott. She is a Cumberland Presbyterian, and
to tl xcellencies of tut intelligent Christian lady
she has added those domestic virtues that make home
happy.
By his marriage with Miss Young Dr. Black has
eight children: 1). .lean Young Black, born March
Ii'. 1868. (2). Mary Alice Black. (3). John Voung
Black, born Deci tuber 20, 1871. t). Sallie Colville
Black (5). Susan Black Hi). Emma Black. (7). Clara
Josephine Black ami i - 1 Leah Black
Dr. Black isi Ider in the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, which denomination he joined when a youth.
In politics he i- a Democrat. He i- the mayor of the
town of McMinnville; a Knight of Honor: a Mastei
Ma-ou. and medical examiner for several insurance com-
panies. He is a man of handsome personnel, a gentle-
man of most affable manners and social attainments — a
s 1 companion, n 2 1 citizen ami a most excellent phy-
sician. He has succeeded in life by always trying to do
the right thiug and to help along his fellow man. It is
a pleasure to write ol one who possesses such sterling
trait- of a noble manhood.
< AIT. JAMES HARVEY MATHEi
VEMPniS.
TIIK Mathes family i- of Scotch-Irish extraction
The remote ancestor of ('apt. .lames Harvey
Mathes. subject of this -ketch, was Alexander M
(or Matthews, as he spelt the name), who came tu
America about 1720, first settling in Pennsylvania, and
afterwards removing to Virginia. Seme forty years
after, four Matthews brothers, and their families, includ-
1 apt. Mat he- great grandfather, George Matin-.
ed to Washington county. East Tennessee i
d long anterior to the admission of the Si
Tennessee into the Union, and it is a tradition that even
Up to this time tin- family name was spelled Matthews.
They settled near what i- now known as Washington
College, then known as Martin's Vcademy, an iu-titu
tion in the establishment and support of which they
and the Doak family, and other pioneers, took an active
part.
The Mathes family has been very prolific in preachers
and doctors, and as their history show- they have, from
early times, been the friend- of education and the up-
n;< i.m in ent tenn esseans.
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builders ol society. During the late war. must of the I
descendants were on the Union side. There was an
Ebenezer Mathes, a very wealthy man for that country,
years ago, who " set his negroes free" before the war.
by sending some of them to Liberia and sonic to the
"free-soil States of the north." He also gave liberally
for the endowment of institutions of learning and char-
ity, and to colonization societies. At his 'hath, since
the war, he left all his property to charitable causes,
excepting some small legacies to relatives.
George Mathes. great grandfather of ('apt. Mathes,
was a Virginian by birth, and, as stated, removed to
Washington county when a young man, subsequently
removed to Blount county, and was killed by a fa-
mous Indian chief, John Watts, a few miles west of
where Maryville now stands. His son. William Mathes
(('apt. Mathes' grandfather), was horn in Washington
county, and is said to have been the lirst white child
born iu Jouesborough. He grew up to be a prosper-
ous farmer and a man of line character, noted for his
high sense of honor and fair dealing. He was an elder
in the Presbyterian church at Dandridge ; was a mag-
istrate and held the office ol county trustee. He mar-
ried in Jefferson county. Miss Rachel Patton Balch, of
an old Revolutionary family, niece of one of the signers
of the Mecklenburg declaration of [ndependence. He
reared a large family, but only one of his children now
survives, Rev. William Alfred Mathes, father of ('apt.
J. Harvey Mathes.
('apt. Mathes' father inherited the old homestead, and
the deed to it, by some means, was signed by James K.
Polk. He still lives, aged seventy one years, in the
home which his father built when he was an infant.
He is a Presbyterian minister and a farmer; has always
been a strictly religious man, devoted to Sunday-school
work and to the cause of temperance.
The mother of Capt. Mathes was Miss .Margaret Ma-
ria Hart, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Hood
Hart, the latter a relative of Lieut I ten. John B. Hood.
She was born three miles east of Maryville. Blount
county, Tennessee; married in 1837,' and died in Decem-
ber, 1881. She was a true, good wife ami mother, and
of a peculiarly sweet temperament. She was the mother
of eight children: (1). James Harvey Mathes. subject
of this sketch. (2). A daughter, who died in infancy.
(3). Dr. George A. Mathes, who was a member of the
Thirty-seventh Tennessee Confederate regiment; died
in Memphis, July 31, 1881. (4). Rachel Emma Mathes,
now wife of J. S. Barton, a lawyer at McMinnville, Ten-
nessee. (■">). Edward H. Mathes, now a lawyer at Ozark,
Arkansas. (6). John T. Mathes, now a lawyer in Uvalde
county, Texas. (7). Nathaniel Beecher Mathes, now a
theological student at the Southwestern University at
Clarksvillc Tennessee. (8). Cordele Mathes, now in-
structor in painting in a college at Pine Bluff, Ar-
kansas.
The history of the Hart family is exceedingly iuter-
2-t
esting. The remotest direct ancestor of Capt. Mathes'
mother that can now In1 traced, was a merchant in Lon-
don, extensively interested in shipping and a trader in
the Levant. About the year 1606 he was captured by
pirates, hail his eyes put out, ami was made a galley
slave tor fourteen years. He, however, escaped with
others in a boat, was picked up in mid ocean by a trading
ship, and brought to Norfolk, iu the colony of Virginia,
lie afterwards married there and had one son, Thomas
Hart, from whom sprang a very numerous family that
subsequently settled in Kentucky and other States west,
and intermarried with the Clays, Bentons, Breckin-
ridges, ami other prominent families. One branch of
the family came to Tei ssee at a very early day, one of
whom was Joseph Hart (Capt. Mathes' maternal great
grandfather), who became the head of a very large fam-
ily, consisting of ten sons and two daughters. He
removed to Bartholomew county, Indiana, about 1834,
and died there. One of his sons, Samuel Hart, now
lives at Carrollton, Mississippi; another, James II.
Hart, lives at Shawneetown, Illinois; another, Rev.
Charles II. Hart, is a Presbyterian minister in Logan
county, Ohio. Another son, Edward Hart (('apt.
Mathes' maternal grandfather), was born, lived and died
in Blount county, Tennessee.
Of tin' sons of Edward Hart (('apt. Mathes' maternal
uncles), oneof them, Thomas Hart, still lives at theold
homestead in Blount county; another, Joseph Hart,
lives in Knox county; another, Dr. Nathaniel Hart,
formerly surgeon in Orr's first South Carolina regi-
ment, now lives near Brooksville, Florida. Two daugh-
ters of Edward Hart. Mrs. Abigail Boyd and Mrs. Hettie
Aiken, now live in Blount county.
Capt. James Harvey Mathes was born June 29, 1841,
iu Jefferson comity, Tennessee, ami grew up on his
father's farm, leading the life and doing the work of a
farmer's boy. His parents being upright, strictly hon-
est and prudent people, his early moral training was in
the right direction. He attended the neighboring
country schools until his sixteenth year, when he en-
tered as a student Westminster Academy, East Ten-
nessee, then under control of Prof. A. W. Wilson, a
Presbyterian minister and a noted educator, now presi-
dent of a college at Dodd City. Texas. He remained
there three years, during which time he assumed espe-
cial prominence in rhetoric and composition, wherein
he evidenced the instincts and preferences which, in
after life, led him to embrace the profession of journal
ism, in which he has achieved enviable distinction.
During bis scholastic days he enjoyed the reputation of
being one of the best read young men in Jefferson
county, and he was always known to seize with avidity-
only the healthiest literary productions, both modern
and ancient. When nineteen years of age he accepted
a position as teacher in tin Alabama school, where be
pursued his duties as tutor in the daytime, read law at
night, and at the same time prepared himself for col
In.
IMIOMIXKNT y\ w kssk \\>
H was never reeeh oil. for
on the very .lay thai Fort Sumpter fell ho closed his
. ami start inn llovo he
I nhnson, 1 1 ' ■ . . . ■ M . nard Go\ Urown-
low . T. A. H. Ncls n.l ..t hrr noted in. I ' si
some of which
si the South that hi* sympathies wore at
onee v the southern oause. notwithstanding
hi- father ami the majority of his relatives had a.i
I nion \ iew s
II. at onee raised a company for the Confedorati
vice, was made captain, and drilled his men for two
months, but lib - finally distributed into
different branches .'I the arm. Nl
listed as a private in the eonipany commanded by ('apt.
S M Cocke, which afterwards became a pan of the
Thirty-seventh regiment. He was first
elected orderly sergeant of his company, and al (J
uiantown. near Memphis, was appointed sergeant-major
i ^afterwards brigadier general) William II
roll. The regiment encamped at Knoxvilh
time and did guard duty around the jail while Carson
W U Brownlow was a prisoner there, but there was no
bitterness or iinkinduoss shown the |
which Mi Brownlow kindly n in a book v
he afterward*, p although he « in bis
opinion- of Con. Carroll, an.] ntl\ refused to
allow him t.. return home from Canada, where ho <lio.l
an exile. While at Knoxville Matin- was detailed and
icd to duty in the adjutant general's department,
under Con George 1! Crittenden, but returned to hi-
when it "a- ordered to Mill Springs, Ken
tncky, where ho participated in the battle at that
plaoo.
When the aiiny was reorga I orinth. M
ippi. in April. 1SI>2. he "a- elected first-lieutenant of
his company, ami soon after was oommissioned as
taut »i' tlio fli th i'l'iim ■-■
tion he held until the close of ilio war. At the battle
of IVrryville. where the regiment lost nearly one-half
it- strength in - .unded, he took an a. -live
and conspicuous pan. At the battle of Murtr.
Moses White ami Lieut. Col. Frayser wore
wounded ami Maj, J. S. Mclleynolds was killed, ami
the young adjutant was practically in command of the
,nt after tin- field officers toll. Subsequently the
regiment was stationed at Chattanooga ami other points
down the railroad to Dalton, Georgia. After being re-
cruited they were sent to the front neai Wartraci
at a later period, consolidated with the Fifteenth 'I'. n
regiment that had been
Charles Carroll, a brother of Col. William II. Carroll,
of the Thirty-seventh. The colonel commanding at
that tinn was t 'ol. II t ' T) lor. win
to the command ol' the consolidated regiment. The
colonel of the Thirty seventh ami Adjutant Mat lies,
nber of other officers, wi
to duty elsewhere. Capt Mat lie- being sent on detached
il months in north Georgia, at Knox
ml Jouesborough, I'.a-t Tennessee, ami finally
Virginia, the Carolinas ami Georgia. Returning
to the army he was assigned to duty in southern \
bauia. After two or three months' perilous service in
chasing down deserters ami breaking up bauds of hush
whackers, who had tied from Loth tin' Federal ami
Confederate armies to the swamps and wild- ol' southern
MaLania. along the Florida line, be made appli.
tin- permission to return to the army
front. 'I'lie request wa- granted, and during the latter
part ol ii."> lie rejoined hi- old regiment and declined a
captaincy in favor of his old position, where he would
not have I- I and taithfnl war horse
Shortly after he was appoin ted inspector of Tyler's brig
a.le. Col. Tyler having in the meantime become briga
eneral, succeeding lien Kate. win. bad been
promoted to a ti ralship. succeeding < ion. John
i Breckinridge in command of the division
Capt. Matin- participated actively in the Georgia
campaign all the way from Dalton. being under tire
fully seventy days out of seventy five, and although in
all the prominent engagements a- a stall officer, he yet
found time to write freipientl.v to the Memphis Appviil
Itlion published at Vtlantah over the hwm </i plume of
" Harvey. " Hi- letter- were highly interesting, plainly
bearini 1 stamp of ability, and were valuable eontri
I. utions to the war literature of the .lay.
O July 22, ISoM, while acting as assistant adjutant
general, on the stall' ^\' Hen. Thomas Benton Smith, he
received a frightfully severe wound in the left knee,
from a -hell which exploded so close to him that he
eonl. 1 feel tile concussion Hi- hor-e wa- killed in
stantly. Capl Mathes wa- I tin- field on a
blanket by some of the Ninth Kentucky mounted in
fan try. (Gen Cerro Gordo Williams' brigade), to a -mall
eabin bein i hospital by the Kentucky brigade.
Sonic time later an ambulance drove up with Col. If
Dudley Frayser, who wa- also very badly wounded. That
afternoon the two wounded friend- and officers were
reuiio o.l to the di\ ision hospital, some miles ill the rear,
where between eight ami nine o'clock. Capt. Mathes'
injured leg was amputated jusl above tin knee, by Dr.
Joel ('. Hall, of Mississippi, acting surgeon of tin
a.le. 'fhe next day Capt. Mathes was removed to \t
lanta. placed on a train ami moved out to Lovejoy's, and
the day follow in» was carried on. with numerous Other
badly wounded soldier- \t Griffin In was compelled
to disembark, on account of the intense pain of his
wound, but lour week- later wa- aide to no on crutches,
and -i\ week- from tin' date of the operation was re-
moved to Columbus, Georgia, in a box ear. and was
three day- in making the journey, accompanied only by
icd servant. From Columbus be went to Silver
Run, Alabama., but his injured limb being attacked
with uaiierene, caused hi- return to Columbus where
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he became so prostrated with thed I numerous
i hat he ecd to the
possible poinl of life, and became a mere skeleton. In
the midst of lii- multiplied suffei in
the object of the kindest attention from the ladii
<-iti/> I . and was i isited bj In- aunl M r>
Dr. X. [Tart, of N'itn South Carolina, who
:i mother - care and olicitude, nursed him through the
Vet he impi I on M irch 11.
I -JC5 I'l'i for I ■ ! inimu-
nicatc with his parents, from whom he had nol heard
months. Wli I urren-
der came. Gen. Marcus J. Wright was in corn m
thai district, and ' •
were there awaiting result", keeping their I
died and hitchi ind night
in i)i nol did v. hen the
confii i ■ ■ ■ i I ninand
which had nol Capt. Mathes went on
through to Memphis b
Ma; 13 1 365 and was paroled by tin- I
i in irshal on < ''Hill stn el Tl parole, and his
( lonfi del rst lieutern
Scatc signed by Dr I [all, -I ul 23, 1864, a
testament from his father, carried thi ;h the >var, and
about l,i -ul souvenirs of thi cept a
vord be captured at the battle of Muri
borough, which i- now at hi- old'home in East Ten-
Th ' C'apl Mat he has been through the fii
nl war needs no further attestation from this chronicler.
'I'll, lost limli i- an eloquent reminder of the fearless
ion with which he ti Bui the
disturbed condition of things in Bast Tennessee just
after the war made it unsafe for him to return to his
old home, and at this period his ex peril
tood him in good stead, and hi
d in securing the eity editorship of the Memphis
li.nl, i Irgu a position he held with credit to himself
and employers from December 25 1865 until the
eea ed to i early in 1867. During his service on
the Argun (which toward the last 1 '
cialand Argun), he received severe injuries in a terri-
ble railroad accident near [uka, Mississippi, which
hasti ii'-'l what he had felt would come sooner or later
another amputation of hi- wounded leg which had
ti( i ei enl irelj healed afti r I hi gang] i ne
This was performed in Memphi b; I *r. V
the pr< -'■iK'' of :i number of prominent phj sician
,ii-. in the latter pai 1 1 i ber, 1 366 A i
month - confinement i" !ii- bed, and a trip to New Or-
|i .,,, I, boat hi went on d in December 1
u,,i , - latei was able to dispense with his crutches
and use an artificial limb
Id- in tea ' his fortunes with the Louisville Courier,
ned nearly a , Mm- 'in its editorial staff was again
>nt of ill hi
and a< I ndianapoli
Cllicil
Mem-
phis ,\ vii In win- . On March I. I-
lie Memphis /'
appointed chief edit I'. V. Roekett.
died in the summer of tli N
and rnon ' n the
, of the f'u/flii I ■ the i i ami
ti'iii- I j, ro-
'l himself. The paper ha- Imost
without a precedent in the South, i- now I
afternoon journal in
a dozen n
financial condition. Cnder I
Matin iken high consi ground on lead-
ons of the day, and whili [J tic in poli-
tics, i- very independent a- well as liberal, fearli
well as bold, a leader in progress, development, and the
social and educational advancement of Tennessee. The
noble people of Memphis have quick to i
ni/,1' his efforts and \n hold up his hands in tl
truth and iustii heir trust,
but grown with iblie-spirited city and become
one of the standard men in their m
C'apt. Math"- was married I' For-
est Hill, near Memphis, to Miss Mildred 5;
1 daughter of < !ol. Benjamin '
North Carolina, and a planter, who died December I 1.
1-71. The mother of Miss Cash was Mildred S. Dand-
ridge, from near Richmond, Virginia. By blood con-
Mrs. Ma , number of leading
and time-honored families in Virginia, Mississippi,
i Vlabama and the C She is highly
educated and a graduate of the best schools of Memphis.
The m Capl Matin-- and Mi-- < lash was the
romantic result of an acquaintance formed during
, ar of the war. whi mere child of
or thirteen. The bright eyes, sweet face and
winning manners of the little southern n the
heart of thi oldier, and his manly and chivalrie
bearing fired her tenderest sentiments even then. The
distress of war did not disturb the (flowing pictu
future happiness drawn by the young people, and one
hen she was told that her hero was frightfully
wounded and had lost a limb, shi ■ >l if she
- him should 1 i eturn. " Vi •-.
she replied, " bring him on, if he has onl
left to hold his heart \ noble sentiment direct from
the true heart of a noble woman. Thi ame form-
ally engaged shortly after I.- ■ - surrender and were
married nearly four years latei B this marriage five
children have been born : CI). Mildri 0 thes,
born Jul; 28, 1870 2 Lee Dandridgi M ithes, born
January VI. 1872. •'■'■ Benjamin Cash Mnthes born
January 1, 1875. (4) James Hai • Mathes born Di
-
i'komima r phnnkssi: \ns
comber I 'J ls77 , .'< I'albot Spol \ thos. horn
i hi i huroh.
ailvr of tho S
.; ■. \ \| Memphis, and
line a Mas.
ion from tli<- 1 1 rami I i \
Vrch Mas
- .id Moni|
\ « hioh ho hot amo an affiliated mom
« - K was the
first I' x v| mphis
and ' This is now tho lai
in tl;, Stai II lor member of .lolin
\ '1 . \ i ' I \\ i ho lirsl lo
\ I J rami 1
both thos \ ash\ illo.
\| \\ but siin
has boon a IVniot i ai Soon after tho w ai
proui State politi.
under
tho il inohisomont. In Vpril. IS70.
Sholby i old tho position two
ami in ISTl! was i - unani
n\ or fourteen thou
In 1^7 I ho was elected to the lower house of tho
dature. and son hairman of the committee
on priutin i member of other - In
W7V li. \ isi li >1 Km' i(>i
\ > \| m kji renuossoo to tho
Paris Kxpositiou. This tour was taken on his own ae-
oount. mainly I ion and health. W bile abroad
ho wrote a series of letters from Scotland, Kngland.
Ireland and V ranee, which were published in tho Mem
phis 1 IK returned to
\| mphis in August. ISTS, after tho yellow fever broke
out, resumed his editorial .hair on the I but was
taken with the level- September 7. and had a very vio
lout case, but with the advantages of hmhh
lion, the best of medical attention, the kind offices "I
his lodge brethren, and tho devoted nursing of his faith
fnl wife, he partially recovered, onl\ in time. too. to
uid caring lev the wife who was
idc just a< he had passed the crisis.
Mrs Mathes also had a vor\ violent case of tin
and for three days was entirel) speechless. I'wo ol
their nurses died, one in tin' house and the otlu
where, and ii was some mouths before either husband
or wife were wholly themselves again.
\\ hile slill weak from the fever and scarcely aide to
walk i i' Mathes was again uoni r tho l.ogis
lature. and was elected b.\ a hands,. me majority, in No
vember, l>7s II. became a candidate for spoakei ol
the House, but being physically loo weak lor the
and in order i" break a .1. ■ n i. iv or of
II 1' l'ow Ik,-, of Willi. mis, mi count) who was
uiun.'.i ted. and subsequent I) appointed I 'apt
Mathes chairman of tho committee on tin -and
With other members from Sholh) he took an
part in pi il of the charter of
Memphis, and in passing ihe act under which the pros
cut taxing district el' Memphis was ostablisbod In
wiih his political historj as a legislator, it
ma.v 1 li.u in ih. I islal me of 1877), |u< w as
one of the "immortal nine.'' comprising the Shelby
it ion, which voted lor Vndrow dohuson for I
States i ami
,.1,1 oomni Hate, ft i icy his
constituency, who virtual!) instructed him to cast his
way or ri
Sin, his lasi term in the Legislature, h
didate for no office en his own account, but
hi. devoted bis attention entirely to li is editorial dunes
1 low e\ ei in 1ST!', lie v. a- ed by (i o Marks as
a member ol tho board of visitors to the University of
I ' i v I uiv orsit) of Tonuoss. i w as
reappointed in ISSo l.v ii..v. Hal.- for another term, it
fficc w ii bout compcnsal ion. With
out being an aspirant for office he has attended as a
most el' lh.' Si. U.' Domoi ran,'
.. ir In lli. S
d une. IsSI. he was nnauituously, and without solicita
lion on his part. chosen as. i N tional Horn
ocratic ticket for tho Tenth (Memphi c donal
ilistrii " rds made a brilliant canvass as such
in behalf ol Cleveland ami Hendricks. \i the sum,.
ntion he was appointed an alternate delegate to
ih. Chicago National Homooratio convention and at-
i in thai \ I'lilar speaker, ('apt,
Mathes is hold in very high esteem for his eloquence,
information, logical and well balanced view- He
i- an excellent r. a line " after dinner man.
au.la plea forsatioualist. besides his visit to
K il rope, he ha- i raveled exlensivelv in I he l' idled S
Canada. New and old Mexico, a on lli villi; a lai
.|UaiiUauee wiih men and mallei's, which he never (ails
1,, ru I Use
lie has Mi.-, .v. led well in a financial sou-,-, i- ■ «
dire, tor in the Vandorbill Insurance company, Mem
phis, and has a fair property. He has always takei
care ol' hi- family, is charitable to tho unfortunate, has
lived within his income, and avoided debt with a holy
horror. His greatest fortune has been his wife, who,
although reared in luxury, ha- <\'<uc her full shave in
helping him to in life Vial ho has returned
this . lev, mo u wiih a loving and a loyal gallantr) that
well merit.* lev him the noble itlemau,
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I'KOMINKNT 'I'I'W KSSK VNS
when, silt 01 went to Fori
\ )1 li . ami thoro opened a law office ami made
hi- first loo. llo remained there oul\ two inoiiths and
thon wonl In Vllanta, whore ho remained until I
arj I ho wonl i i M
1 llo thon Ini
montl.v ai ( 'ha has ilili
tieed law llo is
president of tho Sodd.v < ami of the
W ahlon s 11 ' il ooni|ian a tho
! llO ill.'
Chattanoo i I'
in llaiuili
I 1 business him I osl air in
Chattanooga, ami i- i iliil men nt' thai
j
ll i- trin n i li ii li.' i- a soil' mailo
man. I | ho war on . I. .liar
ami till mil In- linM inn- is iluo i" himself. 1 1 is
system i- thai of |i i ai,- iiidustr,\ . and to
i li i^ da\ li.' li.:- ne> ."■ in' i dnllal h "in
II n It brave,
tondor hoartoil . ' is to a pro\ orb,
[To risks his own jud i il ion and
in. 'Hi will a. . until for his li rial Mir
cess Vs a lawyer ho consults ets on his own
opinion, ami keeps hisown counsel Soil' relialil always,
ho first Irani- ill.' facts of a oaso Ironi whioh ho I'orms
a> I., tho rights .'I' In- olioni and tin-
law applh - .- 1 1 > I . ii i- thon ili.' object to sustain those
conclusions by authorities, II.' refuses to take a oaso
uiih'ss li,' think- hi- client hi - to will
In I. 'I i-.i l'i Oslo i.Tiaii, ami ha- been
an older in thai church some fourteen years. In poli-
tics li.- i- a I1, ni". Ml II.' ha- hold the positions of
alderman, notar> public, special judge, and was a
ite to the National hemocratic convention at Si.
I. ..ui-. in 187li, and al « 'incinnati, in 1 880.
('apt. ('lift first married in Monroe county, Tonm
in September. IStiti, M iss \i i ■. if Or.
It. f. Cooke, ,i distinguished physician, whose tin her
was for two terms a member of Congress from f'.a-i Ten-
nessee, and originally from S nuh Carolina Mi'-, Clift's
uncle, lion. -I. H. Cooke, is now on tho Supremo bench
of the State, Her mother was Charlotte Kimbro, of
Monroe count) Mrs ('lift died at Chattanooga, in
I'Yhru ni 187(1 ivontj inn,'. loin in; three
. hildreu (1). Vttio Arwin (l'i Murj Roberl t (3)
M ■ "• II .. the latter d.\ ing in infam \
Col. I id man in .■ m . uri oil al ( 'arters\ illo.
iimtj ' icor ii .1 mi.' 28, 1883, « iih M i>-
l''loroiioo V, I'arroti who was born in that town, Vpril
1858 She was the daughter ol .huh e .) l\ I'arrotl .
tnty. Tennessee, born Februar,\ 25,
17, and died al Moutvalo Springs, Blount county,
Tennessee, .lune 10, 1872, lie was cdm tted til Kmorj
I Henry I \ irginia ; mo\ cd to i leorgiii in 18-18;
wonl to tho bar in 187)1; was a delegate from Cordon
inty, i lent "i.i i" i Ii" I uion r"n\ cut ion of 1850, and
was tho youngest member of that body. In 185(1 lie
w s an elector on the Fillmore liekot, and in IStiO on
the Hell and Kverctl ticket; was a member of the con
inventions of 18(!5 and IS(58, and was presi
dent of the latter. In IS(i3 he was appointed quarter
master, with the rank of major, of Con Wolford's
brigade, and was afterwards solieilot i neral of the
Cherokee ('loorgia) circuit in the latter par) of that
year In 18(58 ho \\a- appointed judge of (he Cherokee
circuit, and filled thai position until his death. In
politics he was n II, publican . in religion n Frotc tanl
Methodist In everything in his life's i luet he en
dottvorod to rely mi reason, common sense and fact ; his
-1 dies were pointed, forcible, eloquent, and in his
bearing he was a line typo of the cultivated gentleman.
M r- t 'lilt'- trand tat her. Jacob Barrett, was a native
of Tennessee, and died at I'arrottsville, a town named
I 'arret family, a member of which invented the
famous Barret I
Mi- ('lifts mother's maiden name was Man Tram
moll, and -ho is now living in < 'arters\ ill.', i leorgia. She
was born in Nacoooheo \'alle\ (leorgia. a daughter of
John Traininell. Her mother was Kli/.abcth l-'ain. Mrs.
Clift's maternal uncle, Loander \ Tranimell, i- a
promiuonl politician, and now a railroad commissioner
of the Siato oftieorgia, Mrs, Clil'l was educated at the
\n :ti i i Female Seminary, Staunton, Virginia, and re-
ceived ili.- l" li. ■ medal given for Knglish composi
Hon She is distinguished for her superior mental on
dowments, high literary attainments ami her gracious
i ion ami graceful ners l'.\ In- second mar-
i ',,1 Clifl li i- one child, Rhoton Barrett, born
Vuirusl 0, 1881
JOHN I'. r.l.ANKKNSlllC. Ml'
M
Di: JOHN BATTON 111. \\ K i:\SII I I' wa- studying from early boyhoad, with a view of becoming
born al Friendsville, Hlouni county. Tennessee, a physician. Ili- habits in boyh I were s 1
iber ii. 1830, ami grew up there, working on his duo in part to In- "",,,1 mother's admonitions, For
father ng to school during' winter months, and four and a half vears he was a student iu the Friends
PROMTXEXT TEXXESSEAXS.
101
villi- lii i it Mif i,, I in ire in i hi
langua ■■ 'I hi last term he attended i hat college he
studied ph iolo md chcinistrj under Dr.
Da id Vloi n, the "'I founder ■•! I In- chord.
I [c bi gan i hi ' "I of medii
in tin- office of Dr. 1 I ( and read
with him two years, |
In February, 1862, In- was appointed ' L. C
Hunk in the position of as istant urgeon of the Third,
Tenni e< Ped< ral inlanl rj i egitm
1 1 in,- tit from I ;anization t hroughout il cam
in Tenni I gia and Kenl ucl ■■ lien I
charged al W m Free boroug h 'I enrn ei ml of
ill health
[n the fall ol 1862 he occasionally attended medical
lectures at Louisville. In Jane, 186'G he returned to
\| n -. ille, and again enti red into practice i here I
1874 75 he studied medicine in the Vanderbill I ni
vet il and graduated March, I
i Paul I'. Eve, W. T Brij Thomas I,. Maddin,
W. L. Xiehol, Van H. Lindslcy, Thomas Mcnees, •'. M.
Safford, Thomas \ Atchison and John II. Callender.
In March 1883, tin- Na 1,-. ille Mi dica Colli - con
t'.i i .il upon him tin- ad i »»</< m degrei I om I
tin- present time he has
pracl ice of mi d - ;< at Marj ville and in
Blount county, confining himself exclusively to his
prof i During I In i m a of 1884 In- wa
dent i'li;. ncian ni Mont ah " pi ing ■•• hit her hi
fbi t In Im in In ill' his ow n heall 1, a pell of tj phoid-
pneumonia during the wai having seriously injured hi-:
constitution from tin- effects of which In- I
i-niin t recovi red. Dr. Blanken h
for iln i' nacitj of purpose with which In h i
"1, i ti Ii pursued i he ' udj of In- profi
ii ' ii I-. ' high i.iii'lin" in it.
The Blankenship fami) mo tl fai mi i ir< rioted
for being a working determined energetic people. Dr.
Blankenship's ndfat hi i I tham Blankenship
wa- rai ed near Richmond V irginia and first went to
North Carolina, and from the latter State came to Ten
n ee, the family locating in Blount and Monroe coun-
ties, [sham Blankenship had seven sons, each o
win. in had even sons, four of whom came to Tenni
I "i he race ha pread all o ei Ea I Teiirn ce and
the State, and even over other State Ii i i tradition
in the family that no less than fourteen of the Blanken
hip « ere i he fat hi rs of n each though thi
i la i positivi fact
Dr. Blanken hip - Ifathei G ilberl Blanken
■ a a ii- , e ful farmer on i he Tenrn ee river, in what
is now Loudon county, and there ili>-'l in 1875, al the
igi of i rlii; four. Mi- man ied i hree I imi his hi^t
wife being Elizabeth Hughes He left eleven children
by the three wives Dr Blankenship father [sham
Blankenship, being a son of the fit i « if! Bertha Davis,
.i ii 'i la . of Vi -mi. i I 'jlit I" BloUI] ll ill'
here her father and mo
died I lor fat her '■■■;,- a fai mi
IM Blankenship's father, fshain U hip, died,
thirty eigl i ille, Blount county,
w hen i In- -'ni '•■. i ild. He wa born in
i ; irmcr. \\ hen
;i young niiin Ii-- was a lieutenant in the army" which re
i the I ndians from i he > I men
Hon of win c in Harm < >/ .1 nrtah oj '/■ n
The Blanl 'it" the Mi
prominent people and among the eat
-I i li i
Dr, Blankenship's mother, nee Marj McClain, of
Scotch Irish descent, was horn near Morganton,
n Loudon county daughter "I John McClain, a
farmer from Virginia If I Ste-
phens and came either from Mar; land or Virginia.
Mi Blanken hip's brother, Andrew McClain, was
count er of U In
1 -c. hi i 'in-' ' 'I i" Lincoln count T ' here
he 'Ii- I der .McClain, is
prosperous farmer near I I ille, Tenni
|i, Blankenship mother 'li'-<l in 1877
children : (1). John Patton Blanken
ship, -nlij.-.-i of Gilbert Bl ink nship
-I Jane B lighter of Es<j John Bi
of Loui I). Jan
in-ill- Blankenship, who died in 188] wife "I l>. P.
Baldwin a merchant and miller at Clover Hill. Blount
children.
Hi Blankenship , it Clover Hill, Blount
county, May 10, I860 v. Edmondson,
daughtei of John II Edn up in the
neighborhood v. ith thi ' ■■ Sam
Houston. Mr. Edmondson was an original abolitionist
and Republican, and is now li me years
rm in Blount county. His son, Matthew
II m Edmondson, is now sheriff of Blounl county,
brother Capt. James P. Edmondson, was for lour
I 1] he most popular man
in Blount ' -"111,1. The Edmondson family in Virginia
arc a wmewhal noted family, one of whoi eolo
nel in the Confedi ra - Mi Blankenship's
mothi i wa Mai - irel Dunlap, daughter of John Dun
lap. Mrs. Blankenship ' i Hill
and Baki i Creel ran a Pr, i and noti 'I for
trict piety, kindliness of disposition, her talent for
mical man i ing nature.
She died Ji arj 24 1884
By his marriage with Miss Edmondson, four children
were born to Dr. Blankenship: (1 ). Leonidas I
Blankenship, born June 10, 1801; educated at Mary-
ville Colli ow reading law in Knoxville; married
in Jum 1-- 1 Mis Bi tha \'l.,m-. of [ndiana
J.,hn Horace Blankenship, born March 24 1865: now
ing in Maryville Collegi >1 Lillie
Blank nship, bi ■ mber 7, 1867; now in same
l!'L'
PKoMiM'.vr Ti:\\r-i. w
i Minnie Blaukcnship. bom February 'JO,
1870
Or. Blankenship was married tho second time at Ma
S lior I lvv.\ to Miss \ ' . , v I ■
tries Taylor, Ksq., at his residence.
The T lated to the Brantl} family of
^ ilina . and also to li. I
li\ inc, ol' Hiehmond. \
now i Koine. 1 1 .i 1 \ M i- \ S Blan-
kenship is a member of the episcopal ehureh.
Mr. Blankenship is a member of the Presbyterian
ehnreh. an Odd Fellow, and a Prohibition-
ist and Republican, though a Memoerat before thi
In ISS'i. hi ■ i County Modi
cal Society, and member of the State Medical
Society. In lss'J li. he was the temperance and educa
tional editor of the ,: -« \ s, published at
Man \ ill.- Fi - rved at Maryville as
for pensioners, under appointment
from the i i eminent.
S Kir Br Blankenship has made a success of his
He owes no man a dollar, has raised a family, has
a comfortable property, ami is contented and happy in
tho practice >>t his profession. His success is duo to
perseverance and application to his calling; to staying
at ono place: being honest in his dealings with mankind.
ami liberal to the poor, lie began without inheritance
and owes hi- position to his own efforts
On April 7. 1SS4, In- delivered an address before the
Blount count} Medical Soeiet} which attracted atten-
tion from tho leading medical journals of the country.
The following extracts show l'r. Blankenship's esti
niati' of medicine as a science, the duties of a physician,
and the honors to which lie i- entitled: " A pro:,
that has such uoble objects in view must be noble,
'fhe good that ha,- been conferred on mankind by it is
1 all human calculation. Rven among the an-
cients it was believed to be it gift from liod. There are
those to da} who hold the same opinion, ami are sus
tained in their belief by the following: 'Honor the
physician, because he is indispensable, tor the Most
High hath created him. tor all medicine is a gill from
Hod, and the physician shall receive homage from the
kin;;.' Christ said on a certain occasion, 'They that
are whole need not the physician, but the} that arc
medicine, regardless o\' sell'.
!ia\ c c\ or been the friends of humanity. The ph} sieian
must seem calm and serene though his heart be troubled.
He must not lose his reason, hut on the contrary think
well ami apply his remedies promptly and under all cir-
cumstances, 'I'lie physician is not only entrusted with
the life of his patient, but also, to some extent, tin so
eial. moral and intellectual welfare of the people he
practices his profession among are in his hands, for
sometimes the domestic curtain is drawn aside, and the
troubles arc confided to him by the family, as a peace-
maker and moral guardian of those interested, whose
words of advice and consolation restore hope and bring
a calm to the troubled heart, and lite is made bright
again. How great, then, should be his acquirements,
xtensive his knowledge •>( medicine. Should it
be the love of mone} alone that tiroes the physician on
in the discharge of his duty, his expectations in lite, in
a certain sense, will he realized; but his lite will go out
in the end. and the profession will be made no better
tor his living, for other fields offer more gold. But
money cannot pay tor the labor that the .
entious physician performs, nor the blessings he be
gold cannot buy what charity gives. There is a
l' ami nol.lcr impulse that prompts the physician
to do his duty to his fellow man and his high ami re
sponsible calling in life that he has the conviction in
i\ u heart that he is doing his duty in relieviii
fering humanity, and has the consolation t>> know that
his labors arc appreciated by some of the human race,
it' not In many, by the tears shed by some poor
woman, and that emanate from an angelic heart and
How out to soothe the sorrow within, ami are like
the pearls of the ocean, ami more precious than all the
gold of earth. Humanity calls the physician from the
mansion of the rich to the hut of the poor; and the
: physician will receive his reward here and after
lie crosses the river of time. Then he will be paid for
all his labors.
HON. WILLIAM 11. IH'.W 1 II
Til IS sturdy, self-made lawyer was born October 24,
1827, in Smith county. Tennessee, ami is well
known in the legal and political history of the State.
Horn of parents who were far from wealthy, his father
being a preacher and small farmer, young DeWitt, en-
ured in boyhood to the toils of farm life, was in the
habit of studying to improve In- mind at uight a- well
us in the day. when not otherv I md in this
way became, in a great measure, his own school -master.
and learned almost a- much without an instructor as
with one. mastering some of the branches of mathemat
ies and the first books in Latin without scholastic as
si-tame. In search of kuowledge he worked his passage
on a flat boat to Nashville, ou his way to Korea Acad-
emy, near Chapel Hill, Tennessee, where he studied
ten months under Rev. John M. Barnes, one of the best
I'lM.MIM.VI I i
'.M time educat I ' > rn he
r] In l,i.'.l. and clothin
i In., • I. fu -I footed i.
and .'.itl' 'l',l
rid a half in bin wallet, hi e W.
A In i he ■<• ■• to manhood hi IT -
it Ga
Academy Tbi
'■', mil I roin I -.">'» I-, 1856
I hirig in the academ
In law
became hi • the
time liu
he determined in eai edit
cation a pel evcrarn
mited peei Thin
rnel the approval rrf hi
lore he reached manhood, he "Ii in
comrn h the mon,
tig.
Hit 1850.
I. J B. L. 1 ,,'! William [}.
Campbell, and if the A mcrican f>c
gal A - delation in 1851 , In 1856-5 r one
he practiced lav Lcbai on I i om ! -'■•- to I -"">
On -I urn. ii - 1-7.7 lii- ' ttled in Chattan
Bot h ■■' .in'- of
ill' ),, ■ educated and most intellectual men of the
becan
In- r< In '-'I compi H-. ii i'Mi Ii i a i reputation,
and "ii" i" i "ii Poi h I bat he has
been ready to aid and encourage all worth
aspirin nun.
Meanwhile, Judge l>"Witt i 'I the com
..I Hmith. Macon and Sumner in the T< nm ei II
of Representative in 1855 6 mat renominated in 1857,
but declined, He * d ■■< member of the i
iiiii",: ition of 1861 , he oppo in ■• 1 1..- ""i, "Nt io n,
which v,;i voted down. hi An
-I in the Confederate Congress. The Tom
.1 ion i" 1 1," ' 'onfedi ' '"','1 among the
in" i di i ingui bed men in the v, hole count)
I of W II. DeWitt, Robert L. Uaruthcrs, James
II Thorn i i,. oi ■ H Joni John I Hou e. John
D I tl i n'l David M, Currin (Hcc Mi indcr 11
8tephen II", Between th: Slate* Vol 2,p M,l, The
that bod are com]
I rjge DeWil
a memhei
In 1872 '."•. John! Brown appointed him special
chancellor in the fifth chancery division ofi
pending 1 1 • » - contest of the election of W. W. Ward by
' "ml, and ' 'ox.
In politic -I ad •• DeWitt was a Whi one
of those n ho lingi r< d long ind wor hiped di
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the abandoned altai
lit till tbi
' l<-'l hi in
tli" '
with
I
fill in
arid C',r p
came on of
llOUgll '"
life.
In I
1 1
:, for the i
Jink". DeWitt i- a riicmberoft.be Methodi
ll«. became ■< Mason at I.
I
year Worshipful Master of the lodj ' II
' ' Martin I.
d all the '-li:iir- of that <,r'l<-r.
J udge l)eWi(
Km ilia Price, daught
'I'Ik. in I'i I.
II. i ni"i hei ■ a a Mi - '■ an II io 'I th n arriage
children, I
th tl," mother, in ! ■ in in-
I. DeWitt, horn
In \-~tl educated at the Catholic
Kent ■ nber .">. 1 -71 . in .Smith <
Kent J Monroe Fi hei
Carthage, and I D
I:-
Judge DcWit which oi
.7
'■ a direct descendant in the paternal line
-.: I ' I .1' rfnghlettc Wilso
Barren i I H
Wooten, of a leading old .Mr- De
Witt - ({randfal I I Ham Wil I tin.-
pioneers in -ii. land
in Kent ucky and I I ; Kate,
now living at Nashville, i- the wide
• I M. Fit". II ■ 'I II. M.
1 J
if Carroll Denny, a farmer in .--tiii': Mi-
DeWitt v.. .| in Kenl Ri I > I
'I Ri in i I. nt finished hi ion under Rev. I>r.
L of ii" Method-
ist church B M Wilson •)
DeWitt ha* two children: (1). William Kugene and
2) II - hi
Judge li'-Witt - pa rent.' were l„,tli horn in 1792, in
ISM IMIOMINKNT I'FNNF.SSKANS
"is father, l\o\ Samuel IVWitt, was in tho Ian In his career of life ho was given I
«■> ""' of I t. W il rami evil habits whatever Truthfulness and
Wilkinson*, in tho wai mdor tho stars that guided him He resolved in early man
ludgo l»e\\ t's t'athor hood to hooomo it loast tho o<|unl of any one in
; ution of 17Tl! Judge pndession, if hard study «ood murals, energy ami itili
" u N| u ' ■■■ "; would accomplish ii II, , hosi lossion
lathor MoWhirler, was killed >at tie of King's oarly ami hont ovor.v offon to sncoooil Inthistimool'
ntonntain Hoc uncle II- -mm Wakefield, was shot tlnmght and actum he drew much inspiration and last
through ili.' hreast in that war. Inn lived to (ho ago of ing henelil IVom the teachings of Ins venerated lather,
trs iiml front the " l.eotun »l K i I'- Uawes , ^
In addition to'his attainments as a lawyer. Judge IV M
\\ itt's literary eulture has 1 highly approoial Oi It of h liowc ml of
li:it In- has oHon heeu seleeted to deliver addresses on kindly nature or In- want of power to say no, i- that
Masouii - fourth of July celebrations, college ho has from time to time, lost heavily by endorsing for
iimeneements. and othei >r varied others, though he is now. notwithstanding this, in vi
historical, philosophical, li independent oireumstanees Vs a lawyer, he stands in
and [high order, Ili- memorial the front rank ..fin- profession in the highest courts of
addresses on the'deaths of memhers of the bench and har the State and of the nation, before which li«' has been
have also helped to spread kh is reputation .11 ig the almost uniformly successful, though he ha- never
first 1 for lir ha- few equals for brought all hi- intellectual resources into full pla,\
path v lii' is not infrenuontly except upon occasions that demanded it Vs a man he
spoken of as a ripe scholar and a gentleman of elegant 1- upright ami iu-i in all hi- transactions, allow
es and manners, but had he cultivated the talent nothing to cotne between him ami the discharge ol
which ex self in his n essays what he believes correct and honorable, The elements
in verse, In' might have been classed among the poets, of his character are so fashioned a- to imbue him with
\ vn only of In- poetical attempts remain. the strongest sympathies for the poor and the nnfortuu
''■■U is truly a -ilt' 111. nlv man lly perse ate through all the grades of society , while his
veranee ami industry he overcame all obstacles ami rity and chivalry command the admiration of all who
obtained a classical education and finalh beeatue learned know him
HON. THOMAS I. 1'KITM \\.
I IH< K PHOMAS .1 FllKKMAN 1- a native of o rn in Smith county, Tennessee, but raised in Maury,
t' W . -1 lYnnossee having been born in Uibson county, 'where she man , \| - ^'. She was the da ugh
on the llhh day of July. 1827 His parents wore of tho ter of Capt. Thomas Jones, originally from Wake
best I mis, \ rth Carolina, a cousin ol' II, .n Yn Mai
Freeman isnn Kuglish name, and the Vmericau fami United States senator from North Carolina, at an early
the name are descendants from an Kuglish day. Her grandfather, Thomas Jones, was a captain in
ancestry The iseuealogy ol iln- family, however, i- not the Revolutionary war Sin- died in Oibsou
clearly traceable for more than three or four ^iterations 1n>7, leaving ion children, of whom the subject ••( this
hack. The grandfather of our subject, John II l'i,v sketch is the oldest
man. was a Virginia planter ami slaveholder 'flu- J udgo Freeman received a common school education
father, Or. John II Freeman, was a native ol' limns up to the age of fifteen His early opportunities wore
wick, Virginia, and, about 1SI!>, removed to Nashville, limited to the country schools and tho county academy
where he w d for a time in a mercantile cstab liy tho time he was seventeen, he had taken a course of
lishment From Nashville, he went to Columbia an, I medical reading, but In' soon determined not to adopt
merchandised, marrying there in IS2Ji Ho died in that profession, In March, I845,,he began the private
11 county, in IS7!\ at the ago of seventy lour He study ol' law in i\ ' hooks, toaehin lorhood
man of strong ami active intellect .ami nervous schools in the meantime, until he reached the n
temperainenl, devoting himself the greater part of his twenty one. \i that period he obtained front Judges
life to lii- practice ^>\' medicine, without much thought Turley, ol' the Supreme court, ami Calvin Jones, ehau
mutilating pro] eel lor of the district, a license to practice law II
1 r li . • wi >uee opened an office in Trenton, where ho practiced
IMUJ
till ] ••' !:
futun
11
I
I >
"ll 1)1-
1 1 ; ( 1 1
thai of lawyei and I
.1
I
1848,1
witli tl)'- Derooi
of the Jeffi
In 1853 he made 'li' '
I).
1 neinuati natj.
that nom -: : lianan
for tin I ;
political feeling, !>■ h, he
refrained from anj participation in thi
the elective fra of lii-
opinion on all of publ
time* and plai
.11 'I ' llt'/ll. J ll
I Martha J.- 11 daughter of the leading law-
thc Trci
I' 1' ' • i. but who vr>--n up
.-it Winchi I Her mother, originally
I. / !. H Alabama.
I I
rid it
famed for her excellent domestic ijuali(
.1 I reemati and wife have ha/1 In
children, all at 1 (1). Willi* J., born J
Willie
of .). M I '
Ten in one child, Irene (2J Helen
• the Method! -'■ mar
ried W. )/. Hall, of) U l //.'/'/. dh'J li.-i-
'in<r child, Dudley Freeman
Jai of Mr. J. D
1 I ■ i . 'I hort •) hot •
i of the firm
Turh lempl He i
of Trenton, and I
0 B. ( born A.ugu*i 6, J^';J ' • nton.
Judge Fn I: . '. ■ • ■ - ■]
•I a Knigl t of Hono I •
I: nd affirmative believer in the
1 : eligion. He joined th< 11
but fifteen
1 1
■
<> II
li<- returned ho
Ith.
of hi
)i<: i» HOW ill f:
Jn |/'-r-'<iial ).
forehead II
narii
of
for lot
that the *word ol
■ ■'(bard, to
rej
'rial laboi
inc.
While J
them in hi** well-ordered mind until it
of liilll 'I
men
behind tin
onini
memi
1 1
of hi'.'
librai II of the «i
n;«>\||\ IN I' I'KNNKSSK \NS
ill> i-
r the
lid l hem tt
was ontinonll}
II, \\ J. :|| ill the
■ :l -killflll ail
linioal |>l
\i
lie bar, iho loose uii plead
I'dllfC.
\ .M then li
unless In
Chilly.
\ S
iti\ o i>l' i ho
\\ ild I
lamented S
rt". 11. S 1 1 was
\ demurrer was hoard
line ii plea ami
i lun a rohutt<
\ ' more
4illful duellists than did ihoso
in admiring court in tho
hands ot" tl >uiplishod picadors. I recall
tho ih li whioh 1 witnessed the contest \,
to iho rules of practice, either mi.sdu
olainii and dola} al an} step of (ho pro
hut. no, in oaoh succeeding step, the plea
was drawn without a moments to the
itiou whioh iliuljio I'reeinan
lined on the Sir
Hi- !,.\ , ' wot k seems to
sphere ot' a
rs have proven that
I i ho bar h i his loam-
has there boon an,\ disappointment rayal of the
-I lionorabl
li o ho would in iptil hiinsolt' on tho
hoiioh a- an able and u II
oommand i ' -\ people Tho oritieism
anetinios niado !>} -noli :i- prel'or the blunt,
mint phrases of a Wriuhl or a Ttiruey,
or the sharp, olear and oonolusivo sontonoos of a Mo
ml, that •' ion- .no usual I \ ion
elaborate. Km logical ol ible to m
sullioii i. an and anthoi it} i >no "I' tho
ifos-sional I lo this lino ol'
oritieism on h nl} says ' IJul
hi and strict adhereiu
the tra \ in law, as they have conic down
filtered through the mm. I- ol' Marshall, Story,
r and Kent, In- friends believe, with all duo
the merits .'I' hi- assoi iales and con
temporaries ai tho bar, that ho will hear comparison
with i >'l Toniu s s The
. .'I no man arc porf 1'he xoellencies
in the best must make compensation for some minor
is a marked compliment to the -u
implishiuents I I'Veeman thai
tho merciless eye of criticism ha- detected no
fault in hi- splendid work than the studious elaboration
aim in h} whioh ho ha- taken care to sustain his
ons His opinions, recorded in the annals ol tho
Supremo court of Tennessee, will bo his imperishable
monument, than whioh hi- ambition could demand
iiothins worthier or more honorable,
Tin' influences of .Indite I'recman's personal lifoliavo
over I' am on the side ol' morality ami religion. \- he
stated, ho i> a devoted member "( tho Baptist
church, strom:!} attached to iis doctrines, and a thor
ver in the divinity of Christ ami his reli
lie is fond of tli Sin \ school and noji'loots no oppor
tnnit} witlrchildren and addressinj! them.
1 1 v - i- al-o an ardent friend of the temperance cause.
Though ho has it fortune in worldly
li in tlu -no-- of a life well
-pom. ami. as hi- been well said, has achieved lor his
children the heritage of a " srood name,'' which Solomon
rather to ho chosen than isreat riel
HON, K0\> \i;n ii. r 1ST
V V
Till' inn II Ivist, has, for years,
• hi tho roll of eminent lav
in To: II - nai in Davidson county, 0
emigrated
from Vii ly as I St Hi farm
1> riculiural
pursuits. Ho w.i- a man o\' strong mental cliaracteris
much looal influence, lie was chosen jus
r ai an early day, ami a- far back as
me chairman of tho county court of David
nitty, a position whioh ho hold for many j
With tho first appearance of the Whig l'avt> in the
^
/^^
* c/
Q^>t
^^y
-
political arena, he b<
H
nan White in 1 - .
1 r
hand
The grai I
land. He cam* ed in Vii.
I
' !
Her bi '.; i K.,
' and Tl; [J
unobtrosi
with those domi
of the mod id mother " 'tilled in)
hildren, from
of virtue that I.
died ni.' f'o'ir of
ten childri /
of John •/. '/•.." n, who 'li'-'J in
] - VI (2 Louisa wife of Alexandei FJ
farmer of Davidson counl
i. ' 1 . I»r. A. A. E
of Nashville.
The yonth of Judg
though hi - 1 u it*;
good and irere by no means neglected. When
red the old V.
Institute in l> iduated in
from that school in 1850. II
»olved to become a lawyer, h< red the la
partment of Lebanon Uni om which institution
dnated in ]*.">4. with the li<-ior
of Laws in a class of eight \>r W. E.
Ward (a sketch of whom appe
I. '•'. i ma; Alfred Elliott,
of N' I ly,jr., and Bichard A. Ki
jr.,of Murfreesborough. Thetwol I died dur-
ing the late civil war. From the date of his grade
to the present time, he 1. eed law in Nashville,
with the exception of the interrupt
ind the period during which be occupied the bench
;>- chancellor. During this period, he has held
positions of honor and trust. Indeed, thi
of lii- age to be found anywhere upon whom have been
.-. «r'J -', r ji ;< 1 1 ;.- mark* of confidence and esteem by
their fellow-citizi nt He was fot several
dent of the board of direi the Tenn< Hot!
pita) for tlji- J i » - in He one of the original mem-
ard of trust of Vanderbilt I
and, for a timi as the first president of that
board. He has been for man member of the
l.'.ur '1 of trustees of tin; University of Nashville, which
institution, in 1880, conferred on him the honorat
I.I. D II <•
I
■
-
-
of W<
B
initi'i
birth an
only be pr and
under
of A ■
tain the federal I
and of rep
r the
time, subjected. H
hand it hern bn Id he
| iced to di which hi*
■
in the - I. . ■ i -
elections were not I >w, h'-M
The Si
until A
re in office
at the time of Mr. Tl - I.
ture-
-ion. Judge East hadopi
. but whei 11 for
he found he I by a ma-
ul tende ernor
He withdrew from
public position and,
part in the war.
-
n;oMi\r\ r rKNNKssK vxs
S N
'■
S .1 Iiiimain
On
it the
- i
N Hiding
« in
-
. ithal.
s
■v tho
\ t Si. Li I'-inj,
.1 further
In lv7 I,
iriiuiii
of the eoniiuiti
ho performed with ilistiii
II,' w o and
oarm - iti«- honor :ii of the
- . ,1 tho
It wan
durin
after
n our
S
In |S7S \ ornor by
■
but, although lie w make tho
potential than the u
that nominated him Id not bo induced to tako
tho Sold.
otos tho lis uts in
tho li is l"'l>-
nits in lii- |>orsoual lifo may a>
married in
Mrs. 1 i \\ \| iss ssippi, da ugh tor of
Henry T lb N
ohuroh. South. Thoy havo two ii daughters.
II . inul lies* and thoir family
thou happy ono.
iroor. dial a
uis lifo arc not
patihlo, but, on die contrary, nia> bo rendered
I'r.Mii an early period, li,' lias
i moinbor of the Methodist K|<isoo|ml ohuroh,
South upl> a |';i«n,' layman, making easy, his
us by periodical ooutributions to its
ulcus inoinbor. taking a livoly
- and institutions ol tho
II,' 1 uuiuboi' of yoars, boon one
,,t' thi Is ol MoKendreo ohuroh, Nashville,
and ! mnual eon for-
me from the general confer
\| liodisi Kpisco|>al ohuroh. South, to the
1 iiinil, at I. on, I, >ii. in ISS1 \-
.- of iln- original inonihoi-s of
\ aitderbilt I'nivorsit) \Y liai
.- iln- ohuroh may •■ hi- hands
dorod with genuino
II ,1 by tin- authoritii
.r,-i an,l « i-e-t of their
In i - Judge K -i is of tall, slender
ill,- " loan and hu
LI indieato a man
w ho II >f the
inality and
thoughtful oss i-kliod o'er." indeed, but
el' die ooustam working of the
brain within. 11:- oonvorsational gifts are charming,
whioh his explorations into oxen field of literature, and
if lmmanii> and
ii. keep continually supplied with riehest ma-
terial upon whioh to on ■■ - ' bil -
ilielienieeiiele.be. renter delight than when
finding himself in the midst el' a genial and responsive
company of friends. 11, ■- . \. . ssivoly fond of literary
and si - While he has neglected no
b o\' iln- law in iln- range el bis eoiiseieutious
study, neither has he slighted any opportunity for test
n,« author, or of in\ esi igating
lioal problem
Km after all - - and jurist that he is
known. In the ohoson profession of his life, lie has
iid the foundations of a groat eharaetor, to whieh
other pors oinplishinents are but ornaments.
The way to eniinoneo at the Nashville bar has
been all easy one Only that merit whieh ha- been
tried and proven through a lone, hard series o( labo
yoars, in daily eoinpetition with (he best products
of the profession, who, themselves, have only devi
through (he like Ion;, hard series of laborious
\ er boon permitted to stand preeminent at the
bar of the capital city of Tom, -- I'lnre i- no royal
road x divide lawyer, and that any one
ha- attain - thin the line ol' bis profession,
that be ha- deserved ii That
l';-i ha- already justly, aehieved the reputation
o( a great lawyer is the unanimous verdict o\' hi- pro
I'KOMI l. i M.
109
final brethren of '• • the
To nffei pi oofi "ii i hal point
i he H I'. ii notable triumph* In- hi Id not
■ ■ill bi up* i Huou but would extend I li far
bit limit
A In .• i i i bi ' I no* i
and it tn ii ' be aid to ' he honor of the legal profi
that, while it i uhjecl t" the ji thai
afflict Ii ii muii i< in all it branch*; there i amon
bet i' r cJa of I hi prof ■ r it du i w p uider
'I fl ci of which the trui
in hi to 1 1" ' "i i Ii of an honorahl
oeiati -I I . i > could wi Ii affoi 'I to commit bi-
rcputal ion bol h a a loan and lav ei to tin memben
of lb- bai an - •■■■ hom for t he la t thirl
ha pent hi prof ional life. S<>>- can the writer of
' In ketch do .1 "'i • I.;, t '.i t he truth u bcttei
< ban t" lc( .i few of i hi him One
h ho often ere - yrd with -I ud " K
and h b" 1 1 j in 'If ha ilwa ii bled n Dam
blade '■■■ bo, I"' i'l' critic among i thu«
peal of -I "-I ' I ■ i ' \ an a*b ocate he ha
peci if an in the Ktatc of Tern lie i a I
"I ■ i and iried al lainmi til and i e*|
ce I'm I in .ill i he depai I tiicnl of hi prof bother
ii be in i he ~ii|'i • tm i he i ii cuil I he chancer) or the
criminal ce
I I tie ■• no lawyer o
icci I a» to combine all ( hi thai
arc neei u f ocate.
Bi ide i hi In i a man of i id sci-
entific calturi and one of the finenl con ei ationali»U
I . . er I new. In thi he i ab olut* I fa final
Did he can be ii i i ■
in linn, andtoold age to the moot ignoranl and the
tno i intelli ' to whit* n take
i In- in" i ignoranl negi a I hal ever lived in the ■
and can charm and fa cinate him, and will f ;> k < • pli
in ib, in" ho and in a m ti ill bi i m neti ; I inter
c i in" and ' ni' < i ■ fin' 'I elegant lit -
erai and cii nl ific circh Thi of hi-
ll- - i ., pi ndulum between ■■< tn id :■ frown . t he
frown impn int. olenin mile illuminating
pleananti Hi i tniabb and tender ; and
et po ■ ' ; thi ni" i "
and the mon( v. itherint irca ni
I [( ha thi in-ill i, ' null of i . Iiim-'ir
i rial frii tid de piti political and pa 1 1 «
I!"' I. i i I' both partii I n
i heated con ti I in which all pal tii foi
t he ''"ni i"l "I tin In I - hi di I meed .ill I mi
petit, , i- without ii pledge to anj line of poliej or an
enunciation ol pinion on any question involved in
t he can i and in t he II of Kepri
t In ■ fticient '"nt rolling if thi n eleel i f An-
drew John "ii i " 1 1 ti of i be ' nited States. No
in. in ' "ul'l I- i - I rn - icceMsi cian Inn
politi*
ion for him, I
"Hi,-' tied.
I!' i .i lirm bi lie i;i in
■ Methodi ' and In.
f the JJihh m ad
miration, and ■ .,ubl
" 'I llilll to tin . |,ll|-
itor. I I-
kind and noble heart, and an eloquence thai i peculiar
in bim "11 and thai le, on
tin- ront in m. and in the forum In < word, I think he
in in in., . , . .. . ;td in
'I'm.'
The chancelli tied him on ll
J I. Hi both
in point of and ability. \- a practitioner. he
i in the St
man in it, Hi
learning and attenl ion to II
amiab popular u n
;ill "In man I know. Hi- |
in bi- kind and affable man
accommodating and that amount-
to Hclf sacrifice,
A ii ,-/ senator of i I elf a pro
found - i, iii'-t Jud - I ■
iiin-'-'l and characteristic opinion
I, - I,:,-. ■■ te ted the strength of •!
i i the bar, apologize for their defei . > k i 1 1 jr
<»f* lii iii mean
(but I, picture in the
"l',r-. bring "ni tin
in the b<-t lighl and make ti-
ll ondcrfully powerful in
1 1 I,- in reducing
ion to mi absurdity. Though he
- office he can I," found anywhei - it h a*
much - he philos-
opher, he pendfi bin time in tl with
men engaged in t he I umhlc of bu
in which common hciisc and the dominant traiti of hu-
man character have fullest pla; and it i- doubtli
h hat he owe* much -
In this rcHpect, he re emblc the late Judge Archibald
VVrighl of Metuphi , who seemed never to study, but
i faci ii in"
but of men and
A distingu i hi 'I member of tin irl of
hi honorable ti timon Some
eel in "Ii - - me in land lit igation,
n the
eellin in rtmenl -I udgc I !
A mere bio) rapher can add nothing t" luch I
! I tothing that need." to be
added except a hi iei refer* nee t" hi
PKOMINKXT TKXNKSSK VNS
than
- - . V .'111
- I upon :i moral char-
'U an able
) from the bench, (titled
mind, rap
irated the chat!
-
ami tlio uno. Tlio •
id him. nor could . s
':-. from the line of duty.
The rich litigant ami the met "on the level
:, and his
a head and hi I and thor-
\ ery
aiuing time,
not ui ; There was in Judge
lom from the - t\ too
eonilll - n. that rendered him. at
all tii:. - - ess - .1 fra-
ternity. It has been said of him that in light or per
iry matter.-, he would "sit at chambers in a
harbor shop, a counting room, or oven on a street corner,
«hen. neonvenienee of repairing to the eourl
eined rather greater than the ini
if tin- manor involved In short, lie had not
a partiolo of the vanity or a (footed dignity of office,
the heneh or oil' the heneh, towards the
u.i- always marked h\ eourtesy, affability
and patience Hi- retirement from the chancellorship
wasa source of unusual regret.
•Iiul - yet comparatively young just of the
which Knglish lawyers reach their prime, and
Knglish statesmen come to ho regarded a.- tit to deal
with the graver matters of state. Though by no means
physically robust in appearance, his compositioi
that tough and sinewy sort whose capacity tor endu-
rance is uiimcas \ iding to the probabilities
of vital statistics, ho has yet many if good life
ahead of him. He has pro-pored financially . and taken
bond against the too frequent calamities of old ago.
•.lities are yet great, and his capabilities are
sufficient i them into probabilities and these
la-t into realisations, lie i- yet one of the live, pro-
men of Tenness
HON. ROBERT J. MORGAN.
MKM
'"T^HK paternal an sti R hert .1 Morgan
1 - if Knglish origin. Threi M rgan brother-
ted from England to America in colonial
settled, one in Connecticut, one in Pennsylvania,
and the third, from whom .1 udge M - ided.
i A ' } New York - nded
from the Connecticut branch of the family, and
Daniel M : ilntionary fame, from the Vir-
ginia branch. The x Virginia h came con-
; rbours. a family well and w
known in that State.
M - .indfather. John K. Morgan.
\ nian by birth, and lived and died in that v
Other members of the family removed to Kentucky
in both of which State- there are now
number of living representatives of the name.
M s father was also named John K M
He was a wealthy merchant and banker at l.ato
ia, and als - ssful planter. Ho was a prom
inent member of the Methodist church for titty
and wa.- noted for hi- tine business capacity and the
character. During the late war.
dined by President Davis commiss
the t" I
He died in lSUS - ntv years,
- Miss M ir\ T Bi
daughter of . Tore Drown, a native of North Carolina,
who moved to (Jeorgiu. Her mother wa- a Miss Beas
:' a well known Georgia family. Mrs Morgail
cared by her uncle, Hon. Jarre) Beasley, a man
of -oine distinction a.- a member of the Georgia 1
latino
Judge Robert J, Morgan wa- born in LaGrauge,
a. March 2,">. I82ti. lie was educated at the
I'liiver-ity of Heorgia, and graduated there in 1--I7
Having previously determined to study law. he entered
the otliee of Dull \ Ferrell. al Laltnui.se: was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1SI!» by Judge Edward Young
Hill, and taken as a partner by his preceptors. Shortly
- I Bull went upon the bench, and the
firm became Ferrell A Morgan, continuing a- such un-
til 1S.V. when Morgan removed to Memphis with a
■f practicing law ami engaging in planting in the
rich Mississippi bottoms. Ho ».i- at that time ill afflu-
ent eireumstanees, having been very successful in his
--ion as well as inheriting a comfortable estate.
Opening an otfn-e in Memphis, ho remained there until
the beginning of the war.
In IStil. he raised and organised at Chattanooga, the
Thirty sixth Tennessee Confederate regimeut of infan-
try, and being made colonel, held the command for two
wheu the regiment was consolidated and he wa-
/£# ' fosy.
/
' ■ '. .
Poll and bad -
llimattdcd II
i- iniil tbi
■
and nerved in I
' I
■. if : ■ 'I
nbcrland 0
pari of tbi
the battli ■ of M
W'lljcll ll<
irith fjen, I'olk.
After tin
i I
:ill thi* time In
In
fill tbi II
Win. M Smith, and af I
bar of Mem pb
dered in .) . . fill tin
John V
' • filled until thi
■ uii'/ii of I -To II the offii
II - under tli<;
and beld the of) Jfe
tin' i llor within -\y. in',:
ante appoint* d
pevpli -I ud •■ Wo t-ban-
cellor of the cbam
abouf ten
then by popul; I • I -7-
from the bench and of bin
M tration of the
to the |i«:ojil'-. and reflect* honor upon He
qualification* for •
added to lii- cultun
the b itural gift* of fine common
criminating tion of the
right, fitted him peeuliai
eqni( ■ 'I hi equa nable
him '
the law and to reach almowt oncrringl
. of the cane brought before him; and il
fely affirmed thai no inferii
'A' hi- d<
■ appellate During the period of bin incum-
ffice tin
confidi
In
I
■
t|<-. 'I;
In -
OH tin
pOplll;
I
I
I '
the railroad from .'.
-)i in
I
•in impoi
".
from North Carotin
the I!'
with I
LHOMINKXT tkxxkssk vxs
hi ami will, and hor impress upon odists for several generations, and ho ami his wife are
her t . u 1 > i 1 > lias boon I', ncticial and lasting She died both members of that church, II.- was made a Mil toi
at Macon, tl of her
Mrs Mor j;i was educated at Milledgeville, Ueor
ind is distinguished for hoi' gifts in conversation
and writing, lor In t oloar conception ol' ever} question
thai is pn ml the vigor of hor olnoidation.
I", w ladies in Tonnossoo Inn o bettor claims to bo oallod
iutollootual, while hor oulturod mind is scarooh sur
v al l.ai ii in , (Jeoi ia w here In' also took all
1 lie CI I oes
In lii- personal appoaranoi Judge Morgan \\ . > u 1 < 1
attraot attention in any assoinhlago. He i- a man ol
lino, portly physiipti : shouldered, ami with a
well balanoeil head that at onee deelares him a man of
\- a speaker, he has few equals in tin
whore By ihi- marriage, .link,' Morgan South. Hi- voioe i- deep, rioh, sonorous of
has t\\ Mar.\ I. Morgan, bom in lSTio", oompass and power. Both at the bar and on the stump,
now the wife of Mr •lolm A Koightly. formerly .'I' bo is a quick, ready, weight} debater He has always
i-illo. Kentucky, now ol Loos I ('2), done a largo and lucrative praetieo, and when he brings
John L Morgan, born February .">. IStil ; now in his strong will power ami determination in full play,
iness with Orgill Brothers, Memphis his client can almost oertainl} count on a verdict in
Judgi Moi tu's family on both sides have boon Moth- his favor
HON. WILLIAM GIBBS McAlHHL
- \ n //././:.
H< '\ W I 111 \M i,l UBS M, \DOO wa- horn
at Island Kurd, nine miles northeast from Clin
ion. Tennessee. Vpril I 1820 Hi- ancestor, John
M, \ loo i tin from the old world about the be-
ginning of tlio eighteenth century, landing al Nor
fork. \ i flic grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, John Me Vdoo, was born in the valley ol' Vir
ginia, I'Ybruarj (i. 17.~>7. came to Mast Tennessee in its
tails settlement, and wa- with Sevier at the battle of
King s mountain. Ho wa- also a follow,!' of Soviet
through main a blood} fight with the Indian-, ami wa- a
participant in the rencontre between the forces of Tip-
ton and Se\ ei March 1788. resulting in the downfall
of the "State of franklin His homo in the latter part
of hi- life wa- a i ibo mouth of I L ii.l- crook, two miles
east from Clinton, Tennessee, whore bo wa- the owner
ami cultivator of valuable lauds, ami where bo died,
Hecoinber 2ti. I SI-JO He was married to Man ha (i rills,
September I. 17s7. by whom he had two -on-. William,
born May 28, 1788, and John, born .In no l'l. 170(1 Here
his wife died Januar> v 18I-J8. and they are buried to
gether in the family burial ground near by
John Mc Vdoo. i bo father of William (Jibbs Mo \doo,
together with his brother, responded to the first call
lor volunteers occasioned b\ the outbreak ol the hostile
lick Indian- in ISl.'J, and participated in the bloody
conflicts through which lion. Andrew Jackson broke
tlio power of the Creek n rover, Soon after his
return, bo again enlisted, wa- made lieutenant, ami
i iiiulcr the leadership of his gallant commander,
remained in service until tlio the war by the
glorious victor} of Now Orleans on Jauuar} 8, 1815
I n A n o> 1 SI."), ho uiai ried Mi: Man Vnn I
daughter o\ John ami Anno (Jibbs, »o< Anno Howard.
of Anderson count} Hon William Morrow, of Nash
n ill.-, formerl} treasurer of Tennessee, i- a grandson of
John ami Mar} McAdoo, being (bo onl} son of Mrs.
Kmnia Morrow (the oldest sister of W U Me Ad
and her husband, Hubert Morrow
Tlio Uibbs famil} deserves mention. Nicholas
(lil, I,- wa- a native ol Baden Baden, Uermany, lnu was
descended, on bis father's side, from an English famil}
Norman I'ronch extraction, which had its rcpresen
tativo with the Conqueror at Hastings; an. I a devoted
follower of Charles the First, a member of ibis family,
on the triumph of Cromwell, sought refuge in Her
man} There Nicholas Uibbs was born about the year
17.",.Y Joining a recruiting regiment, he came to Amor
ioa in ilio I'r, n, h service; in 17.~>"\ shared in the glory
won l,\ the gallant Montcalm in the repulse of the Brit
ish ai Ticondoroga, ami coming to the 1 nit-cd States,
took part once more against the British, He moved to
Knox county in the earliest settlement of that region,
ami loli a largo famil} of sons ami several daughters,
Ono of these -on-. Capt Nicholas Uibbs, loll at the
head of his company in the battle al Tohopeka; and
others were in the -a mo war One of his >,,us. I ..
W. Uibbs, wa-. for a long time, a prominent citizen,
lawyer and Lank or a I \ ishvillo llld on,' of the -on- ol'
ih.' latter, lion C. N Uibbs, wa- recently
of the State of Tennessee, Xicholas Uibbs diod in
1810, ami lies buried at his old homestead, in Orass}
vallc} Knox count} His son, John Uibbs, Lorn. 17ii!'.
diod. 1840, look part in man} of the earl} struggles with
the Indians . was a leading Ian, I owner ami slaveholder
. m Anderson county, and was au honored count}
PROMINENT TKNNKSSR VNS
He I'll 01 W illiara 1 1 o ward ' I ibb and i end
daughtei be idc Mai . \ nu < ■ ibb aln ady mi ril in
the wife of John McAdoo, and mother of W C
Me Moo
I Ion. William < '• ibb Vic \ 'I"" pent hi . oul h on
i.M l>> i plantation al I land I '01 'I and al ' he n
hoi in" ■ i • I I I' ai ii' 'l to i ■ ltd and evinced thai
fondness for books which ha I" i n .1 I' ading ehui icter
istic of his life. 1 1 is father removed to Knoxville in
' m'I resided 1 here two eai to afford his children
better facilities to acquire education. II<t.- he made
capid progn in Knglish, and I n I 1 1 "I Latin
under Rev, Isaac Lewis The I iiion Academy I
establi bed al Clinton hi father purchased a farm near
thai village, and for several yeai ■ Vie Vdon pur
sued In 1 udii under 1 he teaching of 1 lie disl ingui hed
Dr. G. W, Stewart, of Vlidway, Mi 1 ippi. In I ;..
I ntered Itittenhou e V.cademj in Kingston, wheri
In made progi 1 in hi Kngli h Latin and Crei I
-1 u'lir- lii 1838 1 hen bul eighl ar of agi he
was appointed principal of Union Academy, al Clinton
a high compliment 1 1 oung There he taughl
two years. In 1840, he was made principal of Franklin
\' I'l'iny. ;it Jacksborough \ 1 1 < t • teaching then a
.ii he ■■■ a induced i" ret urn to I 'iiion Vcadi m
h here he taughl in 1841 and in ' he eai lier half "i I - 12.
I n 1 he autumn of 1 hi rear he entered 1 he 1
of Tenm ' ■ al K no nlle (I hen Bast Tennessi e Uni
versity), where he took a regular clas ical and cii ntific
."in e graduating in August, 1845. \11n.n? his fellow
1 ml' hi - u ere Hon •! II. * !ool e now one of 1 he iud
of the Supreme eourl of Tennessee; Hon W, C. Whil
1 hi e 1 member of ( longri Hon. J. D. C. \ 1 1 in
I nil. 'I State ■ "'nun r of I ndian iff'airs . 1 he late
Prof. I'. L. Kirkpatrick, of the [Jnivei il o) Tei
ec and the late J. C. Ramsey, United States di
attorney. * > r • the daj following In graduation Mi
Vic \.l."i wa • ■ lected to I he Legit lal urc to repri enl
the counties of Campbell and Anderson. He was a
member of the old Whig party a party then ha\ ing a
decided Democratic majority : 1 1/ ; t i 1 j - 1 ii in the Legi la
inn . In this period, he was one of a committei
in Memphis ;it the time "I the meeting of the greal in-
ternal improvemenl convention of 1845, over which
linn. John C. Calhoun pre ided, and where he uttered
his famous doctrine in relation to the dutj and the
power of 1 he general goi ei nnienl to mal 1 intei rial im
provements, wherein he ipoke of the Vli 1 ippi river
1 ,i grea! 1 nland 1 a
On the opening of the Mexican war, in the prin ol
1846 Mi- McAdoo hastened home from an ab enci
I .1 com pan j of \ olunteers as a pi i\ ati and ought
the Rio Grande. Before man hing into the interior, he
elected to the first lieutenancy ol the compan
His friend, John L, Kirkpatricl wa captain. A long
march of the regiment the econd regiment of Ten
...luiii. . 1 1 1 he brave and 1 loq 1 William T,
1 1., l.ll being 1 he colonel la, through I hi
vallej at tin eastei 11 base of 1 he Sierra Vladre 11
1 limn "b Victoria, the capital of 'I am
il..' in ' I inipico, .1 1I1 live hundred miles,
Thence the regimenl embarked lor V. ra Cru«, and took
part in tin in 1 he en pi urc of 1 hal
Mm Ii, I - IT. After a long illm John U. Kirk
pal rii Vu\ ' ■ ifter h hieli M r Vie Vdoo
d tin ' "-ii I'" and led ii in 1 he chai
1 be bal 1 Ic of ' ''-it.! Gordo in \ pril I ■- 17 Tin .
became 1 he ubjeel . oon afti rw ard, "I aci iinonioii
controver j Let wi en IJri/ r] Gen G -I Pillow and
• '"I W T, I l.i I'll The war a umii 1 catoi pro
portion tl a anticipated 1 ufhcienl i|uota of vol
unteei for thr led to I he field, and the
twelvi rnontl fen il charged : n 0
rat ion of service, and were -< ml hi n
H "In rward Mr. Vic Vdoo entei 1 .1 I In
of Judge Edmund Dillahunty, of Columbia, and in
I in received license to practice law. Early in 1850,
he opened a law office in Knoxville; was elected by the
Li gi lature attoi rn 1 m ral for 1 hi second jud
circuil "I Tei u was afterward re-elected by the
p oph iin.l held the office until the spring of I860. In
0 n Mm . he won a distinction for vigor and impai
1 ii lil in 1 he .Ii eh 11 f his dutii fell 1 m
ted nth tin admini tl ation of justice
al 1 hal pi riod In thi Stal convent ion to iioniinati a
candidate of the Whig pari foi rovei m I •■ IT. he
.'. .1 offered 1 he 1 tidid b I he commit tee on nomi na
linn, bul being 1 ei 1 to polil ical -1 rugglcs declined
1 he honor.
The war between the State found Mr. VIcA.
heall Ii bal tered b dangerous disea 1 'II" bettei to
protect .1I1. property, he removed to Georgia,
he ei id 1 he oul hi e in 1 %'3, and continued
I In rein unt il 1 he v at clo ed lie participated in 1 he
struggles "i Kennesaw mountiau, about Vtlanta, :ii
Macon, and throughout the rest of of the war in ' ■
gia. On its close, he opened a law office in Milli
Villi'.
* > 1 1 it., i ' "i 11 i.'.ii ion of the State ■"'■ eminent, he
1 . .-. ived 1 be ap] il mi m of disti icl attorney, and af
terward was made judge of the Twentieth judicial dis-
I I i.'i , 1 1.- 1 1-. "'ii' "I 1 hese i" accepl I he presidency of
the Si M.ii, and Western railroad company In 1877
Im was offered ;i position in the corp< of instructoi
bi- old ahnu maU r, 1 he I in .1 it; "I Ti nni ee, al
Knoxville, which he et hoi us returning to the
worl which most delighted hi early life teaching.
Judge Vie Vdoo is the author of an EU /». ntury (leoloyy
of Tl mi. ' . mini' 1 "" 'I Um ' I'"'
in. inn .1 poem etc etc. He has h ritten much
for the press, contributing to the journals of tin
editorials, criticisms and news letters. lie has unpub
lished manuscripts intended for publication, sufficient
in make a large volumi
FR0M1NF.NT ITwr-M W-
■
Mr I!
v x ; Miss 1 1, si
\ Miss \
- \
i
M< l> S N
MeO
x rrli Hampton county,
- it the
South Cai
i'ii in
father of Mrs
M o A d oo !!.■ ' ' - • I \ OSS
S
M \
s ••.ih iiun. - \\ ii mi
\ \
San Francisco. California.
M • v \ Mr John
:' llornoeh. Soot land, ami in
Mis> Isabella K nth. .lama
MoAdoo has in h. r orosoout
ap l>y In raudtather, Charles
v Hi lona liuards. ami hoar
' I 1 1 »-i- grand
i Floyd. was commander in .hi. I
- called ill lit break
II, lod In- troops into tho
id fought tho Indians iii the li
nd Autossoo . was afterward in
tho American foroos in Savannah uniil
tli< Ho was a momhor I
lantor: and his hospitable
mansion, on tho border of tho sea, was tho resort
1 1> died .In Mi- son,
Charles It Floyd, while .i youth of sixteen years, took
i in the li In with the Indians in the Crook
For his jRilla I to a oadol
West V where I .1 a military edu
In 1>_1. In' traveled in F.nropo and \ i>i t o.l
\\ ml other 1.10:11 hattlo fields. He w is
\\ I v ;i to the ehief oomniand
of the Coorgia 1 in the removal of the
koo Indians in IS'v<. and performed tho duty with
i oloritj an
mi eommeiidation of Con. Seott.
painter, and noted
tor his ohivalry, whioh never know a stain llo died at
mo in Camden oounty. in Maroh. lS4o
.In.!.. \\ li Ni \. * his sooond niarriagv, is the
father of tl John Floyd. William Cibbs, ami
in Ross; and of four daughters: Caroline Black-
shear. Kosalio Floyd. Nona Howard ami I. aura Storrotl.
\- adjunct |i of Knglish ami modern la n -
Mo Woo has under his instruction tho
i Knglish grammar, rhotorie, ami Kng
lish literature ami history, in our State 1'nivorsity; and
lie still retains tin- full measure ol his vigor am) promp-
titude in tho discharge of duty.
HON. SOLON E. ROSE.
Till! lineal am Solon K, Hose,
- authentically, back
IT HI Frior to that, how
. that tin !ose.<
thirty miles from ln\, v >tland. and that
tln-y were a little in heir intermarriages with
the Campbells and Crahams. The mother ol \\
ited in the history of tho
family .oat. of arm •
bar, having three
it. tf ig tho
\ rtue kindles the
Tin Ivos ituily, reaching back
throe hundred - lestroyed during the late civil
war. It was transmitted to the youngest son x<{' the
oldest sen. in continued succession, and in its absence
the data I irded is given from family tradi-
tion. Rev, IV Robert Rose, the executor of tl
e-tate of Cov. Spottswood. id' Virginia, a man of emi-
nent ability and social worth, came over to Vuicrica
with tl S tswood, who died about 1 T I < * He had
four sons, Henry. Hugh, William and Charles, one of
whom, probably Henry Ritse, was tho direct unci
of the subject of this sketch, lie was related to many
prominent families of Virginia,
PROMINENT TENNEHHEANS.
"
II. in Row grandson, John R< the father
of William Rose, the father of Solon K Rose John
R married Elisabeth 1 1 ttled on
crecli •'■ Virginia
old, and there died when near the 1 1
I ii Robei 'II I:
.I.iiii. Madison,
Col. William \\<>-<-, father of Solon R. llo
born 01 R Virginia, December 19, 177!t. and
i » i - . •. ed to ' I I II" mar
in Virginia Mi Klizabeth Winficld Meredith,
mol bi i ■ a a VVinfield, and an ' Jen,
Winfield Seott. Col. William Ro
elected colonel of il I <■ ■
a Mel hodi I from earl outh ; a man who ne\ ei di
drop of liquor in lii- lifi II rounded
character. distinguished for hi to lii- church,
for In- numcrou charitii
able, social manm ill of the first alder
men of the town of Pula ki and iated with
\:ii.,ii V. Brown and others, who afterwards b<
prominent ' me of lii- : I
itchman who - intleman
him; he'll do to trust." He died May 25 1851 at the
1 1 i- wife, a mo l\ minded
and I nan, I'.n^ preceded him to the
ing in Giles county, Tennessee, December 81, 1820, at
al t the age thirt] Ii e. Hhc was born in Brunswick
\ irginia daughter of David Meredith,
r from Wall I >1. William
I: mi children, all sons, to-wit: Mi. Edward
Winfield llosc, who was chairman and county judge of
i .il. - coun) I wenty thrt ■ mem-
ber of th< I. lature, and nex( to Thomas Martin,
filled i In' in the co
(2J William Meredith I: living in Nashville,
wan long ii merchant and farmer in Gili One
of his daughters, Henrietta is the wife of Col. Hume
Field, of Confederate army fame. (3), Alfred Hicks
Re . now :i fanner in Hardeman county, Tenn
;■ n<l '.'.:i- for -..in.' ...ii- judge of tli" probate court
il,. ,, ' 1 1 Robi i Hem Rosi now a lawyer of fine
m .i I. .v. renceburg, Tenne chancellor
foreight - ii and circuit judge two Lawrence
burg, before the war. He h married
Fieldin R I i ■ ■ hant.
|. I i.i id Brwin Elosi is a physic i fine
/,.//. /.//,. cholar; died at the age of thirl
'7. Solon Eldridge Rose, subject of this sketch.
Co). Solon Eldridg Rosi ■■■•• born in Giles county,
Tennessee August 18 1818. Hi va educated in the
Pulaski Wurtemburg Academy, having previously
studied under Jam< McCallum, one of the sterling
eh iractei of Ti nni ei When eight* i Id, he
went to the Florida war and was in the battles of the
Will,. Panasoph the Wahoo swamp.
\t the two battles of the Wahoo he attracted the at
I I Bradford, b ;. iri
leading the charge. Aftei II '-ailed
• hi liiiu and said, " Von i the goldi
an
thai
)i<- commenced
R
.• at I'nl rd lo-
I he
the \x
ition if he wanted
the office again FIi
He rg f..r
the ten
From 1-1-
burg bank dollar of its
■ he war. During that time h
• .1 in manufacturing business, and in connec-
tion ' • ■ A lien and others, built tli<- I
mill- in I. riditure of
I Ifi mi" Hi ■! from I. "• 'iila.-ki
■ and formed a partnership with -
John A. Tiniioii. which continued till Tim
tion to the bench, June, 1888. He has, himself
■ •.II . commissioned special judge of the chi
and circuit courts. He has, for man
director .in the Nashvilli U eatur railroad, and in
I Mr. 'lb I
ident of the (liles N Rank, of Pulaski. In his
professional career. Jud iced at the
courts with Pi 'oik, (J hn C.
Hon. A. O. P. Nicholson Judges Archibald
Wright and Milton fiideon J. Pillow, and
others who became distinguished in political life and
in their profession.
Judge Rose h I f. >r his legal
learning and facilit) of speech, than for his liter.
nuirements. I le has long be< of the
most eloquent i : while he ha
n himself exceedingly felicitous with the pen,
1 - 1 1 15, he edited foi itli-. the
Academisl, a Hi L eburg,
lemonstrated h
-ii--, and home among the standard Kl-
erali. He has been al ipporter of
id other public enterprises. He i- a member
of tli" American Legion of Honor, and in religion, his
procli Methodistic, though li" is not a "..m-
municant ; and while t J • - - rubric of his faith is not so
diversified as that of some, yet he is orthodox.
.Jink"- Rose '■ by a Democratic father, but
up to the war I, was a W big i \ ■ r; drop ..I
i in him. In 1848, he canvassed h -sional
\ \ \ [T.NN — w-
lity material wealth, ami
with \ a ithstanding
: \ - II I,,.,.,, (« u.,-
\ S \ • ; senator
there
- u l>ut
opinion.-;
i. maulj
- - m of pluek and generous
lliug. altornatii
i the disti
ian. ami the line save
-
V
men.'
lie
r\ was m\ defeat. Then van-
the earnest wish of my
of my declining years. Hut
,j his with ill.- i! '.. 1 ean well afford
I lie down to
Wh\ regri I I'aine is hut the
- nd like the eloud pavilion in
-.mi winds.
md their zeal in my x eksoii, with my hand
•:. 1 thank him for his - induct
.; during the tleuien of the
ird to party 1 hope your lives
,.;m. ... |\,1 ;,nd happy. May the
- leviousjour-
.,., 1 ;,,„ may "all j ways of pleasantness and
j-;,r thi • N L was ill your p - May your roof-trees distil
i,uliff01 - - ilu sky «■!' Ilermon. and around your
endearinents.
t0 the S' a memoral - . in the life of
held political office,
„tvy. I should havt he was unanimously elected hy the
my snppoi ■ that were nai t State P I as a dele-
in -au- for the State at large to the national Democratic
Not that I would forget my own > ' rhieh nominated Cleveland and
Thou land of my nai llendrii
,,..., imtation as an orator, which has caused
the day on numerous notable
.... i i - us. was enhanced l» the eloiiuent and lirilliaut
"' '*' , , 1 I. M 1-
... i'ii l speeeli ho delivered on titles county I lay, Maj 1..
has kept id with the graced ' ... .,..-.. .
, , e Nashville I entennial hx| sition the oc
rvthm ot huiuai stinyatid her . .
■ . ..., easion hems the dedication ot lilies county 8 tribute,
i with tli. ntry. I he election , . , , . . . .. „ ,
, .. ... the liunhen ot the speech being the history ot the
n will add luster to the name ol I en- , .,,.,. .
. , i i ii luntv. and especially ot the three governors that
the man! tion 1 hope will re- ■ , . , , , „>, ,, . , . . .
, , , ,, ,. • armshed the Male. I lie / 'iltiski Citizen,
, , 1 that speeeli :
< the spring • '
, , ,. , i ■ ,i i lilies eountv has reason t.> be p
heard m the land. .
, , ,t ' !• in whieh t ol. >o on I-. hose represented her people at
\ ; to the hi" 1 1 ramie, troin I
sound from lake to gulf, and from sea Roderick Random Butler (RcpubH-
- that defeated Jndg« K
" tides eountv has reason t.> he proud ol the manner
I'KO '
th< ' I on
finished •
' refined • and
triotic p
turn U) ;■
either written 01
■ ii birth i". I'm- di
evatiou of thought, brilli
vor, r
production ■ of the da !■ on
of a scholar, a poet and i patriot the
time, and one that 'ii
pride in j
< lol. Bow iii- i rii d in L
November I I. 1843 .Mi-- M IJ
born in that eoun Mil.
Buchanan I. heriffof ' I
bolder. II
William Buchanan ■;■■■<■ from South Carolina, and
ii Buchau med for !
county, about 1 -!0. Hi- n of
miliau II- thi South Carolii
an historical character.
B Miwi El ba i da Bi m
daughter of Dr. James Bun
Gabriel Bumpas* -the! markablel ric
physician, who afti I
where he died, nit
■ r, Franklin Buchanan, was speaker of 'h>
in-- ee House of B
brother, I'j Bobert M. Buchanan, i- now a proraim
■ inn at Oka]. inn. Mississippi, and I ■
bricl J. Buchanan, i- a brilliant
in the same State. Her nephew, Col. John M. Siin
ton (son of her oldest -I 0 th Simonto
was a colonel in the Con fedi nt
of the Mississi]
Mrs. Rosi a-ki. and has
all her life borne the reputation of being ar-
ndsome and wally lovi
i-l..ii.i'-i' r, from v. hat i- the brigl
life hi i devotion to duty. Through all Iii- trials in
life, Col B mfesses to have found in her an admit
ble aid Though a comfortable and hospitable I
per, -Ii' i- noted tor her
The children
born of this union are four in number: (1). Solonia
Marcell B nber 16, 1844 I tdii d I
ii ndei Vli it Di Prettyman'fi Female
Collej I. the Columbia Athe-
naeum; married Capt. John D. I hier of the
Giles National Bank has four children, Marcella Rose,
Solon J., Mary Lizzie, and John II 2). William
II I: born April 23, 1847 educ-at Pulaski:
now a farmer in Giles • nt; married M
I. bter of Major J B. - i k and
11
-
!
I).
Mrs. O. M. fc
M. M
Atchison, of • . '
Idren
time I
dueed
minished.
On tli
him-
self in Iii- prof impt in ii.- obli-
■i faithful in tin In
rjuired a reputation, and when
li<; lia<l -nrjiln- moi it in bank :-tO';k or
mauu I I! • ailed to be
banking office on time in I
1 1- ehi< ' busi-
!nan and a lawyer, are hid riding
to but . all t)i<;ir
detail, and put in with indomitable |<er-
anee. II" now own fine
f the
H in lif'<; to his father's
ii a drink in a
n in his lit-
men, and duty with
nd determinat
W'li '■ 'rd what counsel, drawn from
of Iii- own h
wished to I -aid . ' i
some definite aim in lit and fol-
labor
assiduously few tl equired without
labor. Labor is our
Accumulate, but .-■ '
scieni and polii
Always In- prompt in the discharge of dutj I'
bigh virtue. 'Punctuality i- the politene*
i
- of life, but not to the i terner vir-
the bright in the
oflifi I!
I'ROMIXF.N I ITWI-i \\>.
!
I'll!
N nilciiian '
N lesirain your temper, Iml
the head ami i! f the
'.'• i ill I hi' e\
hut mot misfortune willi fortitude; for hu
i sliould be >'.|ii;il to liuinati calamil \ Vvoid
lie temperate Vid religious pi
tnplary life, rather than by doetrinal theo
I lily, In the spread of t It <
roud all other ereeds, is alone sufficient
to ins|)ire faith in its truth, and command our zealous
COL. JOS1-MMI 1
THK A - ll-ll i| igin 'flic
lineal an I ' oh Rhea \nderson.
i of this sketch, were rebels in Scotland, settled
in the nortl md, and subsequently emigrated to
Augusta county Vir iuia The grandfather, John
son, in 177.1. moved to what i- known as the
"Block House,"' an old fort, at the head of Carter's
valley H when the country was a
: sed a family of lour sons William,
■ I. dm. Vmllcy and [saae.and four daughters, Mar,
1 ibeth who married Wil-
Hani Christ - ih who married Kin. Andre'
braitli '. and Jaue (who married Rev. John lleniger).
was twice run out from their dwelling there
by tin n fort ( ' !:« |>!>. near
\ \ iu in John Anderson died October 13,
181 'i His « i Rebecca Max « el « ■
ant of the Campbell family, of whom Vlexander Camp-
bell was the m< - ebruary 21. IS2-I
'fhe you n \ ' Vnder-
son, lather of the subject of this sketch, who I lised u
family of twelve children on the old homestead lie
never accumulated much pro| »t in land- His
character was that of a careful, Hod fearing man lie
was a !« I teacher, - lay e\ cning
he asked and rehearsed the nuestions in the catechism
- family, and it was the regular Sunday work
children to get those lessons. He was known
county, Virginia. ha\ ing
itrol of the militia of hi- day lie tilled
unty over twenty ti\ e
II trait of character was unswerving
I I man tell
I d ipt to tell him of it if he did Hi- death
occurred February 7. 1872,
was Miss M Khca,
« ho B ii k
creek, Sullivan county, Tenm -- \ ust 7. I7!>1. She
was the d i I .loseph 111 id <cendant of Ro\ ,
Ii Rhea, win. lived at Pontotoc, Pennsylvan
of Re> .loseph Rhi ofthi Presbyterian church. Her
moth : : freland to this
;U1V ANDERSC/N
intry, a widow with live daughters, and settled at
what i- now known as 1 1 1 . Byai - farm Washington
\ Mrs. A nderson was well educated in
the common Knglish branches. Her characteristics
wei n, indusl ry and persi In
tin- rearing of her children she made persistent effort
in teaching them to he self-sustaining and -elf reliant,
and always to keep out of debt, She was exceedingly
iiiouiical and taught her children economy and -r.
habit.-. She died April 24, 1S73, having been the mother
twelve children I 1 I. Rebecca, who married .loseph
New la ud , _ ' Joseph Rhea, subject of this sketch
John, died March 12, LS4H i I Vudley, married Miss
Cornelia \le\ander. - married Miss
M IS ti) Frances, married -I -I II u lies 1 7
married If -I Can S) Sarah Ann. married H
S. Kam < iroline. died unmarried, June 27, 1830
Mary, married J II Karnest. t 1 1 i. [saai V
married Nannie Stuart. (12). Jane, married William
Stuart The most of those -urvi\ ing are now li\ ing in
Sullivan and Washington counties, Tennessee.
Joseph Rhea Anderson was horn October 25, 1819.
His first fourteen and a half year- were spent on the
in with his i 1 1 in - Hi- principal hook tah-ut was in
mathematics, and he studied the rudimentary branches
by himself, a- also grammar, dictionary, geography and
astronomy later on. when he went to live with his uncle.
The first money he ever made was fifty cents, reci
lor a bushel of Irish potato,-, which he raised on his
own patch on the farm, lie kept that half-dollar two
or three years, thu- laying the foundation of hi- future
banking house. In March 1834 being not yel fifteen
Id. he began as n clerk in the store of his uncle,
Samuel Rhea at Ulouiitville. Tennessee, on a salaryof
J , ud. and remained there until
October, 1842 eight years in which he acted as sales
man and deputy postmaster, During this time he saved
seven hundred and fifty dollars, hi- -alary having been
gradually increased. When twenty one year- of age he
borrowed five bundled dollar- from his father and five
hundred dollars from an uncle, and went into bus
for himself on one thousand, seven hundred and lift)
PROMINEN'J I BNNESSEAN'S.
dollars capital, al Eden I: l II
mained there till March, 1844, paid back the five hun
dred dollars borrowed from his uncle, bul his father
would ii' ■ the money borrowed from him, as
hi- intended, an he said, to give ii to his son, bul tl
redeemed the note, '.'.iili interest, in February, 1872
after hi- father - death, and the monej wenl to the heirs
of thi
In March, 1844, he wenl into partnership al Blount-
ville, with hi- uncle, Samuel Rhea, and remained
partner, taking charge and conducting the bu
until September, 1853, when they di partnership,
he having previously purchased of his father-in law,
Rev, Jann I one hundn f laud at «
now known as the town of Bristol. Col. Andei
the founder of the town of Bristol. He laid out the
lot* and made a plat of the town in I 352, and i- now the
only man living there that was there al the time, This
one hundred a< i partly in Virginia and partlj
ee, he named Bristol, after the great manu-
facturing eit; of Bristol, England, in the hope ihat it
might someday become a great iron manufacturing
In Septembei 1853, he moved his family to Bristol,
when it was a large meadow, and commenced business
as a merchant, in the house now standing at the corner
of fourth :in<l Main
Hi conducted that business in his own name until
I860, when he took two of his cl lungmen John
P. Wood and J. M. Hicks, into partnership, the firm
nann being changed to Anderson Wood & II i '
Anderson went into the banking ; leaving hi-
partners in charge of the mercantile house. Both busi-
nesses were abandoned in 1862, in consequence of the
war. and he kept out of t li<- strife as hint- as he i
but finally acted as assi *sor and collector "(' war I
collecting only Confedi rate money, from 1862 to i
He resumed business as a merchant in the sprit
inued alone until L870, when he formed
a par nership with his brother, Audley Anderson, and
n'j h .. . John C. Anderson and A. Ii. Can-, under the
firm title of J, Ii. Anderso ■ I He left control of
this house in charge of the other members of the firm,
and in 1870 n engaged in banking. The firm continued
until March, 1882, when Mr. Anderson sold out to J.
C. Anderson and A. 15. Carr, who are still in the trade
,-ii Bristol.
In 1876 hi established the First .National Bank of
I on a paid up capital of fifty thousand dollar-.
After running thai hank awhile he took up the- -
charter bank, October, 1879, until (J .hen
iin-d the National Bank of Bristol, of which he
i- now j.i. gident. The capital has not been changed,
h it ha- been increased, wh i matter private.
The hank i- reported on a good footing, and do
general banking business, [n 1842, Col. Anderson was
worth seven hundred and fifty dollars ; in 1852, seven
thousand dollars ; in lv<i:J. twenty thousand dollai
2
1872 and in 1882 1
chiefly
per annum.
Col. Anderson, from hi and throughot
lit, tr.eh-r and I - d hi-
and truth-
fulness. These principle- he inculcate); in his family.
and also impresses the great principle that man makes
nothing unless he - d nothing
in;; self-denial through life. Young men
rid fail, then strike out at -one
I
thai is leaky. II- ha had bi in life,
merchandising and banking, both in the same lim
his ad\ ice to bi
He has cull i\ iug powei . and
worked on ai
Col. Anderson married at ^applii
role June .">. I-!,", Miss Melinda W. King, bom June
27, 1821, daughter of I!' ' -lane- King, a I'
minister, of a Virginia family. II Miss
Mourning Micajah Watkins, was horn in .North
lina. daugl I I Watkins, a planter, near Halifax.
Mrs Anderson on her mother's side, is related I
Williams family, of Tenm ssei Mr-. Anderson gradu-
ated at the Young L miliary. Knoxvilh.-. under
J » j Esterbrook. She is noted for 1 of kindness
and her work with the infant i
and h tied the Presbyterian church in 183C, has
been a faithful and constant Christian worker from thai
tning.
I: this man r en horn : 1 1 j.
hi April +. 1846: -till living with hi.s father.
an afflicted child. 2 Ann, born August 1-17
died : ,.; .'; John Campbell, born March 27,
1850: graduated at Princeton, Ni 372
a merchant al Bristol; married his cousin, Sarah Ann
Anderson, daughter of Smile.'. Anderson. She died in
Sept- aving five children, Audley King,
■ I !il: V] Melinda, Alice Floreuci
an infant, who died the week after the moth, i
I Samuel, born December '■>. 1854; attended Kin".
Collegi Bristol, and graduated al Hani] Sidney
College, Virginia; unmarried: i- now a Presbyterian
minister, and has been an evangelist -i . years in Lei
and Scot! •-•-untie-, \ irginia ; presi
ville, Virginia. (5). Margarel Micajah, born November
I. I 357 gi aduated at Rogers1
afterwards at Oxford, Ohio; married John H.Caldwell,
son of Rev, George A. Caldwell; now book-keeper in
the l-'ir-t .National Bank. Bristol : has three 'children,
ret Melinda, John Hardin, and Joseph Rhea.
6 Joseph King. 1 tsl 10,1861; died January
3, 1863
Col. And- -.hood was exemplary, so much -••
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PHO.MIXKN I' I'KXXKSSI \ n-
thiil ho thought himst II' sis good as members of tho
I ho .li.l not soo tho ii
i\ lion eighti o, ho attended ;i
revival in I S3S, at the Presbyterian ohuvoli in Mount -
Hi \ Daniel BoglUl Hi' kept up
miootion wiih tho Blountvillo church from
ihon ho removed to Bristol, am) joined tho
church there II ii .in older for tho past
t\vent\ ivl a Sabbath sohool teaehor fort)
I'illtOlldollI of tho Sohool :ll B
StiO He regularly attends tin Sabbath
I to this da.v ; however, proton leli. loving
--.'lis ami to investigate the B
Vnderson does not know the taste of brand) >>i
whiskey; never drank a drop of intoxicating liquor in
his life, and has . wine, only in the saora
mow of tho I. .nil - Supper II. lias never ehewed to
1 1. smoked isionally, after hi- :;
ity. 1'iu sinoe hi- marriage lias not used tobaeeo in any
I'.. nn \\ lu'ii a ho\ lii' never dissipated his nights, but
in ai iln' store, st ml) ing, 1 1.'
has never been sick in bed a day in hi- lite, all attribu-
table in lii- regular habits of eating and drinking whole
some diet. In personal appoaranee, ho looks glad and
grateful . stands ti\ e foot ten inohes high, and w eighs one
hundred ami sixty eight pounds
lu polities. In- began as a Denioerat, Inn a- is nat
ural to suppose, he believes in paying every dollar of
tin' Siair debt, and opposed the 50 ■'! settlement. The
only office of a politieal nature he has ever held was
from 1858 to IsTii. when In- was either tho nuw
a member of the hoard .>l aldermen .-! Bristol. In
ISt!2 lu- beeamo a Mason, ami has taken twelve do
greos, including Knight Templar, ami i- now Kmincnt
Commander of Johnson Commander) at Bristol, ami
has served as Worshipful Master ami Captain of the
Host Sinee 1842 he has been a S f Temperance,
ami has occasional!) lectured mi temperance lie is
llrand Worth) Patriarch of iln- State ol Tonnes
I in i >i toboi I88.'l ami again in IS8-I t hit
side of tho church, lii- principal work lias boon that of
advocating temperance, ami ion
ducting " Hands "t Hope taking little boys into the
-.nnr of whom aia- now grown men, and fre-
i|uentl) write him letters of thanks for lii- care in sot
tiuu [limit. in in life on a temperance basis. Xiiiot) per
cent, of the members of his "Hands of Hope ' have
i faithful to tin- pledge.
Col. Vnderson was a railroad director from I8l>3 Ui
having at that time charge of the funds ol tin-
Ka-t Tennessee and Virginia road. In ISliS he became
a direct or again and continued such until 1883. under
tlie auspices of the Kast Tennessee and (ieorgia rail
II - life is one of great simplicity ami directness of
manner ami unimpeachable integrity, lus object ami
aim being to elevate tin- moral- of the people ami bring
them up to i higher standard As a rule he ha- few
intimate, personal friends outside of lii- family, ami
von few persons know much about lii- business, Hut
hi- philanthropic life lias won for him iln- reputation of
being " a good man, ami what title i- higher or more
honorable than that '.'
VUOV. A. T. BARRETT. LL.D.
\ II' Vl'll V. K whoso pupil- in their junior year can
. V calculate eclipses, ami develop all the formulas of
plain- and spherical trigonometry, i- entitled to tin-
notiee'of a biographer, and iln- attention of those who
would assist in moulding the institutions of the eountn
ami leave their impress on iln- times
Prof. A. T. Barrett i- such a man. Ho wa- born at
a sville. Ohio, April 12, 1S|7. ami there -pout hi-
boyhood. working on a (arm in iln- summer ami
n tho winter till 1858, when lu- went to Ho
troit. Michigan, ami -pout one year with hi- oldest
brother, Myron K Barrett, then president of the Bryant
tton [Mercantile College, that eit) He then re
turned to^Kingsvillo. entered tin- aeadeui) there, under
tho'tuition of Prols. C. AY Hoywood and \ ' Barrett,
1.1. D..r_the'latter being hi- brother, a graduate of tho
I'nivorsity ai Bochoster. Xcw York, ami now pastor of
iln Baptist church in that eit) Cnder their tuitiou he
-tiiiliod fou.r years, but for lack ol' means did not go to
Instead, ho went t.. Sites, Michigan, in 1863,
ami entered tin- sen ice of •' . S Tuttle, where he -pout
two years, when in- again returned to Kingsville, where
his parents lived, ami studied in the aeadeni) another
1 -' 15, In- entered iln- I rni\ or-ity of Boehest-er,
remained there four years, ami graduated in 1SC0, lia\
night school, at odd times, to get means to pay his
wa\ On graduating he look tin- highest prize given in
tho university iln1 Davis gold medal a prime giveu
for excellence in scholarship ami oratory, \\i~ thou
wont to Loweville, Now York, and became eonneoted
with tin- howoville Academy, occupying the chair of
licllcs-httira, tlfeneo to Brio, Pennsylvania, where he
became associated with lii- brother in law. M, I! War
nn- 1 who hail married his sister, Kmily Barrett), as gen
nal insurance agent, his Held being western Pennsylva
nia ami eastern t Hi Mter remaining in this positiou
PHOMTXKXT THXXKSSKAXS.
!I1
nearl
of Mai - h trp College, Winchi
Tenne sec professor of mathematic arid ha* filled that
chair ever since, with honor to himself, to the insti-
tution and the Soul li
In politic* Prof Barn ■ I >■ inoerat . in reli
ii Baptist II' ■ member of the Knigl
Honor and of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, fie
joined the church at the age '.)' fifteen, and h
lived t he life of a consi stent and devoted mem
'lli ii he I id induction and a good "send off,
wll quipped for the contest with a rough roll
and t limbic world.
Prof Barrett married at Kingsville, Ohio \
22, 1871, Yliss KateC. Stanton, born Pebruar; _'.; 1-1-
daughter of Warren Stanton, a merchant of that place,
who was arrested by the Federal authorities during the
For hurrahing for Jeff Davis and was confim
the Columbus military prison, where he eontrai
cold, which resulted in hit deal h II i fal hei
..I 'I resident and one of the earl; settlers of Kingsville,
Ohio. Iii. -I there from Xew Sfork in 1817.
Mr Barretl t mother, net Vli Vlai Wellman, of a
New York hum living with Prof Barrett at
Winchester. Her other children, Jimmj and
died in early life Mrs. Bai i at King*
ville, is a lady of rare culture, and i- noted for her
i eepl ial good judgment and administrative ability.
Befoi ' in. ii i in "■ hi li id i ucccssful i
i ui'l i- now :i member of I hi faculi
Shai i> College.
To lii- union with .Mi-- Stanton, three children
been bornto Prof Barrett, all born at Winchester: (1).
D L, born September 18 1872. (2). Maud S., born
September 6, 1-71. (3j Ro W.,born August 7, 1-77.
The Barretl . Knglish people. One of Prof. Bar
retl ii' i Sred the first gun in the A mi
in. hi There were two division* of the family;
one came south; one remained in Xew England, and
from this latter branch Prof Barrett is descended. His
father, Amos Barrett, was a native of Oneida county
New York, moved to Ohio, a single man, and en
in farming He has held iffices in the town of
Kingsville, is a man of fine brain scholarly I of un-
doubted integrity, lli- life has been consistent, and he
has been a leader in the Baptist church at Kingsville
lor a •." i" rati in and i one of I he standard men of I hat
He married (1827) M Maria Brown, of a Xew
family, by whom hi had ten children, eight of
whom are living M ron Perry, Judson, Stephen,
Clinton. Kmily (will- of M. I!. Warner b
tioned), Susan Adelaide and Albert I abject
of thi- sketch. The two children that died were Cla-
iii, -li and Adelaide the latter Prof, Barrett's twin
istei
Prof. Barrett - mother died in August L881 at the
i lad; i "in ii kable for devotion to her
children, makiti
life being one of toil for tl.i- purpose till her <■! < -;« 1 1>
A II the qualities which adorn
in her. Shi
■
hich
were present her children ;i 1 1 ■ 1 nin lehildren
B inning lil'- without Prof Barrett ha*
• ■'I financial sin n hi.-!
profession. Strict economy and a
in the |"
of lli
moderate income, and with an eye - i r > •_' 1 < - to the accom-
plishment of one thing; turning a deaf ear to I1
itieaty from other directions, and with a deter-
mination to maki cr in hi* chosen pi
mathematics, he ha* won a most enviable fame
teacher of rare culture and excellence, and possi
ibility, which opens the future in most prom
ising aspect.
of hi- methods are somewhat n
and peculiar. The fundamental principles to which he
- in all lii- instructions are: I. To generate in
the student a love for the nuhjerj under considera
and not to in heel until that. '1
ident ii di
tion. a rather than as a means rsing
the thi mg held by educators of the past '■'■ To
upon the principle that education is the gri
of the individual mind, and not mere mental accretion.
I. That instruction, unless assimulated, i- food undi-
gested. ."), That ed from
within outward, and an essential element of thi- growth
i- the consent of tin- pupil's will. He holds that you can
no more educate a child than you can grow an oak. The
child is the germ of the man, a* the acorn i- the germ
of the oak : as we m and light
to the one, to induce growth furnish in-
struction to the other, by means of which the mind is
Instruction is food; but it must betaken,
gjjmilated as material food is.
6 In thi government of his school he throw- the
responsibility upon the honor of the pupil, while
i/.inL' the wisdom of Solomon liild left to
herself will bring her parents to shame.
It was through the personal persuasion of Dr. /. I
that Prof. Barrett accepted the chair of mathe-
. M Sharp Collegi II" reci ived the di
\ B in 1869, that of A.M. from the university at Roch-
ester, Xew York, in 1871, and that of I.L.I), from the
Southwestern Ba I Jacl son, Tenm
Two of hi- brothers, •! udson and Stephen, graduated
at the same universit; Rochester), the former in 1854:
the latter in 1859 Stephen Barrett is now principal of
ili. high school it Lincoln, Xebraska. Perr; B
i- ii physician of considerable emine in Oregon.
Clinton Barretl is a prominent and efficient railroad
•2V2
;viu>mixkxt tkxxessk \\s
ed at Chattau Myron est rank as a musician, both as a pianist and vocalist.
- a |>cuman and Even member "I tbe family are Christians in tact as
- ' • is a lad\ of high lit- well as in name, and adorn society wherever they jro.
ulture. and his sister. Susan, stands in the high- h is a talented and hrainv familv.
« APT. \V. D. HAYXES
Till'. Haynes family is of German origin, as the
family features so plainly indicate. Tli
German name was // The celebrated Robert V
Hayn. - I lina. was of the same family
though the nam.' is spelled somewhat differently.
\\ \i Haynes grandfather. (Iconic Haynes.
was a native of east Virginia, Westmoreland county:
fanner: a soldier in the Bevolutionan war. and a
ngton's body guard. His son.
John Haynes. father I Haynes, »;i- horn in Car
tor count} . and was a millwright by occupa
tion. He married Miss Elizabeth Hyder and moved to
Mi-Minn county, where he died in 1 >.">."». at the age of
thirty-tive. leaving four children 1 James. IV
Haynes. who married Miss Margaret Elliott, and now
live- at Dayton, V ■_' ■ Martha .1. Haynes, now
if John \V. Hyder. Carter county. [3) William
l> Haynes, subject of this sketch i John T. Haynes.
who died in 1SG5, unmarried.
('apt. Haynes' mother, >m Klizabeth Hyder, was born
in Carter county, Tennessee, daughter of Michael Hy
der. a farmer, who lived to his ninety-ninth year on the
where he was born, liis father. John Hyder,
came from Germany : was a Revolutionary soldier, and
i iniy. near < ion f i.\ lor's, among the
first settlei ininty. ('apt. Haynes' mother (who
afterwards married John Hill) is now living at th
of seventy-eight, in McMinn county, and is as stout and
active as most women are at fifty. She is a Southern
Methodist, and is a lady of straightforward, unpretend
ina manners, of simple piety, and strong i ommon sense
She had three brothers; Ben. Hampton and John Hyder.
The latter was trustee of Carter county, and also repre
sented his county in the Tennessi I islature, and
won for himself the name of " Honest Jtdin Hyder.'
Her sister. Eleanor Hyder. married James P. Haynes,
(.'apt. Haynes' paternal uncle. Her half-brothers, by her
father's second marriage (with Sarah \i i), were
Samuel Hyder. Joseph Hyder, and her half-sister was
Catharine Hyder. The hitter married Hampton Edcns,
of Carter county.
William l>. Haynes. subject of this sketch, was born
in Mi Minn mnt\ Tennessee November 15, 1833. Ili-
father dying when he was two year- old, his mother re-
turned with her tour children to Carter county, aud
there he lived with his grandfather, Michael Hyder,
till 1844. going to school i mill, tending stock,
making sugar, grinding apples to make apple brand)
in short, a farmer's boj of all work. In the meantime.
In- mother having married John II ill in Carter county.
and moved hack to the homestead in McMinn county,
ten miles west of Vthens. on li rs .-reek, in 1844,
William went to McMinn count) and worked on his
mother's farm the following five years. The best part
of his early life was -pent in this way. His step father,
John Hill, was an industrious, thrifty man. without
education, who kept him at hard work, and frequently
against his inclination. Voung Haynes had an ambi
.ate himself. 1 1 i- step lather tried t
hue to remain on the farm, but William ran
awa\ to Georgia and worked with the Irisli laborers
near Tunnel Hill, in getting out string timber for the
Western and Atlantic railroad, then in course of con
struction. At this employment he received eight dol-
lars a month for four months, but he had resolved to
accumulate money with which to educate himself, and
ahead) determined to become a lawyer He then came
to Bradley county. Tennessee, and worked several
months as a common laborer at ten dollars per month,
in helping to grade the East Tennessee and Ge
railroad. In [850 he entered Hiawassee College in
Monroe county, Tennessee, and remained there till
June. 1853. when he began teaching his first school, ten
month- term, being on Chatata creek, five miles from
Charleston, in Bradley county. In [854 he taught ou
Chickamauga creek, iu Hamilto unity, at forty dol-
lars a month. In 1855 he joined the "copper craze" at
i.wn. Tennessee, but after operating there sis
months was unsuccessful in his speculations, the com-
pany spending fifteen thousand dollars, "all for noth-
I'ndaunted, however, he still persisted in his
determination to be< ome a lawyer. So, after selling his
interest in the farm iu McMinn county for the purpose
of educating himself, and being still three hundred dol-
lars in debt for his college expenses, he eonimi
reading law in March, IS56, with his cousin, Hon. Lan-
ilonC. Haynes. at " the old Tipton plac hi miles
f Jonesborough, and alter reading with him two
year-, and iu the meantime acting a- private family
i utor, preparing his cousin's sons for college, he obtained
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213
topractici in 1 358 from ( lhanci lloi 3i th I . W.
Lackey and Judge D. T. Patterson. When he al last
obtained possession of his much coveted law licen
srrote on it " Nil Desperandum, a fitting motto, and
one i"". h bich l.i- guided him in his manly struggles all
through life. He at once located al Blountville, Ma;
1859, and has successful!} practiced there ever since,
cepl during the war.
In May, 1862, he was commissioned a captain in the
quartermaster's department of the Confederate army,
iimI assigned to post duty at Knoxville, Morristown,
• I jborough, and other places; in 1863 was assigned
in duly as brigade quartermaster on the staff of Gen.
William E. Jones, and served in East Tennessee and
southwestern Virginia from the summer of 1863 to the
spring of L864, when he was transferred to the army of
northern Virginia ; assigned to dutj as quartermaster oi
the Sixteenth Virginia cavalry, Col. Ferguson, and part
of the time, in 1864, as brigade quartermaster with Gen.
McCausland's cavalrj brigade, and as such was in the
last raid made into Pennsylvanin in 1864, when Me
C'ausland was ordered to burn the town of Chambers-
burg. In December, L864, he came home on furlough.
and was captured bj Gen Stoni m: n his Sail Works
raid near Bristol, December II. 1864. He was then
sent as a prisoner, via Nashville, Cleveland, Ohio, Buf
f'alo, N'-\\ Vijik. and Philadelphia, to Fort Delaware,
where he was kept in confinement till June 17. 1865
[n July, 1865, he resumed his law practice at Blount-
ville, and has continued there, practicing in that and the
adjoining counties, and in the Supreme court. In 1870
he was nominated on the Democratic judicial ticket for
attorney-general, with Hon Robert McFarland (after-
wards Supreme judge) for chancellor, and Hon. Felix
\. Reeve for circuit judge, l>ni was defeated by Hon.
Ni'wiiiii Hack'er, who obtained two hundred and fifty-
six majority, the usual Republican majority being a!. run
two thousand.
Capt. Haynes was chairman of the Democratic execu-
tive committee of the First congressional district from
l876tol882; has attended about all the State conven-
tions of his part}', and generally taken an active and
more or less conspicuous part in the proceedings. He
was originally a Whig, voted for Bell and Everett in L860.
He became a Mason in 1868, in Whiteside Lodge, No.
13, Blountville; lias taken the Chapter degree and
served as Master of his lodge sixteen years, from 1869
to 1884, inclusive. He is a Southern Methodist, and
has been for ten years a Sunday-school superinten-
dent.
Capt. Haynes married 1i r>t in Carter county, Tennes-
see, his firsl cousin, Miss Margaret Haynes, youi
sister of Hon. Landon C. Haynes, daughter of David
Haynes, a plain, unlettered farmer, trader and iron
master, who was at one time a man of isiderable
wealth. Her grandfather, G ge Haynes (also the
grandfather of Capt, W. I>. Haynes), lefl nine sons and
three (laughters The ns were David. James, John,
- Joseph, Jonathan, William. Christopher and
Of these Da' id II a, lies married Rhoda Taylor.
a first cousin of N'at. M. Taylor's father. Andrew Tay-
lor, who was a brother of I lor. For a history
of the Taylor family, see sketch of X. M. Taylor
in thi- volume i. I >a\ id Haynes had -
and five daughters The sons were Landon C G
Matthew I Da id James, N'apoleon and N'al T., and
the daughters were Lavinia, wife of George F. G
moii Mar; T wife of Lawson Gifford ; Edna, wife of
Alexander Harris; Emma, wife of Nat. G. Taylor, and
Margaret, wife of Capl W. I >. Haynes.
( )f the sons, Hon Landon C. II
noted ofthe family. He ran two unsuccessful races for
Congress against Am hew .John, -on and one against Hon.
T. A, I!. Xelson. He was a member of the Tenni
Legislature at one time, and speaker of the Senate:
member oi the Jonesborough bar, and prominent
a g such disl i lawyers as Judge Deaderick,
Gen. Thomas D. Arnold. Hon. T. A. R. Xelson, Judge
Milligan, lion. John Netherland, and Hon. Joseph l>.
Heiskell. He was an elector for the State at large in
1860, on the Breckinridge ticket. Heservedwith Hon.
Gustavus A. Henr} as a Confederate senator from Ten-
n during the war. and left a reputation as one of
the finest orators of Tennessee, ranking in eloquence
ami ability with Bailie Peyton, Meredith I' Gi
William II. Polk, tin-. A Heurj do. ('. Guild, -I
('.Jones and Andrew Johnson, with all of whom he-
made canvasses. His son, Hon. Robert W. Haynes, now
living at Jackson, Tennessee, has twice represi
Madison countj in the Legislature.
Of David Haynes daughters, Emma is the wile of
Rev. N. '•. Taylor, ami mother of Hon. Robert I..
Taylor, both ex-members of Congress. Her son, Hon.
A. A. Taylor, made a brilliant canvass as elector for the
State al large for Garfield in 1880 ; has once repres
Carter and Johnson counties in the Legislature, and i>
now engaged in the practice of law and in f'armii;
Nolachucky river.
Mrs Hayne? sister, Edna, is the wife of Rev. Dr.
A. X. Harris, a prominent Southern Methodist minis-
ter, ami her son. Xat. E. Harris, is now a leading lawyer
at Mai '.'i I leorgia
By hi.- firsl marriage Capt. Haynes has three child
(1). Rhoda E.. born June 1\. 1860; graduated from
Sullen - College, Bristol, 1882. (2) Mary T., born De
cember 25, 1861. (3). William Lee, born March 2.
1865.
Capl Haynes next married al Blountville, Tennes-
- ptember 30, 1869 ond cousin, Miss M
Haynes daughter of .Matt. T. Haynes, a lawyer, and
brother of Landon C. Haynes. Her mother, ne> Miss
Margaret Dulaney, was the daughter of Dr. William E.
Dulaney, of Blouutville. Her grandfather, Dr. Elkana
Dulaney, of " Medical Grove," his home near Blount-
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held with
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how to take care of ;■ man than he
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uinee. When i
ireh and
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tli«: church. Kai#ed and in that eh tin
ii lib-
era) in hi*
churchman, an indeed I
thing he ;>• J not
well hi i
in comfbi
He ha* been hi
guided no feet alot
,:')ti- taught ttie mra* right and
unfalteringly d<
But tlii- biographical el
without a more specific notice ol
In hi- 'i of both the civil and criminal
law. In- bag shown n
In civil ■
•ti-f'yetiun. And when appeal* have been |
cuted. to the Supremt court ; borne
the ■■! ' '
mind thorough
umenl of the mo»t into
difficult
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PROMINEM •)).
Corn,'
through one of tli<: toughest campi
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to .)• cli tirn<- I
woundi ill
20 1 -'»! : on 'n'
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i he reeei ound in t)i<- tl
bled him and put liii/i on crul
the war. After the Jon
A berdeen - [>pi, and 1 1n
i. r
During the latter part of the war Ca] '■ en or-
/ 'I a bodj of men and ] in a
ion of th<
before tfie ai
trooj pec-ting to find it would
laid waste the country if di
H ..t tin; pi
would be held accountable for all oi i that
ought to be in that n ' '■
whom he i md him, protected it. until tl
rival of the Federals and thus saved manj plant
from pillage and destruction. At the close of tl
nl to Meridian, Mississippi, to get Li- parol
vice by tli e Federal commander to
and made them out for i
five thousand Confederate soldiers. Bis twin brother,
Edwin li. Beardcn, who was a lieutenant in l>i- com
pany, and had commanded it at Chickam iere he
rely wounded, was with him on thi
and was also pressed into tli< roling
Conf<
ii returned to ' irg, Tenm
nf'ti.-r thi ■' nd being in very poor health
took to doing all sorts of hard work, such an cutting
and hauling wood, in hope of restoring iii- health. In
tip cr part of 1866, h< moved to Shelbyvilli
i Maj. Randolph in Dixon Acadci
months, teaching ;> part of each day and spending the
of his time reading law in the office of Samuel
Whitthon ; Early in WJ7 he was admitted to
■ I idgi Henry < !ooper and Chancellor Si
and ;>t once bi etiee in partnership with Mr.
SVhitthorne, continuing with him a little more than a
ince which time I
doing a large business and leading ive lili-.
Pri ous to the war all of C ]io]iti<-.-,]
predilections were in favor of the W" li i u- party; in later
he has been a Democrat, but never an " offi
hi II' ii chairman of the Bedford
county Democi committee, has pn
hi numerous political meetings and attended various
iking :i li i in poli-
inions on
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h not offic
ml, and wrote for il
1 1
and effecti
He 1 irance f'"r
;i nun I. London
and Globe, the
Phila-
delphia, as well :i- numerous other com
done a larj • for them in h
He h shville, <'•
and St I. railroad for I
the promoters of the Sylvan mills, near Shelbyville
- anza-
tion ; rof the Charter mU}< at Wart
B Dr. li. F. Bearden, a i.
of South Caroli I ||,
!i of mind, a leader in his pro-
i'l a man ithal
'. II.- died in lf?70. All ol
in tin
scended from the early French settlers of South Caro-
"ii remarkable for
their sound, practical, common sensi I B
M. B of Lincoln county, a
-•li blood f Pm Dr. T. C B
Of Nn-lr. i]l(;.
Capt. Bearden married in February, WJ. Miss
1 Whitesidi r of Thomas C. Wl
well-known if Shelbyville. Her mothei
M I: : I To this
union have been born tv
Capt. Bearden has been a member ol
rian church al
IT.OMIM'N r n\\ SSI VNS
He 1 I, but
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the rights of 1 • ami then -top the ease, ami
Rut whenever there are
hard roil, whenever wrong doing i- to he
Ige hammer blows Sm\-
tll nun. lie never eharges li
what they are worth, hut lev the
- and no more.
11. i to he a eaudidate i'or the rhancollor-
I urth chain I ssoe, at
HEX. -HMIN FAIN.
r I MIE I in whom : - - -retell
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tain, neai hy an
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ot the - s .lohu K. F
- ,. usee, lie was for a time
ham at D and afterward- at Rlouutville.
aving
- -, Thomas, 1 : i:'1 1 1 and J
\ - three
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Of tl the father's death.
Nancy married II. \ rs th married
\V R \ unmarried. The father.
Thomas 1' ~
luerehant ami farmer all time.
justice of the pea< e 11. has a reputation uubleuiished,
his charity and unostentatious benevo-
\ - . eholder. he was I uion man
during the civil war an In polities
is Republican. Ho is a man of great firmness
ami has loug been -lied as an earnest advo-
niperanee. He was the principal foun
(.'reek Academy, ami is f edu-
The mother, formerly Rachel A uderson. was
born in Sullivan count}". February 14, 1814, and died
Her life was devoted to her domestic
duties S member of the Fresbyte
rian church, and i> remembered by her family ami
:■ her firmness of principle and pi
and her uniform and unfailing kindnt — She was the
ten ehildi .lohn. th, f this
Ellen R
W ill. 11.. who i- a uiei'ehant. lawyer ami
clerk and master at Rlouutville. He married Alice
on ami has tour children. Rachel. Maggie, Sam-
and Carrie ."• Hugh, who is unmarried
ii his lather. .t;> Hannah \ .who is
unmarrii 7 Samuel \ who married •lennie K.
ami has five children. Thomas II. , KUen. Hugh
Mary and Mattie Bell iSl Relic H., who is the
wife of -lohn l\ Hardner. and ha- six children, l!a
ehella, xl .. Mattie. Thorn - \ ami William.
\melia. who died in infan. e Thomas,
also died in infancy.
•lohn Fain was horn in Sullivan county, I
see, December 20, IS35. and grew up there till - -
when he went to Collin county, Texas, and there en-
in farming and teaching -oh. ml. He remained
there until the breaking out of the war. when he en-
tile Confederate service (.though against his will'
rivate in Man s K - ill'} I He
in the Indian Territory, in Arkansas and in
southern Texas. He was in a number of battles am!
skirmishes, among them the tights at Elk creek ami
Saline river, Arkans -
'fhe war over, he returned to Collin county, T
and r, . in tanning and teaching. lu October,
- - lie moved back to Sullivan county, Tennessee. In
lie resumed the study ot' law. which he had par-
tially read in early boyhood. In 18(59. he was li.
hy Judge Cillonwaters ami Chancellor Smith to prac-
tice law. was admitted to the bar and immediately
commenced the praei Blountville, whore he lias
resided up to the present time It should have been
stated that he received his early education at Washing-
ton College and Rotherwood.
In politios (Jen. Fain was originally a Whig, a- were
her and grandfather. Since the reconstruction o\'
the southern States, however, the old Whig
party having disappeared, he ha- been a pronounced
lu August LS7S, he was elected attorney-
PROMTXKXT TKXXKSSEAXS.
! for i he I' ii i judicial circuit of Tciiih
term i ■ 1 1
tin- ci, 1 1 n til -• of Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, VVa
Unicoi, Greene, Hawkins and Hancock. In rcli
Gen, Pain i- a member of the Pn b terian church.
Pain married tieai '
In r 17. I 357 I Carrie V. Bii
7 1842, the daughter of William Bi irmer
and owner of mill Virginia. Ifcr
mnt lii r was Jane I i Virginia family . Mr*
W. I. Bick b if brilliant
attainment - and a |>leatsi n mous
.,- the founder of the order of the Knight* of the Gol-
den ' lirele, that bad for it - object I h
1 ! ancle, Hiram K ilgore, frequent ly i
ii ii t< 'I Scott count in the Virginia I. A u-
other uncle Dr. William Kilgo
promii ician at Pranklin, I. II- died
in Milam count I Her father died whil
oung. I fer mot hi r died in 1 -7.Y bein
e, and b i ehildn n, viz. :
John Joseph I' Kli/.abeth (wife of Judge II C.
Bruce. Wise county, Virginia - rried John
M Ballow) Malinda (now wife of Peter Day), Hiram
\ and ' 'ii i i'- V. Mr-. Fain at hlstell
ville, Virginia, and Reedy ( I
She i- a member of the Methodist ehurch, i
culture and Ii'- and is noted for her splendid
domestic qualities.
'■ i Fain and wife have had born to them I
children: (1). William Thomas, died in infancy (2
May K. J Bloui W. K.
I
three children, John W., Claud* Henry, and '
: , i: . I. ■ ■■
ed, \pril 22, 1--I Walter II Wiley, a farn
P
nab A Ii lillen Malin ■ old.
7 'I II
' (11). A
ummeneins
i- diligent, but bumatie. While
■. •! the crimina
of multiplied
Pain was trained to habits of industr; II
being a man of fair fortun
in comparath •• idleness, but he wisi
irk. He put him
rking in I and occasionally to
work on the farm.
I been all bi- life, keep-
ing himself posted in general I i r < .
bi- profession. He began life with but a small outfit
and now he i- comf -II off. the result of dili-
imy in bi- good man
1 his wife, who brought to hit dowry
a ban m of mom ' ■ n his
liritnc. and there i- but little danger that he will
retrograde, either professionally or financially.
C. B. McGUIRE M.D.
I A YI.TII.VII.I.I..
TIIK McGuin famil an of Irish extraction. John
McGuire, the grandfather of Dr. Calvin I!
McGuin et of this sketch, was born in Ireland,
mill came, when a child, with his father to Charleston,
South Carolina. He was one of three brothers, one ol
whom went to Kentucky, one to Virginia, while he,
John McGuire, cami G ount Tenn where
be located at an early day in the settlement of that
county.
Cornelius Wesley McGuire, father of Dr. McGuire,
was bom in Lincoln January ] 1801. He was
i-tratc in Lincoln county for nearly tv
Ii hi- edm ts limited to what he acquired
to school. He ■ oted Mi thodisl
and < moral and strictly upright man. If
man of fine common sense and much native tali m
was much sought aft< r as the business man of his neigh
borh l i uch m m .-, riting
di eds and bills of ■•'■< II- dii d 3i pti mber 18,
Dr. McGuire's mother was Miss Sallii Mi
Scotch descent. Her father, John Melon
manufact urer of cedar ware in Linn Ala-
bama, where hi died Dr McGuire's mother died in
April, !>?;;. ;ii the aj nine, having borne thir-
nd six d (1).
Elizabeth .1. McGuire, unmarried. (2). " William II.
Mi Guire, died in 1 375 ■:. Sarah L. Mc'.i
the wife of .(. c. Butler. (4). N'ancj II McGuin
the wife of .lame. X. George. (5). I B
McGuire, subject of this sketch. (C). John P.*McGuire,
now a wholesale grocer and corun terchant in
. ill'-. He was colonel of the '' I Ten-
Confederate infant • ime of the
surrender, and i llant mil ■
full account of which maj be found in Dr. J. B. Linds-
Militan II if T
McGuire died a farmer in North Alabama. - I'
I! McGuire residing in Giles count I
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ill the I III ill |li)lil
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: 1 1 1 1 < - r 1 1 1 iii of I lie.
I le hetMii life s* n houl |ml i imoi f t lit-
war « ith inithiiiL', luil
in In- c hu .iii.i heinii :i holy horror of ov mini
B\ lii- wili
i- ii ind
dm i dollur in tin; world, lie made hi- in
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he saved w Ii nipt
in in
I »i M ■ i ■ II-
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ii. I lad I
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and
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PROMINENT I'KNNl SSK VNH
M UOR w n.l'.ii: I
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\ I riLBl i: I FOSTKH « born Vpril 13
V \ iii Springfield, M
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thai State Hi- father, Dexter Poster, originally u
of ill'-
lcn<lin instruction of tbe li
\ il > : 1 1 1 > ruilrond, iij which In
Ktructcd the fii id tunnel ever liuill u
II i Poster, 'Hi in
busetts in 1764. Mig. 1 Mi
Allin. daughter of I ' \ llin, who also belon
I'm ii hi -i
While yet in his youth M with
his father to Monl ml Mai land
miles from Washington City. Here bis latbei
afterward died, leaving him :i 'phan
nine years \ ir or two later be rel uriied to
M educated
thanipton radii-
it the lal I le
obtained a position undci i n ( 'bible, chief
' i ibile and ( >hio raili
md laj ing "in thai
Transferred, In il arly pari of IK,">3, i" the Tenn
and Alabama (now the Nash\ ille and Decatur) railroad,
he was, from that time till the b
■ I in the location and construction of the
I ' itur, the Edgefield and Kcntuck
the Hcndi ids, and had i '
durin ustructinn of the bridge
S liville, the firsl
Be
giuuii ion of firsl
In April, 181)1, be joined the Firsl Tenm
■ a private in the Itoek ( !ity < luards.
tailed
duty and intend i h
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back to 1
built, 1 \ with ii r \ it, in three
■ pointmei I
I'limbcrlaud Gap Whi
into K
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the return from tl
made chii
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the I'
work with
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Mr. S I S. \\ i--. 11.
tnor in i In- firm.
M II ilonc
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Mr. 1'. li M II llial firm
i-iiiit iiiuril I I .|).li
A II'
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in tin- li. lance*, the
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tivi I! church, in w Inch In
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tli. II i» in brut
..ill. i ..I w hoin .1
in. in. mid i|i
Missouri h hi
1 1 1 ■ h uli the mo well kmiwn
■ ntily in his uw n. hul in uli
i lork id' the circuit
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nid in ..id the
1 his nniii.'.li ■
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(.'apt. 1 \
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Tli. .in .- 1 1 I'ain. \> us horn in Lav
n. - i ' II
1 when in
until il when In his
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(>. II. P. B,
Klgul
Kip with ' ...il
n;ii\|l\i.\ i mam
lie, although ju ■ locted to tin? Ti in
I .1 II
n few months |
(jounl count) 1 1 ustt • i" fill I
. -:» ~ i I h li of I \o \\ \ ■ I, I This
tiuexpircd i hi filled w il I
He entered the (1
med anil ii
Uiined m tin nnghnul tin W liilu
ille, (lie
Fort Donelsou Mem
phis, I ■ ltd in — . ■ — i • • ■ i i here
. 1 1 1 • I ii| ii- adjournment *im "
March following Capt. I'i \ returned to lii- limne in
Law rence count) . w licre lie lit
and w.i- i li : tin of ii eomp i Iry, « hieli
he reported to Lieut Col < 'oopei id Hiftlc
with » I ■ • • i a ■ he served, with lii- for Home
time on i ■ en iee In M iddle Tcnm
n hieli he repoi i. .1 to ( 'nl. • ■ II \ md In- be-
c urn
.ili ■. , I 'onfederati - I 1 ed in that « - > » 1 1 1
maud iiniil it- surrender, under (Sen. I in the
3tio \ considerable pi
Capl P nior offieer, »m- in command of the
ni . Col Nixon being on del r\ ice or in
command of the brigade, and the lieutenant i
and major being pris >rs of win lie was in
• ■ \\ iili this ' imand durin uiaindcr of
pari in man) of the brilliaul
rations of Gen. Forrest in Tennessee, Alabama. M
issipi
r, instead
Ian . h ■ ailed upon b) the trust ckson
\ Law rencebui ouie princip il o) that
institution, and held thai position until ted to
the Legislature in November, 1870 [mmediatel
the adjournment of thai I was
■ sidcnl of Savannah t '• innah,
which position ho filled until .1 une I -7 1
when he resigned, and k ifter nomi
b) the Dei iratic convention m- :> candidate for the
mil senatorial disti
which he I m the
I daturc hi
of tin - - inking
thai bod) with
marked dignit) abilit) and imps
\ - hi ■ ■. id ' the Ihl'Ii ion of his
r, the following complii
tion, | Ellis, a Repu unau
illluU
I ii|".ii iIk' journal
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hi which he
of » liieli he h
In Feliru
in the i
mil hi
of Hon -I I'i' Vtkins and Hon \V C. \VI
III. Mil '
In- Ti hi ' ■
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and divided his district into hiimli
one eiiuuieration 'I; li nf which In
pointed one on inner i I i kably
in iii'hil' i! I busiui ir tlii- im -
June I he had blank scheduli
i and nil a -irk
I >i i ii 1 1 I dail) i
from these ol to the progress of the work.
the el f il"
: * tii iii- ; I ;ill the accounts fin
lllllli'll.l. ll III
all tlii-. and in tin to the
■ in. m ..f the int. rim-, hi
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but little, In- time \
in the urn her and
.-tiiiin is portions of tin -
..!' the \:ili"U
Dei i al IL i 11 \ i.-li and '
;i member ..I the Method ipal chui i
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H itlinii -i ii< •( It i ii
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illed w itli credit tu 1
t" i I il |.i illl well wlllll
ill inilusl i in iiilci-tiikin faithful I
mils
V GEORGE GIBBS DIBIiELL.
Till- iiml civilian, Charles IHbrell I'ostnn. who n I-
1 I i-iti ritnn in ( 'oniircss two nr ihn
ill in. n t lie I* •• it Iiml in civil
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richh iontii time ol lii- I to Whiti county,
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I' II family in tli from liberal to the | r and ■! II
that ;i man \\;i- not ;i fi iij one whom he would
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iiii- in tin II Methodist, a lunik director and successful farnn
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PROMINENT TENNESSE \NS
quite a number of men distinguished among the In
dians, notably Hon. Israel Folsom, who, for main years,
was agent of the Choctaw tribe ai Washington, ami also
acted as government agent in its dealings with the
trili,'.
Enough has been said, probably, to carry a pretty
clear idea of Maj. Folsom's character as a man ami
lawyer [f anything be lacking in this regard, how e\ er,
the opinion of one of the judges of our Supreme court,
before whom Maj. Poison) has practiced for manyyears,
maj well round up this sketch. The distinguished jurist
says: " .Maj. Folsom is a man of more than ordinary
modesty, but calm and self-possessed in debate, always
having perfect command of his faculties. Within the
range of his investigation, he is one of the most accu-
rate and thorough lawyers in our State."] [His prepara-
tion of his cases is thorough — his master} both of
details and the principles governing them, always full.
His briefs are among the best in form, neatness of ar-
rangement and precision of statement, that come before
our court. He is always clear and underst 1 at once,
and at times rises to the height of a chaste ami well-
tempered eloquence. If he had a larger field, with his
habits of thorough mastery of all he undertakes, he
would rise to the front rank of useful men in the State.
His eminent fairness and truthfulness of statement, as
well as argument, always give him command of the
earnest attention of the court. He is incapable of any
trickery or cunning. Ml he does is the work of a man
who seeks to win his cause by manly grapple. What
cannot be done by fair argument and the force of truth,
would not be sought bj him, for either himself or cli-
ents. Take him altogether, he is an ornament to the
bar ol his section, and he would grace any court in our
State, as a judge, by his fine judicial qualities, both of
head and heart, especially the latter. His nice sense of
right is the equivalent of a large share of simple intel-
lect. Hi' is emphatically a specimen of God's noblest
workmanship — an honest man."
'I'lir ordinary language of panegyric could add noth-
ing to such a testimonial as that. That it is deserved
is abundantly proven by the success that has attended
Maj. Folsom s professional labors, Ami he is yet, in
reality, a comparatively young man. Though fifty-four
years of age, there is not a silvered hair on his head,
ami he seems to be yet in his physical prime. He may
well still look ahead and aloft, for there are no doubt
greater triumphs yet awaiting bint.
HON. GEORGE K. FOOTE.
JACKSON-
THE Footes came originally from England before Rev. William Foote, father of the subject of this
the revolt of the colonies, and settled first in Con- sketch, ami a prominent minister ol' the Methodist
tieut. Thence most of them moved south, some Episcopal church, was born at Guilford Court-house,
taking up their abode in Virginia, and others settling North Carolina. lie was a farmer as well as preacher.
in North Carolina. From the Virginia branch of the He was married in Indiana, where the greater portion
family was descended the late lion. I lenry S Foote, for of bis life was spent, and where he died in 1846, in the
many years a conspicuous figure in polities. From the
North Carolina branch, the subject of this sketch is"
descended, [lis grandfather, (leorge Foote, was born
in North Carolina and became a firmer in thai State.
Hi' was a soldier of the Revolution and fought with
distinction in the battle of Guilford Court-house. He
removed at an early day to Kentucky, being one of the
first settlers in that State About the year 1818, he
pushed still further west, locating in Indiana, not far
from the residence of Gen. William Henry Harrison.
Here he spent the remainder id' bis life, dying at the
advanced age of eighty-seven years. He was a man of
solid character— a true type of the old-school gentle-
man. His wife was Lucretia Nance, daughter of
Thomas Nance, of South Carolina, a relative of the
Ruffin family id' North Carolina. She was a worthy
helpmeet to her husband, whom she outlived, having
died at the extreme age of ninety years. She left four
children surviving her: William. Kinehloe, George ami
John Foote
t'ortj sixth year of his age. In politics he was an ardent
Whig His wife, the tlier of our subject, was Naomi
Bell, daughter of Samuel Bell, of Kentucky. She was
horn near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Her mother was a
Ross 1 became noted as one of fourteen women who
volunteered to venture out ol' the fort near Harrodsburg,
to get water for the famishing garrison when it was sur-
rounded by Indians, knowing it would lie certain death
for the men to expose themselves within range of the
savages' rifles. She lived amid the tragic events that
gave to the soil of Kentucky the name of " the dark
and bloody ground.' Her father was Judge ltoss, one
ol the most noted of the blue-grass pioneers
Judge Foote s mother lived but about a year after
the death of her husband. She was a woman of much
fortitude ami energy, a devoted wife and mother, ami
exceedingly careful in the training of her children. She
died at Corydon, Indiana, November, 1 ^ fT, :it the age
of forty-six. leaving three children: (1). George K..
subject of this sketch. (2). Robert, now in Memphis.
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
237
(3). Jabez, who lost his life by the explosion of the
steamer "Andrew Jackson," on the Ohio river, near
Shawneetown, Illinois.
Judge Foote grew to manhood in Harrison enmity,
Indiana. He was a farmer boy, and learned to lay brick
and plaster when a youth, and was especially fond of
field sports, hunting, fishing and fox-chasing, though
he was free from the too common vicious habits of
youth. He was educated in the old Uorydon University.
When twenty-one years of age. he married, settled in
Corydon and engaged in general speculation. In 1847
he removed to Leavenworth, Indiana, where he began
the practice of law. He remained there but two years.
however, when he removed to Cannelton, Indiana.
Here he practiced his profession about eighteen months,
when he moved to Golconda, Illinois, where, in addi-
tion to the practice of law, he engaged in the real estate
business and lead-mining for ten years, doing a very
prosperous business. In 1866 he removed to Decatur-
ville, Tennessee, where he remained about eighteen
months. Next he moved to Lexington, Tennessee, and
thence, in 1S7M. to Jackson, where he has resided ever
since, engaged chiefly in the practice of law.
Tn politics, Judge Foote was a Whig until the disin-
tegration of that party. In 1860 he voted for Abraham
Lincoln, and has been a Republican ever since. The
first office he ever held was that of constable, in Can-
nelton, Indiana. In 1870 he was appointed special com-
missioner of the Southern Claims Commission, and dis-
charged the duties of that position some four years. In
.June, 1881, he was appointed by President Garfield
postmaster at Jackson, and on the 14th of October fol-
lowing, was reappointed by President Arthur to the
same position, which, at the time this sketch is pre-
pared, he still holds.
In June, 18G3. Judge Foote was mustered into the
United States volunteer service, as a member of the
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Illinois infantry, but
on account of his business qualities he was assigned to
permanent duty in the commissary department and was
not engaged in battle afterward. He remained with
the army in Kentucky and .Missouri until 1864.
Judge Foote was an alternate district delegate to the
national Republican convention at Chicago, in 1884]
and favored the nomination of President Arthur by that
body, lie became a Mason in Cannelton. Indiana, in
1851. He i- also an Odd Fellow.
In 1846, October 16, Judge Foote was married, in
Harrison county. Indiana, to Miss Mary Falkenburgh,
who was born and reared at Cape May. New Jersey.
She is a member of the Christian church, ami is a holy
noted for her piety and charity to the ] r and dis-
tressed. Mrs. Foote's father was a captain in the war
of 1812. Her mother was Elizabeth Sullivan, also a na-
tive id' New Jersey.
There were limn to Judge Foote and wife the follow-
ing children, none of whom arc now living: (1).
Samuel, who was in the gunboat service during the war.
He married a Miss Clore and died in 1868, aged twenty-
four. (2). William, died February, 1874. (3). Mozella,
died the wife of William Wilson, a merchant, of Lex-
ington. Tennessee, leaving one child. George. (4).
George, died March. 1884, at the age of twenty-three.
(5). Ada, died in 1884. This daughter contributed to
various periodicals and was remarkably gifted. Three
children died in infancy.
Judge Foote began life with no resources but his own
talents, lie had plenty of pluck, however, and struck
boldly out into the world with the determination to
succeed. The first money he ever earned was as a hired
plow-hoy. at eight dollars a month. Being paid off at
the end of three months, lie went proudly home and
laid his twenty-four silver dollars in his mother's lap.
He was never after that cither ashamed or afraid of
work. Whenever the practice of the law became a
dragging business ( as it will periodically in nearly all
communities), lie did not sit down, fold his arms and
wait fin- business to come to him. lie turned his hand
at once to whatever honorable enterprise promised rea-
sonable profits. His first substantial profits were real-
ized as contractor in brick-laying and plastering in the
town of Cannelton, Indiana. Industry and economy
have ever been bis leading characteristics, and these
constitute the secret of his success. He is now in quite
independent and comfortable circumstances, and is
reek d one of the solid men of his county.
CAPT. WILLIAM STOCK ELL.
NASHVILLE.
CAPT. WILLIAM ST( ICK L'LL. the veteran "fire
chief," the successful merchant and bushier man,
and one of the most popular citizens of Nashville, whose
face and form have long been familiar to almost every
man. woman and child in that city, well deserves a place
n these pages. He was bom in Malton, Yorkshire,
England, October 17. 1815. His grandfather, William
Stockell, born at Malton. sprang from an old English
family that lived for many years in that vicinity. He
raised a large family of sons ami daughters, the sons
being chiefly distinguished as successful merchants.
One of his daughters, Margaret Stockell. married a Mr.
PROMINENT TENNESSK VNS
Jo-wot l, ami I i veil lo the a I old age of oiirhtj four
1 * iiiimeil William Stockell,
" Mai li 11- urand-
l)orn in the same town.
farina man. came to
Am, : uilv w itli hi in, in 1824. an
i led in l>altii -.- I n 1X20 he mo\ ed to i
rs, then pnrchasd a farm
in Brown ml lived there until 1 >." I: ». In
lie removed to Nash lessee, and
; ion of the buildinj •
I Xasln i!le, then under the
Rev. l>r. 1 In 1845. while
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am! domestic nian-
nt. She '■ ai the home ol her
daughter. Mrs. Carrie Might, wife of Capt. O. II. [light,
diville .Merchants' Exchange.
She was the ill William
J Eliza)
ell. died the v ' I Mary
Ann Stockell. who /■ ne the wife
I ith, married Howell II uddles-
ton A I). Jane • low of
David l ' . I . cuit eourl rink at
Xashville. 5). Caroline S II now wife of Oliver
II I i
I in his hnyh 1 had l»ut limited ed
bricklayer's
and [ n ( 'ineinnati, and carried it on
there until lv!' - and during I
d himself closely to such 1 ks as would
qualify him in making calcu r a husin
|ition. 1 1 sly and diligently ap-
plied himself in learning drawing, designing and mod-
eling ornali every conceivable pattern tor the
interior di if churehi - ml line
private buildings. In the latter particular he was
ng numberless exquisitely
beautiful lerful botl
I workmanship. The fili-
ation of the State
N lie Masonic Hall, the Maxwell House, the
I I isane. and numerous other
- in Tennessee are specimens
oi' hi- i time when he
was the only decorator of the interior of buildings in
stucco work at Xashville, aud all of the parties now
I in that business in the city learned their n
with him. and arc recognized as master workmen in
tin ir In n house in which he now lives, N*i 63
South Cherry street, was one among the first modern
houses in the cin of Xashville, the interior finish of
which would do credit lo any city in America, and is
recognized b\ architects who conic to see ii as of supe-
ir finish and original i: apt. Stockell's
entire business lit'.- in Nashville, hi- relation- with all
he ever worked for or with, have been ol' the most
plea-ant character. To a mail do ivy a busil
for so many period of time, it must
l>e a nio-t happy reflection that he has never had t>-
for his , not
marred or embittered by unpleasant memories. Every-
d\ know- : H I; even the children cannot
meet or pass him on the street, without giving him that
hearty salute that only kindly natures and long estab-
lished characters can command: an incident recalling
I [tuner's lines :
I late in li!
Hut it is perhaps chiefly from his honorable record as
a fireman, and as chief of tin- tire department of the
city of Xashville tin' many year-, ('apt. Stockell is best
known by the general public. His gallant r\ and bravery
on tryill i wisdom and , \
ecutive ability in hour- of p( ril: his main sacrifices of
d comfort to save the lives and property id'
others: his promptne; the first tap of
the alarm lull in rain or >hine. night or day. winter or
summer praise tor two gen-
eratio md must bring to the fearless "old chief"
many pleasant recollection- of well aud
faithfully done. In iv!" i president of the
Independent Western Fire Company of Cincinnati, and
filled th hi until November 12. IS46, when he
left ('ineinnati to make hi- houn al Nashvilh -hist
before his departure, the- u his eh! company
li took from their pockets a silver dollar and had
i In m melted into a beautiful ami heavy silver speaking
trumpet, which they pre-. him "in remem-
brauee of his s - It is a souvenir which the
tain shows with much pride, and regards as an heir-
m money could not buy.
lie connected himself with the volunteer fire de-
partment of Nashville in IS47. soon after his arrival in
S ivjlle. joining " Broad-street Fire Company, N 2,
and a few mouths thereafter was elected it- president
and remained as such until 1850, when the paid Steam
tire department was organized Being in a lucrative
business which he could not sacrifice, he retired at that
time from the department, having been requested, how-
ever, at all times to attend tires and give his counsel.
which he did. always having the confidence aud good
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS
239
will of the chief in charge and "I the firemen. He was
appointed by the city council December 28, 1866, to go
East and purchase steam fire apparatus for the city, a
lciicr of credit being given him by the city authorities
for the purpose to the amount of twenty thousand dol-
lars, lie made the purchase, which resulted in a large
saving to the city, the apparatus then bought beingstill
in use and in a I condit ion.
In July, L869, Hon. John M. Bass having been ap-
pointed by the chancery court receiver of the city of
Nashville, called to his aid and counsel the wisest men
of undoubted character and standing highest in public
esteem, among thcro Anson Nelson, whom heappointed
treasurer, and Oapi William Stockell, whom he placed
in charge of the fire department, Capt. Si nek el I accept-
ing the position at tin urgent request of leading citi-
zens, ami especially of the insurance companies. His
appointment by Mr. Bass, dated July 28, 1869, empow-
ered him " to organize the fire department as his agent
and conduct the same on the most economical plan,
having a due regard to efficiency.' From that date
until his final retirement in L883, he was elected by the
city council from time to time, and served altogether in
thai capacity fourteen consecutive years. During this
time he was also secretary of the board of building
commissioners, making annual reports of the lumber
business, buildings erected and progress of the city in
general, many id' his reports having been commended
very highly by the press.
He wa- one of tl rganizers of the national conven-
tion of chief tire engineers of the United States at
Baltimore; has been president of that body, and is now
chairman of its finance committee. At the meeting of
the association at Chici September 9, 1884, ('apt.
Stockell read two remarkable papers, one "an essay on
the best methods of supplying cities with water tor fire
purposes." and one ''on the importance id' introducing
tire drills into all the schools.
In L884, by request of the Tennessee Historical Si.
ciety, of which he is a member, ho prepared and sul>-
mitted an elaborate " history of the fire department of
Tennessee," which was replete with many pleasant
reminiscences and practical suggestions, and was re-
ceived with great la\ or.
Hi' is a member of the A. 0. M. C, now styled the
Robertson Association, and in L884, in connection with
Anson Nelson, Esq., and Dr. John Berrien Lindsley,
revised its constitution.
Capi. Stockell was made a Mason in Claiborne Lodge
in Nashville; is now a member of Cumberland Lodge,
No. 8, and is president of the h a] of trustees, having
charge of the property of that lodge. On October 24,
1882, In was made a 32 Mason by-Gen. Albert Pike.
He i- also a Knight of Pythias of the endowment
rank: was one of the organizers of Myrtle Lodge, and
is a member of the Grand Lodge of that order. He is
a membei ol the Cumberland Presbyterian church. In
politics he was a Whig till the Know-nothing issue
came up, when he voted for Andrew Johnson for go\
ernor, and has been n Dei iral ever since. In 1850
he was elected from a Democratic ward— the Sixth a
member of the city council, and re-elected in 1852-3.
He was a member of the citj hoard of education with
such men as Francis II. Fogg, Return J. Meigs, Col.
M. II. Howard and W. F. Ban;;, in the carl j organiza
tiou ol the public schools of Nashville. He was for a
Ion;;: time a director in the State Bank of Tennessee,
appointed by Gov .Johnson and afterwards by Gov.
Harris, lie was also a director and one of the organ
izers of the Mechanics National Bank of Nashville;
also a member of the State Agricultural Bureau, ap
pointed by Gov. Johnson and also by Gov. Harris, lie
was one of the organizers of the first mechanics' fairs
ever held in the city of Nashville. The first fair was
held in a si ore on the Public Sip ta re. He has also been
connected with all the industrial expositions that have
been held in the eit.\ oi Nashville, being president of
the exposition in 1873, aud chairman of the Nashville
Centennial Exposition in 1880. In L 885 he was assist-
ant commissioner for Tennessee at the Cotton Centen
nial Exposition and Worlds Fair held at New Orleans.
Capt. Stockell married first in Brown county, Ohio,
in 1838, Miss Gelina Records, daughter of Josiah
Records. She died June 11. 1839. lie next married
in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1840, Miss Rachel Wright,
daughter of Joseph Wright, formerly from New Jersey.
Her mother, Sarah Bowers, was also a native oi New
Jersey. Mrs. Stockell was horn, raised and educated
in Philadelphia, and moved to Cincinnati, in 1839. Her
father was a farmer, who lived to be eight) three years
old. active to the very la.-t. She is a devoted and active
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at
Nashville.
By his marriage with Miss Wright, ('apt. Stockell
had nine children, four of wl died in childhood.
Those who reached maturity were. (1). Charles Henry
Stockell, horn iii Cincinnati, April 8, 1841 ; was a mem-
ber of the Rock City Guards, and afterward an officer
in the Tenth Tennessee, and served in tin/ Confederate
army four years; married December 19, 1ST."). Miss
Winnie 1 1 oil is. id' Louisville. Kentucky, and has one
child, Hake; now residing in Atlanta. Georgia, and
ci cted with an extensive commercial firm. (2).
Louisa J. Stockell, born in Cincinnati, June II. IMC
graduated at Loretta and at Nashville: married W. R.
Rankin, an attorney at law. J uK 18 1865 : has live chil-
dren, David, Charles, Mary. Albert and Turley. (3).
William Franklin Stockell, born in Cincinnati. March
7. 1846; enlisted in the Confederate army and was
drowned while crossing a river, December 25, 1863. i I)
Albert W. Stockell. born in Nashville. August 8, 1848;
graduated from the literary and law departments of
Cumberland University; practiced law successfully at
Columbia, Tennessee; married. January I. 1876, Miss
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PKOMIN K\T TKNN KSSK \NS
Kloi I lit or ill' Matthew l» Cooler, and
sister of Judge William V and Kx I nited States Sen
ator I l.iii \ Cooper; has tour ehildren, Marian. Patty,
Allien and Henry, (5). 1 5 eor.se \V. Stoekell, born
;ii Nashville, April 2, 1S52; now liead of the firm ot
(ieor.se M Stoekell & Co in the w liolesale a,srieultural
iui|ilemenl business al Nashville. ((>) Orville Kwing
Stoekell, born September I I. IS55: now a partner in the
bouse with bis brother, (ieor.se W . married Novein
bcrS, 1S77. Miss Ida I' (lower has one child, Kachel.
Capt. Stoekell began married life with ninet\ six
dollars. :m<l by hard work and honest} ol purpose has
made a fortune and a name among the most honored
citizens of Nashville. Still happier, no man ean saj
Capl Stoekell ever wronged bini out ol a cent, or thai
he eaniu to his office Saturday nights and wenl awa.\
without the mono} due tor bis week's work Happiest
ill, he and his conipanionable wife have lived to raise
their in a cit\ and see them every <>n.' doing well
and standing high in good society This result is largely
due i" the mother, who, nat u rally of a sunny and benig
mint temper. ver.\ earl} adopted the policy of making
her home happ\ and attractive to her children. For
this purpose she herself, when thirt.\ years old, took
music lessons with her daughter, that she might amuse
and entertain her sons and theii visiting friends. She
encouraged her sons to have a chili room at homo, and
their principal evening amusements there, she making
liersell one of the company, and by hot' presence both
enlivening and adding dignity and graee to their enter
taimnciits. The results justify one in commending her
example to young mothers desirous of seeing their boys
cssfu) and honored. In declining years ii is a
gratifying reflection that no one can call up wrong
nit him . more pleasant still, to have, as Capt.
Stoi kell has, a scrap book full of the most friendly and
flattering notices the result of a hus.\ life conducted
on manly, benevolent and Christian principles.
Hi- old friend, Anson Nelson, Ksq.. who has known
him intimately for main years, gives this estimate of
("apt. Stockell's character: "dipt. William Stoekell
.am.' to Nashville in IS-lli. and soon showed himself a
good. stead} mechanic. His industry and faithfulness
were developed to such an extent that he soon obtnim d
as much work as he could do, even with the -killed
workmen lie employed Ho acquired, as a natural result,
a fine propertj of his own, and a competency to live on.
He was happily married, and reared a family of ehil-
dren. of which any man might be proud. His children
are all married and well settled in life.
i Stoekell was a natural fireman, and his services
as i uptain of the old volunteer eompauy, Broad street,
No 2. wore relied upon in all . uses of fire, in anj part
of the i it\ After the organization of the paid -team
fire department, he was not . tin' several years, actively
engaged in this arm of public service. I pon tli a
out of the notorious Mden administration, in 18(50, the
Hon John \| lla-- was appointed receiver for the city,
and be at once selected Capl Stoekell to take charge of
the tire department of Nashville. Ho was elected chief
b\ the incoming Morris administration, and re-elected
year after year, during different administration- of the
city government, for fourteen consecutive years. This
was a wonderful compliment, considering tin' fact that
there ni re always so man} applicants for ever} office in
the gift of the municipal government, lie was selected
solel.\ on account of his superior qualifications for the
position for ii was well known that, a- a matter of pe
eunian consideration, ho did not need the office. While
fire chief, he made man.\ advantageous improvements,
among the most notable being the introduction of the
fife alarm telegraph, w Inch has worked successfully since
its introduction. The management ^\' the department,
under his wise and careful supervision, was n source
of gratification to bis fellow-citizens, He retired from
this service in the autumn of ISS3 \- a member of
the Association of Fire Chiefs of the United State-, ('apt.
Stoekell has boon for several year- one of the most
prominent and useful. His paper-, read before ih.it
body, have attracted more than ordinary attention.
In all the public offices of the city, in every impor
taut movement for tin' public good, Capt Stoekell lias
always been a prominent factor, lie never failed to do
his whole duty, and never shirked any labor or pecu-
niar} demand to aid his people. Ili- services as a di-
: in many mechanical and other associations, were
invaluable, lie was one of the working directors of the
Centennial Exposition of Nashville, in ISSO, and no one
did mote to insure the successful accomplishment of
that -rand enterprise V- an active member of the
Tennessee Historical Society, and in the Robertson As-
sociation, his services are well known and duly ap-
iled.
"('apt. Stoekell- reputation a- a man of progressive
idea.-, as a stirring, active member '<t' society, as a good
citizen, read} always to discharge -his whole duty, is
universall} acknowledged Numerous testimonials of
respect, h} different organized bodies, and by individu-
als, have been presented to him; all testifying to bis
labors and to bis worth as a man. His services
will probabl} be more appreciated after his death, than
tin \ w ill be while he is alive."
PROMINENT TENNKSSE VNS
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D
G. B. THORN
\ir \ip
R. (i. B. THORNTOIS of Memphis, • of the
nblesl and mosl widely known physicians and m
geons in Tennessee, is a Virginian by birth, though his
whole life, since Isl7, has been identified with the city
of Memphis, his longest periods of absence therefrom
being during his academic and collegiate years, and the
four years of military ^service he gave to the cause of
the ( Confederacy.
Mi' received a liberal literary education, and medicine
being chosen as a life profession, bo comnien I its
studj in the office of Dr. II. II. Roberts, professor of
surgery in the .M phis Medical College, from which
institution Dr. Thornton graduated in March, L858. lie
1 1 < ■ x i graduated from the medical department of the
University of New York, in March, 1860, and commenced
the practice of medicine in Memphis in i he spring of
the same year.
On the breaking oul of the war in 1861, be identified
himself with the Confederate cause, and in July or Au
gust of thai year passed a satisfactory examination be
fore the state board of medical examiners al Nash
ville, and was commissioned assistant surgeon for the
Tennessee State troops, by Gov. [sham G. Harris, and
;i signed to duty with the arl illery arm of the service,
stationed above Memphis, on the Mississippi river, in
November, lsiil.be was present al the battle of Bel
nt, Missouri. In March, L862, he was with his com
mand al tl ngagements at [sland No. L0, and New
Madrid, Missouri. In May, 1862, he was commissioned
surgi by the war department at Richm I, I was
made surge f divisioi the staff of Major Gen. J.
I' McCown, who commanded :i divisi f Gen. Karl
VanDorn's corps, then al Corinth, Mississippi. This
was rapid promotion for so young a man, but subsequent
events proved thai Surgeon Thornton well merited such
distinguished recognition. He was on Gen, McCown
i. ill al the battles of Perryville, October 8, 1862, and
Murfreesborough, December 31, L862, and January 1.
L863.
In the summer of 1863, he was assigned to duty as
chief surgeon of division on the staff of Major-I ren. A .
P. Stewart, al Chattai a; was with ibis divisional
the battle of Chickam: a, September L9 and 20, L863,
and al I koul Mountaii <l Missionary Ridge in No
vember 1863; was with this division at Dalton, Georgia,
in the winter of 1863 I and in all the engagements of
the \ niiy ofTenne ee throughout the bloodj uei
of 1864.
He was mi the staff of Major Gen II D, Clayton, "I
Alabama, as chiel surge f division, al the battle oi
Franklin, and in front of Nashville, in the fall of L864.
At the re-organization oi the armj in North Carolina,
in tin -|n f L865, be was assigned to dutj on the
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staff of Major (Jen. Iv C. Walthall, oi Mississippi, with
whom his military career terminated, lie was with the
Army of Tennessee from its organization in Tennessee,
in 1861, to its capitulation in North Carolina, in 1865;
with I lie except i if Shiloli ; was present it I ovcrj great
battle ii fought; was with bis command on all its
marches and campaigns ; wa pn ent al it organization
and afr its dissolution- in other words, saw its Alpha
and i t . < > ] i it
It is bul jus! in note thai Dr. Thornton was the
youngest division surf n in the Confederate army.
Being fond of operative surgery, and having acquired a
i' i ii M I theoretical knowledge of its principles prior to the
war, his position afforded him the amplest opportunity
for practicing thcarl in bis field hospitals. This large
and valuable experience rendered him tin fail subse
quently, when in charge of the City Hospital al Mem
phis, or as occasion offered, in private practice The
knowledge gathered and the experience acquired in
these four years of active military life were likewise
beneficia I to I the ad i i rat ion ol t he civil of
liees he held.
lie returned to Memphis in August, 1st;."), ami n
siimeil practice. In September, 1866, he was elected
assistant physician for the City Hospital of Memphis,
then under the chat of l>r .1 . M. Keller, now of Hoi
Spring Vrkansas, tl ffice of assistant resident phy-
sician being made necessary to moot the demands ci d
by an epidemic of cholera which occurred in Memphis
thai year. He resigned this position in 1867, and was
elected physician in charge, October, 1868, l>.\ tl iiy
c cil, which position he held until February, 1879,
when he resigned, This was i ncral hospital for the
i real nieiii of all kind of n dical and in gical cases.
The official reports show an average of al I two thou
sand patients treated annually. During Dr. Thornton's
administration, Memphis was visited by four epidemics
nt infect imis diseases: One of smallpox, iii the winter
of 1872 .'!; a limited epidemic of cholera in the spring
of IsT.'I. an epidemic of yellow fever in the latter pari
of t be si i miner ami early fall of 1873, ami I lie great epi-
demic of yellow fever in 1878, i unencing in Vn-u i
and ending in No\ enibi r, in h hich Memphis losl uol
less ill. iii three thousand of its population by death
I h: Thornton profe ional ex periencc during the
years of his official connection with this institut was
ccrtainlj varied I extensive, and bis abilities as a
profe ional man and administrative officer are fullj al
ii ted bj bi- being retained for nearly elc\ en cot
i i\ e \ ear- i hrough all t he i hange incident to munici
pal government, and that, too, when its local political
iii. were very unstable. In February, 1879, he re
igned In offii i i [)h ician to tin Citj Hospital hi
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PHOMINEXT TEXXESSE VXS.
lu'ahli 1 ■ . ■ 1 1 1 l: hi lull impaired b) his duties during the
last luiiued epidemic, witli the determination to ■
himself oxelush el) to private practice
I uler the uewl) organized cit) iroveriinient lie was
ottered and accepted the positi if president of the
Pit) Board of II ealth. The sanil i adit ion "I' the
it this tiniewas dreadful The following extract
from the first annual report of the Board of Health,
published in 1880. for the year LS79. but partial I) ex
presses its i audition "( In the subsidence of tin
demic of ls7s.<he city seenmd literally paralyzed, be
being in n worse sanitar) condition in ever) re
sped than ever before ; and the winter passed wi
an effort being made worthy of mention toward general
sanitary work Consequently, on the organization of this
Hoard of 1 [ealth, in February, 1870, the task of perfect-
in . system of sanitation to an extent at all commensn
h uli tin' necessities of the occasion, with the facili
ties at it > command, was more than could lie reasonabl)
expected of the new board eti hi .1 til) of 1 v7'.'. \ el
lew fever again appeared and la-ted until frost lite in
* >etober. This office Mr. Thornton has held to the pn -
cut time. The same earnestness ol purpose and fidelity
to dut) has characterized him in this, as in the preeed-
iii office \\ ithin the period of live years, from being
one of the most uiisanitan places in the country, Mem
phi- i- now one ol the most cleanly, and is full) abreast
with the most advanced in all thin-- pertaining to
lie hygiene. As president ol' the Board of Health, he
hi- enjoyed the full support of the city government and
the confidence ol' the people,
\-nle from hi- official life. Dr. Thornton ha- devoted
his time to private practice, and taken active part in the
medical organizations of the daw lie was a member of
tin' Memphis Medical Society during its existence before
and after the war . i- a member of the Shelb) Count)
Medical Socict) from it- organization: one year was it-
re-iilent : i- a member of the Medical Society of
tin- Siate of Tennessee, since May. IS7S, and was made
vice president from West Tennessee in April, lS7!),and
was its president in 1SS1 S2: is a member of the \nieri
can Medical Association since l>77: a member of the
American Public Health Association since 187!): was a
member of the advisory council of this association in
1883 vl of its executive committee for 1SS1 5, and one
of its vice presidents for 1885 SG. In the fall of LS70 he
was appointed a member of the Ten - i:
of Health, b) Gov. \ S Marks, to lill a vacancy occa-
sioned b\ the resignation of l>r. It. B. Maury, and on
the expiration "l' hi- term, was re-commissioned by
I \u\ \\ B Kale. April I. 1883
[)r. Thornton i- the author ol several essays which
have attracted fa\ orable comment from the medical and
sanitary journals, ami were received with great favor by
those interested in these subjects oue on yellow fever,
its patholog) and treatment, with clinical note- on one
hundred and forty eases treated in City Hospital in 1878,
which he read before the Stato» Medical Societ) at its
annual meeting in Nashville, April. 187!', and which
wa- published in the transactions of that year . oue on
"open treatment for amputation-, py.emia ami septi-
cemia, with noie- on a number of cases illustrating
this method, trealed in the same hospital; read before
the socict) at Knoxville. and published in it- transac-
tions i. i 1880; an address a- president o\' the society,
r
delivered at the annual meeting in Memphis. May. 18S2,
ami published in transactions of that year: an
on the yellow fever epidemic of 1-7'.', a- it occurred
in Memphis that year, and read before the Public 1 1 ealth
Vssociation at ii- seventh annual meeting in Nashville,
November, 1870, ami published in vol. 5 of '"Reports
ami Paper- of that societ) . one on '"Memphis sani-
tation and iiurantine. 1870 and 1880." read before the
same body at it- meeting in New Orleans, December,
1880, and published in vol. ti ; one on "negro inor
tality of Memphis," read before the same society at In-
diana poli-. October, 1882, and published in vol. 8 ; also
five annual reports to the Legislative Couucil of the cit)
of Memphis, as president of the Board of Health; a
report to the State Board of Health on the epidemics
in Tennessee in 1881 and 1882. 1 le has also contributed
se\ era] other paper- to medical journals on professional
subjects.
Dr. Thornton married Miss Louisa Hullum, of Mem-
phis, in December, lSo'9, a lady of culture and refiue
ment : a true type ni' a Southern gentlewoman, ami a
member of the Protestaut K pi -en pal church. She died
in .1 um. 1 -7o. Iea\ ing him two young children— a daugh-
\ una May Thornton, and a son,GustavusB. Thoru-
. both at present at school in \ irginia.
In polities Dr Thornton has been a Democrat all his
life, a- were his ancestors before him. since the organi-
zation of the party. He was never a member of any
church: ha- been a Master Mason about (went) years.
JUDGE SAMUEL A. RODGERS.
THIS prominent jurist, whose time off the bench is present- a fine type of a judge who ha- attained a coin-
"l'ied in farming on scale pctenc) by method- of strict integrity, know- the value
orn and cattle, and in rearing his family of success and how to enjoy it
in tb I eouutr) style He was born in K 1 in ssec. Ma
PROMINENT TKNNKSSK VNS
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L830. tie was brought uj a farm ul Liurtl labor lii
father being a solid, well to do farmer ; :i man of unu
sual energy and firmness of character, who taughl bis
children to work and to avoid idleness as one of the
direst evils. In this way young Itodgers' earliest strug
gles began in driving wagons and following the plow, in
hauling I and assi ting al i bis father's mills I > >
these means he built up a g I constitution, grew to
manhood a strong, hearty, robust specimen of the young
i intaineer. He was fond of the chase and rifle, but
his early prevailing tastes were for literary pursuits
and the practice of law. His early school opportuni
lies were limited until lie was sixteen years old, when
he was sent to the private county schools of the neigh-
borhood some three or [bur years, Afterward becoming
tired of school, in the winter of 1851 2, he went to t'al
Hernia, where he stayed until 1853, spending a year in
the gold mines. In the fall of ls">'! he returned, and
remained through the year 1854 on Ins father's farm as
genera] manager,
[n September, 1855, he entered the literary depart
incut of Cumberland University, Lei n, remained
there three years, graduated in 1858, completing a course
of Latin, Greek, French and Spanish, besides the regu
1 ; 1 1 curriculum. While al college he was president of
his society The Amasaga ian and passed through the
course with honor. He returned to Knox county, studied
law al I a year under linn. John Baxter, present
United Slates circuit judge; in the fall of 1859, ob
lainod license to practice from Chancellor T. Nixon Van
Dyke, and .Indue George Brown, and entered into pari
nership with Hon. 0, P. Temple (whose sketch see
elsewhere), and with hira practiced until the c 'ts were
closed, in L862, by the presence of the armies and the
disturbing influences of the war. During the war he
remained in East Tennessee, taking no pari in the con
test, believing that course his duty as a private citizen.
His attachment to the governmenl of the United States
was firm and unwavering during the entire struggle; he
not believing in the doctrine of secession, either upon
legal principles or principles of sound policy. Upon the
return ul' order and the re-opening oi the courts, he
again went into the practice of his profession in pari
nership with Judge Temple. After a few months' prac
tice, the firm found it necessary to take in another part
ner, which they did in the person of Judge Andrews,
since oi f the supreme judges of the State. After a
still further continuance of the business until the be
ginning of the winter of 1867 s he withdrew from the
firm, sold nut his interest in the partnership in his pan
ners. ami took hi.- wife and lur grandmother to Califor
nia, via New York and Panama for the wife's health.
Alter spending something over a year in Santa Cruz
county, California, his wife's health being restored, he
returned to Tennessee and opened a law office al Leu
don, where he remained till 1878, when he was elected
to the office of judge ol the Third judicial circuit, em
bracing t he count n - i>j K nox Blount . Loudon, Monroe
and I Inane, ter xpiriug September 1 . 1880.
Before the war Judge Rodgei> voted the Whig ticket,
1 :e i he war lie has been a Republican ' 1 1 eh
never actively engaged in politics, lie is a .Master Ma
son, a Cumberland Presbyterini£"and an elder in his
church, I le slates with emu me in la hie pride thai lie has
been for sumo fifteen years a Sundaj school superin-
tendent.
A distinctive characteristic of Judge Rodgors in the
ethics of a praei it i ii' of law is to compromise nil
and thus remov ' sul'ion the asperities oi life between
fellow citizens. This he has often dune from a senseof
loyalty to duly, and oftentimes, too, at his own pecuni
ary sacrifii c
It is said he has kept hundreds of peopl it of law
suits by advice of this kind. He himself refers to liis
course in this pari of his historj as the most pleasant of
his life, The Masterof us all. in his wonderful scr
on the mount, said: "Blessed are the peace makers.'
Judge Rodgers father, William Rodgors, was born
and raised, lived and died in Knox county, Tennessee
He accumulated considerable property as a farmer and
mill owner. 1 1 1- i rity was beyond question, and he
» a a leading 1 1 ong minded man. n ho forced his way
and left his impressii n the world. He was a soldier
in the war oi 1812; for twenty five years was a justice
of the peace, I was an elder in the Concord church,
the first Cumberland Presbyterian church planted east
of Cumberland intaiiis. Judge Rodgers' grandfather,
Joseph Rodgers, was an Irishman, who early immi
grated to this country, and lived and died a farmer in
Knox county, His wife was formerly Miss Elizabeth
D 1-' hi. an immediate relative of the well known
family nl that name living in Jefferson county, Tei ssee.
Judge RodgerN mother, ue< Miss Mahala Lowe, was
born iu Knox county, daughter of \lu,nn and Elizabeth
Lowe, and lived from an early day at what is now known
as Lowe's Ferry, on the Tennessee river in a block
I se built al thai plaee, ami which »a a general ren
dezvous for the while settlers, who had often to defend
themselves from the incursions of the Choctaw Indians,
A brain Lowe came over to I his e. i ii n I ry from Germanj
His wife was the di liter of an Englishman named
Martin.
Gen.S. D.W. Lowe, of Knox county, is Judge Rodgers'
maternal uncle, He is a large farmer and stock raiser.
and new owns ami occupies 1 1 hi homestead describi d
above. He is distinguished for his elevated bearing a
a milil ia man and for his splendid ehara. ti r
Judge Rodgers' only sister, Ann Amanda Rodgers,
is now the wife of S. L. Russell, i rchant and far-
mer at (' oiil, Knox county, Judge Rodgers had
five brothers, viz.: .lane M., Joseph \. \l.ram W..
George l» and William l>. Rodgers, all of whom ex
cept -In i i .Ii Y Rodgers, wenl to California to reside at
various dates since the war \hram W. Rodgei dud
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Tennessee II-
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Chan . Ii .1 \\ l.n, k< .i M iss lihoa, .
mil cousin ol' M i s Hod tors, l'i f llhoii wit
nainoil for the lilu n l'i
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ol' Hi,' linn ol' rowan, M, Vim X i l\ ■. \ ill,-, mar
Miss Hi t-r of the late -lam
on the hem h ol'tlie 11 loll he
is in i hi ami ii, -n lie, no or noisy, a Inn pi or seolilin
(lint oit\ M I - Ii"! ioi - un Miss
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rariner ami stm ; I
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I'ls, was a |irominonl Methodist minister in North
M I! •,; ,": ,.',-. luotlioi Vloxai K'l' I'.
development ami nolivity. To ,1" riyhl seems to lie his
lir-i ami hiuhest aim ilarity, hut
li, on prinoiple ami liir the love of rishl His oonsoion
lllliosl in: \ i lied le llii--. na
lure hlessoil him with a kiml heart, a sorono leniper.
now ol fchtiai mi Texas i Cannot' ami stock happx sympatliotio lioart,
v ■ r 1 1 : ,, M ,iinn . i ivanl ill W ithal he is
! : .lohn. linn, sincere ami truthful Ilo does not wear all those
Nellie, Louise li".i ■•■■■ in iiialitios as a cloak to win popularity, hut they are the
\| ' i; ,,: . ■ , \ i hens I'Yiu th I ions of his nai hi II . . i . :
:- a moiuhor el' (ho I'liniborhind l'i of the success of.lud • li ■■ 1 era a- a public man. I
church; is a lad\ of hri>;hl, sunnj disp ml is shouli truthfulness, justice,
einineiiil.i iitilitnriau ill I ami tiilolitj to duty ami friends, combined with i
|'»i ] li Miss ll lildso li
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CAPT. ■! \ VIES M. GOODH \R.
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, eleven , vein oi igi II' I 1 1 1 ■ i - 1 - 1 1 1 < - /oil to again piii'duiscd i Ici'i-mI. in llio I noil i I
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youl Ii. lie, i"". rial urall iici|i I i turtle foi i linn
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1857 lie went to Niwhvillo and began lii n n
eli 1 1 foi I'.i .in fin i| VlcWbirti i' .v. ' '" h bob all di
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(ilnrj ba ving heen in th ■ I in
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Marly in I H(>2 Mr i loodb ir i he Confederal
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II, tool pari in the battle ol Mui I
borough Pen ilb md ill 'I" othci fighl ol Krn
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year I" ■ li ■: i i mi I' hi " menl with
the rank of cuj ' ■ ci mtil
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PROMINENT th\\i:-i: \.\-
ilia. Slu' is now the' widow of Dr. I'\
(' . I ' nul by him lias two
i ■ 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 ■ < 1 1 . I1' rank 1'. and Annie Bell. (21 Mar,\ C
-I ; 1 1 1 1 1 ; i ) > 15, 1858: educated al Rogersville Female Col
Ma\ 2(1. 1881. to John K Shields, a
lawyer, and son of' lion, dames T. Shields, of H
Stati< 0 r 1. 1SS1 ' lion.
James T Shii where in this volun
i ii -I une 21, 18(10 ed uea
in whieh
draw : ~ lueated in these arts
in ili at Bosl hi, Mass I
N*i ill. horn April IT. I8(i3; •
: ' pal inusie
Female Coll Kate P.,
i in . 1 SliC, and edueai i I al Lloj: - ille Female
Colli I i i e S Iiui H \1 n I. ISo'3
m was next married al R igersi ille No
r IS, 1ST I. : i Miss Penelope Elizabeth N'eill,
• s\ ille.
and ui ! Neill, hanker at same place. She
ier 21, 1 v 12. an tnd-daughter of
Samuel Neill. - 1 chant of 11
herine I ' Hal.
Her only full sister. - n ife of James
• I. Mitchell, secretary and treasun Easl Ten
\ irgin ia mid Georgia ra iiy, at
i\ >i ille. Her t\\ re Eva, wife of C. \.
Dossi - tli. wife of
John Grisham. Her tun full brothers are George II.
Xeill. of Columbus, Geoi William II. Neill, of
I Kentucky. Her her, Alfred T..
u. M rs. Fulkerson i- a graduate
lb i - le Female College, and is a zealous meuil
the Presbyterian church i lady of pronounced
character, energetic in whatever sin- undertakes, and is
sts. Two chil-
dren have been the result of the second mar
Elizabeth S rn August 24.1875. i2>. Frank
Xeil ; IT. l^TT
W . return now to the principal subject of i
ut ten years old. Francis M. Fulkerson came
witli his lather's family t ; Te m
where he grew to the age of twenty, working on the farm
and atl hool. lie then ent
ersville as clerk, on the not ver\ princely salan of one
hundl iard. At the end of the
year he found himself with hut little money, though
with wledge of business. Tin M, -. can war
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died throu i .1. in IS47,
I 1 1 'apt James II.
: I Col Richard W,;
If' sen war in the capacity
ofordi ion he was appointed
: lit. 'file
men! uz. Jalapa, Puebla. and the r
Mexie stationed at the last named place at the
time the treaty of peaee was COllclll
Returnin 11 184S, ( 'el. Fulkerson read
V land for about two
- licensed t" practice by
Chancellor Thomas L William- and'Judge Seth J. \V.
if I he eil'el \ JCaVS p:
removed t" Tazewell, rJ
about eight \ ears. In ing live
of I he i inie clerk and master by appointmi
: I n I 35!) In' nt nrned te Rogers\ ille.
where In- has ever since residi
i ix years he practiced in pan in
with lion. John Nethcrland and .lame- T. Shields, and
ai different I inies sinci ha- had S. 1
mitt. I. C. Walker ami A. D. lluffniaster. th
nami I him.
In 18(33 Mr Fulkerson was elected to tin nate,
luit owing ie the disturbed state of the country, by
reason of the war. the General Assembly failed to
ii' Mr, Fulkerson was a 1 temocrat, dur-
he war he « ,- a pronounci hern man.' and
Democrat. In 18(11 he was
i' for the Tenth district, on the Davis am
phens ticket, but made no canvass, there being no o
ing ticket. In 1883 I he represented Hawkins county
in tie I are. ha\ tug been elected by si
ity. notwithstanding tie steady
or the opposite party in the county. One
term seemed te have satisfied him with legislative ser
vice and honors, since no amount of persuasion could
induce him te stand foi ion, which he could
certainly have secured.
In IS5:i Col. Fulkerson became a member of the
Order of Odd Fellows, and in 1883 of the Knigli
II iv. lie i- now president of the board of trusi
the I! Female I ollege. lie i- an ael h e niem-
of the Pre church. Inn i the
church at Tazewell, in IS52 lie was for live years a
1 'Well, and ha- been
such fur tour years at 1!"
Cnl. Fulkerson may justl.i he called a successful man.
lie ha- always -teed deservedly high in his profession.
His devotion to his clients interests is proverbial, and
yet he would scorn te advance his client's cause by
any nt the "sharp practice-" characteristic of the
pettifogger. While conscientiously attending to his
-ional engagements, hi- busiuess education has
I him a good purpose him to carry
profitable interests in several enterprises. He is a suc-
cessful fanner, a- well a- lawyer, and takes real pride
in his herd of Jersey cattle, lie ha- also been engaged
in the tanning business, and ha- an interest in a 1 t
and shoe factory in Rogersville. Besides, he is a mem-
ber of the firni of Fulkerson Chesnutl a Ci
in ijuarrying the beautiful Hawkins county marble.
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Col. Fulkerson is a man of pleasing manners and
honest methods. There is probably nol a man in the
whole State who enjoys to a higher degree than he the
esteem and confidence of the community in which he
lives. Asa citizen and neighbor, he is prompt to 'I"
whatever a sense of duty suggests to I"' right. As a
lawyer, while he is zealous, he is also conscientious,
neither grinding the unfortunate with exorbitant fees,
nor leading the litigiously-inclined ini<> lawsuits which
his own judgment condemus. When called by the
people of his county to represent them in the Leg
islature, he showed that he could lay aside the mere
partisan anil vote and act according to the dictates of
his judgment ami conscience. Mis personal iufiuence
is ever on tin' side of virtue ami in the interest of lau
ami order. The Christian church has no better friend
than t'nl. V. M. Fulkerson, nor the Stair a more purr
ami upright citizen.
COL. WILLIAM F. TAYLOR.
Ml: Ml' II IS.
THE gentleman whose name heads this biographi-
cal sketch presents a splendid type of a gallant
soldier, an excellent civilian, a successful merchant of
high-toned integrity, and a modest, sincere Christian,
whose good fortune has been carved out mainly through
his own indomitable energy ami business probity.
William P. Taylor was born in Madison county, Ala-
bama, -Inly 11. 1835, ami remained there until Feb-
ruary, 1848, when he moved with his grandfather,
Charles Taylor, to Shelby county, Tennessee, ami with
the exception of four years spent in the war, has lived
in that county ever since, residing in Memphis since
January, 1853,
The Taylor family is distinctly connected with the
family of which President Zachary Taylor was a mem-
ber— a fact, however, which Col. Taylor's grandfather,
Charles Taylor, refused in his modesty to admit, ami
used tn say. with pride, that he " was not a member of
a branch of the Taylor family; was never indicted or
sued in his life, and never ran for office," traits which
have been transmitted and are characteristic of the
family, who are rather retiring in their disposition,
avoiding all publicity nut necessarily incident to the
post of duty. Charles Taylor was born in Granville
county. North Carolina: w'as a farmer, and. indeed,
almost the entire family were agriculturists, lie mar-
ried .Miss Mary Turner, and died near Hernando, Miss-
issippi, in his seventy-sixth year. lie was the father of
six children, three of wl preceded hint ill death.
Of hi> children who survived him: (1). Lucy Ann
Taylor, died the widow of Stephen W. Rutland, DeSoto
county, Mississippi. (2). Edmund .1. Taylor, is now
living, a farmer, at Elgin, Arkansas; was a soldier in
tin' .Mexican war from Alabama, and merchandised in
Memphis a number of years. (•'!). Martha J.Taylor,
died the widow- ol George Douglass, a farmer, Erst in
Alabama and then in Mississippi. ( H t he children who
died before their father: (I). Charles Taylor, died in
DeSoto county, Mississippi. (-). John T. Taylor, father
of the subject of this sketch, died in Alabama when
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the sou was only five years old. (•'!). lioberl H.Taylor,
died in DeSoto county. Mississippi,
John 'I'. Taylor, the father of ( 'of Taylor, was born
in Granville county, North Carolina; moved to Alabama
when quite young; there married, lived a planter and
school teacher, ami died at the age of thirty-three,
leaving four children: (1). John II. Taylor, now in
Memphis in mercantile life. (2). Charles X. Taylor,
died forty five years of age, a successful planter in
Shelby county. Tennessee. (3). William I''. Taylor,
subject of this sketch. (4). .Mary T. Taylor, died in
childhood.
Col. Taylor's mother, net Miss Martha A, Ford, was
bom in Cumberland county, \ irginia; was a Methodist;
a lady of quiet, unpretending nature ; a noble character,
endowed will] goodness of heart, and was noted for
allaying of strife in her circle, and blessed by all who
knew her as a Christian peace-maker. She managed
the small estate left her by her husband s, , as to give
her children a liberal education. She was herself a
good biblical scholar, fond of reading, and set her chil-
dren the example of self-denial and almost of self-ab-
negation, and was one of those intelligent, practical
women, all devotion, who lill the world with sunshine
ami with happiness. She died at her home in .Mem
phis, in March, L872. at tin age of sixty-three. She
was a paternal niece of Dr. Hezekiah Ford, a celebrated
physician of Virginia. She bad no sister, and but one
brother, Newton Ford, a mercl t at Memphis, and a
member of several firms in that city : in L847-8 of the
firm of Ford, Taylor & Robins drj goods); from
L849 to L859, a planter in Shelby county, Tennessee:
from 1859 to 1862, of the firm of F. Lane & Co., grocers
and cotton factors; after the war. L865 to 1870, of the
linn of Newton Ford & Co., in the grocery and com
mission business; from L870 to L873, of the firm of
Ford, Porter & Co. He died in 1st:;, at t he a f
sixty two. He w i at one time vice president of the
first National Hank of Memphis.
William F. Taylor, under the benign infli
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Memphis, anil ai Soulo Female College, Murfreesbo- oluiion to live within his income ami keep out of debt.
n mi which latter institution she graduated in As a man ol" business he is correct, careful ami atten
Ib'bisoii died liih ilaj of M u , ,1] !,i, ,r \ soldier, he was the
,vs:' Thus idol of his comrades, ami never ordered his men into
Christian woman, a true and faith sit ion of danger he was not willing to lead them.
1,1,1 !l '>e\ They had lle| esses that calm, quiet, cool ami collected bravery
hildren. ,!,.„ distinguishes the hero, challenges the admira-
P»'' l;"! i member of the Methodist tion of the historian, and enkindles anew in the 1
Mr. Bohinson was a Presbyterian uriot the tires tism Beloved by all
Col. Rohb i with nothing, and has made v. i man of strong friendships, and with a
mself a competeuey, and is now in comfortable host of strong friends such a man cannot fail to be a
circumstances If rs adhered strictly to a res a I eiti
COL. R. IH'Ol.l'Y FRAYSER,
TIM' sub eel "I this sketch belongs to that
lion nithlul hopes and plans were rudely
smitten by the 1 Ic was born in the
riiy of Memphis. .1 une I, I s 10, I l»r .lohn
It Frayser, an eminent physician of thai city. ili>
itiou w as
Memphis, though he w 1 teacher,
I ii the fall
of 1858 he entered the Kentucky Military Institute.
and graduated ii - lietorian in
wo, nearly all ot' whom lost their
i war, holding some rank, some on the
ino on the Federal side. Voting Pray
set' had determined, at an early day. to be a lawyer, and
during dn- summer vacations, had been reading law at
the school of the celebrated Thomas P. Monroe, Tinted
- district judge lor the Louisville district, lie
of Bachelor of Laws at ibis school, and
the degree of Rachel Vrts at the Institute lie
returned to Memphis, where he had hoped to embark
at once in the practice of his ■ rind
that the dread i of impending war had
ma) business in his chosen depart-
ment, as well as in most others, and that the only
of a young man was in ' [|
ingly company P. .'iTtli iment
of infantry, first commanded by Polonel, afterwards
ral, William 11. Carroll, of Memphis-
he was m .nt of the
meut, and - such until the reorganization of the
army ai Corinth, in the summer of ISlC when he was
made lieutenant colonel. After the battle t>\' Mu
' ' inber ol , ISlfcJ, to January ';
dated w ith the Fifteenth I
and li inued as lieutenant colonel till tin
of the war. lie surrendered at Cli North Caro-
lina, being at the time, a- fieer, in command \'\'
T 1> Smith's, formerly Tyler's, brigade. R
inn 'fhe firs! battle in which he « - I was that
at Pishing Creek. Kentucky, in which lien. Zollieoffer
lied. January, 1802, at Murfreesborough, he was
lined in tlie neck, ! i| from his horse
as he went into the fight on the first day of the battle.
After this, on account of his wound, he «:i-
L-ominandant a: Ringgold, Catoosa Springs
and Paltoi i, until just before the battl
Chickatuaiiga, when he became engaged in active ser-
i rain, took part in the battle "f Chiekaiuauga and
all til. of the Oalton and Atlanta campaign.
\ 'lie batth \ nta, he was taken severely ill
which kept him from the field until ju-t after the bat-
tle of Beiltonville, North Carolina, when he rejoined
mmand. Re< i iving his parole at Charlotte. North
Carolina, he. with several other officers, rode across the
country to Columbus, Mississippi, where they sold their
mules and wagons, and took the cars for Memphis.
where he lauded in Ma) :v'>"> Shortly afterward he
resumed the study of law with -Indue 1!. J. Morgan,
■ ■iiiently became chancellor, was admitted to
the bar in the tall id formed a partnership
with I tor in the linn of Morgan A Frayser,
which firm continued until 1S70. when they took into
partnership Mr. Milton P. Jarnagin. and formed the
firm ol M Jarnagin A Frayser. The firm always
and lucrative practice. \fter -Indue Mor-
gan went upon the bench, the firm of Javuagiu & Fray-
ser was formed, and continued until the fall of l1-'-."-
when Mr Jarnagin gave up law. moved to Fast Ton-
:n farming and stock raising Col
Frayser then took into partnership his younger brother,
David, a recent graduate of the Harvard law school.
and Mr. Thomas M. Scruggs, a graduate of the Pniver-
sity of Virginia, 'fhe linn of Frayser ,\ ; - was
formed and has continued to tin- present time, one of
the leading firms of the Memphis bar.
» i- raised a Democrat, but was op-
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ion, and while at college
would often tell lii- associates wha the results
' ich a ■ rid oft reli rred to the proclam
of Andrew Jackson during the nullification struggle,
lint when he returned to Tennessee he went with his
people, and fought through the war, to find at it- close
that his j i classmates, four years bi
een fulfilli d. He ha ■ m v< r held office, and has
been a candh : except
1872 when his name tin conven ion for
<•' i ation for the Li isla ire. 1 1 ha fi i f|uent ly
it ion ■. but has
lolitician. < In the i
h to avoid complicat ii If with tin
of politii that whatever attention he
e in that direct ion would be bestowed at I he
f lii- professional and --. While
i hi- i- so, he has never been indiffi ilitical
condition of the country, nor has he been
positi political opinion. II" i- a man ol
view-, and during the agitation <>i' the
debt question in T i operated with
what whs known as the wing of the Demo
eratic part] II1 n a -:■ rnly opposed to an;
adjustment " th tided the i reditors ol the State
from an) participation in He
renni i mrse in rej ard to her debt, but is willing
now to let by-g - I"- ( and join I
i he majority.
Col. Frayser became a Mason in 1863 a a lodge
in DeSoto ci inty, Mis issippi, where he was raised to
the degri e of Master Mason. He is now a meml
! nphis. I le joined I hi
Order of Odd Fellows, at Memphis, in 1873, filled all
the subordinate offices of the order, and became
Grand Master of the Stan- in October, 1880. During
the summer of 1881, he visited the different d
of tli ■ cturing upon the principles and ceremo-
nies of the order, to which he i- much He
is now on< of the trustees in the Odd Hull
and Li Liu r \ nation of Mem phi.-, and a member of
Chickasaw Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. He is ilso .< member of
the Knights of Honor. II" is large!; interested in rail-
prises. 1 1" was, for -'■■'. eral . i
in the Memphis and Charleston railroad company. II"
valuable in id Tennessei
railroad, and is ot f the chief owners of the Vlen
city railwaj it controlli
ity of its stock, ■ ind has sin >nl of
the company, which position he now holds. II" i
a stockholder in several banks, being a director and at-
torney for the Union and Planters' Bank of Memphis,
one of the largest and most reliable, monied corpora-
tions in the southwest. II" i- a director in the Van-
derbilt Insurance Company, the Pioneer Cotton Mill,
and has filled tl sition in several other com par
If i- also a director of the Memphis Law Librarj Asso
on, and president of the Odd Fellows' Reliei
ciation, and Memphis Abstract Com pat mere
that i ''.I no common m
was man u :. I8t>7 '■■ Miss
daughter ol Fletcher Lane, of Memphis,
who of tin- Ii and ,.,„„.
mission im of the ei connected with
many of the most important I. auk- and iusuranci
man in all
MIM L tive of (ii ni man in
that State
Col. Frayser has three children : (1). Paul
I I!. Dudli .-. jr.
Mrs Fi nd of her
home, I" r hush hildren. She i- remark-
able for attrac of manners and amiability of
disposition, and is a ,-orite in the social circle,
an earnest and consistent member of tli" Metho-
dist church, which she joined in her girlhood, and
while always taking a great interest in church m
and always willing to assist and do her utmost in her
church, al the same time she docs not forget homi
hold duties. ('..I Frayser is strictly orthodox in
and. while not a member of any religious
organization, believes in encouraging all d de-
nomina He is charitable n hen a proper
present); itself; and has an abhorrence for displ
any kind in I ters.
When Co er returned to Memphis after the
war, h i from the "ground floor," having noth
h ch In- feels
sufficient start for any young man, and a
for obtaining a compcti
II" has mad" an independent fortune by his
Kcrtions, owning, in addition to his railroad and
banking interests, a large plantation in -■ 'Unty,
and another in connection with Col. John Overton, jr.,
in Tipton county; also a large interest in the Bon
Aqua Sprii iciation, in Hickmau county, Ten
- nl u hiil I try and tri He is
i li"li"\ er in life insurance, and ea I ies to
the amount of over $30,000.
: n er to buy any I - he
needi d it I hen ui he had the money to pay
for it. He has always had an abhorrence of indebted
nd of promises to pay without paying.
Col iund.
nil business. He i- a m
•in-- and posii of character, guided
rather by convictions of right than i erations of
policy. II position on questions that concern
equivocal or doubtful. He is a man of
small stature, weighing now only about one hundred
and nine pounds, and never having exceeded
hundred and twenty pounds in v
Besses am amount of energy and capacity for work.
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ih] power with which In
undertakes. II. mark-
lity in hanilliii '. matters. 1 lo
1 pos
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daily in hi> i
For I !!. Dudley
inline the sketch of
1 11. 1'r.iy-, r, which aiipears else-
wli . . in i lii- i
.It'LHlE T, \V. TURLEY.
T-r was
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rear l~!>0. - jnal virion acliieved by the
] erward that same
I I Judge Turley's
under peculiar circuiiistanees.
d, ho left Virginia at the age of eigh-
When In lied the Ti n •, or, at the
moutl it what is now I irainger county,
1 « ith Mich merchandise as
I to 1 ndian traffic, which, w iili the
., ho li\ i'd in the neighborhood. It
N k cave, and was put in charge
nl' throe men, with instructions to float down to the
i-t one hundred miles west of any of the
i ' x. citing Turley
they pushed oft", and asked permis-
11 is
ind in due time the
voyagers readied tli led their
hoy securely iastenod, intendii I with such
barter as thet uiigli
their trinkets, ami carry bark to tin- owner. Although
a time of ~ he Indians were
\ he cat e the first day. but
tin:; rocks
in almost all din mil a very noticeable ta,
scalping knives in their belts. The first
night one of the tod without notice to his
companions. The n< he Indian- seemed still
shy. but more numerous. The two men wli
•ROMINENT TENNHSSF V.XS.
uiained became \> ry uneasy and made some rocounoi
ance md found i hat the < 'hei okee h In i w ere sitting
around at so manj points not onlj bad their scalping
knives, but all seemed engaged in whetting them and
Peeling the sharp edges. The men told whal the.') bad
seen, bul never disclosed to Turley their intentions.
The nexl morning both of Turley s companions were
.- '' and be was left alone to barter with i In sa\ i
and perha p to bi come i be victim of their i i-eachcr\
Bul be boldly faced the responsibility and remained ai
In- post. Three weeks afterward other men were sen!
down who reloaded the g Is and returned with i lu-m
Turley, although very young, bad had some experience
in [ndian life, and said he w a - I be least afraid of
them. He took care of the goods, and not an article
was stolen or otherwise lost. He trafficked with the In
dians a lit tie and rel urned with I he boal . h hen he re
ceived the warm thanks of Col. Ore, He died thirty
three years afterward within half a mile of the bank
where he boarded the keelboal for the Nickajack cxpe
dition.
Judge Turlej - mother was a splendid speei u of
the pioneer women who acted such conspicuous and
heroic parts in the settlement of the western country.
She was born in V irginia, bul was brought by her fal her
also a Revolutionary soldier, to the banks of the Hoi
stun, in Ivist Tennessee, while the territorial govern
in. 'Mi of Tennessee was in force, and upon, or near the
1 milks of thai rivet he lived for more than eighty years,
dying in 1879, in the ninetieth year of her age. For
robusl health and the ai mt of household labor she
could and did perform, she had no superior in her day.
For a period of fifty eighl consecutive years, she never
used ;i particle of medicine, such as doctors prescribe,
In 1876, a family reuniou was held a( her house. She
had raised nine children, all al thai time living. It had
bi in thirty eighl ■ ears since thej were all « it h her al
the same time. She and her descendants on thai daj
numbered precisely one hundred, quite a remarkable
coincidence, il being the centennial year of American
I ndependence
The literary and legal attainments of Judge Thomas
\V. Turlej were acquired by solitary study. It maybe
t rut Ii I'nlK said he was a scholar without a teacher,
and a lawyer without a preceptor. Fifteen dollars
would cover nil tuition fees paid his school masters,
lie was, from a child, remarkably fond of reading,
Mini eagerly devoured every book he could find or
borrow. In East Tennessee, fifty or sixty
pineknots, usually called "lightwood," were the princi-
pal illuminator in t he absence of t he sun, Vlosl fami
lies made il a poini to keep pint on hand as regularlj i
they did meal or meal. Ii was well iindersl I in the
family thai Tom's seat was in the chimney corner on
the pine. Seldom of winter nights IV the ii he
was a small boy to eighteen years old, was he absent
from bis si il in thi corner, on or near the pine, keeping
up his o\\ n lighl . and reading - I k a i \ 1 , mi at
tent ion to the eon versa! ions ;in<l pastimes euj aged in l>.\
t be rest of I he family. I n this way a habit of absl rai
i while feuding, from whal might be passing in his
presence, was formed, which was utili/.ed to much ad
i'antagi in after life when his business bad to be trans-
acted in the bustle and confusion of a eourt-h He
thinks In' has nut met any one who could more <-ll ■ i I u
:ill.\ confine his mind to reading or writ in : without di
turl ■ I'', things in sighl or hearing arou nd him.
Although In- had almost no advantages of scl I-
public scl Is were not in I'oguo in that daj and had
lived ,i very laborious life, working on the farm, and in
saw and grist mills reading only at night, on Sundays
and during such rest hours as could be snatched up;
yet al the age of twenty he was a pretty accurate English
scholar, and had few superiors in English grammar,
geography, history I arithmetic. After leaving his
mother, the first business he was engaged in was teaching
scl I. w Inch was s whal in the line of his taste.
( hi the 20th of June, 1840, he heard the first politi
cal speech he ever listened to from any speaker of note.
It was delivered bj Hon Kphraim II. Foster, .-it that
time :i senator in congress from Tennessee, made in ad
vocacj of (Jen Harrison, the Whig candidate for pn
dent, He has heard iddress since that intere ted
or impressed him so much. He asked a bystander w hat
thai man followed as a business, and was answered thai
he wa ;i lawyer, instan tly he determined to devote his
life to thai profession, and from pursuit of that put
he never afterward faltered for a moment. Up to that
i i mi' he had formed no phi n of Ii Ii , and n a only drift
ing along, simplj gratifying a taste for reading and a de-
sire for all such information as was to be found in I ks.
I een cident, and in an instant , a plan of life
wa fixed, and the destiny of the man wa shaped, So
soon as the crowd dispersed he went straight to a law
yer office and asked to borrow the book first to be read
by one intending to become a lawyer. He was handed
Blackstone's Commentaries, which he read thai night
after ret urning home a 'Ii- tancc of fifteen miles, till a
late hour, I has been reading, with more or less a id
nit\ 1 1 mi and other law I ks from thai daj to this. \-
a means of support while reading law, he taught
era! little schools of the "old field' char 1 was
admitted to the bar in his native county, January 1,
18 13. 1 1 is receipts for the first I from his |
tice did not amount to fifty dollars a year. The follow
in" amu in " ii" ident rei entlj published in the Nash-
ville Banner, illustrates some of the trials and tribula-
tions t hrough which -I udge Turley passed n hen a young
barrister: " Judge T. W. Turley, an eminent barrister
of Franklin, w ho began t be pracl ice of law so forty
ye if ago, in an Ka si Ti nne see town, has now in his
possession t he fi ved He had just I
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and p.. lit - suavity is inherent with
lie is in comfortable. independent circumstances,
.1 valuable buildings in Nashville. By
- twenty t hous Id liars, yet Bradstreet
thousand dollars, with
redit. A determination to excel, and the
titration of his powers upon the work of his pro-
ds success 1 i - universally
tst man. In the commu-
nity where lie i- best known ai • I, hi- integ-
rum \- a dentist he has never
in a simple business card. The
eharai - - rn W elsh - ince. not easily
-'illy illustrated in li •
litics I' M _ I line Whig, and in
though of
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has n an ortho >erat : has
for principles and not for party: I - ires in
to men. It was. therefore, a matter oi -
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when tin- ou Not ember 11.
land had appointed Dr. Mor-
dian commissioners,
M signed The appoint-
by Dr M iraaii. aud was
ivas to the spoilsmen
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Naslr. \ 14. 1S83. will show, how-
ever, the wis - " The appointment
\V II Morgan, bj - lent of the United
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simple duties, the ; :i being ineor-
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Dr M rgan nobody
but if he was simply 1. for a
man whose character was a guarantee that there would
. where li - s. then
the pr - • the right man in taking Dr
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REV. A.CHILLES D. SEA.RS, D. D.
TIIK venerable and devoted man of God, who is
the subject of this sketch, now in charge of a
pastorate in Clarksville, is of English descent, both his
grandparents having immigrated from England andset
tied in Virginia. His paternal grandfather, William I!.
Sears, who was a cousin of Gen. Charles Lee, of Lev
olutionary lame, was al one time, sheriff of Fairfax
county, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Whaley, and
their oldest son, Charles Lee Sears, who died in \ ir-
ginia during the late civil war, married Elizabeth
Worster, daughter of John Worster, an English gentle
man who had settled in Virginia. From this marriage
was born the subject of this sketch. The Whaley and
Worster families are -till numerously represented in
Fairfax county, while the Searses are plentifully scat-
tered throughout the thwestern States. The ances
tors of William I!. Scats li\ ed in Normandy, before the
Norman invasion. One of the mum' came to England
with William the Conqueror. The name, under va-
rious moil ill cat inns, is found numerously spread through-
out England. Two of them are known to have come to
America. One, Richard Scars, landed at Plymouth,
Massachusetts, in 1640 The other. William B. Sears.
came to Fairfax county, Virginia, in IT.")."),
Dr. Scars was horn in Fairfax county. Virginia, Jan-
uary 1. 1804. He was brought up to work on a farm,
and derived his early education from the common
English schools of the neighborh 1. his principal
teachers being Profs. Klepstein and Richardson, two
well known instructors in their lime. The only one of
his early school matesnoit known tobeliviug, is Henry
Millan. of Lucas county, Iowa.
In 1823, being then but nineteen years of age, Dr.
Sears removed to Kentucky, and settled in Bourbon
county, where he engaged in teaching school for about
five years, in the meantime studying lavi with Lucien
J. Feemster. In 1828, he married and removed to Faj
ette county, near Lexington, and engaged in farming for
several years. In 1838 he became a member of the
Baptist church, was ordained for the ministry al Davis
Fork church, by Revs. Darnaby Leake ami Dr. Dillard,
in L839, and began his labors as a home missionary in
northern Kentucky, with headquarters at Flemings-
burg.
In L842, he was called to take charge of the First
Baptist church of Louisville, where he remained for
seven years. He then beca general agent ol the
Baptists for Kentucky, in which capacity he served for
two years, after which he took charge of the chinch al
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in L851, where he remained
till the beginning of the war of secession. Being an
ardent supporter of thi South, he was forced to leave
Kentuckj when the Federals, occupied the State, and.
retiring to Mississippi, spent the nexl four years in the
South, most ol' the time supplying the Baptist church
at Columbus, Mississippi. Tin remainder of the time,
under the auspices of the Southern Baptist Board of
Missions, he was a missionary to the Confederate sol-
diers, to many of whom he administered baptism.
While endeavoring to reach his family in Kentucky,
he gol as far as Clarksville, Tennessee, but was nol al
lowed to enter Kentucky until martial law was abolished
by President Johnson, lie was ealled to the Baptist
church in Clarksville, ami ha- continued in chargi ol
it up io the present time a period of twenty years.
The church during that lime has increased from twenty
five to two hundred and twentj five members, while a
lew house of worship ha- lately keen erected at a cost
of twenty live thousand dollars. During the forty -i\
years ol' his ministry, he has baptized between two and
three thousand persons, ami. though now upwards of
eighty years of age, he is in good health ami performs
the regular duties of his church with as much ease to
himself as he did twenty years ago. lie has been a
delegate to the following general conventions of the
southern Baptists: At Richmond, Virginia, in 1846;
at Nashville. Tonncsssee, in 1851; at Baltimore, Mary-
land, in 1853; al Montgomery, Alabama, in 1855, where
he preached the conventional sermon; at Louisville,
Kentucky, in 1857; at Russellville, Kentucky, in L866;
at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1867.
He has frequeuth, keen ealled to deliver commence
ment sermons to various female colleges, including
those at Lebanon, Bowling Green, Ban 1st own. Hopkins-
ville and others. He was for four year- moderator of
the Cumberland Baptist Association, after which he
declined a re-election. Prior to the war. he was. for
se\ eral years, associate editor of t he II . sit m /.'. cordt /■,
published at Louisville.
Politically, though never conspicuous as an " offensive
partisan," Dr. Sears has ever had verj decided convic-
tions. He was reared a Calhoun Democrat, ami was,
ami still is, a thorough believer in the doctrine of
Slate's rights. As a matter of course, he was a warm
sympathizer with the South in the late civil struggle
'flic warm interest Dr. Scars ha- taken in .Masonry.
and the number of high positions he has held in the
onlcr.rcnilcrlh.il portion of his history specially im-
portant. He became a Master Mason, a Royal Arch
Ma-on anil Knight Templar, at Hopkinsville, Ken
tucky, in L850, ami affiliated with Clarksville Coin-
mandery, No. 8, in 1867. He was Commander of a Com-
mamlery in Kentucky for twelve year-, ami tin' a like
number of years in Teunessee. He ha- been Worship
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Di 11. VAN PKMAN
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infantry. He participated with gallantrj in the battles
of Winchester, Port Republic, Larue and Cedar Moun
tain, Virginia, In the latter e igemenl he was
slightly wounded in the head and was captured, while
leading a reconnoissanee, at ten o'clock ;ii night. 1 1 « ■
was then taken to Libby prison, kepi five months, pa-
roled, and exchanged January In. 1863, after which he
rejoined liis command, resigned his captain's commis-
sion 1 wiiii into the medical department. Ann; of
I he Cumberland. He was assigned in duty as assistant-
surgeon, and joined the Tenth Ohio infantrj regiment
at Tullahoma, Tennessee, May 5, 1863. He re incd
with that regiment i year, when, on May 5, 1864, he
was promoted in be chief surgeon andmedical purveyor
nl' the United States military railroad department, ili
vision nl' the Mississippi, and remained al Chattai ga
in thai capacity until October, L865. In December,
1865, he took charge al Chattai ga as surgeon of the
nil: ■ Mini freedmen's department nl' the United
Shiics government, of which he had charge until the
following July, when that division of the department
was abolished. A short time after this he was made
post surgeon nl' the regular United States army, sta-
tioned hi Chattai a, and acted us such most of the
time until L879, when the post was discontinued and
i In- t roops moved in the Wesl .
During his residence in Chattanooga, Dr. Vim Deman
has passed through three epidemics of small i>"\, two
of cholera, I one of yellow fever, remaining nl. his
post during the existence nl' each.
Dr. Vnn Deman was president of the Tennessee State
Medical Society in IsT.'!. ami presided over that body
two years, time bj rilling the vacancy caused by the
absence nl' Dr. •). 15. Murfree, nl' Murfreesborough,
president of the society at thai time, and who was de
tained al home on account of sickness in hi- family.
Dr. Van Deman is also a member nl' the American
Medical Association, and was I'm- three years, 1876 in
1879, a member nl' its judicial council. He has bei n a
member of the American Public Health Association
since L874; is an honorary member of the Delaware
(< Hi in) ( 'mi niy Medical Society ; has served as examin-
ing sin n I'm- the United States pension bureau nl
Chatti iga for eleven years, being surgeon now; I
has also been surgeon of the marine ho pital service
since April, 1879, appointed by Hon. John Sheri i,
secretary of the treasury. Meanwhile, he has frequently
contributed in medical literature notablj tw 'tides,
mi cholera in 1873 and one on the yellow fever ep
idemic of 1*7* published in tin- reports ami papers
nl' the American Public Health Association. Here-
tired from active practice in L883, except a to urgei
which he still continues.
Dr. \ .in Deman joined tin' Masonic order in 1867;
has ink rn the Chapter and Council degrees, and is now
serving his seventh i. -, ui as W-ershipful Master of I !hal
tat ga Lodge, No. L99, He has also served as High
Priest of Hamilton Chapter, No, 19, two ycari and a
Thrice Illustrious Master of Mount VIoriah Council,
No. 50, four years, and is thought to have conferred
more degree than any other Masonic officer in the city
of < 'haiiai ga. I te is also a Knighl of I '■, i Inn wai
the first presiding officer of the lodge al Chattani a
ami has served four terms in that capacity . also is a
member of the endowment rank and has been it
president five years, or ever since i^s oi nidation. He
is also a member of the Grand Armj of the Republic
ami was tin- first Post Commander ol Lookout Post,
No. 2 ; indeed, of whatever local body of similar char
acter of which he is a member, he has been its presid-
ing officer inn' or more terms.
The first political vote Dr. Van Deman ever cast was
for the Whig ticket in 1852. Bui when the Whig party
of the North was merged into the Republican party he
wcni wit h I he Democracy, and, singular to say, his emu
|ian\ was the only one in the many that gave a majority
for Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham, for governor of
Ohio, in 1863.
Dr. Van Deman was a member of the Chatl a
city council in 1871. With the exceptions named in
the for in- record, he has been engaged in nothing
Imi his profession, to v\ hieh he has devoted his life with
zenl I fidelity, his medical library being hi only com-
pany in a literary point of view, and his ehiei forte
operative surgery. One nl' his grand passions is to have
the finest library and the finest set of surgical instru-
ments of any doctor in the town, and he has them, and
their use is free In any physician who ma\ ask them.
Dr, Van Deman married in hi.^ native town, Maj 27,
1854, Miss Rebecca VI, Norris, daughter oi Hon. Wil
liani G. Norris, of New England descent, a leading
judge a prominent citizen and a large farmer, of Dela
ware county, Ohio. Mrs. Van Deman's mother was
Miss Phoebe Main, formerly of Connecticut. She died
of cholera in 1869 lea; ing e; en children < Inc of VI i
Van Deman's brothers, Dr. James I!. Norris, was for
six years, from 1872 to 1878, Dr. Van Deman's partner
in the practice of medicine at Chattai ga, from which
place he wenl in L878, with a corps of sixteen nurses, to
Vicksburg, during the yd lew fever epidemic, and there
■the brave and noble fellow died. By special order of
President I! I!. Hayes and the secretary of war, hi
mains were removed IV Vicksburg and buried in the
national cemetery al Chatti a in 1879, in compli-
ance with a wish Dr. Norris, expressed prior to his de-
parture for Vicksburg. The record of his noble life
closed with his martyrdom to his profession, in the cause
of humanity, and his is an honesl fame that should long
outlive the boasted deeds of reckless valor
Mrs. Van Deman wa educated at Granville female
College, Ohio. She in an ardent membei of the Pro
te fcanl Episcopal church, lakes active interesl in chari
table enterprises, and is a leader in social circles, Dr.
I Mi- Van Deman have no children, but in 1881
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adopted Alice Elrod, an orphan girl, born in Hamilton
county, Tennessee, August 23, IS6S, and now being
ted in Notre Dame Academy, conducted by the
of the Roman Catholic church, at Chattai g;i
Dr. Van Denian's father, [\c\ II Van Deman, a
lyterian minister, preached thirty-nine years to
one eo iu in ] Delaware, < Hiio. He n as born in
Holland, but was raised in Ohio, and lived and died,
at the age of seventy eight years, in Delaware, Ohio. In
life, li<' served as private in the war of 1S12 Dr.
Van Denian's paternal grandfather, John Van Deman,
a native "I' Holland, died a wealthy farmer, near Chil-
licothe. Ohio, eightx years old. Hi- wife, who died in
the same year, immigrated from Holland to America
with him.
Dr. Van Denian's mother, net Miss Sarah Darlin
i- now li\ i 1 1 ui . eighty- three years old, at Delaware, Ohio,
where she has lived since 1S24. She was born in Vir-
ginia, daughter of Joseph Darlington, who was for
tiftv five years, count) clerk oi Adams county, Ohio,
and was also a member ol the convention that framed
(lir first constitution of the State of Ohio. His wife,
Miss Sarah Wilson, was also a Virginian. Dr. \ an
Denian's mother is a Presbytcriau, and noted as a pious,
consistent ( 'hristian woman.
Our peculiarity of the entire Van Dcmau family is.
thai neither within the memory of man, or in written
record or tradition, has there ever been known a single
member who drank intoxicating liquors. They have all
been temperate men Dr. Van Deman has never yet,
in all hi- life, drank a glass "!' liquor; ami being now
a man of considerable property, in everj lease he makes
he inserts a clause that no liquors shall he sold mi the
premises, yel lie belongs to no temperance organization.
Perhaps, also, hi- temperate habits great!) account for
his robust and vigorous health for he stands ^ix feel
high, weighs one hundred ami ninety nine pounds, ami
w .i- ne\ 01' sick a week at nne time.
I n business, Dr. \ an Deman attends to hi- own affairs,
lives up to the Golden Rule, pays what he owes, ami
demands what i- due He attended, while in practice,
to calls when the) came; if he got his money, well and
good : if not. he forgave those who were unable to pay.
lie has never had a note go to protest, and as a physician
lives strictly up to the code of ethics of the American
Medical Association never having a secret renied) he is
not willing to impart to an) medical man for the benefit
of the sick 1 1 i^ chief ambition has been to make prop-
erty enough to support his wife should he die first, and
his greatest desire is to stand well through lite, in the
community where he has east his fortunes. Comforta-
ble in hi- circumstances, he now ha- a rent roll income
of o\ or live thousand dollars a year, independent of his
professional fee-, owe- no man anything, and enjoys the
i and i onfideni c "1' his fellow-citizens. Would
that our State had many more such native horn or
adopted sous, quite a- worth) to lie enrolled among
" Prominent Tennesscans.'
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Tl 1 1 ^ gentleman, who ranks among the foremost
lawyers of Tennessee, and whose reputation as
an advocate of popular rights is eo extensive with the
borders of his adopted State, first saw the light in Mor
gan county, Alabama, April 1 I. L837. There he
I,, manhood, doing all manner of work on his father's
farm lie received a fair English and classical educa-
tion in the aeadeui) at Somerville, Alabama, and his
tastes being in the direction of the law, from a boy of
fifteen he stood on tiptoe, looking eagerly forward to the
lime when, a- a man. he should take his place among
men. In order to accomplish this cherished desire, he
taught school several sessions, studying law in leisure
hour-, [n April, 1850, he began practice in his native
county, having been admitted to the bar b) ■'
John F. Moore. Although quite young when In
nieiiced practice, he soon had a good clientage, but the
war comin 1 5 fort unes w ith those
of the Confederacy.
I [i entered the Confedi e a- tii -t li. ut
in Clanton's celebrated First Alabama cavalry regiment.
participated in the battle of Shiloh, and was there pro-
moted to captain of company D. Clanton's regiment.
After the evacuation of Corinth he was detached from
the regimeut, and. in connection with Capts. Roddy
ami Newsome, ordered to operate on treu. Buells con-
nections through North Alabama, over the Memphis
ami Charleston railroad. During the summer of 1862,
and up to ill,' time of the evacuation of North Ala
bama. these three companies liarrassed the Federals at
every point, captured two trains, over live hundred
prisoners, over three hundred horse- ami mule-, over
two hundred wagons, and three hundred thousand
rounds of fixed animation, camp equipage, baggage, etc..
effectually destroying the connection- of the Federal
army between Decatur and Corinth, for which the)
were complimented iu a general order issued to the
army. Next he participated in the battles of [uka and
Corinth, and iu December, 1862-, f.lthough only twenty-
five, years old. was pro mot < d to the full rank of colonel
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and placed in command of the Filth Alabama cavalry
regiment.
In 1863, Col. Patterson operated in Middle Tennessee
until the army fell back from Tullahoma, when he re
tired into North Alabama with his regiment, [n the
fall of 1863, just after the battle of Chickamauga, Col.
Patterson crossed the Tennessee river, al what is known
as the "Tow-head," uear Larkinsville, above Gunters-
ville, Alabama, and made a daylight attack on a force
of between four hundred and live hundred Federal
troops, stationed at Hunt's Mill, engaged in gathering
in all the grain in that section and grinding it up for
Rosecrans' army, which was then penned in at Chatta-
ga. Col. Patterson succeeded in surprising the
enemy, completely routing them, capturing one hundred
and fifty prisoners, all their horses, arms and munitions
of war. and burnt the mill, making a clean sweep, and
gaining a most brilliant little victory.
Reporting his achievements to Gen. Bragg, he was
then ordered to take a force, composed of picked men
of his own regiment, ami these of the Fourth Alabama
cavalry regiment, commanded by Col. W. A. Johnson;
to recross the Tennessee river; make a forced march to
the tunnel running through the Cumberland mountains,
at Cowan, on the Nashville and Chattai ga railroad;
drive away the force guarding the tunnel, and SO oh
struct it as to prevent trains passing through to supply
the federals cooped up at Chattai ga. The tunnel
was guarded by a regiment of Federal infantry, so dis-
tributed as (o protect the three shafts which had heel]
sunk down from the top of the mountain to the track
below. Col. Patterson disposed his troops so as to attack
the three garrisons simultaneously, which was done with
great gallantry by the men under his command, a large
number of prisoners being captured and the mountain
cleared of federal soldiers. The load was then ob-
structed by rolling huge stones, which hail been exca-
vated out of the mountain, down the shafts to the track
below.
Returning into North Alabama, after a hot pursuit
on tin' pari of a large body of Federal cavalry. Col.
Patterson next participated in repelling Sherman's at-
tempt to reinforce Grant, by passing through North
Alabama, over the Memphis and Charleston railroad.
'I' he entire force of the Confederate cavalry operating in
that section was commanded by Gen. Stephen D.Lee,
and the resistance was so effective, and the railroad so
completely destroyed, that Sherman abandoned the at-
tempt, crossed the Tennessee river, and made his way
by forced marches, overland to Chattanooga.
In 1864, Col. Patterson was in command of the di-
trict ofNorth Alabama, when Gens. Forrestand Roddy
were engaged in the .Mississippi campaign, in which
Gen. Sturgis and ton. Smith, commanding the Federal
forces, were so signallj defeated. While in command
id' this district he was very active in his operations.
Crossing the Tennessee river at Gillsport, with less than
three hundred and fifty men, at nine 'o'clock in the
morning he attacked the Thirteenth Illinois infantry
regiment, numbering over five hundred men. at Madi-
son Station. Alabama. So sudden was the attack, that
the enemy, although they were entrenched in a stockade,
threw down their arms and fled. He captured two hun-
dred and fifteen prisoners, a number of wagons and
ambulances, a large amount of army supplies, and such
as In- could not take with him he burned. That t < n
ing, while recrossing the river, he was attacked bj a
large force of Federal cavalry, hut SUCC led in repell-
ing them and gaining the south hank with all his pris-
oners and booty, with the loss of only one man killed
and one man wounded.
lie commanded the post at Corinth, in December,
186 1, when < i-en. I [ood made his campaign in Tennessee,
rejoining the defeated army at Bainbridge, on the Ten-
nessee river. After the retreat of the < Confederate army
from Tennessee, in view of the general demoralization
that took place. Col. Patterson was directed by lien.
Hood to go on a mission through the counties of North
Alabama, addressing the people at various points, and
persuading the discouraged soldiers to return to the
service. The s] ches made by Col. Patterson in this
crisis were thought to betheablest of his life, his whole
soul being thrown into this effort, and resulting in
thousands of men rejoining the army. Returning to
his regiment at Moulton, Alabama, about the latter
part of March, L865, he operated in front ol' Gen. Wil-
son's celebrated cavalry raid from the Tennessee river
to S.lma. burning bridges, felling tree-, and resisting
Wilson's progress al every step, He was captured at
lie battle "f Seltna, Owing to a se\'ere wound in the left
knee, which he had received by a fall from his horse,
during a night attack at Salem chui eh. the night before,
while on I he retreat, and which incapacitated him from
making his escape otherwise than on horseback, lie
made his escape, however, the first night the enemj
marched with him. and returned, as best he could, into
North Alabama, to find the country overwhelmed with
the news of I on Robert F. Fee's surrender.
The most of his regiment having escaped capl
Selma, he rapidly reorganized them, and learning that
President Mavis was attempting to make his escape
through the mountains of North Alabama, he held his
troops iii hand, refusing to surrender until May L9, 1865,
hoping that lie would he aide to assist in the flight of
the president.
After the war. Col. Patterson practiced law with
marked success in hi- native county one year , next for
live years at Florence. Alabama, and iii March, 1872,
located at Memphis, lie has been remarkably success
ful in his profession in his new homo, being now the
junior member of the well known firm of Gantt &
Patterson.
Col. Patterson has always been a Democraton princi-
ple, believing, a- he does, in the absolute right of the
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Nathan (ireen. Be-
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directoi in the Tennessee Pacific railroad company,
and a director in the Second National Bank, at Lob
anon. Prom the early pari of 1852, to J 'y, 1878,
he was in partnership with Hon. Ed. [.Golladay. This
partnership was dissolved l>y his going on the bench as
chancellor of the Sixth division, under appointment
from Gov. James D. Porter, ;i position which he held
nine months, and for which lie was an unsuccessful
candidate before i he people in 1878.
Judge Tarver's practice'has been confined mostly in
civil cases in 1 1 hancery, referee an 1 Supreme cm iris.
Inn In' has occasionally appeared in important criminal
i ;i es. His professional and financial success is due, nol
to outside influences or family connections, bul to the
facl thai he has never dissipated any; was never in
politics; has made il a poinl to be always at his office
or a! the oourl house in business hours, instead of h:
in" aboul the streets and loafing, A similar history
will be found in the biography of Gov, John [reland,
nl Texas. Judge Tarverhas made ii a rule to be frank
with courts and never to mislead; consequently hi
practice before courts has invariably won their confi
dence, and his success before jurors is largely attribut-
able to the same fact, He never submits propositions
ol law or facl unless he believes them himself to be
true. Ii is lawyers of this class who give high moral
tone and credit ton bar and add dignity to a profession
the mosl important known to society or the history of
nations. As a speaker, Judge Tarver is neither noisy
or florid, bul aims lo convince the judgment and to
awaken and strengthen the conscience of the courl or
jnrv lo decide on the conviction his logic has carried to
their minds.
Before the war, •IikIl'o Tarver was a Whig of the
Henry Clay and J ohn Bell school, and made speeches
in opposition to secession. Bul when the war had ac-
tually begun al Fori Sumter, he soon after joined the
i Confederate army, enlisting as a private in Col. Roberl
Hatton's Seventh Tennessee regiment, and staying in
thai regiment until the spring of 1862. He was made
;i lieutenant ol lii.se pany while in the camp of in-
struction at Camp Trousdale, Sumner county, He
served in Virginia and Tennessee, and look pari in the
battle of Murfreesborough, four days, and numerous
other engagements, In the summer of 1863, his health
failed and he lefl the sen ice.
In 1866, he was a delegate from his congressional
district, with Gov. William It. Campbell, to the Phila-
delphia convention, called to organize a national politi
c:il partj with which the South could affiliate. Since
then, Judge Tarver has voted the Democratic ticket.
.1 udge Tarver is a Methodist, as were his parents. He
joined i he church when i welve j ears oil ami has sen <■< I
as trustee, steward and delegate to the annual confer
enee ; has lieen a Sunday school leaeher twenty five
years, mid is now president ol the Wilson countj Aux-
iliary American Bible Society. In L865, he became a
Mi tor .Mason, ami is also an Odd Fellow. Occasion
ill, he contributes to the agricultural, political ami
rel literal ure ol' t he I imc and ha now and i hen
taken the place ol' an absent or sick editor ol' his town
papers, editing I hein I'm ,i ii Ii il n lime, lie ha
frequently delivered agricull ural ami literary addn ■
mostly the former, as he u.i n I a farmer and always
delighted in agricull mal pursuit
Judge Tarver married in Wilson county, July 28,
1875, Mis,- Sue While, daughter of Dr. James B White,
a prominent physician and agricultui i of thai county,
originally f \ irginia Her mother was a Miss
Shelton daughter of .lame Shelton, of a Virginia
family. Mrs. Tarver is a niece ill' Rev. Dr, William
Shelton, of Nashville, and of Daniel Shelton, a promi-
nent lawyer al Jackson, Mississippi. Her aunt, Martha,
is the widow of Hon. II. V. Riddle, formerly member
of Congress from the Lebanon district. VIrs. Tarver's
paternal I age i traced hack to the Marshall, Jeffer
son ami (' lodore Baron families ol' Virginia. Mi
Tarver graduated in Rev. Dr. ('. I). Elliott's Academy
ai Vi In ille ami is a lady of high culture and in all
I lie rekil nni ok life i .ill ii<t ive ami amiable, w il h an
e tcepl ionallj lai amount of practical common en e
in I he management of her affairs.
Judge Tarver ci s direct from old American l!< \
olutionary stock, His grandfather, Benjamin Tarver,
had live brothers in the patriot army in the war for in-
dependence, and he himself, when only sixteen years
old, was al the battle of Guilford Courl house. Benja
min Tarver settled on Hickory Ridge, Wilson county,
Tc issce, in 1808, and died there, II is son. Silas Tar-
ver. wa .1 udge Tarver's I'al her,
Silas Tarver went in North Carolina on I or- inc.- when
a young man, met there Miss Nancy Hani.-, whom he
married, ami there the subject of this sketch, named for
hoi 1 1 grandfal hers, was born, before the family moved to
Tei s.-ee. Silas Tarver was a plain farmer and justice
of the peace, ami a .soldier when a hoy in the Indian
wars under Jackson, lie had two brothers, Den and
kill on ii el who both lived in Wilson euiinly several years.
moved to Texa and there died, leaving families. One
ok Edmond's children, Benjamin E. Tarver, became a
prominent lawyer and politician in Texa One ok
Den s sun.-, < 'harles Tarver. became an editor in Texas.
Both these cousins of Judge Tarver died in Texas In
en k like.
A branch of the Tarver family settled al Macon,
Georgia, and another in Selma, Alabama, where they
became prominent as large propertj holders Micajah
Tarver, of Tuseumbia, Alabama went to St. Loui
a proniiin ni lawyer there, ami for several year,- edited
a monthly, devoted to the improvement of the valley
ok I he Mis-issippi ; he died I here in 1861.
fine of the Misses Tarver of the Mil. ami branch
nk i ke laniik became the wife of Gen. Ike ok Texas.
Of the five brothers of Judge Tarver's grandfather,
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circumstances. The natural impulses of his nature are
liis friends, and the result
ad very many security debts to pay. By
don he has made over one hundred thousand
dollars, but being ;t poor collector, never asking any
man for money, even when ■luc and having a bound-
less charitj and overwhelming hospitality aiul
iiy. he has imulated a large property. IL is
said to be w holly unfitted for any business in the world
except medicine He is actively absorbed in hi^ pro-
: charitable to the limit : entirely forgetful of
self where others are concerned; a firm, true friend ; a
ins hater of \n< enemies ; warm-hearted and im
to prodigality.
\- a physician and surgeon, he stands in the front
rank of the medical nun of the South.
DR. .1. II. HOWELL, M. D.
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DR. J. II. HOWELL was born in (Ireensborough,
Mai' .mi, ( Ictober 11, 1824. V I it five
years of age, his fath H iod county. Ten-
nessee, and there h I up on a farm and
taught to do all manner of farm work, lie went to
school in the "1.1 field schools: and his teachers wen
Maj Thomas Owen and Dr. Elijah Slack. His
physician, and through his example and infill
the sou was led to choose medicine as his own life-work
and profession. In 1841, he entered thi Medical Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1844. lie
then located at Brow n-\ ille, met w ith fine success, built
up a large practice, and remained there until the war
came on. In lMl.'i. he went to Memphis and m
in merchai ith Nixon, Wood \ ('o. I [en hi n ■
1 for six years, and not having been prosperous in
his mercantile life, returned to his profession, going back
to Brownsville in IS(>9 Fi i m that time on he has been
von successful in his calling, and has built up and
and lucrative practice. When
Brownsville was desolated by an epidemic of yellow
fever in 1878, he was one of the few physicians wl
mained there and bravely fought it. and was himself
taken down with the fever, though he had previously
suffered from an attack of that dreadful disease while
li\ ing in Memphis, in 1873.
Dr. Howell has been a faithful, conscientious worker,
and a clove student in the field oi medicine, since he
first adopted it a- a profession. He has passionately
I it. not only for the sake of science, but on account
of thi d he was thus enabled to do for his suf-
fering fellow mortals. He began life with nothiu
his education, yet, by his own individual efforts, had
property when the late ei\ il war
Much of his means was invested in slave prop-
erty, I, - -wept away by the results of that war.
and when he resumed practice in IS69, he did so with
an unconquerable determination to build himself up.
and has been steadily succeeding.
Dr. Howell was raised an old line Whig. When the
war came on he was a Union man, and since then has
with the Republican parry. He has, however,
taken i part iii politics, and though often solic-
ited, has always refused to become a candidate for any
political office.
He was made a M son at Brownsville, in IS46; has
taken all the degrees of the order up to and including
Royal Arch Masonry, and has held most of the off
the subordinate lodge, He i- a charter member of Ivan-
hoe I. Igi x 14, Knights of Pythias, and is now
tig the otfue of Chancellor Commander.
Dr. Howell's father, Dr. William Howell, who was
born in 1801, ami died in 1S44. was a native of Kasl
Tennessee, lie practiced medicine very successfully
at Ureeusborough, Alabama, for several years, and then
1 to Brownsville and engaged in farming, contin-
uing also the practice of lii~ profession, in which he
achieved considerable prominence. The Howell family
i- of Kuglish desceut.
Dr. Howells mother was Miss Sarah Jane Bell,
daughter of John Hell, a prominent citizen of North
Carolina in Revolutionary times. She is a sisfc
Commodore Henry Bell and of Iren. William Bell.
I lei mo! her was Mis^ Haywood, daughter of Judge John
Haywood, one o\' the Supreme judges of Tennessi i
Dr. Howell was married, in December. 1845, to Mi"
Virginia L Scott, daughter of Robert Scott, a native of
Virginia, who moved to Haywood county. Tennessee, in
IS33, ami became a large and successful farmer.
Dr. and Mrs. Howell are both members of the Bap-
tist church. Their only child, a daughter, died of yel-
low fever in lv7^
PROMINENT TENNESSE \.\s,
JAMES D. RICHARDSON.
MURFREESBOROUGH,
ON V, of the al'lcsi. as well as one of the most
promising, men of his age in Tennessee, either as
lawyer, politician, pai'liamentarian and statesman, is the
brilliant ami distinguished gentleman whose nam.' heads
this sketch— Mr. .lames I). Richardson, of Murfrees-
borough. He was born in Rutherford county, Tennes-
see, March 10,1843. After attending Central Academy
from the age <>t' six to seventeen, he entered Franklin
College, near Nashville, under President Tolbert Fan-
ning, ami studied there one year.
The civil war broke out and young Richardson, at the
age "I' eighteen, at once volunteered as a private in the
Confederate service, joining Mitchell's (afterwards Sear-
cy's) company, Forty-fifth Tennessee regiment of in-
fantry. In this regiment lie served as a private nil
the battle of Shiloh, when he was made adjutant-major
of the regiment, ami tilled that position till the surren-
der at Bentonville, North Carolina, lie served in the
campaigns in Tennessee. Kentucky, Mississippi, Ala-
bama. ( reorgia and Louisiana, taking part in the battles
of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesborough
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the battles of the
Johnson and Sherman campaign, "in which he was
wounded at Resaca, by a minnie ball, through the left
arm. which, for some time, disabled him for service,
lie wore his arm in a sling n|i to the surrender. Two
lit' the tinkers el' his left hand appear noticeably drawn
and cannot he straightened, as the result of this wound,
but making only a slight disfigurement.
In 1865, he married, before the surrender, ami in the
same year just after the surrender, read law with .1 udge
Thomas Frazier, was admitted to the bar by judges
Frazier and Henry Cooper, in 1866, and commenced
practice at Murfreesborough, fin- twelve years as a
partner with Gen. Joseph I!. Palmer, and since that
time as a partner with his younger brother, John E.
Richardson, the firm style being dames D. & John E.
Richardson.
In politics, Mr. Richardson is a reformed Whig,
being a descendant of an old line Whig who never went
into any nf the " isms. " Nut being old enough to vote
in the days of the Whig party, he has never east any
but a Democratic vote.
In 1870, he was elected to the Legislature from Tint h-
erford enmity, ami on the assembling of that body, was
elected speaker of the House, being then about twenty-
eight years old, probably the youngest speaker in the
history of the State. In 1873, he was elected State
senator from the enmities of Rutherford and Bed
find, and in the senate was a member of the judiciary
committee. Like Henry Clay, of Kentucky, he was
eleeted by his people before constitutionally of age. In
1876, he was a delegate to the national Democratic
convention at St. Louis, which nominated Samuel -I
Tilden for president. As a political speaker, he has
eamassed almost every portion of the State, electrifying
the Democracy with his superb oratory, his brilliant
eloquence, bis graceful mastery of forensic arts, while
at every State convention of the party held within the
pa>t fifteen years, the towering figure of the " tall cedar
of Rutherford" has risen above the storms of party
and commanded attention as few other men in the State
are able to do
In 1884, in the nominating convention held at Tulla-
homa to select a Democratic candidate for Congress
from the Fifth congressional district of Tennessee, after
a stormy session of several days, the convention enthu-
siastically united on Maj. Richardson as their standard-
bearer, and at the ensuing election he defeated his op
I mt by a handsome majority, and at the writing of
this volume is serving his admiring constituency at
Washington.
Mr Richardson became a Mason in October, 1867, in
Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 18, at Murfreesborough, and
has been in one or another Masonic office ever since.
He has taken all the degrees of ancient craft .Masonry.
Knight Templar, and Scottish Rite, to the thirty-third
inclusive, is now the active member for this Kite in Ten
nessee, ami has boon .Master. High Priest. Illustrious
Master and Eminent Commander of the Commander}',
ami for ten years filled the latter station In 1873,
he jvas Grand Master of Masons of the State, ami in
1883, Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of the
State, and has delivered various Masonic addresses over
the State invitation. He delivered the address be-
fore the Grand Lodge in 1872. His most fami.u- Ma-
sonic speech was his eulogy on the life and character of
Hon. Robert L. Caruthers, delivered before the Grand
Lodge in 1883. He has been, for many years, chairman
of the Masonic committee on jurisprudence. He is the
author of a handsome volume, entitled "Tennessee
Templars," two hundred and fifty pages, illustrated with
steel engravings of some nineteen of the most eminent
Masons in the State.
Mr. Richardson married in (Irene county, Alabama,
January 18, 1865, Miss Alabama Pippen, a native of
that county, bom the daughter of Eldred Pippen. a large
cotton planter, originally from North Carolina. He
died when the daughter was twelve years old. Her
people are mostly planters. Her brother. Eldred If
Pippen. was a member of bowler's battery from Tusca
loosa, and fell in the battle of Chickamauga. Her
brother. Samuel C. Pippen, is a planter and Stock
dealer in Phillips county, Arkansas. Mrs, Richardson
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the Howard Institute, at Tuscaloosa. in his wisdom and integrity. He had the reputation of
and Judson Institute. Marion. Alabama. By his mar- Whig ranks in the State.
M i has five chil- I led many pamphlets on political, medical and
v ">l>.") graduated i His last production was an essay on
female Institute. (2). Ida, born puerperal convulsions, r< 3 ite Medical
the same college. ■ .". - I' which he had been president two or more
Allie, I John W., born times lie was a very modesi 111:111; was several times
April :J7. 1872. died N\v 1S73 J r when his party was in the minority
D. jr.. born Januar.v 1.1875. in tl * not elected. Hewasa
ined the Christian church while 1' tioal man. quiet in his manner, firm in
at Franklin in that church. his pri liaracter, not given to saying things
Hi- wife is a member of the - hard of any one. temperate and methodical in his
vi •• \ N' II habits, and had s personal friends who visited
man in all l him, such men a- John Bell, Meredith I'. Gentry,
favor a re statement of tl James I John Marshall. 1-'. K. Zollicoffer, Tol-
Mr Kichardso bert Fannina my others of the most eminent
and acquii which men of the State in - lb- was kind
bo has a. 1.1. been hearted, affectionate, and his children regarded him
11 led a busy life, ami
hard left s .mo forty
sand dollars t" hi- children. Ho was an ardent
yond tl With the very I'nion man ami ne\ • nted to t1 lerate
1..11- ho has had in the tiro. In form 1 when ho told his friends,
'We must He was a man of clear-
ot'tim. email ness, dignity and simplieil N'o man was
ami 11 '■ 111 making ■ . There was no affectation
vide his about him.
commanded much of his time. Uohas': Mr. Richardson's mother, Augusta Miry Stames, a
director ami treasurer *•( the lair on of hi- sister of Hon. i - the Supreme court
couuty; was dii Stones River N ■ n-gia. and a cousin of the late Gi : •' W.Starnest
Bank, ami Safe 1 frusl if Williamson count; C cavalry tamo, is
anil Bank Nashville. the daughter of Daniel Starues, of Georgia, who died
Mr. Richardson i- ■ Hi- in 1^17. when she was only two years old. Her pater-
grandfather. Jan ' 1 niaii. - ry was ol Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. Rich-
who moved, in 1815, to Ruthe cttled ardsons mother i> now liviug with her sou at Mur-
lived and died there a farmer, li m W freesborough. Mr. Richardsou's only brother, John E.
Richardson, father of th nrn January. IS.*>7. i- his law partner,
born in ('■ \ Hi- oldest sister. Susan W., i- the widow of Col. John
ated in medicine al Transylvania University, L .1 J oil.' colonel ol the Forty third Alabama regiment,
Kentucky, in livUV He man ml lived at who died in 1S82 His sisi r Mary, married John B.
11 Rutherl - Batey, a farmer in Rutherford couuty. His oldest
settled where In m eight miles from brother. William T, Richardson, was a physiciau of
-li. lie |i inc from the time much prominence, who entered the Confederate army
of his graduation till his death. N 1. 1872. In ami died in 1 St>2. He was a graduate of Franklin Col-
in, ho was a member of the Chi liurch ' d* the medical department of the University
from 335. and his whole 1 S'ashville.
by 1 ion. He was a trustee of Franklin During Mr. Richar - - ngressional candidacy, in
-tain the al ami be 1884, the Shelbyvilh ed the following
nomination. In politics. well merited estimate of hi- character: " Mr. Rich-
old line Whi ardson is r to the people of this congressional
1 'ature in 1843. district, nor, iu fact to the people - State, as he
- . I8.il and 1 S57 . and of the 8 has been prominently connected with the politics of
m 185 ■ •, He was a political speaker of great Tennessee from hi- early manhood, and has already won
Hi- for hiin-o 3 reputation. When quite a young
manner was im ] and convincing, and man. he was triumphantly elected a member of the
he v life, the leader of his lion- resentatives of our Legislature, by the
party in hi- county, so great was the public confi >le of hi- native couuty, and although it was his
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177
first experience in public life, he was honored with the
position of speaker, being elected over the Hon. An
drew I!. Martin, of Wilson, after n spirited contesl
which position he filled with signal ability, presiding
witli such grace, dignitj and impartialitj as to secure to
him high rank among the best parliamentarians of the
land. His constituents, being so well satisfied with his
course during Ins firs! term, promoted him in a seat in
the senate of the next General Assembly, electing him
by a handsome majority over two of the most popular
citizens of his county, During iliis session, by his
close application in business, untiring energj ami rum
manding influence, he soon became one of the leaders
of the senate, ami iliil much towards shaping the legis
Ian, .n nl' that General Assembly, The brief political
career of this distinguished gentleman has clearly illus-
trated two things: That he has natural gifts, as a pre-
siding officer, possessed by bul row men, ami thai a
legi lator, he is faithful, honest ami capable. So that
if the people nl' this district should confide their inter
ests to his hands in the next Congress of the I nitcd
Stairs, they can draw assur :es from hi^ past faithful
services as a public servant, thai he will be eminently
conscientious in the discharge of his trust.
Judge E. II. East, of Nashville, in speaking of Mr,
Richardson, saiil : "He is a reliable, safe, eons
tious lawyer; stands high in his profession; is endowed
with unusually attractive powers of personal address
ami polish of style; is gentle ami undei istrative in
his manners, ami entirely sincere his forte before a
jury is his sincerity, He is of a kindly, generous na
ture, dignified and elegant, without the least trace "I'
arrogance or affectation, and without haughtiness of
chat acter or manner.
WILLIAM L. NICHOL, M. D.
COMPARATIVELY few men rise to eminence mi
their native heath. The transplanting process is
mil less successful with the human species tluvn in tin'
lower natural kingdoms, ami the young man ul' I , . I 't \
ambition, upon attaining his majority, usually concludes
that it is better to escape the besetting conditions ami
occurrences of his youthful inu-inil ami take his chances
in a new field of enterprise. The old saying that "a
prophet is tmt without honor save in his own country "
applies wiih peculiar force to the young man w li> > un-
dertakes in rise tn professional distinction in the com-
munity where the days of his boyh ! have 1 n spent.
In such case success can spring only from genuine
merit. No false veneering, however plausible, can avail
tn win it.
The subject til' this sketch, Dr. William I,. Nichol,
has achieved his success in the town of his nativity,
literally growing up with the city ami holding his place
iu I he I'n. nt rank nl' ils citizens ami in the highest grade
of his profession. If, like most others, he had com-
mitted his share of youthful I'nllies, he boldly I'aeed
them ami lived them down.
The oldest inhabitant of Nashville at this time, can
scarcely remember when the name id' Nichol \\ I
closely associated with the success ami material pros
perity of the city. The grandfal her of Dr. Nichol came
from Ireland, lie settled at King's Salt Works (now
Saltville), insouthern Virginia, where he married. Sub-
sequently, he became a wholesale merchant in Knox-
ville, where, for several years, he carried on a successful
business. Thence he removed in Nashville, where he
soon became a leading commercial man. Mis business
qualifications were nl' a very high order. They soon
attracted the attention of President Andrew Jackson —
than whom there was no heller judge id' men -who ap-
pointed him to the presidency of a branch of the Lnited
States Dank at Nashville, lie continued successful
in business until his retirement, ami died, leaving a
handsome patrimony tn his children.
William Nichol, the lather nl' \h\ Nichol, was born
at King's Salt Works, Virginia, in the war 1800. lie
removed, when quite young, with his parents tn Knox-
ville. and thence to Nashville, where he grew in man-
hood under the excellent business training nl' his
father, lie married, in Rutherford county, Miss Julia
Lytle (now living in Nashville at the age of seven tj
four), daughter <>i' William Lytic, a farmer, originally
from North Carolina, where he served in the Revolu-
t inn a it war as captain, lie amassed a large fortune bj
land speculations in Rutherford and adjoining counties.
William Nichol, a i the time of his father's death, was
already a well equipped business man, the peer nl' any
in Nashville. Among (he incidents of his training,
illustrating the strict methods of his kit her, it is related
thai, i in occa ion, according to the modes of travel
in those days, he made a sixteen days' horseback imir
ney in Baltimore to make purchases for the house; hut.
ii was discovered, on his return, that he had neglected
tn purchase a certain article that had been set down in
his list. His father started him Lack in Baltimore the
*
next morning tn gel ii. which he did. thereby acquiring
a lesson which made a life-impression, lie was long a
must successful merchant, ami was for a time a partner
nk 1 larry Hill, the famous New Orleans merchant, with
whom it is said he never had any written articles ^i'
partnership. He was atone time mayor of Nashville.
lie served for many years with conspicuous ability as
president of the State Bank of Tennessee, and wound
278 PROMIXKXT TEXXESSK VXS
,,,, 1,^ ■ i> dson I Sirs DeBow. widow of the late -I I"). I! Dc
' |„ ,., in Arkansas |: ' wished editor of the once well-known
II. Sashvillc. in 1878 "'"' i* the daughter of
Dr William I. Xichol was horn in Xashville, Ten- the late John Johns ssful farmer of Davidson
8, 1828. He was educated in the county. She is a lady of presence and man -
1'iiiv. ■ i, and re llers representinir the classic style le beauty in
President ' ' 'ess conspicuous in so-
Philip I. in. 1-1.;. Vfter a three years' i study cietx for the uniform display of those refined virtues
i in medicine in 1840. from the I'niver- which are. the guarantees and the ornament of
then under cli k ,|1"1' •■ sl"' '•* ""' only the light of the
son. Horner. Wood. Hods : dc. but home is always the brighter for Iter
private pupil of Dr. W. W. Gerhard. After sradua- ! '• ,l"1 '- » member of the Missionary
is. in 1S40, elected f the Baptist church. The result of the third marriage is
Phil nl Almshouse, win son. William I,., born at Xashville, July 5. 1S72
mained about ei i then entered the lh' Nicliol's devotion to fession has been al-
['nited States Xavy : rders :i ';',■■ He chose to liimself to its
from the navy department, he labors and its duties at a time when it was fashionable
plorins i Riuggohl and &»' ,; ,f l'ieh men,' as he then was. to pass
I' ... Atlantic and through the forms of a ci i a, to gain a
Indian China. Japan. Capetown and smattering ol the classics, and cram their heads with as
Australia. In 1850 ml of ill health, he re- many excerpts from the ] lieir memories would
, returned to N'asln lie and '" jr perhaps obtain a professional degree by way of
practice, which he personal ornament, and rely upon the father's ex-
continuod till tl ;inj; out of the war. when he chequer for support. Dr. Xichol might have made
,| himself that style of man and been an elegant gentle-
mental surs in his day. u for a' that." But there is an activity
„ J,, e],arge at nature, that, from boy-
hood, has iv
The win private practice. In sibility in his life. At quite an early day the desire to
II the chair of «1 physician became the ruling ambition of his
N'ash- He began his professional studies at the age of
ville. In 1870. he chair of " " '"' I,:m1 Sradu'
mater and therapeutics, and, a s74,to :lt,''1 ;1"'1 entered upon bis lit'.' duties and business. To
retries. I ofthe the pi ' medicine he dedicated his life, and, if
Iron, he wa 1 t1"1 expression be allowable, he has been true to bis
to fill I e, which he now holds. From 18(59 to 1 " "'' i,:|v always been fully alive to
1874 he was in partn the du , and taken a lively interest in
Dr. W. T. Brigs sketch appeal n whatever concerned the welfare of the community He
this volume) For several years, between ISGO and 1S73. has ever been a man of posit i\ il convict
he was editor ii the N shville .)/., , "•'■■<< a Whig, then and now a Den but he has
\ never allowed himself to be tempted from the true
tiUu with n ion of course of his professional career. Few men have been
the profession He is a member ol - more successful than he in the practice of medicine—
medi none more prompt and accurate as a diagnostician. In
\. •.•■-,. . ... ;,.,! [ife. Dr. Xichol hash, mar- ''"' lecture room he is perfect 1) at home His method in
ied. He first married in Xashville, 185S, Henrietta, the treatment of his subjects is thoroughly and severely
daughi ? R. Cockrill. a planter, now at Pine analytical, and bis own enthusiasm inspires zeal on the
Bluff, Arkansas. Her m Ann II. McDonald, Pal't of his classes in their investigations. He is schol-
daughter of Col M D if the Foil - irmy, arly in his profession, yet he scorns all pedantic show in
,,- Uj this marriage* Dr. the lecture-room. He is fluent without verbosity, and
Xichol has one child, Henry, born April 26, W''.1 Mrs. copious without redundancy. He is apt in illustration,
\ i in lSoil, at tl [n 1804 and fre<iuently indulges in appropriate anecdote ; yet all
Dr. Xicl : rried Klla, if John Faeklcr. of '"ere superfluity is rigidly disi I mpress his
Uuntsville. Alabama, ami by ibis marriage has a own idea upon his students seems to be his chief ambi-
n in Cuthbert, Georgia. 1805, who tion. and this he usually succeeds in accomplishing Dr
gradu . Ward's Seminary in 1882 I d Xichol is yet comparatively young, and ii i- safe to say
Mrs Xicln - - His third marriase was with ' that further professional honors await him.
PKOMINENT TEN \ BSSEANS.
279
HON. ANDREW B. MARTIN, LL.D.
LEBANON.
THE life history of this eminent and verj excellent
gentleman presents one of the most interesting
sketches in this volume, and should be an incentive to
the perseverance and ambition of young Tennesseans
who may encounter obstacles in the pathway of their
fortunes
Andrew B. Martin was born at Trousdale's 'Ferry,
Smith county. Tennessee, the son of Dr. Matthew Mar-
tin,a native of Barren county, Kentucky, who was the
sun of Edward Martin J of Virginia, of English parent-
age. Dr. Martin difed at the age of forty-nine, leaving
threesons, Robert 1'.. Andn \\ B. ami Monroe; am! five
daughters. Fannie, Susan. Margaret, Lavinia ami lie
beeca, Andrew B. being the sixth child.
Andrew I>. Martin's mother, nee Miss Matilda Crow
who died in L876, was hern in 1804, in Ireland, daugh-
ter of Jane Crow, net Porter. She was a lady of culture
for her times, and was noted tin' her vigorous mind,
practical turn ami energy. Her first husband was Wil-
liam Walton, of Smith county, Tennessee, by whom she
had four daughters, Sarah, Penelope, Matilda and
.Mary.
His education was obtained under very embarrassing
circumstances. I le attended common schools until the
death of his father, which occurred in 1849, hut shortly
after that event, it became necessary for him to take care
of himself, ami. acting upon this necessity, he left home
with thirteen dollars in money, which he had earned
h> working in a brickyard. Having never been from
home before, circumstances directed him to Lebanon
Tennessee, where he was wholly unknown, hut where,
although (inly fifteen years of age, his manly manners
and his straightforward way of acting, soon secured for
him a clerkship in a drug store. This business was
distasteful to him, hut it was the only thing that was
open. He took hold of it, however, with the well de-
fined purpose in his mind to some day become a lawyer.
Perhaps the legal atmosphere that surrounds the place
stimulated his ambition; perhaps it was destiny that
directed him thither. However that may he. it was
up-hill work with him for a while, but still the ambi-
tious hoy persevered, ami he held his position for five
years, pursuing at odd intervals a course of Study, ami
thus completing a fair academic education -his stud-
ies being directed by the curriculum of Cumberland
University, with the students of which institution he
was thrown in daily contact [n 1856, without having
added anything to his finances, but largely to his expe-
rience and knowledge of the ways "I' the world, he
entered the law school of Cumberland University,
paying his wa> as host he could by labor performed at
night and on Saturdays as book-keeper for two or more
business houses in Leba i. \i length, after studying
in the university two years, be graduated in June, 1858,
receiving his diploma from those eminent jurists and
legal educators, Judges Abram Caruthers and Nathan
Green, sr. and jr. When he had completed his course
in the law he had neither money nor hooks, hut had
made many friends, and had met with nothing to seri-
ously discourage a brave young fellow in hi- purpose to
conquer success. Shortly alter graduation, he became
a candidate for attorney general of the Seventh judicial
circuit, hut was defeated, being second, however, in the
race against sonic twelve or more candidates. The I ime
taken up by his canvass and the excitement at that
period, just preceding the war, prevented him from
meeting with a in marked success in the practice of the
law.
On May 20, 1861, he enlisted in ('apt, John K. Mow
ard's company (II), which afterwards became a pari ol
Col. Robert Hatton's Seventh Tennessee Confederate
infantry regiment, lie was elected lieutenant in the
company. He remained in the regiment until Col. Hat-
ton became brigadier-general, when he was made ad-
jutant general on (leu. Hattou'.s staff— a position very
pleasing to both gentlemen, as they had been intimate
personal friends for many years. Mi'. Martin being a
special favorite of Gen. Uatton's from boyhood. Mr.
Martin served in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina ; participated in the hat-
ties ol' t'heai Mountain and the Romnej expeditions in
the early pari of the war; afterwards at Seven Pines,
Murfreesborough, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, Resaca,
Dalton and Kennesaw Mountain. When the lines of
battle were drawn around Atlanta, Mr. Martin was sent
on detached service with Wheeler's cavalry, which made
a raid in rear of the enemy, passing through the Stale
of Tennessee, Mr. Marl in serving on this raid as adju-
tant-general on the stall of Cen George C Dibrell.
After this he was I ran:- 1 'erred to the Staff of Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, and continued with that commander until
the close of the war. participating in the last battle at
Bentonville, North ( Jarolina, and surrendering at Char-
lotte, North Carolina, in April, 1865.
After the surrender Mr. Martin returned to his home
ai Lei n, and resumed the practice of law, hut he
was still without funds and had to borrow money to
buy clothing to lake the place of his Confederate jeans.
His determination to succeed as a lawyer was still un-
shaken. The condition id' the country was favorable to
litigation, and his gallant record during the warrecom-
in en i led him to the favorable considerati if the people
of his county, and a- uiscquence, practice begau to
set in in his direction. He formed a partnership with
2S0
PliOMLXEN i i'i:nm>- i: \n>.
M William II. Williamson, which con-
tinued sin lliaurson was elected
I
I Murfri
Hi ad\ . il
Charles Beady, an eminei and lor many years
a mon in thai district. I lor mother,
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Mattie Heady, first married Cen. John II Morgan, the
William 11. Williamson, oi
whoso sketeli a
Marti * brothel Col Hoi e Bi ady. w ho eomui
iimy regi-
ment, is now a lumber merchant in
Mrs Martin i from Patapseo Institute,
Maryl
n iment upon all sul is in-
•-
lady of in eulture. [ndeed, lew
ir road more profitably than
i ler fai In nlth and high
I
not alone by her pro-
uouue it by all the graces that make a
beautiful woman atti and better than
in all the walks of life.
ami her husband credits her with havi iiini a
better man ami helped him i: She lias the
She is a
William 'I'. Haskell, his mother
her father - llasl I' the most
By 1 tvith Miss Heady. M
\ i Ella
' died in The surviving children are
Mary. Man ha, \
In politics Mr. Martin was originally a Whig, but
since the war has been in full accord with the Demo-
cratic pan> In 1871, he was elected to the Legislature
ounty. ai: li airman of the
ommittee of the House, in which capacity he
, reputation over the State, lie was a del
to the national Democratic convention at Baltimore, in
ind at Si. Louis, in 1876, casting his vote in the
former for Horace Creeley (under instructions), ami in
the latter for (ion. Hancock. In ISSO, he was Demo-
tor for iho State ai large on the Hancock
ticket, and canvassed the State, adding greatly to his
reputation as an effective speaker.
In duly. 1878, he was elected professor of law in
Cumberland I niversity, a position ho has filled ever
since. In ISSo, In- was elected by the literary societies
o\' Lincoln 1 niversity, Illinois, to deliver the com-
tn.iit address, li was on this occasion that the
trusteos and faculty of that university conferred upon
him the degree •>( LL.D.
Mr. Martin became a Master Mason in 1S61, has
taken all the Chapter. Council and Commando:
as Master, King, High Priest, Eminent
Commander. Ceneralissimo and Prelate, and in
delivered the address at the meeting of the l!
N 'ille.
Mr. Martin and hi- wife are members of the Cum-
berland Presbyterian church, of which he is a ruling
In 1SS3. 1 li sate to the general as-
he church at Xashv
Thus honors have clustered thick about the brow of
thi- man. who started out in life a poor ami friendless
lint his ri -hows that determination and
purpose, backed by a w<h\ character and standing in
.. and the use of honorable means, are almost sure
try. lie has never drifted nor lived
aimlessly, hut has had a purpose which he has sedu-
ously followed, ami after all. ii is strong will power.
guided b\ ice, that works out an honorable
destiny.
BENJAMIN W. USSERY, MP.
TH IS ounty.
duly 21. IS'Jll 11
up ii. - literary
John T I!
South-
-
the stud\ cine in ill
\ I ' i cm to
Phil:. ffice of tie
1'
rsity of Pennsylvania. After spending two years
at that institution, he graduated in April, 1S53, receiv-
ing hi- diploma and the '.' M.D. from i'
William D. Horner. William Gibsi I ''•'■
Hugh 1.. Hodge, Bobert E. Bogers aud
Samui The intervals betwee were
it the Pennsylvania and Wills Hospitals. He
return- I to M mtgouiery county July, 1S53, and tor the
"'.owing years practiced medicine with pronounced
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I ii 1859-60 he spent the greater part of his ti in tra\
eling over the countrj from < 'anads to Mexico, includ-
ing twenty-six States and Territories of tlie Union, his
object being to gratify his love of observation.
In October, L861, he went into the Confederate army
as surg< I' ilir Forty-second Te isscc regiment,
under Col. William A. Quarles, and in iliis regi nl
served lill ii was captured at Fort Donelson, in Feb-
ruary, 1862. When the troops were nboui in be sur-
rendered Col. Quarles informed him that the officers
would not be allowed to go with the men. Dr. Ussery
instantly replied : "With your permission, then, I will
mil go in prison." Makiug liis escape, lie proceeded t'>
Murfreesborough, joined the army under Gen. Albert
Sidnej Johnston, and was l>\ liim assigned in dutj as
surgeon of Col. Stanton's Fourteenth Mississippi regi
iiicni ul Zollicoffer's brigade, and was, by seniority "I'
his commission, brigade surgeon until after the battle
ofShiloh, when, at his own request, he was detached in
rejoin the Fortj second Tennessee, which had just been
exchanged and was then at Jackson, Mississippi \r
riving there, he was ordered to report to 0 en Bragg ii
Chattanooga, where he was appointed by Gen, Polk as
assistant medical inspecter of his corps. He served in
this capacity seven months, after which, his.health being
broken down by dysentery, he was transferred in hos
pi tal service at Lagri Georgia byorder of Adjutant-
Gen, Cooper, Confederate States Army, and remained
there eleven months as a member ot the reserve sur-
gical corps and in charge of a hospital of three bundred
I H 'ils. lie was then ordered in Atlanta ami participated
in the surgical duties nl' the battles nl' -I uly -'■'< ami lis,
1864. Returning in his post at Lagrange, lie remained
three months in charge nl' the sick ami wounded who
could nni In' moved after the battle nl' Atlanta. \i the
end "!' this time he was ordered in West Point, .Miss
issippi, with his hospital, ami there remained three
months in comparative idleness, After Gen. Hood
retreated from Tennessee, he removed his hospital in
Enterprise, Mississippi, where 1* remained in charge
till the surrender, having done service at the battles of
Knri Donels Shiloh, Corinth, Stones River, Chicka
i iga, Missionary Ridge, and Atlanta. At Fort Don
rlsiiii hi' was sin ii through the clothing and also stunned
by the bursting of a shell in such rinse proximity in
him that ii produced severe bleeding at the nose.
The war over, Dr. Ussery returned in IMonl erj
(■mi niy. completely broken down in fortune, but resumed
practice and has been practicing lill this time, a g I
deal of the time, however, trading successfully in in
bacco ami land. Mr is now in partnership with -I
Edwards, dealing in leaf tobacco, al Clarksville,
Dr. Ussery speul four years of the besl part of his
life preparing for his profession, studying nothing rise.
lie next wi in in whal he considered tin1 best scl I as
a private student under one of the oldest ami most
widely known professors in the United States, his ambi
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1 I"'111" m give him elf b) this means, a professional
standing, subscribing wholly, cordially and practically
to the code of ethics of the American Medical Associa-
tion, « hirh has been his uniform guide in his relal ions
with the profession Vdding to this lirst class training
his methodical habits of study, and by means of his
honesty ami fair dealing, he has made a name i ng
the standard physicians ol hisc try Ho is a member
of the Mont crj County Medical Society, and m
formerly a member of the Tennessee Medical Associa-
tion
Politically, Dr. [Issery was an old line Whig until
the revoluti ind breaking up of parties by the war.
which threw him i ho Democratic party, with which
he has acted and voted since thai time, While tali ing
no active pari in politics, he has fell a sufficiently warm
interest to vote intelligently.
He is a director in the Orange Warel se Vssocia
ii at Clarksville, a position he has held since 1877,
when the association was organized, and when he was
the purchaser of the building which the; now oceupj
This association ha been eminently successful, and its
sales of tobacco, which were eleven limn- I hog head
in 1878, now average s e seven il sand hogsheads
per annum,
Hi' was mail.' a Masnn iii Clarksville Lodge, No. 89,
in 1854, and has taken all of the Chapter degrees. He
has been a member of the Methodist church since his
sixteenth year; was at one time class-leader, is now
stew ard, and has been i \\ ice elected a laj delegate to
annual conferences of his church, sen ing once in 1873
His parents were zealous Methodists, and all ol their
children and grandchildren, who have lived to adult
years, have joined that church. No member of the
family has r\i'i- been known to be drunk or to have
sworn an oath Familj pride, based on such a record
as this, is ai once pleasing and honorable
Dr, Ussery's father, John W. Ussery, a native ol
Lunenburg county. Virginia, born in 17!is. immigrated
to Tennessee in 1816, purchased a farm in Montgomery
ci unity, where he lived until his death, in April, 1879
at the age ol eighty-one. He married, in 1822, a ladj
who had I n rai ed in \ irgiuia with him, boy and girl
together, and who had e i to Tennessee in the same
wi am He was a verj successful trader in land,
ami was punctiliously honest in all his dealings. His
characteristics were promptness and decision. His
father, William Ussery, of English blood, died in Lu-
nenburg county, Virginia, in middle age
Dr. Ussery's mother, net Miss Rebecca Neblett, was
a daughter of William Neblett, who died in Franklin
county, Virginia. He was a soldier in the war >>\' 1812,
as was also his son, John L. Neblett, Her mother was
a Miss Love, of Irish stock The Neblett familj i-
ol i he most nun i in Moi j count; and were
among ii< earlj settlers. Thej are still numerous in
Virginia, and ire largely and creditably represented in
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I i Dr. Ussery's mother, ciglity-two Alexander Lyle), Sterling, Wilmur, Lewis, Katharine
years of age, is now li\ ing with her son. A Methodist. ^ Marj . Benjamin and William,
the sti the strict, tolerating nothing mean, dis John I! I sserj married Miss America Smith, of
honorahle or prevaricating in her children, she is still Montgomery eouuty, also has ten children, [da (now
Ions a- ever for her church and all its institu- wife of John R. Steele, Esq.), George, William, Eliza-
tions, giving freely to all its charitable enterprises. | beth. Maud, Robert, Edwin, Eloise, Frank and Xorman.
Dr. I sscry was tin- fourth of seven children, and is Dr. Ussery's sister, Sarah Ussery, married Rev. James
now the youngest living. His brothers, William ami M. Smith, a Methodist minister ami a magistrate of
John R. Ussery. are successful farmers in Montgomery Monti unity. Thej have eight children, Euge-
couuty. nia. Johu. William. Dean, Benjamin, Faunie, Rebecca,
William Ussery married his cousin. .Mi— Ann El .lam- ami Mary, ^nothei sister, Main Ussery, died the
beth Neblett, daughter of Dr Josiah Xeblett. a promi wife of 1'. II. Kcesee, leaving three children, two of
iniit physician of Montgomery county, ami has tin whom survive. Charles C. and Virginia Lee
children, Josiah Xeblett. Ethclbert. lain (now wife of Dr, Ussery himself has never married.
JABEZ P. DAKE, A.M., AI. D.
V [SHV1LLE.
DR. DAKE was born at Johnstown, Xew York. Pennsylvania, near which city he now resides in retire-
April 22. 1827. His father, Dr. Jabez Dake, was ment, with an accumulated competency. Uhauncy M.
born al Saratoga, New Vork, and his paternal grand- Dake, M.D.. was one of the earliest practitioners of
father at Bcnningl m Vermont, where he took part in homoeopathy iu this country, having settled at Geneseo,
the famous battle with .the British. His mother was New Vork, when there were hardly a dozen physicians
fern al Smithficld. Rhode Islaml. as also were her an- of thai faith west of New Vork city, lie died at Roch-
eestry tin- several generations. i s New Vork. a tew years
The paternal stock was English, first located at Hop Beside these brothers Dr. Hake had one other. A brain
kinton, Rhode Island, about 16S0; ami die maternal B., who died at Xnnda, while yet a young man. He had
was Welsh, first entering Rhode Tslaml with the colony three sisters, the eldest married to James McClellan,
of Roger Williams. Hi- father emigrated to what was the second to Lyman Hoppins, both having several
called " the West,'' locating in the fertile valley of the children, mostly residing in Michigan. The parents
Genesee, about the year 1830. have passedaway, Mrs. Hoppins leaving a son. Chauncy
Of relatives there was quite a large settlement in the I. Hop]. in-. M.D., at present a successful physician at
town of Portage, ami village of Xunda, Livingston Geneseo, Illinois.
county, a- there had been for tv bi fore at Dr, Dake - youngest sister was married to .lame,- D.
field. Saratoga eouuty. His mother's maideu Crank, a prominent merchant for many years, at Gene-
name was Sophia Bowen : and the Bowens, like the seo, New York. She died several years ago, at Cinein-
Dakes. were numerous ami will known in Saratoga nati. Ohio, leaving six children. Mr. Crank is now
county. The hake- ami Bowens of Chicago, Pittsburg residing al Pasadena, California, where he is interested
ami Michigan sprang from tin S ick. in orange groves ami vineyards. His eldest son, Hon.
The subject of this sketch inherited from his father .). F. Crank, member of the California Legislature, is
the sturdy enterprise of the English, and from his one of the leading capitalists of the Los Lngeles region,
mother the untiring industry and perseverance of the Hi- second son. Charles D. Crank, 31. D., is practicing
Welsh. I le al-o. if such a thin- he possible, inherited medicine at Cincinnati, and holds a professorship in the
the gift of healing from his father, who \\a- regarded a- Pulte Medical t ollej of that city. I lis youngest son
almost a natural healer, so great wa- hi- success, with is. also, a physician, located at Los Angeles, California.
limited educational advantages. Hi- eldest brother, It maj be mentioned that Dr. D. M. Dake- only son
David M., and the next, Chaune\ M .. v is an eminent physician at Belleville, Illinois, and his
the firmer graduating al Castleton, Vermont, and the son-in-law, F. W. Skiles, M.D.. till the time of his re-
latter at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. Hi- fourth cent retirement, was iu a large ami lucrative practice
brother. William II. wa- al-o a graduate in medicine. in the city of Brooklyn, Xew Vork. The only son and
hut followed dentistry, when that art wa- new, a- a child of Dr. ('. M. Dake. is at present a well-known
specialty. David M. Dake. M D., was well known as a practitioner of the healing art in New Vork city,
most <ucccs.slul physician it Pittsbui It i- a noteworthy fact that every member of this
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numerous family of medical men has adopted the views
of Hahnemann, including the father of the subject of
this sketch, as well .- 1 -~ 1 1 i s sons, hereinafter to be men-
tioned. And ii tnusl be said thai Dr. Dake's mother
was one of the earliest and most active advocates of
temperance, urging its claims persistently when social
custom and fashion were all in favor of the free use of
intoxicants. She favored moral reforms and denounced
shams, and urged independence and vigor of action in
all good measures, evincing the spirit of her Roger
Williams, Quaker-Baptist ancestry. While her hus
band was a mild mannered and good man, distinguished
among his friends as a great peace-maker and benefnc
tor, she was independent of thought, resolute of purpose
and uncompromising in her efforts for what she deemed
best, [f her sons and her grandsons have shown little
regard for the orthodox and the authoritative, the germ
of it all must be traced to her as the parent and ex-
emplar.
As a boy, Dr. Dake applied himself diligently to study
for several years in the Nunda Academy, and then at
Madison University, Hamilton, New 5Tork,spendinghis
last, or senior, year of literary study at Union College,
Schenectady, then under the presidency of the great
Dr. Kliphalcl Nott. From this college he graduated as
a Bachelor of Arts, in July, 1849. Up to the time of
his graduation, at the age of twenty two, he had been
constantly in school, except for one year, 1845 6, which
he spent in Tennessee, as principal at the Bethanj In
stitute, about twenty miles east ol Memphis While in
Tennessee his father died, occasioning his speedy return
for the settlement of the estate and care of his mother.
Finding his patri ly only sufficient to start him in
somei lest business, or to put him through the bal-
ance of his college course, he determined to use it for
the latter, much against the urgings of his family, lie-
inn the youngest I only child left unmarried, his
mother would have kept him with her at home, but
yielded to his earnest purpose to finish his education.
On his way to Hamilton, having allowed the tage
coach to go mi while he stopped to call on an old friend
five miles short of that place, he was walking the dis
tance alone, when, on gaining an eminence, he caught a
lirst view of the old university buildings, three miles
away, across the valley, and halted suddenly to take in
the scene. After an earnest survey and the recollection
of the doubts expressed at ho as to his physical
ability to continue so long at study, he said aloud,
"There I will go through or lose my life in the attempt."
With that resolution he went down the road and across
the beautiful valley to the battle ground of college
hopes and I ears. One year his mother took a house and
remained wit h him at I [amilton,
Though obedient to college rules, a time came when
he refused to yield to a requirement of the faculty which
he and nine tenths of the Students considered all ini|io
sition. See i in' a determination to enforce the obnoxious
measure, and not desiring to put himself in open rebel
lion, he asked "for and received an honorable dismission
to Union College When the storm broke, I a hun-
dred and fifty young men were suspended for insubor
dination, he was peacefully pursuing his studies at
Schenectady. The independent way of thinking and
high resolves, gained bj inheritance, were greatly fos
tered bj the teaching and example of Dr. Nott. At
that time no American college was turning out larger
classes ol better and more couraf us thinkers, desti 1
to make an impress] i the world, than was old
Union. Dr. Dake stoutly maintains that no c
president I no college system, in America or else
where, have been, or ever will he. superior to th
Union in her halcyon days, from 1820 to 1800. The list
of her graduates during that period has names that
adorn almost every useful walk in American life
In regard to occupation, the subject of our sketch
had not fully determined. At the age of sixteen his
mind led toward the law, and he began to read Black
stem- iii the office ol an eminent lawyer; but, coming
often upon length) Latin quotations, that he could
not readily read, he concluded, after a few months,
to return to school. Before he had reached the end
of his college course, his mind had received strong
religions bias, and he felt that h '.dii to preach
Bui dyspepsia and throat affection, and a tendency, not
unnatural, to the profcssii I his father and elder
brothers, finally decided him to study medicine ; and,
after leaving Schenectady, he went to Pittsburg and
entered the office ol' Dr. Gustavus Reichhelm, an edu
eated Prussian, the lirst to bear hom pathywesl of the
Alleghanies (1837). He took a course at Geneva and
another at Philadelphia, graduating from the Homo
opathic .Medical College of Pennsylvania, in the spring
of 1851. His thesis, or graduating essay, on " Medicinal
Forces," was afterwards published in the American
Journal of Homoeopathy, ami also in some foreign
journals. ,
Returning to Pittsburg, he succeeded his brother in
practice, and the following year became associated with
his medical preceptor, Dr. Reichhelm. The latter re
moved to Philadelphia in 1853, leaving him a large
clientele.
The ungenerous attacks u] the new school of med-
ical practice in the city papers, found in the succsssor
ok |)r. Reichhelm a ready disputant. files ol' the
leading daily papers of Pittsburg, from 1849, show con-
troversial articles from his pen that led his opponents
to recognize in him a literary as well as medical scholar
of no ordinary rank. He was solicited to become all
associate editor of the Philadelphia Journal of 1 1 mm
opathy, and. afteward of the North American Quar
terly Journal, of New Stork Both of these have
art hies showing his ability as tt « riter.
I ii 1855, lie was called t :cupy the chair of materia
inediea and therapeutics in his alma mater, the first
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fully 01 hoimvopal 1 in the world. I'm- many other pamphlets on medical and sanitary topics,
nlevs he left his practice with his junior associate, besides numerous papers for the national society and
Dr..) C. Burgher, and delivered .1 course of lectures for niedii il journals \- chairman of the bureau of
in Hi i his health impaired by the materia medica in thai society, be conducted import-
double work mi 1857 In J the chair and iis unl investigations for several years, ti uching drug at
ible duties at the college, and devoted himself en tenuation and materia medica improvement. On the
t i rely to the work at Pittsbu latter subject he submitted an important paper at the
At the meeting of the Americau Institute of llouue World's Convention, in Philadelphia, in 187f>, and mi
opathy, the national soeiet\ of 1 lie new school, in Chi the latter, one al the World's Convention, in London, in
cago, in K">7. he was elected to the presidency of that 1881. I!.\ bis efforts in this country, and those of Dr.
body. The following year he delivered the annual ad Richard Hughes, in England, a large Cyclopaedia of
dress before the same, in the city of Brooklyn. In the Drug Pathogenesy U being published, of which Dr,
year 1855, while general secretary of the institute, by an Hughes is editor for (ireat Britain, and Dr. Dake for
earnest appeal, he succeeded in rail} ing the profession America, each being designated for that position by his
so .is 1,1 increase the attendance largeh at the following respective national society
meetings in \\ ashington. Chicago and ether cities |n |;m ,,,,, .,]one ;,, medicine has the Doctor been inter
that same year be was one of the orators in Philadel ested and at work. At an annual meeting of the man-
phia. at the great celebration of the centennial birthda.N agers and friends of the Nashville Woman's Mission
"I' Hahnemann Rut, notwithstanding all these public Heme, the lute Rev. Dr. Raird moved the appointment
duties, he was constantly build business of Dr Dake as chairman of the advisory board, in order,
al Innne In 1850. he wrote a small work on Acute as 1,,. s:,i,l. (l, secure the building of a hospital, an
- for domestic use chiefly, which Inn i addition greatly needed by that institution. Very soon
in several en la rued editions since, thereafter the new chairman had each manager supplied
Much work tin. illy took effect upon his health, ami in \V i t li a small subscription hook, bearing his own name
lSo"5 he was forced to retire 1,. hi- farm, at Salem. I >hio. and that of his n ife for a liberal sum each, and bj the
Leaving the choicest medical clientele, up to that time. time the architect had his plans and specifications
thered ,n Pittsburg, he turned his mind ami made, money ei di was subscribed on the little books
worn down physical cner lie cultivation -(tine to warrant the giving out of the contracts for the build-
fruits, especialh the grape. Succeeding in that, as in i,,n : and in less than a year the hospital addition was
medicine, he was soon at the bead of the Crape Crow readv for use.
ei- Association in (Hue. During bis administration Vnd, in 1S83, the Doctor, always fond of paintings and
Mr. Charles Downing, Mr. Barry ami other distin other products of the fine arts, believing that the time
sruished potnologisls, were brought to the south shores had come in Nashville for fostering the interests of art,
of Lake Krie to see tin 1! display of grapes, called a meeting of all the artists in the vicinity, and of
But the declining health of his wife and the need of a the friends of art, tin- the organization of a .society. The
milder climate, led him to think again of Tennessee. I n result « as the Nashville Ait Association, an institution
the spring of ISGO, he removed to Nashville ami opened made up of the Lest people in the community, already
a medical office ai ig strangers. Tt was not long, how- grown beyond the question of success, with him at its
till the reputation made at Pittsburg followed hi 111 head as president.
here. One of his earliest clients s.:) i,l 10 him one da Dr. Dake has for years contended agaiust legislative
" Doctor, you haven't sent me any hill tin- your services enactments for the regulation of the practice of nicdi-
don't you need some money ? — to which he replied, cine b\ boards of censors, ami has written much on the
\ -il-. 1 brought some money along.'' He came to subject. He objects to the drawing of a line, or basing
Nashville, ma ;e a mendicant 11 what a license to practice, en the possession of a diploma.
be proposed to do l!u-iiess came mere rapidly than since, as he contends, the most dangerous medical ini-
he expected, not through any tricks or adroit advertis- irs and quacks have diplomas. He advocates a law
m because he bad earned it by study and close requiring each practitioner to write his personal history
attention to business for many years, D \yi(s soon dis en a register, kept for the purpose and open to public
covered that 1, a horse-trader nor a saloon inspection, in the office of the couuty clerk, under oath,
r. ami that he was ,, physician. telling what In' has done 10 qualify himself for practice
\ ■ - !: 1 n idle, lie soon issued a revised ami and to merit the confidence of the sick, His mo
enlarged editi if his work on "Acute Disi ises." a " Light for the people and freedom for the physician.''
pamphlet on the " Remedies \\ e I se. a larger one en 'fine; ssed of as many and as good diplomas: as
" Therapeutics in < hitlinc.' this latter being a display any medical man in the State, he saj s " let every man
of the leading principles and methods of tin -. stand en his pi nerits, not on the small gather-
icially showing the true position and relationships ings of his school-boy days."
of the lav He has written In tie - 1875, I'r Dake broke down, from
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over-work, and went to Europe, traveling through the
British islands, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzer-
land, [taly and Prance. His active brain found work
of a most agreeable and refreshing character in those
(i lil countries, with cathedrals, palaces and collections of
art. He returned, fully restored, late in the following
autumn, and resumed his accustomed work. The fol
lowing winter he was called to the chair of principles
and practice in the old college at Philadelphia, and went
there, lecturing through the winter to a large class. At
the close of* the course, he resigned the chair, being
convinced that his wife s liealth would not allow her to
reside so far north in winter, and he not willing to go
there alone.
[n the summer of 1881, he again went abroad, more
for medical purposes, to attend the World's Convention
in London, and to visit the hospitals of the old world.
He traveled much in England, visiting the great seats
of learning and the best hospitals there and in Holland,
North Germany, Denmark and Sweden He traveled,
also, in Norway, Finland and Russia, as far as St.
Petersburg. He was especially inquiring into the
" Swedish movement cure." ami the "massage" treat
meiit. Iii London he visited Dr. Roth, the great trans
lator and writer on those subjects, and Dr. Metzger
in Amsterdam, who was treating more patients by those
methods than any other physician in Europe.
Dr. I>ake has no military record nor political history,
having devoted his whole mind and energies to
the healing of the sick. He has never sought office
and is thoroughly independent in the use of his rote.
I le has been a Royal Arch Mason for twenty livcyears.
though now for several years not an active or affiliated
one. On arrival in Nashville he refrained from visit-
ing the order, determined thai no one should license
him of making use of such introductions to gain Imsi
ness.
Going hack, we find he was married, April .'I, L851,
to Miss Elizabeth Church, daughter of Dr. Wil
liam Church, a prominent physician at Pittsburg, who
died in the year 1829. Her paternal grandfather was
also a physician. Her father's brother, Samuel Church,
was a leading iron manufacturer and merchant at'Pitts-
burg, a bosom friend of Alexander Campbell, and a
great promoter of his Baptist reform. \l<v brother,
William Irwin Church, was also a physician, having
studied, and afterwards become a partner, with her
husband, Dr. Hake. He died at Pittsburg, in 1862.
Though early left an orphan, and inheriting a delicate
constitution, .Mrs. Hake received a good education in
her girlhood. Possessed of a natural fondness for lit
erary work, she has written many lines of great merit,
chiefly known, however, to friends in afflict ton, words of
comfort and consolation. With a strong religious bias
and inspiration, she has always been devoted to her
church, and the interests id' t he poor and the distressed.
Since her children have grown up, so as to engross less
01 her at tent ion, she has been a manager in the board
of the Woman's Mission Home and of the Prntotant
Orphan Asylum at Nashville. A more devoted wife 1
mot lur and faithful dispenser of charity, all without os
tentation. cannot be found.
By his marriage with Miss Church, Dr. Hake has live
children, all sons, born at Pittsburg, except the youngest:
( I ). William ( Ihurcll, the eldest, was horn at Pittsburg,
January 28, 1852. His literarj education was received
at YpMlanli. Michigan, and at Nashville, where he
•j rad i la led 1 1 Mm the high school. He studied medicine
in his father's office, and graduated from the medical
department of the University of Nashville. He also
attended lectures at the New- York Homoeopathic Med
ical College and the clinics at Bellevue Hospital. Since
L872, he has been associated with his father in practice.
Besides an excellent reputation as a successful practi
tinner, he has won some fame as it medical writer. 1 1 is
work on diphtheria, founded on a large experience in
treating that disease, stands high as an authority in
Eurpoe as well as in this country. In IsT.'i he married
Miss Myra Wiggin, daughter of Richard Wiggin, a well
known railroad superintendent at Pittsburg. She lived
only three n ths after her marriage. Me married a
sister of his first wife, Miss Addie Wiggin, in 1878, and
by lur has had two children, Richard W. and BessieC.
('!). Walter M. was born January III. 1855, and received
his literary education at Nash vi lie; studied medicine ill
his father's office; attended lectures at the University of
Tennessee, at the I'nlte Medical College, Cincinnati, and
at the I lahneniann Medical College, Philadelphia, taking
the dip] a of the last named in the spring of L877. Hav-
ing a strong love for literary pursuits, he hesitated some
time before falling into line with his ancestry in the pro-
fession of medicine. A fter graduation, he located for a
short while at Jackson, Tennessee, where he was doing
Well when called to Nasln ille to aid his father and elder
brother, with whom he has since been associated. He
married Miss Fanny G. Ward, eldest daughter of S. M.
Ward.a planter, h Jefferson, Texas. In regard to these
brothers, it may he remarked, that it seldom happens
that such harmony and success are seen to attend two
brothers associated iii professional life. Each has a
Strong and enthusiastic following, and i^ widely known
in Tennessee. (3). Jabez P. .jr.. was born September
I."), L857, and educated chieflj at Nashville, graduating
from the Fogg high school, attending lectures at the
i I ical department of the University of Tennessee and
the University of Michigan, and taking his medical
degree from the latter, in 1879. lie located at New
Albany, Indiana, hut was prevented remaining there
long by failure of his health. Giving lip practice, he
visited the Hot Springs, Arkansas, and other health re
soils. So far a^ able, he now assists his father and
brothers in their practice at Nashville. (4). Charles,
was horn July 13, I860, and received In- literary edu-
cation at Nashville, and in the Southwestern Baptist
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spring of 1864. Il<' then went to Hickman, Kentucky,
and engaged in commercial enterprises until the close
cil' the war. Alter the war lie went to Memphis and
again resumed the practice of In* profession, since
which time he hasremained there, enjoying a very large
and lucrative practice. During all his changes of resi
deiiee and business he has been uniformly successful
and prosperous.
In 1867, he was called to Cincinnati to (ill a chair in
the Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery, hut remained
there only during one course, when hi' resigned.
In 1869, together with Dr. William II. Morgan, of
Nashville, and other prominent dentists, he organized
the Southern Dental Association, and was elected its
first president, at Atlanta, in August of thai year. In
connection with Dr. Morgan, he was also one of the
organizers of the Tennessee Dental Association, in
L867, and was it- firsl secretary and afterwards its pres-
ident, lie is also a member ol the .National Dental As-
sociation.
In recent years. Dr. Arrington has become largely
connected with mining interests, and is secretary and
treasurer of the Indus Mining company, of New Mexico,
ami also secretary and treasurer ol' several large enter
prises in old and New Mexico.
Dr. Arrington was raised an old line Whig, but, like
most men at the South, abided the wishes of his State
and went with her when she lefl the Union. Since the
War he has heeii a Democrat. Hi' has, however, always
avoided politics, shrinking from public life and refusing
to hold any political office, preferring to devote himself
to his profession. He became an odd Fellow in 1879:
and is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Itoyal
Asylum, and the Knights of Honor, lie passed through
all the chairs of three of these in the year in which he
was initiated. lie and his wife are both members of
the Protestant Episcopal church
In 1S76, he was elected a member of the public school
hoard of Memphis, and. being re elected from time to
time, served until January, 1882, when he resigned, lie
was an earnest advocate ol equal rights and equal com-
pensation for male and female teachers
Dr. Arrington 's father was James II. Arlington, a
gentleman of Scotch-English descent, horn in .North
Carolina. January 4, 1801. lie was a planter, and in
1S2(>, moved to Tennessee, settled at Paris, and engaged
largely in that occupation, lie died in L862, leaving
one daughter and five sons, three of whom are now
living: (1). Dr. B. F. Arrington, a dentist, and now
resident of Goldsborough, North Carolina. (2). Dr.
.John Arrington, also a dentist, at Jackson. Tennessee.
(3). Dr. William T. Arrington. subject ol' this sketch.
Another son. J. J. Arlington, went Co California dur-
ing the "gold fever,' and subsequently took an active
part in politics, serving in the State senate of California
for several terms. lie was the first brigadier general
commissioned in California, and at the beginning of the
war .-tailed south to join Breckinridge's army, was de-
tained in St. Louis by the Federal authorities, ami
while there met with an accident which resulted in his
deal h
Dr. Arlington's mother's maiden name was Mary
Sproiiillc. She was tin' daughter ol' Dr. Sprouille, of
Dublin, Ireland, who was educated in that city, came to
America, settled in North Carolina, on Albemarle
Sound, and there achieved success and distinction as a
medical practitioner. .Mrs. Arrington was the sister of
I ! en. Samuel S i iron i lie and Col. Ben, Sproui lie. of North
Carolina. Her mother was .Miss Mary W. Blount, a
member of- the Blount family, of North Carolina, from
which Gov, Blount, of Tennessee, was descended.
On January 18, 1859, Dr. Arlington was married to
Miss Emilia ('. Levy, daughter of Archibald Levy, then
a merchant at Trenton, Tennessee, formerly of Georgia.
Mrs. Arlington s mother was M iss Overall, a member
of the well known Rutherford county family of that
name. Her grandfather was Louis Levy, a merchant at
St. Mary's, Georgia; and her grandmother was .Miss
Ann Patterson, daughter of Col. John Patterson, of
Philadelphia, one of the old Revolutionary patriots.
Mrs. Arlington's grandmother was remarkable For her
Christian and womanly virtues. She died in Philadel-
phia at a verj advanced age. At the time of her death
there were living of her descendants thirteen children,
fifty-three grandchildren, and thirty-six great-grand-
children- -in all one hundred and two direct descendants.
By his marriage with Mis- Lew. Dr. Arrington has
two children : (1). William T. Arrington, born in 1868.
(2). Guy Arlington, horn in 1874.
Dr. Arrington has always loved his profession and
faithfully de\ oted the best J ear- of bis life to it. strictly
adhi ring to the policy of having no partner, and saying
hut little of his successes or failures. While socially
inclined, he has never formed manj confidential friend
ships, hut ha- confided in his wife for counsel and
assistance. Delias always conducted his business oil
the principle of never. putting off till to-morrow what
can he done to-day ; has si udiously a\ oided all lawsuits
or controversies of any sort, believing in tin' settlement
of disagreements bj milder means. He ha- alw •-•
temperate in his habits, and has hut few troubles, study-
ing always to avoid them, lie is fond of scientific in
ve.-tigatioii. which he follows as a labor of love. Cour-
teous to all men. respecting rich ami poor alike, he
never makes discriminations under any circumstances,
A member of the medical profession in Memphis says
of him: "lie stands at the head of his profession, and
is a gentleman of the highest ton,' — of veracity, integ
rity and morality.
He has a line store of general information, ami i-
perfectly at home upon a great variety of subjects. In
disposition genial, and inclined toward social conver-
sation, he is also scrupulously particular about treating
all men. high and low with the utmost courtesy, which
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\ sh\ ille. Hi re Jed in obtaining
mtion in the office of the pub-
I I>\ Knives, Marks \ Co., where In- remained long
J.i to acquire a pretty fair knowledge of the print -
tsiness. Ho then became publisher of the old
Rutherford Telegraph. for Xorthcott ,V Ott. proprie-
Ih 1859, he wont to l'ino Blutt", Arkansas, and
became publisher of the • ■■'. a Dem
oeratic org-an. For some years his heart had been set
on the profession of law, and at odd times he had been
availing himself of the opportunities afford*
such elementary works as he could uet hold of. In the
fall oi - iving made sufficient accumulation to
justify him in the enterprise, he entered the law depart
mem of Cumberland Cnivershy as a student. Ho had
made sufficient advancement in his private study t.>
render his collegiate course a brief one, so thai, on the
L'Tth of June, 18l>0. ho was graduated from the in
shy with the degree of Bachelor of Law s. ' >n the 7th
of Septein he began the practice of law
at Xashville.
The civil war between the States - i afterward ho
gan. and anion- the earliest volunteers. Ferriss enlisted
as a private ill compam i 8 I Tennessee infantryi
William IV Bate, colonel. Ferriss was promoted to
a captaincy for gallant conduct on the battlefield of
Murfr sborough, or Stone* River, as it is called by the
I'uion army. For his gallantry on this - on. his
name was placed on the " Roll o\' 11. .nor" by tin
ite war department. After the war. peunil -
resumed the practice oi' his profession, and with
zoal and industry followed it a period of six years, when
ho was olootod the first public administrator of David-
son county. This office he filled for half the term, to
the satisfaction of the public, when in a hotly contested
with highly popular and worthy competitors,
ho was elected to the office of county judge, in 1872.
Is the office
until September, IS86
By a life of rectitude and strict morality, Judge For
actor for integrity and as
and righteous judge. In the discharge of the du-
tates of duty and of
a benevolent heart, he has it into the city and
the country, aud gathered in the neglected orphans, and
provided for thorn homos, and in instances numberless,
had them adopted into reputable families. In this, he
-hod for himself a monument more enduring
than uiarbh Had he dis no other of the va-
rious functions ot his office (all of which ho has dis-
- ■! with efficiency, ability ami great fidelity), this
one duty, performed so well, would crown him with
laurels. 8 .rod through Teunessee, here and there,
are bright eyed orphan girls and youths, whoowe to this
hearted man the first ray of sunshine that
brightened the threshold oi' their existence.
Judge Ferriss is a - - it member ot the Meth-
odist Kpiscopal church, South. In politics, ho is con-
servative and liberal, a true Democrat.
Ho married, while a soldier in the Confederate army.
M ss M. I.. Nolon. ot' Triune, an excellent lady, ot' re-
markable eulture ami intelligence. By this marriage
they have nine children, all of them liberally endowed
with pluck, energy andgood promise.
If it bo true that those are great whose lives benefit
their fellow men ami who shall gainsay it?), then is
John C. Ferriss' title to greatness already well estab-
Better than warriors wreath or monarch's
crown will be such a title, when the grand final adjust-
ment oi' human accounts shall come to be made.
HON. WILLIAM R. MOORE.
/~r",HK subject of this sketch was born in Huntsville.
1 Alabama. March 28. 1830. the son of Robert ('.
. who died the same year, at the age of twenty-
leaving two children. William R. Moore and
Martha -L Moore, the latter of whom married Alney
11 McLean, ot' Middletou, Rutherford county
aud died there in ls<;; Her husband >till re-
..n a farm which has been in his
family t'..r more than a hundred years.
Mr Mi on s grandfather was Charles M v. a i
of Virginia, born near Charlottesville. Mr. Moore is
a man of pure southern blood, never bavin- had a rel-
ative born north of the Ohio river. His family on both
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ville, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, and the
country arouud them. Very few surviving relath -
his family name are now living. The family has been
made up chiefly of fanners for the last one hundred
and fifty years, who have never had much to do with
public lite, being content to live as quiet, unostenta-
tious agricultural people; well to do. but not wealthy;
land and slave-owner-, belonging to the self-sustain-
ing class: never pretentious, but modest and retiring
men of' busiuess, who [.aid their debts, kept their
; -. and retained plenty of this world - - iboul
them. A principle which has pervaded the whole fam-
ily . ha.- been a great pride oi' integrity, and a firm adher-
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Mr. Moore's mother, yet liviug, was Miss Mary !•'.
Lingow, daughter of Archibald Lingow, descendant of
another old Virginia family. Her mother was Miss
Martha Cleveland, daughter of Jeremiah Cleveland, de-
scendant of Col. Ben Cleveland, a Revolutionary soldier,
who bore a conspicuous part in the battle of King's
Mountain. The characteristics of Mr. Moore's family on
his mother - side, have been much the same as those of
his paternal ancestry. They have always 1 n n peace
ful, strifeless people, never mixing with troubles, per
sonal or political, and peculiarly free from military or
official ambition. The family on both sides leu e been re-
ligionists -members of the Presbyterian and other Pro-
testant churches, and always consistent in their faith.
After the death of his father, which occurred when
William was six months old, Mr. Moore's mother me veil
to Tennessee and settled at Beech Grove, then in Bed-
ford (now Coffee) county, and lived there, a widow,
seven years, at the expiration of which time she mar-
ried John M. Watkins, near Fosterville, Tei -see.
where she has -inee lived in the • f house for the past
fifty years.
Mr. Moore was brought up on a farm, receiving only
partially the advantages of the common schools, and in
the log school 1 ses of his day laid the foundation
upon which he built his self taught education. 1 a early
boyhood he had a strong desire to a it in the world
and make his own way. and at fifteen his mother finally
consented for him to go. Fortunately, he found employ-
ment in the store of Mr. William K, McFadden mer
chant and postmaster at Beech Grove, Coffee county ;
fortunately, because Mr. McFadden was one of the
kindest and most fatherly of men. id' fine business ca-
pacity and integrity, whose persona] character was a
tine model for the ambitious young business man. 1 1 i-
salary, for the first year was only twentj five dollar-.
hut lieina quick, active and willing to work, he soon
learned to ma mine the store and to keep the post-office.
When he had hecii there about a year, he was sent by
.Mr. McFadden with a four-horse team to haul goods
from Nashville to Beech ( Jrove, and for the first time in
his life saw a city. After this he was dissatisfied with
his life in a country store, and desired to go to Nashv ill,.
for business. His employer consented to his leaving,
proffering him letters of introduction to merchants in
Nashville, which he declined, holding that a hoy who
could not set a situation himself, did not deserve one.
and never once doubting his ability to succeed, a feel-
ing which he has carried through life. Having saved
enough money to pay his way, in 1847, he traveled by
Stage to Nashville, and arrived there knowing no one,
and with no clearly defined purpose bgyond seeking em-
ployment and connecting himself with some liiu house.
With this view he visited the principal business firms.
The first maii who noticed him was Maj. I!. ('. McNairy,
then a leading retail drj e I< merchant . who con-en lei I
to employ him if he would bring a letter of recommen-
dation from hi- last employer, lie wrote for the letter
and -ecu red the position at a salary id' one hundred and
fifty dollars for the first year. His strong point was
his willingness to work, which -non gained lor him the
favor of his employer, lie would rise before the other
clerks were up. sweep the store, and go out ai ig the
marketers drumming for custom. At the end of the
year. Maj. McNairy. unsolicited raised his salary to
three hundred dollar-, which stimulated him to greater
exertion, and the next year he received live hundred
dollars. lie remained with this linn three year-. lie
was find of reading, and invested his spare money in
books, and in this profitable manner, -pent most .if his
evenings leisure time. Having no one to direct him,
he read promiscuously, thereby acquiring a fund of
miscellaneous information, which proved of steal ben-
efit to him in later years.
Tn the meantime, gaining experience in business,
he became reflective, and began to cast about for a
permanent pursuit for himself Noting that many of
the rich men of Nashville were wholesale dry goods
merchants, he resolved on that branch, and accord-
ingly applied to Ivikiu & Co., then the largest house
of the kind in Nashville, for a situation, which he ob
tained, as a salesman, and remained with them six
years, with a salar.v beginning with six hundred dol-
lars per year, which was gradually increased to two
thousand dollars. It was here that his views of bus-
iness began to widen. Twice a year,. during this pe
riod, he was sent out by his employers as a drummer
through Middle Te ssee. Often regretting his own
meager opportunity for an education, when only twenty-
one years of age he save to Rev. W. I>. Chadick, of
the Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee,
five hundred dollars from his earnings, to aid in the
endowment of a professorship in that school, hoping
that thereby some young man like himself might be
benefitted.
t 'miceiv ing a desire to go into business fin- himself, in
yet a wider field, he made up his mind in a single night
to go to New York. Having learned the value of lei
ters of introduction, he procured these from (he Nash-
ville merchants to several New York firms, ami on pre-
senting them wa- offered a situation bj each house.
Informing himself of their respective characteristics,
he found one firm, S. I!. Chittenden & Co., a reputed
anti-slavery house, which had no southern trade To
this house he offered his services, hoping to build up
a custom from the South which would show lor itself,
the firm agreeing to give him live thousand dollars for
the first two years, and a partnership thereafter, on
Condition (hat he realized his expectations. He re-
mained ill New York hut one day. when he returned
to canvass the southern States in the interest of this
house. Succeeding beyond hi- expectations, at the end
of two years he received his live thousand dollars and
the partnership in the firm fir three years, hut after he
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had 1 •. .mi ilui.' about two, wars ho mot Mr ilosepli II. ' The lollov rom n letter written h> Mr.
I' the linn of - l the Memphis I8ti4, will show liis
\ sit ion ai thai time B\ I miry. 1 do not
ville. who iohl hitn he hail sold ont at Charleston and mean an attaehment to some particular spot, because
in to Memphis, and named him to go with him, we max happen to have lived upon it, :i* for instance,
which, after much persuasion, Mr Moore reluctantb v; pi, hut an abiding love of the
Mr. Cliittcmh > his w ith ouutry."
drawal iVom the firm. paying him sixteen thousand dol- In May. 18(ir>. he introduced, in a mass meeting iu
i hiv interest, Meni| of resolutions, accepting the results ol
The firm of Shepherd ,V Moore was estal the war. During the war. he was made military alder-
Memphis, in December, ISo!>, and had a is man in Memphis.
year in IStiO, hut the war coming on unox- In 18(58, ho was a I slature on
him, tli. the platform of " reduced taxes. Sen tor and suffrage."
among count r> merchants, The partners i and was the fourth man on the list, hut as there were
in their political views Mr. Shepherd was aim three to he elected, and the third man had not taken the
in, while Mr \l who "iron-clad oath. Mr. Moore was, by law. entitled to
natural horn I nion ma sly in the seat, but desiring to take no advantage of an infbr-
elined the other wa> Vfter : was mality. he wem to Xashville. was sworn in and then
passed b\ the Southern t'oufederaey, Mr Shepherd impelled (iov, Urownlow to order an-
te the (' <l M - other election, which, contrary to his wishes, be did.
protest, an ii he linn's northern In 1880. he was nominated for the Fort\ seventh Con-
hut after the I'ederal occupation of Memphis, dune -- In ; the nomination till it was
( \ Vorl; publisl .d in the new ted with relue-
uucing his in- dollar toi tauce. and » i over lion. C - Vonng, the
io him additional lime. His prop- most popular lVmoerat in Wesi Tennessee. He was
epted. all the debts a Item uimued in 1882, hut declined to run. While in
one hundred cents to the dollar, and his credit in New ( lie was prominently mentioned in connection
York established on a firm basis, and has so continued with a place in President Vrthur's cabinet, and a letter
v .liter this Mr. She). herd died, and the linn ot signed by a large number of the business men of Mem-
William U. M \ ' dished, and has phis and elsewhere, irrespective of party, was sent to the
tinned ill to this date, paying its liabilities president, requesting his appointment, lie took part in
dollar tor dollar, with interest, through all tl - mil made speeches on all
tudes panics and epidemics, during the last the gt -.ions and issues which were before that
Hiss - dally upon " Chinese Immig-
Mi Moore v Henry v\ dan ration, "" Civil Service Reform," "Contested Electiou
American to the .i ich s Chah "American Shipping."
Calhoun, always strongh the Poim - He S "Improvement of Hie Mississippi
helie\ " inties II , i by that broad and forceful
have right.- \ d that eh is the chief characteristic of his nature.
the I Mr. M !i toad ot' tli. ot' ladies
and must I first in am ime little inclination to marry, hut
taking in the whole - 1. 1878, Miss Lottie Hay-
b\ tin 1' 18 n in Hamilton. Canada, daugh-
for president, headed by " Hell and Kv« • M ssaehusetts. late
in: "The Inion. the Constitution, and t' n the manufacture of cotton-seed oil at Mem-
ller mother was Miss Ma jaret Thompson, form-
liuhurgh. Scotland. Mrs, Moore was educsited
; In, He \\ sing 1 lie S at Memphis, and after
did n the arm\ I under private tutors. She is distinguished for
military. He h - her personal beauty, her wit and grace, and art in
,ud during her husband's stay at the national capital.
rank in Washington society as ne of its fairest
f. in a measure, the pristine
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tse he tiud.- none broad enough.
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besl expressed in th nplet: t ions and com panics lie was al one timo a member of
" For modes of faith, let graoolost onlol llnht, the Chamber of Comincrcu, and took u proininenl pari
1,1 <"W)'t bo wrong, whosi lifo i in tho right." in ,.v.i n i,- i ,,■■ and currying ii lb gh, during its days
Believing thai ever) man should worship according to jusl uller the n n lie i .1 quiet, earne 1 . ca|)ablo bus
the dictates of his conscience, he entertains no preju ss man, of unimpeachable integrity, of great force of
dioi aooount of religion, for Protestant, Jew or character and itrikiug individuality lie has, under
Catholic, and desires, after his death, no bettor epitaph all circumstances, intained lii liuaucial and com
than the six i syllables, " He did the best he could.'' morcial standing lie is also ami I decided opin
He belongs to no society or secret organization hold and of outspoken convictions, frequently arraj
in" the same views in regard to them as ho does toward ing himself in opposition to current public sentiment,
churches not through prejudice, bul beoause he does
not desire to bind himself by am oath or obligation
bul never flinching from what he believes to be right.
Mis patriotism take in hi whole country, and his ro
His preference has always been for .1 business uuder hi^ ligion all mankind
COL. EDWARD \Y. MUNFORD.
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THE Munford family sprang from Knglish
Welsh blood. Thomas Bowling Munford grand
father of Col. Kdward VV, Munford, was a member of
the Virginia House ol Burgesses from Amelia count)
He left four sons, William. Richard, Thomas and James,
who settled in Hart and Green counties, Kentucky.
Richard Munford built the town of Munfordville; was
a farmer, a merchant, and several times a member of
the Kentuckj Legislature. James Munford settled in
( j-reen county. Kent uckj
William Munford, father of Col. lildward W, Mun
ford, was born in Amelia county, Virginia, went to Ken-
tuckj when a young man, was one of the early settlers,
and died :it Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1844, at the age of
sixtj six. lie was a very successful farmer; 1 in
who lived in his affections, greatly beloved by his
family and friends, and was the peace maker of his
neighborhood. Col. Munford says of his father, thai
he, Albert Sidnej Johnston, and William B Munford,
of Clarksville, Tennessee, were 'ally the three purest
men he ever met, combining all the terner virtues with
amiability and sweetness of character; true manhood,
without double dealing or chicanery, and without n
particle of deceit in their natures or transactions,
Willhim Munford, a 1 sin ol Col. Munford's father,
was a finished scholar, author of a very celebrated lite
ral translation of Homer' » Iliad, which gave him a
I'n rope: 1 n re put at ion ; author of other able lit erary pro
ductions, and was as ociated with Henning as reportei
of the decisions of the Supreme 1 rl of Virginia I see
Munford's Reports, and Munford & Henuing's Reports),
a library of themselves. Geoi Wythe Munford, son
of William Munford, just 1 ti d, was, for many
years, librarian and secretary of the State of Virginia,
and was distinguished as a polished scholar and fine
orator; a man of intellect and culture, universally re-
spected as one of tho firsl gentle n ol' Virginia, pure
in principle and refined in manners and tastes.
Col. Munford's mother, una .Miss Lcttice Hall, was
horn in Lincoln 1 ty, Kentucky, daughter of Thomas
Ball, originally IV Virginia, bul who earl) started
oul for himself, wenl to Kentucky, look up the carpen
ter's trade, ai which he worked al Lexington, became a
proininenl farmer and owner of a large tanner) Ho
married 11 Miss Reid, of a family distinguished in the
legal profe ion in the early history of Kentuck) and
through his maternal grandmother, Col. Munford is
c icctcd with the Marshal Is. Roids and Greens of that
State Col. Munford's maternal grandfather Thomas
Ball, wis a man of decided force and integrity of char
acter \ cry cccenl ric n great humoi isl . uni\ cr wll) re
peeled, and possessed of a con tern pi for worldl) honors.
Col. Munford's mother died at her hoi 11 the farm in
Lincoln county, Kentucky, when he was only five ycai
old. She was a most loveable woman, very devout and
her daily ha hi I was to lake her children with her into a
111 and pra) for them. When on her death bed, she
pointed to heaven, and said to her husband, "meet me
with the children there." She left cighl children, one
having died previously: 1 I ). Matilda Munford, who
die. I the widow ol' Maj. Mooney, a Uni ted States officer
in the Mexican war. Her first husband was Joseph \
Hudson. She was phenomenall) gifted, brilliant with
pen and tongue, of resplendent hi a uty, I had n 111 ig
netisni that drew people ar I her and made her the
center of attraction. Her son. Samuel, was a soldier in
the Me ioan war, was prostrated with sickness in tho
oit) of Mexico and the mother made her way to that
city, 'sed him to health and b rough I him home,
w [iich for 1 1 1 1 - was 1 he acl of a heroine, < l'i
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Mary Jane Munford, married Albert G. Ward, in Da I lerked in his store some three months, but
inty. Tei eo, near the Hermits hi- inclination ' iward the law, he read under
i - .1. Munford. married three times. Though Judge Robet I Caruthcrs one year, made a journey
isr l>ut one hundred and forty-five pounds, he was to Kentucky to visit the : his mother and see
a remarkably athletic man. of almost superhuman aetiv- the old home, when he next joined his brother, Wil-
n.sth. lie was a fine elas> i liam I!. Muuford. at Clarksville, where he studied law
member of the Tenu ite From Wilsoi <• C. Boyd, at the same time that James
I master of the chancery K. Bailey was a law student under Boyd. Heobtained
at Clarksville, Tennessee, and died on his planta- in 1840 (before his majority), from
ti.in in Kentuck : William 1! Muuford. reprc Judge Mortimer A. Martin, ami in 1841, from Judge
county in the Tennessee L William I'.. Turley. He practiced at Clarksville till
llr was a \ ery conscientious m d man through 1850. " reeei\ ing employment," ho says, " far beyond bis
ami through, like a pur.' diamond, without fleck or Haw. merits, ' he and James E. Bailey being on one sii
Hi was an elder in tl ' tcrian church, a praying, the other of t 1 1 < > — t ol the important eases in the courts
devout member without affectation, with a fine, manly, there ipposite sides
< >] K-ii tare, with implicit faith in the Bible and tranquil In 1S4G. he unwisely endorsed notes and bills to the
confidence in the Christian religion. He literally amount of some sixty thousand dollars. Out of this
walked with his God. and when he died those who knew impulsive venture he came out with the clothes on bis
him said. W. man so pure, so back, bis law library, and a large amount of very valua-
grand. s so symmetrical. (5), Sarah Wat- hie experience. While thus involved, he told his bride
kin- Muuford. rennessee's fa- elect that it money was essential to her happiness she
in. hi- Whig oral I nited States senator, must discard him. She nobly replied, she would marry
This lady was (anion r fine :v mini and not his estate. In IS49 they married. She
humor, her fund of - her charming manner was Miss Vnielia A., daughter of Paul -I. Watkins, of
of relating family histories, ami her i i nter- Alabama,
tainiii" company by her brilliant conversational powers, In December, 1850. Co] Munford moved to Memphis
and yet was withal a superb - woman, (li). and practiced law there till 1858. with the exception of
Munford. died early in life. (7 . Kitty Ann 1858 54. which he spent on his plantation in Lawrence
Munford. '•• Mil.- McCorkle. who formerly county, Alabama, for the sake ol his health. In 1855,
represented Wilson the Legislature, a very liis wife died, leaving him two children, oue having died
prominent physician, distinguished in his profession. i the mother's death. Thesole
(8) Bichard Munford, died early in Edward surviving child, Paul Edward Muuford, lived to be
W Munford, subject of tliis sketch. nearly twenty-one years old, and died in 1S73, having
Edward W Munford was born in Lincoln (now Boyle) made a most enviable business reputation. In 1858,
county, Kentucky, near Danville, October l'i. 1820. ('..1. Munford closed business in Memphis, having made
Edward was placed in the primary department of ('en- , sal sfai l rj fortune, with the intention of taking his
ter College. Danville, at eight years old, and among bis son, Paul Edward, to Europe t>. he educated orally,
were John C. Breckinridge and Beriah particularly in the French ami German, but tin war
M igoffin. the latter, afterward governor of Kentucky. coming on soon after, he gave up the ti
Edward soon became irregular, got ahead of hi Very soon after the br< of the war. be was
in some studies, was advau iher classes, believed offered the command of a t, but declined it, say-
everything he heard or read with blind eredulity.be- insj ;■< the men : " I do not feel competent to lead you —
tiered eren <>\hl- stories, made himself a master of 1 might gel you killed, ami will not accept the trust."
tin- Latin, ami I. without graduating, but with Afterward he accepted the position of major on the staff
in hi- pr - o his father very 1 Uberl Sidney Johnston, joined that commaud
creditable to the young student. With all liis college in Oc 3t»l, at Bowling Green, and served with
learni lit the multiplication him till he was killed at Shiloh, April 6, 1862. "The
English grammar i greatest man the South had fell that .lay. -a
: .lay being exceedingly del'. - to Mi nfi fd, "and Shiloh was the only battle 1 waseverin
the r ut 1835. hi- father came on a visit where true military genius was displayed by thi
to 1 hi- children. Mrs. -lam.'- s, mander He served in tin- campaigns in Tennessee,
-.1 Munford and Mrs Kitty Mel ! Ed- Mississippi. Alabama and Georgia, and with the Army
ward accompanied him. ami the latter was entered at of Tennessee generally : was in the haul.- of July 22
Cam pi under Be\ Thomas \ ami 28, IS64. at Atlanta, ami in many minor engage-
terward pr Cumberland Cniver-ity. to per- ments, not nei mention in this sketch. In
feet hi- E [dies, Euclid ami the natura l-ol. he was by President Davis
euces. Oi m of his brother, William l> Mun- the military court of the department of which Gen
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
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Dick Taylorwas chief, aud in thai capacity served till
the close of the war.
After the war, he became a director in the Carolina
Life Insurance company . al Memphis, of which Jeffer
sonDaviswas president. His physical health being too
feehle to justify regular practice of the law, be moved
in McMinnville, in 1^72. as president of the Tennessee
Company. In 1877, he moved back to Memphis, and
in 1880, back again to McMinnville, on account ol litil-
ing health, and i here set i led for life, and is »w so stput
and robust as to not appear a day o\ er fifty years old.
In L867, Col. Munford married at Memphis, Mrs.
Man E.Gardner, widow ol' William Ross Gardner, a
liuetenant in the United States Navy, a meritorious
officer, who had served through the war with Mexico
with considerable distinction. Mrs. Munford is the
daughter of John Kerr, an old merchant of Augusta,
Georgia, wli" removed to Memphis aud died there.
Her mother was Miss Catharine Burke, of Augusta.
Mrs. Munford is descended Pr Gov. Elbert, of Geor-
gia, an old Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. Munford was
educated at Augusta; is a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church, and is beloved for her unswerving
loyalty to truth. She is a woman of much intellectual
culture and fine social character, with a face fascinating
by its sweetness and innocence of expression. Hei
losl a sweetheart in the wife, nor she a lover in the hus-
band, and their lives are beautifully domestic and happj
Col, Munford was a Whig up to Know Nothing times,
when lie began voting " striped tickets." Since the war
he has been a Democrat, there being no other alti rna
tivc for a true southerner, lie has been occasionally
appointed special judge to hold court when the presid-
ing judge was sick, but with these exceptions and his
military commissions, he has never held office. Re is
a Master Mason, In religion, he believes in God as a
Heavenly Father, but is 11011 sectarian. Nature gave
him energy; a fine constitution; a cheerful, social dis-
position; a manly, generous, keen ambition to attain
excellence, in hannonj with an unsullied honor, which
he would inn exchange for profit, position or power,
lie would never besmirch a spotless citizenship by
demagogism. He wen his success by honest, hard
work, and by a life of trnili and candor, and a scorn of
hypocrisy and pretense, fie is a man elastic in his or
•janizaiiiin, a brilliant conversationalist, an eloquent
orator, with a boundless command of language, which,
together with his sympathetic, friendh manners, make
him a I. nun companion and a man much sought aftei as
a friend.
HON. AUGUSTUS H. PETTIBONE.
NR I ILLE.
T1IK ancestry of Augustus II. Pettibone is English
Puritan. Scotch i elan ( iraut ). and French Hugue-
not, lie is the sixth in descent from John Pettibone,
a Huguenot Frenchman, who was admitted a freemau
in the colony of C cticut, in 1658, and from whom
all the American family of the name have signing,
< )n his mother's side, he is the seventh in descenl
from John Adden, the clerk, of the Mayflower, immortal-
ized in Longfellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish."
He is also a descendant of Capt. Matthew I Irani, who was
the first American ancestor of Gen. U. S. I Irani, through
his (('apt. Matthew Grant's) daughter, Priscilla Grant
Augustus II. Pettibone's grandfather, Elijah Petti-
bone, a native ol" Norfolk, Connecticut, horn iii 1748,
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. from Bunker
1 1 ill to i he surrender ol' Burgoyne, ami drew a pension
till he died, in 1818. His thirteenth child and youngest
son was Augustus N. Pettibone, father of the subject
of this sketch; horn .January 29, 1802, at Norfolk, Con-
necticut; was a clothier ami cloth dresser: moved in
1822, to Ohio; built the first cloth dressing and carding
mill in northern Ohio, at Newburg, now a part of Cleve-
land; was sheriff of Cuyahoga county Ohio, and held
several other eounl ■ offii bough 1
manufacturer of cloth. He died in 1849, in Greene
county, Wisconsin, where he had removed in 1840'. He
was an old line Whig, ami was noted a- a elf-taught
elocut ionist ami a line reader
Maj. Pettibone's mother, »"< Nancy L Hathov
was horn near Burlington, Vermont, in 1803, daughter
of Zephaniah Hathoway, a native of Taunton, Massa
chusetts, who afterwards became a pioneer in the woods
of Ohio, and died i xtensive farmer in that State.
He married Mi-- Silence Alden, descendant of John
Alden before mentioned, Mai. Pettibone's mother
wa- a woman of decided force of character, as were ill
lea- sisters Sally, wife of George Comstock ; Demari.s,
wife 'if Samuel Barney, ami Hartie, wife of William
Barney — two sisters who married two brothers. Mrs
Pettibone was a member of the Christian Baptist
church, and die. I in I - 12 leaving three children i 1
Julia, now wile of Reuben Parkinson, Bedford, Ohio.
(2) Augustus Herman, subject of this sketch
Lorette II., now wife of William Green Waukesha.
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Maj. Augustus II Pettibone, was horn at Bedford
Cuyahoga couuty, Ohio January 21, 1835 He attended
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nally I >e Buest . but the ancestors of the subjei >
of this biographical sketch moved to Scotland, in the
time of Man. Queen of Scots, where the " De was
dropped and the name became Buist.
Dr. John It. Buist was born in Charleston, South
Carolina, February 13, 1834, and graduated in literature
from the South Carolina College, at Columbia, in the
year 1854. \ltor studying medicine two wars at the
Charleston Medical College, under Profs. Geddings,
Dickson, Frost and Moultrie, he entered the medical
department of the University of New irork, whence he
graduated M.D., in March, 1857, under Profs. Paine,
Metcalf, Draper and Mutt. He served as interne fifteen
months, 1857-8, in Bellevue Hospital, Nevi York, He
next attended medical lectures in the University of
Bdinburg, Scotland, during the winter of 1858-9. In
the latter year he went to Paris, France, and was a stu-
dent under the celebrated Trousseau, Nelaton, and
ether distinguished professor's. In January, lstiii, lie
settled at Nashville, Tennessee, and began practice In
May, 1861, the war having broken out, he was appointed
assistant surgeon of the First Tennessee regiment, Con-
federate States army, but was promoted surgeon, May,
ls(i2. and assigned to the Fourteenth Tennessee regi
ment, Col. Forbes, of Clarksville, commanding, and in
a few months was again promoted, this time to brigade
-in -eon. and transferred to Gen. George Maney's Ten-
nessee brigade, under Gen. Bragg, with which he con
tinned until tile close el' the war.
During the time of his connection with Maney's
brigade. Dr. Buist was chief surgical operator in Gen.
Frank Cheatham's division. lie was present at the
battles el' Shiloh, the seven days' battles around Rich-
mond, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Perryville,
Johnson's retreat from Dalton, and at the battle of
Franklin, in all of which he had the very arduous
duties of a surgeon to perform. Several of Dr. Buist's
more difficult surgical operations in the army, together
with his views as to the proper treatment of wounded
soldiers, both in transitu and in hospitals, are iv
corded in the "Surgical II i story of the War.'' bySurgeon-
Gen. Woodward, of the United States army.
Dr.' Buist was left in charge of the Confederate
wounded at Perryville, Kentucky, alter Gen. Bragg's
fel leal . in October. 1862, and remained with them until
February. 1863. After the battle of Nashville, in De-
cember, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Franklin, while
in charge of the wounded of lien. Hoods army, and
was detained a prisoner at Nashville, Louisville and
Fort Delaware, in all three months, lie rejoined the
army in North Carolina, and surrendered at Greensbor
ough, under Gen. Joseph Iv Johnston.
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After the .surrender he went to Richmond, in June
L865, and iii the senate chamber took the oath of alle
•jiaiice to the United States. Returning to Nashville, he
formed a partnership and practiced medicine one year
with Dr. R. C. Foster, son of Hon. Ephraini H.Foster
formerly United States senator from Tennessee. I'r
Foster retiring, he next formed a partnership with Dr.
John H. Callender, which continued until Dr. Callen
der was elected superintendent of tic Tennesssee
Hospital for the Insane, in 1869. Since that date. Dr.
l!ui-t has practiced alone, giving his undivided atten
tion to private practice, except when engaged in the
sanitary affairs of the city of Nashville, he being a
member of the city hoard of health from its foundation
in 1ST I. to . I nee L880. He was at times both secretary
and president of the board. lie was active in the dis
charge of his duties through the cholera epidemics of
IStili and 1873, and a member of the board of health
during the exciting times of the threatened yellow fe\ or
epidemics of ]s7s -79.
He was also professor of oral surgery for three sue
cessive sessions, from 1879 to 1883, in the dental depari
ment of Vanderbilt University, but retired in thespring
of 1883, on account of the arduous duties of his increas
itig private practice.
Dr. Buist is a member of the Edinborough, Scotland.
Medical College Society ; the State Medical Society of
Tennessee, and the City Medical Society of Nashville.
In personal appearance Dr. Buist is of medium height
and weight, is compactly built, has light gray eyes, and
the in i Id. benevolent line of the typical physician, lie
is modest and quiet in demeanor, but a gentleman of
culture, rare social attainments and of great popularity.
Dr. Buist married in Nashville. .Inly .'!, 1876, Mi"
Laura Woodfolk, a great beauty and a rei'jiiine belle.
She is the daughter of Gen. W. W. Woodfolk, ol'a lead
ing North Carolina family. Her grandfather, Maj
William Woodfolk, of Jackson county, Tennessee, was.
a pioneer of that section. I a large planter and influ-
ential man. ( ien. \\ oodfolk, her lather, was a member
of the Legislature from Jackson count): served on
< lo\ . Carroll - stafl ; was a man of tine ability and large
fort line, being one of the richest men in Tennessee
when the war broke out. Mrs. Buist's mother, 1in
Ellen Ilorton. was a daughter of .Joseph W. Morton, a
sheriff, count) court clerk and otherwise prominent in
the early history of Davidson county. Mrs Buist was
educated at the famous old Nashville Female Academy,
under Rev. Dr. C. D. Elliott. By this marriage Dr. Buist
has one child, a son. William Edward Buist, born De-
cember 27, 1871. Dr. Buist and uifearelioth members
of the Presbj teriau church
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was then elected clerk of that court, and ti 1 Km I thai
office until the abolishment of the court, under il
eration of the constitution of 1834.
The public career of George \V. Jones may be said
to have commenced wit h the adoption of the constitu-
tion of 1834, in the State of Tenm ratification
by the people taking place in March, 1835, and hi- elec-
tion to the house of representatives of the General
Assembly in Atigustof that year. The cardinal features
of that instrument, as contrasted with that of IT'.'ii. were
distinctively democratic, in that it framed a govern-
ment more immediately responsible to Hi.'
through popular elections. This was in entire accord
wttli the ruling principle "t Mr. Jones' political faith,
viz.. that the people are fully capable of self-govern-
ment, ami are the rightful source of all political power,
ami that the honest mistakes of which they may
sionally he guilty are more tolerable and of less harm
t.> the cause of good government than the view which
assumes the people to In- ignorant, ami would permit
them hut a remote and indirect control over their laws
ami the functionaries appointed to administer them.
lie wa> a firm believer in the doctrine thai everybody
ser than anybody. The chief duty of the I.. -
tare of is.",,") was to organize the State government under
the new constitution, and harmonize its law- with the
principles therein set forth. Mr. Jones participated
actively in that work.
His service was acceptable to his constituency, and
in 1>.'!7. he was returned to the popular brunch ol the
General Assembly. One of the important measures of
that year was the project tor the establishment of the
Bank ol Tennessee, and ii was zealously opposed by Mr.
Jones, though ineffectually. He had been an opponent
of the Bank of the United Stale-, and was antagonistic
ernmental banking institutions ou principle, and as
promotive of favoritism and corruption, and
the fiscal advantages claimed for them, prone to become
political agencies and of dcirim.au to the public
In Au-ust. 1839, Mr. Jones was -cm to the State
senate from the district of Lincoln and Giles. In the
meantime, the Hank of Tennessee had beeu organized,
it- .apital being the State school fund, the Federal
surplus revenue deposited under the act of Congress ol
l-::ii with the State, ami the proceed- of two and a half
million of Siate bonds issued tin- the purpose. The re-
port of ii- president to the Legislature showed that one
million of these bonds were -lill held by tile hank
Mr, Jones promptly introduced a hill directing their
return to the secretary of State, and that they should
hi' cancelled by the governor of (he State. At thi- -e-
siou, he opposed a recommendation of the messaj
Gov. Polk, that bonds of the State should he payable
in Sterling mouey, and in the citj of London and coll
tributed to the defeat of the proposition in the General
\--cmhl\ .
Among the most signal .- while scrvn
the 8 slature. was his earnest support id' a lull
abolishing imprisonment for debt, and there i- none
ll he recalled with a louder satisfaction than the
pan he bore in obliterating from the statute hook that
odious heritage from the days when the personal liberty
ol tree citizen- wa- sordidly set in ihe-.alc- of dollars
and cent-, and mi-lake ami misfortune Were made as
infamous a- crime.
In 1840. while a candidate for presidential elector on
the Democratic ticket, a vacancy occurred in the office
of county court clerk of Lincoln county, and the count)
court, in August of that year, elected Mr. -lone- to till
the unexpired term, to March. IS42. when he was elected
l'\ the people for a lull term of four years. This office
he resigned, however, at the J nly term of the court, in
1843, and a; the State election in the month following'
was elected the representative ■>( hi- Congressional dis
triet in the house :'\' representatives of the I'nited
Stales, and look hi- seat ill the December follow
a member of the Twenty eighth Congress.
This ( 'ongress « itnessed the advent on the theater of
national affairs of quite a number of men who were
destined to attain distinction and exert a wide influence
in subsequent years— among them Andrew Johnson,
Stephen A. Douglas, Robert Toombs and Alexander 11.
Stephen-. Of the subject of thi- .-ketch it may h,
that while not rivaling these and other- of hi- Con
sional contemporaries in brilliancy of attainments
and oratorical uifts, no man preceding him in the popu
lar branch of Congress, or then or since entering it,
surpas-ed him in efficient usefulness as a legislator, and
none of those named, and but one or two in the history
of the government, ever, for so long a term of service
in that body, and -o implicitly, held the confidence of an
iin mediate constituency and that of the country at large.
I le wa- continued in membership by sueces
tions tor sixteen years, or until 1859, in the most of
the elections tli ti "ii being nominal ami hi- ma-
jorities always overwhelming. It i- doubtful it there
is another instance in the history of Congress unless
it he thai of John Quinc} Adams ami his constituency
in which the relation-hip between the representative
and the represented was more thorough and cordial.
The most important national question, during the first
ress of his service, was the annexation of Texas, of
which he was a staunch advocate, and gave -upport. both
to the resolution of the house of representatives on the
subject, and the alternative hill from the senate, lor a
commission to negotiate the matter, when the two prop
ositions were conjoined. I u the Twenty ninth Congress
— the first of the Polk administration— he advocated,
by speech and vote, the act declaring a state of war with
M.M.o. and in that ami the succeeding Congress, ar-
dently supported all measures for its vigorous pro-ecu
tion. lie voted for the act organizing the territory of
Ori on, in which tin Missouri compromise line was
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ment, die useful ami blameless records "I' both of tlieui
l\ illustrate the truth, that the best type of public
officials is no! always found in association with brilliant
intellectual sifts ami acquirement*. Inn rather in lurid
judgment, honest coin iction ami unostentatious courage.
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leaving tl
2*. James, s
.".> Elizabeth, married James Randies, from >■
county, moved to Texas and died, leaving several chil-
dren.
Ih\ .lames Rodgers was .born in Knoxville, Jul) 2,
- s' and lia> lived in that town ever since. He was
to work until he entered Knoxville College, in
which he studied some three or four years under Pres-
ident Joseph Kstabrook. Leaving college, he clerked
in a drug store six years, during which time he studied
iue under Dr. James Morrow. He took lectures
in Lexington. Kentucky, in 184:2 13. under Dr. Ben
Dudley, and has been practicing medicine ever since.
In 1870. the faculty of the University of Nashville
conferred the degree of M. 1). upon him. on account of
- ire and experience. The names attached to his
diploma are a sufficient guarantee of the merit of its
recipient, to wit : Professors \\ . T. Briggs, T. L.
Madden. Paul F. Kve, W. L. Xichol. Van S. Lindsley,
Johu II. Calleuder. W K Bowling. C K. Winston and
I !i rrien Lindsley.
Both professionally and financially. Dr. Rodgers has
been a success, lie began life 011 mulling, and after
[laying fifteen thousand dollars security money, is now
in independent circumstances. He is a member of the
County and State Medical Societies, of the American
Medical Association, and of the National Board of
Health, and has been president of the Hast Tennessee
Medical Society, and of the KlIOX county Medical So-
il is nobler mention to say that he st 1 by his
people through every epidemic that lias visited the
town: of cholera in 1854, and of small-pox during the
war.
In politics. Dr. Rodgers was first a Whig, but has
Republican ever since the disintegration of the
W big party. He was postmaster at Knoxville four
- under appointment from President Grant, in 1S69.
He was appointed by Go\ Brownlow State director of
\ loxville and Kentucky railroad, and served three
He was examining surgeon of the United States
- 11 department from 1S70 to 1S83. He is a Royal
Arch Mason, and lias held all the offices in the Inde-
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pendent Order of Odd Fellows, including thai of Grand
Master of the State. In religion, he is a Preshyterian,
was ordained elder June L6, L872, is clerk of the ses
aion; has frequently been delegate to the synods, and
was delegate to the General Assembly al its session in
Madison, Wisconsin, in 1880. Dr, Rodgers married ;ii
Knoxville, in November, L843, Miss Rosanna McMul-
lin. who was born in that town, July 20, 1820, daughter
of Daniel McMullin, a native [rishuian. Her mother
was a McCaughan, also a native of Ireland, where she
married her husband. She died young, leaving three
children: (I). Rosanna, wife of Dr. Rodgers. (2).
Thomas, a merchant at Waco, Texas. (.">). Isabella,
who died al Knoxville, wife of David Solomon, leaving
three children, William, a printer ; .lames, new ill Kan
sas City, .Missouri, and Fannie, unmarried.
Mrs. Rodgers was educated at Knoxville, is a Pres-
byterian, and is notably domestic in her ways and habits.
By his marriage with Miss McMullin, Dr. Rodgers has
ten children : (1). Isabella, wife of M. C. Wilcox, who
came to Knoxville from Ohio in the Federal army.
They are now living at Mt. Airy, Georgia. (2). Thomas,
a druggist at Knoxville: married Miss Lucie White
and has six children, .lames. Margaret, Charles. Cowan.
Flora and Don, (3) -lame- in mercantile life in St.
Louis: married Miss Lillian Branner, in Knoxville, and
has two children, (iuoi and Ruth. (I). Samuel,
graduated in medicine in Vanderbilt University, Nash-
\ tile now prael icing at Ml \ irj . t leorgia. (5)
Charles, in the drug business, al Knoxville, (13). Wal-
lace, fanning in Knox county; married Miss Jewie
Jackson, lias three children, Lizzie. Rose and Jewie.
(7). Anna, wife of Iv <!. ( )ats I i) Hugh, died in
infancy. (9). Hugh (second), in i 'candle business
at Knoxville. (10), Lillie, a young lad; now at h •.
Since 1832, Dr, Rodgers has lived a Christian life,
with Presbyterian strictness, trained his children in the
ways of godliness, and has live, I to see them all, from
the oldest to the youngest, baptized into the Presbyte-
rian church, thus achieving the greatest success a father
can accomplish, lie never took a chew ol tobacco, was
never intoxicated, does not know one playing card from
another, never had a I i • I > i and having the universal
esteem ami confidence of his city, where he has lived
sixtj six years, and of which I iresentative phy-
sician, he is presented to the distinguished companj
whose biographies fill this volume as a standard Ten
nessce man.
J. .). HARRISON, M.D.
THE Harrison family is of Scotch-Irish stock, the
ancestors ol this branch coming to America from
"Anld Seotia's flinty glebe." Dr. Harrison's grand-
father, John Harrison, moved from Virginia to Easl
Tennessee, at an early day in the settlement of that
section. He married Miss Susan Jackson, in Roane
County, and by her had onl\ one child, .lames F. I larri
son (father of the subject of this sketch ). who was horn
near London, in 1809; raised on a farm . read medicine
under Dr. Tom Anderson ; attended one course of lee
tures in Washington City; graduated at Lexington,
Kentucky, and located at Loudon, where he had an
extensive practice until his death, in 1861. lie was a
very positive, determined man, and upright in all his
dealings and transactions in life; was an elder in the
Presbyterian church; horn and raised a Whig; sympa-
thized with the southern cause, and was a member ol
the Masonic fraternity.
Dr. Harrisons mother, net Miss Sarah l>. Merrick,
was horn in New Orleans: was educated in Roane
county; was a member of tin Presbyterian church, and
noted for her overflowing hospitality, ami a charity
limited only by her means ami opportunities for doing
a 1. She died from the effect of injuries received in
being thrown from a buggy at Red Clay, Georgia in
1859, at the age of forty six. and left three sons and
two daughters: (1). John tlenrj Harrison, who be-
came a captain in the Confederal arm), and was killed
at the battle of Piedi t (2). Josiah -I. Harrison.
subject of this sketch. (I!). .lames M Harrison, died
at Huntsville, Alabama, ol heart disease. (4). Rachel
Susannah Harrison, widow successively of Dr. I!. \\ .
^.dams and George W. Mayo. 5) Sarah Adaline Har-
rison, now wife of John II VI cGhee, of Monroe county
Tennessee nephew of C, M. McGhee, of Knoxville.
I>r Harrison was horn in Roane (now Loud
county, Tennessee, February 13, 1834, and there grew
up, working on his fathers farm, and going to school in
the winter i ths. He c menced the study of medi
cine when eighteen years of age under his fathei al
Loudon ; attended the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Nashville two sessions, and graduated in the
winter of 1853 I under Profs W. K. Bowling, A. II
Buchanan. I'aul F. Eve, C. K. Winston. .1. Berrien
Lindsley, John M Watson, and Robert M. Porter. In
ls.il he located at London, associated in practice with
his father, and in 1858 returned and took auothet
course in the University of Nashville. He has had a
successful practice ever since, including a ctensive
surgical practice. He was a i tract surgeon in the
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i "liilo during the war. hut be-
that time, was exempted from
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ate army, and afterwards
ral. Her mother. Miss
Galbreth. was a daughter of Rev. Johu T.
I ialbreth. a Methodist preacher. Mrs. Harrison is the
elder H sisl ■:•. Alice MeCray. is
1 le, a tanner in Monroe county,
Mrs Harrison was educated in Bishop
- - hool in (Jeorgia.and is a Presbyterian. Her
crowning charm • - to make home home-like and
< table, am! to raise her children correctly. She
he reputation - i kind and di
ility as between her step-
daughter and her own children. She has bori
children, all horn in London : Frank
Rhea. Henr> M . Fai \ Joe •'.. Thomas 11.. Km
inett M.. and John McUhee.
IV. Harrison has made a success in life by self-reli-
His father had accumulated
■ • inds and uegroes, r
whieh was swept away by the war. or went i
rit> debts. This left his childrei life where
he hi _ •. about nothing. Dr. Harrison, there-
has made what he now ss ssi - by faithful and
nt attention to his - n. to whieh he has
exelus - nine, his talents and his in-
fluence.
ANSON NELSON.
Til IS _ - s voltil
without a title, but as he has
my man in
the author is half-ten in, Ans
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than honest i
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him the unlimite
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Auson Nelson, the
He Sas
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or checks more than two hundred thousand times, and
- -nature has
ever been protested or thrown out vf bank or unpaid
on demand. In all this immense business
with officials and private iudividu; - s said no corn-
has been heard, either on accouut
ttlement. - - at— iudeed.
ity. he had bond in the sum
in fifty th - nty-five thousand dollars.
while - m one thousand five
-.nd dollars per annum.
j Mr. Nels - - ntial,
t diffidence: but when duty or honor
demai - - - -- ind unflinchingly faithful
to him. The net re-
sults - - - not honest from
- to do right for right s
- long a time in the - the public, iu
\ - I termined I
he ha :. and in the f
Nashville." returned to them, with
clean bands and unsullied name, the trust they had
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS,
imposed upon him: "It has become generally known
that I am not a candidate for re election to the office of
<it\ treasurer, or an applicant for any official position.
The new reform movement, just starting, gives me an
excellent opportunity to step aside and pursue another
calling, after two or three months of necessary rest. This
fact was known to the present members of the city
council several days ago, and is not a new or sudden de
oision. More than a year ago I made up my mind to
retire from ..Hire, am! two or three times I was on the
point of resigning, but was prevailed uj to post] e
the matter, when, finally. 1 concluded to fill out inj
term. My decision uot again to run for the office was
known to a few friends many months ago, and has noth
'"■- whatever to do with the recent elect! r its
results.
" An.! uow it is proper for me to say to the good peo-
ple of this city that I feel, as I have felt for years past,
the profoundest gratitude to them for long continued
favors, and for their unwavering and unabated friend
shiP- '''"'• fourteen years past I have held the office of
City treasurer, without a break or interruption Before
the war I was tax collector for over eight years, which
makes more than twenty two years of municipal service.
'I his is mmsual. almost without precedent, and I am
doubly thankful for these home honors, and for such
continued manifestations of public confidence. I was
voted l',,r by members of the city council, year after
year, with a unanimity that was aim,, st surprising
Democrats and Whigs, Republicans and anti-Republi-
cans, temperance men ami anti temperance men. white
meD aml colored, and men of all shades of opini „
Politics and religion, have cheerfully and uniformly sup
ported me, believing it to be their duty to their, -
stituents. ! never had an opponent for either office,
except upon a single occasion, and then the opposition
was very slight.
"Mj accounts have been examined annually by com
petent committees, and passed upon as correct. For
the last year this has m,t been done, but soon will be.
No blunder or mistake has ever been made, so far as f
knew or believe, save two or three clerical errors, of
minor importance, which were easily corrected. Mj
bookshave been accurately kept, and they are simple
ami easily understood. The business of the citj treas-
urer is to receive money and paj out the same according
to law. ami until about twoyearsago, to report monthly
'" thecit3 council, in detail, all receipts and expendi-
tures. Tins was done every month until the office of
city an, liter was create,!, when it was made his duty to
so report. He has done so ever since. Numbers of
men, as part of the finance committee, have gone over
my books, and, I am proud to say. have always found
t,u'"1 "' be correct. The city, however, had a regular
book-keeper in its employ until the creation of the office
of city auditor, who now performs the dutj
" [have handled, on an average, about half a million
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"'' dollars at ally. I have I i der bond for about
fifty thousand dollars all the time, and was fortunate
enough always to obtain g 1 names, without applying
t0 l!'" e that I thought would ask in return pecuniary
i;u f me or the city. The labors of my office, as
ever} one knows, arc responsible and arduous, and I
trust my success,,,- will be hetter re Derated for his
u'"'k than ' havel n. M\ salary has been compara-
tively small.
. " '' is unnecessary for me to say that I wish the new
''"''" °f government iplete uccess. The system I
believe to be a good one, and it ought to succeed. I
greatly desire the prosperity of all the | pic of this
" ' and growing city, and with grateful thank, to all I
am, respectfully, ,\nson Nelson
Tllis determinatioi Mr. Nelson's pari met with
universal regret- the | pie fell they ha, I sustained an
almost irreparable loss, while the press, of all shades of
political complexion, bore willing testimony to his un
blemished record. The American, in it editorial ,-,,1
umns, said: " There are few, jf any, who will read the
card of \ Nelson, Ksq., published in to-day's Amer
ican, without regretting his am, ounce! intention to
"Mlv from the management of the city's financial
;'l,a"'v tf there is one man in Nashville, who, above
all others, is respected by every class of the community
for his sterling honesty, faithful service in the public
interest, and high Christian character, that man is Mr.
Nelson. As stated in his card, his intention has not
been hastily formed. It was certainly not based upon
lllr i,|,:l that he would not be retained by the m„
''"■* council. On the contrary, there is ample authority
[or stating that, had he 1 u disposed to hold the office
■onger, he would have been unanimously re elected.
1 apable, 1 est and experienced public servants like
him are but too rarely found in these days, and it is a
matter of regret that the reform government is not to
have the benefit of his skill and sagacity as a financial
officer."
The Nashville morning World, of the same date con
l:ill,ri1 the following;: " Mr. Anson Nelson, after serv
ln": the city in the capacity of treasurer for fout
years, makes the announcement that lie will no longer
be a candidate for any office, lie says it is no sudden
notion, but that he intended, and would have retired
long ago, had not his friends urged him to continue.
Six months ago he again fully concluded to retire, the
ll,l,il's of ll"' office confining him so closely, and had
gone -, far as to draw up his resignation, but again his
friends urged him to continue, on the ground that it
would be very difficult t„ get a man who would be will
'"'-' '" give a fiftj thousand dollar bond for that length
ol time, lie says he has n,,w fully determined t
longer seek official position, for fourteen years he has
1 " fche choice of the i pie, through the board oi
aldermen, and is the only citj official, with the ,
'i"" of Capt Stockell, who has been honored sue,
10i
■RO.MINKNT Ti:\\l>Si: \\-
ively lor so long a period, now in office. Before the
war, Mr, Nelson served as revenue collector over eight
never had any opposition for either treasurer
or collector, except on one o< easion A- treasurer, Mr.
S hi lias liandled over half a million dollars a year,
making about fifteen millions during the fourteen
in office. Hi- bond has been variously fixed at from
thirty thousand dollars to seventy-five thousand dollars,
which he has never had any trouble in making. The
bond at the present time is fifty thousand dollars. His
tnts have been passed on annually by an auditing
committee, with tin exception of the past year, which
"ill be done in a few days. In retiring from the office
In1 desires to tender hi- profound gratitude to all the
members of all councils during the time he has served,
and to the citizens of S'ashville, lor the continued con
lice anil honor shown him."
The cvenii i-said: '" The announcement that
Mr. Anson Nelson ha- determined to retire from the
service -I' the city is received with regret a- deep as it
is universal. For fourteen years ho ha- faithfully dis-
charged the duties ni treasurer, receiving and dishurs
ing millions of dollars, and during that long period not
"iic word of criticism of In- official anion has
uttered. His close attention to business and his affa-
bility toward all with whom he ha- come in contact,
won I'm- him tin- hearty commendation and the uo.nl will
of his fellow officials, the conductors of the government
and the general public. Wearied with years of con-
stant toil. Mr. Ncl-on will short];
n.l lake a rest, to which he is ju-tly entitled, ami
which hi- friends hope will be full of enjoyment, li
i- his intention to resume work in another spher
eral months hence, and we cordially join the citizens of
this city in wishing him the greatest success
The Artisan contained the following tribute, which
but reflects the love and sentiments of thousand- of his
t' How citizens " As a rule the resignation of a public
occurrence) is no loss to the public
service, but ally there is a very marked i
tion. One of these is the resignation of An-. \
a- city treasurer. His experience and knowledge of
that office would have been of very great value to the
new government, and hi- example as an honest ami
upright financier, of inestimable worth, for twenty
two consecutive years he has served this city, eight as
collector, and fourteen as treasurer, and hut for his
refusal, would have continued to do so a- long as his
life was spared to us. Except once, his election from
time to time has been unanimous, and that time the
opposition was but trifling; his unblemished integrity.
ah and uprightness, ami eminent titne-s. were
such that no one ever ventured to suggest a change, and
after all these years of service ami handling of public
funds, he retires from office without the slightest taint
on his character, or a breath of suspicion attached to
him. an 1 m that the strictest or most sus-
picious could intimate was not justly or righteously his
own, Of what immense value in these times of -
lation ami shortage i- such a record . such a finaucial
career and such a record is worth a- an example, and a
il to tin young business men. more than a thousand
as or essays'on honesty and integrity. We trust
we max long continue to met him and his good wife -
one of the very few mated, and not merely matched,
couple- in tin- world in our daily walk, and that for
many, very many years, they may together reap the hap-
piness of a w.jl spent life, and w.jl earned comforts,
and that fir distant may he the time when cither will
lie called to mourn for the other, or to vainly long for
' Til.' touch >>:' ;t vanished h
And tii<- s.'iimi of a voice that i- still.* "
Mr Nelson was horn in Washing-ton county, Tennes
see N 10, 1821, and spent the first seven years
of hi- life in the " lliawas.-ee Purchase," now .Mc.Minn
county, and at Maryville, and his next twelve years at
Knoxville. When only ten year- old he entered the
office of Mai. I-'. S llei.-kcir.- Knoxville Regit
learn the printer's business. Vmong the boys employed
at that time in the same establishment were others who
cards became prominent men Hen. V. K. ZoUi-
eofter, Midshipman Harrell, William fields (editor of
F s .') and William Clayton, of Alabama.
Having completed his apprenticeship and become a
full-fledged journeyman printer at Knoxville. Mr. Nel-
son went to Nashville, in 1840, and soon aftqj took
charge <<( the Nashville Whig as foreman. In 1849,
he bought the Daily Gazetti and established a job office
in connection with it. publishing by contract the Pres-
byterian Record and the IJosftrw Boatman. He pur-
chased the Organ and edited that paper in the
interest '•i' tern] as ad\ ocate I by tin 5
Temperance, of which order he was elected Grand
Treasurer, and subsequently tilled all the higher offices
of that organization. But the general public had need
of his energetic ami reliable services, and, as before
stated, from 1853 to 18o'2, he was, by successive elec-
tions, revenue collector of the city of Nashville. From
1864 to 18b'9. he engaged in the real estate business.
lion John M. Bass became receiver of the cor-
poration of Nashville, which had ? u rescued
from a plundering hand of irresponsibles who drifted
\ i-hville during the war. Mr. Nelson was appointed
to take charge of the city tax 1 ks. In ( Ictober
lie wa- elected treasurer of the city by the new council,
and held the office continuously until November L6,
188
In 1853. he was elected recording secretary of the
-- i Historical Society, and has held that office
e\ er since. In 1880, the society had hi- portrait painted
and hung in the library room of the State capitol,
in appreciation of hi- services a- their secretary for
twenty-five years.
At the organization of tin Mt < »' I -cry com-
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pauy, in ls,V)— tlic principal burying ground of the city
— he was elected a director of the company and is still a
director. He was instrumental in building the South
Nashville street railroad, in 1865 the firsl street rail-
way in Nashville — and was president oi the company the
first year of its existence. He was a director in the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad company for three
years, under the administration of Hon. M. Burns, its
president, and was one oi the executive c mittee for
the term of his directorship. He was a director of the
Second National Bank oi Nashville, in ls(i."> 6, He
was one of the board of managers of the city's Centen-
nial Exposition, in L880, and prepared and bad read by
W . K. McAllister, jr., esq., a sketch of the history of
Nashville for its first one hundred years. That sketch,
with the author's addenda, was deposited in the corner-
stone of Wesley Hall, at Vanderbilt University, in 1881.
A Statistical View of Nashville, a magazine article by
Mr. Nelson, was deposited in the corner-stone of the
State Capitol, in 1845. He is vice-president of Good-
man's business college, Nashville, and for thirty years,
has been one of the business advisers of Mrs, ex-Presi-
dent James K Polk,
For forty two years Mr. Nelson lias been a member
of the Baptist church, for twenty-seven years one of
its deacons, and was for four years its Sunday-school su-
perintendent—during the war.
In 1847, be became a .Master Mason, and has taken
all the degrees up to and including Knighthood. For
many years he has been treasurer of Phoenix Lodge,
No. 131, Nashville, and has served as Warden in the
lodge, and as King in the chapter, lie is also a mem
her of the Royal Arcanum.
He was an old line Whig until that party ceased to
exist, but since the war, has eo operated with the
Democrats. He was a delegate, in ls,">7. from Davidson
county, to the State convention that nominated Gen.
Robert Hatton for governor.
Mr. Nelson first married, in Knoxville; February is,
1840, Miss Eliza Ann Grady, a native of Hawkins
county, Tennessee, daughter of John Grady, a farmer,
of a Virginia family. She was a handsome woman, of
intelligence and strong convictions, and a member of
tin' Baptist church. She died at Nashville. February
1. 1866, leaving one son, Henry, horn in Nashville. No
\ ember I'o. 1844; educated at the Nashville high school ;
was at onetime auditor of the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga railroad, and previously a clerk fin- the Adams
Express company; married Miss Henrietta Cheney,
daughter of II. .1 . Cheney, and maternal granddaughter
of Col. Samuel D.Morgan, the noted wholesale mer-
chant of Nashville. He died December 12, 1879.
Mr. Nelson's next marriage, which oceurred August
li. 1868, was with the lovely Miss I'aiinie Dickinson
Howell, eldest daughter of liov. Robert Uoylo C.
Howell, D. D., the famous pastor of the first Baptist
church, id' Nashville. She was born December 29,
1838 educated at Nashville and Richmond, Virginia
ami is a spirited lad} graceful in person and inn r
and noted for being a fluent and elegant writer, having
contributed articles, occasionally, both prose and poetry,
to the newspapers and magazines. She reads French
and German, understands music thoroughly, and is a
very devoted member ol the Baptist church. In the
ladies' weekly devotional meetings of that church, she
is a leader, and has 1 n for several years past In the
Sunday-school she is also a teacher, having a class of
some fifteen youiiji men clerks and students in the
normal and dental and other schools of the city, the}
attending that class on account of her intellectual vigor
and high culture. Withal, she is a thoroughly domes
tie woman.
Dr. Howell, her father, was born in Way sounty,
North Carolina, March 10, 1801; died at Nashville,
April 5, 1867, and was followed to the grave le. an
immense concourse of his fellow -citizens, who respected,
loved and venerated him, He was one of the most re-
markable ministers of his times. In his pulpit, whether
praying or preaching, he was a magnificent man. of
varied and profound learning, and of deep and un-
doubted piety. In his style1 of oratory, hi' was a man
to whom one had to listen with his eyes. No man of
his day in Tennessee did so much to increase the num-
bers of the Baptist denomination, to make it respec-
table, or to elevate the standard of ministerial educa-
tion. An evidence of Dr. Howell's personal popularity
is found in the fact that he performed the marriage
ceremony fir five hundred and forty-six couples. lie
was, for forty years, a distinguished divine in Virginia
and Tennessee, and was the most celebrated Baptist
preacher in the South. lie was also the author of a
number of valuable works. One of his published vol-
umes, "Terms of Communion," went through several
editions in the United States ami four in Great Britain.
Besides a number of pamphlet addresses on various oc
casions, he was the author of " The Deaconship," "The
Cross," "The Covenants," "The Way of Salvation."
" Evils of Infant Baptism," and "The Marly Baptists
of Virginia," standard dei inational works. One of
his unpublished works, "The Christolog} of the Pen-
tateuch," may yet be given to the public
Mr* Nelson's oldest brothel'. Alfred T. Howell, is
now" a lawyer near (Iranlierry. Hood count), Texas,
Her brother, lion. Morton I!. Howell, a lawyer at
Nashville, was formerly clerk and master in chancery,
and mayor of Nashville in [874, and is a gentleman of
much culture ami line literary attainments. Her
brother, Robert II. Howell, for a long time a leading
publisher, is now secretat'} of the ((man A Stewart
Sinn,' company. Her brother, Joseph T. Howell, is
cashier of the Fourth National Bank. Nashville. Her
sister. Jennie Howell, is now wife of Rev. Dr. I>. W.
Gwin, pastor of the first Baptist church. Atlanta.
Georgia. Her sister. Anna Howell, is now wife id' Dr.
I'KOMIM'NT fKNNKSSK v.\s
. Hollow ell phj sit i in ill i . In \ shv ille
| Howell
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Mi Nel m's paternal aneestt\\ is of Kuglish exi
II H ti'.v man Nelson, was, how
l>oni in \ ■ a laniirr and a patriot sold
ili,' IJe\ oln Mr Nelson s till Iter I '
Nelson, ».b 11 uativ e ol' Vii N
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an, I lliere followed his oeeu|>!itioi> as a millwright an, I
titty tiv e 1 1,
was a Iviptist ami a W l\i II. Ii id an extreme fond
in1" lor 1I1 and went one nip
w iili the celebrated Hr. C
on bis v through Kast Tennessee, m order
1 that direction, an mneli
1 mm ol' his knowled
its minerals, lie left l>nt little prop
• n has humorously remarked, " lie bad
ill,' lienor of h ami has kepi his inher
n Miss 0 I loward I
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■aili m Kilts, 1 imih
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owes his first love of learning to Iter, though she lonnd
n him an lor know lodge and for
I'roni earliest chihlli
Ke\ W illiatn \ Nelson, IV I) North
ina, is a hrother n \li \i Xel His
hrotlier, W, \ Haniel I! Nelson, is a retired minister
in Henderson county, North Carolina His brother,
lohn 1 1.'" \ m, is a I'armer .11 I'arinon illo,
I hi Vnother l>rother, II. II.
Ni U: liland, Iowa, is one of the three super
\ iknk comity, Iowa, ami still another
hrother, Samuel K. Nelson, is a farmer ai IVIta, K
kuk county, Iowa. Ol his stsua-s | Nelson died
the wife of Mr. Stone, at Rlooinington, Illinois, lea\ ing
two children; ami Mary Nelson died in Iowa, wile of
Mr. v hildren
In personal ap \\ N m may he described
medium hi in pact 1\ built, and
,;' ml en,' ! po m.'is \
study et his portrait shows a projecting brow, keenness
of p id corrugated with tho
of earnest thought. II m is that et' in
tentuess, as it' following Solomon's advice, " Let thine
eyes look right en, ami thine eyelids straight b
• ' iitlil at once proclaim him a man of fixed
et' charat incially, he has
been a fail • man who seems never to have
" made haste to be rich, or even ti suite.
When be first entered public office he adopted for his
\ rather to he chosen than great
• and this his greatly intlueneed his lite, ami, in
nun, the influence of such a man must and will sun ive
li i 111 tor genera!
HON P. W.
E\ • !0\ 1H-W Iff t 'I. IN l'i'\ SKNTKU, .
March .'
the s \\
to leek e,
■ntitry
He .111,"
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• '.', under tl
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sted by the Confeder-
ate authorities and made the grand southern tour, as a
six months. Returning
heme and remainiii ce months, lie
\ md remained there until quiet was pai-
rs! occupation,
\ alien of the State government in
s ■ S senate from the eoun-
\ I nion, Claiborne and
I from the same
counties, and when thai
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v . S filled out his uu < uhernato-
•• of 'I'enn, --.
In ';• nor by the people by the
thousand
w lliam 1> Stokes This campaign was one
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him i notahh in fchi i of 'I'' mi'
The differ* ecu (h id hi enmi
Dll tllC fl'llIM
for tile repeal of tin law upon ' In ground i hai
i/i.ii. On
hi hi nli .' hold
p| i tel
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mill hi from the hai if men •■■■ h hei to
il li oppri don and hitt
A li' i iidueed the Li
i utional com ■ hi ion "l IWl
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vi to the ri organization of ' i
menl in tin hand of loj »l men Hi* pal i fcali
ehalli
dowi '.I ■ I
with a change of ' In wd ciremi ■ !' the
),• ople mid tin
iipietion ol
(ii la rni i i ed in
the li'/M-i of repn
and three and a hall
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and ■ d in the prim dvocatcd hj
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and Corinth. In Novembor, 1863, he was captured in
Wilson oountj and sen) to Gen Lovell II. Rousseau,
commanding at Nashville; gave his parole, and a bond
not to engage further in hostilities; was released and
remained within the federal lines, Ho resumed his
law practice, both at Lebanon and Nashville.
In 1S70, he became a Democratic candidate For Con
gress Prom the Hermitage district, embracing Davidson,
Wilsou, Williamson, Robertson, Cheatham and Troiis
dale counties . cam assed the district against Hon, \\ il
liam O'Neill Perkins, Gen. Tom Benton Smith. Col.
James -I Turner, Col. Joseph Mottloy and the Hon
Bailie Boyton. He received the nomination in the
convention al Nashville, and was opposed in the election
before the people by the Hon Bailie Peyton, an emi-
nent politician, and the Hon. William !■' Prosser
(Republican), then sitting member for the district. He
was elected, beating Prossei by nearly six thousand, and
Peyton by over three thousand votes, He took his seal
as a member of the Forty second Congress, March 1.
lsTl The right of the whole Tennessee delegation to
be seated was disputed, and an especial contest of < ; nl
laday's seat was made by Prosser. Col Golladay deli\
ered an effective written argument in behalf of the
Tenuessee delegation before the committee on elections,
which was ordered to be printed. The report of the
i ommittee was unanimous in favor of seating the whole
Tennessee delegation; Congress adopted it without a
dissenting vote, and the contest by Prosser was dropped.
He was a member of the committee on patents, and of
the committee on mileage. He delivered speeches
against the famous " kuklux " and "civil rights " bills,
both of which measures have since been pronounced
unconstitutional by the Supreme oourt of the United
Stairs. In common with lion-. Daniel W Vorhees,
.lames A. Garfield, S. S Cox, Samuel J. Randall, and
the great majority of the eminent Republican and
Democratic members of the forty second Congress, he
voted forwbal was known as the ' salary grab bill," and
lias always possessed the sturdy manb 1 to defend his
action and maintain his integrity iu this matter He
introduced and secured the passage of the loll for the
purchase of the property for the construction of the
custom-house at Nashville. He secured appropriation
for the first time in ( gressional history for the im
provement of Cumberland river, securing as much as
two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars in his one
term, making the river a familiar in the river and har-
bor bills since passed, for further appropriations, lie
also introduced a bill tin- the dedication of all the pub-
lic lands belonging to the United States for educational
purposes, and for an equal distribution of the lands or
their proceeds for this use among the respective States.
according to population, and asking for an account from
all the States that had received such grants from
Congress
In is?:' a year made famous by what is known as the
Johnson Cheatham canvass, ho was the nominee of the
Democratic party in the \ ishville district lot Con n
but was defeated b,\ Horace II, Harrison (Republican) ;
a defeat brought ill i h mis produced iii t he
Demoeratii rank-, by i,. I' Mr Johnson's candi
daey
lie was, in 1874. a candidate for nominal ion before
the Democratic convention, which met al llartsvillc,
and came within n few votes ol being ninated The
convention could nol agree on anj of the aspii ml
before it, and took up lion. S \|. l-'n,., ,,f t',n-
tbage, who had nol been a candidate, and who, having
been elected, died before taking his seal Strangely
enough, Col John W Mead, of Gallatin, who was
eleeted to till the vacancy also died before takini I
seal, when Hon II ^ Kiddle, of Lebanon, was eleeted.
took In- seat, and sometime after committed suicide,
during tl temporary mental aberration.
In 1878, at the instance of many friends, Col Golla
day made an independent canvass for Congress, in the
fourth district, againsl Hon Benton McMillin, who
had been nominated, without having been a candidate,
,oer the heads of all aspirants, including Col. James
• I. Tinner. Col. John P. Murray and R (', Sanders.
Col. Golladay refused to go into convention, claiming
that the Democratic majority was so largo thai no cam
volition was leaded In this raee he was defeated, re
ceiving, however a very handsome vote, and carrying
Wilson county triumphant ly
Col. Golladay was. for many years, a trustee of Cum
berland I tin ersity . his old alma mater, which position
he resigned in 1881, on removing to Nashville. Since
LS78, he has not been an aspirant for any public honors.
\\ hatever success Col. Golladay has attained, is due
to hi- education and the practice of integrity and in
dustry in his profession, coupled with his powers of
public speaking, at the bar and on the hustings. There
are few better debaters in Tennessee, and still fewer
who can win the hearts of an audience and carry
them along en r^jijhi,/ with his fervid, burning, Bery
eloquence.
He was brought up in the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, of which his parents wore members, but is
strongly attached to the doctrines and ritual of the
Episcopal church, lie is a Mason of the Royal Arch
degree has passed all the chairs in ( Mil Fellowship is
a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, having
attained the degree of Chief; also of the Knights of
Pythias ; but is not a frequent attendant at the meetings
of any of the societies mentioned, his occupation in life
being such that he has but little time to keep up his
associations with these excellent orders
Col. Golladay's father was born near Staunton, Vir
gillia, and, when about foul years of age, was bound
out, being an orphan, to a kinsman, a fanner. At the
age of seventeen he ran away and went to Maryland,
aud became clerk in a dry goods store in Hagcrstown
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I iias K Mooi was raised at II untsvilli
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he )»■■_•: 1 1 1 the stud) of medicine uiili his hrotli
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in the spring of 1842, under I'rols, Dudley, liush,
Mitchell, X. It. Smith, Cross and I'eter Itctun
hi. in .1 inn'. 1 fi 12 I fterw urd renn
l!uli\ I mil permanently located, w In
has practiced ■ now fort} four years. Ili-
the war he invested his surplus income in laud
and in finan-
cial success, and tlii. i twithstandi I that
tin' Ii fraternitj is not protected in
I udinc in so-called physi
tall) i miietcnt, hut patron
tin- comity of the neighborhoods where they live.
Whether the Legislature or tin- uiedi
ision i-
I. or rather so badly misi ■
no i. yet i' I'll Mini life
in. in w ith-
n h stly earned diploma should be allowed to
■i. I that ilir standard of i|iialifii
fur :i diploma should be measured by the ra -
I'll.- -kill. . and learn
I ' Nl M widely appreciati .1. 1 •• ■ 1 1 » i
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born M I' the
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stand* i half inches in I •
two hundred and twenty-five pounds. II
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much of ill.- milk of hum. in kindness in his
DAVID JOBE G1BS< >X, M. I'.
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I'll nt' I uiti * liir :i|.|.li i .1 -1 ~ -I --.V
I liir .lohii \V. Heron, M.I' ' n Knglish-
iii. in li_\ liirtli. ami in M r. followin ,i|i him t'.ir
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lie .-Ii :ii ili. -I ■ \-lmi ille.
II ieeii an eliler in that chureli tin I I'aviil -I liibson. jr., bom .
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hi i. Iismii married, lirst. in A >lina. 1'lie < I iLs <tock. Tl.
jll 'NIi — Harriet I i, daughter of Wil- son. the graudl I'r. dibsoi nui Dublin,
ilth) nierehnnl ttled in \\
ill" 1 relaud. I ler mother I
I .1 in.- iln.l_.i-. a teaching lie died He married a Miss
II ' North ( 'aroliun I) i n, a |iromincnl
and n tin I. ■ Mr.- citizen of his time, and the owner of a mill and other
I in |S.")2 property, including tin H three
Dr. liibson iii I eliildi ■ niiiili < libson, fatlu f Dr. (i
i nty. a
Alkin .Inlin Kellj , a II ' who died
Ii impson.
.Judge Salmon I I ' ' in at
Mr. Lincoln. Mrs. I tin --lul farui
. pr incut phy the war of 1K12, ami dii I
llatn|>shire, now ■ shed for those sterlin
11 i.l.i 1 1 . ni . \ |\ ind truthfulness, ami t..i
■ tin- | r I ■ turned
M M \ikin want awaj from In- lily by
Mrs. (I i '
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mil kiinl
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■ ' if the few illel i" ilii- i- in tin
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thai he 1 1 . \ ii disol \ II honor
an. I bli the promise to sons » ho thus Ii
father anil mot In - lied ill tli
the mother of bul hild, the subject "I ilii- -I.
Iioul iuhi In- i- now in
sidcrahlc n '
much 'I pride thai
some young men hecome failures, hul from i-
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IH»Y < BARLES BRYSOS SIMOS l"N
Tli K follow iphical -I ■ harles
Simonton, oi f the most distinguished
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ample of v i do t.. rise superior
to lii- circumsuinci -. and, bi
merit whii : npcl publi
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when ho wont into t: my,
ho " Shol whioh afterward became
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till after tho haul S when tho company «
dota< hod and as-
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lumbus.and ihoro ("apt.
Ilallor was ' ■
,„.„ . Hooding from
M liau Mississippi, and remained tin
till early in - ■ - --
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Ilallor returned to Mow] hi; - •
;,n : tho ensuing tall, hut altov
February H
in , j. in whioh he
tinned i - try and ''•■
uv. v ' u,.v"
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ho ha- rison t'rotu - - an a thousand
and tinam
and ,' ion. but hy hard work, hy lak-
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x nl Ma-tor of tho (Irand Council
Select ) e: tirand Pres
idem of tin 0 High Priesthood of Tonnes
tirand Commander of Knights Templar of Tonm -
1 S sh Kite . ha- had tho hon-
I on him. of Knight Commander:
i ith tho rank ^i' Inspector
licncral. uu) is tieneral (irand Principal Sojourner of
il tiran.l Chapter of tho I'nitod Stan- I
oral tirand Beoordor "\' tho (ionoral tirand Council of
tho I'nitod S - epresonts tho (irand Commandery
tho jurisdiction id' Tennessee, and also
• land ('on mil of Maryland in the tirand
Chapter, and tho tirand l.odgi ' fexas. and
member ^i' tho standing committee on Appeal- and
rand Lodge of Free and Accepted
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Ilallor marrii I Moi his. Oi tohor 10. : - !•
MissClemmie Fisher. daught< xi '■ ^ Fisher.
i Shelby and Fayette counties in tho
State sonati throe terms before the war. He
illy from Pennsylvania, and was a wealthy
planter Her mother i- now living in Memphis at tho
ihi M ; - llallor's brother, John II.
.. a cotton buyer at Memphis, married Miss Bet
four children. Cora. Henry.
Thou - Mrs llallei - sister, Kluabeth
Fisher, died in 1SS.">. wit, of d (' Johnson, leaving
children, Ida. Carrie. Kdwin. Lily, Anna. Wil-
liam and I - lister loft a reputation, almost
national, for her liberality to the poor, and for being an
effective worker in benevolent enterprises. She was
lent of the Woman's National Christiat \-
n tho time o( her death Mrs Hal'!,: - - -
I ira Fisher, i- now tl hn K. liar-
- 'no child living, John It. Her -
'ishor. is the wife of B u - Memphis.
By hi- n th Miss I Miller has
horn July 11.
i at Memphis.
llallor's father. I' V\ Ilallor. was
•.il Wytln \ 1S00 \tter taking
raduatod in medicine at Jeffer-
\ Philadelphia. stinguished
\ nia: married at Lib-
\ - ttlod at Marion. Yir-
iiod in Wit*, while on a visit to his
alland Ilallor. in Texas He loft nine
children. B . Mary, 15 land. Jai
\\ , Jane i I bert II. Woodson),
min 1' . - - - ■ " v
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,i ' alland Halh
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W llaller. was killed in battle, in
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PHOMTNKNT TKNNKSSK \NH
in i 57; Mary Hallei died in 1850 it Tazewell, C 'I disLi-ir-i n i,ln Virginia Legislature a number of terms.
hou i \ ii "iin. i u ife of Dr. J. li. Doak, lea to tin Edmund on of lialifa i
children, Nannie, William, llecsc and Rachel Pour to tin if Danville and the M man of I'ill
of the brothe 1 in the Confederate arm two I till of English iIchcco I md among the i
with Stonewall Jack on Richard -I and Jame !■' ettlei of tin Old Dominion Ol < '.. (.i Hallei
I l.i II' i tin i i' i i inajoi teriial 1 1 r i < • I . h '
C'apt. Mailer' mother, wk Mi \nn Kullerton H'ehh The character of (,'apl llaller nni I"
Johnson was the daughtci of Richard Jo i il from the fad that In Iin in ei el lasted one d
Liberty, Virginia, and grand-daughter of Maj. Jame*, beer or ardenl pirii
i,l' the Revolutionai inn vho died in Kebru cptcd a* a factor in 1 li i
1827, and maternal grand-daughtei of Maj White, the pi |diei to msi
also of the Revolut : I Her the editor feel itfi in i in . cnl
brothci Jame P. Johnson ra i p linenl la ei through foui eai ci ice in the army wi thou i
and politicii t Liberty, Virginia, and rci id his ■■ bi iduccd to bci tin item
REV. JOHN BUNYAN SHEARER, M. A.. I). I).
THIS i nun' mi i heologian edu bol
professor of biblical instruction in the Soutl
ern Pre byti rian I I at Clarl ■. ille, Tenin
a mi bor of " Bible Com i fyllabu a Pi dated C
of Stud in i he English Bible, etc properl taki
rank ;i m< >n " the I no I Chri iin. educal f i he
South.
John Bun; an Shearei « a born in A ppom
countj V n "iin. i -I ill;, 19 I 332, and ri ci i cd his pri
i ation in I inion \ cadem; in tl II'
mill b Henry V. Bocock (brother of Hon
Tli'ini;.- V BoCOck . I In- distingui 111 tl CO II ) "li
the principle of learning one thing al a time. I
ample hi i lit Latin, excln -i\ ely, fi
thirteen, until p ige of Latin cl ■ i id wit b
of English : then Greek, direct, from
thirteen to fifteen; then mathematics from fifteen to
seventeen, when he entered the junior class of [lamp
den Sidney College -I unc,
I Bol under I hi pri idi nc of ' he distingui bed lie
Lewis W.Green, D.D., and I' • Venablc
and < li 'i li Martin.
Hi tie i entered the L'niversitj of \
- i he aeadi mrse and taking I he ma ti i
in 1 354, under Prol IcC Gn IJarri
-nn. < ' iin.i and "t her distingui hed edm
h them. A f'ter thin h ~>l 5
a- principal of Kemper's boarding school I'm- In.
msville, Virginia, which positioii he lefl i" stud;
theology ai Union Theological Seminar; Virginia He
remained i In re threi fi om I 355 i ;radu
atiiiL' the latter year, and was ordained to the
ministry in December, '< to 1802, In-
was pastor of the Presbyterian church al Chapel Hill.
North Carolina. While a student at the Theolo
Seminary, he preached I Betlih hem and
ti Prince I
during which time i be mi ri churches
.•..I more than doub I irn 1802 to I 370 I
pring Hill church lialifa outit; Vii
and al the ame time principal and proprietor of the
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Dr. Shearer came to T< rim 1870
at (,'lai 1 ille ;i [in ident ol Collegi ■■ Inch
n In held nil from I -To to 1879
until i bal i
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institution alto • II for
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L'li-b literature in thai institution, but has taught
biblical science during the whole period of h
tion with the school I 370 to I 385 al pri enl fillii
chair of biblical instruction.
College o i I he Ma i f Ten
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of the Abrahaniic covenant, through the Mosaic econ
oiny. and through the later superadded synagogue sys
tem, into Christianity, this last being a continuation of
the organic life of the church, set up in the family of
Abraham, and now become universal.
Teaching seems to have been a sorl of second nature
with l>r. Shearer from very early life He was eiu-
ployed, when sixteen years old, as assistant in the acad-
emy where he was educated ; and at the University of
Virginia he was employed two years of his course b}
the professors to teach their sons and daughters, besides
having private classes among his fellow students during
the whole of the three years he remained there. This
work was whollj unsolicited on his part, but most wel-
come, on account of the necessity of relieving hi- father
from the burden of a protracted attendance al school.
This private teaching was kept up to the end of his
theological course so successfully that b} this means,
and by preaching and colporteur work, he earned 1
spoiu two thousand five hundred dollars on his educa-
tion, losiug only one year from actual attendance at
school.
In boyhood he had no bad habits— never using pro-
fane language nor contracting any of the usual youthful
vices. He was consecrated from birth to the gospel
ministry by a devotedly pious mother, but never made
up his mind to preach until his twentieth year, lie
joined the church at the age of ten. From fifteen to
nineteen he had a varied religious experience, in which
he encountered all the difficulties, doubts 1 battles of
Ids life.
Since coming to Tennessee, Dr. Shearer has uol had
a regular pastorate, though, in 187] 72, he had charge
of the Presbyterian chvirch at Clarksville. While he
never misses an opportunity to preach a sermou, and in
fact preaches nearly every Sunday, most ot bis work is
missionary work.
Dr. Shearer is descended from Whig ancestry, bul
since the disastrous results of secession, has advocated
Democratic doctrines and politics. He, however, draws
his views of republican government largely from the
model divinely given in the Hebrew c mon wealth,
and iii w hieh. he holds, is to be found all ihe safe guards
of civil and social liberty, in perfect adjustment; that
apart from the theocratic features of the Hebrew com-
monwealth, there is found the earliest and highest form
of a confederated republic of sovereign State- (the
twelve tribes), with perfected constitution; and, that
the exacl adjustments of their executive, judicial and
legislative bodies have been unequalled by any republic
of mere human origin. \ proper understanding of
these things, he insist.-, furnishes a safe guard against
the Jacobite on the one hand and a licentious de i
mo on the other; and, besides, in that commonwealth
wa> found the only perfect adjustment of civil and ec-
clesiastical law, which secured liberty of worship on the
one hand and freedom from priestcraft on the other.
I>r, Shearer married, in Prince Edward county, Vir
ginia, September 5, KM Miss Lizzie Gessner, who
was horn at Minister. Westphalia, Germany, Novem-
ber 10, 1832, the daughter of Johan Gessner, who , no
igrated to Texas, where he died in IS39. Her mother
was Katrina Bluinenthal, with no blood-kindred li\
iii— The same is true of Mrs. Shearer. A lady of
indomitable energj and perseverance, her husband as
cribes to Mrs Shearer no small part of his success
in life, and he is frequently guided by her judicious
counsel, and aided by her strong womanly help. She
shares absolutely in every project he undertakes, and
cutes it as her own. They have do children,
but their house has 1 n Idled with the childrei of
others during almost the entire period of their married
life. The siek, the suffering and the poor bless her in
ever} community in which she has ever livi d
The family name. Slu arer. is Irish, but it came through
William the ( 'on. pier to England, and the Irish ances
tors of the family In America are descended from mem-
bers of Cromwell's famous [ronsides, whom he settled
in Inland. Wherever those descendants are found,
either in this country "i abroad, are found man} of the
host characteristics of thai devoted hand. No one who
bears the name has ever been known to disgrace it by
drunkenness or any other form of vicious indulgence,
The L;ra ml fa i her of Dr. Shearer, James Shearer, a sol-
dier of the war of LS12, died in Appomattox county,
Virginia, in ls7'J. aged ninety six years, lie was born
in Pennsylvania, and married Miss Elizabeth Akers,
daughter of Peter Akers. whose grandson, Rev. Dr.
Peter Akers, now ninety-four years old. hut with eye
uudimiued and force unabated, is the great apostle of
Methodism and president of a college in the northwest.
Bol h of Dr. Shearer's grandmothers were sisters of the
same family, and out of a family of eleven, who all
lived to be o\ er eightj years old.
Dr. Shearer's father, now living in Appomattox county,
Virginia, at the age of seventy seven, and in full vigor-
ous health, is one among few men who has devoted his
life wholl} to the raising of his family aud the service
of his church and community, without ever seeking or
accepting civil office, or ever engagiug in any enter-
prise for the increase of his fortune, lie has always
been considered free foi an} ervice thai was needed
by his fellow men.
Dr. Shearer- mother, net Miss Ruth \ker- Webber,
w ho died in Appomattox couuty, Virginia, at the age of
thirty seven, was the daughter of John Webber, She
was the mother of seven children, six of whom, John
B. (subjeel of this sketch), Elizabeth M., Richard I!..
• lames W., Mary I!, and Henry I'., survived her. Of
these, Elizabeth M. Shearer died the wife of V\ \
LeGrand, leaving three children, John A., Richard
15. and Lillie 1! . who married Eldridge P. Carson, and
has one child, Lizzie Gessner. Richard B. Shearer was
a Confederate -older and was killed at Monocacy,
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1843 Willi ;i few dollars which he had scraped to
gether, and a few more which had beeu gonerousl} sent
him by an older brother, 1!<\ William II Brockwa}
then chaplain in the United States army, and stationed
hi Fort Brady, at the outlet of Lake Superior, ho
started for that place, more than n thousand miles dis
taut, near]} all b} water, except seven tj miles, from
Malone to ( (gdensburg. This distauce he made, mostly
mi foot, in the space of two days, his little blue 7x9
trunk having preceded him by stage, at a cost of fifty
cents, Toward the close of this trip, a pleasant incident
occurred, When about eight ov ten miles from » tgdens
burg, he was overtaken b} the mail stage, a lour horse
r rd coach, the grandest and most rapid style of
inland travel in all that region in those days. The
driver, who knew him well, halted the stage and invited
him to mount the box with him. and he so rode into
town, much refreshed b} the ride and thankful for the
kindness Fi r this act of kindness to him, tired, loot
and almost discouraged, as he was, the name of
Irwin Heath, the stage driver, has ever been held in
grateful remembrance, hut from the time that he
boarded the "1,1 steamer Ontario, the same night, and
took an affectionate farewell of his friend, the} have
never met.
He took a deck passage lor Detroit. The voyage,
which lasted a week, was attended with hard fare sea
sickness, and almost starvation toward the latter part.
There were then onl} a few old-fashioued steamers on
the lake and the"deck passengers'' had to sleep on
deck and take their meals at the second table* for
twent} five cents each. When he reached Detroit he
was out of money and had beeu without food for thirty -
sis hours \ rascall} restaurant beeper had passed a
counterfeit dollar upon him, which left him without
means to procure anything to eat duriug the latter part
of tin' trip. Though he had n draft for twent} dollars,
which his brother had sent him, on a house in Detroit,
yet, with the timidit} of a countr} boy, he was afraid
i" show ii i" the captain, thinking he would be put
down as a humbug. In Detroit he put up at the old
City Hotel, on Woodbridge street, and went to bed sup-
perless. Rising early next morning, he found the firm
on which he had the draft John Owen .V Co., drug-
gists—on Jefferson avenue, had his draft cashed, and
felt that he »;i- in possession of untold wealth. He
remained in the city a few days, and was very kindly
treated by his brother's friends, Mr. Owen, his partner,
Mr. Henchman, and the Re\ Mr. Fitch He then em-
barked on a sailing vessel I'm' .Mackinaw, ami arriving
there safe, coasted with French Canadian voyagers to
Fort Brad} . being several days on the way, camping out
at night, and coining near being wreckea"iii a storm.
\i Fort Brady he remained for two or three years,
doing all sorts of work, not hesitating to seize anj op
portunity that presented itself. He was employed in
clerking at the military post exploring and working in
the popper mines, and gonerall} roughing it Ml of
that countr} was then strictl} Indian lauds, but the
year after he went there the Indian title was extin
guished, and then people bo unto Hock thither, from
ever} nation and every climo, to the copper mines, which
had just been discovered, and have since proven by far
tin- richest in the world Mr Brockwa} was in the
midst of all tlii^ movement from its ver\ inception, and
experienced all the incidents of eamp life "all of
which he saw and a part of which he was. He was n
friend of Dr, Houghton, Stal ologisi of Michigan,
by whom the copper mines were brought into notice,
and was one ol the first to go into the enterprise, lie
attended to transportation, exploration, keeping the
accounts of the company, and a great variety of other
work connected with the business in in ever} depart
ment. While there he fell in with John Hays, of Pitts-
burg who was representing the Pittsburg and Boston
Mining compan} Mr. Hays took a great fancy to him
and one day made the, to him, verj startling proposition
thai he should come to Pittsburg the next year to be
bis partner in the drug business This offer, which was
made on an nl of his known honesty and integrity,
was accepted.
He went down to Detroit and went into the bouse of
John Owen & Co (who had cashed his drafl when lie
firsl came to Detroit), as a clerk, and remained IV
fall till spring. Willi onl} such experience as be had
gained here, he went to Pittsburg and became the^mrt-
M,i of Mr. Hays, in the firm of Hays A Brockwa} His
capital was only two hundred dollars and his experience
Mr Hays' capital was five thousand dollars, but the}
were equal partners. This was the vc which first
brought liim out of the position of a working man and
introduced him to mercantile life. \i Pittsburg he
remained for several years in a flourishing business
\lier awhile, at the request of Mr. Hays. Dr. C. J.
Hussey, and other wealth} gentlemen, who controlled
the Pittsburg and Boston Mining company, Mr Brock-
wa} was sent hack to the Lake Superior copper regions
to attend to the transportation of a mass of copper
which had just been taken out of the compau} s mine.
This piece of copper, weighing nboul four tons, was the
largest mass , it native copper that had \<rrw mined in
the world up to thai time. In the la,,- of many obsta-
cles he got it shipped to Fort Brad} and thence to De
troit, and finally gol itsafel} to New i'ork. Here his
partner, Mr. Hays, look charge of it, shipped it on the
old steamer Sarah Sands, one of the first stem-wheelers
which crossed the ocean, carried n to London, w here it
was put in the British museum, and there remains to
the present day. An article written by Mr. Brockway
on this mass o! copper, and giving some outlines <d' the
mines, was published in the London Times, and this,
with the arrival of the copper, produced mo
meiil in England than anything of a similar nature
that has ever happened. \ real or two after this Mr
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jewelrj store, but when he was aboul to resign ou ac-
count of ill health, brought on by hard work in such
quarters the stockholders and directors buill the pre
mi handsome bank building, al acostofabout twenty
thousand dollars, it tn-in u one among the finest in the
State, and was designed bj Mr. Brockway and erected
under his personal direction. Mr. Brockway is now the
owner of a controlling interest in this bank, besides
having other property, altogether making up si comfort
able estate.
\ natural born Union man, Mr. Brockway lias usually
voted the Republican ticket, but has taken no active
pun in politics. 1 1 1 ■ was a delegate from Michigan to
the great conservative Republican convention which
met at Philadelphia, in 1866, with a view to organizing
a new party out of the better elements of the two old
s. and healing the breach between North and South.
Mi' was one of a committee sent by iliis convention to
Washington to wait upon President Andrew Johnson,
who tendered them a reception at the White House.
Mr Brockway was first married al Malone New
York, in December, 1851, to Miss Juliet Meigs, daughter
of Guy Meigs, of the firm of Meigs iV Wead, old and
prominent lumber ami dry-goods merchants. The only
child living, by this marriage, William Guy Brockway,
is new a banker in Gadsden, Alabama; was born al
Cleveland, in 1858.
.Mr. Brockway was married a second time, al Detroit,
in October, 1868, to .Miss Nellie Scott, daughter of
('apt. .lames I'. ScOtt, of I lie United Stales arm \ . who
died in the service, after the war. To this union have
been born three children : (1). Frank Thatcher Brock
way. born in 1873; died in infancy. (2). AJon/.o W.
Brockway, jr., born in 1875. (.'!). Violette Mary Brock-
way, born in ls77. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brockway
are members of the Methodist church, and lie has been
an official member for many years.
[n his business principles, the views of Mr. Brock
way have corresponded with his actions. Beginning
lil'e with noney, and without the advantages of a
liberal education, his success has 1 n the result of 1
est, hard work. lie is a man for holiest labor, in any
field in which i can be useful ; has a morbid horror
of idleness; would lake in sawing wood to prevent
being out of employment. Added to this, he has a
firm self-reliance, lie has never waited for a posi
(inn. in sal under a shade tree and enl off coupons
whenever there was a canal of w 1 in he sawed, lie
believes that life is tun short to be wasted in trifling,
lie can find nn excuse for a lack of faithfulness to
any trust reposed, and feels that integrity and a faith
I'nl discharge of duty, are the greatest essentials el'
success.
During his forty years of an active business life, in
which industry ami faithful devotion in his business
have been Mr Brockway's chief characteristics, it is
net saying tun much In add, that during all this time
Only a small portion oi it has been spent elsewhere
than iii the midsl of a loving family, surrounded by
the comforts of a model home, with a well selected li
hrary of Standard works, where the innsl of his leisure
hours are spent in perusing their contents, and where
his hand ami his purse are. ami ever have been, open in
every legitimate business enterprise, t" every call "1'
religion, or any benevolent object, local or otherwise.
In connection with this last, ami showing the esti-
mation in which he is held, we add. that Mr. Brock
way was recently appointed and commissioned h,\ Go>
ernor Bate, as one of the three commissioners for the
building of the West Tennessee State Hospital for the
tnsane, a positiou of much responsibility, I'm- which
he is peculiarly fitted, by reason of considerable expe
rieiicc iii the construction el' buildings, both public and
private. Here, as in everj other trust, he will he found
in the conscientious discharge of his duty to the pub
lie. and in the satisfaction of having contributed his
hot talents for the comfort and amelioration of that
most iiiil'nrtniiaie class el' his fellow men I'm- whom tin'
instil ni inn is designed, will consist his highest ami most
satisfactory reward
XAl'OLLON HILL.
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^11 IS gentleman, whose history illustrates mi well
1 the fact that well directed energj leads to success
in life, appears in these panes as a representative Ten
nessee merchant. 'I' he following sketch of Mr. Hill, as
a business man. from a work entitled " Mi in phi- I ',i -i
Present and Future," is strong testimony as to his worth
and the regard the people of Memphis have for him
" No pleasanlor task tails to the duty of the editor and
statistician than that of presenting t" the world the
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character and personnel of the leaders of thought ami
action, and reviewing the results of their energj and
enterprise in the busy drama of every day life. Men
who give both impress ami impulse In commercial his
im\ are mil only ' the abstract chroniclers of their day,
but they are the guides of the people in mercantile edu-
cation and heralds of the br I | ress which marks
American trade and commerce, for broad ami compn
hensive executive abilities for leadership, men moving
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upon tl of business life, have proven their
superiorin in the estimation >■!' the Vtneriean people,
rdinarv pursuits of business, but to grap
pie with and manage the most abstruse points and parts
ial ami political eeonomy. The true Amerieaii
statesmen .'f broad views ami successful action are the
leading merchants the founders and heads of great
commercia - - - rin firm of which Mr.
Hill is a member has made a rare reeord of bus
sitiou among commercial lead
crs throughout the country. The history of the com-
mercial advancement ami progress .'1' the city of Mem
l>liis has produced ft « i xaui] - - ss so marked
and substantial as that which lias attended the efforts'
of Messrs. Hill. Fontaine <S Co Within the period of
it> existence, this house has taken a position ami
achieved a success which would be surprising but for
the knew n ability of its man.
Mr \ : ' the head of this firm, has resided
in Memphis for twenty-five years. He is one of the
\ known and highly esteemed citizens of the
community in which he lives, ami closely identified
with Memphis in the development ether various finan-
cial, commercial ami productive enterprises, he exerts
an active influence in the development of her resources
and the fostering of Iter best interests
As viewed by Col ■' M Keating, the brilliant editor
of the Memphis .1 ... Mr. Hill appears- as
M \ ipoleon Hill i- - one of the ver.v
success shed by the South since
the war. He is a type of the class that leads in all our
industrial and commercial purs - Self-reliant, ener-
prudent. pushing, thoughtful, conservative, full
cpedient. always ready, broad and liberal, cheerful
in disposition, thoroughly democratic in manner and
habit, carrying the details and cares of his
with a light heart, because he never steps beyond the
limit- - ipital. and - fore him constantly a
md ma nl\ sense of i gations that rest
s the head uiniereial house, tl
ond in point ol sales in the world. He learned
ss ms in the mining camps of Califor-
nia in the early days of that State. These were invalu
in. the best o\' them being the -
him break through. His event: --
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millionaire. This r« -
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concentration of all I u one channel : the mas-
ter) ■ •(" all technical difficulties, and a stern determina-
tion always to be at the head of the cotton busi
Placable, pleasant a iiatured. he is beloved in
life. There his utter simplicity <>\' character
and his ingenuousness are felt to be the products of a
lean He i- the idol of Ids home circle, in which
he finds - r all the cares of a life whose
burdens have been in proportion to the rapid growth of
his business. Xapoleon Hill is winning the title o\'
merchant prince. Far seeing, he is far reaching : hence
his name is listed among the railroad, bank and insur-
ance officers and directors, and those who have invested
in and control great mechanical enterprises in Tonnes-
see ami Alabama. His life is a lesson for the genera-
tions to come, as it is an example for that which is
contemporary with him Honored by all men. he is
I to by all classes of his fellow-eitizeus as one
worthy the highest public tri -
\ Icon Hill was bom in Maury county. Tenness
near Columbia. October 25. ISoO. When he was about
five yi - - his father moved to Marshall county,
where he grew up. living on a plantation
until his seventeenth year. He received his education
in the old field schools of Mississippi, never attending
any college When he was about fourteen years ol
the death of his father put an end to his school da; -
he was tli - son, and had to take charge of the
plantation. Determining to adopt a mercantile life, he
went, in 1-17 1 '■ ir. Tennessee, and began his
business career a- a clerk in the store of his uncle.
John 11. Kills, and there remained till April -
'flic California fever having broken out. he left Ten-
-- < and went across the plains to that State in search
I For twi years he lived the life of a miner.
working in the placer diggings Gettiug tired of this
-- iu which he had met with partial -
the end ■ rs he left it. After this he opened
a trading post at the junction of the Trinity rivers.
mining streams in the northern pan of California. There
lilt boats and established ferries across the two
streams, opened ami conducted a ranehe. Gold had
. that stream, and miners were
hither from every nation and every clime.
esc he built up a flourishing trade, and re-
mained there about tour ami a half yea) - IS57, he
returned to Tennessee, having accumulated about ten
-aid dollars during the California trip. He settled
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busim - - I the firm of Hill \ Dorion, till
the beginning of the war. At tin - lie war. he
Mem| his. as a factor and
r. in the firm of Williamson. Hill a
which - spring of IStiS. when the partuer-
- red by the death of Mr. Williamson. The
name of the firm was then changed to 1 1 line &
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Mr. Hill has been identified with all the commercial
and financial enterprises of Memphis for many years,
and has been an officer in numerous banks, railroad and
insurance companies. A few years subsequent to the
war. he filled the position <>l president of the Memphis
Chamber of Commerce for two terms, and was president
of the Cotton Exchange for two terms, during the years
1880 81 Hi' is now president of the Memphis City
Fire and < leneral I usurance company, the largest in the
State, and is also a director of the Memphis and Charles
ton railmad. lie was one of the organizers of the
Union and Planters Bank of Memphis, the largest hank
in the State and has been one of its directors since its
foundation, lie is largely interested in the Pratt Coal
and 1 ri ii i company of North Alabama, he and his pact
ner holding about one-fourth of the stock of the com-
pany, which owns and operates the largest bituminous
coal mines in the United States, produciug over two
thousand five hundred tens of coal daily, besides oper-
ating iron furnaces of which the daily product is from
one hundred and fifty to two hundi'ed tons, in addition
to which he is the owner of a large area of iron lands
in Franklin county, Alabama, and coal lands iii the ad-
joining counties. He is the bead of a house which does
the third cotton business in the world, handling as
much as one hundred thousand bales per annum. The
firm has also a large branch establishment at St. Louis,
and their trade in the departments of their business —
groceries and cotton— is more than five and a half
millions id" dollars per annum.
Up to the war, Mr. Hill was a Whig, and since the
war lias voted with the Democrats, but has never been
a candidate for office, and seldom takes any part in
politics, devoting his whole time to bis business. Me
is essentially a business man.
Mr. Hill was married, in Hardeman county, Tennes-
see. July 8, 1858, to Miss Mary W. Wood, whose
rather. William II. Wood, a gentleman of lame success
as a banker and planter, now lives in Memphis, and is
engaged in planting in Arkansas. lb' was born in
Albemarle enmity, Virginia, in 1S1 I. anil earn,' to Ten
nessee in 1833. The family is of Scotch descent. Mrs.
Hills mother, im .Miss Benigna Polk, daughter of Col,
Ezekiel Polk, one of the earliest settlers of Hardeman
county, belongs to a family of Scotch Irish descent,
which traces its ancestry through many generations back
to [reland and Scotland. She was a half-sister of the
father of James K. Polk. Mrs. Hill's sister, Miss Nina
W I, is now the wife of James II. .Martin, of Memphis.
By his marriage with Miss Wood, Mr. Hill has four
children: (1). Olivia P. Hill, married Charles Gros
venor, of the prominent real estate linn, Overton &
Grosveuor, Memphis. (2). Napoleon Hill. jr. (.'it.
Mary M. Mill. '4). Frank Fontaine Hill.
Mrs. Hill has been a member of the Presbyterian
church since her youth. She is a lady of genial, sunny
disposition, fond of her household, and is a u I nci h
bor, a e I w i fe and n I mot her.
Mr. Hill's father, Dr. Duncan Hill, a gentlemi I'
English descent, was born in North Carolina, and came
to Tennessee in his youth, lie was a planter as well as
a physician, and met with marked success in both lines.
He died in 1844, at the age ol forty years. .Mr. Hill's
mother was Miss Olivia L. Bills, daughter ol' Isaac
Hills, and sister of the late Maj. John II. Pills, a prmni
nent citizen of Bolivar, Tennessee. Her grand parents.
Daniel ami Deborah Bills, were natives ol North Caro-
lina, and were Quakers. She was born in Maury
county. Tennessee, in .1 line. I SI IT, and dieil at St. Louis,
Missouri, in September, iss:; Her mother, Miss Lilian
1 1 on -ton. was a daughter of John Houston, a first cousin
of Gen. Samuel Houston. Aftei the death of Dr. Hill,
she married Col. Josiah DeLoach, of Si. Louis, Mi-
souri. She was a member of the Christian church, ami
an earnest, faithful Christiau, She was characterized
by the sweetness, and, at the same lime. I lie Strength of
her character, ami exercised a great influence upon her
family. Her aneestrj on her father's side were Welsh,
while the HouStOllS were of Scotch descent, and settled
on the Susquehanna river, in Pennsylvania, about 1730.
Mr. Hill's brother, Jerome Hill, is the head ol' the
branch bouse of 1 1 ill, Fontaine A Co., in St. Louis, and
another brother, Harry M. Hill, is a lawyer in Mem
phis. Mr. Hill has also two sisters now living, Mrs.
Joy, of St. Louis, and Miss Emily E. Hill, of St. Louis,
Missouri.
Winn Mr. Hill began life, be was ambitious to make
money, and when the gold fever of California broke out ,
be thought there was the place to make it. lint after
working in the mines for a while, be came to the con
elusion that a man could succeed in anything if be
would bring all his energies to ben- upon it and per-
severe in il. He has kept ever before him a determina-
tion lo suiieed. and feels that, without a motive in
life and an object to work for. no man can be either
happy or successful, but having these, ami backing
them with perseverance and energy, he is certain to
achieve bis object. He believes that for a man to be a
financial success, he must be liberal: that a penurious
man is seldom a success, ami that liberality is always
well rewarded. He thinks that any business well con-
ducted leads to fortune, while the best business poorly
followed will eventually lead to ruin. The reports
which have come to the winters ears, in Memphis, of
the liberality of Mr. Hill, bear ample testimony to the
truth of his theory, that liberality is an essential of
success. Memphians say that he is as liberal as he is
successful.
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senator Prom Georgia, and of Gen. James l> Gordon,
who I'cll in the Confederate service in Virginia. Prof
Nicholson's mother was educated al the » > 1 « J Nashville
Female Academy, is a Methodist, and though fond of
society and ;i great reader, is thoroughly domestic in
her tastes and habits She is the mother of seven
children, namely: (I). Osburn P. Nicholson. (2).
Hunter Nicholson. (3). A. 0. I'. Nicholson, jr. I h.
Andrew J. Nicholson. (5). Charlie O'Reilly Nichol-
son. (6). Mary Nicholson (now Mrs. A. B. Estes).
(7), Anna Nicholson (now wife of Hugh Gordon).
Prof. Nicholson graduated, first, al Franklin College,
Tennessee, in 1852, under President Fanning, and next,
in 1855, al ilif University of North Carolina. After
graduation he became associate editor with his father
of the Washington Union, and \\ 1 1 i 1 < ■ al the capital
studied law with Hon. Caleb dishing, then attorney-
general of the United States. From ls.">7 to 1861, he
practiced law al Columbia as a member of the firm of
Nicholson, Sykes & Nicholson, meantime editing the
Columbia Herald, from 1858 to the breaking oul of the
war.
In ls,">7. when Hon. [sham G. Harris becami
ernor of Tennessee, young Nicholson was appointed on
his stall' as adjutant general of the Slate. From the
battle ill' Fori I ttiiiclsiiii to the surrender of Forrest's
command al Gainesville, Alabama, he was actively en-
gaged as major and assistant ailjnlanl general, anil saw
servico in Tennessee, Virginia, Alabamsi and Mississippi.
(See History id Forrest's Campaigns by Jordan and
Pryor).
The war over, Prof, Nicholson returned to the editor-
ship of the Columbia Herald. In 1868, he established
and edited the Dirie Farmer al Columbia, but subse-
quently moved the paper to Nashville, Paul & Tavel
becoming the publishers. In 1869, he was called to the
chair of agriculture in the East Tennessee University,
ai Knoxville, and has been connected with the college
ever since, at present being professor of natural history
and geology.
Iii 1871, he was actively instrumental in organizing
the bureau of agriculture of Tennessee, and was ap-
pointed by Gov. .luliii ( '. Brown one of its commission-
ers, and continued as such during four years, i lie exis
tenee of the bureau. (See Resources of Tennessee by
.1 , I!, Killcbrew) lie has been continuously connected
wit li i ho pre from In hoj h I to i he presenl , either
us editor, conl ributor or am hor,
lie married, first a I llarinnr, Ohio, in 1855, Miss L\ol
lie Stone, a graduate of the lii'-di school al thai place
and daughter of Col, \uiiiisiiis Stone Her mother,
( 'harlot ie Put nam, wa n lim al tie i endanl of i he celc
bratcd Israel Putnam, of llovolutionar} fi Her
uncle, Col, A VV. Putnam, was for many years presi-
dent of the Tennessee Historical Society, and is the
author of a mosl excellent and valuable work, " The
History of Middle Tennessee ' Mrs, Nicholson died,
January 7, 1873, leaving five children (1) Caro Xich
idsiiii, (2). Maur} Nicholson. (3), Augustus S'ichol
son. (4). liorini; ( " I, ora i Nicholson. (5). Rebecca
N icholson.
Prof. Nicholson's nexl marriage which occurred Oc
tober 1875, was with Miss Kate l>. Martin, daughtei
..I' Hi-. Robert Martin, of Nashville. Her mother, Miss
Eliza Dickinson, is the daughter of Dr. J. Dickinson,
of Williamson county, Tennessee. Mrs Nicholson was
educated al Dr. Elliott's female Academy, al Nash
ville. is an Episcopalian and i bines, in a remark
aide degree, domestic and literal-} taste.-. By this
mania"!' I'i jiI' Nicholson has two children : (1). linn
hi Nicholson, jr. (2). Bessie Nicholson. Prof. Nich
nlsiiii is also an Episcopalian, and in polities a Dem
ocrat.
Prof. Nicholson has been governed in his whole life
by a conscientious desire to occupy no position which
li<' did mil feel himself competent to fill, seeking by
preference those in which lie could do most good to
ni hers, lie li iver u ed wine, brand} or tobacco
and yet never belonged to a temperance society, lie
has been an inveterate reader from nine years of age
1 1 is omnivorous reading, his inordinate fondness for
books, and his wide and intimate knowledge of them
acquired for him the appointment of librarian of the
university, in addil ion to his regular dul ics as professor,
lie pays a severe penalty for Ins revels in the luxuries
of so nian\ branches of learning, fur by reference to
the catalogue of the university, it will be seen that he
has at present assigned to hin less than twelve
topics, an amount ofbraiuwork that would breakdown
i V men.
PROF. ZUINGLIUS CALVIN GRAVES, A.M., LL. D.
WINCHESTER.
M\KY SHARP COLLEGE, fo led in 1849, which has given it success mainly to Prof. Z. C. Graves,
which has brought one million dollars to Win who has been at its head for thirt} five years. His
Chester, and now stands in the fronl rank of the female theor} of female education is thai culture gives both
colleges of the Union, owes the system of discipline tone and direction to the charms oi womanhood; that
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Miss Nannie Meredith (mm Mrs-
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omy, and even the little children exhibit it in the
primary branches Ii depei - how a dish is
it with relish. The thor-
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meut are features of the institution. It is not architect-
ural piles only, but men. that make colleges. There are
d with the universities of Oxford. F.din-
lin. Berlin and Yale as lasting and as
num nn - • tigs in which they are ;
the name of the mas - t of M Sharp
fame that will survive th
tier ted five thousand girls.
Pri t". Craves - her s pro-
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In tl. - er hi-
pupils in directing tl
them to make thinkers of them ; to inspire his stu-
- with a love ol their work. As an instructor be-
ibility to impart and impn --
in all this s success The in. n
of tin while not imitators of him. are equally
en thus - irtmeuts. The fact
that their freshman .enty
pupils, and tin • - run out with sixteen or
twenty members, demonstrat - 'her fact, that
their pupils are not advanced without being thorough
and " s.ure enough scholars. In Latin ami Greek, the
(amined in 18S3. was pronounced
-- superior to any in any college,
male, ill the I'nited States, known to the
gentlemen win renderings and listen:
the his <. In it has mg been a
ut Winchester, that if Graves cannot get an
Ise need to try it. for
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s is a native of Chester. Vermont, horn
April 15. 1S1C. and there grew up at his books, do
uimon work of that country, as required
on a farm, but his mind ever upon his studies. He
graduated from the Black River Institute, of Vermont,
in 1837. and at the age of twenty-one, left home for the
( >hio. wh unded and be-
came priueipal of Kingsville Academy. lie had taught
eoinn: - Is. winter - - -. in Vermont. His
■ - k was brilliant — his pupils coming
from man; S - >me of them bi s listin-
guisln - them Prof. Lucie ' '-
horn, forty year- a -- in Madison I niversity;
•1 YV Fowler, p resident of Michigan University;
J. W. Knopp ai I E William Ward, mission-
aries to Burma!. 1'. :V. Daniel Bliss, president of Bry-
ant College, in Syria, and oth -
Kings years, he was
called to the founding of Mary Sharp College, where
- - ut the remainder of his life, so that since he
formally entered upon his jsiou. he has been in
only two places \- previously stated. Mary Sharp
College was in its inception a new departure, its purpose
leuioustrate the problem whether the female
mind is ipment in science equal to
that of the male mind. It was once thought excep-
tional that Caroline Herschel should he the equal of
her brothers, as a mathematician, hut Prof Graves has
demonstrated the fiet that the feminine mind generally
.. - tible of the saun a f development as the
- .line in the abstruse sciences — mathematics, meta-
physii - - - That his - d this
direction have met with si - I due recog
nition by other eminent educators, the honors that
have been i upon him bear testimony. The
degree of \A1 was couferred upon him in 18i6, by
i'uiversit} \ Y -rk. and later, that of
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Tennessee
Prof. Graves is one of three children, be being the
eldest. Ili> sister, net Louisa M. Graves, is now the
widow of Prof. W. P. Marks, late superintendent of the
Edgefield schools in Nashville. His brother, Rev. J.
R. Graves, is the celebrated Baptist preacher, editor,
author and polemic, now of Memphis. The family is
of Huguenol descent, and it was always a custom in
each branch of the family to name its first born male
Zuinglius Calvin, the name Prof Graves bears, though
he himself has departed from that rule. The most re
mote known ancestor of the family fled to America at
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in
New England. The grandfather, Graves, was a mer
chant, a member of no church, and of no special note
above that of an ordinary business man.
The father of Prof Graves, also named Zuinglius
Calvin, was also a merchant, and died at the age of
thirty, leaving a widow and the children above nun
tinned, tin- mother at that time being about twentj
eight years old. ami, although remarkably beautiful,
never married again, but devoted herself wholly to the
education of her children, with results that must have
been highly gratifying to her, as witnessed in their brill-
iant careers. The mother, Lois M. Snell, was horn in
Hopkinsville, Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel Snell,
a Revolutionary soldier, a manufacturer, ami of New
England Puritan stock. She was remarkable tin- her
decision of character. When she bad once Conned a
plan, she executed it. Her mind was given to all the
theological questions that agitated her times, being a
great reader of theological works. That her mind was
of a metaphysical east, is evident from the tact that one
of her favorite books was " Edwardson the Will. Her
method of training her children was to cultivate their
will power by seeing that they executed any plans they
bail formed. She was a member of the Baptist church,
and very zealous. She died at the age of seventy-eight
years, and if it be true, that the good works of this life
follow the saints departed, how true ill her case must
be the poet's words :
" Who to dumb forgetfalness :i prey,
This pleasing:, anxious being e'er resigned ;
Left the warm precincts of ethereal day.
Nor cast a longing, lingering look behind '.' "
Prof. Graves married, in Kingsville, Ohio, Julj •'!.
1841, .Miss Adelia ('. Spencer, a native of that place, born
in 1821, daughter of Dr. Daniel M. Spencer, and a
niece ill Piatt It. Spencer, author of the Spencerian
system of penmanship. Her mother, nee Miss Marian
T. Cook, was the daughter of Erastus Cook, a graduate
of Williamstown College, a very eccentric man. spend-
ing most all his time in reading Latin, Greek and the
old masters. Mrs. Graves education was completed in
the Kingsville Academy, under Prof. Graves. She is
familiar with French and Latin, excels as a writer, and
is classed among southern poets. She is the author of
" Jeptba's Daughter," and " Seclusaval, or the Arts , ,f
Romanism,'' of which ten thousand copies have been
printed and sold, For her literary labors she has re
ceived more than three thousand dollars. She is the
author of twelve volumes of Sabbath school literature,
a ml is known as the editor of the " Child's Book," under
the ihiiii ill jiliiini of "Aunt Alice. " She has. for more
than thirty years, been matron of Mary Sharp College,
and is professor of literature in that institution. She
is one of the few women of high literary cult ure who is
a good business manager, lays hold with her hand, and
knows how to manipulate and materialize the ad-
vantages and forces within her reach. She owes noth-
ing, and will not permit her husband to owe a cent if
she can help it ; he being so absorbed in his profession.
it became a necessity that she should b me the linan
cier of the firm. Mary Sharp College is as much in
debted to her for its life as to Prof Graves'himself.
By his marriage with Miss Spencer, Prof. Graves has
four children: (1). -lames R. Graves, a freshman in
Dartmouth College at the breaking out of the war.
when 1 II tercel the Confederate army and lost his life
at Ringgold, Georgia, in 1863, at the age of twenty-one
years. ('_'). Florence M. Graves, a graduate of Mary
Sharp College: married Henry Green, of Columbus,
Georgia. (3). Zuinglius Dickinson Graves, an invalid-
now thirty-six years old. (4). Hubert A. Graves, a grad-
uate of Mary Sharp College, in 1877; now a farmer in
Franklin county. He was, for two years, principal of
the .Masonic Academy, at Wooley's Ford, Georgia.
Prof. Graves, when a student, became an investigator
and made up his mind that the presentation of science,
i. i.. school culture, was on a wrong method, ami lie
conceived a method by which the minds of studeuts
might become interested in the sciences, if they were
presented correctly— that is. if the then mental food
was cooked rightly. Having formed his plan, with him
original, he entered the profession, and in his own pe-
culiar manner presented the sciences iii such a way
that he litis in his whole professional life had till tbe
patronage he desired or could possibly attend to. both
in Ohio ami Tennessee. He introduced the first Mack
board ever seen ill the Western Reserve. He iutro
ililecil the object method system of teaching in licit
section. His method ma\ he styled tact. He insists
that teachers, like poets, are born, not made. Median
ical teachers are not successes.
(hi the death of Rev. Dr. Joseph Eaton, he was
elected chancellor of the Union University at Mill
freesborough, and has been called to at least fifteen
other places, hut he kept his eye single to this one in-
stitution, thus developing a staying power which is a
principal factor ofhis success. He has given ten thou
sand dollars of his earnings to the institution to pri
serve it. He has given his life and his earnings to his
college.
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In religion he is a Baptist. At the age of niuel
he was licensed to preach, hut having a talent to be a
teacher, he fell more called to be a teacher than to be
a preacher Consequently, he lias always refused to be
ordained, as be fell he could do only one thing, thou h
during bis licentiate be has delivered perhaps hundreds
of sermons. In politics be is Democratic, but has
held political office, bis <\\ e being kept single to his pro
Cession.
Prof. Graves is a man of medium height, weighs one
hundred and fourteen pounds. Ikis a benevolent and au-
thoritative expression, without the appearance of either
lit \ or arrogance. 1 1 « - is a man of intensity of will,
Has
much work
young prop'
IliaV lie set I
clearness of purpose, and a tireless worker The wonder
has been expressed that a man of his age can do so
ami enter with spiril into the studies of
Perhaps his enthusiasm and longevity
lown as cause and effect \-.i class, the
greatest students. >. ,•/.. jurists, are the longest lived
nun in the world. Is it not the mens nana that pre
serves the carport stino / When the mind gives way to
despair the body sinks. When business men retin
their wealth they die of ennui. Mental activity in the
direction of public benefaction lead.-- to lent: life— a
deduction which this single instance, in the absence of
facts to tin :outrary. clearly supports.
CHARLES R. VANCE, ESQ.
CHARLES K V \Ntlv the prominent and well-
known attorney of Bristol. who i- descended from
leading East Tennessee families on both sides, was bom
at a place called Cherokee, in Washington county, Ten-
nessee, August 'I'l. 1835. Prom infancy until fourteen
years of age. be grew up in Jonesborough. and then
bis father, a physician, moved to Kingsport. and there
the son was reared, alternately working on the farm
and going to school. In IS5U. lie entered upon the
study oi law under Hon. Thomas A. 1!. Nelson, read
under him until 1858. when be was licensed to pra
by Judge D. T Patterson and Chaueellor Seth J. W.
Luokoy. and began to pracl ice in the courts of the First
judicial circuit, embracing the counties of Hawkins
in and Washington, bis office being at
Kin purl Shortly after admittance to the bar be ran
for the office of attorney-general of his district against
Sam Powell, bul was defeated h\ a small majority.
He enn tin ited to practice law until the war broke out,
when he entered the Confederate army as a private in
company K Nineteenth Tennessee regiment, but not
being aide to do Held duty, was appointed agent for the
First congressional district, to make out the claims of
citizens for forage taken by the Confederate soldiers
\lmiit twelve months before the (dose of the war. he
was appointed by the Confederate secretary of war.
under an act of the Richmond ( 'ongress, agent for mak
ing out and reporting the claims of citizens for property
taken or destroyed bj the Confederate armies, in this
position he continued until the close of the war. when
he was indicted lor treason at Kuowille. on account oi
his connection with the Confederate army, but thi
was dismissed upon payment of costs.
When Mr, Vance began life as a young lawyer, he
did - ne hundred dollars, which he borrowed to
pure] : B\ ISG1 he had made enough to
buy a residence in Bristol for one thousand five hun-
dred dollar-, got it paid for. but during the war. in 1863,
was compelled to sell the property to keep it from being
damaged b.\ the Federal soldiers, lie sold it for ten
thousand dollars in Confederate money, which he in
vested in tobacco at Lynchburg, had the tobacco
shipped to Bristol, just before the Stoneuian raid, and
the soldiers of Stoneinaii's command helped themselves
to it. and so it was all lost. When he resumed business
as a lawyer, after the war. he Was five hundred dollars
in debt. Having located at Bristol, he again ;
practice in the same counties as previously, and with
the addition of Washington and Scott counties, Vir-
ginia, and in the Su prone nrt at Knoxville. He has
continued there ever since, engaged in i ther business.
From lsTl to 1S77, he was attorney for the East Ten-
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, for the counties
of Sullivan, Washington and Carter, lie now owns a
residence in Bristol, one hundred and forty acres of
good farming land within a mile of that town, and is
in independent circumstances.
Prior to the war. and until the reorganization of po
litical parties, Mr. Vance was a Whig. Inn after the
close of the war. he espoused the cause of Democracy.
The only active political work he did. however, was in
the campaign of LS80, » hen he cam assed the First con-
gressional district for Hancock and English. He was
a member of the board of aldermen for Bristol from
1870 to 1877. He became a Mason in 1862, in Shelby
Lodge, Bristol, and has taken the Chaptet He
joined the Presbyterian church at eighteen years ,,f
age: has been an elder in the First Presbyterian church,
Bristol, since 1S74; was a delegate from Holston pres-
bytery to the general assembly in New Orleans, in 1876,
and was superintendent of the Sunday-school for sis
ending January, 1885,
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Mr. Vance married, in Sullivan county, Tennessee,
October 16, 1860, Miss Margaret J. Newland, who was
born on Reedy creek, Sullivan county, at the <>M New-
land homestead, March 28,1838. Her father, Joseph
Newland (now dead), was born on the same place, of a
Virginia family of Irish and Scotch hi 1. He was a
farmer and large land owner, a magistrate, an active
worker as a member of the Presbyterian church, and
was noted for his Christian piety. -Mrs. Vance's mother,
in i Rebecca II. Anderson, is the daughter of Isaac An-
derson, of Scott county, Virginia, and sister of Joseph
I!. Anderson, the Bristol banker, in whose sketch, else-
where in this volume, will be found a lull account of
the Anderson family. Mrs. Vance was educated partly
at an academy on Reedy creek, but finished her educa-
tion at Abingdon, Virginia. At an early age, she joined
the Presbyterian church, at Blountville, under the min-
istry of Rev. Daniel Rogan, from which time she has
lived a devoted and consistent Christian life, hi her
girlhood, she was educated in all the domestic duties, is
an economical manager, conscientious and strict in the
performance of duty, and enforce- that principle in her
family, and relies devoutly upon earnest prayer to Al-
mighty Cod. She has taught her children the cate-
chism with diligence and regularity, and is an active
worker in the church and a teacher in the Sunday-
school. By his marriage with Miss New land, Mr.
Vance has five children: (1). .lames Isaac Vance,
born September 25, 1862 ; graduated at King College,
Bristol, in 1883, and has just completed his course of
theology in the Union Theological Seminary, Hampden
Sidney College, Virginia. (2). Joseph Anderson Vance,
born November 17. 1864; graduated at King College,
in 1885, and is also preparing for the ministry, in the
Theological Seminary. Hampden-Sidney College. Vir-
ginia, having just passed his first year in the same (3)
Charles I!. Vance, jr., born October 1. 1867. i I). Mar-
garet J. Vance, born December 9, 1869. (5) Rebecca
M. Vance, horn .January 20. 1874.
Mrs. Vance's brothers and sisters are: (I). Martha
Newland. who married William A. Dooley and is now
living on their farm on Reedy creek. Sullivan county.
Tie v have four children, Joseph. Earnest, Rebecca,
and Nellie. (2). Isaac Anderson Newland. married
Miss Mattie Lewis, of Georgia, and is now farming in
Scott county, Virginia. (3). Ellen A. Newland. now
wife of Prof. James P. Doggett, of King College, l!ris-
tol. They have five children, Eliza, Hallie. Fannie, Jo-
seph and Maggie Nell. (4). Joseph M. Newland, mar-
ried Miss Jude Leslie, and is now living on his farm
in Sullivan county. Tennessee. (.">). Samuel A. New-
land, who has recently married Miss Helen IJrown. of
Sullivan county. Tennessee, and is living with his
mother on the old homestead. Sullivan county. (6).
Fannie A. Newland, married Cain Pence, a farmer and
cabinet maker, Sullivan county. (7). Robert Newland.
who has recently married Miss Bettie Welford, of Sul
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livan county, Tennessee, and C living with his mother.
(8). Eliza B. Newland. married William I'. Duff, a
farmer in Leu count} . Virginia.
Tic history of tlo> Vance family dates back beyond
the lime- of .lames the first of England, and is of
Scotch-Irish descent, 'fhe Tennessee Vances are re-
lated to the Vances of North ( larolina. Three brot hers
came to this country from England, Patrick. David
and William. Prom Patrick Vance the Te —
family is descended. Patrick Vance was a physician,
and graduated af Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a native
ot Ireland, hut came to America from England, and
settled in Campbell county, Virginia. His son, Wil-
liam K. Vance, grandfather of Charles IT Vance, sul.
ject of this sketch, was horn in Virginia, and married
MissKeziah Robertson, daughter of Charles Robertson,
prominent in the early history of Tennessee as a pio-
neer, who made large surveys on the Holston, Nola-
chucky and Tennessee rivers, and was a brother of the
Secretary of State of Franklin. (See Ramsey's History
of Tennessee). William K. and Keziah Vance left
eight children, viz.: Dr. .lames II. Vance, father of
the subject of this sketch; Charles It. Vance and
Mona Vance, both of whom died in early life: David
G. Vance, who died in Georgia; Dr. William N. Vance,
nnw a prominent physician at Bristol, where he settled
in 1866; Patrick II. Vance, who died in Cincinnati
during the war; Caroline Vance, married P. 31. Craig-
miles, a hanker at Cleveland, Tennessee, and died
there in 1883, leaving two children, Walter audfitts-
sie; Keziah Vance, married Dr. ( >. P. Herndon, of
Barboursville, Kentucky; Harriet Vance, married —
Thornton, and is now living in Arkansas: Susan Vance,
married James S. Patton, and died in Kingsport, leav-
ing two children, William ami Florence, the last named
being dead.
Dr. .lames II. Vance (father of Charles 1!. Vance),
was born at Greeneville, Tennessee, educated at Tus
culum College, under President Doak, and took his
medical degree at Transylvania University, Lexing
ton. Kentucky. He first practicedat Greeneville; then
at Cherokee, Washington county, two years; next at
Jonesborough, fourteen years, ami then moved to
Kingsport, where he is now living on his farm, at the
age of seventy-six. He is a leading East Tennessee
physician, a man of excellent memory, of line intellect,
and extensive information on scientific, literary and po-
litical subjects. He is a Presbyterian ami an Odd Fel-
low; during the war was a conservative Union man.
and since the war a Democrat. His 'wife was .Miss
•lane Sevier, who has home him eleven children : i 1 i
Charles 1!. Vance. (2). Maria C. Vance, now wife of
Rev. John I!. Kin". Leesburg, Virginia. (3). Anna
Elizabeth Vance, who died at the age id' six years. (4).
Keziah Vance, unmarried, at home. (5). .lame- N
Vance, who graduated a! King College; completed his
theological course at the Union Theological Seminary
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The sons were all farmers, and every one but Samuel
lived to be seventy-five years old. Their descendants
arc mainly in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas. Of these
uncles of Judge Jesse II. Gaut, Joseph Gaut is yet
living at the age of eighty-five. He lias three suns,
John, Rufus and S. P. < •aut. the latter an able and suc-
cessful lawyer at Cleveland, Tennessee.
James Gaut, father oi Judge Gaut, was born in
Washington county, Tennessee. September I!', 1786,
and died February 13, 1ST."), lie followed for many
years the tanning business. He married, in 1810, in
Jefferson county; in 1820, moved to McMinn county,
where for many years he operated a tannery, hut finally
went to farming, which lie continued until his death.
lie was a man of exceeding line murals, a strict mem-
ber of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, very tem-
perate in all 1 1 i — - habits, did but little outside or specu-
lative trading, and was for those times successful in
business. In polities, lie was a remarkably strong
Henry Clay Whig. He was in all things, a straightfor-
ward, honest, plain man. forming his own opinions, to
which he adhered with great tenacity. His wife, net
Miss Rosamond Erwin, was born in Jefferson county.
Tennessee, August 25, 17!>2. an only daughter, having
an only brother. Jesse Erwin, who went to Indiana
and served several terms in the Legislature of that
State. The subject oi this sketch was named Jesse
for him. .Judge Gaut's mother's half-brother, Dr.
Joseph Erwin. was a physician id' prominence, and
practiced in Texas, where he died. .Indue Gaut's
mother was a woman of strong intellect, a Cumberland
Presbyterian, and a leader in her neighborhood in
church and social matters. She died in Bradley county,
July 12, 1869, having borne nine children, only three of
whom survived her. namely: (1). Judge John C.
Gaut, of Nashville, horn February 27. 1813; graduated
from the University of Knoxville, in ls:j7; read law-
one year in Athens, Tennessee, under lion. Spen-
cer Jarnagin, afterward United States senator from
Tennessee ; was admitted to the liar in 1838; settled in
Cleveland, in 1839, when there were only a few houses
in that place, and practiced law there until 1853, when
he was elected by the Legislatue judge of the Fourth
judicial circuit, to fill the vacancy left by Judge Keith
Under the amended constitution of the State he was
elected by tic people to the same position in 1854, and
re-elected in 1862, and held the office till he moved to
Nashville, where he has practiced law ever since. He
stands prominent among the eminent lawyers of the
State, and has several times sat on the Supreme bench
to try special cases. He has been twice married. First,
to Miss Sarah Ann McReynolds, near Athens. Tennes-
see, in 1837, and had by her two children. John M.
Gaut, now an able lawyer at Nashville, and Anna E.
Gaut, who married Patrick 1 1. 31 an love, a leading Nash-
ville merchant. J udge Gaut's second marriage, was on
February 16, 1875, to Mrs, Sallie A. Carter, of Franklin
Williamson county, Tennessee, a lady of much beauty,
and intellectual and social attractions. (2). George W.
Gaut, horn December 9, 1816; married in McMinn
county. Tennessee, in 18-11, Miss Adeline Dorsey,
daughter of Rev. Micajah horsey, a Methodist minis-
ter; followed farming in McMinn county until 1855,
when he moved to Missouri, where he died. July It.
1874, leaving nine or ten children. (3). .Indue Jesse
II. Gaut, subject of this biography.
Of the children who died before the mother, two
died ill infancy. A daughter. Mahala Gaut, died the
wife of John Dorsey, son of Dimmon Dorsey, a farmer,
leaving two children, James A., and Celina Jane, the
latter now wife id' John Selvidge, of Bradley county.
Nancy and Mary Gaut both died unmarried. Minerva
Cant, died in 1852, in Arkansas, wife of A. 'fall
Jesse II. < raut was born near Athens, McMinn county,
Tennessee, November 25. 1824, and grew up in that
county; was required to work on bis father's farm till
seventeen years of age, going to the common schools of
the neighborhood, which lasted only a tew months each
year. By this means, and by studying at home, he ac-
quired a good rudimentary education. When seventeen,
he taught school a year at twenty dollars a month. He
then attended school at Cleveland one year, under a
teacher named II. W. Yon Aldehoff, a Prussian, of fine
education. He next attended the university at Knox-
ville two years, studying Latin, geometry, chemistry,
surveying, philosophy, etc. March 1. 1848, he began to
read law with his brother. John C. Cant, in Cleveland
and after reading with him closely for two years, ob-
tained law license from Charles F. Keith, judge of the
circuit court, and Thomas L. Williams, then chancel-
lor of all East Tennessee. He then went into the prac-
tice of law at Cleveland, and formed a partnership with
his brother, John C. Gaut, which lasted till his brother
became judge in November. 1853. Has lived there ever
since, in the practice of his profession, and has practiced
before the Supreme court of the State every year from
L853 till the present. He has also practiced before the
circuit, district and Supreme courts of the United States.
He was, lor thirty-two years, attorney for what is now
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, and
was attorney for the branch Bank of Tennessee, at
Athens, from IS.Yi till 1861. Among the most noted
cases in which he was leading attorney, may be men-
tioned the ease of Thomas Hopkins' heirs against
Thomas H. Calloway, known as the "Jolly Island case,"
he being of counsel lor Calloway. Another noted case
was the Union Consolidated Mining company of Polk
county against Black, McCauley and others, involving
over hall a million of dollars. The Jolly Island case
was in the Supreme court several times, where he ar-
gued it twice alone. The last time it was argued, his
brother. John C. Gaut, and John M. Gaut, nephew of
Jesse II. Cant, aided him and rendered valuable ser-
vice. The ea-e was finally compromised and settled
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ducing any. His mind is essentially of the judicial
oast, Hi' eliminates all surplusage From the proof, anil
addressing himself directly to the judgment of the courl
or jurj . selects the strong point in the case to argue and
argues that well. An old lawyer once said of him in
open court, " He has >mli an affidavit fare ii is impos-
sible i" answer him successfully." His personal habits
from boyhood have been good. Ilr has ncvei played
cards iir been intemperate. His greatest ambition is
to provide for In family and educate his children well.
Ilr is a most sociable man in liis manners, and very
Fond of anecdotes and reminiscence,
HON. PRESLEY T. GLASS.
RIPLEY.
PRESLEY T. G LASS was born in Halifax county,
Virginia, October L6, 1824. His parents, Dudley
Glass and Nancy Carr, were of Scotch [rish descent,
bis remote ancestors having settled in \ irginia during
the colonial period. His grandfather, Dudley Class.
was .1 farmer by occupation, a Frugal man. of practical
good sense, ami a Baptist in religion. Ilr was n captain
in the Revolutionary war. as was also Maj. Glass' ma-
ternal grandfather. Ilr died in 1*27. His father, who
also bore the name of Dudley, was raised on the farm
ami inured to habits of industry, thrift ami economy.
In ( (ctober of the year Following his Father's death, he
removed with his wife and younger children, three in
number, Elizabeth, Presley 1 1 lie subject of this sketch I,
and John, the youngest, then an infant, to Tennessee,
and settled three miles west of Dresden, tin1 county scat
of Weakley county. That section of the State was at
that time an almost unbroken wilderness, and the new
settlers went to work vigorously to make homes I'm'
themselves. Mr. Glass was the owner of a few slaves,
w horn !ir put tu work clearing land and building houses.
\ Few cabins were erected, ami about ten acres of land
cleared in time for the next year's planting. He was
successful in his farming operations, his economical
habits ami sound judgment standing him in good stead
in his new home. At that early period, neither cotton
ur tobacco were grown in that section as market crops,
the cereals ami forage, together with hogs and such
vegetables as the immigrants required, being raised.
Mr. Glass generally sold his corn and oats to his mer-
chants in sacks, and the first 1 ey his sun Presley
ever earned was for sewing up these sacks at a cenl
apieee. The lather never held office id' any kind, but
devoted himself wholly to his farm, and soon accumu
lated a competency, and was regarded as a prosperous
mail. lie was nut permitted tu enjoy the fruits uf his
well directed labors in his new home but a short time,
having died in I he winter uf 1834, a hunt six years after
his removal tu Tennessee, lie was prompt and Faithful
in the discharge uf every public and social duty, and
his death was a severe luss, nut only tu his family, fill
tu the new community, in the development <>\' which he
bad taken an active ami useful part.
Mai Glass' mother was a daughter of Thomas Carr. a
well to do firmer, w I in lived and died in Halifax county,
Virginia. Like her husband, she vyas industrious ami
frugal, engaging with great energy in all the household
duties and industries oi' the early days, superintending
ami aiding with her own hands in the spinning and wea\
ing of the cloth which clothed her entire family, both
white and black, at least during the milder seasons of
the year. In those early times in West Tennessee, a
pat eh uf tl ax was cultivated by almost every family, and
ihe lihre manufactured For homo use. Man,\ hours of
her children's early life were spent in listening to the
whirr o\' Mrs, Glass' little old fashioned flax wheel,
watching the unwinding of the fibres From the reel and
the thread taking shape under the dexterous manipu
lations of her fingers This flax was often woven into
cloth by the colored women, and made into garments
for her two small boys. This truly good woman died in
1859, at a ripe old age, respected and beloved by her
children and neighbors. She was never a devotee o\'
fashion, her sphere being the domestic circle, and she
justly prided herself upon her skill and taste in the
management uf her household affairs, She was a mem-
ber "I the Baptist church, Industry and piety were
her leading characteristics. (>l nine children burn in
her, she left six surviving her, viz.: Thomas, Dabney,
Dudley, Elizabeth, Presley T. (subject ><\' this sketch),
and John. Elizabeth is the widow of Jeptha Rogers,
and has nine children. John, the youngest child,
served in the Confederate army, ami after the war, was
a prominent newspaper editor at Trenton fur sixteen
years, lie died in April. 1882. Dabney was a mer-
chant, and Thomas and Dudley were fanners. The
oldest daughter married \V Martin, who came from
Virginia tu Weakley euiinly, Tennessee, about 1835,
and accumulated there a large estate. Their descend
ants now reside in the town uf Mart in and vicinity, and
are among the most intelligent and influential citizens
uf that section One uf the suns, ll<m. George W
Martin, has been a m em her of both houses uf i he Gen-
eral Assembly of Te issee, ami traveled extensively
abroad. ( fur a full account of the Martin Family, see
sketch of Hun George W, Martin elsewhere in this
\ ulinne).
Maj. Glass was raised un the farm uf hi- parents, and
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in hi.- he ' Barbee of that county, a relative of Rev. Dr. Barl
,n ,,f tlir ! i - - ii Taylor, was a daugh-
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incident to the prii ■ f farm « ste in all iu the sphere of
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all about its inoniy with a view to her husband s happiness — •
parii " make her a help-meet indeed, and truly
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i-ulture during >w in what high esteem he has always
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Mel ' law in l>i - ieral \-- the State, having
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\1 December 20, 1848, in f the committee on the
Si im. of which Hon. John M. Bright
i in the n. At thi the plan for the estab-
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_ success- si Miss 1'ix. of New York, was
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Miss Mi - P - to whom March. IS4!1 - of the magistrates of
he was married August !■"> IS several years from 1851 to 1857; from 1850
Miss S " mi in II, 1857 lie was stees of the Ripley Male
October 18. 1 of 8 1!. Partee Vi : my. and was an alderman svn of Ripley
M U. of that county. By from 1851 to 1855. Cpon the breaking out of the civil
re two children 'an- war. he joined the forces of the Confederacy, and in
lale county. June 18.1857: edu- May. 18dl. was appointed commissary with the rank of
:; md major, which position he held until May 1 His
Bi \ it which latter was with Gen. Cheatham, at Cnion City,
1877. to W. 1'. II. B from May. 18lil. until the removal of the fori es to Co-
[\ ky. in the autumn following. After
Irene, the evacuation of Columbus, he went with the army to
• Ten as commissary on tin staff of Gen MeCown,
\ ■■- where he remai i until shortly before it fell into the
1 Ieral forces. He was with MeCown at
- - Corinth, until that place was evacuated, in July. 1862,
• l when hi was rdered to Chattanooga, where hi I
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one million of rations for the subsistem f Gen.
Bragg's army on its campaign iuto Kentucky. He ai
companied Gen, McCown on his march from Knoxville,
and was with him at the battle of I Yn-w i 1 1 < ■ . returning
t<> Knoxville, in October, 1862, going thence to Ready
ville, and s afterward engaging with McCowu - rum
maud in the memorable battle of Murfreesborough.
On the evacuation of Murfreesborough, li«' was ordered
to Shelbyville, traveling all night in the rain. Si
afterward he was relieved Prom duty with Gen. McCown
and ordered by Gen. Polk'to report to Gen. Pillow, at
1 1 iinisville. Alabama, where he remained on duty until
the place was evacuated, July 4, 1863 Prom Hunts-
ville he went to Marietta, Georgia, where he was sta
tinned until Xoveniber, when he accompanied Gen
Pillow to Montgomery, Alabama, where lie remained
until the following June, going thence t" Talladega in
the same State. He accompanied Gen. Pillow in his
expedition to Tunnel 1 1 ill. near Dalton, Georgia, where
the latter had been ordered to proceed and do what he
could toward damaging (he tunnel on (he Western
ami Atlantic railroad, in order to cut nil supplies from
Sherman's army, then commencing its march to the sea.
While on the march, Gen. Pillow, learning there was a
brigade of Federal troops at LaFayette, determined to
make a night attack upon them. The enemy was Forti
lied in the COUrt-hoUSe at LaFayette, and after eight oi-
ten hours of fruitless fighting, and the' loss of several
valuabl en, Gen. Pillow concluded to retire. Owing
)o considerable random firing by the enemy, the horses
belonging to the Confederates, which were being held bj
a small mini her of men detailed for (he purpose, became
restive ami finally stampeded. The enemy keeping up
a damaging lire all the time, the retreat became almost
a rout. Maj, Glass, having engaged actively in the con-
flict, rode among the disordered and scattered troops,
composed ol Tennesseans and Alabamians, endeavoring
to restore order. The first field officer he met was Col.
Ball, of Alabama, and Laving asked him if he could do
anything to stop the wild stampede, Ball replied :
" Help me to rally them behind this feme Failing in
this effort, Maj. ( ilass rode a lit lie further and met I'ol.
Neely. who had his brigade drawn up in good order.
On putting the same question to him, he replied " Yes ;
let the Alabamians get to the rear and I will put a stop
to the stampede." Maj. (ilass rode down Neely s lines
and appealed to the men as Tennesseans to stand linn
and do their duly, which they did. Order was soon re-
stored ami the Confederate troops marched quietly off.
the enemj giving do further pursuit. Gen. Pillow
being released soon after this, .Maj. (Ilass was ordered
to report to Gen. Han Adams, then on duly at Talla-
dega, ami was then charged with procuring supplies for
the commands at Cahaba and Opelika. lie was with
(leu. Adams when Gen. Wilson assaulted and captured
Selnia, hut succeeded in crossing the river and making
his way to Montgomery. Being separated from his offi
eial papers, which had boon sent with his servant to De-
tnopolis. Alabama, Maj. Glass was permitted by G en.
Adams to go in that direction, with Lieut. Donelsou, of
Forrest s staff, and made his way to Uniontown, where
he found his papers ami servant, and remained a few
weeks, \\ liilc thine he heard minors ol the surrender
of Gen. Johnston, and later on. officii. Lee In the
meantime, (Jen. Adams had Lame to Meridian. Missis-
sippi, from which point Mai Glass received a dispatch
to report there immediately. To thai place he repaired
promptly, and was paroled. Ma\ In. 1865.
The war over, Maj. (Ilass returned to hi. home at
Ripley, ami spent the remainder of the year in trying
to collect up the remains of a once prosperous mercan-
tile and fanning business. After settling up his old
mailers he removed to Memphis and engaged in tie
co ission business fin- two years. He then moved to
Trenton, anil conducted editorially the Trenton Guzrtti
tin- >car. Marrying his present will- about this
time he spout one year I 1869) on a farm, returning in
September of that year to Ripley, and resuming his
mercantile business. The business proved a pros
peruus one, and he continued in it until 1877, when he
turned it over to his son and devoted himself exclu-
sively in farming, in which he is at present engaged
In 1882, he was elected representative from Lauder
dale county in the State Legislature. He was made
chairman of the committee on agriculture, and was
recognized as the leader in the house of the agricul-
tural interests of the State He was the author of the
bill making important and valuable changes in the fish
laws of the State, and also of the act creating the
ultural experiment station at Know i He. nn dcr the
direction of the University of Tennessee, at that
He supported by his vote and advocacy the act creating
a railroad commission, ami took an active and leading
part in all tin- important legislation of the session. He
was the friend and advocate of all measures looking to
the suppress! f the use of ardent spirits, and intro-
duced and warmly supported the bill to pay in full all
bonds of the State held l>\ educational institutions, in
or out of the State, including especially the three
hundred thousand dollars of Tennessee Slate bonds
held by the Peabody Insiitiiic. of Baltimore. The
advocacy of these measures attracted public attention
to Maj. Glass, and gave him a position among the fore
most of Tennessee legislators, He voted tin- the 50 ■'!
settlement of the Stale debt, but Would have preferred
a settlement at 60-6, if such a settlement had feet
practicable; but tin- temper of the public mind was
such thai fear was tell upon the pari of conservative
Stati credit men thai, should the proposition to settle
at 50-3 fail, from am cause, repudiation of the entire
debt would probably he the final result.
Maj Glass was a candidate for the Democratic nom-
ination to Congress before the convention of that partj
at Dyersburg September 9, 1884 \licr more than
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two thousand ballots hail been taken, he withdrew from
the contest, although he had frequently come within
three or tour votes of the necessary two-thirds of all
lb.' \.M.- casl \fi. r a session "I five days, the con-
vention adjourned, late on Saturday night. September
13. having failed to make a nomination. The adjourn-
ment was to the following Thursday, and the conven
tion met pursuant thereto at Trenton. Tennessee
Maj Glass was nol present at Trenton, nor was his
iiaui.' placed before the convention until after several
hundred ballotings had taken place II. ■ was then
In forward by the delegations from Gibson and
Crockett counties, and nominated under the majority
rule, it having been found impossible to effect a
nomination under the two-thirds rule, lie imme-
diately entered the field ami made a thorough canvass of
the entire district lion, Kmerson Ktheridge became
his competitor, hut no proposition being made by him
for a joint canvass Mai, ilia-- being already in the
field they each canvassed separately. .Mr. Ktheridgc
being decidedly the strongest Republican in the dis
f rit-t . brought out the entire strength of hi- party,
increasing his vote more than three thousand over that
of Cap; Lyle, who had i le the race against Hon
[{ \ I'ierce. two years previously. Maj. (ilass was
also strongly opposed by two of the Democratic news
- iA' the district, on account of the manner in
which he was nominated, ami many of the personal
friends ol lion Rice \ Pierce opposed him \\ i t li in-
tense bitterness Notwithstanding all this opposition,
he was elected by a majority of nearly twenty five
hundred over his competitor, ami the two papers of
hi- own party that opposed him ceased to exist imme-
diately after the election.
Maj tila-- politics began to take shape when he was
very young Ili- father was a Jackson man. When
Crockett and Fitzgerald made the race for Congress.
Maj Class took sides with Fitzgerald's follower- and
as he investigated the political history of the country
he began to allign himself with the Democratic parly.
lie li.i- always taken a leading interest in politics, hut
has been uniformly conservative: for example, he did
not believe in the expediency of secession, and doubted
the constitutionality of it. In hi- contests for the
Legislature ami lor Congress his sp -lie- have been
mainly on the agricultural ami business interests of
the country first, to -h.w that agriculture is tin- great
industry of the country: that more than one halt the
population are engaged in it; and. consequently, are
entitled to a 1 ognition at the hand- of the
al government. He is in f a tariff for
revenue, so adjusted within revenue limits as to
I American industries, nol believes that
the protective policy, together with our navigation law,-,
has been the chief cause of the loss to America of the
carrying trade which we enjoyed in 1S55. In other
words we have fostered our manufacturing industries
to tin' great detriment of our carrying trade, building
up the one as hot house plant-, and almost destroying
the other.
His election to Congress by a brilliant majority, i- to
be accounted for on two grounds First, his moral
character; and. secondly, the interest he ha- always
manifested on the -tump, in the Legislature, and as
editor, in the agricultural interests of the State, and
ially of his own district, comprising the counties
of Haywood. Lauderdale. Dyer, Obion, Lake, Weakley,
Gibson, and Crockett- one of the most productive ag
rieultural districts in the State, Secondly: In I860,
he supported Stephen A Douglas, believing he was
one of the few men living who was able to prevent war
between the State-, and being devoted to the union of
the State-. Maj. Glass did not favor secession till the
integrity of the I nion was broken by the secession of
South Carolina, when he thought it was better for the
South to stand together, and favored the -.cession of
Tennessee
\- a speaker, he has g 1 command of language, and
-talc- hi- propositions with a clearness that -how- he
has mastered the subjects he handles, ami is familiar
with the hi-iory of political iiuestions. His ambition
seems all unselfish, and he aim- only at the s 1 of the
country with which his own interests arc identified.
His character was formed on the farm. His parents
were never rich, and their children were required to
do soine farm work. He had but little money during
his minority, and wa- never disposed to be extravagant.
Hi- tastes were simple ami hi- habit- economical.
Hi- patrimony was quite small, ami he early recognized
the fact that he must use both economy ami industry
in order to rise in the world; and in not having the
advantage .>! a collegiate education, he was put at a
disadvantage with many of hi- contemporaries: but
having ambition to .1.. good and make himself useful,
he engaged in mercantile business, ami pursued it
with diligence and energy, ami whilst he gave up the
practice oi law very early, he kept up his habits of
reading, and studied closely the history of his own
country, and especially the lives of the founder- of
American institution- lie mingled freely with the
masse-, learned their struggles and difficulties, and
was always in sympathy with them. He studied
closely the industrial interests >•( the people, ami was
always opposed to monopolies, and regarded with keen
apprehension the growing corporations of the land.
believing that there is intelligence ami virtue enough
in the masses to govern the country successfully, ami
that capital in the hands of a very small minority
ought not to be allowed to direct the legislation of the
country in its interest, to tin' detriment and partial en-
slavement of the majority, Being a practical man. on
the stump lis does not say sharp things, nor tell anec-
dotes, but any assemblage of people that listens to him
must see clearly hi- positions, and the reason- that
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sustain them. Hence, bis powerful influence a a
speaker. He ia always calm, collected, dealing in facte
and Qgures, and draws his illustrations of an idea or a
policy from the results of its own history, and back
through American history, and into the depths of an-
tiquity, where it first began, He never possessed greal
money-making capacity, and worked harder than mosl
men to accomplish what he has in i he way of property
He has drawn around himselfa following, because the
people (Mine to have confidence in his honesty and
integrity; and when in office he always guarded tin
public treasury with great vigilance. Hence, lie was
nut looked 'in wiili great favor by those having jobs;
and never considered popularity worth tin' cost, unh
it followed as the reward of correct conduct,
In religion he is a Baptist, ami has been liberal to
the Baptists ami Methodists especially, as his wife is
a member of the Methodist church, lie is a Sunday-
school teacher, but not an officer in hi- church
As a speaker ami conversationalist, he is always
instructive, and always a surprise, for the reason that
hi is mi original in his expressions ami modes el'
thought. Very clearlj he i- a man that wears his own
head, does hi- own thinking, ami is utterly free from
pretense ami mere sham ami show, lie appears in
this volume, not onlj a- a representative Tennessee
congressman, but a representative Tennessee man. el'
the best type.
During his brief service in Congress, Maj, <ilass has
shown himself an attentive ami useful member
alive to the material inte f the en mi try. ami laboi
n arnestly to promote I he wi Ifai e of i he farmin
industrial classes, whose claim- on the fostering legisla-
te f the government have been, to a great extent.
subordinated to far less imp'. riant matters. On March
(i. L886, he delivered a well prepared speech upon
a bill, introduced by himself, to promote agriculture
The intention of the bill was to enlarge the scope of
commercial agents, by requiring them to embrace in
their reports to the State and treasury departments the
subject of agriculture as well as of commerce and man
ufactures, andin itsadvocac; Maj Glass delivered a
practical argument. The limits of the present sketch
allow only the publication here of the following i
which will give a fair sample of the speaker - stj le, and
his strong, effective manner of presenting facts and
arguments: "Under the present law, our consuls are
required to procure and transmit to the department of
ommercial information oftheir disl
ami to report the prices-current of merchandise as often
as may be required to thi treasury department. Now
this hill would have them to pn id transmit.
through the same channels, information of the condi-
tion and prospects, monthly, of the crops within the
limit.s of their consulates, so that the facts may be com-
piled ami embraced in the monthly bulletins of the crop
tt of the commissioner of agriculture; and al
give at leasl ■ oftener il -" requii i
the State department, the prices-current of all such
merchandise and farm products, orchard and gardi n a
are imported into the port-, oftheir consulates, thereby
giving to the farmers of our countrj a full knowledge
of the character and quantity of the products of the
soil of i he countries where i , ,, crnmi nl has a con
sul. iii order that our people maj be informed as to
when there ma 1" i demand and a market for their
surplus products of the soil and the prices-current of
the same, We can not give to the farmer too much
information on this subject. Ami il is certainly the
duty of the government to do this much to advance so
great and overshadowing an industry, particularly when
n can be done at so small a cost. The agriculturists of
the countrj must I me more self-asserting and enforce
their just demands for larger and broader recognition
in the legislation of Congress. It is the duty of the
government to provide for this largi and useful class of
our population all such information as will entitle them
to I. new where to find the best and dearest markets for
their products and to remo i i far as practicable all
obstacles to their access to them. This becomes im
perative, in view ofthi factthal most of the farm prod
nets have tended dow by ardfoi eai in price, and many
i,., i i . ,, hed a price below which i hen
above the cost of production.
Legislation should bi din cted to the end that tin
fai ue 'I" ' '. n I hi fn i dom of I he open market*- of the
world ami all proper facilities afforded him for the
transportatioi d i xportation of his product- to any
market, domestic and foreign. This very numerous
class seeks no exclusive privileges but only such as are
enjoj , other class in the land. This they
ha i a right to demand, and Congress should not denj
it to them. Tin- law should compel our consuls to
i and I'urni-h t ! i i ~ agricultural information, that
the commissi ■ may scatter it 1 , the
land.
"There i- no good reason why our consuls should
confine t hi I e commodit ii - exported from
o w hich tie credited Let them
embrace all article,- imported of considerable valui
pecially of the products of the oil, the mine and the
workshop, the character of farm tools used in culti
crop-, ami whether of domestic or foreign man-
ufacture. This will give our industrial population a
bi it, i' idea of the best market- for their surplus prod-
hen and port them. The m
need information on these subjects, and it is the duty
of the government to procure and furnish it. [t can
h government much less cost
to the citizen- than through private channels. A broad
and liberal policy in this direction should bi
rated and carried
"The farms of the United State- are worth more
thau ten billions, a largei sum than i- invested ii
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other single industry, ami the annual returns from these
farms hree billiou dollars. The manufactur-
iur country produce annually, in
round numbers, live billions three hundred and sixty-
nine millions, bin more than half
raw material, leaving as tin- gross value of the products
dt manufacture one billion nine hundred and seventy
five million — little in. .re than one-half the value of the
farm products. Agriculture furnishes employment to
a greater number of laborers than any other occupation.
About fifty -two per cent, of our entire population are
led in this industry or are dependent upon it for a
living. < >f the seven million six hundred and seventy
thousand farmers, about tour millions own the ('arms
they cultivate, and nearly four millions are farm labor-
ers. Let us dignity this meat industry by giving to it
a larger and broader recognition in the legislation of
thi- body. Let tardy justice be done that elass w ho toil
ill the field and the shop, and are the most law-abiding,
patriotic and useful .las- in the land. This country is
pre eminently agricultural, ami in the very nature of
things must continue to remain such."
COL. MATTHEW C. CALLAWAY.
Til K eminent editor whose name stands at the bead
oft phy. and who i- recognized as oue
of th. erudite, and most successful jour-
nalists ,.f the South, was born in Iluntsville. Alabama.
March o. 1820. but was raised in Morgan and Law]
counties of that State. His father. Wiley G alia way,
Oglethorpe county, Georgia, came t..
Alabama, in LSI.- 1 at Huntsville, moved from
that place i county, in 1822, and settled near
where Danville in that county now is. and was one of
the first school teachers in the State of' Alabama. IK
married, at Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1S17. In 1>L'I.
oiii Morgan to Law;-, in-, county, and taught
school there until [830, when he was elected
probate judge of Lawrence county, which office he held
about twenty-seven years. In ls.VA he moved to Texas
with his two daughters. Mrs. .lames Townseud and M -
.lames \\ ise. and there died and was buried at a place
called Lone Pine, in his seventy-fifth year. Judg.
laway was known as the finest scholar of his day and
State. He was also a most popular man, a- is e\ ideneed
b\ hi- having held an elective offic nig a time,
his integrity, honesty and inflexibility of character wiu-
- for him the implicit confidence of the entire com-
munity, 'fhe family strength in the county is also -ecu
in the remarka that at one time, while he was
the probate judge, hi- -on. William M. Gallaway. was
ircuit judge, elected by the Legislature, and his
nephi S - ' ' ' .way. was. at the same time,
sheriff of the same county. This concenirati
in his family, however, defeated him at the succeeding
election, but at the election next ensuing, he w
judge by an almost unanimous vot.
iting his services until the.,
had a trii a without them four years.
He w; ...I by his brother-in-law. .Indue Charles
•Lime- 11. McDonald, his son-in-law.
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in the family ever si. - ll t the brief interval
before mentioned.
The Gallaway family is Is h Irish origin, and
came ..\er to Oglethorpe county, Georgia, just prior to
the Revolution, in which three brothers took parr on
the patriot -ide. Many descendants vt' the stock now
live in North Carolina and Georgia.
Col. Gallawav's paternal grandfather, Matthew Cal-
laway, a native of Oglethorpe county, Georgia, died in
iunty, Alabama, in 1S22. He married Mary
East, who lived to the advanced age of ninety-six. and
died in Oglethorpe county. Georgia, having gone back
to that State after the death of her husband. Hon. K.
11. East, o\' Nashville, whose -ketch appears elsewhere
in thi- volume, is a descendant of the same East family.
'fhe "C in t'ol. Gallawav's name stands for Camp-
bell, he having been named for Colin Campbell, a con-
spicuous character in Scottish history, and the Galla-
ways and Campbells being of kith and kin.
C..1. Gallawav's mother, hi Miss Mary McDowell
was the daughter of John McDowell, a native Irishman.
who came to this country, the only one of his family
when a boy. He settled first in Oglethorpe county.
aria, moved to Bowling Green. Kentucky, thence
iinty. Alabama, and thence to Moulton,
where he engaged in the hat trade and made a hand-
some property. In early manhood, he served as an
American soldier in the Revolutionary war. for which
he drew a pension till his death at Moulton. Alabama,
iu L841. eighty odd years of age. Col. Gallawav's
mother was a member of the Baptist church, and was
celebrated lor her piety, charity and tine practical sense,
just the wife, indeed, for an educated man like her hus-
band. The fine vein of broad. everyday business sense
that characterizes the son. was derived from the mother,
whom, in this respect, and in hi- keen sense of the ludi-
- as well as in physique, he more resembles than
- his father. As will be seen, however, from his
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portrait accompanying this sketch, Col. Gallawaj takes
also after his father's side, whose mother was an Wast,
and there is a striking resemblance between Judge
East and Col. Callaway, as will appear on comparing
their portraits in (his volume. Col. Gallawaj s mother
died mi Moulton, Alabama, in 1855, :ii the age of fifty
seven, leaving six children, all of wh 'e dead, except
the oldest, the subject of this sketch He has adopted
two of his nieces, Lucille and Mary Mc. Wise, daughters
of his sister. Elizabeth Gallawaj Wise, who died in
lsii", leaving these two daughters to his care. Lucille
Wise is now the wife of James V. Fussell, a leading
merchant ;it Forrest City, Arkansas, and has one child
living, Annie, and one dead, Fanny Gallaway, named
in honor of Col. Gallaway's wife. Mary Mc. Wise mar
ried James A. White, a stock dealer at Pulaski, Ten-
nessee, and lias three children, one, Fanny Wilkes, also
named for Mrs. I iallaway.
One of Col. Gallawaj s cousins, Mrs. John Malone, «■ i
Miss Sallie A. Reedy, is distinguished for having writ
ten more poetry of a high order than any poetess in the
South.
Having received the advantages of a common school
education up to the age of sixteen. Col, Gallaw ij
father then placed him in his office as deputy clerk, and
there his history begins, which, in passant, il may he
well tn say, was rather boisterous ami tempestuous,
[ndeed, he was celebrated as being the wildest boy in
the county. When his father found he could nut man-
age him, he entered into a conspiracy with linn, Thomas
M. Peters, since chief justice of Alabama, for the pur-
pose of bringing about a reformation in the wayward
youngster. The terms «it' the conspiracy were, that In
father should disinherit hint and .Indue Peters, then
editor ill' the Monltun News, should take him into his
printing office In see what could he made id' him. They
did not have iii wait long fur the opportunity, for one
day young Gallawaj whipped a youngster about his own
age most terribly. According in the programme, then,
when ( iallaway went to his lat her s oilier as usual, his
father look him to the door and told him In go; never
in pill his fool in his fat her s house or office again ; that
he had tried In control him and had failed, and now he
must hoe the world and lake care of himself Galla
way Hew in his mother for comforl and intercession,
hut she being in the secret also, ordered bin i of the
house. Here was a perplexity. Although the mother
permitted him to get his clothes, she would not relent in
her banishment, Taking a seal mi the c t house
fence steps, the young man seriously contemplated the
situation, anil was lost in wondering what he would do.
w Inn Judge Peters, answering to his cue, saw him, and,
as if by accident, passed by, and inquired, " Why so sad7
What's the matter?' The matter was explained,
Peters seemed greatly distressed, offered his sympathy
ami promised i" intercede, provided Gallawaj would go
lo work in his office and change his wild course of liv-
in- lie promised i<> give him one hundred dollars for
his services the first year, without hoard, and try and
induce his parents to let him hoard at home, provided
he pi oinised to do bol ti t Thai night i he arrangements
were perfected, and next morning younj (iallaway was
duly installed in the printing office. Ii was in Movent
her. 1836, the day of the presidential election between
\\ liitc and \ an Buren, The foreman tied :i newspaper
around him and put him to rolling off election tickets,
Three hours' wank blistered his hands till they hied.
Next day he was put to learning the cases, and in three
months from that day lie could heal any man in the
office setting type, and did set upmost of the type for
the weekly paper that year. He nol only did that, but
rolled the forms, did most of the press work on an old
fashioned hand press, mailed the papers to subscrib-
ers, and was so energetic and so changed in his c lucl
for a year, that, at tl ml of his engagement with
Peters, his father purchased the office and made him a
present of it. Accordingly, he became a newspaper
proprietor and publisher, in November, 1 s.;7. when only
i \ enteen years old, and continued to publish his paper
in Moulton from thai date until August, 1840. Vboul
thai nine he was visited by John H. Tice, since cele-
brated as a meteorologist, and who recently died at St.
Louis, who came at the instance of the Democrats of
Tuscumbia, Alabama, and induced him to remove his
office to Tuscumbia, at which place he and Tice started
the first Democratic paper, the Fran/din Democrat, in
opposition to the North Alabamian, then edited bj \si
Messenger. The contest of 1840 was celebrated for
its excitement and bitterness, and Gallaway, young as
he was, took an active pan in that canvass, and made
quite a reputation in it as an editor. In 1841, he sold
out the Democrat to A. t'. Matthews, removed to De-
catur. Alaha , and bought an interest in the Southern
Wurcury, in i nection with William G.Stephenson.
There he ma i ried . .1 ii ly 21 , 1842, Miss Fanny B. Barker,
al the residence of her uncle. Col. L. S. Hanks,
In December, I^L'. he sold out and did nol again
engage in the newspaper business lill January, 1844,
when he purchased the Florence Gazette, the oldest
paper in the Stale, having been established in 1819
Ai that place, he was eminently successful in the nev,
paper business. Then' were many bitter contests for
Congress in the Florence district, in which he always
look a prominent pari. In 1850, there was much ex-
eiicuieiit iii regard to the passi of the compromise
measures. Gen. < leorgc S. Houston, afterward governor
and United States senator, had long represented thai
district in Congress, but had retired and was succei ded
bj David Hubbard, wh unced himself an avowed
disuuionisi, mi account of the compromise measures.
Gallaway, although a secessionist, did not believe those
measures cause sufficient for a dissoluti f the Union,
,md determined 1 1 ubbard should be beaten. ( >n ac
count of bis ability as a canvasser and slump speaker,
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arrested— probably a dozen times— I confined in j:iil
one night, only for utterances in a free and unshackled
press, which, however, the judge, a carpel I !i re
garded as contempl of irt. The citizens of Memphis
came to tear the, jail down, Inn Gallaway forbade them.
These events, and the fierce and bitter i of his arti
cles, made the Avalunch the most noted paper of the
South for the time This war of the Avalanclu con
tinued till August, l*»i!». when lion. D. W. <'. Senter
having been elected governor with tin- avowed purpose
of enfranchising the rebels, the tone of the Avalanche
was modified, having gained the important poinl for
which it 1 1 ;h I mi persistently contended, the enfranchise
ini'iit i if the rebel soldiers and their sympathisers.
In the meantime, ''"I. A. J. Kellar, who had become
a pari owner in the Avalanche, seemed disposed to go
tun far in the opposite extreme. This produced a dis
agreemenl between Gallaway and Kellar, resulting in
the latter purchasing the former's interest in the Ava
liiiicltt . ill April. ISTlt.
Cnl. Gallaway thru bought stock in the Memphis
Appeal, ami became connected with that paper in May,
L870, at which time there wrrv thirt} stockholders. He
and Col. J. M. Keating, his present partner,! an pur
chasing tin' interests of the other stockholders, I
these two now own tin1 entire paper and edit it. To
show tin' success of tliis paper, reference need only be
made tn i lir fact that, in 1868, the Appeal sold at pub-
lic auction for twenty-one thousand dollars, ami that in
August, 1883, ntic hundred thousand dollars was offered
for it ami refused.
Col, Gallaway lias become celebrated in tin' South as
authority on the codi duello, ami has acted as second
in two affaires •/» honeur. He lias favored ami still
advocates duelling as a peace measure, believing that
when the code is established and punctiliously observed
ii prevents instead of causing tin' shedding of bl I.
Hewassecond in tin- celebrated duel in which H. C.
( 'ha in I icrs killed Col. W. II. Lake, both of Mississippi;
was also sec I in the duel between George I! Phelan
and James Brazzallaire, in which the latter was badly
wounded. On account of his recognized familiarity
with the code, he lias been selected as referee during
the last twenty years in scores "I' personal difficulties,
which were-all satisfactorily settled, except in the two
cases named, ami which were considered impossible
to adjust amicably. Col. Gallaway i- an extremist in
everything— friendships, enmities ami charities but is
very magnanimous ami forgiving, and without malice
\- long as t In' cause exists he is pugnacious, but as soon
as that is removed, he relents and shows a ibounded
generositj
[n politics, he has always l"-''ii a Democrat without
variation, ami though he lias made more office hi
than any man in the South, has neve -'lit nr In-Ill
office himself i icepl that of postmaster, before men-
tioned II'1 lias been a delegate i" nearly all the party
State 'Mir, mi .mil twice a delegate to national Dem
ocral ic ■•'•ii ■ • hi ion I Ic lias never been a public
speaker, for the rea mi thai lie can never think con
sccutivel} on In feel beco ■ bewildered a- sunn as
he ii es i" -| irak On this account, a - well a • for other
rea on he In novel I" en a i andidate liir offici and
declined nomination for t he Lcgi lal ure.
As an r\ idence of hi mnicm it} md I; indues lie
ami his wife, i bough i In ha \ i no children of I heir ow n
have raised, during the fort} years of their married lili-.
some thirty children, who needed protcctoi orphan
kin, either on bis or her side. Col, Callawa} joined the
(hlil Fellows when a young man, but has not taken
an} interest in secret societies, Though a firm be-
liever in the Christian religion, be belong* to no church,
entertaining liberal views, and oppo ing ectarianisiii.
[n his younger days, he lived a stormy life thai led to
excesses. but for several year pa i has been living in
quietnee I tranquillity. The conflicts which he used
formerly to engage in, and which were suited to hi na
ture. are now abhorrent to him in his anxiet} for peace
and a serei hi age
When i In- war began, he bad. as postma ter ti n thous
and dollar* belonging to the I nited -in, vern-
ment. This amount was seized by military force of
the Confederal vernment, but so soon as peace was
declared, he was sued for the recovery of this n i b
i be I nited State government and judgment obti id
which was subsequently paid by him. Per contra, the
federal force u ed his house in Memphis as headq ■
ters for nearly two years after the war, took aboul two
il sand dollars' worth of furniture and silverware
when they left, and did him other damage bul for all
this he has never receh ed an} t lung.
The episode in his life, when his father disinherited
him, marks the beginning of the manhood of Col. Gal-
laway. From thai day, he resolved to be a man. ami by
and • lose attention to business, has succeeded in
ever} newspaper with which he has been connected,
nni il now he is hall owner of one of the finest new p i
per properties in the South, and is classed among the
solid men of his city. His caustic style of writing ba
given hi in his success, for il ;ave notice to all the world
that tin editor is a man true to himself, swearing in no
nun s word, librata guu pondcribn
The following extracl from a biographical work, re
cently published in Memphis, shows how he is estimated
as an editor in that city "Col. M. C. Gallawa.} com
raenced his editorial career in 1837, when only seven
teen years of age and has been c icted with the
in, evei since and during that time has written more
than an} southern journalist now living. In Ma; 1870,
he purchased an inti resl in the Appeal, which, ou
of Louisville, is regarded a the ablest and most popular
of all the southern Democratic newspapers, as is at-
ti b 'I by ii- lai circulation. Col. Gallaway is anient,
and enthusiastic in his temperament and is then
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Mrs. Hallawa; ai Huntsville. Alabama.
ami « school when Col. (iallaway married
She is a lady of extraordinary character, of s
uient almost infallible, and is
consulted, not only by her husband, but by frit-n- ; -
j\ ice in in matti rs Shi is n stroii
lits. but has :■' ■ 'A
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charity has been unbounded. She was elected presi-
dent of the 11 nne for the Homeless prior to the war. ami
which to build a charitable institution.
whicl 1. on account of the war coming
m\ erted this institution into a
maimed li. for
irs. she kept up by soliciting contributions
from the public, ami often from 1; The
first few years after tl States, her
door was the hamnierin.s place for maimed Confederate
soldiers, their orphans ami widow-. In order to 1
this up what was called the "Fanny
Thrusi S ty, and invited distinguished lecturers
lion: the South t" address the public, and From
Is of these Ic itures, she raised thousands of
dollars, which were appropriated for the benefit of this
class. In :■ conceived the idea of erecting a
monument to the Confederate soldiers, and by persistent
importunities, succeeded in raising about five thousand
■s. which built the splendid monument now in
Elmwood cemetery, Memphis. •• the memory of
ten.
Mrs. Hallawaj is first and foremost in all work- of
. in Memphis: is the oldest communicant of the
nd Presbyterian church in that city; when
ilar teacher in the Sund ij'-school ;
and h president or controller of societies
ictii of the church. Justice is the star that
steps, and her regard for truth and her
aver-ion for falsehood, are leading traits in her charac-
ter. Her sense of duty coutrols her in everything.
Every one who knows her — SO implicit is their faith in
;nse of justice and her tine judgement refers to
her for opinions. But tl ill is. that
though married forty two year-, -lie has never given her
husband a cross word. Her motto seem- to have been.
Beware of the first quarrel." Xowomanin the South
ter known or more respected than she tor a char-
which all who know her regard as faultless, and
in Memphis she is treasured as one ot the jewels of the
city.
MA.l. GILBERT Y. RAMBAUT.
Mt.Ml'lUS
M\.l CILBEBT V. BAMB \1 I" rn in
Bei rsburs Virginia, February !•">. 1>.">7. and
there until his twenty-first year, lie never at-
tended college, but took a thorough course in the acad-
emies of Petersburg,- beginning hi- education under
Melihee, continuing it under Prof Thomas IV
l'a\ idson. now of Abingdon. ^ irginia. ami finishing at
a. mil' 1 under Lieut. Bass, at til
teen. His tastes all ran in the direction of a mercantile
life, and as soon as he left school, lie w. the to-
ss with his father al 1 ' Wishing
I into a newer and wider field of enterprise, he
to take tl' l!i ireeley I
we-t and grow up with the country. In February.
ISiSS lii i . '1 to Memphis, Tennessee, and et
in tb which be followed fo
He tl ill and went into the hotel business as
clerk at m House, and shortly afterward
prietor and formed the firm ofBam-
baut \ Cox. who carried on the hotel until the
ning of tin- war. In the meantime, he bad become en-
gaged in railroading, in company with the firm of
nd bad taken a contract to build a rail-
road thn ugh Attala county. Mississippi, the road being
«n-ion of the Xew Orleans. Jackson ami Great
Northern railroad, which was projected from Canton,
I ■ VI ma.
When the war broke out. he left Mr, ( 'ox in charge of
the hotel and enlisted for the Confederate service, en-
tering Forrest's old regiuieut asa private in company H.
commanded by t'apt. McDonald. He served through
the war with Forrest, and took part in all his battles and
campaigns, with two brief exception-: once during the
Fort Pillow raid, when be had been left in command at
Columbus. Mississippi, and the other time at the Mem-
phis fight, when, having been ordered back to Macon.
Mississippi, from Oxford. Mississippi, on business, and
though telegraphed by bis general, failed to join his
command before they left.
After the battle of Fort Donelson, when Forrest, who
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had out through the enemy's lines and escaped with his
regiment, was called upon by the war department to
make a report, it was written l>y Mai. Rambaut, at the
dictation of Forrest. After the battle of Shiloh, where
he was slightly wounded in the hand, he was one of ten
men who went with Forrest, who had been brevetted
brigadier-general and sent into .Middle Tennessee, and
when Forrest was put In command of a brigade of cav-
alry and sent with Bragg on his Kentucky campaign,
he aeted as cominissarj of the brigade, lie and his
friend, Maj. John P, Strange, and Gen. Forrest were
all promoted for gallantry in the battle of Murfreesbo
rough, which was fought on Gen. Forrest's birth day
.lul.\ 21, 1862 but their commissions were not received
before going into the Kentucky campaign, and after the
the return to Murfreesborough, Strange and Rambaut
were offered commissions as colonel and lieutenant col
onel, respectively, in the field, in the new command
which Forrest was forming. On the morning that they
were tn he assigned to duty, they were a hunt to part from
Gen. Forrest, in the office of Gen. Joseph I!. Palmer, at
.M urfreesborough, when Forrest, who had become deeply
attached to them while thej had served on his stall',
expressed with great feeling bis regret that their rela-
tions were to be severed. Moved by i his. they threw up
their appointments as field officers, and continued on
the stall'. Maj. Rambaut starting tor Richmond thai
night to bring out the commissions lor the whole staff,
his, Strange's and Forrest's bearing date July 21, 1862.
In February, 1 Si I."., while returning from the second
fight at Fort Donelson, he was captured near Kinder
hook. 'I'ei ssee, by tin' command of Gen. Jeff. C.
Davis, whom he had known at Fortress Monroe, Vir-
ginia, when Davis was a lieutenant in the regular
United States army. He was treated with meat kind
ness. and after being kept at Nashville on parole for
about three weeks, was sent to Camp Chase and thence
to Fort Delaware. After two weeks at Fort Delaware,
he was exchanged at City Point. Virginia, reported to
the war department at Richmond, and rejoined his cairn
mand during the Streight raid, having been in the hands
ol the enemy about three months. Maj. Strange, who
was his most intimate friend before, during and since
the war. was with him in prison
In a skirmish al Dillard's plantation, between Pon
totoc and Harrisburg, July 12, 1864, Maj. Rambaut was
wounded in the knee, hut did not leave the Held. Dur
ing the campaign in the "western district," he was in
seventeen fights in thirteen days. On one occasion, he
was in command, with Gen. Forrest serving on In-
stall', Forrest had left him al Trenton, Tennessee, in
command id' one company, a lot id' dismounted men
and Morton's battery of four guns and seven ammuni-
tion wagons, the whole force amounting to about one
hundred and twenty-five men. with orders to proceed
to Kenton station, while he. with the rest ok the com
mand, was engaged in tearing up the railroad. When
within about two miles ok Kenton, he was informed
DJ a citizen that il was occupied by the enemy, two
hundred and fifty strong, entrenched in a stockade.
Having his orders to camp at the place, and being con
viueed thai lien. Forrest was aware ol' tin- fact that il
was in possession ok the enemy, he concluded to make
an attack and dislodge them, if possible. Having made
Ins plans, he was advancing to the attack, having driven
in the Federal skirmishers, when (leu, Forrest galloped
up and called to him to know what he had done, and
being informed, told him to carry out his designs, hut
instead ok taking command himself, acted as a member
of Maj llainbaut's staff during the fight. This
very neat c plinient from a gallant commander to an
equally gallant subordinate. Mai, ('. S. Seay, of (Jen
Forrest 3 staff, acted as Maj. Rambaut's adjutant The
enemy were driven in. and tire from the arlilh r.\ being
opened upon them, they surrendered al the sei d dis-
charge
lie served through the II I campaign in Tennessee
in L864, and when Gen. Forrest, commanding the rear
guard on the retreat from Nashville, after holding the
town of Columbia for live days, had fallen hack and
routed il nemy between the Te -sec river 1 Pu-
laski, thus putting an end to the pursuit, he sent Maj.
Rambaut to bear the dispatch to Gun. II I
Surrendering til Gainesville, Alabama, on the 13th ok
May, 1865, he returned to Memphis with tin- intention
of going at once to Mobile, Alabama, to enter into bus
iness with Mr Weaver, ok Columbus, Mississippi.
Changing his plans, he wenl into the grocery and coll i iii
business with his father-in-law, Mr, K. M. Epperson,
at .Memphis, and remained with him up to June 1,
1885, and is now devoting his time to the management
ok tin' I nion Stock Yard ami Fertilizer Company, ol'
which company he is the largest stockholder.
Previous to the war, Maj, Rambaut was a Whig, and
twice voted against secession, hut went into the war in
defense of his adopted State, Since the war. he has
voted with the Democrats, but has never sought or held
political office.
lie has been actively connected with I he public inter
estS and public education in Memphis, and has served
as a m em her ol the city Scl I hoard for the past twelve
years, lie served a- president of the hoard for two
years, under tl hi system, and when the charter
was amended, in iss.'i. vacating all the offices, he was
one ok live commissioners appointed by the governor,
was elected bj them president, and served until dauu
arv . L884, w hen he was elected by the people, and again
made president, lie was re-elected a commisioner bj
the people in January, 1886, with the present taxing
district officers, for a term of four years, lie was a di-
rector in the Planters Insurance Company of Memphis,
from its organization till 1882. lie has keen president
ol the Mechanics' Building and Loan Association from
its organization, in 1877, to the present time He i oni
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Paris. Richard Rambaut, a merchant al Petersburg,
wciii to Baltimore to buy his flour, met the young and
beautiful widow at the house of a friend, also a French
emigre, and courted and married her. The mother
married again, a Captain La Touche, of the French
navy, whom she also met in Baltimore, at the house of
Madame LaMoricire, one of those unfortunate refugees
also. Thefamous French philosopher, the Duke DeLa-
Rochefoucald, was a direct ancestor. The early history
of the family is that of the " LaRoche" who founded
the town of LaRochelle, in France. It is relate. 1 of
the Due De Tout- LaRoche that he was considered the
must polite gentleman at the court of Louis XVI., and
that he walked on the scaffold with a rose-bud in his
button hole, for which he spent his last franc, and tak
ing his laced chapeau from his head, placed it under
his left arm and bowed with inimitable grace to his
executioner. This incident is related in an account
in Harper's Magazine of famous French aristocrats.
Maj. Rambaut's grandmother was the Countess Elize
Warrenne De LaRoche, and the Duchess LaRochefou-
eabl. at the time of her second marriage, but as all titles
had been done away with by the Revolution, she was
only called Mademoiselle and .Madame.
Maj. Rambaut's mother, Miss Jane Hammond, was
tlie dan-liter of Joel Leroy Hammond, who was born
in South Carolina, at Hammond's Mountain, and was
of the same family with Senator Hammond. He moved
to Petersburg Virginia, in earl] manhood, and was for
many years a merchant in that city, and held, for a long
time, an office in the civil service of the United States.
His wile (Maj. Rambaut's maternal grandmother) was
a Miss Durell, the daughter of Rebecca Douglas, the
only daughter of Sir Robert Douglas, of Tiddesdale,
Scotland. She was accustomed to wear the old Doug
las crest, and at the burial place of the family, in old
Blandford church, Petersburg, one of the tombs also
bears the crest of the Douglases. A picture of the old
family home is painted on a panel over the mantel in
the dining-room of the old Rambaut homestead in Pe-
tersburg
Maj. Rambaut began lite with nothing but bis talents
anil bis energy. He received no inheritance, but has
made wdiat he has by working for it. He is upright in
his transactions, looking well to bis reputation. He has
i'rK enemies. Ho is characterized by strength of deter-
mination and tenacity of purpose. When he under-
takes an enterprise be brines all bis energies to hear
upon it. His strong points are perseverance and the
power of concentration.
GEN. JOSEPH B. PALMER
MURFBEESB
THIS gentleman, distinguished as a lawyer, a po-
litical orator, a Confederate general, a Mason of
prominence, and a man of high-toned honor and fidelity
to principle in all the walks of life, appears in this vol-
ume as one of the best specimens of the native-born,
representative Tennessean. He first saw the light in
Rutherford county, Tennessee, November 1, 1825. His
father, Dr. W. II. Palmer, a native of Halifax county.
Virginia, came to Tennessee and married about the
year 1822, and settled in Rutherford county. His uncle,
Dr. Jeffrey Palmer, of Halifax county. Virginia, was a
man of considerable distinction as a physician and
scholar in his day, and died leaving an only daughter,
now residing in Richmond. Virginia, lien. Palmer's
grandfather, Moses Palmer, was a man of prominence
and ability in the "Old Dominion," and by his exer-
tions, and through his means, the thriving town of
Halifax Court-house was chiefly built.
The mother of Gen. Palmer was Miss Mildred Johns.
Her father was Joseph I>. Johns, a native of Halifax
county. \ irginia, who married in Virginia, and came to
Tennessee about the beginning of the present century.
He first settled near Nashville, but subsequently moved
to Rutherford county and became a large planter. He
died, leaving four sons and five daughters
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OROUGH.
Gen. Palmer's parents both died when he was very
young, leaving him their only surviving child, conse-
quently he was raised by bis grandfather. The mother
died first, and sliortK after the father went to the
Northwest country and look a prominent part in the
Black Hawk war, settling, at its (dose, in Illinois, where
he practiced medicine until the time of his death.
Thus left an orphan, he was brought up by his grand-
parents, on their farm, and was taught to do all the work
incidental to the life of a farmer's boy up to the aire of
seventeen, which was the means of inculcating habits
of industry, and laid the foundation of bis splendid
physical constitution. His educational advantages were
at first confined to the old field schools, which were
then so common in the country. < hi January 1, ls||
he entered Union I Fniversity at Murfreesborough, where
lie pursued bis studies more than two years. After
leaving the university, he was under the private
tutorage of Rev. Dr. Joseph Eaton for several
years. He then began life fin' himself as a school-
teacher, bis institution being located about four miles
west of Murfreesborough, where, for one year, he con-
ducted one of the largest and most successful schools
ever taught by any one man in Rutherford county, the
scdiool often reaching over one hundred pupils, lie
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studei tcred all over Ruth-
erford county, heads of families, and -till greatlv at-
illy and otherwise. After
this 1 \ - ,.h. in the
Hardy M. Burton, who died in IS52, United
Mil at the island of St. John. II
rat the March term of the circuit court
of Murfret - ?4S. by S iel Ander-
st circuit judges who ever pn -
h the exceptiou of the i
of the war. continued to practice- - -- illy, with a
full practice in all the courts up to this time. He has
always been fond id' hi.- . very stu
very attentive to the eaus -
In the si - rife which
of thi r. who had always
>t \Vhia .u man. and made
uiauj - • : Rutherford and a 1
he Union, and agains
to an. the difficulties of the country, maiu-
tainii - - e n m en t
implied a settlement by reason and diplomacy, and not
e. but when I ami Pr< • neolu
- nto the field to settle the difficulty, as
a melancholy tact he re that the Union was
n. and that there was no other ehanci
: the held. When this assurance
came, he unhesitatii - • - with the South, and
ce. first a company, and
then a regiment, of which he was in. I by unani-
mous vote. This was tl ith Tenn —
mentof infantry, a gallant bod; - rs, whieh
ward became - - guished for it- under
him. He continued to command the Eighteenth
till the sumii $64. when he was m
•ed in command of the b
by him. and. previous to that time.
commandi i C. Brown. After this
motion, there were added to his command the Fifty-
fourth an ? . \ _ -incuts, and the
_ ;ii and Sixtieth North Carolina regimeuts.
which nave him tin ; ., in the Confederate
army of T( -- H immaud of this
xh a part of what is known as the I'
and Atlanta campaign, and in Gen. Hood - am]
Tenuessee. in the fall of 1S04. and on down t
it ion of the Army of Teuness
K Johnston, at which time he was placi imand
ot all the Tenn, -- ■' I -■
the 6 - tinned till the date of the surrender
x \ , - "
1 till tin i
ing. After the surrender he marched all tl
I delivered them to their
homes the mouth of May. -
the ban',
and \ kners
army. February 16. 1S62. and was imprisoned in Fort
Warr X! ssachusetts. until a general
exchange of prisoners, which took place in September.
- - wheu he was re -eh mel of his old
ment. Ilewasacti'. - sred in the battles of Muf-
freesborough from December 28 - - January 1*.
- his home, and as the whole country
miliar to him from early boyhood, lien. B --
relied upon him very largely for information. On the
la-t day of the battle, he was in the celebrated fight
known as the Breckinridge charge, during which his
- was shot under him. and he was himself three
times wounded, though he n - leave the Held
till the fight was over. Though a colouel in rank at
the time, he was in command of a brigade in this tight.
most desperate battle : more than two thou-
sand men. including several field officers, being killed
and wounded in one brief hour. By the wound- re-
i at this battle he was disabled till the 12th ot
April toll, .win-, when he again took the field.
In the battle of Chickamauga. September 19, ' •
he wa- desperately wounded while leading a successful
charge against the enemy, on the first day of the fight,
a litt. - This wound was for a long time
- lered mortal, but from it he finally recovered.
leavii . .t shoulder badly injured and his right
arm partly paralyzed, which 1: • - .tinned thl
life. He rejoined his command on the 12th of July
% part in all the battles in front of
Atlanta, and the battle of Joni - gh, where he was
again slightly wounded. Alter this he. with his com-
mand, came into Middle Tennessee with (ten. Hood,
and in connection with lien. Forrest's cavalry. Hi-
re a conspicuous and gallant part in the
.. battle at Franklin, in November, after which he
_ inst the strongly fortified
town of Murfreesborough. 11 s engaged in a
heavy fight near Murfreesborough. December 7. 1S64, in
which tight the division of Gen. William B. Bate also
partietpated.
r the battles around Nashville, he retreated with
- mthward. I i VI -- ssippi,
•. Alabama, and thence by way o\' Augusta.
da. Columbia. South Carolina, into North Caro-
lina, where he took part in the battle oi' Bentonville.
uudei -ph K. Johnston, March 20, 1S65. In
thi- battle his brigade was made the directing column.
and drove the enemy before them, successfully leading
a charge of more than one mile, and carrying two
strongly fortified Hues. His brigade lost heavily, and
he himse' - in slightly wounded, but did not
the field. His ins jn tor-g • '• '.mil.
- killed at his side, and his horse was shot from
under him. Among others killed on this day were Col.
- - both of the Tw.enty-sixth
Tenn. ss - ment. Thus ends the military career of
Palmer, in which - him well
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says, he "made a record of which any man would have
a right i" be proud. In military affairs he was essen
dally a man of duly. He never got a furlough, never
missed a fi^ht or a drill, or any other camp duty, except
when actually shot away from his colors. He always
gave the strictest obedience to orders, and when he
received instructions from his commander, carried
them out, it' he could, not stopping to count up the
difficulties.
About the beginning of the war, one of (Jen. Palmer's
Whig friends met him on the public square, in Nash
ville, and observing his Confederate uniform, asked
him. "What dues this mean?'' "It means," said he,
"that I am doing my duty by going as my people are
going." His men would follow him anywhere, for the
hive which they bore their trusted and idolized com
niaiider. In Hood's Tennessee campaign, in November
and December, 1804. Gen. Palmer'smen, many of them
barefooted and half naked — some of them with old
blankets tied around their feet by way of shoes — fol-
lowed him as enthusiastically as ever, and when he
drew them up and made a speech to them, cold and
shivering and hungry as they were, they cheered him to
the echo, and bade him lead them forward once more
to face the guns of the enemj .
Gen. Palmer has been twice married. His first wife,
to whom he was married February 15, 1854, was Miss
Ophelia M. Burrus, daughter of Fayette Burrus, a farm-
er, of Rutherford county, who was socially highly con-
nected throughout Middle Tennessee, being related to
the Browns, Ilaskells and Readys, names so familiar
throughout the State. Mrs. Palmer's ther was Miss
Eliza Ready, daughter of the late Charles Ready, sr., of
Readyville. .Mrs. Palmer died in July. 1856, leaving
an only son, Horace E. Palmer, now the law partner of
his father, at Murfreesborough, an attorney of unusual
ability, and a gentleman worthy of his distinguished
sire. Mrs. Palmer was a graduate of Soule College, at
Murfreesborough, and was noted for her many accom
plishnients and for her great personal beauty, being
one of the most beautiful women that Tennessee has
ever produced.
The second marriage of Gen. Palmer, which took
place in June, 1869, was to Mrs. Margaret •). .Mason,
of Pulaski, Tennessee, a daughter of Andrew M, and
Mary T. Ballentine, of that place. The Ballentine
family is well known in Tennessee, and has produced
some distinguished men. One of Mrs. Palmer's broth-
ers, John <!. Ballentine is now a member of Congress
from the Seventh district of Tei ssee. A s< 1
brother. W. F. Ballentine, re]. resented Giles county in'
the Tennessee Legislature in 1882 and 1883. A third
brother, Ballentine. is a wealthy-merchant and
farmer, at Sardis, Mississippi; and a fourth, Andrew,
is a farmer, at Pulaski, Tennessee. Mrs, Palmer is a
graduate of Nashville Female Academy, under Dr. C.
1>. Elliott, and is well known in the social circles of
Nashville ami throughout Middle Tennessee, as a well-
read, highly accomplished and intellectual woman.
Cen, Palmer was made a Master Mason in Mount
Moriah Lodge.No. 18,al Murfreesborough, July, 1^17.
lie,-, mie a Royal A nil Mason in Pythagoras Chapter,
No, 23, in 1848; a Knight Templar in Nashville Com-
mandery, No. 1, in 1850; is a charter member of
M urfreesborough ( 'ommandery, No. 10 ; has I n Ma.*
ter of Lodge, High Priest, Eminent Commander of
Commandery, Grand Commander of Knights Templar,
in 1872, and is a charter member of Sinai Lodge of
Perfection, No, I. Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
I'm lore the war, (Jen. Palmer was a straight Whig,
and was opposed to the Know Nothing movement of
In- party, but remained in the party, and took an active
part in every presidential campaign from 1851 up to
and including I860, and made many speeches for the
Whig presidential candidates. In 1849, lie was elected to
the Legislature, from Rutherford county, on the Whig
ticket, with Dr. George D. Crosthwait as colleague, and
was re-elected in 1851, with Dr. John W . Richardson
as colleague, and remained in the Legislature till 1853,
four years in till. While in that body he was a mem-
ber of the committee on federal relations and the com-
mittee on ways and means. During the sessions that
(Jen. Palmer was in the Legislature, many important
measures were before that body, and much of the legis-
lation out of which has grown the subsequent debt
troubles of Tennessee, was done, (Jen. Palmer always
voted against issuing a large amount of bonds, and im-
posing ;1 large debt upon the | pie of his State.
(Jen. Palmer was mayor of Murfreesborough from
1855 to 1859, inclusive, serving four successive terms in
that office. Since the war. lie has been a Democrat.
zealous, faithful and unswerving, but uever a seeker of
office.
In 1845, lie joined the Methodist church, and has
been, to quote the words of a gentleman who has known
him well, "a most consistent Christian all his life.''
His first wife was a Methodist, while the present Mrs.
Palmer is a Presbyterian in faith.
In his business, as in military affairs, (Jen. Palmer
has always been a man of duty, of constant labor, and
of marked devotion to business in preference to pleas-
ure. Moreover, he is temperate in his habits, and it is
to these things that he owes his success, socially, finan-
cially, as a lawyer, and as a general. His object in life
has been usefulness to his country and love to his race.
and in these conscientious reflections of a well-spent life.
he finds ample compensation. His friendships arc linn
and lasting. \ man of soul, men love him for his ready
outflow of sympathy. His face gladdens when he meets
you. and his whole manner, while you are with him.
seems to say, " 1 am glad you ale here, and would like
to contribute to your happiness." \ wonderfully re-
tentive memory, he often recalls incidents of meetings
with friends many years before, which al one... reminds
riJOMlNFN"
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ilu'iii ho has not forgotten (hcni, ami hinds them i
with hooks of stool Uravo as si soldier, he
its a woman indisposition Modosi in tnatntor.
ill- publicity, and shrinks Ironi seeking those po
silions to which ho i- richl.\ entitled by reason of his
splendid abilities lit is a self made, sell' educated man
of the highest type, For a mail so gentle, so amiable,
and so peaceful in private life, ii amazed all his sol
.■ how utterly careless of himself he was in
battle, exposing himself on even field, and receiving
numerous won nds, which arc liis badges of an lion. li-
able and patriotic gallantry. 1 1 <• was a magnificent
soldier Tennessee bad none bis superioi II is a su
perb gentleman Tennessee has few his equal.
HON. WILLIAM M. SMI 111
urui'ins.
THIS well know nli-. . '.ii « .i~
'•! , \ Max s.
1830 In IS.'>1 In- father moved to Haywood county.
Tennessee, whore th re receiving his
education in the common schools ol the county and at
I, a(i>. - Uabama, graduating from thai in-
stitution in 18-18 Vfter leavin ■ ho returned to
Tenni n the study it Rrowii
with his brother, Thomas (i. Smith
the law court in Memphis, Ihiring the year 181!), lie
was engaged in liool in Haywood county,
Tennessee, In Septoniber. 1850, In' entered the law
and graduated in the summer ol'
1S51, in a class with Hot \ W Campbell, of .lai
dudge John A MeKiunoy, of Knoxville. dames II
... of Knoxville, Col, Edward I Hollada
\ hville, d ml W S Mi liomoro. of Franklin, Hon.
Atlia Thomas, ex State treasurer of Tennessee, and
other prominent men. He received hi- license from
dudge Nathan Croon, of the Supremo court, and
professor in Cumberland Cniversity. and Chancellor
Ridley, ol Murfreosborough, and began the pra
iif law in partnership with hi- brother, Thoit
Smith.
In IS53. he was elected to the I isl iture from I lay
county, and served one term, the colleague o\'
Hon. James K. Bailey, Hon. Henry I dudge
dame- Iv Cooke, now on the Supremo bench of Tonnes-
see, William .1. Sykos, Maj. tieorgi W Winchester,
Col John V \\>>n^ and others, since prominent in the
Stale.
llesmuing the praetieeof law at Ni wnsvillo, hi
tinned there until Is-! JO, when he was eleetod chancellor
t'.u- the division composed ol the counties of Henry.
Weakley. Obion, tlibson, Dyer, Haywood. Lauderdale.
Tipton and Fayette, and held the chancery courts of
those counties until they were suspended b> the war.
From W>7 to lsiio, he was attorney in Haywood county
1 e Memphis and Ohio, now the Memphis branch
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. After the
war he was State director in tin' sain. inning
in lSOti. He took no part in the war, though a 1'nion
man throughout.
Judge Smith was raised a Whig, and continued
up to the linn (he party broke up. hut did not appi
of the Know Nothing movement in hi- party, and never
that organization. When the Republican
party was S ate he joined it. and has
been a consistent Republican ever since.
In ISti-l, he wa- appointed by liov Viulrew Johnson
a- judge of the common law and chancery court of
Memphis, moved to that city in December of thai year,
ami continued a- chancellor until December, IStiO, v\ hen
signed. In ISttS, upon the resignation of Judge
II aw kin-, he wa- offered the position of Supreme ju
Inn declined. After hi- resignation he resumed tin-
law in Memphis, In 1S7-I, he formed a
partnership with Mr W V Collier, which lias con
tinned till the present time.
In 1S70, he was nominated for Supreme judge by the
Republican convention, but declined the nomination,
and in 1878, declined a nomination for chancellor. In
1880, he v 1 io the State senate from Shelby
county, and when the Legislature assembled, re,
the Republican nomination for speaker o\' the senate,
and also received the Republican vote for United State-
senator on several ballots. In ISSi!. he wa- the Repub-
lican nominee for Congress in the Tenth district.
Judge Smith was married. September 2S, IS53, to
M ,— .1 nlia 'fay lor, daughter of Edmund Taylor, of Fay
lunty, 'feline— ee. who was descended from a A'ir-
ginia family, which removed to West Tennessee and
settled in Haywood and Fayette counties. The family
wore noted for their honesty, modesty and piety f 0
this union have been born six children, four son- and
two daughters (\). Paul, born in 1851 : died at Mem
phis. February3, ISSl. He was a promising young law
yer, _' Edmund J., born in - Hum Macon,
born in February. lSlIO, died. July I. 1885; intelligent,
pure, and deeply lamented by a large circle of friends.
i Willie \ , born in 18 Julian, born in Oc-
tober, ISO-Land died at West Point, New York. Feb-
ruary '.'I. 1884, while a cadet at the United Stale- Mil
itary Academy. He wa- a young man of great promise.
Martha Augusta, born in duly. 1S67; died in
January. I8t>8
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357
Judge Smiih's father was Rev. James Smith a Moth
odisl preacher, who was one of the earliesl ettlei oi
Haywood county. His mother was Martha Macon, niece
of the Hon. Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, al
one time speaker of i lie lower hou i ol Congrc and
afterward president pro tetnpon of the enate a vei
able and disl inguished man
The following Prom the leading members of the VI em
phis bar is the best and true i estimate of Judge Smith
character, formed, as il wa by nun who knew him well
The extract is taken from a series of re olutions passed
I.' the lawyers of Memphis when hi n igned th< office
of chancellor in 1869: " The retirement of Judge VVil
liam M.Smith from the bench of the chancery court
of Memphis, I the termination of the relations thai
have so Ion <l pleasantly connected him with this
bar, present an oppoi tunitj to u •■ hich h e cheerfully
embrace, to declare thus publiclj oursense ofhis on rit
We ha i I now n J ad ;e Smit li during lii- prol
and arduous service as chancellor, discharging the
laborious and delicate duties oi office under a condi
ilon of things that tried his capacity, ti mper and integ-
rity; and thus knowing him we bear cheerful ti *timonj
that he has not failed In either of I he e high qualitii
Presiding in the most important chancery court in the
State, « ith a crowded docket lull of ca i pn ent ing
new and vexed quest ions gi ow in it of cii cum t:
incident to the late war. for the deci ion which he was
often wit bout precedent in history Ijudged casi to
guide liim. his position was both trying and re | ble
and if sometimes the soundness of hi I il conclusions
was questioned by the bar, yet if was not to the di pai
agement of his legal attainments, nor did the taint of
ii pii imi attach to the judicial integrity « hii h a
him to, or the conscientious conviction which iccom
panied the i conclusions. In the vindical i f hi
ad conscient iou ni a well a of lii- ability
and legal attainments wi cheerfullj pr c< Judge
Smit li ' ' I ellor, to have been eminent ly «iti I'm
tory, and we ubmil a the eiisc oi thi mi etiiij
follows : lie ii rv. ol \ cd i lial wi taki plei
pre ni" in Judgi Smith the .1 urancc of
high
regard, and in beai i ti/j ti 1 imoti to 1 he uniform pa
1 iencc 1 and ability 1 hat ha\ 1 eh at ac
terized hi in 11 a legal officer, and - tend to him a
cordial welcome to t he bar .1 - a brut hei hn ei
I n 1883, 1 he leading Rcpuhlii an of Mi n phi pre
pared a letter to President \ rl hur, .1 I ing him to
appoint Judge Smith to a place in hi cabinet uid thu
make him 1 he leadi 1 ol tl I Itepu bl
Thi l'i iii how - 1 he inti grit oi I il 1 . c and the
I iv with which he adheres to his principle a well
as 1 he high estimate in w Inch he 1 held bj his fi
citizen . 1 1 ays : " (Jive 1 it hern Republican
I. mi. 1 thai 1 1" c in follow '.'- 11 li honor and credit. Such
•1 reprc entativc uch a leader, h e beg Icavi ti m
mend in 1 he 1 f Hon. William M Smil 1 1 oi
the mosi distinguished native born citizens of the St iti
and "in of 1 he mo 1 I" al and de 10U d Republican in
the South. V 1 ei a poil n r a plai - hunter, but
always true to his conviction he allied himself to the
Republican party at the very hour of its birth; and
through all ii t ic I I lia I I
h by it, braving - cry criticism that is brought
upon bim and b; hi integi il and purity of chai
di 11 rnirig ho 1 ility and winning public coiifidi 1 1
Though unswerving in his |mliti<';il 1 i< tion md con-
duct even in the most hcati 11I his
hone it : in ha re m .rei I" en a tiled
and he commands the respect of c .vho knows
.1 udgc Smil li lii 1 1 - been 1 1 I md ret iring,
■ idenced bj 1 he number of timet hn has ■ !< 1
to be brought forward when party and friends wished
it, He i ' in1 niber of the Mel hodi I lipi copal church
South.
Til l> gent leman, who has long been
identified h il h 1 he educational inti re 1 of Ten-
tat. born in at Li banon, in Wilson countj , Ten
!, -I 1, 1 B3 1 He was the son of John l>.
Seobey, a native of the same county, whose father
Jami "1 1 imi to Ti am • • from North Cari
before Tenm - • id mitted to the I nion
settling al Station Camp Fort, in what is now Sumner
county.
Prof. Seobey 3 mother was Miss Sallh - I lugh-
Edward Sweatt, who moved to Tennessee from
North Carolina, in 1-_'l' Her fathci 1 prominent
PROF. JAMES E. SCOBEY.
Ml RFRL I 'BOROUGH.
ii'uiiiiiM nll.\
in in in \i»ri li I
the Legislatun ning to
Tennessee he became 'li tingui hed 1 ti cher and a
preacher. He \ >od man, of
broad scholarship.
Prof Sci ' andfather, on his mat
side, came from Ki indmother
from Ireland. 'I hi ttled in M
md moved from then to Norl b < larolina, '■■■ hence
the familj migrated to Ti Paternal anci
nil from I reland.
Prof Sci I brought up on a farm ai
I'KOMix |\
T\\ KSSK \NS
ai the tuaincd the
h tho
Pr. T, K Powell, a proli
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an honorable dis from the service, signed by
] I llowevi ■• ■ l1. . IS62, he
red the si a commissary, with the
itioncd at Cartorsvillo,
i- nearly - s for the
army. He remained in t In- service this time till near
Prof S V\ he war. and in ' S
late for tl it ure from Wil-
led to the war. and in t'a\
lie canvass on that issue, and
h a young man, an very able
\\ mi I. Martin and -1 Vbram Carnthers,
: a triumphant election until
l of affairs was changed by the battle vf
feated by a majority- of eighty-
\ « is found that the war was a fixed
ih the South. Since the war, he
' in polities, but when voting
■ ith the P
Vugusl 31,
M ss \ mghter of Maj -'.it - S
Wilson unty, and a
Her mother was Miss Waters,
county family, Mrs Scobey
ed under Mrs, Charlotte Fanning, at Frank -
\ luated there in
- s before her marriage. She
ss - 1 her
- in the time of their
-"_ - cvout member of the
-■> eet and amiable
and her chai v \ _>: 29
.on the mother of six children: vlV
i- in Paynes Institute. Mm
>\v a teacher iu Haynes Iusti-
1 hu K,
5). A '■'■
S Mas fraternity,
fit made a N - Mas ebanon, in 1S5&
if the Christian church since
Mrs. S - s ue church.
Vs .; m m, S has ieudliuess
; - him popular with all who know
\- s a success - Sue scholar
and 1 - nourishing schools with
f s is tl those who
lie has I hiiu-
i has
tendon. K - ,dy to
ineut. He has been
s-. and
Such a man. s»>
e - important, is worth
serves to be lion
PROMINENT TKNM'.ssi; ANS.
ifi
REV. .I()l IN BERRY McFERRIN, D. I).
7AI I IS remarkable man, w liosc name 1 n ■ 1 1 enecd
and beloved ii 1 1 1 of household ■ nol onlj
in Tennessee, bul througboul the length and breadth
of the country, is one of the bcsl and puresl types of
the native Tennessean ITe was born in Rutherford
oounty, June 15, 1807, Pic was n mosl extraordinarj
child, grew verj rapidly, and walked when onlj seven
months of age; was never sick :i day, never took ;i dose
up medicine, and never had n headache until after he
was eighteen.
I [e was placed in scl I at 1 he \ crj earl) ol Pour
years, and he has no recollection of the time when lie
oould nol read the alphabet, lie learned moderately
fast, and received a plain education in the English
branches only, al such country scl Is ai wi re then ae
cessible, supplemented by studious habits and sclf-cul
ture ai 1 ie
1
\ ai i' hi in 1 he living lie ha been 1 w ice honk agon I Ibi
the Method i 1 Kpiscopal id h Smith, serving in thai
capacity eighteen \ em « :iry of the board of
missions, for 1 he same church twclvi ■ 1 1 ha
been a inembei of the (cueral ennfereue il 11 l\
from I83(! to 188(5. lie 1 the author of Pho Hi tor;
nl VIethodism in Tonnes ec which has been printed
in throe volumes, octavo, of live hundred page 1 in h
and has mi -I with extensive sale 1 al 0 aiithoi of c\
oral publi hod er uimormis iiildre.' <e> and in in
contributions to the press of Te issee and other
States,
Accompanied by his daughter, Miss Kiltie Lou Me
Fcrrin (now Mr lloberl \\ Bryan) Dr. McFcrrin
wcnl as a delegate in 1 he Ken mimical Conference » huh
ini't in I, Ion I'iiigland in September, 1881 During
this tour, he visited and held servi in various
Ho joined the church al thirteen, and I' his early churches in Loudon, Dublin, Kdinburgh, Paris, and
days led a life of stricl morality and obcdiei Mis
habits have always been as regular as the measure of
well written music a time to rise a time to eat, and a
time i<> sleep, lie never committed a wr in tout ion
ally, never swore an oath, was never in a circus, never
witnessed a theatrical performance, and such was his
early moral training, and so thoroughly did his parents
impress upon him the value ami importance of truth
that, if he ever 1 < > 1 < I a lie, he has no recollection of it,
lie never received but one correction at school, and
but niie punishment from his parents, and thai was ad
ministered with a small twig, nol more than cighl incln
in length, [n after years, Dr. McFcrrin ruled his own
children b.\ the laws of love and kindness, and never
chastised them, cxcepl with a straw,
1 1 is early life wa - made up nl' 1 In- ordinary routii I'
farm work, following the plow, going in mill, driving
wagons, eie He first fell thai he was called in
preach ai tin- age of eighteen, and became a licensed
minister of the Methodisl Episcopal church, October
8, ISl!.">. Mr became .1 member of the Te ssee con
feronce, as a traveling preacher, in November, 1825,
ami preached his firsl sermon at Tusoumbia, Alabama
lie then traveled three circuits Franklin, Lawrence
ami Linii'-i ■ Alabama was two years am the
Indians, as a missionary; was. stationed al Muni '.ill
Alabama, al Pula.-ki. To SSee, and three limes al
Nashville; was presiding elder of the Florence Ala
b; 1 district, and nl' i he Cumberland di trict, in Ten
nessee; was editor of the Nashville Christian Ailvoc.ati
from 1840 in lsr>s. was missionary in th"c Confederate
army, and faithfully ac ipanied 1 In- Tennessee 1 roops
throughout the arduous campaigns and perilous trug
"Ii nl' tin- lati' war. adniini -hi ing In I he sick and
wounded, helping to Ian.. 1 In di .el, and pi . ai Inn al
New castle mi Tyne and wa 01 f the editors "I the
history of 1 he mccl ii f this con fcroncc,
Ho was earl j connected with the missionary ucietj
ami intcrc I'd in all ib moral inoveinentH of tho 'Pen
nessee conference and of hi church and wn onoofthe
prime movers in originating and building La Grangi
Coll in Alabama. The title of Doctor of Divinity
wi ('erred u| hinibythi collcgi in 1847, and by
Ii amliilph Macon 1 'nil \ irginia, 1 he ame yi ar I Ie
has In 1 1 1 11 general conference officer longer than any
man in the church, North or South, a period nl fort)
four years, lb' was never nominated for anj office in
which he wa nol elei ted 1 nil w .1 neve 'ed I'm'
In official conduct in m po il ion he has held, While
editor of the t 'hristinn I dvocnli; he, through the press.
entered into all 1 lie 1 heologica I conl ro\ or ii disc •■
the dogmas thai divide the dc dilations, ami c i"
cially 1 hose conflicl ing with In ow 11 crci d lb' ha •
made no departun 1 In- Methodi 1 creed 11 taughl hj
tho standard writers, and set forth in the l'i cipline.
he lioldi now, without any abatements or innovations.
But, as ho grows older, he become more catholic in
his feelings; nol less a Methodist, bul more philan
thropic, and 1 a, charitable toward other denoniino
I inns.
Personally, and in phj iipie. Dr, McFcrrin bcai' oul
the sturdy quality of hi.^ moral character, the sturdy
puritj of his piety, lie has a large frame, strongly
built, stands six feel in his I ts, and ha an avert
weigh I of two hundred and ton 1 nds. His features
are all pr incnl and pr meed era ■ projecting
brow - . oj c blue and pencl rating capa ble ol \ aried
expre I cmol inns, ami ici m in spi ak ami
emphn 1 to the languagi In ul tci < Capable of great
endurance, hard woi I. and elm 1 applii al ion In hi 11
PROMINENT TK\NI>- 1. \N>
liant. and ho has the appear-
all weathers,
have doubled his eapaeii
■
en temperament, he has the man
I. and
\ • .'.hi ha\ . ': tar and
a man \vl -
sueh '■ ssion, and whose manner - -
R
man . - the memory of the writer, and tl
. the uiir-
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lie in-
MeFerrin.
why his
In
N - thai he and Rev Dr A. L. P.
•
both.
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he ehureh. and und
S,"
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his friends - sition.
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\ is Dr. Mc-F M
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- make th<
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d man.
Dr MeFi rriu has ' - mar-
- v ..
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hn A.. J
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He i - x
\ . sent Mrs. M
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H e r si s t or . M ary M
P V \ -
and at one time a member of the Legislature from
.::;. . Ti -- Mrs MeFerrin wa-
red at the old Nashville Female Academy. -
eheerful. active, iudustrions home-loving woman, and
I the offices of wife, stepmother and
mother to her husband- perl - actiou. She is
the n three children- Kittie Lou. Mai
Dr MeFerri S ih .lane MeFerrin,
• lS4iJ i at Columbia. Ten-
1 married \ i? James
Anderson, from Vii ruierly a school teacher,
in Sumner count} Their
hn MeFerrin \
Nashville. s Douglass
Kv \ ■ ■ ■ Nl Mira. A
.nd Frank hild, James William M
Ferrii - urate
arm\ seventeen mded and captured
by tin - the battle of Nashville, i
eembi - - n at Camp Douglas,
near ( lose of the war He was for
house
'. \ rd. at Nas He married in
- S. Miss 1 ' N shville, and
- amer
I - s when it the An.
k in the < ' sville.
11 - April
The father met
-ham.Ala-
S SSI. The third hn A.
MeFerrin, was \J _ S4S - ted at
Nas - I with
ted license
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He m - M ss Martha Uiston. Ju
• re child: \ 'mini.
James \A»ston and Virs
it the
MeFerrin.
tuber.
- lie child- rin.
-
\ Lou McF . ember -I.
- - N - mar-
t TV Bryau, of the S -
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>l
MeFerrin,
ried. Juni
.' .11 \ -
Dr. MeF MeFerrin,
m Ireland
uuty.
Pem - - i
I volu-
C_Cc
hi « /!' ?/*-« t 77\
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361
tionary war. and was ai the batllc of King's M tain.
IK' died in Mississippi, more than ninety years of i
The Doctor's paternal grandmother was the daughter
of James Laughlin, whose fi 1} eame from Belfast,
1 1. I, i ml. His maternal grandmother was a Miss Camp
bell, of an extensive Virginia family,
The parents of Dr. McFerrin, James McFerrin and
JaneCampbell Berry, were born in \\ ashington county,
Virginia. Both families came from [reland more than
■ hundred and fifty years ago, 1 stopped in VTork
county, Pennsylvania, where the} separated, pari going
to Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the immediate
family coming to Kentucky and Tennessee. Dr. Mc
Ferrin's parents settled in Rutherford county, Tennes-
see, in 1804, jusl one year after the count} was organ-
ized.
The McFerrin family were originally Presbyterians,
but became Methodists in 1820. James McFerrin,
Dr. McFerrin's father, was with Gen. Jackson, in
the Creek war; was. for a number oi years, col 1 of
the Fifty-third Tennessee regiment ; became a Metho-
dist preacher, in 1821, and preached twenty years, tie
died in September, 1840, at the age of fifty-six, and « as
buried with Masonic honors. He left two daughters and
four sons, three of whom were Methodist preachers,
and four of his grandsons are now licensed ministers of
the Methodist Episcopal church, South. The family is
noted for its preachers, there having been thirteen in
the immediate family, all Methodists.
Dr. John l>. McFerrin is a double cousin to James
McFerrin Berry, whose son ex-Gov. Berry, of Arkan-
ai, is n iw one of the United States senators from that
State. He is also a double cousin to l>. II. Berry,whose
son, linn. ( '. P, Berry, is a member ol Conj n from
( lalifornia.
If the young men of to day. who read thi I raphy,
ask how Dr. McFerrin became a leader, and one ai g
i Ik grcal men of In- church, they may be an wered
I. He has lived a long time and usefully. -. He is en-
dowed by nature wii li a strong mind .'; 1 1 ■ i devoted
in doing ( i nd's work, and from thi consecration
In I- age. Truth and right, in all their power havi
taken I mid upon him. and lir i like John the Baptist, a
" voice; not proclaiming liimseli Inn giving utterance
to the truth thai has inspired him. I. He has followed
i i ill ami given all hi.-, powers iii tin- work of the
ministry. Asa pulpil orator, his success is largelj al
tributable in the facl that he knows humanity, h
rows and sufferings, its passions and prejudices, as the
musician knows the stop of the church organ. 5. And
lastly, lull In. I In lie lightl} ' n i med, una' it is also a
'j ifi of God, comes Ins physical powei and capability of
endurance, which have enabled him in work on un-
tiringly, where other men musi have faltered ami
suffered defeat. No man in Te issee has impre ed
himself more deeply and permanent!} upon the public
mind than John I!. McFerrin, because he is justly
regarded as a g I man. He is a profound thinker a
ready writer, a forcible preachcr,a man of faith, amus-
cular Christian, a first-class financier and business man.
as the general conference ha moi i rea on in know, from
his superb management of the publishing house. He
will go down as an historic character, eminent among
the mosl prominent Tennesseans of his time, and his
memory will be embalmed in the hearts of his people,
ami fui mi' general inn- will rise up and call him Id' ed.
GEN. MATT. MARTIN.
rri.i.MioMA.
THIS distinguished orator, soldier and patriot,
whose mother was a cousin of Henry Cla} of
Kentucky, and whose paternal grandmother, Betty
Marshall, was a cousin of Chief Justice Marshall, id'
the supreme court id' the United States, was born the
youngest of a family of thirteen, in Bedford county,
Tennessee, June 18, 1812 mi the same day that the
formal declaration of war was le against Great
Britain In Congress, which \\a- proclaimed by Presi
driii Madison mi the follow ing day.
lir was educated — partly at the Manual Labor
School at Princeton, Kentucky, and partly ai tin' Uni
versit} of Nashville, under President Philip Lindsle}
Ai the age of twent} three, he married weul to farming
in Bedford county, made money very fast, ami became,
for thus.' times, very wealthy. Hut having mi power t"
4>i
refuse a friend a favor, he went security tun liberally,
and, pei sequence,! h of his wealth took wings and
flew away. II'' became nol only eminent as a farmer,
hut was urn' of tin- IllOSl prnmi mail citizens in his
section, occupying a position so reputable that his
political party urged him repeatedl} to accepl a muni
nation l''<\- Congress when it was useless to run — he
being a Win-', and the congressional d I J
K. Polk's) overwhelmingly Dei sratic. Again, his
personal party friends urged him to announce himself
a candidate foi governor against Hon [sham G. Har-
ris bul t hie he also declined.
[n the meantime, he had devoted his leisure to the
study "I law, and having been licensed to practice, he
opened an office at Shelbyville, in 1851, and practiced
with much success until 1861; his great popularity as
PROMINENT TENNESSE W-
;tu or-.i if human nature, his adroit
uiaiuii
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war he 1 Manel i si r until ' ~77
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tinned to r< - ; his time mainly t
in Independence and I
counties. Arkansas. This - - -
of laud purchased by him
and on whieh are rich mi
-
Smith, thi V.rk it State -
tony years ago. Samples of l
\ f]
old teaehi - - - nineed the
ore very rich, ai - pupil to purchase. But
from the • 'it. who I
-
sale. It was I u. Martin, who
killed du
2 to my ears, said tl
I and adn - u the
•
led to his
lives
Martiu has - - _
man. While a tanner i.
\ . a; the fin-
in the State. ' - - he was
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s bridge was des
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Marti
Whei ■
• but with - savins
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States - part.
In .1u - died upon t.> command the
" V.rv - - ptain. but in a tew days
sition. he • ilonel
third Tenuessee volunteer infantry,
which fas s - I under t ien. l'a;
ut this time, the call of the militia
- - ited !■! allow his name t"
>t' the thi
ssee Stai s. His aus "In time
man should seek or
ik up his
name and triumphantly elected him their s ueral.
He was s;i!l at \ ;>-ky. in camp,
eonimandi \venty-thi ne of the
st disciplined regiments then in the
I - when il.'\ . Harris .11 on
him for one-half of his militia divisi - -
the draft. On re-
ceivii - in doubt as tn his exact duty.
. then performii a s - in the
army, he could not determine the
"any — whether be riulu I
;k in the
in the mil • - her rank. He consulted
with' --.ring htm that he was unde-
-
prom s his e i . that the cause was
thiug. the mau nothing;, and he would abide the
advie his s -
that, while un« his s he was tm-
. ve. and referred him t
He went to Gen. Hardee, who was unwilling
Ubert
Sidney Johus - - not a time
n. He v. .-. and
[resign his rank
in th ate army and a
cd him by the
andt; - - -
but it ha] me that the
- asm in his
- :e. and he found that the mi',
it his division had entered the arm; -
-that.
rtiu hast-
ruent and - - He
take part in the 1 of Shiloh and
-
e. in win M irtin
manded
M. Prentiss, who was
-
when
-
s the The limbs on th-
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363
out down by the cannonade, and were verj destructive
to the men. Gen. Martin was wounded in this part of
the battle in seven plan's. A 1 i ml > fell on him, doub
ling him up on his horse. His won mis were severe and
his sufferings extreme. The slope of tin* ravine was
very steep, but the Confederates made the descent into
the chasm, the banks being over one hundred feel high,
when Prentiss, holding liis positioi the cresl of the
ridge, delivered a plunging fire from his batteries on
their heads, which was very destructive and murderous.
Gen. Prentiss held his position with dogged bravery,
standing as firm as a rock, until subsequently, being
surrounded by a superior force, he had to surrender.
The following anecdote, published in the Detroit
free Press, illustrates so well, ami so truthfully, Gen.
Martin's conspicuous braverj on the field of Shiloh, il
seems very appropriate in this connection: "During
the battle of Shiloh, as the First Tennessee regiment
of Confederate infantry was advancing to attack, lying
on the edge of the battlefield, some of the boys say a
big, fat colonel, badly wounded. He proved to be the
gallant .Mexican and Confederate veteran, Col. Matt.
Martin, of the Twenty-third Tennessee. As the col
until came up on the double-quick, and. with a yell,
Col. Martin lifted his head and roared out in sten
torian tunes, 'give 'em goss, boys— that's right, my
brave First Tennessee -give 'em Hail Columbia!'
The regiment halted but a moment, and one of the
boys inquired, 'Colonel, where are you wounded?'
lie answered in a deep bass voice, .My sun, I am
wounded in the arm, in the leu. in the head, [in the
hoily. and in another place I have a delicacy iii men-
tioning; hut don't mind me; go ahead, give 'em tits!
And the truth of it is. he was wounded in seven places,
and. besides, a limb had fallen upon him, doubling
him up on his horse
In the subsequent struggle of the Confederacy, Gen.
Martin tilled various positions of honor and responsi
hility. Hi' remained with the Twenty third until after
tin' battle of Chickamauga, being called upon by the
men to command them, and thus he served with
'the hoys through the campaigns ill Tel ssee, Miss-
issippi, Alabama and Georgia. The remainder of the
time after Chickamauga, he was mostly with Gen. Clan
ton, upon Clanton's request. His bravery during the
war was recognized by Generals Cleburne and Har-
dee in the most complimentary terms. His conduct
throughout the struggle was reckless of danger — ex-
posing himself at the most dangerous points of the
conflict win-never necessity required. More particu-
larly, however. i~ Gen. Martin gratefully remembered
by the people, both for his bravery and for the prompt
ness wiih which he gave his name, his eloquence and
his commanding influence to the cause of the South.
Gen. Martin was first married in .Maury c t\.
Tennessee, September -t. 1835, to Miss Sarah Quincy
Williams, daughter of Hen. Samuel II. Williams, a
a large fanner, and a gentleman prominent in that
county as a sheriff, brigadier general of militia, and
member of the Legislature. Mrs, Martin's mother, m ■
Miss Ruth Davidson, was a relative ofGen. William
Davidson, of Mecklenburg county. North Carolina, an
intrepid officer of the American tinny, who lost his life
at the battle of Cow pons. South Carolina, and in whose
honor Davidson county, Tennessee, was named. Mrs.
Martin was one of eight sisters, all noted as ladies
id' great refinement and model housekeepers. She was
a Presbyterian, and a graduate ot the Nashville female
Academy, a remarkably fine mathematician and aci
plished in music. She died in 1 s."> I . having borne nine
children, four of whom are now living: (1). Barclay
Martin, married Miss Kate Fogleman, of Shelbyville,
and has three children, Barclay, Louie Queen, and
Johnnie. He is now living at Wichita Falls, Texas, a
lawyer. (2). Sarah Clay Martin, now wife of William
.1. Armstrong, of Maury county, has seven children.
Quincy, Matt., Mary Cordon. Maria Barclay. George,
William and Maury D. (3). Margaret F. Martin, now
wife of A UgUStUS F. Sow ell. of Maury county, has three
children, Jennie Pearl, Augustus, and Lizzie Martin.
(4). Marshall Abram Martin, now practicing law tit
Burnett. Texas; married Miss Emma Walker, daughter
of Thomas Walker: litis six children, Barclay. Thomas
Walker, Matt., Anna. E a J. and Armstead Fisher.
Gen. Martin has four great-grandchildren : Quincy
Armstrong, oldest daughter of William J. Armstrong,
married J. T. Cochran, and has three children, Wil-
liam, Thomas, and Matt .Martin. Mary Gordon Arm-
strong married Milton Bunch, and has one child, Hugh.
Gen. Martin's present wife was Miss Elizabeth D.
Martin, his second cousin, whom he married March .">.
1865, in Montgomery. Alabama. She was born in
Shelbyville. Tennessee, February 2, 1824, daughter of
Hon. Abram Martin, war tax collector of the Confed-
erate States for the State of Alabama, and for man\
years a circuit judge in that State. Her mother, .lane
Patton, Wits the daughter of Thomas and Jane I'atton,
both native I rish.
The Martin family is of Scotch Irish descent, as Gen.
.Martin's portrait, accompanying this sketch, plainly
shows in its Strong Scotch I rish I i ilea Incuts. II is grand
lather, Abram Martin, commanded a company under
Washington at Gen. Braddock's defeat. A short time
before the Revolution he moved from Virginia to
Edgefield district. South Carolina, and was killed h\
the Indians, in the State of Georgia, while with a sur-
veying party locating lands. He left his widow with
eight sons and daughter. All of these sons were
officers in the American army during the 1! tvolution
an war, except Man. Martin, the youngest, Gen. Mar
tin's father, w ho was ;l private, lien. Martin's oldest
uncle. William Martin, was a captain id' artillery, and
was killed at Augusta, Georgia. Barclay Martin was a
captain in a cavalry regiment, and afterwards becan
Mi
'ROMIXENT TEXNESSE VXS
a captain
II Martin
Martin will
md animation he recalls and
f his anc< -
and there may b ? an ex-
aud dauntless
i - name
•
ited with his own ;
• pity.
The Martin bl
tie at
-•a. in which t 'hi t. Wil
the l>riti>h ite to
Ninety-six. in S - their
eommandi r. \ rder
srrand-
fter
her - sked her
- Martin, and u - red in
the affim r that he had seen
- - :tt.
■he wished s -and sons
-
into tliu house, and - - in
.uniing that she was
-
_ht
ind her property
It is
but the anon: 5 position 1 uipelled
til OS
" W r-
• ed
-
■k him
witl
- ■
The personal - hiring $
isii.
a thrilling adventi n. Mar-
tin > dish
\
William Martin, who had
maiden
name was Miss V,
ur.
-
-
\ themselves
-
i if
the; • - ire.
promptly replied: " If you can't swear. 1 can.
killed m;> I. and d — n them. 1 can
them with all my heart."' Concealing 1
in an ambush near the way along which they knew the
itches must pass, they sprang
men rede up. pointed their
rdered them to surrender. They took
fficer and his escort pi ■ them,
icted their ca]
rtintown. to the house of their mother-in-
Mrs Hetty Martin. Geu. Martin's grandmother.
Id holy twitted the officer that he and his orderly
Why.
madau e. "they atta - - suddenly we
had no time to defend ours - The wicki
■uthful soldiers were s<> determined and pit
1 am coutideut they would have run us through or shot
red the least r< - There-
. ly turned to her daughters-in-law and
- what ar - with your
They replied : t to have killed
them at first, but now we know not what to do with
them, unli -- mfiue them as - rs in the
swamps m. x il the war is sugs
that -they ' ■ !. which i the
lie! Martin, beiug tl an officer,
. ibout the paroling of prisoners,
put them under oral obligation not to fight any more
during the war. and tect the women
hildren wherever they went, and not rob them of
the necessaries I begg for the dis-
it the ladies kept them, and had them de-
i. Nathaniel Greene, and the
r and fuller iuformati
- - it's " \\ omen ^l' the Revolu-
Martius father. Matt. Martin, the youngest of
the eight broil. - - tu in Ch tnty. Vir-
!? mth Carolina, but went back to
da, and married after the Revoluti V- r this.
_",mization S ;th Carolina militia.
he was captain of an artillery company. He
several years, theu moved
itity, Kentucky, remained two years, and
then, with his brotl ; Martin, settled in
what i- now B nuty, Teni -- shortly after
-, and Klk river purchase was made from the
that count I r 16, 1S46, in his
He was a man noted for firm
(•at ; and - tment
in lift - • h that he had the unbounded confidence
audi- he whole community, and great influ-
hureh affairs, though not
mion. 11 - sed to
candidate for any trust, though he
-
Barclay Martiu. Geu. Martin's uncle, after his
I'KO.MINKNT TEXXKSSE WS
365
settlement in Bedford county, was a member of the
Tennessee Legislature for that county. He was a very
popular man, and of high character. He died child-
less, and now lies buried alongside of his wife, Rachel,
and Gen. Martin's father and mother, Matt, and Sally
Martin, in the family graveyard on the old homestead
ii) Gen. .Martin's father, in Bedford county.
Gen. Martin's mother, originally Miss Sally Clay.
sister of Rachel Clay before mentioned, was born in
Charlotte county, Virginia, da null tor oi Henry Clay,
"the tobacco maker." He became very wealthy, and
emigrated to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he
died. As before stated, she was a cousin of Henry Clay,
the great Whig Orator and statesman, and it is through
his mother and paternal grandmother, Marshall, that
Gen. Martin has inherited the oratorial power for which
he has been so long distinguished in Tennessee. Gen.
.Martin's maternal grandmother was Miss Rachel Puvall,
a Virginia lady. Gen, Martin's mother was a member
of the Baptist church, and a lady noted for great
energy and industry ami tine common sense. She died
at the age of seventy-nine, having borne thirteen chil-
dren— four sons and nine daughters.
Of Gen. Martin's brothers and sisters, it may he said :
Barclay Martin was a member of the Tennessee house
of representatives and of the senate, and also a mem-
ber of congress from that State
.Miss Lucy G. Martin married Theodrick Bradford,
who represented the Bedford county district in the
Tennessee senate lor many years, in the early history id'
I he State.
1 1 is sister, Miss Rachel I'. .Martin, married Hon. John
Tillman, a member of the Legislature from Bedford
county for many years. She was the mother of Hon.
Lewis Tillman. M. C. and Judge B. M. Tillman, chan-
cellor. Her grandson (son of Lewis Tillman). Col.
Samuel Tillman, is now a distinguished professor in
West Point Military Academy. Another grandson, Col.
.lames I). Tillman, was a colonel in the Confederate
army; afterwards represented Lincoln county in the
lower house, and Lincoln and Franklin counties in
the Siate senate. Another grandson, George Newton
Tillman, is now United States marshal for .Middle Ten-
nessee, and a lawyer who, perhaps, has no superior of
his age in the State.
Gen, .Martin's oldest sister, .Miss Polly Marshall .Mar-
tin, married her cousin. John Marshall, a gentleman
of high standing and culture. Their son. Rev. Matt.
Martin Marshall, is a noted Presbyterian clergyman
and revivalist. His son, also named Matt. Martin
Marshall, is a prominent lawyer at Dyersburg, Tennes-
see. A grandson of Rev. M. M. .Marshall. Matt. -Mar-
shall Xcill. is a rising lawyer of much promise at Tren-
ton, Tennessee.
< ren. Martin's sisters. Rebecca Martin and Betty Mar-
shall Martin, married brothers, both farmers. Rebecca
married Thomas 15. Mosely, and Betty M., married
Edward \ Moselj both gentlemen of respectability
and wealth, lien. Mart ins sist cr. Mat-tie Bedford Mar-
tin, married Samuel It. Rucker, a lawyer of distinction,
who was formerly in the State senate from Rutherford
county. Gen. Martin's seventh sister, Sally Clay Mar-
tin, married Col. John L. Neill. a lieutenant under
.la civ son. lie was captured by the British on the even-
ing of their landing below New Orleans, in the night
attack made by Jackson uj them. He was a popular
man. and at one time sheriff of Bedford county.
Many members of the Martin family have been prom-
inent. William I*. Martin (Gen. Martin's cousin), was
a member of Conuross. and afterwards judge of the
South Carolina supreme court. A Li am Martin was a
circuit judge in Alabama. Edward Martin was a mem-
ber of the South Carolina Legislature, and a very suc-
cessful planter in Beaufort district oi that State. These
were the sons of Gen. John Martin, oi South Carolina,
one of the eight patriot brothers. Two of Gen. John
Martin's daughters married gentlemen of prominence.
The youngest, Sarah, was the wife of governor and
United States senator. Fitzpatrick, of Alabama. The
eldest, Susan, married Dixon II. Lewis, United States
senator from Alabama. John A. Elmore (Gen. Mar-
tin's cousin), was an eminent lawyer at Montgomery,
Alabama. His repuation was such that the supreme
judgeship of the State was repeatedly tendered him, hut
he uniformly declined it. The county of Elmore, in
Alabama, was named for him.
By way of anecdote, it might be related here that prior
to the war Gen. Martin's brother, Barclay, had a wide
reputation as a Democratic speaker, and the General
himself as a Whig orator. Frequently Barclay would
have appointments in various parts of the State, and
the Whigs would send for Matt, to answer him, and in
like manner Barclay was often sent for to answer Matt.,
hut neither would accept the invitation, so high was
their mutual brotherly regard. They differed politi-
cally till the war came up: since that they are one in
politics, as always in brotherly love, family pride is a
characteristic of tin' entire family, and their adherence
to each other has never been equalled outside of the
elans of Scotland.
After the war, ( leu. Martin returned home ami advised
everybody to abide by the result or leave the country,
as he was anxious to see the Union brought hack to
the standard id' the fathers. He refused to take a fee,
either from a rebel or a federal soldier, when arrayed
against each other for injuries done during the war. on
the ground that such suits would reopen wounds that
should he given time to heal. In this way he did a
great public service.
Gen. Martin is a man distinguished, not alone for
personal courage and public spiritedness, hut for firm-
ness of character and line social qualities. He is a
true man. Inn- to his friends, true to principle, and
true to his Stati — an honorable, hightoned, high-
aw:
I'Ki >M in I'M TENNESSE VNS.
minded, r. li n. .1 sontloin 11 it favorite in soi'isil flow Hois a man of largo build, frank and outspoken,
reus »nli anecdote, wit ai m the unmistakable lines
Though lii'livo man, his repartee, of an honest man. a man of pusli and nerve and sin-
wlien attacked, i- si I withering. Ilissympa eerily, In appearance lie resembles Gen. Roberl K.
dly excited, and, when defend I i So striking is the likeness that it is frequently al-
l rem ulous with emotion, and often his tears luded to,
,1. Ill" NY W ST
V I in 1
THIS distinguished gentleman is presented in these
mental, moral and pliys-
;,..,] :in height, eoinp let build, lai
(•,..,„ il and sex enty li\ e pounds :
ir brow n ndiaut
wit li into', nd with a serene, eolleeted appoar-
flio sees hi- way before him, ami lias
lijs ,i or suttet dot} niaj
demand. The impression lie make- on one seeing him
- i man of posit i
,,.,■ i ion he ha- made for him-
,1,,. N N ehair whieh he has
a- editor of the /■'
eminent pi
iln- Primitive Baptist ehureli. Hi- loeation in *
ville was : Br. dohn
\1 Watson, wl iii- own end approaohii
' i, mi- I'.n- his sueeessor inehar.se of the
in that eity. V iolding to hi- -
lieu-, he settled there in March, IStiT. and by a very
i name anions the standard men ,'f
the State, and acquired a comfortable fortune.
Of the menial nuke up of Prof Stephens, a tail
male max be formed from I
ll he made te ':
of 1 ■ " Vnot
'fhe mainspring of all individual growth and visor, tin-
all difficulties in t!
iletermina
your own helper, 'fhe men who have won distim
in the mat
the intellectual lirniament the stars that shine with
steadx radiance through th medical literature.
from tlte chilling depl
on. 'f hey are men of humble pa
luitl'eted t! lie and worked out theii
irdor that could not be quenched,
save upon the i.
and thi \ i all. a deep and burning
enthu- om
'line."
Tin-. milar niomorahle utterances in the
EPIIEXS. M. IV
ll, nude a deep impression, and were much talked
of in Nashville. They tell from the lips of a nun who
had himself experienced what ii i-. ami how it pays, to
w it li the rough roll and tumble of
practical life.
Dr. Stephens, undoubtedly, o\x - much of hi- solidity
of character to hi- parentage, ami much ^\' hi- -i
io a judicious marriage. He was born in Marshall
county. Tennessee February 5, 1836, and as his name.
Bunyaii. indicates, of liaptist parents. His father,
Jeremiah Stevens, a native also of the same
county, and now venty years old. is a liaptist
minister, a fanner in moderate circumstances, a son of
.lame- and France- Stephens, originally from North
Carolina. His mother was linn line E/.ell, daughter of
II lulauni Iv/.ell, an old Baptist minister of emi-
nence, also i^' North Carolina -took. Thus the I1
i- ai once tin- son and srandson of Baptist preachers.
'fhe Primitive Baptist people are proverbial for their
stability of character. There is less of volatility among
them than among the Scotch themselves, [n Tennes-
- elsewhere, tiny are noted for their loyalty to
their creed and church; lor honesty in their commer-
cial tran-a lions, and tor being the only people whose
will admit it- bearer into any communion xvhat-
Their ministry and baptism are almost turner-
I Cl" heard a story
about town that on at least two occasions Dr. Stephens,
not long after settlins in Nashville, applied to a
in the eity to cash drafts from Gen. xnderson
Gordon, of Arkansas, upon a Memphis house. The
broker declined, as he knew neither Stephen-. Gordon,
nor the Memphis firm. The Doctor brought in a jew-
eler, who vouched for him. "Well, but.'' -aid the
"1 don't know Gordon, nor those Memphis
people either." " Neither do 1." replied Dr. Stephens.
"but 1 know (hat Gen. I - an old Baptist of
high standing in .Vrkaus - he case,"
inter] eweler. " I'll vouch for Cordon and I'll
vouch for that Memphis hows fash the draft,
and it' it comes back to you dishonored, brine it to me,
and I'll pay it." The Hector sot the money. After this
tin applied to the same man for accommodation.
The broker humorously replied. " Well. 1 suppose it
PROMINENT TENNKSSK \\s.
3C7
was predestinated I V< im the Foundation of the world
i li.ii I should lei .m>i{ Ili \ e ii ' and he did,
The writer is nol trying to picture a rough man. Dr,
Stephens has the happy faculty of refusing without n
repulsive air, but even a book agent knows from the
tone of voice with which he declines, the discussion is
closed.
\ i a meeting of preachers of several denominal
in a merchant's store in Nashville, Dr. McFerrin,
Methodist, pointing to Dr. Stephens, said : " Ami licre
i Dr Stephens, who belongs to a church thai always
pay their debts; I never knew one of them in Tail.
" Yes," said the merchant, " I never losl u ccnl l>.\ one
of them in my life." Dr. McFerrin then inquired,
" llnw aliniii 3 own people? "Why, the merchant
responded, " I hey have broken me up I hree i inn
Dr. Stephens' mother died when he was only four
years old, leaving tin diildreu, himself, James I'
ami Joseph Iv.ilir latter now also an old Baptist
preacher, and all three practicing physicians.
In boyl il Dr. Stephens received only a limited
education, and the learning he has was acquired since
he became his own man. He was a moral boy, having
a father and stepmother who knew how to "train a
child in the way he should go." From early childh I
he inclined to be a physician, anothei proof of n vain
able truth, thai wl ver would succeed in life must lii
himself for some particular line of business that is
suited to liis natural bent. Like many successful men,
Dr. Stephens had no collegiate education, yet his repu
tation forboth literary I scientific attainment i vcrj
high. At ili s of eighteen, he began reading medi
cine under Dr. Edward Swenson, at Chapel Hill. Ten-
nessee, tie attended two courses of lectures in 1856 7,
ami received his diploma in I867,and lias been practic
ing medicine in Nashville ever since. Ho began to
read medicine with onlj one half dollar in his pocket,
and in debl sixteen dollars. With some assistance from
his uncle. George W. Ezell, he made his way through.
In L875, he was elected first to lill the chair of theory
ami practice of medicine in the medical department of
the Nashville Medical College (now University of Ten-
nessee), but soon after became professor of obstetrics, a
position which he still ably fills. In addition to his
professorship, and large private practice, he has been
for fourteen years physician in the small pox hospital,
at Nashville, by election of the county court.
In 1862, Dr. Stepens became a Master Mason, hut
dimitted in 1868. He has also been connected with the
Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor, and the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. He is a Democrat,
I ' i Stephens married, in Marshall county, Tennc ee
August 28, 1856, .Miss Amelia L. Ferguson, who was
born November I. L835, daughter of John Fleming Per
lmisoii. a farmer and a magistrate in his di trict for
many years. Her grandfather, John Fleming Fergu on
was of Scotch descent, a native of North Carolina. Her
gr [mother was of Irish stock. Her mother was
Amelia I ■ 1 1 1 1 ■ . 1 1 di Im r of Josi ph Britten, originally
from North Carolina, ol English descent. Mrs. Steph-
ens has a I English ed ilea I ion and the I'eputati f
he possessed of evul'j '-'race I hat adorn- a lady. She
is a woman of great limitless and decision of character
ami I mil e and is noted Idr her unerring judgment
of human mil ure.
I!\ In- marriage with Miss Ferguson, Dr. Stephen
has two children : (1). Jeremiah Fane Stephens, born
June 15, 1857; graduated in medicine in 1876, and in
deiitisin in 1877, and is now practicing dentistry in
Nashville, and has already made a sterling reputation,
lie man led In .\ash\ille, September 5, 1878, Miss
Willie Mallory, daughter of William Mallory, of Nad.
ville. (2). Ophelia Elizabeth Stephens, born June 30,
I860; graduated at the high school at Nashville; mar
1 1 1 • I March, 1881 , Robert \| I Kidlej a merchant of
the firm of Dudley Bros. A; Lipscomb, of Na hvillo,
and has one child, Bunyan Stephens, horn February
•_'. 1882.
I>r. Stephens was baptized into the ( lid Bapl i t
el h iii October, 1854; began preaching In 1850, and
was pastor oh Mount 01 i vol church, in Lincoln county
from I860 to 1866, when he took chat if the church
ai Nashville, of which he is still pastor, In. some re
speets he is in advance of his church in mallei of
faith, lie believes in the renovation oi (he earth and
the personal i e'u f Christ on earth, which w ill he I he
Kingd spoken of in the Bible, lie believes in the
resurrcctii f the bodj and the actual existence of
soul and body on the earth alter resurrection. The
first resurrection he holds i- from among the dead-
thai is, the resurrection of the saints and no others.
" The rest of the dead," he understands, will live not
again until tl no thousand years are ended. More
succinctly stated, he believi in the personal return of
Christ to t his earth, at which time will occur the resur-
rection of the saints, and thai thereafter the earth will
he the home of i he Redeemer and His n deemed ■-.
Mi Stephen i also a Primitive Baptist, I in full
harmony with her husband, though her parents were
attached! i denomination. To lill at once the diffi
cull and delicate position of wife to a man who is both
physician and preacher, is an h ■ equalled onl\ by
thai oiler honor she has achieved -of raising up chil-
dren w ho have always been obedient and court is In
(heir parents; n n i form]} respectful to their authority
and deferential to their superior experience and wisdom
Dr, Stephens' motto has been to live a Christian life,
to live at t he head of lii profess ion i medicine I and to
die the death of the righteous. Honest dealings, an
energetic, earnest life, account For hi II
never had a note to goto protest, and has mad.- it a rule
to In punctual to meet his promises, and he says, with
laudable pride, uo man has ever suffered to the amounl
of U dollar on his account
I'ROMINKN l I I \M SSK W-
U ■ I l.l.l \M l SHEL'PARD, D. D.S
I "Ml I
II I'liclii' M
|<| "II I I
1
I hi-
lio would
1 1, had
illy, Sally,
rk i li.it tlit'
III' I III' illlll'i II. Tin
lures, Inii
liililren or L'raudchildren have
I idle (ami-
S ubtful
? with
in lands, and liy ti
\ ' i made of li
The
iilv lull in n 111:111 w ho hi
1 Idier and
build, and
■ .1 in
1 1
■
in:in
- tl |i| I) 11 the
i- U>\ invK 1 I:
l'i " indiiiothi
1 i
ehild iliink> the wisest |>hil
She v
m prnhahl
Vrkan I Nl
Tennessee, and elsew here t If In
Dr. Sheppai
the > nine children, died in Columbia, it the
: forth ( 1, .iii.l
grew up in Warren anil Williauisoi
II ; •
he had live ehildri both, « li"
married Mr W
M i ,lo) ee an 1 J — phine, \\ I. M
l!> In- second » M M
SI
l-I.Y he had three children (1 William (.'Hi
sketch, horn in Columbia, Teiin
iher I. I' nil. 1. 1. ili.il tl
Thomas Whitl il ur child 1 1
i I'.iniu.i
months old I h -
ous impulses, and ii
with his in \\ ial, ijualil
lit ...it lb.
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hrm reached common schools at intervals till I on, when
tli. ny three years lie was the founder and he was a|>|>rentieeil i" .. m furniture, in
i which business In ished himself hy such si
which hi riorit,\ and excellence of workmanship, thai before the
II. him? in business lie married expiration of his he was in
-■■■I rapidly, and tin II remained in the furniture busiiiesN until tl
his married lit it after thai twenty two, when he began tin
linn ;i him, and he wen) on from the stud) of which In had eon
He was for some vioiis II I , in
time .i merchant, and was i I I till the time of his mat
lure of Mich was president of 1841 lie praeti Ill in Frankfort and tl
the town ! ■ tehanan. I. Kentui k>.
Dr. Ko.ss brother, William li II In WIT. In removed to Nashville, win ttled,
M •' minister, preaching in <>lii.. and and has with tin i
Indiana, bin livin the time, al Newport, ception of the time bel d June,
Kentuck II lost his life in attempting to stop a 1850, which he spent in Uuntsville, Alabama I
run II ,1 - 1 1 , I,, u is I. the llgC of twi
and • S levoted .ill his to thai
business in Cineiun pursuit II. has now been |
II < next brothet I) II I. Koss hum ;,M.l i> the oldest practitioner of dentistry in
wasaphysician.pl S Kentucky, mid Nashvill ly in the Stat< II
me held tl I tin \ the dental department of the Vanderbill I i
nal. under the 1'uiti - iimenl i lof the original faculty, bavin. ted with
II - child of the family I 'r \\ II M in rhos
born in 1SIK) ; married, in 1.821, Kdward Noble md others, in tin . ntal
farmer, and died in 182.") Vfter her death Mi Noble departmi I II • t that time prol
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i the right groiu, and was again li
this wound he was
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ler down, is a silent but eloquent reminder
that he has • • uutry. and is entitled
to tl. - rave man. cool and intrepid, doing
ity with unflinching -
M Mr; i- a tall, trim-made, handsome man,
1 with an ■ i that pn
- iiis military history. H I the army
that pride that characterized
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and man!;. a men who
them chivalry, and many of whom now
- -here the flag of the South I
Ho si rved in T --a
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, part in the battles of Laurel Bridge. October, 1S61 ;
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Wild Cat; Pishing Creek, January 19, L862; Shiloh
April (I and 7. 1862; around Corinth, in 1862; Vicks
burg, 1862; Baton Rouge, 1862; Murfreesborough , De-
cember 31, 1862, and January 1 and 2, 1863; Hoover's
G-ap, in the spring of 1863; Bethpage Uriiliro, June.
1863; Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863 ; Kocky-
faee Gap, Resaca, Dallas, Pine mountain, Kennesaw
mountain, Peach Tree creek, and in the various skir-
mishes before Atlanta, lie surrendered at Marion,
Alabama, .May 17, 1865. His regimenl wenl out nine
hundred and ninety-eight men strong, was recruited to
one thousand three hundred, but surrendered with
only thirty-four. His company, which numbered, first
and last, one hundred and fifty three, surrendered with
seven men. For a fuller account of Dr. McMurray's
military career, see "History of Davidson County,"
pages 457-8-9.
Up to the time of the war, Dr. McMurray had only
received the limited educational advantages of a country
school, his father having died when the son was only
twelve years old. After the war, he studied one year
and a half in the academy at Nolensville, under Prof.
Joseph D. Didiot, of Paris, France, and graduated in
1SG7, having the honor of delivering the valedictory
address. He next read medicine two years under Drs.
William Clark and Thomas G. Shannon, and then
attended two courses of lectures in the medical depart-
ment of the University of Nashville, graduating Feb-
ruary 26, 1869, under Profs. William K. Howling. Paul
F. live, Thomas L. Maddin, T. B. Buchanan, J. Ber-
rien Lindsley, Van S. Lindsleyand W. T. Briggs. lie
also had the honor of the unanimons vote of his class
for valedictorian.
After graduation. Dr. McMurray began practice three
miles south of Nashville, but on January 1. 1872,
moved into the city, as from the effects of his wounds
In was unable to endure the fatigue of saddle practice.
In 1S72. he was elected jail physician for the county of
Davidson, and appointed physician to all the Supreme
court prisoners held for trial in the .Middle distrii I of
Tennessee, and kept that position eight years through
successive appointments and elections. During the first
thirteen years of his practice, he only lost twelve days
from his professional business. He was at one time a
member of the city hoard of health ; at one time ( 1876)
a member of the board of aldermen, and is now vice-
president of the Nashville Medical Society, and is a
member of the Tennessee State Medical Society. He
is the author of the historical sketch of the Twentieth
Tennessee Confederate regiment, in Dr. J. 1!. Lindsley 's
Military Annals of Tennessee, 1 is at this writing the
efficient chairman of the Democratic executive com-
mittee of Davidson county.
Financially, Dr. McMurray has made a fine success.
He started in life in 1869, with two hundred and fifty
dollars less than nothing, and is now thought to be worth
forty thousand dollars, liaised by a mother who always
taught him to guard well his credit, he has acted upon
her a 1 advice, and has made it a rule when he earned
a dollar to have something to lay by of that dollar, i. e.,
never allow his expenditures to overrun his income.
Five cardinal points in life he has always tried to work
to: first, competency ; second, strict attention to bus-
iness; third, frugality ; fourth, integrity and preservation
of character; fifth, hope in the midst of direst defeat.
On this line he has fought the battle of life. He has
been heard to say, with filial gratitude, that he owes
these principles to his mother, and. with a gallant pride,
to his wife for her tine judgement, whom he has uni-
formly consulted on the propriety of business invest-
ment— like Lord Brougham, who uttered the memora-
ble words, " Were I about to embark in some important
enterprise my first step would he to consult a sensible
woman." Dr. McMurray is fortunate in having ■ of
those sensible women for a wife.
Dr. McMurray's great grandfather, of Scotch- 1 1 Mi
stock, was one of the early settlers of Kentucky. His
great-grandmother was a Miss Kinkade, whose father
was Irish and her mother Welsh. In 17110. thej settled
near Nashville, where the great-grandfather was killed
by the Indians, in 1792. His sec 1 son. Samuel McMur-
ray, married Levicy Morton, and had eight children, the
eldest of whom, John McMurray, by his marriage with
Miss Mary J. Still, became the father of seven children •.
(1). Sarah A. McMurray, died in 1863. (2). Samuel
.1. McMurray, was sergeant-major of the Twenty-fourth
Tennessee Confederate regiment, and was killed at the
battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, at the age of
twenty-four. (.'!). William J. McMurray, subject of
this sketch. (4). Liny Ellen McMurray, wife of Wil-
liam Smith, a farmer near Trenton, Tennessee. (5).
John 11. McMurray, graduated in pharmacy at Nash-
ville; now a druggist in that city; married Miss Mary
Morton, a daughter of George Morton, a Williamson
county farmer of high standing and wealth. (6). Joel
A. McMurray. died in 1856. (7). Thomas M. McMur-
ray, now a practicing physician at Nolensville, Tennes-
see; married MissSallie King, daughter of David King,
who fell at Dr. McMurray's side, at the battle of Chick-
amauga.
The McMurray family has had many participants ill
every war in which the United States have been en-
gaged, from the Revolutionary struggle down to the
recent strife between the States. In the latter they
fought exclusively on the Southern side. Of five of
Dr. McMurray's brothers and cousins, two were slain
outright on the Held, and the other three disabled for
life. A cousin. Col. Sam. McMurray. is now in com-
mand of all the Texas Slate troops.
Dr. McMurray's mother, also of Irish descent, was
born iieai- Danville, Virginia, hut from the age of nine
months, grew up in Williamson county, Tennessee,
where she married and reared her family. She is now
living at Nashville, experiencing a mother's highest am-
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bition- tin gratitude "I a son whose early trainii
so n Lsel\ planned, and which has made of him a su
Her i Stills, are mostly in Virginia.
Dr MeMurrays uncle. Mr. Thomas M. McMurray,
helor, in 1SG4, at Spring Hill. Maury county,
where he had practiced twenty years
had the reputation of being a most excellent physician,
and tlu neatest man in hi* dress in his county.
Dr. McMurraj married in Davidson county. Oi
22. 1872, Miss Fannie .May MeCampbell, who was born
in Nashville, November — . 1854, but w m her
father's farm near the Hermitage. Sin- is the daughter
Hon. Thomas MeCampbell. who. when quite
was a State senator from the Knoxville J ■ She
is paternally desei in the MeCampbells and
An : gal
talent they have given r. Mrs. McMurra\ -
mother, was a Miss1 of Thomas Cow-
N - ille, who, in early life,
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M - M M . is I; h i ' Qui iduated
fron seminary. Nashville, in 1871. By his mar-
ge with this lady. Dr. McMurray has one child: i 1 i.
Addie Mortou McMurray, born June 550. 18
Mrs. McMurray i- sin on her fatl
to the lai John Trimble: a paternal eousiu
to the wife of Gi S 8. Bn ivn, and a second cousin
of Judge Frank T. Reid, of the Davidson county cir-
cuit court. Her brother, John MeCampbell, is a clerk
in tin i the Louisville and Nashville railroad
'iv. Her Miss M irv Lou MeCampbell.
the wife of Kdward Gaines, a hardware mer-
chant, at Nashville. Her brotl I mas and Arthur
mpbell. an- farmers in ' ' tnty. She
also has a - *s N'annie MeCampbell, living
with her. Her aunt. Mary MeCampbell, died the wife
of Enoch Kiislc.v. a wealthy merchant and planter in
Mississippi ami West TennesseCi hut who resided at
Na-h\ ille.
In polities, Dr. McMurray is a strict Democrat,
though his father and uncles were Whigs. In 1S69, he
I ' I Fellow. Dr. McMurray and his wife
are Methodists, but in religion a* in other matters
eepting only politii - ndent
thinker, tolerant of the opinion- of others. 11- is
■ liiuker, a philosophi r, a determined man.
2 faith in the ultimate issue, and of -olid
character. Whoever and whatever the MeMurrays have
been, the name of the brave young Confederate lieu-
tenant, thi if this biography, will doul
mtinue to be mentioned with pride by the family
- members.
JAMES D. PLUNK ET, M. I>.
SASnVJLLE.
THIS gentleman, now in the meridian of life, ap-
pears i'.. not only as a prominent
Tenuessean, but - st widely known rep-
resentatives of the 11! - Til
il appearance he is tall and somewhat slender,
but of strong build, and well titled for the activities
of ah::- U
and the look of a man of system, promptness and pru-
lli< manners are frank and easy, without
lion, yet his character is bold and essentially
ssive.
He was horn in Williamson county. T -- ■. of
wealthy parentage, and received his primary education
under private tutors and at academic sch three
from 1854, In was a clerk in the wholesale dry
\\ Co., at Nashville, and
rear with D'Arman & Co., commission mer-
chants. New ( Means.
In the fall of 1850, he study of medicine
in the offii \ -I Mayfield. at Nashville.
In Willi, le- went to Philadelphia, where he became the
privat Dl Jos oh Leidy. pr
anatomy, and entered the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated,
in 1S63, taking his degree under Profs. Wood. Jackson,
. Agnew, Hoi--- and Henry II. Smith. During
: - -• y in Philadelphia he spent the summers a- an
interne in the city hospitals.
On his return home 1: 1 the invitation of
M ' -liter into the medical service
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duty - |y in the I Frank A. 11 ispital,
: Knoxville, and afterward at Cassville. Georgia,
and then " in the field " with the Fortieth Georgia regi-
ment of infantry, Gen. Stovall'.- brigade, and lastly with
the Fifty second Georgia regiment, in the same brigade,
lb served until the close of the war. when he began
practice, in May. 1S65, at Nashville.
He is entitled to the honor of having first agitated
and taking a leading part in the establishment of the
Nashville Board of Health, of which, from its organi-
zation. June 1. 1S66, to the tine it ceased to exist, in
tary and president.
In 1873, in view o\' a threatened epidemic of Asiatic
cholera, which soon afterward burst in all its fury upon
ilii- community, the mayor of Nashville appointed a
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sanitary commission, composed of seven leading medical
practitioners of the city, and of this commission l>i\
Plunket was made president. In May, 1874, the Boardof
Health was reorganized and Dr. Plunkel again made
president. In June, 1876, he was elected city health
officer, but declined the position. In 1879, he retired
IV the Board oi Health, his private practice taking
up ;ill his time. At his instance the Stair Medical As-
sociation petitioned the Legislature to establish the
State Board of Health. In March. 1877, the bill for thai
purpose passed, and Gov. .lames IV Porter, after ap-
pointing Dr. Plunket as a member of that board, asked
him to name the other four physicians of skill and ex"
perience, regular graduates of medicine, and who had
been engaged in practice not less than ten years," as the
law required, and he would commission them, which
was accordingly dune. The board, as first organized,
was composed of Drs. T. A. Atchison and .1, M, Sal'
ford, oi Middle Tennessee. K. M. Wiuhi.nl East Ten-
nessee, and It. B. Maury, of West Tennessee; and Dr.
Plunket was elected president, and served as such four
consecutive years, till May, 1880, when he resigned, as
before, on account of the steadily increasing duties of
his private practice. As president of the State Board
of Health, he, in 1879, had the city oi Memphis quaran-
tined, ( -count of an epidemic of yellow fever devel
oping there, a measure that met with vehement oppo-
sition from traders, and the local press in their interests
but public opinion finally endorsed his action, as it re-
sulted in confining the pestilence to the city limits, and
applauded the courage of an official, who, for the safety
of the public health, did his duty at the cost of being
hung and burnt in effigy by the rabble in the streets of
Memphis.
Upon the motion of Dr. Plunket, then president of
the State Board of Health, there was assembled for
conference, at Memphis. .1 nne 30, L879, represental i\ es
from the several hoards of health in the Mississippi
valley, in which eighteen States were represented. The
convention resolved itself into a permanent organization
as the Sanitary Council id' the Mississippi Valley, and
Dr. Plunket was chosen president, lie is a member
ol the American Public Health Association, and has
been twice elected a member of its executive commit-
tee He is a member oi the American Association for
the Advancement ol Science, and in L878, was chairman
of the committei meteorology. He is a member of
the American Medical Association, and of the Medical
Society of the State of Tennessee, of which latter body
he was, from 1865 to 1875, the permanent secretary, and
for sixteen years its treasurer. He is a member of the
Davidson County Medical Society, and id' the Nashville
Medical Society, [n 1868, he was elected to the chair
of surgical anatomy in the medical department ofOum
berland University. In 1870, he was elected president
of the city council of Nashville.
To the medical journals of the country he has eon
tributed a lai number of interesting and valuable
papers, notably at e: them, one on" Disinfecti I
Sewers by Oz ," "Cotton as a Foinite," " Vital Sta
tistlCS in Tennessee,'' " Bovine Tuberculosis ; a bruit
I ii 1 Source .d' Human Disease and Death," and "Oz
and n- Relation to the Public Health. He is regarded
as one of the foremost authorities In the Soutl sani
itary mat ters.
Of I rish parentage, his character is naturally persist
cut and self- assertive. In the "lliston of Davidson
County," from which the editor has culled most of the
foregoing facts, it appears that on the paternal side, he
is descended from bind Plunket of Queen's counsel in
the trial of Hubert I'bnmet, in 1805, and that In the
collateral branches of his ancestral family have been
priests and bishops of the Catholic church in Ireland
1 1 is mot her, net Miss Anna Smyth, was a well rounded
character; possessed of many noble womanly attributes,
and a mental strength and range of culture seldom
found. She died in her sixty second year, upon He
eember 7, 1S77. She. as also all his maternal ancestors,
were Scotch Irish Presbyterians. The Magee Colli
at Derry, Ireland, was endowed by his great aunt.
Magee. One of his near relatives a Plunkel is a
member of the present British I'arli cut.
Dr. Plunket s father. James Plunket. was a native of
Edgeworthstown, county Longford, Ireland, and a grad-
uate of Trinity College, Dublin. lie was a man of
superb education and skilled In scientific mechanics-
Coming to this country, he was, for many years, a manu-
facturer of cotton mill machinery at Paterson, New
Jersey, whence he moved in Dayton, Ohio, lived there
four years, and finally settled at Franklin, Tennessee,
where he took charge of and finally became a leading
member of the firm that owned the large cotton mill
and mercantile establishment connected with it at that
place, He was a Well read n had a line memory of
names, dates and authorities, and did business on the
old time principle t hat honesty is the best policy. In
religion he was a Roman Catholic. He died January
31, 1 sT 4 , at the age of sixty eight. His brother, Judge
Joseph Plunkel, resides at St. Maries. Ohio.
Dr. Plunket married, in Danville, Kentucky, Novem-
ber 19, 1872, Miss Jennie E. Swope, a native of thai
place daughter of Col- John B. Swope, who died .June
28, 1 SSI, i men ft he standard men ol Kentucky,.! scholar
and a retired merchant. Her mother, nee Miss Fannie
Hunton, of a Virginia family originally, was a. sister of
Mrs. Judge Fox, of Danville, of Judge Logan Hunton,
ofSt. Louis, and Col. Thomas II. Hunton, of New Or
leans. Mrs. Plunket's brother, Col. Thomas II. Swope,
is a capitalist at Kansas City, Missouri. Her brother,
i 0. Swope. is a large stock farmer near I ndepend
ence, Missouri, and her brother, John Swope. is a
stock raiser at Midway. Woodford c ty, Kentucky,
llei- sister, nee Miss Margaret Swope, is now tic wife of
William M. Fleming, a farmer of Maun county. Ten
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the Trenton, Tennessee, Southern Standard. From
there he went to Hickman, Kentucky, and edited the
Times. In 1858, he edited the Dyersburg, Tennessee,
Recorder in conjunction with F. G. Samson, a lawyer
and clerk and master of the chancery court. He then
crossed over the river and founded the Warren Sun
at Warren, Arkansas, and was engaged in thai
occupation until the breaking out of the war. He
then laid aside the "shooting stick " and took up the
"shooting iron," enlisting as a private in the Ninth
Arkansas Confederate infantrj regiment, under Col.
John M. Bradley. Upon the expiration of his term of
enlistment, he returned to Nashville and became city
editor of the Daily Press for six months. He left
Tennessee on account of the war troubles, and went to
New York where, for several months, he was employed
as proof-reader. Alter this he returned to Memphis,
was city editor of the Daily Bulletin, and at the same
time edited the Play Bill, a theatrical sheet, devoted
to fashion, gossip, societj on dits, etc. We next find
him at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as editor of the Dispatch,
and then he returned to Dyersburg, in October, 1865
and established Neafs Stat< Gazette, with which he
has had unbroken connection, as editor and proprietor,
e\ er since.
So far this sketch reads like the record of a newspaper
man. given to roaming and without li.xed aim in life.
This usually tails to the lot of the Bohemian, who, like
the migratory bee, sips honey on the wing, and goes on
and on in his happy pursuit of sweeter flowers; hut the
truth is. Col. Xeal has heen remarkably devoted to one
line of thought and action, and lor a newspaper man
has developed tine Staying power, having remained a
fixture at Dyersburg more than twenty years, and made
a name as the most successful country newspaper man
in Te jssee. lie has tilled every position in a print-
ing office, from roller-hoy to the editor s chair, and, as a
consequence, the S/at< Gazette is not only one of the
best weeklies in the State, hut from it* foundation has
been a financial success.
In ante-bellum times, Col. Xeal was a Henry Clay
Whig, hut post-bellum has heen a Democrat, yet with a
considerable dash of independence, lie founded the
State Gazette during Brownlow's administration in Ten-
nessee, when it took some nerve to edit a Democratic
newspaper in this State. In the meantime, the people
of his town, county and district have called him to
occupy various positions id' honor and trust. He has
been mayor of Dyersburg two years, president id' the
Dyersburg Town Board of Education, president of the
Dyer County Fair Association, secretary of the Sunday-
school (though not a member of anj church), and, as
an evidence of his popularity among the younger
"hoys." president of the Dyersburg Base Ball Club.
lie is an Entered Apprentice Mason, an ( Md Fel-
low, and a Knight of Honor. In L883, he was elected
Dictator of the Knights of Honor, at Dyersburg,
and i- mm Grand Assistant Dictator of the Grand
Lodge of that order for the State. In 1882, In
elected president of the Dyersburg Building and I
Association, lie has also been president of the Ten
uessce Press Association, and no annual meeting or
annual jaunt across the country " is complete without
the presence of " handsome Tom Ncal." In 1877,hcwas
elected to the Tennessee Legislature from Dyer county
bj the largest majority ever received by anybody in that
county. In 1884, he was nominated by acclamation, in
the convention at LTuion City, as the Democratic can
date for joint representative of Dyer, Lake and Obion
counties, in the forty-fourth General Assembly of
Teunessee, and was triumphantly elected, having re
ceived the largest majority of any Democratic member
of that body. In that Legislature he was appropriately
made chairman of the commit! n public printing,
being the onlj editor in that body. He has heen a
delegate from Dyer countj to every Democratic State
convention held at Nashville since the war. and was
alternate delegate for the State at large to the national
Democratic i vention at Chicago that nominated
Cleveland and Hendricks. As a speaker, he is earnest
and forcible, with considerable of the brilliancy of the
finished orator. Thoroughly posted in Stale and na-
tional politics and appreciative of the wants and feel-
in- of the people; painstaking, yet quick and persever
ing in all his undertakings, he may be regarded as eon
servative and liberal, yet firm and unyielding in his
positions on questions of right. Honest and sincere,
especially in taking the weak side early, which after
ward became the strong side, gave the | pie confi-
dence in him, and hence his large majorities. He has
frequently been on the right side in his judgment, even
against popular judgment, and has at times succeeded
in producing a revulsion of sentiment in his constitu-
ency, thus showing that his first opinions were correct.
He began life without patrin y. and without capi-
tal, save his brain and brawn. He now owns valuable
real estate in Dyersburg, a farm in Dyer county, and is
in very comfortable circumstances. Liberal in spirit I
energetic bj nature, he has never regarded stinginess as
an element of success. He is not a close collector, has
lost some money by going security, but he never ap
pears overanxious about debts due him. He thinks
kindness will collect a deft from a certain class of peo
pie more promptly than "dunning," or otherwise press
ing his claims. Hence, he frequently gets his money,
and at the same time extends his friendship and his
popularity. His object and de-ire is to live pleasantly
and to make those around him pleasant, without vault
ing ambition for either riches or honor. His home at
Dyersburg is an ideal one. as all who have enjoyed its
generous hospitality will testily.
Col. Neal ha- been twice married: first, at Dyers-
burg, December, 1859, to Miss Fannie Benton, daugh
ter of Dr. Aimer Benton, of Dyersburg, a promi
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physician, at one time State senator froni that
end of tile State, and a near kinsman of the celebrated
United St: r, Hon Thomas 11. Benton, of Mis
souri. Her mother, now living at Dyersburg, at the age
of fifty seven, was originally Miss Maty Ann Wardlow,
bter of Joseph Wardlow, a very wealthy farmer,
uderdale county, Tennessee Mr-. Seal was edu-
at Brownsville, Tennessee, Female College, ami
was a pure, good woman, noted for her sense of right
and justice and conscientious disch Inn. She
was a Methodist from early girlh 1. She died it
at the age of thirty-nine, bavin- borne two children:
1 Ella Neal, born in Nashville ; finished I
tion at Greenwood Seminary, mar I, el. anon. 1
under Mrs. N Lawrence Lin Isli . is an exceptionally
fine vocalist, and a ealous Methodist - Lillian
\ ;!. born in Dyersburg; now in school.
Col. N .nl next married in Saudgate, Vermout, June
1."). 1SS1, Mi— Al 11 ■■•:. if William and
r llovt. Her father is a farmer. Her mother
comes of a literary family. Mrs. Xeal i- a meml
thi L'resbyteriau church, ami an accomplished per-
former on both the piano ami organ. She graduated
with honor from the Fort Edward Institute, New York.
ami is of line literary attainments.
\>al is a very attractive gentleman, personally,
ami was voted "the handsomest ami most polished
member" of the Legislature of 1SSJ 5 Courtly in bis
manners, refilled in his tastes, with the air of a king,
yet the dash of a cavalier, yon know when he looks
yon in the face ami gives you his band you are taking
the hand of a loyal-hearted gentleman. He is of me-
dium height, " live feet, eight ami three-quarter inches,
by Confederate measure,' and weighs one hundred and
sixty pouuds. His hair, moustache ami imperial, lib-
erally sprinkled with iron -gray, give to him a nameless
aii' of srrai I illantry. Benignity of disposition,
sincerity of conviction, impulsive generosity, yet mod-
est) of mein — these are written in indelible lines upon
Ltnres. for a kindlier nature it were difficult to
find. His carei >r, legislator and business man
has been built up by industry, fidelity and ability, ami
this is why he has attached to himself whole troops of
friends.
Mil. JOHN MrLEOD KEATING.
MEMrms.
Till', scholarly gentleman whose name beads this
sketch, ami whose position i- in the front rank of
the ablest and most refined and polished American
nalists. is a native of Ireland, a - of Scotch-Irish
stoek. He was born in Ireland. Kings county, June
L2. 1S30, grew up and was educated in Scotland until
bis ninth year, and afterward in Dublin. \\ :'.
of thirteen he was apprenticed to the printer's trade,
entered the office of the Dublin World, and at the
eml of five years reached the highest position-
man of the office — when only eighteen years of age. 11
was also an amanuensis to the editor-in-chief He was
-Millions and very rapid in acquiring the dextrous
facilities of a printer, a knowledge of newspaper work
—composition, press work. etc.
[n 1846, he became a member of the Young Ireland
Club, of which John B. Dillon was president. After the
wed in 1S48. he emigrated to America.
and settled at New York, where he resided until De-
cember, 1854. In New York lie was foreman
illustrated weekly paper, known as the New
- •.reman, six months, of the /.
a noted political newspaper.
is residence iu New York city, of nearly
eight served six years and three months in the
New York State militia, more than two years of that
time iu the famous Seventh regiment. He was induced
to this service in the hope that by completing seven
service, he would be exempt from certain duties
itizeu, and would thus be free to prosecute his
labors and purposes in bis profession.
But on account of ill health, he went to New Orleans
December, 1854. There he worked for a short time
in the printing business, then went to Baton Rouge,
ami thence to Nashville, where, as foreman of the com-
a room, he helped to open the Methodist BookCon-
cern, now known as the Methodist Publishing B
ly after, he re-turned to Baton Rouge and became
superintendent ..('State printing, a position he held two
years. In 1S56. he returned to Nashville and married,
and went back to B R a In IS")", he returned
to Nashville for the third time, and became managing
editor of the Daily V -. of which Allen A. Hall
was the editor-in-chief. The next year, 1858. he went
t.. Memphis, was employed as commercial and city
editor of the Bulletin, and that city has been bis home
e\ er since.
He remained with the Bulletin until the commence-
ment of hostilities, when he was employed as a clerk,
and aeted for a short while as private secretary on the
staff i - Polk, and was with that com-
mander from the beginning of the war until October,
1S61, when he was taken ill with a serious attaek of
typhoid fever, which confined him to his Led four
months and incapacitated him for military duty of any
kind, as per report of Dr. Joseph Newnan. Partially
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recovering his health, he engaged with the Southern
Express company, as money clerk, and so continued
until the capture of Memphis by the Federal army.
After that event he was employed as city editor of the
Argus, the only Democratic paperthen published there,
and known as the " secesh organ," with which lie re-
mained until tlic cli isc nl' i he war. He then established
the Daily Commercial, which existed for over one year,
when it was merged in the Argus and was published
some months as the Commercial and Argus.
Mr. Keating spent the winter of 1867 8 in Washing-
ton in confidential relations with President Andrew
.liiliiisi.n. ami returning to Memphis in August, 1868,
purchased Gen, Albert Pike's interest in the Memphis
.!/</»"/, with which journal he has 1 n identified ever
since. Three linns lie gave up journalism, as he sup-
posed, never to ret urn to it , because its money remuner-
ation did not enable him to do what he desired for a
young and growing family. He went into the cotton
and grocery business, at which he did well, but was
compelled to give it up by the Federal authorities in
L863. He was, as has already been stated, in the ex-
press business, and also gave up a lucrative insurance
business life, fire and marine to return to his first
love, and take charge of the Appeal, in 1868, as manag
ing editor.
When Mr. Keating landed in this country, in 1848
he became a student of the politics of the eountrj oi
which he determined to become a citizen, and thus was
persuaded into bei iIhl' a Democrat, as he a an
humble disciple of Jefferson and of Calhoun. He did
not believe in slavery, but in settling in the South, as a
law-abiding man, had nothing to say ; though he would
have had, as all who know him admit, if ever the eman
cipation of the negro bad becomean open question. He
was opposed tn war. but believing in the right of seces-
sion, early espoused the cause "I the South as one that
he believed to be the logical result of a long train of
events, beginning before the Revolution and gathering
strength with everj cycle after. Earnestly and heartily
and manfully he wrote for the people with whose for-
tunes he lias been so intimately identified for more than
a quarter of a century. He held his allegiance to the
Confederacy sacred until it went down forever, and then
turned to the work of guiding the hapless, helpless and
hopeless people out of their individual and their na-
tional distresses. Believing in individual liberty, he
readily adapted himself to the changed situation and
urged the acceptance of the inevitable, the rehabilitation
of the country, and the restorati d the old sold ins to
their places as citizens, and of the States to the Union,
Negro emancipation being the great and lasting and most
tangible result of the war he believed in the education
of the freedmen as necessary to their comprehension
of the duties devolving upon them as citizens. He did
not oppose nor did he regret their being t le citizens.
They could not be otherwise, being free. Tin- decision
of Judge Gaston, of North Carolina, on the right ol
I I and free, which I arly met with in his studies,
made a lasting impression upon him, and has been his
guide ever si ma', where citizen hip was concerned, He
has always, therefore been an ardent and unc promis-
ing friend of the negro, as he ha? been the champion of
the rights of women to the same freedom as is enjoyed
bymen to labor and participate in the affairs of gov-
ernment . to vote ami hold office and help in all t he
affairs of Stale, lie was one of the editors who met
in Nashville, in 1869, in the Banner office, to concert
measures for the restorati f the Stale to the people
and for the enfranchi ement of the ex Confederate ol
diers and citizens, lie helped to scenic the adoption
of the present constitution adopted in 1870 and sua
i. inn d Gov. John C. Brown's administration with
something like enthusiasm. He was an advocate of the
financial policy of that statesman, and was an uncom
promising advocate for the payment of the State debt,
proving by the incontestible figures furnished by the
census of 1860 and of 1870, and subsequently by i hat of
1880, the ability ol the State to meet all its obligations.
The failure to do this he regards asagrave mistake,
and one thai will recoil upon tbe people and give them
trouble. During the reconstruction period he v
in the .1/'//'"/ a relent less war upon t lie carpel I.; |
in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, where his paper
circulated, and has ever regarded those repressive and
oppressive measures as the greatest of all the many
curses entailed l>y the civil war. I lis advocacy of ma nil
factures; of diversity of pursuits of good turnpikes as
,i necessity to facilitate inter -county traffic: ol' common
scl Is, ami tbe utmost stretch of freedom in opposition
to all class restrictions and legislation, and the dogmatic
bigotrj of sects, is known far and wide, lie believes,
as he says, that the less government has to do with the
people, tl reater their advance; that, thrown upon
themselves, there is a direct appeal made to the indi-
vidual conscience, and each man is more or less upon
In- good behavior. The progress ol' tin- United States,
as compared with anj of the nations ol' Europe in the
last one hundred years, proves the correctness of his
position. He says that no man can rise above himself,
and thus In- cannot be freer than nature made him.
Hence, the diversity and division- among men. He
loves America, and believes in American methods, in
social as in political life, as inc parabbj superior to
those of European countries. ' >f the history of Tcnnes
sec he has been a close student, and he loves to
strengthen his defense of the common people, among
n bom he count - bimseli bj pointing to the heroic self
sacrifices of the fathers and founders of the State and
the uperb legacy they have left their sons in their
-a! lination to a self-elected government, when the
first colonj was but a puling infant, surrounded by In-
dian- t hirst ing for its annihilation He is proud of his
citizenship and position in a State, the founders of which
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and ni iiiprehension of the po\\ -
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amen I -h ai « ill.
In 1874, Mr. Keating weut.bj special invitation from
son Davis, as his friend and com-
panion, on a tri] H icky mountains through Mis-
souri, Kansas aud Colorado, a trip during which Mr.
.. through the reserve he had imposed upon
hiuiselt after the war. and
on agriculture. Mr. Davis counts Mr. Keating among
stanch friends, though not a partisan one: that he
could not In' with any man. He sees and admits the
I points of all public men. lowanee for
their surroundings, tin >cial conm
tions. and tl. -- li ty of their judgments
warped aud sometii red. He was thus enabl
to be. and ei ■ nd of President An-
drew -: ' as tlie antipodes in ma
of Mr. Pi Senator Ishamti. Harris, whom he
manly and
truth the public men id' the country : a fear-
right ami l'elie\ ing him-
self to In', pusl ■ the conclusion, res; d -- il
Mr. Keating, a positive character hiiu-
' men with definite aims, and has
always traetod to them, holding the other -on
in contempt.
Mr. Keal - married, in Y - i uess
Sati. by the Rev. Dr. Edgar, of the First
yterian church, t.> Miss Josephine Essehnan
Smith, daughter of Mr. John Smith, a native of Penn-
sylvania. ] his mother- side, to the N
fauiih \ istown, Pennsylvania. Mrs. K
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stitute, in r Smith, when - 1 with
a diploma that sis scholarship which -he has al-
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notwithstanding her abs
mother and i ? "lie faithful
friend, companion and counselor of her husband: ha-
led all his ambitions for success and distinction
in hi> py • with him in all
the channels of culture and eulth
the most accomplished women in the State. In music,
is tli - , pianiste and harpist, and ex-
it a knowledge K'i' French history ate!
Handsome oi face and form, and dignified in e;
'.1 who know her tor her w
md brilliancy - md for
her - writer. S
d for her c sense— and her
in little thin::-. She was
herself with sil -
of her husband and
children, a -on. N K
and a dai I line Morton Keating \.
with her husband that their children should he taught
to work at what they were best fitted for. Mrs. Keatingi
i ral years, resided in New York, and there
intended the studies ^\' the daughter as a pian-
iste in preparation for an artiste's career, and of the
son. who i- now in Pari-, whence he went from the
Art Student'.- League School, of New York, where.
last \ear. In- « ! by Prof. Dewing, tin'
president of the school, to be the leading and best
pupil, hi- work being regarded as equal to the best im-
ported French work. Doth the children of Mr. Keat-
ing have a promising career before them.
Mr. Keating traces hi- lineage back to the first of his
name, llali- Keating, who landed with FitzStephens in
Ireland, in 1169, one among the first of the Norman
invaders, who. a- he says, had once been murdering
and plundering the people of that unfortunate coun-
try. Dr. '.! Seating, who was the first historian
of Ireland alter the "Four M and who wrote
much id many religious work-, was of the
same family, the origin o\' which is thus traced by the
late Michael I' i John O'Mahouey's transla-
tion *■{ Keating's " History of Ireland. " According
to the tradit ions of the family, adopted ami. so to -peak.
'I Heraldry in Ireland, the
founder of the housi - lal name is now un-
■ !' the pioneers of the Norman invader-,
who kindled the beacon tire that lit the way of
iito the Puan-au-Bhainbh. The s
i- he lay by his watch-fire, a wild boar, chancing
iwl that way. was proceeding to attack him. until
frightened b\ the sparkling of the tire, when he tied
in dismay. The watcher, thus providentially -
ted tbr his crest a wild boar rampant rushing
through a brake, with the motto. - ltdelis, and
not told how. Keating or Ket-
froni the Irish —first tire.'' Iu
all his lite in Tennessee, Mr. Keating ha- been true to
this li - tously noted, in 1S7S, for
md fidelity. The Keal - 1 through
maii\ iu Ireland during the civil wars
aud r> !,iit furnished many distinguished priests
to the Catholic church in Ireland: general officers in
the British army: a great many judges to the Eng-
lish and Irish bench, and several diplomatic i -
notable among them Pol. Keating, who. after twenty-
four years at the court of Persia, wrote a history of
that country that is yet highly valued as a standard.
Another colonel of the same name, wrote a compeudi-
tistory of India, tren. Keating, who commanded
the expedition that captured the MauritUS, and was af-
terward governor of that island, was a distinguished
military and civil servant o\' Great Britain. In this
country the Keating- of Philadelphia. New Orleans and
ted themselves in the
i of engineering and medicine, - ispieu-
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of Philadelphia, traveled with Gen. (Irani t In h
tndia, and on his return home published his impress
tons of the tour. The branch of the Keating family to
which the subject of this sketch immediately belong was
of the yeoman or farmer class, ami was settled in the
-ih of Ireland, where its members were identified with
the Tory or dominant faction, and were ardenl church-
men. Mr. Keating early imbibed from his Scotch Pres-
byterian mother the love of liberty and breadth of view
that has always distinguished him in public life. Her
teachings and explanations, her promptings and the au-
guries of her ambition for her boy, sent him into the
world thirsting for knowledge in the solemn conviction
that it is power. She. like his father, was of humble
origin, but of the sturdy stock that stood behind John
Knox in his contest as the great Reformer. The spirit
of freedom burned brightlj in herbreast, and she hated
i he oppressions which her husband's Tory kindred aided
in inflicting upon their own i pie, blinded, as they
were, by bigotry and the intolerance horn id' il. Mr.
Keating, profiting by these lessons learned at his moth-
er's knees, availed himself of the first opportunity to
manifest his love of country and, as before stated, joined
the SToung Irelainl'Ts. in 1846, when yet scarce six
teen, uniting with the Curran club of Dublin, and
pledging himself to help in the regeneration and for
the liberty of his native land.
.Mr. Kealin.'j was a director, in 1867, in a company
which formed to bridge or tunnel the Mississippi river
, at Memphis, and which made extensive surveys lor that
purpose. Hi- was also secretary and treasurer ol the
first elevator companj in Memphis, in that year, and
in is?.!, was a director in the Mississippi railroad com-
pany, which anticipated the line recently constructed
to New Orleans, via Vicksburg, from Memphis, lie
was also about that time a director in a company to
build a railroad from Memphis to Jeffersonville, Texas,
and another to build a railroad to Kansas City. lie
was also a director of the companj that turned over the
charter and right of way to the present Kansay City,
Springfield and .Memphis railroad. This latter road
has been completed, .and .at a banquet given in Kansas
City, iii June, 1884, to the guests from Memphis. Mr.
Keating was selected to respond to the toast, ''Cotton,
corn and cattle, the links of destiny that bind us in
commercial unity." His response was not only able
and brilliant, but elegantly eloquent, worthy ol' repro-
duction here, if space would admit, and in its perora-
tion was a- follows : " Cotton, Com and cattle hi ml the
cities we represent in i imercial unity through the
medium of the Memphis, Springfield and Kansas City
laili I. and we ca iver be separated again. We are
the latest expression of America ii g] it. pluck and enter-
prise, and our future is assured. With the Union re
stored, and sectional bitterness entirely wipedout,greater
possibilities tire to come as u result of I hi enterprise of
the people of the whole country. With the curse of
shiver\ removed, the incubus that weighed upon the
energies of the white man and limited his horizon,
there has come to the South a wonderful quickening.
W e are now free indeed. Diversity of pursuit, a more
crri, in, knowledge of our duties and best possibilities,
have come to us. and we are ready for them."
In 1876, Mr. Keating was a member of the committee,
appointed by Mayor Loague, lo compromise the debt of
Memphis with the creditors. He has never held office,
and was hut once before a convention as a candidate.
In 1868, his name u as sent lo the United States senate.
by President Johnson, for the postmastership of Mem
phis, but I he mere i net it ion of h is name created a storm,
and it was promptly, and by a full vole of the Republi-
cans present, refused the onurlesy of being -cut to the
Committee. It went in at one door and was sent out at
the other, and in not more than live minutes.
.Mr. Keating passed, unscathed, through the yellow
fever epidemics at Mem phis, in 1868, 1873, 1878 and 1879.
During 1*7*, he edited the Appeal, and when tin' com
positors I pressmen, the business manager and others,
went down or perished, he nobly stood til his post, and.
with the assistance ol' but one man. Mr. Henry M I.
set up I he type and made il p t he forms every day, for
several weeks, besides doing the reportorial and editorial
work, and responding to all his duties as a member of
the executive committee, which really governed the
city during those trying and distressful days. Thus was
he true to the motto of his family, " Fortis etjidclis."
In the spring of 1879, alter he had written and put
to press his "History of the Yellow Fever," he de
livered tin address at the theater, before an audience
composed ol' i he merchants, bankers and manufacturers
of the city, and tit which all the physicians of the city
were present, in which he explained, with technical ac
curacy. I In- necessity for sanitary reform, painting in
truthful colors, at the same time, the then very un-
sanitary condition of Memphis, which he was enabled
to do from a personal inspect ion , This was the begin
ning of the sanitary work that has made Memphis one
ol the model cities of the world iii a sanitary point
of \ iew.
Mi. Keating is president of the Memphis branch of
the International A.ssociati f the Red Cross of Ge
nova. lie is also a member "I' the American Health
Association, and has contributed to the papers pub-
lished by thai organization, in 1880, "The Value of
Sanitation from an Economical Standpoint," in 1882,
"The Crematii f Excreta and Household Wastes,"
and. in 1884, "Tin- Ultimate ol Sanitation by Fire," a
paper that has attracted attention in Europe as well as
throughout America, and has generally been endorsed
by tin- press. In September, L881, he published a re
porl on the sewer system of Memphis, a ml the epidemics
of preventable diseases that have visited that cit
its site since 17 10.
He is an honorary member ol the Memphis Society
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gnarriagc he bad three sons and one daughter, all of
whom arc now dead exoept theyounge I Bryce Stew-
art, jr., who is now a lieutenant in the llritisli army,
ami stationed in [ndia. The daughter, Marion, married
Mr. Hume, a banker of Louisville, Kentucky, and left
one son, Bryoe Stewarl Hume. Mrs. Stewart died in
L866.
Mr. Stewart was married a second time, in 1^7!!, at
Clarksville, to Miss Sallie West Cobb, daughter of Dr.
Joshua Cobb, a prominent citizen of Clarksville, By
this second marriage he has one son, Norman Stewart,
born in L874, now living with his father, Mrs, Stewarl
is a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Stewart revisited Europe in l^iiii: in in is?:;,
ami a i bird i inic iii 1881 , spendin tach oct a
sion nearly two yeai traveling over the continent on
riching hi. aln adj h - II tot od mind w it li pracl ical
knowledge of intere ting hi toric place . This knowl
edge he has a most pleasant manner of imparting md
therefore, is a most com pan i Id ntlcman, a man of
culture and refi I education, li is nol difficult to
accounl for Mr. Stewart's success in life, for he has been
a hard worker, a | :tual, attentive, industriou . cner
getio business man, and good fori ■ has followed his
footstepsjind crowned his efforts with plenty. He is a
man of kindly nature, charitable in disposition, gentle-
natured and firm in his friendships. In short, he is a
model cil issen and a good man.
HON. E. L. < JAR DEMURE.
CAR III ll.l
FUDGE E. L. GARDENHIRE, of Carthage, one of
f' Tennessee's ablest lawyers and mosl distinguished
judges, was born in Overton county, Tennessee, Novem
ber 12, 1815, and there grew to manhood, assisting his
father in farm work, who, although a man of considera-
ble property, thought it his duty to train the son to
work. In the winter months he attended the neighbor
hood schools until jusl turned into liis nineteenth year,
when his father sen! him to Clinton College, in Smith
county, where he studied two years 1834 ."> 6 Latin,
Greek, mathematics and the natural sciences. After
leaving college, he continued his studies privatelj al
home one year, when betook charge of the Livingston
Academy and taughl school one year. In 1838 It, he
studied law under Judge Cullom, and obtained license
to practice, in August, 1839, before Judges Caruthers
and \ndrrw J. Marchbanks. From this time, lie read
diligently until L844, in the early pari of which he be
gan practice at Livingston, and did an exceptionally
large and remunerative practice, making six thousand
dollars a year. From the very beginning, he refu ed
bad drills. II' a man would not pay him, unless it was
a charity ease, lie refused liis serviees. Novelnlier 27,
1851, he moved to Sparta, Tennessee where he resided
until 1876, when he settled permanently al Carthage.
At the breaking out of the war he was worth in negroe
lands, good debts and money in bank, some forty thou
sand dollars. By the war he lost, not less than thirty
I I and dollars. Since that time, however, lie has
recovered his fortune, by dint of hard work and close
application to his business, and is now in very inde-
pendent and comfortable circumstances.
In August, 1849, Judge Gardenhire was elected State
senator from the counties of Fentress, Overton, Jack
son, White and Van Buren, and served in the Tennes
sec Legislature of L849 50, and was chairman id' the
committee on public grounds and public buildings.
In .May, 1858, lie was elected judge of the Fifth judi-
cial circuit, comprising the counties of Scott, Morgan,
Fentress, Overton, White, Bledsoe, Sequatchie and
Mir and held thai position until December I. 1861,
when lie resigned on accounl of the impossibility of
holding courts during t he war.
In Novcinlicr, 1861, he was elected to the Confederate
Congress, and served in the sessions of 1st;:: and L863.
In this Congress he urged and voted for every mea ure
which he thought would promote the interests of the
South, and was regarded as an aide legislator.
M'ti ir the war, iii L875, he represented White and
I'm nam enmities in the Tennessee Legislature, and in
that body served as chairman of the commitl u judi-
ciary. In the spring of L877, Gov, .lames I). Portei
appointed him one of the Supreme court of arbitration,
which position he filled one year. October II, 1883, he
was appointed by the unanimous vote of the Supreme
court one of the judges of the c 'i of referees for
\\ e i Tiniic ce thi po il ion in which the editor hereof
found him.
Iii politics, Judge Gardenhire has always been a
Democral of the strictest and atraighest sect, being
very decided in his political views but always respect
ing the views and feelings of gentlemen differing with
him on part)1 issues. In L856, he was a delegate from
the State at large to the Cincinnati convention that
nominated Buchanan for president, and on bis return
homi ui nominated presidential elector for the Fourth
congressional district, canvassed the district, and was
elected over his \V h i l' com pel i 1 1 ir. Judge William
I lickcrson.
Judge Gardenhire was made a Master Mason in
Sparta Lodge, N". I1!', in 1866. Iii religion, he is a
believer in the doctrine- of the Christi r Camp-
bellite church ol which his wife ami children are
members, He has had some editorial experience, hav-
PROMINENT TI'WF-I' \\>
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farmer near Carthage, and has
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in Washiin
man. fond of his
. his hounds and his children. He moved to Ten-
• S tion, Kuox
inty. where he had moved in
win. the c I soldier in
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111:111. *- ,ife »i'
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ssful fanner,
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five thousand dollars, and
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had a lawsuit oil his
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war. He was a man ol - iwned
1 [er mother.
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His on is that he deals
men. and this r ■ - - ed by
which he has
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DISTINGUISHED for hie eminenl rank in the
medical profession, for the high political honor
he has won, and for being the oldesl living represents
tive of a familj I hal a i ted in la ing I he foundal i f
i he civil 1 social fabric of M iddle Tennessee, Thoma
Menees first saw the light in a cabin on Mansker's
creek, in Davidson c< ty, Tennes ec, June -'i. 1823,
under circumstances little prognostic of the distin
guished career he was to run.
The family is of sterling Scotch origin, and I he
nal way of spelling the name was McNecs, bul ol the
history of the clan there now remains no accurate tra
dition. Benjamin Menees, great grandfather of Dr.
Menees, was a native of Amhei I county, Virginia
.i ed with credit as a patriot soldier in the American
Revolution ; emigrated as a pioneer and settled on Sul-
phur fork of Red rivei in v hat i now Robertson
e ty, Tennessee ol which countj he was county court
judge in L791. "He died in his block house in 1811.'
A fuller account of his life and ser ici well as of
the Menees family,may be found in Putnam i History
of Middle Tennes e< and ( !laj ton's 1 1 1 story of Da-
vidson County."
Dr. Menees' grandfather, James Menees wa a noted
I ndian fighti r and Tennessee pioneer, I te <t
ber of < lapt . John Donelson's party of hard en ;rant
who started from the settlements of East Tennes i
i li- pring of 1780. and teered i he firsl keel boat from
Knoxville to Nashville. The adventure was by a long,
hazardous and unexplored route bj watei with hostile
Indians continually harrassing them, bul they made
the voyage successfully, down the Holston, down the
Ti i i its junction with I he • >hio, I hen up the
Ohio, and up the Cumberland to the French salt spring,
where the city of Nashville now stands. The buoyant
i heerful spirit of the women on that memorable ■
seemed never to fail, and they permitted not the i
to do all the hard labor in the navigation, often would
not be denied the privilege of lending a helping hand,
for, a it i- told :
" They worked with paddle, pole, and oar;
i 'i v. i band wfl ore;
They worked with cheerful nearl and more —
They worked wit. I paddle, ] >] ad oar,
Until they m i k no more,
i . aded al I be ■ ■■
Such were thi pi mol hers and fathers who laid the
foundations of a city 30 beautiful I so beloved. Maj
their noble examples stimulate » 1 j ' ■ pre - ul geni ra
and I"' not lost to posti rity ! James M .■■ of the
boldest and bravest of this daring party, became a sue
i! farmer, and for many years was sheriff of Rob
ertson county. His wife, tm Miss Ri becca W
was a most excellent woman, well educated and <
MENEES, M. I».
I LIE.
uatc of the Moravian Female Coll al Salem, North
Carolina. She died when her onlj child, Benjamin VV.
Mi nee ' I h Vlenci fal I)' r . « i an infant.
Dr. Menec father, Benjamin VV, Menees, was born
and raised in Tenne e and died in Robci i on & ty,
in 1863, al i he age of seventy four eai I le i
with his father and everal uncle.1 under Jackson, in
the war of 1812 15. He was a thrifty, hard worl
pu hing farmer and stock-raiser, and left, be idi
comfortable estate, the more valuable heirloom of n
charactei foi inti ril md 1 id common sense. Fam-
ily pride, founded on an inheritance of this kind, is a
potent factor in the formation of the manhood of chil-
dren .-11111 of their ucci - and high standing in life.
Dr. Menee mother, nee Mi Elizabeth Harri on
was the daughter of Thoma Harrison, ;i successful
Sumner county farmer, and i ter of the late Judge
Orville Harrison of Panola county. Mississippi. She
broad brained, intellectual woman, highly edu
cated of deep and p i I de; oted to her hu b ind
and children and i arnesl in ti iching I I raining I hem
in religion, in morality, integrity and energy. It is to
hi i '-"""I influence I he on i i o a i .■■ hal he i and
1ms been, and to his fal hei i hose habits of industry and
■ tj by which he iecami tei c and I
like i en a bo
Dr. Oeorgi tt VI brother of the ubjei I of this
sketch, is now one of the leading practitioners of medi
cine at Springfield I Their only living
Emily Elizabeth Menees is now the wife of Dr. J. W.
Dunn, of Turnersvillc Tennessee, and has but one
child, l>r. J. VV. Dunn, engaged in practice with his
Dr. Menees lost two sisters and one brother,
all dying in childhood, within ten days of each other.
His sister, Rebecca VV. Menees, lived to be a young
lady, was rei 'kablj brilliant and gifted, the most in
tellectual member of the family. She died, in 1852,
as she was blooming into a li a inhood.
Ali li iu) li born in Davidson - nl j Dr V]
raised in Roberl t, and lived I here until Feb-
ruary, 1862. He was brought up mm his father's farm
in habits ol i matic indu fed a co
jchool < ducat ion, and taugl ool himself one term,
« hen a oung man. In 1841, he commenced the study
of medicine in the office of I *r, Robert K. Hicl
Springfield, Tenm — e; next took of lectures
in the medical department of Transylvania University,
Lexington, Kentucky, and from 1842 to 1845, practiced
in hi- father's I I with exceptional!
I urned to Transylvania I Imver
. ed the degree of M.D . March 6,
1846. From thai date hi> profi i wa- satis
irily successful ; from 1845 to 1855, in partnei hip
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in its halls, and at the time of his death was professor
of diseases of the eye. oar and throat. For a number ol
years he had practiced that specialty, and had achieved
a high reputation for diagnostic and operative skill.
" In September last, while on a visit of recreation to
the eastern cities, he was stricken with a painful illness,
and was unable to meet the class now in session at the
institution, and at length, in the morning of life, com-
paratively, he succumbed to its ravages. The numerous
alumni of the medical department of the University of
Nashville and Vanderbill University, who have gone
forth during the long period of his professional eonnec
tion therewith, will lieai" the announcement with Jeep
regret, and hold him in appreciative remembrance as a
faithful and capable instructor, and an urbane and ac-
complished gentleman.
" I lis associates in the faculty, while bearing testimony
to the estimable qualities of his character, his abilities
as a teacher, his correct and dignified deportment in
that relation, and to the just distinction his pen and
tongue had acquired for him as a devotee of medical
science, and in recording their sense of the less the
institution has incurred in his death, would tender to
his bereaved family their condolence in the great grief
which overwhelms them in the removal ol a beloved
husband and lather, and in respect to his memory adopt
the following resolutions :
" Resolved, that the exercises of the medical depart -
incut of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt
University be suspended until the day after the funeral
services of Prof. Van S. Lindsley, and that the faculty
and members of the class attend in a body at their
performance; that the lecture desk be draped and
the faculty and class wear mourning on the occasion,
and that a copy of this minute be transmitted to the
family of the deceased and entered on the records of the
faculty.
John II. Callender, M.D.
Thomas Menees, M.D.
T. A. Atchison, M.D.
\ m i:i:<>-k Morrison, M.D.
W. G. Ewing, M.D.
J. W. 1 1 li V -v.. of Arkansas.
If L. V.\i i.iri.of vVest Virginia.
J. G. Fki erson, of Alabama.
.1. S. PALRIE, of Kentucky.
Nolan Stewart, of Mississippi.
J. II. WAY, of North Carolina.
Ira Bowman, of Georgia.
W. (i. Noble, of Texas.
W. W. Thompson, of Tennessee
(I. .1. Gi 1. 1.. of Virginia.
S. I'. Bark er, of Missouri.
D. G. I. \ss. of Iowa.
The faculty of the Vanderbill denial department met
to take suit a 1 ile action with regard to the death of Prof-
Liudsley. It was decided to suspend the exercises for
the day. Dl'S. I*. II. St ubblrtiold and I!. 1!. Freeman,
the committee appointed to draft resolutions, reported
the following, which was received and adopted:
" Whereas, inscrutable Providence has taken away I '1 of.
Van S. Lindsley, of the medical department, this depart-
ment tenders its sympathy for the loss of such high
moral and intellectual worth, also heartfelt condolence
is offered the bereaved family upon whom the irre-
parable blow has fallen.
At a called tin:: of the faculty of the medical and
dental departmo] lie University oi Tennessee, to
take action in regard to the death of Van S. Lindsley,
M. D., professor of diseases of the eye and ear in the
medical department of the University of Nashville and
Vanderbilt University, the president, W. P.Jones, VI
I)., appointed a committee to draw up suitable resolu-
tions, consisting of Drs. Deering J. Roberts, J. Bunyan
Stephens and Paul F. Eve, who submitted the follow
ing, which were unanimously adopted : 'A\ hereas, it has
d the infinite wisdom ol an all-wise Providence
to call from the scenes of his earthly labors our friend
and professional brother, Prof. Van Sinderen Lindsley,
M. D.; to remove from our midst, we may hope, to the
full enjoyment of a blissful eternity, one who, by strict
probity, integrity of character, and all that make, up a
true Christian gentleman, and has well earned and justly
merited the glorious award of ' Well done, thou g 1
and faithful servant:' therefore, be it
;' Resolved, that in the death of Prof. Lindsley we
sincerely mourn the loss of one whose medical skill,
whose professional attainment-, gentle, kind and cour-
teous manners, and high sense of professional honor.
have justly won our sincere admiration and esteem.
'■ Resolved, that, regarding him in his life as an ac-
complished Christian gentleman, refined, modest and
courageous, a skillful physician, endowed with a logical,
earnest and penetrating mind, we heartily commend his
example as one well calculated to advance the progress
and uphold the h r of a most noble science.
" Resolved, that we tender to his bereaved family and
relatives, to his colleagues, and to the students of his
college, our most sincere sympathies in their great loss.
" Resolved, that our faculty attend his funeral in a
body, suspending the regular exercises in our institu-
tion for that purpose, and that a copy of these resolu-
tions be published in the daily newspapers and medical
journals of this city.
W. D. Haggard, M. If.
Secretary of the Faculty.
At a called meeting of the Tennessee Historical So-
ciety, there were present the Hon. John M. Lea. .Indue
.lames Whitworth, Col. E. W. Cole. Rev. M. M. Moore,
Col. A. S. Colyar, Dr. W. J. McMurray, J. A. Cart-
wright, Rev. Dr. W. C. Cray. Capt. Thomas II. Paine,
Dr. N. If Richardson, Col. W. If Gale, Gen. G. P.
Thruston, Judge Pitkin C. Wright, Rabbi -I. S. Go!
dammer, W. A. Goodwyn, ('apt. William Stockell, Rev.
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405
Dr. C. D. Elliott, Dr. C. C. Fite, A. (i. Adams, Rev.
Dr. Dodd, Anson Nelson and several others. The fol-
lowing paper was read and adopted, to-wit : " The
Tennessee Historical Society lias been exceptionally fa-
vored in escaping the loss of members by the hand of
death. Very seldom has the twin brother of sleep
gathered to himself any one from those we are accus-
tomed to welcome at our social meetings. But sud-
denly he has extended his icy grasp and taken from our
midstone who was near and dear to us all. Dr. Van S.
Lindsley was one of those who, very often, was present,
and always was interested in our meetings, and aided in
the discussions which usually arose. And, although a
quiet member among us, he was one whom we will sadly
miss. He was always conservative, always thoughtful,
always firm in his opinions, yet not insisting mi their
acceptance by others. We have taken counsel together
more than once in his hospitable mansion, at regular
meetings, and we have frequently enjoyed the luxury of
his hearth and home, lie exhibited at all times an
earnest interest in the great work in which we are en-
gaged. lie was a true-hearted, noble Christian gentle-
man, a ripe scholar, devoted to the profession which he
adorned, and in which he had promise of great use-
fulness; a friend, whose kindly, courteous greeting and
genial, hearty hand-clasp will never fade from our
minds, lie was bom in North Carolina, in 1840, the
descendant of a long line of distinguished educators,
physicians and divines, showing an untainted and ever
useful and honored American ancestry for eight gen-
erations, and two hundred and fifty years, and of that
line of ancestry he was a worthy and true representa-
tive. He was married, in 1868, to the only daughter of
our esteemed personal associate, (Ad. Jeremiah George
Harris, a retired officer of the United States navy. This
union was a happy one, in every respect, and its sever-
ance brings great grief to the companion of his bosom
and to their four bereaved children. lie was truly a
devoted husband and a tender, loving father. At the
early age of ten years, our departed colleague gave his
heart to Christ and united with the Presbyterian
church. He was a genuine disciple, and always walked
worthy of the profession he had made when a boy. He
was, too, a true adherent of the doctrines of the church
to which he, and his fathers before him, were so ar-
dently attached. He died the death of the righteous.
We, as a society, tender to his bereaved family and rela-
tives our most earnest and heartfelt sympathy, and we
set apart a page in our records to the memory of our
loved and departed associate. His life's duty is done.
His work is accomplished, and he waits to welcome us
on the other side of the dark valley. May we all be as
faithful in the discharge of every trust and duty as was
the dear departed one.''
The above, on motion of Rev. Mr. Moore, was or-
dered to be transmitted to the family of the deceased,
and the city papers were requested to publish the same.
Tlie learned and venerable Chancellor Garland, in
illustrating the idea that no man should live unto him-
self, said to the graduating class of Vanderbilt Uni-
versity, on the occasion of Dr. Lindsley's death : "As an
illustration of this truth, to what an illustrious example
can I point you in our lately deceased colleague, Dr.
Van S. Lindsley. He was every inch the physician,
learned, skillful, successful, meeting all the require-
ments of his ever enlarging profession. These, how-
ever, were but a small partof the qualities that adorned
his character and made him the idol of his home and
the admiration of the circle in which he moved. As
husband, lather, neighbor, friend and citizen, as well as
physician, he has left us a model for our imitation. And,
most of all, does he deserve to lie imitated in that early
consecration of himself to Christ, which brought to his
spirit tranquility in life and peace in death. His name
does not appear upon those parchments which you are
presently to receive, but it is engraved upon the tablets of
our hearts, not thence to be effaced by the lapse oftime.
In his charge to the graduating class of the medical
department of the Vanderbilt University, Dr. Menees
said : " That insatiate archer, who spares neither age,
sex nor condition, has invaded our faculty, and stricken
down, in the midst of his usefulness, one of its youngest.
members, Prof. Van S. Lindsley. lie was young, cul-
tured, and justly ambitious, an ornament alike to his
profession, which he loved and cultivated, and to so-
ciety, which he honored and adorned. His death was a
public calamity, and the providence which ordered it
to us inscrutable. 1 1 is ways are past our finding out.
Let us, in this sad bereavement, as in all things else,
bow submissively to the divine will. I knew Prof.
Lindsley long and well, and had much professional, as
well as professional and social contact with him, and it
affords me a mournful pleasure to bear testimony, to-
night, to the fact that in his professional relations, he
was one of the most scrupulously ethical and honorable
gentleman I ever knew. It is sad to see one already so
distinguished and useful, so full of future promise, and
with rapidly growing fame, cut down in the bloom of
his manhood; but our loss is his eternal gain. Then
we sorrow not as those who have no hope. Sleep on,
Lindsley. 'Though thou art gone to the grave, but we
will not deplore thee, lie gave thee. He took thee, and
soon will restore thee, where death hath no sting, since
the Saviour hath died.' "
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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
HON. NOBLE SMITHSON.
NT OBLE SMITHSON was born near v ?ville,
i unity. Ti i i mber 7.
IS41 : n sided in that county until January. ItCwi. when
hi- parents ti on, I. ami.
Vlabama. IK- resided tliere until 1865. when
; i. i liles county. Tennessi
-
His father was the Rev. John (.! - if the
Methodist Episcopal ehureh. South,
Dauville, !'
1820. and immigrati Si « M
.letters ' ' - ■ 0. ren
there : rs. when the family came to Williamson
He now residi • farm, near
and i: irmer, h;i\ in- beeu
ijuii i in that pursuit.
paternal
was Hezekiah Powell Smithson. who was born in l'itt-
sylvai \ ia. He w in the
1812. ai rift" of Pittsylvania
He was th i 'apt. Powell, of the
Litiouary army. 11. P. Smith
ton, Alabama, in 1S70. Mr. Smithson iraud-
father was Francis Smithson, born in Pittsylvania
county, Virginia, ami died in Maury county. Ti
I - Smithson was descended from the Sniith-
itmily of Northumberland county. England. Mr.
Smiths Tnal grandmother was Henri
a member of tin tmily of li :
Mr. Smith-on - - hu Ladd: born
in Williamson county, Teunessei \ feu ber 10, ISIS.
Site was the daughti ' le Ladd ami Man Bur-
unl her mother was the d if Peter !!
an Irishman. Her parents were horn in Rockingham
ami S • \ th Carolina, ami were married
in that State. She i- >till living, in good health and
spirits. Mr. Smithson is the oldest of fifteen children,
all ol "He.
The earl\ life ol Mr. Smithson was the farm.
Hi- father being in humble circumstances, lie 1.
. him in supporting and rearing the family. But
from early childhood he evinced a strong desil
tion and kuowledge, ami diligently applied him-
self I ks. readins ry day. and
school whe- ould he -pared out
In tlii- way he acquired a -
tion. - mathematics, hut did ly the
Wl ol age, he taught
nia and Tennessee, in I860 61. In 1S65,
[in near Pulaski, and then read law
wed from Pulaski lawyers. In December,
1866 in .1 udges Da\ i'l Campbell
ami Hillary Ward, and at in practice at I'u-
<ki. In 1868 0, he was a S S'ash-
ville and Decatur railroad. From 1 >7< ' to 1872, his
Pontaine Smith-on. w: ted with him
in the practice of the law at Pul
lie was district attorney-general for the Eleventh eir-
cuii kVilliamson, Maury,
Marshall, Giles. Lawrence. Lewis and Hickman.
STovi ■>67, to September, 187(1. ,\l this til
bar of that circuit v. . having
among it- m - in the
State. This - - drool for
the young attorney general. Since then he has, on -
eral 1 chancellor,
appointed by the s b ir.
He was elected State senator, in the thirty-eighth
icral Assembly for the Fifteenth senatorial district,
ei'-, the counties of (tile-. Lawrence, Wayne
ami Lev - V ruber 6. 1 -7 J - 1873 and
1S74. ami was chairman i>f the seual
judiciary, lie was .,:-.. chairman cial joint
committee to ii drs ol the Bank of
which -at at Nashville, after the adjourn-
ment ol* ilii Le - .lure, lie was an industrious and
efficient member of the senate, his committee doing
rk of the session. He was
one ol' the thirteen senator.- who voted tor the pub-
liool law ol' 187;!. under which the presenl
tern ol popular education has grown so efficient and
beneficial to tin S( Of the measures introduced by
him that became statute law. may he mentioned the act
for the better enforcement of -. ami an-
other, allowing at: appeal f . tnents
striking them from the roll art.
lie ha- been a member of Pulaski Lodge, No. 12. In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Encamp-
ment, in which he held the chief offid - He i- now a
member of the Knights of Honor, American Legion of
Honor. Ancient Order of United Workmen, Pulaski
M sons, and of Pulaski Coniniandery,
No. 12. Knights Templar, having held the offices of
Captain -General and Generalissimo in said Command-
ery. He is a member of the Tennessee Historical So-
ciety, ami of the Bar Association of Tenm -
In polili independent. He was always
slavery. Having read Wayland's Moral Phil-
y. when a boy, he was tbereby convinced that
slavery was unjust and morally wrong: that it was im-
politic and ruinous to the country. He has ever since
held these views. He ha- always held that all citizens,
. rich ami poor, great ami -mall, should have equal rights
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107
before the law; that the legal rights of each and all
should be precisely the same. He also advocates worn
aii's right (o vote, to hold property independent!} of
their husbands, and to participate in the a Hairs of State,
believing that the restrictions upon them and their
subjection to 1 1 » < r men arc relics of barbarism, tie be-
lieves in the utmost freedom of thought and action, in
society, politics and religion, consistent with the rights
of others, He wasa delegate to the national Greenback
ventiou which convened at [ndianapolis, Indiana, in
June, I's7<i. by which Peter Cooper was nominated for
the Presidency, he putting Mr. Cooper in n ination
before the convention, lie was also a member of the
national executive committee of that party during the
canvass of 1876.
He was married in Giles enmity, Tennessee. April
2,1865, to .Miss Alice Patterson. Mrs. Smithson was
educated in Giles county, is a member id' the Meth-
odist church, and is noted mainly I'm' the domestic
virtues, There have been born unto them six children.
Anna Laura, a graduate of Martin Female College, Pu-
laski, Noble Smithson, jr., John, Tully, * !uy and Alma.
lie was a director in and the attorney for the Na-
tional Bank of Pulaski, from 1878 to 1882. Pinan
cially, lie is to-day in excellent circumstances, owns
a beautiful farm id' three I Ired acres on Richland
creek, three miles west of Pulaski, mi the Pulaski
and Vale mills turnpike, which is well stocked and in
a high stale of cultivation. He and his father, J. G,
Smithson, own the Vale mills property, consisting of a
merchant and custom grist mill, cotton factory, ware
house, store I se and other buildings, the mills and
factory beii perated b} the water power of Richland
creek. Said mills and factory arc in active operation
and doing a thriving business.
His motto has always been to merit success by en-
ergy, industry aud close applicaion. He believes that
fortune helps those who help themselves; that every
one is, in a certain extent, the architect of hi own
fortune; that he who would succeed, must rely uj
himself; he believes thai few, if any, will aid another
unless such aid will profit him who gives it, or grat
ify some id' his passions or prejudices. He attempts
In view human affairs as (hey are. nut as they should
be. He has a large practice in the local courts and in
iii the Supreme court of Tennessee, and is an attorney
of the Supreme court of the United States. As a law
yer lie is chiefly distinguished for the labor and care
bestowed upon hi. eases, and the thoroughness with
which he prepares them.
BISHOP H. N. McTYEIKi:.
NASHVILLE.
HOLLAND NIMMONS McTYEIRE was con
verted at the age of twelve, at Cokesbury scl I,
South Carolina, in 1837, and since he put his hands to
the plow has not looked hack. He had a good induc-
tion, his parents, moreover, being love-feast and class-
meeting Christians, whose overflowing hospitality made
their home a stopping place fur the preachers. All
these influences had their effect mi his character, and
gave direction to his after life.
At the age of twenty he began to preach, the very
year he fell called to the ministry. lie has preached
constantly ever since. He joined the Virginia confer-
ence November, 1845, was sent to Williamsburg, Vir-
ginia, and preached there until May, L846, At that
time the first general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, Smith, was held in Petersburg, and
that general confi rence elected Rev. Dr. T. < >. Summers
to be editor at Charleston, Dr. Summers at that time
being pastor of the principal church at Mobile. 5Toung
McTyeire being at tin1 conference to see the great men
of the church, Bishop Andrews picked him up there
and sent him to take Dr. Summers place at Mobile.
He reached Mobile July L, everybody assuring him he
would have the yellow fever, lie was at once intro-
duced to the quarterly conference, which he found in
session, occupied in discussing the startling questi I'
buying a lot in the new city cemetery for the purposi
of burying preachers who might die of the fever. The
lot was not bought in vain, for, in L854, three preachers
were buried in it who had did of t he yellow fever, lie
preached there until il ml of the year, ami although
he did not take the fever himself, the first man he was
called on to Lilly had died id' il. While in Mobile he
made the acquaintance of the lady who became his
wife, a cousin of the lady whom Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt afterward married. This is one of the
secret links of a chain of causes that ultimate!}
origin to the great Vanderbilt University, located at
Nashville.
His next station after Mobile wa- Demopolis, Ala-
bama, in ISIT: next at Columbus, Mississippi, in ISIS.
He was then transferred to New Orleans, where he
-pent ten consecutive years, first as pastor of Felicity
Street church, which he built, and then, from 1851 to
1858, as editor of the New Orleans < 'hristian Advocate,
which he founded in 1851. In 1858, he was elected by
the general conference to edit the Nashville Cliristian
[dvocate, a position which he filled until February
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rii to school, worked i.i i in . and trapped wild
turkeys until 1840 whed lii- father sent him t" :>
manual labor bcI 1 it Talhotton (i where be
studied and worked I He then went to Ii
dolph Macon I opho-
under President I laud, now
chancellor of the Vandcrbill I In 1844, he
graduated fourth in a class of twelve \'<
ti..ii Ii utor of muthem
ancienl Ian nd, after Bllii n one
ited,
Ml 1 1 i«h. The
Bishop's grandfather, John M I >orn in the
northern m
Lucy I • I her, Johu
Mc'l i i 'ap( Mi I
ami drilled > company in 1832 - ith Caroli
the nullification cause, he being a Calhoun man, II;-
politics and hit I that
lined John Calhoun and another
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iii-i.in. . is related of thai decision which made him a
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thai is tlic rule the Bishop laid down for himself: To
undertake, not what he thought he could do, or would
like tu do, but what he thought ought to be dour.
This often involved him in perplexities and troubles,
and subjected him to the criticism of being wanting in
prescience; but once committed to a work, he must
pull through it, always finding it was nearer the shore
he started for than the one he left.
JUDGE JOHN C. GAUT.
THE subject of ibis biography was born in Jeffer
son county, Tennessee, on French Broad river,
about seven miles below Dandridge, February 27, 1813.
When the sun was eight years old, his lather moved to
the tliawassee district, and settled four miles southeast
of Athens, Te issee. There our subject was reared,
working upon his father's farm until he was twenty-
one, going to school very little. I'| reaching his ma-
jority, he hired out to get money to go to scl 1. In
1833-34 he attended Forest Hill Academy, then under
CI ailes 1'. Samuels; taught a school himself, in Mon-
roe count)', five months, and. at the request of bis em-
ployers, continued the session three months longer. In
April. ls.'!.y he went to the Theological Seminary, at
Mari \ ille, presided over by the distinguished Dr. Isaac
Anderson, and remained there one year. In April,
1836, he entered the Hast Tennessee College, til Knox-
ville (now the University of the State of Tennessee),
but his funds having been exhausted by the fall of the
same year, lie left school, and again taughl near his
li in McMinu county, until the spring ot 1837,
w Inn he returned to college at Knoxville, and remained
until the following ( )ctober, leaving without graduating.
He commenced studying law, Januarj I, 1838, with
Hon. Spencer Jarnigan, at Athens. Tennessee 1 No-
vember 13, 1838, was admitted to the bar by Judges
Charles F. Keith ami Edward Scott lie practiced
around the circuit till February 19, 1839, when he
located at Cleveland, and practiced there until Octo-
ber, is."):;, at which time he 'was elected, as a Whig,
over his competitor, George W. Rowles, by the Ten-
nessee Legislature, to the circuit judgeship of the Third
(now Fourth) judicial circuit, comprising lb unties
I Bradley, Polk, McMinn, Meigs, Rhea, Bledsoe, Ma-
rion and Hamilton. In May, 1854, under the changed
constitution, he was elected lo the same position by
over ■ thousand one hundred majority, having the
same opponent. Again, in May, 1862. be was re-elected
by the popular vote.
In April, 1865, he resigned his judgeship, moved to
Nashville, and resumed his private practice, after hav-
ing been on the bench nearly twelve years. During
that long period be missed only one court, and that
from the extreme illness of his daughter, Mary L., who
afterwards sickened and died tit Nashville, in June,
1865, aged twenty-four. From 1846, to 1854 (seven
years and eight months), he was a director, in behalf of
the State dI Tennessee, in the East Tennessee and
Georgia railroad company. Under this directory the
mad was built from Dalton, Georgia, to Knoxville. At
a time when railroads were not very popular, be was
their friend, joining with James Whitesides and others
in advocating the granting of charters to them over the
State. Though an old line Whig, when he came to
Nashville, he opposed many of the measures of the
Brownlow administration as being "too extreme.'
among which were the disfranchisement of ex-rebels
and rebel sympathizers, and the enfranchisement of the
negroes. This rendered him obnoxious to the then
Slate government, causing him to be threatened with
arrest by Gov. Brownlow for his published articles in
opposition to these measures.
At Nashville, in 1867-68, Hon. Robert L Caruthers,
ex-judge of the Supreme court of Tennessee, was asso-
ciated with .Indue Caul in the practice of law. This
partnership was dissolved by Judge Caruthers accept-
ing a position in the Lebanon law school, in the latter
part of 1868.
Judge Gaut became a Mason at Cleveland, in 1853,
and has taken the Royal Arch degrees. In religion.
he is a Cumberland Presbyterian. The Cants are of
Scotch and Irish descent, and blue-stocking Presby
terians.
Judge Cant's great-grandfather died a soldier in the
Revolutionary war. The grandfather, John Gaut, was
bound out to learn the tanner's trade, iii tin' State ol
Pennsylvania. Being pret ty self willed, and not liking
his employer, he left him and went to Virginia, where
he married a .Miss Irwin. He moved to Tennessee and
settled, first, in Washington county, and next, on the
French Broad river.
Judge Cant's father, dames Caul, was born in Wash-
ington county. Tennessee. He died. February 13, 1875,
nearly ninety years old. He was a farmer, a strictly
honest man, ami did not like anybody that was not hon-
est or refused tO pay bis debts. lie was one of the
commissioners to locate the county site and lay oil the
town of Athens.
Judge Gaut's mot her. net Miss Rosamond Irwin, was
bom in Washington county, near Jonesborough, and
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reared on Little river, in Blounl county, Tonne eo.
She died in June, 18(59, aged sevent) seven years, ten
nilis and five days. For morality, mildness, dis-
creetness and propriety, and For the assiduity with
which she inculcated principles of intogi it) and I ir
in her children, she was a modol ther, and a woman
of verj excellent judgment.
Judge Gaul was the oldest of nine children, namely,
.lull 1 1 ('., Mahala S., George W , Nancy, Mary, Jesse II.,
Minerva, James < '. and Robert D, For a fuller hi tor)
of the family, see sketch of Hon, Jesse II. <<:mi else
where in this volume.
Judge Gaut was first married in McMinn county,
September26, 1839, to Miss Sarah V.nn Mclloynolds, a
grand daughter of Fsaac L , of that county, who was
in the battle of K in a Vlountain. I lei' gr indmot her
was a daughter of Major Russell, of Virginia. Mr
Gaul was a member of the Cumberland Pre byterian
church, a gentlewoman in :ill her ways, very affable and
popular and the possessor of the verj fir i order ol di
oretion and a 1 sense. She died, June 9, 1*7.'!, ol
cholera, in Nashville, aged fifty four. By this mar
riage were born seven children: (I). Mary L Gaul
born July II. L840; graduated al Mary Sharp Coll gi
In I860; died June 12, L865. (2). John VI Gaut, born
October 1. 1841 ; graduated from Rutgers Coll i, New
Jersey, 1866, and is now ;i law partner with his father,
He married, May 5, 1870, Miss Michel M. Harris, a
very accomplished lady. She died in the fall of 1K7I.
He married the second time, October 25, 1876 Mi
Sallie Crutchfield, the only daughter of Thomas and
Amanda Crutchfield, of Hamilton county, Tenm
Thomas Crutchfield was ;t distinguished farmer and
stock raiser, near Chattanooga, and ;> prominent and
leading man ol his county. He died al the residenci ol
his son in law, John M. < laut, near Nashville, March 29,
1886 Mi Sallie C. Gaul is a graduate of Mary Sharp
College. John M, Gaul lia~ had four children, Thomas
C., Sarah M., Amanda K., and Mary Ann. The oldest
son, Thomas <'.. died of diphtheria, July 24, 1885. Mi
Gaut is an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian church
:iinl president of the publication board of that church
(.'!). Ann E. Gaut, born October 15, 1843, and graduated
:ii Mary Sharp College, in June, 1861. Shew I
May 5, 1870 to Patrick II. Manlove a Nashville mer
chant, and has had two children, Joseph E. and Horace
('., the last named dying of diphtheria, March 30, 1886.
Her husband is an rider in the Cumberl I Presbyte
ii. in church 1 is also a membei of the publication
I 'd, i I). IIul'Ii Lawson Hunt, born November 22
1- I.Y and died, Ma) 28 L854 of carlel fever. (5). Al-
bert Coleman Gaut, b August 23 1851, and died
Maj 24, L854 of scarlet fever. (6). \n infant, unnamed.
(7). Horace C. Gaut, born December I!'. L856, died of
scarlet fever, •) uly 17. 1863
Judge Gaut married the second time in Franklin,
Tennessee Mrs Sallie A. Carter, who, al the - ol
ixloon, in May, 1843, married Boyd M Him a lawyer,
and b,i I h id i wo children \ nnie \ Sim who
in. I in I i.i John W. McFadden, who is now with
the firm ol Thompson A Kelly, mi rchanl in Nash
villr, and li.i one child, Sarah II . born January 5,
1879; Mai ic 1 1 Sim w Im mai ried, in 1871 I! \
II ichardson n la • oi al Franklin, Tennc ce who I i i
i farm, ;i porl ion of hi wife lti andl il hei - old
e tatc Bo; d M Sim died in I I and in Maj 1853,
hi.- widow married Joseph W Carter a prominent law
yer I polil ician of W iridic ter Tennc ce a K
Templar Mason, a Democrat who repn en ted Frank
lln and l.iiN'uIn counties in the Tern c Stati i n iti
threi coiisccutivi term To Col. Carter were born two
sons, William K now in mercantile life al Na liville,
and Joseph VV now a railroad officer; married Mi
K al ii- I! French and I ne child, -I" eph VV*., jr.
Col, Carter died, July 16, 1856, from which time Mi
Carter lived a widow lill her marriage with Judgi Gaul
in 1875. The pre enl M i Uaut i a cull ivated lad ol
fine i.i te greal -. ivai it) and bi iut) • liigh en e of
honor, liberal and charitable to a fault. She is a de
scendanl of Revolutionar) took wa born in Frank
lin. Teni I - ii [liter of A lexander Ko ing a lai gc
stook farmei of wealth and prominence in Williamson
county, Tenne ee Her grandfather, Alcxandei I
in-- i rai er of fine tock h a oi f t he pioneei i I
Davidson county, where he ettled after his service in
the Revolutionary war. He built and owned the fir I
brick house in Davidson county. He married Mi
Sarah. Smith, also of a Virginia Revolutionar) family
: r of Mi II l!ll ightower, one of i he fir I el
tiers of William on county, Mrs, Gaul mother,
Chloe Saunders, daughter ol Herberl S. Saundci
also of a \ ii im i family "I Ri volul ionary fame. Mr
Gaut's father died in 1835, and her mother, in I 39
leaving five children Sallie V.nn (Mrs. Gaut); \l'-\
anderC, whodied al twentyyearii old ; Herbert S., now
i i. er, in Williamson county, on a part of the old
homestead; Melviua, who died the wife of fl I! Til
comb ii druggist and capitalist al Columbia, Ten
I'i in" one child, \ lexander Titcomb, now
a farmei neai I 'olumbia William I!.. who m
Mi Johnnie Brown, of Franklin, Tennessee, died of
hearl disea e 1880 al Franklin, leaving one child,
William Wheless, born November 22, 1869, and who
with his ni"i her i ill reside* in Franklin.
Mrs. i laul - most marl ed trait of charai tej i liei
Ii- in-- up to i he < lolden !•' uli hi i al nding ch iril
and devol ion to principle. Shi ha I" en pn idi nt of
' 'I bem . oh ni i ic in W illiam oi int and
.i proi ced prohibitionist. During thi
ni Soul hi i N and Kind to oldici on bol Ii idi
and after the war wa oni of t he mosl pi omirrcnl mem
bers and ruling piril of i he Ladii - Tennc e< Me-
morial \ oci tion which had for il object the care of
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IT does not often occur thai a teacher lives to become
the biographer of his pupils. This volume, how-
ever, contains sketches of three gentlemen of distinction
u In. were mice students under the editor, to-wit: Hon.
James D. Richardson, now member of Congress from
Tennessee, Hon. Ethelbert 1!. Wade, and Dr. John II.
White, subject of this article.
John II. White was born, October 6, 1849, at Mill
ersburg, Rutherford county, Tennessee, grew up and
has lived there all his life, on the same plan' where his
father was born, lived and died. He took his firsf les-
sons in literature at Zimmerman [nstitue, a school
founded and taught by William S. Speer, At the age
of twenty he attended college Eve months at the Ash
land University, Lexington, Kentucky. He next at
tended Union University, at Murfrcesborough, Tennes
see, ten months, and then began the study <d' medicine
in the office of his brother, l>r. B. \. White, al
Christiana. Tennessee. lie graduated M.D. from the
medical department of the University <d' Nashville,
February 22, 1872, under Profs. Bowling, Eve, Briggs,
Maddin, Callender, Buchanan, J. B. Lindsley, Nichol,
V. S. Lindsley, and Sneed, and returned to Rutherford
county, where he has been engaged in the practice of
medicine and in farming ever since, excepting such
times as he represented his county in the Legislature,
lie is a member of the Rutherford C i.\ Medical So-
ciety, and el' the State Medical Society, and is justly
regarded as one of the rising members of the profession
in Tennessee.
1'r. White is an hereditary Dei rat comes by his
Democracy honestly — his father and all the male mem
bers of his family on both sides being of that sturdy
and unswerving political faith and complexion. He
never drew any but Democratic breath in his life. In
1883, an. I again in 1885, he served in the Te t ee
House of Representatives as a representat n e from Ruth-
erford e, ty, and was considered one of its ablest ami
most useful members, lie was made chairman of the
committee on public grounds and buildings, ami was
temporary speaker of the House in 1885.
In religion he is a member of the Christian church,
which he joined at the age of twenty one, and al pres-
ent is an elder in his home congregi a. In IS72, he
became a .Mason in Charles Fuller Lodge, No l-<i
Carlocksville, Rutherford county, Tennessee.
Dr. White married, in Rutherford county, Tennessee.
February lie 1876, Miss Mattie 1'iu.it. who was horn
in thai county September 15. 1859, the daughter of F.
M. Pruett, a farmer, native of the s sounty. Her
mother was .Miss Catharine Davis, daughter ..! Rev.
.Nathan L. Davis, a noted Baptist preacher, of Ruther-
ford, a farmer and stock trader, who acquired a hand-
JOHN 11. WHITE, M.D.
MILLEHSIWRG.
some fort line. Mrs. White was educated at Bel
Tennessee; is :i member of the Christian church, and
is .me uf the most kind hearted ami affable of w n
bowing to Cud's will, asking Cod's guidance, ami ever
striving to male her hnsl d mid family comfortable
and happy a disposition which extends its influence
lo others in (he form of good neighborly feeling and in
acts of charity. Her husband lakes commendable pride
in praising her, which is probably the highesl compli
men! in men's estimation a woman can receive.
I!.\ his marriage with Mis- Pruett, Dr. White has had
four children, three ol whom survive : (1). Buford M.
White, born April 12, 1877. (2). Ella Mary White born
May I. ls7!i. (3). Francis Pruett White, born Febru
ary HI, 1881 ; died January 31, 1885. ( I). Burrell G.
White (n id for his grandfather), horn April 6, 1883.
The Whites arc an English family. Stephen White.
grandfather ol Dr. While, was born in North Carolina,
was an officer ill the American army in the Revolu
ti it war, and acquired ; I deal of fame in that
War, I le married a M iss Searcy in North Carolina and
had six sons, Franklin, William, Harvey, Nat, Stokely
and Burrell < 1., and one daughter, Susan, wife of 1 1 ugh
B. Jameson all of whom are .had. Two of the sons
of Dr. Harvey White. Stephen N. and Thomas D., wer.
ea pi a ins in the ( '. m federal e army. Both of I liese are
dead. Stokely White left one son, William B., now mer
chant in Kosciusko, Mississippi; has been tax collector
of Attala county, and is a citizen of considerable influ-
ence. Stokely White, also, left two daughters, Anna
ami Susan, the latter mm wile of Mr. do, Collin.-, at
Kosciusko, a leading physician there.
Dr. White's father, Burrell G. White, was born May
20, 1808. He was a man of wide influence in his county,
a warm politician, a merchant, a line financier, of line
property, and a warm friend of education, lie was a
man who threw his whole soul into his business, his
polities, his religion, ami into the educational I rail
mad enterprises of the country. He was a zealous partj
man, in politics a Dm -rat ; in religion a member of
the Christian chui'ch. A desire fir the promotion of
the happiness and advancement of his fellow-beings was
his strongest trait of character, lie was of strong likes
ami dislikes, nf strong sympathies ami antipathies
indeed, a man of verj strong individuality, lie died.
October 31, 1884, leaving six children: Robert M
White, now a farmer and justice of the peace in Ruth
ci ford county; William N. White, a farmer in the same
county; Dr. I!. N. White, a prominent physician and
farmer in the same county; Frank White, now deputy
county court clerk of Rutherford county, is also a mer-
chant; Catharine G. White, now wife of Benjamin Fu
L'itt . \h\ John llowlaml White, subject of this sketch.
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I>r White's mother, originally Miss Mary Donelly,
no« livii al the age of sixty-three, was bom Dei
ber 11. IS21, in Dublin, [reland. She is the daughter of
Peter Donelly, a wealthy Irishman, who cauie from Ire-
land and settled at Shelbyville, Bedford county, Ten
nessee. [Ie died of cholera, in IS33, leaving six chil-
dren: I. iic> Douelly, who died the wife of Dr. John
W. Wilburu, a member of Congress from Missouri:
M.Li . Donelly, mother of Dr. While; Bartley Doi
a captain in the Mexican war; Catharine Donelly, now
wiilew el' Thomas Jameson; Elizabeth Donelly, who
died the wile of Dr. Thornton Matson, of Louisiana,
\1 - mi. [lonora Donelly. new the will' of Or. P. II.
Manier. of Wartrace, Bedford county, Tennessee
Dr. White's mother is a lady of very positive char-
acter and pronounced opinious; i- very frank ; of un-
usual mental ability; and is both progressive and ag
gressive.
Honesty, sobriety, veracity, and attention to business
and with a determination, even in boyhood, to make life
ssible these are the distinguishing char-
acteristics of Dr. White, Hi- fat Iter and mother stimu-
lated his ambition to be something and to do something
for himself. From them he had a most excellent edu
cation : from them he had wise advice and good exam-
ple. Thus he had a good send oil', and he has made a
man of himself. The editor knew his family well, and
furthermore knows whereof In- speaks.
Dr. Whites father married twice. His first wife was
Elizabeth Miller, daughter of Esq. Robert Miller, bj
whom lie had three children : Robert While ; William
White; Elizabeth White, who died the wife of Thomas
D. White, her cousin. She left one son, Otie It. White.
Dr. White's own brothers are Bartley and Frank, and
his own sister, Catharine, wife of Benjamin Fugitt, all
of whom have'.been previously mentioned.
W. M. VERTREES, M. D.
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professor of materia uiedica and therapeut
the medical department of the 1 uiversity of Tennessee'
was horn in Brownsville, Kentucky, March 23, IS27, the
\i, son of Jacob and Catharine \ en
His grandfather, Johii Vertrees, was a tanner, of
.J^enusylvania-German stock, and emigrated to Ken.
«jC V -I tuekV in the same party with the lather of Gov. Helm.
Y Haycraft and other well-known pioneers, shortly after
the arrival of Daniel Boone on that extreme frontier-
The Vertrecs-Helm party built a fort a very short dis-
tance from what is now known as the public square of
Elizabethtown. The family name at the time of their
emigration to Kentucky was Von 'free-., which was
afterward. Vertrees John Yertrees, there-
fore, was the tii'st to spell the name in its modern form.
He was. also, the tii'st judge of the Hardin county court
(Hardin being one of the three counties into which the
territory of Kentucky was then divided), and he tried
the first murder ease in Kentucky, which resulted in
the hanging of the murderer.
John \ ertrees and hi- sons, in the early days of their
settlement, were engaged in many tierce battles with
the Indian-. One of their battles, which was fought
near Rolling Fork, eight miles from Elizabethtown, is
said to have been the hardest fight which evei
curi'cd on the "dark ami bloody ground." John and
rtrees, with a party of eleven other white
men. were pursuing a band of Indians, numbering
thirteen, who had committed some depredations near
Elizabethtown. Daniel Vertrees, being an expert in
wood craft and the modes of Indian warfare, was
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''trailing'' the savages when he suddenly came upon
them in a sink-hole, where they were cooking their
breakfast. He at once tired upon them, but on turning
tin the protection of a tree he himself fell dead.
ed by the bullets of the Indians, who. running out
dp him. were themselves fired upon by the remain-
der of the whites who came up at that moment. A
hand to baud fight ensued, and in the desperate Strug-
gle all of the Indian- and five of the white men were
killed. John Vertrees being one oi' the survivors.
Some time after. Joseph Vertrees — son oi' John Vcr-
- -when nine years of age. was captured by the In-
dians near where the public square at Elizabethtown
now i-. His captors started with him to cross the Ohio
river on a raft. John \ illowed witli a hand
tie the little fellow, hut when the Indians, hotly
pursued, threatened to kill the hoy if they were tired
upon, the white men desisted from the pursuit and the
Indians pushed off and crossed the river with their
prisoner. The ho) was kept in captivity nine years,
hut finally made his escape at the ace o\' eighteen,
returned to Kentucky, married and brought up a large
family, all of whom have Indian peculiarities — love of
hunting and fishing, love of solitude and life in the
Joseph Vertrees was an uneducated man. hut
lived to accumulate considerable property, after his re-
turn.
Jacob Vertrees, son of John Vertrees, and father ><l'
Dr. W. M, Vertrees, subject of this sketch, was a man
of stron- native sense, and o\' great honesty and integ-
rity. Indeed.it is the pride and boast of the family
that, since the name has been borne, no Vertrees lias
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no
ever app^ired in a] criminal court on any criminal
charge whatsoever. Jacob Vertreea was also a great
lover of fishing and hunting, and retained a fondness
for hazardous field sports to the day of his death, He
married, in L812, at Leitchfield, Kentucky, MissCatha-
rine Davis, then recently from Virginia. She was a
most excellent and a most devout Christian woman, and,
it is said, not an idle word ever escaped her lips, for she
sought to live by the teachings of the Bible, as she un
derstood them.
By his marriage with Miss Davis, Jacob Vertrees
Had ten children, four suns and six daughters: (1).
William Duval Vertrees, the oldest son. was born March
21, 1816, at Brownsville, Kentucky; was educated
there; was a sergeant in Col. Churchill's command in
the Mexican war, and was wounded at Palo A.lto. Re
turning to Kent ucky, he was elected and served several
terms in the Legislature, alter which he was county
judge of Hardin county fin' fifteen years. He married,
in 1855, Miss Haynes, of Elizabethtown ; sin; died in
1876, leaving four children : Mattie Vertrees, now wife
of Mr. Bernard, dealer in agricultural implements, New
Orleans; John Vertrees, a telegraph operator in the
employ of the Louisville and Nashville railroad ; Cath-
arine Vertrees, new living in Elizabethtown; Charles
Vertrees, who died at the age id eighteen. (2). James
Cunningham Vertrees, born in Brownsville, Kentucky,
in 1825, and educated there; married Miss Susan Lee,
of North ( Jarolina, now a merchant in Palatka, Florida ;
has three sons : John J, Vertrees, who graduated at the
Lebanon law school, and is new a distinguished attor-
ney at Nashville, and regarded as one of the ablest
lawyers in the State; James Cunningham Vertrees, jr.,
born in Missouri; now with his rather in business at
Palatka; William Otter Vertrees, now law partner
with John .1. Vertrees; received his literary education
at the University of Nashville, and graduated from the
law department of Vanderbilt University in 1883. (ill.
Woodford Mitchell Vertrees, subject of this sketch.
(4). John L. Vertrees, born at Brownsville, Kentucky,
March 21, 1829; graduated from the medical depart
mentofthe University of Louisville, in 1857; practiced
in Glasgow, Kentucky, until th itbreak of the war,
when he joined the Confederate army and was made
surgeon of the Sixth Kentucky regiment, Col. Joseph
II. Lewis commanding. When Col. Lewis was made
brigadier general and given command of the famous
Kentucky " Orphan Brigade,'' Dr. Vertrees was made
brigade-surgeon. He has, ever since the war, been dis-
abled by paralysis, the result of his labors and exposure
while in service. The daughters of Jacob Vertrees
were: (1). Nancy TV Vertrees, who became the wife
of John I). < )tter, a leading wholesale grocer and com
mission merchant, of Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Otter
died in June, 1883, leaving four sons, who succeeded
him in the management of the business carried on at
the comer id' Sixth and .Main streets, Louisville, one
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of the largest wholesale and Commission houses in that
city. ('_!). Rebecca l'«. Vertrees, married Dr. I*. J. L.
Ford, of Rocky Hill, Kentucky. CD. Sarah Wright
Vertrees, married James II. Wortham, of Leitchfield,
Kentucky, who died in 1857, leaving two sons; James
Wortham, an attorney, and Woodford Wortham, drug-
gist; both now living ai Leitchfield. (I). Zerelda
Hopkins Vertrees, married Thomas Hardey, son of XT, ja/^K
Lieut.-Gov. Hardey, of Kentucky ;<fiT5w reside at
Horse Cavej Kentucky, and has four children. (5).
Mary If. Vertrees/ died in ls;>7. the wife of Charles
Wortham. (II). Elizabeth Vertrees, died at the age of
sixteen.
Dr. Vertrees attended literary scl 1 at Brownsville,
Kentucky, until he was twenty years old, when he en-
tered Wirt College, Sumner county, Tennessee, remain-
ing there two years, under President Tl tas Patterson.
During his collegiate course among his class mates were
lion. Alha Thomas, ex treasurer of Tennessee, and
I km. Thomas I!, [vie, of Shelliyville. lie then lend
medicine under Dr. John Sweeney, at Smith's Grove,
Kentucky, and afterward attended the medical depart-
ment of the University of Louisville, where he gradu-
ated, in 1851, under President James Guthrie, lie
practiced at Smith's Grove one year, then moved lo
Elizabethtown ami remained there until 1857, when he
went to Mattoon, Illinois, and practiced until the he
ginningof the war. He was elected mayorof Mattoon
in I860, on tin' Democratic ticket, hut resigned and
removed to Franklin, Kentucky, remaining there until
he removed to Nashville, in 1871.
Dr. Vertrees was one of the founders of the Nash-
ville Medical College (now medical department id' the
I (niversity of Tennessee), the charter being granted to
Drs. Duncan Eve, J. B.Stephens, W. F. Clem,, W. C.
Cook and W. M. Vertrees. At the organizati f the
faculty, he was elected professor of materia medica and
therapeutics, hut resigned in L881. In 1883, he was
elected to the chair of medica] chemistry and toxicol-
ogy, and iii hss,"), was transferred to the chair of materia
medica and therapeutics, which he now till-.
Dr. Vertrees was a charier member of Tennessee
Lodge, No. 20, Knights of Honor, the lodge [being or.
ganized about six n ths after the founding of the
order, and at a time when il had not more than five
hundred members. He afterward withdrew and was a
charter member of Cumberland Lodge, Edgefield. He
has been a member of the Christian church twenty live
years, and was on the building committee id' the first
Christian church built at Mattoon, Illinois. In a Slate
where he is so well-known, it is almost superfluous to
saj he is a Democrat of the loyalest and most unswerv-
ing type. He east his first vole for Franklin 1'n ice and
has voted the Democratic ticket ever since.
Dr. Vertrees married, in 1857, Miss Martha Ford,
daughter of Dr. William Ford, of Dripping Spring,
Warren counts, Kentucky. By this marriage In I i
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LOOKINd i i In two principal fn the
ml nnd pride nnd taking
the niedicnl profession ;i~ the mean ofhotli
in climatic
influences, or the products ..I' it- soil, to prevent the
■•! tii of charueter and talent here in I
ci|iial i" an) "ii the I ~ |j ,1,.
v'clo|ied surgical talent ei|ual to (I lie host in the
world >l t.i flint, nnd diagnosticians
that I uperiors on the continent. The more
prominent phj -
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the hi I r, making themselves to use
tin- 1 i most eloquent of them .ill " both
hi. I to honor their work the
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president tothi m of superintendents
of insane asj I urns of the I 'nitcd H
credited I to the World M
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at I'hiladclphia, and, tin • II, ore
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chair "I an in the medical di
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Univei orship which he now holds with
n. I brilliant t i the
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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
435
HON. NATHAN GREEN, LL. D.
LEBANON.
Til I'] reputation of this distinguished educator in
the law is one that is not confined to Tennessee
alone, but is co-extensive with the geographical bound-
aries of the Union, and particularly with those of the
South. Thousands of men, now eminent in judicature
and statesmanship — many of them enrolled among the
nomina clara of the Republic, and thousands of others
struggling up the rugged paths to eminence, with hearts
of steel and intellects of fire — hear the impress of this
master mind, and testify to his great abilities.
Judge Green was born in Winchester, Tennessee,
February lit, 1827, and in that vicinity grew up to the
age of sixteen, alternately going to school and working
on his father's farm — his father's policy being to train
his children to respect the dignity and acquire a knowl-
edge of manual labor. It was a wise policy, too, for it
strengthened the boy's physical constitution and taught
him, besides, to appreciate school learning the more
when he could get to it. In 1843, his father sent him
to Cumberland University, at Lebanon, where he en-
tered the junior class and graduated A.B., in two years,
under Rev. T. C. Anderson, president, and Profs. N.
Lawrence Lindsley and A. P. Stewart. After gradua-
tion he served five months as tutor in the preparatory
school of the university. After this he returned home
to Winchester and began reading law, and in Septem-
ber, 1S47, entered the first class of the law school,
founded at Lebanon, by Judge Abram Caruthers. In
two years he graduated, receiving the degree of LL.B.
under Profs. Caruthers and .Judge Nathan Green, sr.,
father of this subject. He then formed a partnership
with Judge Robert L. Caruthers and began the prac-
tice of law at Lebanon in the fall of 1849, and remained
in this partnership twelve months, until Judge Ca-
ruthers went upon the Supreme bench. In 1853, he
associated with himself in the practice of law the late
Gen. Robert Hatton, and with him remained in prac-
tice three years, doing a good business, when they dis-
solved partnership, Gen. Hatton going to congress, in
1856, and Judge Green taking the professorship of law
in Cumberland University, in which he was associated
with his father, Judge Nathan Green, sr.. and Judge
Abram Caruthers, until the breaking out of the war
between the States, in 1861. During this period, before
the war, the law school was remarkably successful,
numbering as high as one hundred and eighty pupils.
At the breaking out of the war, Lincoln's proclama-
tion of April 13, 1861, caused the suspension of its
operations, its five hundred students in all departments
scattering everywhere, most of them going into the
southern army, and Judge Green's occupation as a law
teacher was gone.
Shortly after the beginning of the war his old friend.
Prof. A. P. Stewart, having been made general in the
Confederate States army, invited him to accept a place
on his statf as first aid-de-camp, which he accepted and
afterward became adjutant-general. He remained in
the army while it was at Columbus, Kentucky, and was
afterward at Fort Pillow, Island Ten. New Madrid, and
Shiloh. He was exposed to lire at New Madrid and
Shiloh only. Shortly after the battle ol Shiloh, his
health railing, he resigned his position, but rejoined the
army in the fall of 1863, having been appointed. May,
1864, superintendent of engineering works, located first
at Atlanta and then at Macon, Georgia. This position
he filled till the surrender. In April, 1SI>.">, he was
captured by the Federal General Wilson at Macon,
Georgia, and paroled. In company with hundreds of
other Tennesseans be started home, but at Chattanooga
he and they were perfidiously arrested and imprisoned by
the Federal authorities, and detained prisoners till they
took the oath of allegiance, ten days afterward. While
in prison they were treated contemptuously in all ways,
with one exception. A sergeant of the Federal army,
finding that Judge Geeen was destitute of money and
of all things, gave him a horse on which he made his
way home to Lebanon, after two years' absence. On
arriving home, his beard having become gray, and his
clothing being the regulation rebel gray, rather coarse
gray at that, his children did not know him.
Although the country was in a desolate and dis-
rupted condition, the mails had been stopped and the
means of communication were limited, Judge Green
and his father, who was then in feeble health, reopened
the law school in September, 1865, Judge Abram Ca-
ruthers having died during the war. They succeeded
in collecting some twenty-five young men, every one of
whom had been an officer or soldier in one or the
other of the contending armies. All of them being be-
ginners, the work of the law school necessarily devolved
on Judge Nathan Green, jr. His father having at-
tempted to teach law a few months, sickened and died,
March 3d, 1866. On his death-bed the eminent gen-
tleman called the son to him and said, " If you fail to
get Judge Ridley or Judge McKinney to take my
place your law school is gone.'' He got neither, both
having declined. He, however, in September, 180G,
secured the services and co-operation of Hon. Henry
Cooper, late United States senator, and the law school,
instead of dying, as the father had predicted, doubled
in numbers within six months after his death — so
true it is that the success of no enterprise is depend
ent upon any one man, however great he may be. There
is always somebody raised up in the providence of God
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Mr. Wilson's mothi is a native
nty. the daught f David Rice, who
canie unty, Virginia, and settled in
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Mary Wilson, wife of Dr. G. II. K 2 near
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N is Mi W - - lawyer, but he
East T
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his name is associated with many of the most imj
ins in his section
Bis - upright and honorable.
II strictly temperate — was never even a dram
iker: ih\ n games of chance: has always
• .p. and be prompt and ready
for tl
Without - q on his part, he was nominated to
the Legislature and served one term, but has refused to
a :in under any circumstances. In his
1 that he has staid at one place;
acentrated his energies upon one bus
friendly man — and has fixed habits and
1 principles — and thus has secured the full confi-
dence of the public. A gentleman of culture, he is not
the mere lawyer, but stands high in social circles also.
As - - forcible: is a thoughtful, stu-
::iselor. and as a lawyer, is
;ful and energetic in the management of
- 5. Living among people who have
wn him all his life, h is - med by them for
Dal ability and personal integrity, which is
num. perhaps, than anything an editor can
MAJ. JOHN T. WILLIAMSON.
MBIA.
MAJ. -T(»HN T. WILLIAMSON, lawyer, editor
and - • the s three
child: - nry county, Ten - •
11, 1339. and. with the exception - f his
early boyhood, that county has - lifelong home,
•eived hi- Academy.
in Maury county, an -• sing in
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Iu May. 1361, he enlisted i: _
- i in Maury county fir the Confederate
service, and was made brevet second lieutenant in that
company, wheu it was organ iz John
C. Brown's Third Tennessee infantry regiment. Hu
saw the war to its - - rough.
North Carolina, in April. 1S(>5. having served iu Ten-
Kt-ntueky. Alabama. Miss s gia and
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in th - Perryville, Muri
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and in the numi
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by a tuinnir ball through his left arm. and disabl
. through his arm
mash
• if it had been hammered there of purpose.
On the reorganization of the Fifty-first Tennessee regi-
ment, at Shelbyville. Tennessee, he was elected major
of the regiment, and served in that capacity the balance
of the war.
After the great civil struggle had closed, finding
- If without property, and without trade or pr
hefirsttaug ' five months, i: : ' Brick
Church, i: unty. Tenness which he
clerked twelve months at the same place. In 1S67, he
commenced studyiug law with Friers"n & Fleniini: at
Columbia : was licensed to practice in March. 181 -
. - II. II. Harrison and A. M. Hughes: began
practic ■ lumbia, where he has since continued
with fair financial success
In politics, Mai. Williamson is a Democrat, and has
part in the political contests — national,
State and county — that have come before the public in
me. The first civil office he held was that of al-
derman of his t"wn. of which, in 1877-8
I \ 382 he was elected State sena-
B Democrat.," from Maury and Lewi-
counties, and during the session of the senate 0'
airman of the committee on new issue Tf.ii. -•
Be has been frequently =s:ut as a delegau- to
. - ul and State conventions of his party,
and was chairman of his county executive committee.
PROMINENT TENNUSSEANS.
139
He was president of the Tilden and Hendricks clul> of
Columbia, in 1S7H. While always a warm friend of the
Democratic party, and active in it. he has worked in a
quiet way rather than as seeking its honors. He took
the ]>nsitiiin iif Stair senator somewhat against liis
wishes, and only made the canvass, upon the represen
tation of his party friends that the success of the i
test depended upon liis making the fight.
He became a -Mason, in lsi;7. in Pleasant Grove
Lodge, No. 138, and lias taken all the degrees up to
and including Knight Templar, and has served as
.Master, High Priest and Eminent Commander. He is
also a member of the Royal Arcanum.
He married, in Charlotte county, Virginia, June 22,
1809, Miss AlbinaG le Bugg, a native of that county.
horn the daughter of Zachariah Bugg, a tobacco planter
and trader, also a native of Virginia. Her mother was
.Mary J. Goode, daughter of a Mr. Goode, of the family
of Coodes who for many years have furnished members
of Congress from that State. Mrs. Williamson was edu-
cated at Danville, Virginia. By this marriage, Maj.
Williamson has five children : Mary G. Williamson,
born August 12. 1S70; Ella Vernor Williamson, horn
in April, 1873, and died in August of the same year ;
George Bugg Williamson, horn September li, 1ST! ;
Lucy Mildred Williamson, horn October 8,1877; Lotta
Gray Williamson, born August 21, 1880.
Maj. Williamson and lady and their daughter, Mary,
are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church,
of which he is a deacon.
His parents having started in life poor, their children
were brought up to work anil labor on the farm ; some
were sent to school, while the others were kept at home
to " keep the plows a-going," yet, by alternating work
and schooling, the boys managed to get as good an edu-
cation as any of the hoys in the neighborhood. From
an early age, our subject had an inclination to the law,
was a studious boy and raised under strict moral train-
ing of Presbyterian parents. His father, (I. ('. William-
son, now living on his farm in Maury county, is in his
seventieth year, but quite stout and active, and in com-
fortable circumstances. He was raised in Giles county.
He is a fine specimen of the Tennessee farmer, and
throughout life has maintained a reputation for honor.
integrity and industry, and for devoted attachment to
his family — watching and following even his grown chil-
dren with paternal help, assistance and counsel. Maj.
Williamson's grandfather. Samuel Williamson, was a
Virginia farmer; married, in that State, Miss Judith
Woodfin, and settled in Giles county at an early date.
Maj. Williamson'smother, formerly Mildred Angeline
Brown, now living at the age of sixty-six years, was
horn in Maury county, the daughter of Charles Brown,
a firmer, and a native of Virginia. Her mother, Eliza-
beth Akers. a native Virginian, was the daughter of
Peter Akers. who settled twelve miles south of Colum-
bia, where he lived and died a. farmer. The whole
family, after settling in Tennessee, seem possessed of ex-
ceptional staying power. Maj. Williamson's father is now
living on tlie place settled by his great-grandfather,
Peter Akers, and many of the old generation now
lie buried in the same graveyard. Maj. Williamson's
brother, Charles S. Williamson, is a farmer in Maury
county, and his brother. Dr. James G. Williamson, is a
practicing physician near Culleoka. Both these broth-
ers were in the Confederate service, Charles S. in the
cavalry, and Dr. James G. in the same regiment with
our subject.
In 1882, .Maj. Williamson, immediately after the
nomination of (ien. Bate for governor, in connection
with others, purchased the Columbia Independent and
changed its name to the Maury Democrat, of which be
and Col. .1. L. Bullock were tin.' editors, Maj. William-
son being also the business manager. Subsequently
they sold the paper and both resumed their law
practice.
In personal appearance, Maj. Williamson is a very
attractive man. He stands live feet nine inches high,
has a Grecian cast of face, with large perceptive and
eoncentrative power, and makes the impression of a
kindly-natured man, making his way in the world in
moderation, without the restlessness, worry and hurry
that characterize too many of our business men. and
which shorten the lives of half that die.
The purposes of his life, he said to the editor, have
been " to put myself and family in comfortable circum-
stances, but I have never sought or craved riches; In
be liberal and fair with everybody with whom I have
dealings. I have never had hut little security money
to pay, and never had a note to go to protest. I have
endeavored so to act as to merit and retain the confi-
dence and esteem of my associates. The history of my
family has been that of a tight to come up in the world.
One of the ruling motives of my father's life has fern
that his children might not have to start where he did;
one of his desires that they might have advantages he
never had, and my feelings are the same toward my
family.' On such foundations noble families are built.
" To found a noble family is a noble ambition— for great
families make great States."
140
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS.
DAVID A. NEILSON, M. D.
'H'.V.
THIS geutleinau was born in Greene county, Ten-
nessee. March 25, 1S25, the son of Col. William
IV Neilson, a soldier in the Indian wars, under -lark
sou, a native of Virginia, who came with his father to
Greene county when he was quite young. He married.
in Claiborne county, Tennessee, lived a fanner, was a
\\ big in politics, a colonel *>i' militia, and a man of
great energy. He went into business, as a merchant,
when very young, bad a partner, broke for thirty-six
thousand dollars, and. in seven years, paid up his in-
debtedness, thus showing both energy and honesty.
He lived to the good old age of eighty, and died, in
1S64, respected and beloved by all who knew him Dr.
Neilson'- grandfather was Hugh Douglas Neilson, a na-
tive Scotchman, and a man of fine education. He mar-
ried Miss Sarah Hale, of Virginia, came as a pioneer
settler to Greene county, Tennessee, and died there a
large farmer.
Dr. Neilson's mother, ho Mis- Eliza Evans, was born
in Claiborne county, Tennessee, daughter of Gi
Evans, of lii-h descent. She was a woman of sterling
character, noted for her industry, economical habits,
and model housekeeping. Neither she nor her husband
were members of any church, nor is tin- son. though all
are believers in the Christian religion. She died at the
old homestead, in Greeue county, in September, 1843,
lcaviug five children: David Alexander Neilson, sub-
ject of this sketch; William l>. Neilson. died, unmar-
ried, while mining in California : Sarah -lane Neilson.
married John D. McCurly, a merchant, at Greeneville,
Tennessee, and ha- nine children; .lame- S. Neilson.
who married Mi-- Martha Baker, is now a very sue
cessful farmer, in Greene county, has two children, J.
T. and Jessi \ Isou, the former of whom is a phy-
sician, practicing at Emory. Virginia; Eliza Neilson,
married dame- L. Cain, a farmer, in Greeue county,
now merchandising in Mississippi.
The Neilson family are a thrifty people, mostly fann-
ers and merchants. Hugh D. Neilson, an uncle of Dr
Neilson. was a well-known and prominent merchant, at
Somen ille, Tennessee.
Dr. Neil.-on. from infancy till thirteen year- old. be-
ing afflicted with a skin diseasi • . was confined
to the house in winters, and only went to school in
summer. From that time on. continuously, he went to
school, attending Tusculum C .1 years, and two
years at the college in Greenville, lie began reading
medicine when twenty year- old, under Dr. F. M.
Compton. In 1S46, he entered the University of the
City of New York, took his medical decree in IS48,
under 1'' Valentine Mott, Samuel Henry
Dickson, Granville S. Pattison, Martin Payne and
Gunning S. Bedford. Alter serving a- assistant sur-
geon in the hospital attached to that institution some
four months, he returned home, married, ami went to
practice at his father's, in Greene county. Practicing
there till 1S53, he moved to Wheelock, Robertson
county. Texas, where he practiced two years ; moved to
Williamsburg, Kentucky, ami practiced till 1857, when
he moved hack to Greene county, Tennessee, to a farm
given him by his father, ami practiced medicine ami
finned till 1S6S, when he settled in Morristown. where
he ha.- practiced ever since, with the exception of the
year LS70, when he was in the commission business at
Chattanooga, a venture that proved financially disas
trous.
During the war. he was a Union man. hut prac-
ticed medicine all the time, not going into either army
a.- a soldier. Since the war he has voted with the
Democrats. For a number of years he was exam-
ining surgeon for the pension office at Morristown.
He also served as an alderman, at Morristown, several
years.
Dr. Neilson first married in Knox county. Kentucky,
October 2S, IS4S Mi-- -lane R. Herndon, who was horn
December 24, 1^21. the only daughter of Benjamin F.
Herndon. a farmer and stock-trader, originally from
Virginia. Her mother. Theodosia Renfro, was the
daughter of William Renfro, also a Virginian, Mrs.
Neilson's only brother, Dr. 0. 1'. Herndon. is now a
prominent physician at Barboursville, Kentucky. Mrs.
Neilson was educated at Greeneville, Tennessee, was a
woman of great energy, of decided domestic taste-, a
member of the Christian [Campbellite) church, ami .lied.
tary '24. 1876, leaving her husband three children
living: \\). Nellie Neilson. educated at Morristown,
married George S. Crouch, cashier of the Fourth Na-
tional Bank of .Morristown. has three children. Katie,
Jennie and Lillie. (2). Sallie Neilson. educated at Mor-
ristown, married A. G. Stewart, now at Buffalo. New
York, a tine business man. They have two children.
Alexander and Gaines. (3). William B. Neilson. now
a practicing physician at Whitesburg, Tennessee. Dr.
Neilson's second marriage, which transpired at Russell-
ville. Tennessee. September 11. 1877, was with Miss
Mollie M. Burt-, daughter of John Buns. Her mother
Miss Finch. By this marriage. Dr. Neilson has
two children : (11. Ludie Neilson ra Neilson.
Dr. Neilson became a Mason, in Greeneville, Ten-
has taken the Chapter degrees, ami has
served as Captain of the Host. He is a quiet, pleasant-
mannered man. sociable, friendly, hut not obtrusive, is
not a man to take trouble to heart, is devoted to his
practice, with a ruling ambition to educate his children
tor advancement in life. A peculiarity of this gentle-
man is that, when a patient badly need.- hi- attention,
PKOMINENT TENNESSE WS.
ill
he stays with him, treating him conscientiously, and
will not leave him to go to a new patient. This has
always 1 n his course, and by this means he has saved
the life oi many a man who, had he left him to attend
to another call, must have died. It occurs to th litor
that if a physician should leave a patient needing hi
attention, and he should die, that the doctor must evi r
i hereaftei I"- a miserable man.
Dr. .Wilson is about medium height, weighs one hun
dred and seventy pounds, is of broad, compact build,
is very dressy, and impresses one as a man content to
do lii j duty and given to i he enjoj men! of life.
HON. JAMES
\n \ir
JUDGE GREER, though comparatively young, lias
made for himself a fine reputation as a criminal
judge, and lias, besides, the distinction of being the
youngest judge in the State. The secret of his emi-
nence is attributable not only to what he believes, but
to that which he enforces by praetiee. Criminal law,
he hold-, is the enforcement of the demands of a com-
munity, that every man shall observe a decent respect
for the opinions and rights of mankind. It is not less
the prerogative than the duty of man to obey law.
( (bedience is the expression of his man! 1 and of his
love of liberty. It measures the value he sets on free
dom. A criminal judge, sitting to determine whether
men properly obey the law, should himself be a man of
high moral tone, fine character, a man oi mark, quick
tu perceive, and prompt to art upon his conceptions.
The administration of his court should not be harsh,
nor yet merciful, but rigid and directed t" the sup-
pression of crime and immorality in whatever form
they manifest a contempt for organic society, and
should guard the statutes designed tu protect the pub-
lic. Though a kind-hearted man. he should be a firm
judge, punctual in attendance tu business, granting and
insisting mi the speedy tidal of prisoners, and keeping
his docket cleared. These are tin- leading traits in the
intricate character of Judge Greer, and which, the law-
yers "!' Memphis say, peculiarly lit, him I'm- a criminal
judge, especially because he is fearless and cannot he
swayed in thought or speech or aetion by what has be-
come known as the "popular breeze." lie is of that
(dass of men who are not for the moment merely, hut
have lasting qualities, and are destined to live. Re-
markable for his skill in the analysis ol character, he
is likewise distinguished for his discriminating esti-
mates of men. Tn the administration of his office lie
has never been swerved by public clamor. When old
evils that had fastened as a sore mi the body politic had
been given over as incurable, mild salves being applied
by others, he, with the boldness of a skilllnl surgeon,
cut them out — gambling, for instance and received as
his immediate reward much hostile criticism and bitter
condemnation. The one he accepted good humoredly,
and followed tin- path of duty, unmoved by the other.
I'ii equence he instituted many reforms which were
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M. GREER.
HIS.
at first conde 1, but in six months the papers that
had censured, applauded him for his achievements.
.lames M. Greer was born in Holly Springs, Miss-
issippi, October l'T, 1847, and there grew to the age
of sixteen, \.fter receiving an academic education at
Holly Springs, he became a cadet in the Virginia Mili-
tary Institute, 'the West Point ol the Smith." Early
in 1864, the battalion of cadets, of which he was a
member, went into the Confederate army. Col. Shipp
commanding tin- battalion of four companies, serving
in Virginia until April ::, 1865, when, upon the
evacuation of Kidi id, the battalion was disbanded.
Vnitnu Greer served throughout as a private, and the
gallant body of young soldiers, of which he was a mem-
ber, served under Gen. Breckinridge in the charge at
New Market, in I he Shenandoah Valley, in the engage
mem at Lexington, in defense of Lynchburg when it
was attacked by Hunter, and in a number of skirmishes
around Richmond.
The war over, he returned, at the age of eighteen, to
bis father's home in Holly Springs, finding the family
so impoverished as to render it necessary to leave their
town home and go to their plantation, in 1 »e Solo
county, Mississippi. There he spent five years, work-
ing on the farm, studying law at such intervals as he
could find between plowing, scraping cotton, and other
work incidental to a Mississippi plantation. For-
tunately, he had the assistance of his father, an able,
retired lawyer, and, therefore, his nights and odd times
were spent profitably, lie went in Memphis, completed
his law studies, and was licensed to practice by Judges
('. W. Heiskell ami W. L. Scott, and began practice
with three acquaintai - ami one hundred and fiftj do!
lars in his pocket, showing the confidence he had in
himself I the stuff that was in him. While waiting
tor tin- coming client, he helped to ek it his exist-
ence by writing anonymous articles for the New \ <>vk
Ledger. After a while, however, clients did come
and his j ;, rradually increased until .March lit.
1883, when he was appointed judge of the criminal
court of Shelby county, his present position. Like his
family for thne generations before him, Judge Greer is
a I >• mocrat but not a strict partisan, nor has he taken
an active part in polities. He is a Knight of II
Ill'
PROMINENT TENNESSE W-
and of the Royal V.syluui. In religion, he is a Prot-
estant I v liseopalian, as is also his wife.
Judge Greer married in St. Charles, Missouri. 5
t cm her 27, lx77. Mi.-s Betty Buekner Allen, a native
of Lexington, Kentucky, a daughter of Dr. John R.
Allen, who, from IStiO to his death, in 1877, was a prom-
inent practitioner at Memphis, formerly physician in
charge of the Insane Asylum at Les Kentucky.
He was a member of the Iowa State senate, from Kei
kuk. in 1S56, and distinguish If in thai
by introducing measures for the care of the ins
i which was a specialty with him, and for which
he became widely km
By his marriage with Miss Vlli J r has
three children, all born si Memphis: Allen James
li er, Autry Greer, and Rowan VdamsGn
Judge Greer's great -real grandfather, Jam
came from the north of 1 reland, win re some nicmbers of
tin' lau i lie settled in
v. ii the Potomac river. His son. .lames Greer
was born the!
after the arrival of the family in Virginia. He became
a lieutenant ill the American army in the Revolution-
ary war. married a Miss Ilayne, of the celebrated South
Carolina family of that name, and after the war
tanner in Virginia. His son. also named James Greer
(Judge Greer's grandfather^, was hern and gri
manhood in Virginia, married a Miss Searcy, emigrated
lirst to Georgia, thence to Sumner county, Tern
where .lames M. Greer, Judge Greer's father, was hern.
Januarj 22. 1SK3. Shortly alter the birth of Judge
Greer's father, the grandfather moved to Paris, Ten-
nessee, and there the son was reared. The family
quently moved to Holly Springs, Mississippi.
where .lames A] Greer, having studied law. entered
upon practice, and won much distinction in hi> pro-
i. lie married Miss Mary Elizabeth Autry. De-
cember 22, IS41, and soon alter retired from
tiee. engaged in planting, and subsequently represented
I1, Soto county in the Mississippi Legislature. He re-
moved te Corsicana, Texas, in March, lS7t>, and there
died. March 21, 1S79. He was noted for his keen ap-
preciation of humor, for the great strength with which
good humored ridicule as a weapon, and
for li - of accurate information, historical
and political. His m ol -ham and his
sincerity of speech, made him the champion oi' the
weak, but gave him a large number o
amoug the strong. He had no patience with anything
that approached pretense, fraud and hypocrisy, lie
man of strong character, but without the train-
ing of a mother, as she died when he was onlj three
old. One of his brothers, Hon. Robert S. i
of Marshall county, Mississippi, was for twenty-five
years in the State senate, and during that long period of
service was identified with the early law-making of that
and, without being a meat man. was conspii
for his clear, common sense and devotion to honest and
iinical government. Another brother, Gen. Kb
:: Greer, was a lieutenant in Jeffersou Davis' regi-
ment in the Mexican war. and afterwards a major-
ral in the Confederate army, under Gen. Price.
Judge Greer's motl er. •■ Miss Mary E. Autry. was
in Jackson, Tennessee, February 7. 1>iI7. daugh-
: Maj. Micajah Autry. whose name is the first on
the monument that marks the Alamo, where he died
in the struggle for Texan independence. He was of
French stock. Born to fortune and reared in easy cir-
cumstances, having no business aptitude, he spent his
inheritance early in his married lite. With Crockett he
went to Texas, at the time of the revolution there, in
the des] i rate I lining tame ami fortune for his
family. A desi soldiers, he naturally
to il is calling. When the blood.v massacre at the
Alamo came, be fell with Crockett, Travis, Bowie, and
the remainder of the one hundred, and as Leonidas and
his gallant hand at Thermopylae immortalized Spartan
history, so the\ gave an illustrious page to that of
America. Hi- s grandmother), was
Miss Martha Wyche Put itive of A irginia, and
iidant of an English family. When a widow, she
removed to Holly Spnn^s. and with an indomitable
will that nothing could conquer, 1 in raising
ami educating her -on and daughter. The daughter
ne the mother of Judge Greer. The son. ("ol.
James 1.. Autry, graduated at St. Thomas' Hall. Holly
•ted to tin I. »isla1 ure, ami made
speaker of the Mississippi house of representatr
the age of twenty-two, the youugest speaker in the
Cnited States, lie was the military govi \ icks-
- -.'. and at the demand
of Vdmiral Farragut for surrender, made the celebrated
response, " Mississippians don't know- how to surren-
der." He was afterward colonel of the Twenty-seventh
Mississippi regiment, and was killed at the head of his
command, in the battle of Murfreesborough, December
:il. I8ti3. Judge Greer's mother is now living at Corsi-
cana, Texas. She has four children, all lawyers: Hal.
Wyche Greer, at Beatimont, Texas, Robert Autry
Greer, and He Edward Greer, at Corsieaua, Texas, and
the eldest, James M. Greer, the subject of this sketch.
She inherited from her French ancestry the enthusiasm
and courage which marks that people, ami has sobered
it by taking from her Euglish stock common sense and
unflinching ranee. SL - f rare mu-
sical and poetic talent, which she has cultivated to
an extreme, but used neither, except tin- the training ot
her children and the entertainment of her friends. A
religionist, whose faith in Jesus as the Son of God has
never wavered, she ha- anxiously read and studi
that Darwin. Huxley and Tyndall have said about the
material world, believes in evolution, and reconciles it
with Christianity.
Judge Greer has not accumulated a large property.
I ' I ; ( ) M I N K N T T E N N ESS E A XS.
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Like many other lawyers, he seems to have accepted
Sydney Smith's idea, to live happily, bring up his
family, and seek to do no man harm. Necessarily,
i herefore, he lias spent for them his professional inc ■
i he made it, yet he is in quite independent circum
stances. His first ambition has been to hand down to
his children the same thing he received from his fa-
ther a clean ami honestname; his second has heen to
win for himself the reputation of being a just and a
truthful man. [ncident to these ambitions he has de
sired, by study and reading, to know whal the wise
have thought and to apply that thought to his every-
day life, so that he might remember that whilst the
world was made for him, it was also made for his neigh
bor. His desire for political distinction,- which in-
spired him in his younger days, he has had to lay aside
for the duties devolved upon him as the head of a
family. His leading characteristic is dogged, unflinch-
ing persistence, which amounts at times to tin' appear-
ance nl obstinacy. His course points out clearly that
he does what lie deliberately thinks is right. He is in-
flexibly honest, and has a reputation as a dispassionate,
logical and upright jurist.
During the short time that Judge Greer has presided
in the criminal court, he has made a distinct and indi-
vidual impression as a judicial officer. Coming after
.Indue llorrigan, his career was watched with more
than usual interest, and he lias not disappointed his
many warm personal friends and that element of the
people who desire to see the fearless administration of
justice. Sentiment has played too large a pari in the
administration of the law in the South, and the ten-
dency has been toward the exaltation of the criminal.
Sympathy for a man in distress, no matter how heinous
or disgraceful his offense, not unfrequently plucks the
prisoner from a merited punishment, but surrounds
him with a halo of glory and innocence. It is hardly
in 1 1 an to say that Judge Greer has at no time shown
any inclination to yield to sentimentalism, instead of
enforcing the law. The tendency oi his mind and
taste i- pre eminently judicial. He is a cool, fear-
less and clear-headed thinker, with one guiding star
before him, and that is the conscientious and intel-
ligent enforcement of the laws. When he assumed
the bench, tin-re was no laxity in the prosecutions
against panic-, carrying concealed weapons, [f any-
thing, he was even stricter than hi predecessor, and
nothing but good character could mitigate the im-
prisonment of the criminal. .Men high in social posi
tion, have been sentenced to the jail, and have bad to
go there. It is in his stand against gambling that Judge
Greer has, probably, in the most conspicuous way, earned
the gratitude of the] pie of Shelby county. When
he announced that he intended enforcing the laws
against gaming, there were thobe who sought to ridicule
him li> calling him a crusader, a moral judge, a vis-
ion he bad the consolation of knowing that
the gamblers have all scattered and tied, and that the
last resorts of the guild, maintained in secret and
dark places, were raided and almost broken up. This
movement has been of lasting benefit to the working-
men nl Memphis, many of whom spent all their wagi
in the professional gambling hells. It is unnecessary
to call at ten i ion to .1 udge Greer's administration of jus-
tice in detail. In brief, he does not know what it is to
temporize Or Compromise with crime, and his One eon
viction is thai there is no need of law unless it is In lie
enforced, and lie has shown the requisite courage, the
requisite indifference to unpleasant personal conse
quences, and the requisite intelligence to enforce it.
Though some of bis positions on law questions have
seemed extreme, vet t he results have shown that he is no
legal heretic, and it can be fairly said of him that his law
is as sound a- his administration of justice is fearless.
HON. DAVID M. KEY.
CHA TT< I
HON. DAVID M. KEY, ex-United State i n
tor from Tennessee, ex-postmaster-general of
the United Stat.--, and now United States district judge,
was bom in ( rreene county, Tennessee, January 27, 1824,
the -mi of Rev. John Key, a Methodist preacher and
farmer, a native of Greene county, who died in Mon-
roe county, at the age of fifty six. Rev. John Key
was a man of very ardent and enthusiastic tempera-
ment, rather distinguished as a revivalist, in the neigh
bold I of his operations, and of great power Over the
audiences he addressed, though having bul a limited
education. He was remarkable for his adherence to
principle, and his reputation for I -t\ was never as-
NOOG I.
sailed. His grandfather was a pioneer settler in East
'fei ssee, came fr Scotland, and settled in Greene
county in Revolutionary times, or before. David Key.
Judge Key's grandfather, was horn, lived and died in
Greene county, a farmer. In politics, the family were
always Democratic Jeffersonian and Jacksonian. They
were plain country folk, farmers of the middle class, none
rich, none without property, and all bad comfortable
homesteads and lived in quiet, i asj rural simplicity.
Judge Key's mother, wh maiden name was Mar-
garet Armitage, was a native also of Greene county.
born February 18, 1804, the daughter of Isaac Ann
itage of an English family. Her mother was Elizabeth
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PROMINENT TENNESSK W-
if Easl Teuin ssee. The Arn
family eauie from Pennsylvania, were of good reputa-
tion in the localities of tl hut ii"t known
far from home. Judge Key's mother died April 12,
'--_' iving four children : the suhjeet of this sketch ;
' -I 1 1 Brunner, president of
Uiw;i- i Monroe county, Tennessee: John
V. Key, who married Miss Margaret Pi
couuty, and is now farming in Texas Summerfield A.
\ i leading lawyer of Chattanooga. The latter mar-
ried Miss Mary K. Devinc, daughter of John 1.. De
vine, a merchant and planter of that city. Tli
hrother, though not an aspiring man. served in the
Tenness L slature. tl -77 S
Judge Key was brought up on a farm and worked in-
dustriously, a business that - got in
him those simple ui nd plain tastes that have
distinguished him through life. Morally, he was always
oxenr, 'me habits, owing to the in-
fluenc irents. The •' r that
hem-. - an oath in his life His i lucatiou be-
gan in the bai common -
county. His father vein iinty, Ten-
. when the son was only t\\ - Id. hut he
and finally be-
came the firs :e oi II:
IS50. He had read law in the private office
H ?te] hens, while attending school, and was
licensed to practice in 1S50, by Chancellor Thomas 1.
.ms and Circuit -1 ; r Ales
shed in their day. In is.").'!, he reu
. where he has resided ever since, in the
practice of law. in which he I
Judge Key uiarri R I
July 1, 1S57, Miss 1 I iir, who was horn iu Chat-
28. lc tS, the dauj I en. Albert
S|. came
from North Cai -- 0 father's ma-
ternal side, shi
still Avery, who was a member of tl
a that ni:, '. n declaration oi
pendenee: was the first attorney-general of North Caro-
lina after her separation from tin' mother country, and
noted as < ten. -! luel he
neither of the combatants were hurt,
and \ r after a warm politico
M - 'andfather.
\ irth Carolina senate, and
impany a; the battle of King - M
tain. Mrs. Key's mother was a Welcker. of German
h Henry Welcker, who earn.
many ane county, T Mrs.
\ - James M. Weleker. was I the
Knoxville circuit court, and
his term 1 office. Her uni
Welck haneellor of the Chattanooga ehaneerv
division, at the commencement of the war. but was
from his office when the Federals took possession
of Kasl Tennessee, in 1863
M - Key reci lueation, and is noted for
; considerate and cautious. It 1 ?aid of
her that si • rush to her conclusions a- women
are supposed to do. generally, but reasons her \v;n
them. She i> doubtless entitled to no small share of
the credit for her husband's success. She is quite a
hat man. tall and graceful, and of commanding
presence: a firm, resolute woman, but of a disposition
amiable that it is said all who know her are her
friends. Her principal characteristics are stability of
character and loyalty to her convictions.
By this uiarri Key has nine children, all
:n during the family residence in Chattanooga:
Emma Key, educated at Salem. North Carolina, and
afterward graduated at Baltimore. She married, dune
20. 1883, to \V. B. Thomps - ral superintendent
the railway mail service of the diked State.-, a
nati New York. She died March S, 18S5. A
the New York World, writing from
ill City, upon the occasion of the death of
this most estimable lady say> : "The death oi Mi's.
Emma Key Th fhieh was anuounced here this
great surprise. It was a shock to a
large number of pi Mrs. Thompson was the
daughter of .Indue Key. postmaster-general of the
Hayes administration. Miss Emma Key was the belle
that period in Washington. She was a tall, well-
developed, regular featured blonde. She had very blue
ear complexions, while her yel-
low hair was slightly inclined to red. She was a very
matter-of-fact young lady, without the slightest affecta-
She was thoroughly well educated,
and would have been at ease in any society. After
her father retired from the cabinet, she went back
with him to Chattanooga, Tennessee She returned
here - alter marrying Mr. Thomp-
who '.' - - rintendeut of the railway
mail service, under Judge Key. Mr. - m is a
capitalist. He afterwards established himself in Wash-
ti. doing a general speculative business. Mrs.
Thompson was the most conspicuous of the
young matrons of Washington society. She went home
for a visit early in the winter. When she went away
-he was apparently in perfect health. Several years
sin - ere injuries by being thrown from
a carriage. It is probable that some latent develop-
ment of the injuries at that time has resulted in her
has been ill nearly all of the time since she
went home. N f the time has her illness been re-
- - - until very recently.' _' Albert Le-
ft rn July — ,1861, graduated from the
Annapolis United States Naval Academy, and is in the
naval service now. in the Asiatic water- Kate
Key. graduated at Baltimore, with her sister Emma,
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115
after attending with her the Salem sol 1. (I). Sallie
C Key, educated al Salem, North Carolina. (5). Mag
gie Key. now attending school at Chattai ga. (6).
John S. Key. (7). David M. Key, jr. (8). Lenoir Key.
(9). Lizzie Kej
In the war of the rebellion, the firsl positi ludge
Kej held was that of adjutant general, on Gen. Cas-
well's staff, in the Confederate army. He afterward be-
came lieutenant colonel of the Forty third regiment of
Tennessee volunteer infantry, which office he held till
the end of the war, refusing all promotion, he having
loyally assisted in raising the regiment, and many fathers
having sanctioned their sons going into the service be-
cause lie was its lieutenant-colonel, James W. ( rillespie,
an old Mexican soldier, being its colonel, lie was with
Gen. E. Kirby Smith and Gen Bragg, in their Ken
tucky campaigns, and was captured in the siege of
Vicksburg. lie was at the siege of Vicksburg, and was
wounded by a minnie ride ball.
.Indue Key, like his ancestors were, is Democratic!
but betakes no part in politics. In 1856, he was on
the Tennessee State electoral ticket when Buchanan
was elected, and in 1860, was mi the Breckinridge
ticket, but has never aspired to become a candidate
for any political office. In 1870, he was sent, with-
out opposition, to the constitutional convention of Ten-
nesssee, from the counties of Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea,
Bledsoe and Sequatchie. In August, 1870, after the
adoption of the new constitution, he was elected chan-
cellor of the Chattanooga chancery division, and served
until August, 1875, when Gov. -lames D. Porter ap-
pointed him United States senator for Tennessee, to
succeed Andrew Johnson, who died in that position.
He remained in the senate until January, 1S77. In
March following, he was appointed postmaster- general
of the United States by President Rutherford B. Hayes,
and served until August 25, 1880, when he resigned
d> accept the office <>l United States district judge for
the districts of Eastern and Middle Tennessee, which
office he still holds.
Neil her .1 udge Key or his wife belong to any church,
though both were brought up by Methodist parents,
are orthodox in their views, and understood to be
Methodistic in their leanings. As to property, Judge
Key is in comfortable circumstances. From boyl '1
he has been a close economist, from necessity and in-
clination ; was never sued mi a note, except as security
fur ethers, and has never been a borrower of money.
Like all Confederates, he came out of the war with
nothing, ami, indeed, is not- believed to be very ambi-
tious to he rich, lint, only for excelling in his profession
ami to discharge his duties to his clients ami the public,
when iii public position. 1 1 is methods have been to
keep out of debt. Office? he ha- held, Imt he never
sought one of them; he had not ci gh audacity.
Always honest ami truthful, never deceiving the public
or individuals, he has so demeaned himself as to win
the confidence of the people, of the governor, and the
president, lie was never a politician, though a party
man, and often endorsed by political opponents. He
has always sought to he right— never sacrificing a prin-
ciple for partj consistency or party advantage. In fact,
as Col. Jeremiah George Harris, of Nashville, has said
of Judge Key, "Put him in a company ol great men,
and he will he the only man present that will not know'
that he is himself a great man.''
Judge Key stands six feet high, is erect, and some-
what corpulent, weighing two hundred ami forty
pounds. 1 1 is silver gray hair, which he wears roached,
is luxuriant. His look is like his reputation, quiet,
serene, and von benevolent. He appears, also, a large-
hearted, public-spirited man. His eyes are dark, with
a clear, mild expression. He is a man collected, alia
ble, approachable, and of uniform dignity. The quali-
ties of his make-up are so blended in harmony, it is
difficult to name the one that is his differentiation.
GEN. WILLIAM H. JACKSON.
BELLE MEADE, NEAR NASHVILLE.
TO a. phrenologist, a study ol this gentleman's pic-
ture reveals a neck and chin indicative ol' push
and force, compressed lips, that speak of determina-
tion ; arched nostrils, which belong to those who were
horn to command; eyes of a discoverer, "looking right
on and thine eyelids straight before thee;'' a brow of
depth and breadth, showing quickness of perception ;
a forehead of concentration ol' purpose, not given to
change, and a coronal denoting dignitj and clearness of
character. Moreover, one would find in him an illus-
tration of the theory that justifies biographical worki
to-wit : that native talent, stimulated by family pride, is
the chief factor of individual excellence. Closely akin
to this incentive to distinction and success in other di
rections, is State pride, which blossoms into the activi-
ties called public spiritedness, and prompts to lending
a helping hand to whatever will elevate and advance
ones own native Stale. In ether words, that love of
country, which men call patriotism, of the loftiest char-
acter and most superb organization.
William II. Jackson was horn, October 1. 1835, at
Paris, Tennessee, hut when four years old. his lather
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moved to the vicinity of McLemoresville, in Carroll
county. Tennessee, the motive leading him there being
his father-in-law, Rev. Robert Hun. Re
niaining there one year, he removed to Jackson, Ten
nessee, in 1840, and in that town the subject of this
■ ill was raise). (If the incidents of his boyl
life, one might cull from his father's sketch of 1
number of interesting facts. Hi- life I i some
what eventful, fie is a mau of strong individuality, both
of thought and action. By no manner of means i- he a
man of dash ami diofl and light weight. His father
used to compare that - in to a " syllabub,"
from nn,' of Davy Crockett's unique expressions, who,
when lie had taken his first spoonful] of " syllabub,''
remarked, " I snapped at it. but by hokey, I believe I
missed it. fien. Jacksot md manner make tin
impression that he might have adopted I'm' his life's
motto,"' Fcs/iiia hntr. lie is deliberate and slow and
farmer-like, ami tin- that reason a man of force and a
md marshaler of affairs.
lie - i amid good and wholesome precepts in
tin' home circle ami sound instruction in ilm school,
ami in the Methodist church, of which his parents were
members, lie gained fast friends tut' his high spirit
ami the zeal with which ho espoused the cause of the
weak or younger children, in hi- school-boy days, be-
' ten ami sixteen. Hi- numerous -
broils originated in his fervor in defending the weak
against the strong. Naturally of a sanguine tempera-
ment, in later years he strove to correct his combative
tendencies, never carrying weapons, lest that dangi
ratnent might impel him to the use "1 them,
ho might, in cooler moments, regret. 1
quired the litary training of West Point, where
I in hi- twenty-first year, to subdue this
fiery spirit. The future of his manhood was early fore-
shadowed in the impetuous youth, noted more for en-
ergy of art ion than intensity of appl 1 1 i- fond-
ness for field sport- often conflicted with the strict
irge of the duty required in his early school days.
In tin- spring of IS52, being at that time a member of
nior class in West Tennessee College, at Jackson,
ho received thi nient of cadet to West Point
from his member of Congress, Hon, Kit. Williams.
This change brought about higher aspirations, stron ter
efforts and new associations. Ho had not applied him-
self to books, being surrounded by clever chums who
were not studious. On enteringthc Military Academy,
he determined to stay where so many from hi- di
had failed, the impelling motive being a desire to
hi- father, whom ho 1 itedly while liv-
ing, ami whose memory is kept over green and fresh in
his mind. There was never greater i ity in
thought, language and sentiment between lather and son
than between Gen. Jackson ami his father. \: nine
years of age he heard hi- father remark, in conversa-
tion with Judge Turley, of the Supreme bench, -I
\ . W 1 1. Totten, Con. William T. Haskell ami Judge
Milton Brown (the educational institutions of the
eountn being under discussion), that he would be per-
fectly satisfied to have oi f his sons graduate at the
(*niversity of Virginia, ami the other at the Military
Academy at West Point. At the time of his entrance
to thai institution, hi- brother. Howell 1-1. Jackson,
late United States senator, now Pnited States circuit
judge i who was always a hard student), was progressing
finely, ami therefore he determined to carry up hi- end
row towards gratifying his father by graduating
at West Point, which lie did creditably, in 1856, in a
i la--, man)- ..f whom ha\ e been \ cry distinguished,
among them Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee ami Gen. Lomax, of
Virginia, on the Confederate side, ami (Jen. i.
Bayard, mi the federal side. During his term at West
Point, i Ion. Robert P. lee was superintendent of the
academy, whom Gen. Jackson speaks of a- being the
grandest man. in hi- whole make-up, of any man he
ever know.
U'tiT the usual furlough, ho went to the camp of
instruction, at Carli-le barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
ami reported to Col. Charles May, of Mexican war
fame, then commanding at that cavalry school of in-
struction. While there, Gen. Jackson was detailed to
e Inct a hatch of recruits to Fort Leavenworth, Kan-
nd turned them over to Gen. Harney. Returning
via Washington City, he -pint three days in company
with Cen. Pit/. Hugh Pee. at Arlington, where he met
am! was greatly interested in old Mr. Custis. the pro-
prietor.
In 1857, he cro 1 the plains, from Leavenworth to
Fort Union, New Mexico, to join his regiment of
mounted rifles, two months . the trip full of nov-
elty ami adventure, encountering, as he did. for the
first time, the bufialo, the grizzly hoar and the ante-
just suited to hi- ardent temperament ami love
of field sports.
a; 1857 to 1S61 I ugaged in the principal
Indian fights of that territory, with such men a- Kit
Car-oii. Larue ami others, as his guides ; was compli-
mented several times in mil. rs from department head-
quarters, also from headquarters of the army, for gal-
lantry, tact and g 1 judgment in Indian fighting.
When war wa.- threatened between the States, he
awaited the action of his native State, subscribing to
the idea that in a sectional conflict his allegiance was
one primarily to his State and his people, the only con-
sideration that caused him to tear himself away from
the Federal flag which he had ever cherished ami hon-
ored, and from those social ties that bound him as with
link- of Steel to hi- old army a-soeiates. He had no
voice in precipitating the war, and regretted very much
the outbreak of hostilities. Vet. for this act of loyalty
to the State which save him birth, ami to the people of
In- State, whom he has always loved, he remains yet an
unpardoned rebel of the government tin' which he once
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fought gallantly, often risked his life, and for which,
if circumstances rendered it necessary, he would risk
his life again. Raised under the Methodist dispi
tion, he would never apply to the government for pai
don, because, under that dispensation, a condition pre-
cedent was a confession of enormity of guilt and deep
repentance for the humble part that he had performed,
neither oi which has he ever admitted. And it is a
source of proud satisfaction to him that he is in a po-
sition where lie ran stand this implied stigma as long as
a great government may see lit to continue it. Of all
the participants on the losing side in that great strug-
gle, Gen. Jackson and some thirty others, alone, are
thus under the ban.
Tn 1861, when the war broke out, he was in the
Dnited States regular army, stationed at Fort Staun-
ton, New Mexico, with the rank of second lieutenant,
in a regiment of .mounted riflemen, Col. William Lo-
ring then commanding the department of New Mexico,
and Lieut. Col. George 15. Crittenden, of Kentucky,
commanding the regiment. When the first shut was
fired on Sumter, he tendered his resignation, turned
over to the government every cent of money in his
hands, as assistant quartermaster, something over
twenty-eight thousand dollars, and proceeded, in com-
pany with Col. Crittenden, to Galveston, Texas, where
he found the port blockaded. Together with Col. Crit-
tenden, Maj. Longstreet, and Missis. Terry and Lub-
bock, of Texas, he ran the blockade and proceeded to
New Orleans, from which place he sent a tender of
service to the Confederate government, through Maj.
Longstreet. Previous to that time, however, he had been
appointed by Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, to a captaincy
of artillery. On arriving at bis home in Jackson, Ten-
nessee, he reported by letter to the governor, who or-
dered him before the military hoard of the State, r. im-
posed of Gov. Harris, ex-Gov. Neil! S. Brown, James
E. Bailey and Gen. William G. Harding. This board
retained him a week, interviewing him in regard to cav-
alry and artillery equipments, arms. etc. Thence he was
ordered to report to Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, then eom-
mandingthe Confederate forces at Memphis, and sen i d
in the capacity of a staff officer to Gen. Pillow, in the
army ol occupation in Missouri and Kentucky, with
headquarters at Columbus. He organized a light bat-
tery at Columbus. In the battle of Belmont, whicb
soon after followed, he was ordered with his battery to
report to Gen. Pillow, lint could not land his guns by
reason of the flying Confederate troops, who would have
swamped the boat. But he went ashore himself se-
cured a horse, reported to Gen. Pillow, and was ordered
to the duty of conducting three regiments of infantry
in rear of Grant's army. While in the discharge of
that duty, his horse was shot from under him, receiv-
ing eight bullets, while he received a minnie hall in
the right side, supposed, at the time, to he a mortal
wound. The ball was never extracted, and Gen. Jack-
son -mII carries it as a memento. That move, however.
was a successful one. routing Grant's army and saving
the day to the ( lonfederates.
When the troops were concentrated at Corinth. Miss-
issippi, under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Jackson's
battery was ordered there. \ week before the battle
of Shiloh. Jackson was promoted to a colonelcy in the
Confederate service for gallantry at the Belmont battle,
and ordered into West Te issee to take command ol'
all cavalry in that section. He commanded all the
cavalry in the minor conflicts in West Tennessee and
north Mississippi, frequently capturing trains on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, ami on o :casion
came nearer capturing Gen. Grant than, according to
den. Grant himself, he ever was at any time during the
war. In the fights about Holly Springs, Mississippi,
and Bolivar, Ten I lessee, and in I he \ icinity of Corinth,
Jackson's command frequently captured whole regi-
ments. He was in that severest of all battles during
the war. the attack of the combined forces of Van
Horn ami Price on the fortified position of Corinth,
commauded bj Liosencrans. Subsequently Van Horn
was assigned to the command of all the cavalry in that
department, and Jackson was placed in command of a
brigade of cavalry under him. his c land consisting
of one thousand five hundred cavalry, when he moved
in the rear of Grant's army and attacked Holly Springs,
< Irant's depot of supplies. Jackson led the charge upon
that place, and with his command capl ured and paroled
one thousand eight hundred infantry with arms in their
hands. The command also captured a great manj i •■,
airy, ami destroyed all tie- commissary, quartermaster
and ordnance Stores, estimated at six million or eight
million dollars. They also secured all of Gen. (irant's
private papers, maps, carriage and baggage, l>.\ -ending
a staff officer into the room of Mrs, Grant, who was
present. This brilliant and dashing raid had the elf cl
of changing the plan of the movements of that army, by
orders from Washington, caused Grant to retrace his
Steps and make the river campaign against Vicksburg,
his plan before being to dest roy Jackson and proceed by
land against Vicksburg, in the rear. For this service.
Jackson was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general
by President Davis, then at Jackson, Mississippi, and
assigned to a division of cavalry under (Jen, Van Dorn.
Cen Jackson's next sen ice was .ii Spring Gill, Ten-
nessee, on the left of Bragg's army, in 1862, Gen. For-
ommanding the First division of Cen. Van Horn's
corps, and Gen. Jackson commanding the Sffeond di-
\ ision. Jack-on planned and made the fight at Thump
son's Station, his command consisting of Gen. Frank
Armstrong's brigade of Mississipians and Tennesseans,
and Cen. Sul. Etoss' Texas brigade. He lost in that
fight, in twenty minutes, two hundred and sixt
men. killed and wounded, but succeeded in capturing
Col. Coburn's federal brigade ol' one thousand six
hundred infantry.
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PROMINENT TENNESSE \\>
skirmishes with the enemy in front of
I join Gen.
n, in the tall of lSlio. at ('anion.'
--ippi. He commanded the cavalry of that army
in all the movements on the Big Blaek river, for the
relief of Vii • Sherman's attempted
marches to Meridian, capturing a goodly muni
oners, army trains, and destroying much of Sherman s
supplies.
When G en. Joseph K -1 illusion the
Army of Tennessee, then at Daltoi
■ iiu'st. J omniaiid was transferred tl
previously, at Join - . he was transfer!
from Tei - \lississ
Johnston to dim us ider of tl. the
left wing of his army. ■ i In- held
the entire m di-
rectly t. ' icmber ol
war thai a all the
mouts. His eounnand performed very faithful servii
among other i - the defeat of Kilpatri
at 1. v ition. ami again, in conjuncti
Wheeler, at Xewnan, I
ture of oiii - I live hundred Federal cavalry,
mmaud partici)
gallautly in the desperate f: . vtlanta. wh
the army ; also in I
memorable battle (Jen 11 iht against Sher-
man's army, at •
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company him in hi- move around Sherman int
On reaching Florence. Alabama, he was put
under command of Gi -t. Jackson's column
led the :. nto Tenness
ously the retreai ral army. Cnaided. and
alone, it held Sehofield's army at bay at Spring 11
Tennessee, all night, after 1 - - dlure to
attack that army with his whole force, that afternoon.
It participated in the bloody battle of Franklin, one
the most desperali • of the whole war. and
pursued the fl lerals. leadim I crate ad-
van, three miles of the strongly fortified
city of Nashville. Thence it moved witl - md
md Murfn - ih. where ■ ,- de-
feated and drove back the enemy to their entrench-
ments, after the infantry, commandi
had fled the field. . while there,
in^ v - - tlu-r with a lai
number of pris
- - \ -
to the Colun
Franklin turnpike, to sit in front of the vi
ral- - 11 Tl) Unas. \\ ho w<
advanci - - bis cumin;
bore the brunt of the retreat from there to within
twenty- • - ver. and to their en
maud in pre-
venting the capturi ire armv
ing the Tenness - 1 order and as well
as when they made their march into
ss
Jackson's eounnand was noted for its discipline and
famous for it- true fighting qualities. For this service
1 to tin' eounnand of all of
rigade, making
three brigades, and was recommended for promotion by
[tick ' \\ B. Forrest, as he had
previously often been recommended by '
Johnston, den. Hardee and lien. Leonidas Polk,
motion, hov r given him. while
M - (Jen. Jacksou arrested a young friend of
Mr. J iseph 1' thcr of Presideni Davis, for
eminent cottou. earning it
ling it. and declining to aecede to tin
ir the release of his friend. This
handed off st the said Jo-
seph Davis, who was all-powerful with his brother Jeff.,
I in by President Davis.
ilen. .la. ; served with his command in the
Alabama campa - lieu, Croxton ami1
McCook. of the Federal army, and arrived at Marion
Junction. Alabama, where he lean rrest's de-
feat at Selma. Forrest then moved his forces to Gaines-
Alabama. at which time • '.'rendered
u. Canby ihe - that department. Hen
. Dick Taylor, corn-
ier on the part of the Confederate States. SS.
1 with lien. Dennis, of the Federal army, for the
derate troops at Gainesville, Ala-
bama, and Columbus, li Hiis was Gen. Jack-
- last military service. The war had ended. The
ss cavalry leader • - ithed.
th the services he saw in the field were to
serve him well in the peaceful pursuits of the farm.
He rei ssee, after
the surrender, and his father turned oxer two i
- to him. which lie mana- ssfullv until
the fall of IS -
- - Miss Sel ne llard-
! M \ -' -. ill* , Tennessee, daugh-
William G. !', a very full ami
inter. - teh of whose life and family connections
. . .
Miss M II rding, is the wife
Howi - States s uator from
Tennessee, and
tor the Sixth i rothers inarryi; - -
-
..ted at the old Nashville Fe-
\ lemy, under Dr C P Elliott, and completed
ducation in Mine. Masses private French school.
iu Philadelphia SI - i highly cultivated lady, speak -
French fluently, and. while domestic in her
and habits, and ng her household department,
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her active housekeeper is her cousin, Miss Lizzie
I [oovei \ ladj of true refinement in every pulsat ion
and i nought culth ated and well read, Mrs. Jack on i
also the most devoted daughter, wife and mother. Her
sphere and her glory is the home circle Sociable in
her nature, and fond of the company of her friend
her healt li yet forbids her being a lad; oi ociet She
loyally and lovinglj subscribes to the idea thai liei
duty is first to the dear ones at home, and the nearer
she can attain perfect happiness in this true sphere the
more bright are the glimpses of heaven. Thoroughly
imbued w it h i he i rue ipiril of < Ihrisl ianitj , he i
sympathetic in her nal an , I gi \ en to large . el un
ostentatious charity. No one po sesses a more tender
heart for the ] \ the needy and distressed than she.
Possessed of principle of the highest order, and the per
sonifieati f t rut li pure and unembellished ; a Ti n
nessean, highly charged with pride of ancestry and of
State; intensely southern in her feelings, and without
concealment in i he e •. pn - si f I hem de^ oted to i he
Confederate soldier, and sympathizing with and urging
on every movement looking to the perpetuation of the
memorj of the fallen heroes of the Confederate cau e
sin' is endeared, not alone to her family and friends, but
is claimed as \ of the jewels of tl ommonwealth, a
t rue lil led outhern ladj of i he faire I and mo I deli
cate organization. How eividly apt, in contemplating
this happy anion, are the poet's words, " None bul the
brave deserve the fair." Born, as her father was, on
< rod's beautj pol of earl li i he l<>\ ely Belle M ade
estate, which is her home as il w a and is her fal I" r
and was her grandfather's, she i- very pronounced in
her preference of a farmer - life for her son, in spite of
all i he allurements of polit ical or fashionable exi
By his marriage with Miss Harding, Gen, Jai
has three most interesting, bright and happy children,
all born at Belle Meade: (1). Eunice Jackson, was
born February 8, 1871. This daughter, now enti
her " teens," is distinguishing herself bj conducting a
Sunday-school for the colored children on the Belle
Meadi - I and a charitable society in Nashville
bears her name, " The Eunice Jackson Society," in the
interest of which a monthly periodical, entitled Woman
hi Home, is published. I [er fal hi t said ol her, •
r< mi are apt to be partial to their children, but if this
daughter has a fault .■>■ bai e not 'I It. which
is saj in- a gn al di al." With
figun and modest manners, Bhe promises to In- an
honor to the name she inherits. (2). William I
ing Jackson, born July 17, 1874. (3). Selene Ha
Jackson, born A agust 20 1 876
inn. Jackson and wife, and thi r Eunice,
if McKendree church ("Methodist
copal, south), of which he i- also trustee. Originally,
Gen Jacl n his father and brother, was a Whig,
but since the war he has acted with the Democratic
part; Hi ha r held any office, sub to the
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compal iblc wil li a higl lei ol elf-n peel and per
sonal independence.
(Jen. Jai I her, I lr \ loxander Jackson
a nal [\ • of Virginia, and a graduate of I he Jcfli
il < '"Il ai I'liiladi Iphia. I !'■ married in Vir-
ginia, and ' 1 1 led first al I'ari -. T ei where he
pracl iced a few aa I finally located al Jackson,
u hoi g hi died, in 1880, at the age i ix, He
wa a man of considerable property, which he had ac
cumulated by the practice of medicine and invc i
in. hi - in negroi and land. He the n
markable men of i he State of i tensive n adin
m ni. ,■ In tyln bi I- i picuou and 1 1
It' erved in t he Legislat ure i wo term I ■- 19 50 and
1851 52, during the i iguration of the internal im
proi emenl tem. He wa a member of t he agi icul
tural board of Tenne i e, and took greal interest in all
mai ter pei taining to agricult ure, I te was a member
of the Methodist church. Of a philosophical turn of
mind, he took life easily and n thlj never permitting
i' ond of d li in" hi
i cept ionallj hospitable to the day of his deal h. He
pa ed the last half of his life in reading, writing I
vi ii in" all porl ions of A merica Though po e ed ol
as much Krai n man in I he State, he wa - not am
•I upon his wrii ing ■ and labors many men in
Tenne ei ha \ c ri en to promini nci II' : a one of
the n markabl i ei itionalists of Ti nm i e of a
rare jovial and social temperami nl . noi gh en to i
er : fond of I he society of young people ; given to
music
ceedingl, practical turn of mind, and was a man of
judgra i men and measures. In the i
In cardinal principles wi re to impn ss upon
them that truth is the bed rock of all cl
establish an intimate companionship with them. Of
t he paternal ai of Gen Jack on I art her back, the
editor finds no ti pt t hat I he familj 1 of hi-li
stock.
i Jackson's mother, net Miss tfarj Hurt, was
born in 1 1 unty, V irginia, daughter of parson
Robert II art, a Bapl ist minister, a man oi ran
to il and conversational pow -
Gen -I H h on maternal uncle, Maj, Robert 1 1 urt, of
Jackson, wa membi i of I In Le lal ui i and of the
bureau of agriculture of the State, a man of n
iop.ularity. He has sons and
daughters in Jackson, Tenm Gei Jackson's ma-
le, William Hurl, wa
Virginia, a conti of William I! Joh] " the
Napoleo i of t hi turf Hi children are in Vii
ind Henry Hurt are influential men in their re-
spective neighborhoods, and both have r<
their counties in the Virginia Legislature. Gen Jack
sun's greal uncle, James Hurt, a Baptist minister, a
man of strong brain and honor and integrity,
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distinguished Tennessean (Gen. William G. I Carding I is
an household word. His life has been a complete suc-
cess, and Furnishes an incentive for high endeavor on
the part of the youth of the South. In his quiet re-
treat, surrounded by those who love him, this venerable
man can have a pleasing retrospect. The book oi his
life is without :i blot or a slain. His word is as good as
his bond, and that is beyond valuation. No whisper
has ever been heard against his name or his character.
From a small beginning he has made Belle Meade, as
the commissioners of the French government lately
said, tin' most splendid race horse uurseryin the world.
His career exhibits the rich results of a life anchored
to a never-dying purpose. There ai-e ambitious young
men in Tennessee, here and there, who have com
menced their career in the same line, who can gain
immense advantages by a close study of Gen. Harding's
lite and methods, [n the hey-day of youth he caught
tin1 spirit of "Old Hickory," and from him lie learned
tu Tear "the -tain of dishonor as a wound." From him
he imbibed the loyalesl of loves for the pure bred
horse. With an unflagging energy, and with an elastic
hope, he set about the development of the gloi ics of
Belle Meade, his ancestral home. Its broad acres and
its famous denizens show what a hrave and honest i i
can do. How rich is his experience! How beneficial
would he his autobiography! What a talc he could
tell of Priam, ol Lexiugton, of Jack Malone, of Bonnie
Scotland! In his younger days, Gen. Harding wielded
a I'acileand fascinating pen. In the evening of his life,
if so mini led. he ci H i Id enrich the literal lire ol' his State
by deathless reminisceuces of his contemporaries and
his horses. He could not withstand the appeal of his
friends on this score. 1 we trust requests may pour
in upon him to begin the work, lie is the pioneer in
one of the most remunerative industries of the South,
and his book would he read by all with increasing in-
terest. Besides, his words of experience would ureal l>
aid the rising establishments all over Tennessee, which
are destined to bring ureal revenue to our people,
HON. JOHN A. TINNON.
PULASKI.
THE TINNON family is of Scotch-Irish origin.
dames Tinuon, the grandfather ol' the subject of
this sketch, came from Ireland with his father when
only three years old, settled first in Pennsylvania, after-
ward in North Carolina, and, in 1806, emigrated with
his family to Williamson county, Tennessee, when the
country was aothing hut a dense wilderness, lie re-
mained in Williamson county two years. Cutting his
way through the almost impenetrable canebrakes he
finally settled on the fertile lands of II iclilaml creek,
live miles north of Pulaski. Here he died, in 1844, at
the age "f eighty six, leaving sis children, ol whom
Robert Tinuon. .Indue Tinnon s father, was the young-
est. His wife, nee Hannah McCracken, was a native of
North Carolina, and of Scotch parentage. She died
eight j j ears of age.
Robert Tinnon was about nine years of age when his
father took bim to Giles county. He grew up to lie a
good, plain firmer, a good conveyancer, thoroughly
posted in the lands of that section, lie was a justice
of the peace and a member of the county court for
twenty years, up to the time of his death, in April, 1862,
at the age of sixty-live. He was a class leader in the
Methodist church, a perfectly upright man, geuinely
good, quiet in every way, not wealthy, but widely
respected.
Judge Tiunon's mother, Elizabeth Ahermilhy, was
the daughter of Joseph Abernathy, from North Caro-
lina, a surveyor and conveyancer in that State, and in
Giles county, Tennessee. He was connected with Judge
1 1 : i > \\ I and the Sliephanls in surveying large bodies
of land on Richland creek, in Giles county, at an early
day— from 1800 to 1810.
.Indue John A. Tinnon was horn in Giles county,
Tennessee, November 28, 1822, and was brought up in
that eount.w mi his father's farm, going in the old field
scl Is until sixteen or seventeen years old, when he
entered Wirtemburg Academy, in Pulaski, under Profs.
Meiiduin and llartwell Brow n. in 1841-2, and Studied
there nearly two years. Then he read law about two
years with Judges T. M Jones and Goode, at Pu-
laski. In 1S|S, he taught school one year at Lawrence
burg, as an assistant to Prof. .1. \\ . Dana, in the mean-
time studying mathematics and the languages, and
reading some in the law. He obtained license to
practice, in the spring of 1848, from Chancellor T. II.
Cahal and Judge Scott, and practiced from Lawrence
burg from 1848 to the fall of 1854, when he moved hack
to Pulaski, and has practiced ami resided there from
L855 to the present time lie was in partnership with
Col. Solon Iv Rose from 1858 to 1882
In May, 1883, he was appointed by the judges of the
Supreme court one of the judges of the court of referees,
a position he now holds, at a salan of three thousand
dollars per annum. I le has three or four times been com-
missioned by the governor as special chancellor to hold
court at ( 'oliimliia to try causes in w hieh (he chancellor,
Fleming, was incompetent, and also as special judge, to
hold court when the sitting judge, W. P. Martin. «;i<
sick.
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REV. GEORGE WHITE, D. D.
MEMPHIS.
WHEN the compiler of this sketch was seeking
information concerning Dr. White, he was told,
•■ Vim have one of the richest subjects for a biography,
but it will take but Pew words to tell of him." An I,
indeed, it does not require volumes to portray the life
of a man, who is sn uniformly kind ami courteous t<>
all: so universally popular with all sects, creeds ami all
conditions of society ; so unflinchingly devoted to duty;
so earnest, faithful ami tireless in the Master's cause
a man, whose whole existence may be summed up in
the sweetest phrase that over fell on mortal ears,
"Glory to God in the highest; peace on earth. I
will to man.''
A.11 the virtues of a man and a Christian are so har
moniously blended in him and formsueha symmetry of
character that in looking about i<> get an estimate of
him.it is difficult to find which of the noble traits of
manly, menial and spiritual make up predominates the
other.
lie was horn in Charleston, South Carolina. March
12, 1802, and lived there until he was eighteen years of
age. He l in his education in Charleston under John
Wrench, a very eminent teacher of that day. ami sub-
sequently went to stdiool tin- sometime near Statesburg,
in Sumter county, South Carolina. When the venera
ble gentleman now more than fourscore years of age
and lasi traveling toward the nonagenarian period was
asked where he was educated, he replied, with vivid
recollection, and with a merry twinkle in his eye: "I
WCllt to school lor se\ en years to ;i leaeher who whipped
the hoys every day, no matter whether they were good oi'
had ; and to this day the sound of lire bells is sweetest
music to my ears, because our teacher was a member of
the fire hoard, and whenever there was an alarm of fire,
it meant a brief cessation of hostilities, lor the teacher's
words were—" Go home hoys ; you have a holiday."
After leaving the scl 1 near Statesburg, young
While entered a law office in Charleston, and devoted
two years to the study of the legal profession, which he
had determined to pursue. While in this oflice he, with
a number of other young men, went to a camp-meeting,
and becoming deeply and seriously interested in the
subject of religion, joined the Methodist church, gave
up the har for the pulpit, immediately went to exhort-
ing, and shortly thereafter to preaching.
He remained in the .Methodist ministry about ten
years, during which time he was the contemporary of
Dr. Capers, afterward the celebrated .Methodist bishop,
and other eminent Methodist divines. 'Though hut a
boy in years when he began his ministerial labors, his
fame as a preacher spread abroad, and he was known as
the " beardless preacher."
In 1822, he Went to Savannah and there opened a
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scl I, called at first Sava ih Academy, and afterward
Chatham Academy, a school which he conducted for
mure than a quarter of a cent ury, meeting all the nine
with remarkable success, few men have been accorded
the privilege of laboring so long and so successfully in
the cause of education in one place as he did at Savan
nah. During this period he educated the children of
many of the first families in the State of (i 'gia the
BartoWs, Berriens, Laws, Andersons. Bullocks, Scre\
ens, llahershams. Sheflcls. Lamars their name is
legion. Many of the men who have been most promi
unit in the State of Georgia since that time the great
and virtuous in divinity, in judicature, in statesmanship,
in commerce and war, have been trained under him.
and to day their children and Lira ml eh ih lien refer \\ il li
pride to the fact that their fath grandfathers went
to school lo Dr. While.
Alter remaining in the ministry of the Methodist
church for about ten years, as a mailer of conscience
and conviction of duty, he joined the Protestant Epis-
copal church, prepared for that ministry, and was or-
dained f\ Bishop Bowen in St. Michael's church at
Charleston, South Carolina. December 31, 1*'!.'!. Dur-
ing all the years of his teaching at Savannah, he wa
also engaged in preaching. Indeed, it might he said of
him here thai he has preached every Sunday of his life
tin- the lasi sixty four years, except when prevented I'.',
sickness. Likewise, it may he said thai .me of his
strong characteristics, which developed itself then, has
sluck to him throughout life, ami thai is. In- extn me
kindness to the colored race. Much of his timi
spent in ministering to them. Mis plain, simple, effect
ive and forcible style of preaching suited these people,
and they always called upon him. when any prominent
member of their congregation died, to preach the fun-
eral. 1 1 is labors among these humble people were \ ery
effective, for moved bj the gentleness of his manner, the
simplicity and kindliness of his words, they would oome
about the altar and ask for i he praj ers of the minister.
Mis years of disinterested labor ng them brings out
in hold relief strong element of his character a
genuine ami unaffected desire to do good to all men. to
lift up the lowly and comfort (he humble. For several
Mir- ol' this same period lie also preached to tin- sea
men al their chapel, erected by .Mr. I'eulield. and made
many friends among the sailors and sea captains, The
founder of this chapel, by his will, left money in hank
to employ a pastor, but during the time of Dr. White's
pastorate, the hank failed yet he continued to labor
among his charge without money and without price,
other than lie reward which an approving COnsi
brings In duty done.
In the meantime he had established, in Effingham
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I >■ Whiti ■ descended from an old 1 1 1 tmil) .
« ho were among tin South (
where descendants of the famil) are -nil living, in the
vicinity of Charleston His I'athei was i ■ White,
u .-..ii"!! factor al < 'harleston.
hi White was in. ni i., I. January INI. 1823, b
ing his twenty first year, to .Mrs Klixabcth <!
ami for more th I hej have toiled aloi
path "t life together. The) have had t>:i children, only
tinir of « Ii are now Ir
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who came i.. Charleston and became an in. li-
mit..n plant. ' ll> mother was M
no old and ari ulina famil) Nl
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always loved tin I adhered strictly t.. ii- Chris
t iiiti and kniulith tenets, and his brother Kn
always shown a more than ordinar; tl ..(' his
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thai has won for him the love "I all, for he hoa proved
f n l.l.--iii. to .11 II.' i- loved, in .t only by hia
own denomination, bul has the confidence and all.
of all tunl of hit I lib-
erality. Combining the t|ualities "t the gentleman
with those of the Christian philanthroj - 1 1 1 « -
tnd conditions, Tl ity of
inr. tin ■ affability of his manners, and a bi
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blest wiili tli.' hallowing influence of hi." "I his
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an. I ripe scholar, lii- nam.' ranks among the foremost in
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nuptial salutation. Both husband and wife were pros
trated for weeks, and they Could not minister to eaeli
ether's wants, 1 m t they transmitted love and sympathy,
and each sigh seemed to ask :
' Ono of us, love, must stand
Where the ware are breaking leath's dark strand.
Ami watch the boat from the silent Land
Bear the other away,
Which will it be?'
Natural endowments and high accomplishments made
.Mrs. Elizabeth White a must lovely character. Men
tally, sin' was strong, had the best culture of her day,
ami was eminently practical in all the relations of life.
Sound in judgment, she was a wise counselor. The
Orient is rich in striking symbols, and one of them is
tn lake the veil of a liride when she Lays it aside u|idii
her marriage day; to fold it carefully, to lay ii ten-
derly away in a hex of sandal or camphor w I; to
keep it until the bride who wore it ceases to live, when
it is brought forth and wrapped around the face of the
dead. And the belief which is taught is that if I lie
bride, as she matured in womanhood and motherhood,
was true to her wifely trust, beneath the veil the
pinched and withered and wrung face will he restored
to bridal freshness and loveliness, and when her eyes
shall open in the Beautiful Bey 1. they will be filled
witli (heir old luster, the lips will call hack their car-
nation, and as youth and purity were on the earth, so
the eternal youth will begin. The symbol means that
what is beautiful and good cannot be lost; that if the
WOman causes smiles to he horn when. sorrOVt hr led.
like the children of the .".oils, those smiles will he iln
mortal ; that if from weeping eyes she has wiped away
tears, those tears will turn to diamonds, which .all the
abrasions of time cannot make dim or wear away; that
if the voice has 1 n lifted up in sweet accents for lo\ e,
duty and charity, it will change t lote of celestial
music the echoes ol which will forever swell the grand
melodies ol eternity, and that the beauties of heaven
will be but a magnified splendor of the bride's deeds
on earth. If this beautiful custom of the ( trient were
observed by our people, under the bridal veil that
wraps the pallid lirow of the deceased the lace would
grow roseate, and take on a celestial light which till the
darkness of death and all the damps of the grave can
not extinguish, lor her religion was a living sentiment
and a conscious reality, and her whole life was set to
the music of sympathy, affection, charity, and duty to
husband, children and the world. To all who knew her
she realized the conception of a faultless, lovely wo-
man. While highly gifted, her spirit was ol' the most
feminine gentleness. She was a devoted and loving
mother, maternal affection ever bubbliffg from her lips.
She has been gradually sinking lor I he past six luoul Its.
Heath seemed to he more the result of a general break-
ing down and wearing out ol' the vital machinery than
any well defined malady. She here her long sufferings
with a patience and I kne-s that were sublime. Her
mind was occasionally clouded, hut it would soon burst
forth in all its splendor and beauty. Her sufferings
were a whole drama ol' pathos, but she preserved the
harmony ol' her like to the end, and entered the dark,
starless night of death bravely, knowing that the jour-
ney to eternal day would he swift, anil that the sad
wails ol' loving husband and children would soon lie
losl in the melody ol' heaven. The sympal hy of the en-
tire community centers .around the family of the de-
ceased, and it is especially lavished upon the husband,
Rev. Hr. George While. As tin- clods this morning
rattle upon the grave of his lost idol, he will no doubt.
fee] that he has lieeti al the funeral ol' all his hopes —
seen them entombed one by one. In youth he gave his
heart to the church, and ever since it has been sweetly
ati uned to those lofty themes and sublime aspirations
which lift man into the splendors that dwell above the
earth and beyond the grave. Known and loved alike
lor unostentatious simplicity, spotless life and the great
powers he has consecrated to the highest and best in-
terests of humanity, he will have the sympathies of the
whole South in his great bereave nt, Rev. Dr. George
White has lived through three generations, ministering
holy things, and his memory will survive the tomb and
ever remain a living presence, fragrant with holy in-
cense, lie lingers on the stage, the theater of his use
fulness and his triumphs, and with the Bible in his
hand, its sacred teachings in his heart, and its sublime
promises animating and inspiring his soul, he nobly,
bravely labors on. Hut. tottering with the weight of
years upon the brink of the grave, be cannot long sur-
vive his irreparable loss. His refrain for the future
will be —
' Sleep on, ray love, in thy cold bed,
Never to be disquieted !
My last good night 1 Thou wilt not wake
Till I thy fate shall overtake ;
Till ago or grief or sickness must
Marry my body to that dust
[tsomuch loves, ami lilt the room
My heart keep! empty in thy torn to
Stay tor me there, 1 will not fail
To meet thee in that hollow \ ale ;
A lot think not in uch of my delay,
1 am ;i Iready mi the way,
Ami follow thee with all the 9| I
lie in can make or jon on breed ;
Bach minute is :i short dog I ee,
Ami every hour a. step toward theo.
At night w hen I betake to rest.
Next morn I rise nearer my west
Of lilo. :i Imosl by eight hours' Bail,
Than when Sleep breathed his drowsy {.'ale.
Thns from the sun my slow barque -leers.
Ami my day': compass downward hears ;
Nor labor I to stem the tide
Through which to thee l Bwiftly tTidc.
Km lurk ! my pulse like :i soft 'Irum.
Pen! my approach, tells thee I come ;
Ami -low how'er my marches lie
I shall at last sit Town hy thee.
lam kneeling .it the threshold, weary, faint and -ore.
Waiting I'm- the dawning, lor the opening of the dour ;
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close of the war found him at Sin Ihj \ ill... Ten
h here he hail mini, i], anil adopt ing the '
ul which In- wife wa- a n his fill in
ha- made Shelhyville his |ilaee of residonee ever sinee.
During a visit i Ki ntui-kj honu . in 181)5. he
in read Ian with II n -I lin < . 11:1. in in, ami
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liar ami immediately 1" in |>artnershi|)
with II. hi. Thomns II t'oldwell, under the linn name
nl t'oldwell \ Warder, which partnership lasted until
ftcr h hiih In; n.ni inued hi- |'iM until
1-7'.
( 'a|.t Win -1. i" i- a Itcpuldii in "I' 1 1.. stanehesl ami
truest t\ pe, I ii 1 StJ7, he was eomiu
.1 of hi- district I. nnlow, Inn declined
I n 1 B7t) hi ite to the ( 'iiicinnati
ntion which n. .inin. iir. I I hi md Wheeh
ippoiutcd elector for his congressional disti
tlm Republican ticket, and during the campaign that
followed, made uu aide canvass o I his district When
na- made president he was appointed I nil.. I
district attorney for Middle T. This
office In' continued I" lill uninterruptedly during the
administrations ..l' II r the
expiration "I 1. i ved for
under a -p
latthews While holding this position he In. I to
deal with illicit .li-i illiug In the in i
nd he virt husi
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; nmcut in i In- I i.i\ i- rem from
itense
ui'iii in Tennessee til tin- t inn. ami passed into
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in which In
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h it Ii a large I.m ! ... cm M iddlc Tin
II. began his professional t lioul
came into Tennes ■ i llcpubl id
I'lici'. I. in by hard work, earucsl effort, ,-ti
nf will ami decided n
circum .''I reputation, firmly impl
himself in the respect and i lidence of the people, ami
accumulated a handsoun I ! . rdi d a- a
sound man. tiiiamialK mid has been vice president of
the Shelbyvilli Hank lin irs.
Tin' \\ ardi i Ihuiilj i- of Knglish origin, ami the name
means " guard o ' ipt. Warder's father, Dr. Wal-
ter \\ anl. r, was a proiiiiueiil and successful practitioner
lieine in Mn nit) Kentucky. Several of
Dr. Warder's uncle.' dso the Doctor himself,
uenl in t he Daptisl al- of Kentucky, in
il thai State, w hen 1 were dedi-
cated a- churches. < 'apt. Warder's Iiei Vfiaf
A ft us, was a .lam. liter nl' -I
tin- early setl I " dark ami bli ..I
( 'apt Warder was married, J aim
i ■ ling, daughter of William Gosling, a cotton
manufacturer al Shelbyville, and of an old ami highly
respectable Middle Tennessee family. To tlii- union
has been hon diild tcr
( 'apt. \\ arder i- n • of th
II,- name has frequently been mentioned
as a I.' ■. candidal • mor nf Tenn
ami the Supreme bench In 1884, tin Republicans
i .11.. it t.i carrj thi - nd a- pan
• •! il., Warder na- requested ami
unanimously nominated for i in lii- district.
•I I' KirlianlM.n was the Democratic nominee The
il the
i nowu,
■ n. il friends, thorou ted in political
( 'apt. Warder v, I « ith making tin
-i ntati'.li nl' Republican maili- in 'I', in
ami I. iii tlm 1 1, in. ■
m-H-i .in ait defi ml.'i' of bi- faith.
Ii is quite certain the future bears for him additional
distinction.
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HON. WILLI \M \ III \hl KSON.
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mm to the common pronui Thus
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I prominent politician, after I In-
i/.ntion ol member of i he
Tonn I .' ' i from « hat wa i hen
well, now ITawl ' II
ried Miss Nancy SVindom o
settled in the town of Somcrville. Tin nf this
Thomas
with In- father ving from North Carolina
tu Ki'iiim I, Nan ■■• it h her father, ino\ iiiL'
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convention at Charleston, which adjourned to Baltimore
and nominated Breckinridge, and in the Charleston
convention he was a member of the committees on cre-
dentials and on permanent organization. In 1880, he
was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at
Cincinnati, which nominated Gen. Hancock, and lie lias
been a delegate to every State convention held since
the war.
In 1870, he was a delegate from Giles county to the
State constitutinnal convention, of which his colleague,
Gov. John ( '. Brown, was president. Judge Junes served
mi the judiciary committee and advocated the appoint-
ment by the governor of the judges of the Supreme court
ami the chancellors, with a view of keeping the judiciary
out of polities, but this the convention overruled, lie
also favored the insertion of a clause in the constitu-
tion forbidding the charge of more than six per cent,
interest per annum for money under any circumstances.
This also was defeated.
Judge Jones has been a railroad director from 1855
to the present time ; was a director in the old Planters
Bank eighteen years; director of the National Bank of
Pulaski ten or twelve years, and a director of the Co-
lumbia, Pulaski and Elkton turnpike company from
1842to 1855. He has been repeatedly mayor of Pulaski .
president of the board of trustees of Giles College from
its incorporation till the building was destroyed, and
has been for twenty years a vestryman of the Protestant
Episcopal church at Pulaski, of which church lie is a
member.
In 184H. he became a Mason, since which time he lias
taken all the degrees up to and including that of Knight
Templar. The splendid engraving of him accompany
ing tliis sketch represents him in his Knight Templar
uniform.
Judge Junes first married, in Williamson county,
Tennessee, December -~K 1838, Miss .Marietta Perkins,
a grand- daughter of Col. Nicholas Tate Perkins, and
daughter of Dr. Charles Perkins. She was a niece of
John Prior Perkins and Constantine Perkins, members
of a large family in Williamson county. Her mother,
nee Harriet Field, was the daughter of Judge Hume
Field, of Tuscaloosa. Alabama, formerly judge of the
superior court in Virginia. She was a cousin of Col,
Hume R. Field, of Confederate war fame, as colonel
of the first Tennessee regiment.
By this marriage, Judge Jones had nine children:
(1). Calvin Jones, born November 1,1839; graduated
from Nashville University ; was adjutant of the Thirty-
second regiment, Tennessee volunteers — Col. Cook — was
captured at Fort Donelson : was taken sick at Port
Warren, but was nursed to health by the Federal Maj,
Dimmick and his daughters ; returned home, remained
a while and rejoined his regiment, but his health being
too feeble for active service, after the battle of Chicka-
mauga, in which he took part, he was assigned to post
duty at Macon, Georgia. After the war he practiced
law at Pulaski, but quit law for farm life. He died in
1872. (2). Charles P. Jones, horn November 20, 1842!
graduated at the Nashville University; served in the
army from 1802 to the surrender, most of the time on
the staff of < len. Bushrod I!. Johnson with the rank of
lieutenant and captain. He was captured .-it Petersburg
and held prisoner till the war closed. He is now law
partner with his lather, lie married Miss Cora Reid,
daughter of Rev. Carson P. Reid, a minister of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, and has one child,
Cora. (.'!). Thomas W. Jones, born May 22, 1845; en-
tered the army at sixteen in the Third Tennessee regi-
ment, under Col. John C. Brown ; served till the sur-
render; is now in Colorado in the cattle business, after
having practiced law at Pulaski several years. (4).
Hume Field J s, born January 26, 1848; graduated
from Giles College ; now practicing law at Lewisburg,
Tei ssee. (5). Harriet Jones, horn January S, 1852;
graduated from the Columbia Female Institute; mar-
ried, in 1871, Hon. '/,. \V. Ewing, formerly State senator
from Giles, Wayne and Lawrence counties; State as-
sessor of railways ; visitor to the University of Tennes-
see.and now chairman of board of education ofPulaski.
have one child, Marietta. (6). Edward S. Jones,
born December 29,1853; graduated at Nor walk, Con-
necticut ; now a professional teacher, lie married Miss
Anna Bright, daughter of Hon. John M. Bright. They
haveone child, Mary. (See Judge Bright's sketch
elsewhere in this volume). (7). Lucy Anne Jones, born
December -•">. IS.")."); graduated at Columbia Female
Institute; now wife of James Polk Abernathy, a lawyer
at Pulaski, and has two children, Robert Andrew and
Thomas Marietta, (8). Lee Walthal Jones, born March,
1857; now connected with the Nashville and Florence
railroad. (9). Nicholas Tate Jones, born March 8, 1st;:'.:
graduated at the Knoxville University, ami now a civil
'ii- r on the Nashville and Florence railroad.
'flie first Mrs. Jones died July 18, 1872. She was a
most exemplary Christian woman, a member ot the
Episcopal church. She was a lady of great firmness
and strength of character, of rare intellectual endow-
ments, highly cultured and refined. She shone as a
bright light in society and around the fireside. During
the war she remained at home and took care of her
family, and managed affairs with excellent skill and
judgment.
Judge Jones' second marriage occurred at Browns-
ville, Tennessee, May 9, 1883, to .Mrs. Anne G. W 1.
an own cousin of his first wife, daughter of Nicholas T.
Perkins. Her mother was Lucy P. Turner, daughter
of Simon P. Turner, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Mrs.
Jones is a graduate of the old Nashville Female Acade-
my. By her first husband, Mr. James Proudfit Wood,
a merchant and railroad president, she has one child,
Mary, who married .1. W. E. Moore, a prominent lawyer
of Brownsville, and has three children, Annebel, May
and Wood. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Episcopal
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church. :\n eat favorite in society, remarkably
kind, gentle and affectionate in Iter nature, and beloved
by the entire community
•lu>. idfather, Wilson Jones, was bom in
Brunswick county, Virginia, and \va< an American of-
: the Revolutionary \\ ;i i-. The Judge's lather.
named Wilson Jones, was likewise .1 native of
Brunswick county, Virginia, lb- moved i" North
I where he married Miss Rebecca McKissick,
the J ttdge's mother, « I; She " .1- the
daughter of Thomas McKissick. who had been a patriot
soldier in the Revolution, and 1 One
of bis wouuds v the battle of Brandy wine,
the ball passing through entering under the
I. 'ft shoulder and coming out at the right. Tl
gentleman received a pension until his death, in 182().
family meanwhile bad immigrated to Teum
ami titter the death of his father and mother, Judge
.1 with his maternal grandparents. The
Judge's grandmother, nn Lucy Hudson, was of an
■ h family. She was a member of the M
church, and \vi rict in raising her grandson.
After the death of the grandparents In I 1 live
with 1 1 i — oldest sister, Mrs. Lucy Clack, wife of Sp
Clack, an earh settler in < < il-s county, son of
Clark, author of what is known as the "preference
right bill" in the Tennessee Legislature, lie lived with
this family until be went stated.
J nd - had three sisters, Lucy, who mar
ried Spencer Clack: Bermelia, who married John
Walthal. and Susan, who married Gray II. Edwards,
lie has one brother, lion. Calvin Jones, now of Som-
erville, Tennessee, who was educated at Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, and was chancellor in West Tennessee
for eight years. He married a Miss Williamson, of
\ Till Carolina.
Before the war Judge Jones' am hit ion was t,, be sue
--lit! as a lawyer, and he « ssful, accumulating
a very handsome fortune f eighty odd
s and nearly one thousand acres of splendid
fanning land. I le never had any great fondness for poli-
tic-, ami when nominated for office, it was for positions
wholly unsought and only accepted as a matter of duty,
lie was, In. we. ded iii his political
views, and liis friends pressed him forward, notably
Thomas Martin, who was one of his stanches! and
truest friends. The key to his success i- bis rule to do
honest labor and I moderate and reasonable fees
nee his large and lucrative practice Mop >ver,
lie has made it a rule never to engage in speculation,
but to invest in productive property. He never charged
1 six percent, interest for the use of his money; and
was never exi He has lost by security debts
lifte, 11 thousand dollars since the war. He is noted for
his charity to the poor and his liberality toward all
I'lie hospitality of the Jones family mansion re-
minds one "t the old times, when men kept open house
for the stranger a- well as their friends, for under that
roof tree there is an old fashioned, ante bvllttm welcome
lor all.
GEN. MARCUS J. WRUiHT.
MKMrillS.
Till! scion of a sturdy, sterling, and intell
-try. this gentleman ha- been brie!1
nan "gifted with sound judgment, cutive
ability, and a correct literary 1
us .1. Wright was horn June 1. IS31, in Me-
Nairy county, Tennessee. He was educated at the
common schools and at the academy in his native
county, and became a tine classical scholar, with a de-
cided penchant for a literary life, lie was a hard stu-
dent, ami from his early boyhood manifested the literary
bent of his mind. Befori - an able
and valued contributor to southern literature, and his
clies. etc. were highly prized in the South.
\\ hen he readied hi- majority he went to Memphis
to li\> clerk iii a commission house, and
afterward spent some time at New Orleans. Return-
ing to Memphis, he studied law. was admitted to the
bar. and commenced practice with Col. Leroy i
Soon afterward, however, he was elected, a- an old line
Whig. the common law and criminal court of
Memphis, which position beheld up to the war.
When the war came, he espoused the cause of the South.
I lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and
fifty fourth (senior) Tennessee regiment of infantry,
April I. 1S|>1. and went with that regiment into the
Confederate service. Hi- promotion w a- rapid and brill-
iant for so young a man. (hi April 29, 1861, he com-
manded a battalion of the One Hundred and Fifty-
fourth regiment and the Steuben artillery at Randolph,
Tennessee, where he built Fort Wright, named by the
command in bis honor. He commanded hi- regiment in
the battle oi' Belmont. November 7. IS61, and was mili-
tary governor of Columbus, Kentucky, from February
.".. 1S62, to March S, 1S62 He also commanded his
regiment at the battle of Shiloh. From June lit to
Ulber 1. 1802, he was a lieutenant colonel a:
sistant adjutant general on the staff of Mai. -Hen. If I'
Cheatham, and as such served with gallantry and dis-
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tincliiin.it the battle of Perryville. He was c tnis-
sii i brigadier-general December 13, 1862. He was
assigned to the command of Hanson's Kentucky bri ;ade
January 10, 1863, which he relinquished February I,
1863, to assume command of Donelson's Tennessee
brigade, Cheatham's divisi to which he was pcrma
nently assigned. His brigade was composed of the
Eighth, Six nth, Twenty eighth, Thirty eighth, fifty-
first, and Fifty second regiments of Tennessee infantry,
Murray's Tc ssee battali f infantry, and W. W.
Games' battery of lighl artillery. He led this brigade
into action at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and
was twice wounded. He commanded the district and
post ill Atlanta, Georgia, when it was evacuated by the
( lonfederate armies ; also commanded the post at Macon,
Georgia. From February '■>. 1865, to tl ml of the
war, he commanded the district of North Mississippi
and West Tennessee, with headquarters at Grenada,
\l ississippi.
A.fter the war he returned to Memphis, and shortlj
after was elected sheriff oi Shelby county. At the
expiration of his term, he removed to Jackson, Tennes
see, ami went into the newspaper business, and From
Jackson to Columbia, Tennessee, where he became the
editor of the Columbia Journal. Leaving Columbia!
he located in St. Louis, but was only there a short
while, when, on July 1, 1878, he was appointed by the
secretary of war to collect for the uje of the govern-
ment such records of the late war (on the Confederate
side) as could I"1 obtained. This is his present occupa-
tion, and the fidelity, zeal, and intelligence he has
brought to bear upon his work has not onlj enriched
the war annals of the nation, Init added many invalu-
able volumes to the archives of the government which
otherwise might never have been secured.
It is said in Washington, where Gen, Wrighl now
resides, that he is the best, known man all over the
United States now resident at Washington. His home
is the Mecca, not onlj of Tenne eans and Southerners,
hut ol' literary people from the North, and especially
those seeking information in regard to the war. His
wife, formerly Miss Pauline Womack, of Mali una. en
ters fully into all of his work, and enchants his victors
by her grace as a hostess.
Gen. Wrighl is identified with the hardy pioneer set-
tlers ol McNairy county, whose efforts have not only
made that section one of the most prosperous ol our
Si. iic Inn whose lives and characters are ornaments of
our (Minim (ountry. His mother was twice married hei
first husband being Herbert Harwell, by whom she
had five children : Richard S. Harwell, of Purdy, Ten
nessee; Dr. Rufus S. Harwell, of Arkansas; Littleton
Harwell, deceased: Amanda, now wid-iw ol' Burrell B.
Adams, of Corinth, Mississippi; and Julia Harwell,
deceased. By her set I marriage, with Maj. Benjamin
Wright, she had 1 1 nee children : Hon. John V. Wright,
ol Nashville, Te ssee; Mr-. Elizabeth Crump, now
dead; and Gen. Marcus .1. Wright, subject of this
sketch. <ien. Wright's mother was born in Dinwiddie
county. Virginia, where she lived for more than thirty
years. She was sixty si\ years ol age at I lie t i me of her
death. She wi i of the Old Dominion's most intel
ligent and cultured daughters, gifted beyond measure
with colloquial powers and pleasantry. She always
made her visitors feel the charm of her society. She
Wit devotedly attached to her friends, but she had to
feel thai 1 1 1 1 ■ persons numbered as such were worthy,
and her discrimination w as so clear I hat she was sea r. ell
ever deceived. It. is believed thai but few mot hers ever
had t 'e confidence in the integrity and uprightness of
their children, or higher hopes of their eminence and
prosperity, and it is pleasing toknowshe had just em e
to be proud of I hem. In her last sickness she cxpn i d
her readiness and preparation for death. She was
a queenly woman, whose grace, beauty, and intellectual
gifts would have adorned any position, and made her the
pride of I he circle in which she moved.
Gen W right' father, Benjamin Wright, was horn at
or near Savannah, ( reorgia, on A pril -, 1784. By a sec
I 1 1 1. 1 1 a i .r. r his unit her there were three other chil-
dren, a son and two daughters. The son was appointed
a lieutenant in the United Stale- army by President
Madison, soon after the declaration of war by the
United States against Great Britain, in June, 1812, and
was at i ached to the Thirty-ninth regiment of infantry,
commanded by Col. Williams, of Knoxville, He was
very soon thereafter detailed for the recruiting service,
in which he was very successful, in the country around
Nashville, Gallatin, and Lebanon. About this time he
Was married to Miss Lewis, of Sumner county, Ten-
nessee, a most amiable and accomplished lady, who died
- Iter the close of that war. Upon the breaking out
of the deck war iii the fall of 1818, the Thirty ninth
regiment was ordered to reinforce Gen Jackson, who
had fought the Indians in several engagements, with
Coffee's brigade and other Tennesseans. They were
brought into active service at the battle of the Horse
shoe, nearly the whole of Jackson's army at the time be
ing from Tennessee. Limit. Wrighl here distinguished
himself for gallantry, and n tved several promotions,
reaching eventually to thai ot afield officer, \t the
battle of the Horseshoe, Lieut. Col. Samuel I'. Mont-
gomery, of the Thirty-ninth regiment, led the chai
on the breastworks, and was killed on the ramparts,
lie was only a liw paces in front of Lieut. Wright,
who seeing his leader fill, cried out, "Avenge your
leader," and led the charge. The charge was made in
gallant style Gen Si iel Houston was a lieutenant
in the Thirty-ninth regiment, and was wounded in the
arm at this battle by a musket ball.
In is:!:;. Lieut. Wrighl who had now been made a
major, was married to Mrs. .Martha Ann Harwell, at the
residence of Col. Stokely Hays, in Jackson, Tenni
and from that time until his death resided iii Purdy, Me-
ITS
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Nairy county. Maj. Wrighl had two children liyhis first
marriage, Frances Wright, who married Elvis Bracken,
of I lollj Springs, now I .■ - I. . B.
Wright, who was drowned at Memphis. Maj. Wright
volunteered as a private soldier for tin M ir, and
contracted a disease there from which lie nevi
ercd. Hediediu Purdy, January 30, 1860. llewasainan
o\' powerful frame, upward of six feel 1 In as
an Indian, and as a business man had few equals and no
superiors. In his day he was. perhaps, the most popular
man in McNairj county, and his popularity with all
classes and all parties was due to a personal geniality
that never forsook him. It has been said thai little
children sought his society, and played in trusting fond-
ness at his feet, or "climbed his knei [kiss to
share. Strongmen lean i him in hours of ad-
versity, and found an "anchor both sure and
fast." When the storm rain ami his
commanding form for protection, as do the beasts
the field 'neath the sheltering oak. when the tempest
sweeps the forest and marks its pathway with havoc and
destruction. Women, too, were his most ardent admir-
ers, because they knew him to be gallant, truthful, and
the soul ol honor. \To impure word ever soiled his lips,
or impure thought ever darkened his - 11*-
was a Chesterfield in nianni rs, and belonged to that old
school of gentlemen that sprung up immediately subse
quent to tlic Revolutionary period, and of whom it may
be truly said. " We shall not look upon their like again.
Their de> otion to the gentler sex was, perhaps, unsur
passed. He was the embodiment of what the poet calls
"social eloquence," and in his conversation there
sparkled ever the bla/.e of wit and flash of bright in-
telligence To young men he was especially kind, and
they were always In- warmest friend and mosl
supporters. ludecd, he exhibited in his daily life a
ready sympathy with all classes, ami both his right and
left hand were devoted to charitable uses. II
id the period allotted b.\ the Psalmist to frail hu-
manity, ami at the very thresh. .1,1 tiarian man-
h 1. "death touched his tired heart \
shaft placed there by filial hands marks the sp .1 where
he lies, and on its base, in the chiseled tracery of the
sculptor's art. is written in fadeless letters the si
his life. It rises in full view of the small village, and
overlooks the little stream whose sunny waves were
traits of character.
Marcus J. Wright's half-brother, Richard Har-
well, v person and in dress, and had excel-
lent .i He followed mercantile pursuits, and
lis man until the ill fortunes ol war
i his business. Rufus Harwell was a physician,
and \ ery popular, lie was a remarkably handsome man,
i b\ his carriage and his conduct that good
and true blood coursed his veins.
Hon, John V. Wright, brother of Gen. Wright, and
.' Benjamin and Martha A. Wright, was
i Purdy, •! une 28, 1828. I le was once a candidate
for the lower house of the General Assembly of Tennes-
iliuty, but was defeated by one \ote
-the vote of his opponent. He served three terms in
ed States, from the I then) Sev-
enth district, in wl ich Mi Xairj county is situated. In
1 861. h< raised the Thirteenth regiment of Tennessee in-
fantry for the Confederate army, and commanded it as
Belmont, Missouri, where he
was wounded. He was soon afterward elected to the
Confederate Congress, w here he served until the end of
sided for a number of year- at Columbia,
Tennessee t ]S ash\ ille. He has held
the offices of judge of the circuit, criminal, and chancery
courts in his judicial district, and has been several
tinn - appointed b\ the governor as special judge of the
Supreme eourt of the State. He was the candidate of
the State-eredil Democracy for governor ai the election
in 1880. but, by reason of t he <li\ ision in the partj . was
Gov. Hawkins, lie ha- a leading practice
at the bar of N'ashville, and has, to a large extent, the
confidence and regard of the peopl \ full sketch of
- life appears elsewhere in thi- volume.
Elizabeth Wright, tin h G Wright,
married l> -C. Crump. She was a lady of great
nd refinement, who, after a few happy years,
leath her husband removed to
Mill.', i l>r. Crump died at his residence in
Spring Hill, Tennessee, August 7. IS82. lie left three
children by his firs! marriage Mrs. Alexander, of
Spring Hill: Marcus V. Crump, of Brownsville, Ten-
e. and Richard 0. Crump, i>i' Milan, Tennessee
and one daughter by his last marriage, Lula Crump.
BON. WILLIAM E. B. JONES.
:le.
Al.TliOlt; II a Marylander by birth, the subject of
this sketch has been so long ami so prominently
identified with its. he is quite as much
a Tennessean as one "native here and to the manner
born." The place of his nativity was Annapolis, Mary-
land, where, on December 21, 182S, he first saw the
light. His lather. Maj. Richard Ireland .1 ones, a major
in the United States armv of 1812, was a native En
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470
glishman, born in I Ion, served as a British midship-
man, Imt resigned and came to Maryland when twenty
one years old. He was married three time and died
in Maryland in 1844, al thi I i ?entj four, when
the sun was only fifteen years old.
Mr. Jones' mother, nee Lucretia J Ball, was a native
of Kentneky, born the daughter of William and Leti
tia Ball, of a Virginia family. The grandfather, Ed-
win Ball, moved from Virginia to Kentucky al an early
day. Miss Lucretia Ball was teaching school al Fay
etteville, Tennessee, when Maj. Richard Jone mei liei
and there they wen' married, she being his third wife.
She died in 1840, leaving five children, only three of
whom survive: (1). Ada, now wife of Dr. Vuiof Han-
cock, of Overton i ty, Tennessee (2). Emma, now
wife of James McMillan of Monroe county, Kentucky.
(3). William Edwin Ball Jonei . subject of this ketch.
W. E. I!. Jones, was educated al St, John's col
Annapolis, Maryland, bul he received all of hi school
ing before the age of fifteen. At al t the a
seventeen, he entered the clerk's office of Bracken
county, Kentucky, as a deputy clerk, where he remained
six months, meantime reading law. Continuing his law
studies a year or more after this, he was licensed to
practice by Judges Crenshavt and Tompkin , al Glas-
gow, Kentucky. He began practice al Living ton
Overton county, Tennessee, in September, 1848, and
practiced there with con iderable success up to the
time of the war.
In 1861, lie entered the Confederate armj joined
Bledsoe's cavalry company, and remained in thai cum
pany until the latter pari of the year, when he
mustered out of service, his time of enlistment having
expired. After the war he moved to McMinnville,
Tennessee, where he has practiced law ever since in
partnership, two or three years, with W. J. Clifl
years with W. V. Whiteon and ten years with T. C.
Lind, his presenl partner.
A Jeffersonian Dei sral in polities. Mr. Jones ha
never deviated from the principles of thai party. In
1800, lie was a deleg ite to the I democratic national con-
ventions al Charleston and Baltimore, at Charleston
voting I'm- .1 ill in si in. .in '1 ;it Baltimore for Douglas.
He was mayor of Livingsti ind in L859-60,
represented Overton county in the lower house of the
Tennessee Legislature, serving on the judiciary and
banking committees,
lie belongs to no secret society and to no church,
though formerly a member oi the Christian church, the
doctrines of which he still believes.
Mr. Jones first married in Fentress county, Tennes
sec December 29, 1850, MissVestina Bledsoe, daughter
of William Bledsoe. Her mother was, originally, Miss
Elizabeth Tro per, of a Kentucky family, Her brothers,
Willis S.and Roberl II. Bledsoe, were both gallant Con
ite officers, I he former a major and the latter a
captain, in Col. Baxter Smith's Fourth Confederate
n -me mi Mrs. Jones was of the same family
a - the \ Hi li niiy Bledsoe family, of Sumnei county, Ten
iiessee. By his marriage with Miss Bledsoe, Mr. Jones
ha five children : (1). Emma Jones, educated at Naz
areth Academy, Bardstown, Kentucky. (2). Lama. I.
•I is, educated al the Cumberland Female ''"II1
McMinnville. (3), William B. Jones, born February
18, 1857; educated al the East Tennessee University;
cd Miss Allic in Dallas, county, Texas, where he
new resides. Thej have one child, Alice Bell. (4).
.Mary Lucretia Jones, educated at the Cumberland Fe-
male College McMinnville. (5). Minnie Lee Jones,
educated al the same school. The first Mrs. Jones,
died Februarj 13, 1867, al the age thirty-two; a mem-
ber of ; In- t 'In im inn church.
Mr. -lone-' second marrii which took place in V"an
Buren county, Tennessee, March 29, 1870, was with Miss
Ann L. Page, daughter of Dr. John S. Page. Her
mother was M i,-- Louise Turner. By this marriage, Mr.
■I s has four children. (1). Richard Edwin .Lines.
born April 29, 1872. ''!). Llalia Ermine Jones, born
iary 1. 1875. (3) innie May Jones, born May 22,
1878. ( I). John Meredith Jones, born February 26,
1882.
Mr. Jones lias had I he e ■ perience of beginning life
on nothing twice, first when a youth of nineteen, and
-li' i ilc war. lie i- new in independent circum
1 us two valuable li and has an interest in
cue1, :i,|. real estate in McMinnville.
He is also a director in the National Bank at McMinn-
ville. He has always made it a rule to be in his office
foi bu i 1 tu In- prompt and attentive, and
lei tie reputation of being a hard student. He is a
of -I niici u il] ;nel a man of individuality. III nian-
i i he is plain and unassuming, and in address delib
erate and positive. Entegrity of character and fixedness
of purpose are the factors of his prosperity.
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Ci )|. TRI »ISI> \ I.K was bor.n in Robertson county,
. Februar} 12. lvl!.'i.at his father's farm.
Springfield, tin seat. Wheu lie was three
years old hi* father moved to Jackson, in M
county, of the same State, then a pi :er distrii
eeiving it* first generation of white settlers. At the
11 he commenced attending such scho
were accessible in that half reclaimed country, a
n i in- commenced the study of Latin. His print-i]
structor was Samuel McClanahau. a graduate of the
South Carolina College, at Co - '
With this gentleman he -
when hi* teacher » abandoned
tin' scholastic profession 11
tor litem sition. having edited a n
paper at thirt. - irculated among his
school-fellows in manuscript. At sixteen
another journal, also circi pt. At the
f twelve In- returned to his birth-place. Spring
field, and attended school at Liberty Academy for two
s, under a good das.- lar. In 1S37, at the
' fourteen, he entered the Cniversity of Nashville,
Dr. Philip Lindsley, president. \ empo-
raries there were .1 Berrien Lindsley. " M
Walker. William T. Haskell (the well-known or
John 51. Lea (afterward juds court
and mayor of Nashville), (low Ruunells, of Texas, and
Hardy 51. Burton, ;i lawyer. In the fall
339, he entered the East Cniversity, of
which Joseph Estabrook was at, and here he
gradu LB., in 1S41.
3 m after graduation, 1 unty.
M ssissippi, where In school for two years and a
half, wheu he was appointed depun clerk of the chan-
cer} court. In thi> capacity, how i only
a few months, when, the war with Mexico hat
out, he enlis • volunteer in the First 5Iiss
regiment, whose colonel was the sin
son Davis. The regiment first served under (Ion T
lor, at the mouth of the Rio (iraude, where, a* always
happens with newly recruited soldiers, the troops
were almost decimated by diarrhea. The First 5Iiss-
formed |
which also included the First Tenn
Campbell; the division commander was Gen. William
0. Butler. While in this command he participated in
the storming ' Monterey, with it* succession o
guiuary street fights, and then, after Ampudia had capit-
ulated and marched out of the city, the regiment was
order. - itt's army at Vera Cruz. It had.
however, only marched as far as Victoria, when it was
ordered back to Agua Nueva, and found its
under Taylor's command, at the battle of Buena \
where four thousand five hundred American* i
COL. LEONIDAS TROUSDALE.
twentv-three thousand 51exiean
under Santa Anna.
At this battle the First Mississippi regiment had at one
time a very important position, the whole event of the
ement turning upon it* maintaining it* part
si very disproportionate numbers. After this hat-
tie he was elected second lieutenant of his company.
At the close of the war he returned to the I'nited
• and was mustered out of the .- il New Or-
leans, where III
Iii t ' 7 ng a paper
1 ssippi,
; ill. in the w inter of IS 19- 50, he was
lie Miss ud at
the adjournment of that bod} he returned to his native
State.
He now took up his residence in Gallatin, where, for
a tew months, he edited a Del -ratio paper called the
Tenth Movinj from thence to Little Hock,
Arkansas, he was for twelve month* editor of th
After gaining experience and self-confidence, with
reputation, by these fugitive efforts, he moved to
his. and there purchased an interest in the Mem-
phis .1 f which he was co-editor for eight years.
In ISGll. occurred tin vision in the Democratic
party, which lost it its power for a quarter of a century,
and. together with a parallel split in the Whig party.
Jit on the civil war. The conflicting claims of
Breckinridge and Douglas to the presidential nomina-
tion occasioned this di\ ision, and also a division between
the proprietor* of tin and this necessitated the
ition by him of rship. At this time the
success ;ter and Eastman, of the
Nash\ ille ssitated an
addition to the staff of that paper, and he sold
out hi- in the Appi-ul and transferred his
paper, where he had for his .-oil,
well-known journal n C. Burch, F. ('.
Dunniiigton. .1. (>. Griffith and Thomas S. Marr. The
fall of Fort Donelson, in February, 1 Nil', and the con-
sequent occupation of Nashville by the Federal forces.
suspended the publication of the paper for some years.
He was now- appointed aid-de-camp on the staff of
Gov. [sham <!. Hani*, and. after the transaction of a
multiplicity of military business in that capacity, was
promoted adjutant -general of brigade on the staff of
Gen. Marcus J. W right and John ('. Carter, taking an
active part in the Chickamauga campaign of 1863, in-
cluding the battles of Chickamauga and .Missionary
Hi* health and strength being much impaired
by tin nd privations of this trying campaign,
tendered hi* resignation, which was accepted
b} President Davis.
II. did not long continue idle, however. The Chat-
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181
tin ga Rebel was now entrusted to his editorial care.
Tin little journal was one of the most remarkable
pn id nets of the civil war. [ts originator and proprietoi
was Franc. M. Paul, formerly one of the editors of the
Memphis Bulletin. Among its editors or contributors
were Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier Jour-
nal, Allien Roberts, of the Nashville American,
Charles Faxon, of the Clarksville Jeffersonian (now
dead), Leon. Trousdale and others, whose names are
well known as writers. It was started by Mr. Paul, al
Ch.atta iga, in 1862, but though it bore the same name
throughout, it was published at many different south-
ern towns, migrating from one to another, according to
the fluctuations of the war. It remained at Chatta-
nooga till the advance of Rosencrans' army and the
bombardment by Wilder's battery made thai place a
little too hot for typographical proceedings, when it
was established at Marietta, Georgia, and after several
more re vals its publication was Anally and forcibly
suspended by Gen. Wilson, of the Federal army, at
Selma, Alabama, during the celebrated raid he made
through thai section, just previous to the close of the
war. Wilson seemed to have hada special spite against
this particular journal, and gave orders, just previous
to the evacuation of Sri ma by his troops, for the burn
ins of a large and valuable building in whioh the paper
was printed. The building was the property of minors,
and through the most earnest efforts oi their representa-
tives the Federal commander was induced to modify his
order so as to spare the building but directed that the
printing material of the Rebel office should be effectu-
ally wiped out, which order was strict I;, carried out.
Everything that could be destroyed by fire was eon
sumed in the street in front oi the office, while the
presses, imposing stones and oilier fixtures that could
not be burned were broken into fragments with sledge
hammers and axes. In the< flagration were destroyed
three complete files of the paper, which i tallied
much matter bearing u] the history of the war in
the department in which it had been published that
cannot be replaced, 'fhe best thoughts and raciest para-
graphs ever penned by the able and brilliant writers
who tilled its columns for three years, perished ni
that bonfire at Selma. tin- these same gentlemen, we
doubt not. will sustain its in the assertion that they
never did better work with their pens than that per
formed under the inspiration oi the stirring times of
those years of Civil St t 1 1. ■
At the (dose oi' the war, Col. Trousdale returned to
Memphis and commenced the publication of the Mem-
phis Commercial, his colleagues being John M. Keal
ing, John Heart, Rolfe S.Saunders and ('apt. W. \V.
Carnes. The office of this paper, with all its material,
was destroyed bj fire in the spring of L867, when he
lire mie associated with Allien Pike in the editorial
conduct of the Memphis Appeal, remaining then e
year.
61
It was as a journalist, especially as a leading political
writer for the daily press, that Col. Trousdale exhib-
ited his abilities to the best advantage, for in that field
he was more at home than in any other. Gifted with a
natural aptitude lor the profession, and trained in its
duties from his earliest youth ho spent the best
of his life on the editorial tripod, and achieved a repu-
tation in that field of labor of which any man might be
proud. His editorial career was passed prior to the
present era of sensational journalism, but covered a
period when the newspaper was, perhaps, more potent,
in moulding public opinion than it i even in the pres-
ent da\ of mammoth sheet,-, pictorial illustrate I
a vaster r.'i of subjects, not to mention the increa ed
facilities afforded for the gathering and dissemination
oi new-, from every quarter of the world. His style as
a wilier is clear, perspicuous and direct, and no one was
ever at a loss for the meaning of his sentences, or the
drift of his logic. In the discussion of public i p test ions
in the days of his literary prime, none of his contempo-
raries brought to hear on a subject more correct infor-
mation, deeper thought or sounder logic. Though
wielding a trenchant pen. it never shed gall or bit
terness in party strife nor traced a line of personal
abuse or vindication. The elevated tone of his writ-
ings, his strict regard for all the courtesies of the pro
fession, his esprit da corps, no less than his ability as an
editor, secured the highest consideration and regard of
his brethren of the press, and the esteem and confidt m t
nl the public.
Tn I860, he was elected secretary of the Memphis
Ch her of Commerce, to which office he was twice re-
elected, being al the same time secretary of the Mem
phis Agricultural and .Mechanical Association, which
positions he held for four years. Then he became book-
keeper in the county trustee's office, and held thai
position till he was appointed, in 1875, by Gov. Porter,
State superintendent of public instruction. This office
he held for six years, being SUCCessivelj reappointed by
Gov. Porter, in 1877, and by Gov. Marks, in IS7!».
During this period his labors were unflagging. The
present prosperity I popularity of the public school
system an- due to those lahors. ( 'a pt. T hi Unas II. Paine:
his successor, pays the following high tribute to his
efforts in behalf of popular education : " To Col. Trous
dale more than any other man, are the people of Ten
nessee indebted for the progress, general development
and present condition of our public school system.
Having been State superintendent for six years, he has
given the subject ih thought, and each term of hi
service has been characterized bya wise ami conserva
tivc management of the affairs t ected with the work
entrusted to his care
The six years of Col. Trousdale's administration as
Stale superintendent of public instruct ion. were years
of growth ami development. During this period tin
public school system became rooted in the confidence
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means slender, he spared no cxponso in the eduoal
of his children. A delicate constitution and extreme
youth prevented him From participating in Jackson's
military exploits. He died al Nashville, in 1878, at tin
age of eighty five. Hi* father (grandfather of Leoui
das Trousdale) was a Revolutionary soldier of the
North Carolina line. He settled, about the close of the
last century, in Sumner county, Tennessee, on the spot
where now stands the northern pan of the town of Gal-
latin, Tennessee. His father (great grandfather of
Leonidas), was a Scotch Irishman, who migrated from
the north of Ireland to Pennsylvania, and thence to
North Carolina, Relatives of the same name may still
be found in I reland.
The mother of Col. Trousdale was born near Peters
burg, Virginia, daughter of James and Martha Hicks.
She died before her children were grown.
His paternal grandmother was Miss Dobbins, of North
Carolina, a relative of Hon. -lames ('. Dobbins, who
was secretary of the navy under Mr. rioter.
His uncle, William Trousdale, was a lawyer in good
practice, n soldier in both the Indian and Federal wars
of Jackson, and colonel of the Fourteenth United
States infantry in the Mexican war. lie was wounded
al the battle of Chapultepee. Both as a soldier and as
a civilian, he was recognized as a man of tried courage
and unimpeachable honor. In 1850, he was elected
governor id' Tennessee. A. son of Gov. Trousdale, Julius
A. Trousdale, of Gallatin, Tennessee, served under
Gen, Bate in the late war. and has been twice elected
to the house of representatives and once to the senate
of Tennessee. Another son of Gov. Trousdale, the
eldest, Charles W. Trousdale, served under Forres! in
the late war, and lost a leg at Chickamauga. Here
ides now at Gallatin, Tennessee. Judge John V.
Wright and Gen. Marcus J. Wright are also cousins of
Col. Tron dale on the maternal side. Memoirs of these
goilt leineii ale "i\ en iii i li i- vol
Col, Trousdale married, December -I. 1853, Virginia
IV. nu , ., daughter of Le\ i unil Marl ha Joj . ol Bolivar,
Tennessee 1 > \ which marriage he has five children:
1 1 ). Lula, a kindergartener al Dycrsburg, Tcnuc ei
She studied that system of education al Worthington
Ohio, and is very successful in imparting it in practice.
(2), Jennie Joy, (3), Susie, died i I'ancj i h Leon,
jr. (5). Levi Joj
Col Trousdale attributes bis success in life to having
striven to do h hatc^ or he did well, w orli inj; tomatic
; 1 1 1 \ and persistent ly : and, by no means least, to the in-
spiring enthusiasm, sympathj and assistance of his wife.
lie is a Mason id' i he seventh degree, a member of
the Episcopal church, and a conscientious believer in
its doctrines . he considers it his highest privilege in
life io enjoy a fixed religiou - fail h,
The testimony of all who have been associated with
him is, as is expressed by a friend: " He is one of
those noble, warm hearted men. whom it is rare to
unci with; a man of unbending integrity, and gen-
erous, even to a fault." \ll concur in placing im-
plicit confidence in his integrity, and in expressing
the warmest regard for his social qualities. Especially
is the kindliness and urbanity of his disposition in. mi
tested inward those who go to his office for information
or advice. With an unwearied patience he listens to
the most prolix and tedious, as well as the intelligent
and considerate, and no expression of inip.it ieiice or
irritation ever clouds his countenance, but the infor-
mation is always reliable and the advice sound and wise,
and given with a cheerful courtesy which makes il
doubly acceptable. To have business with Leonidas
Trousdale is to be sure of a pleasant interview and
profitable counsel.
JAMES MERRILL SAFFORD, A. M., M. D., Ph. D.
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PROF. SAFFORD was horn August 13th, 1822, in
Putnam (now a pari of Zanesville), Muskingum
county, < thin. His parents were Harry Safford and
Patience Van Horn, the former the s I' Dr. Jonas
Safford, who was a distinguished physician in Galli-
opolis, Ohio, the hitler a daughter of Gen, Isaac Van
I lorn, one of i he first settlers of Ohio, and an officer in
the Revolutionary war In Islti he entered the Ohio
University, al Athens, when, under the presidency of
Dr. William II. McGuffey (afterwards professor of
moral and mental science in the University of Virginia),
that institution was in its most prosperous condition.
From this university he received the degrees of both
Baehelorand Master of Arts. In L846, he entered Vale
College, mostly for the purpose of studying chemistry,
natural history and geology. His studies there were
pursued with success. During vacations he worked in
the Held and traveled much on foot over a latge part of
the New England States and New York. Some years
afterward he received the degree of Doctor of Philoso
1 - 1 1 > from Vale Colli Before leaving the latter col-
lege, tWO professorships were tendered him; one, the
chair of mathematics, in i he Ohio University, the other,
that of chemistry, natural history and geology, in Cum
berl 1 University, at Lebanon, Tennessee. He .,,■
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wide circle of her friends she is frequent ly spoken oi n
"a famous liousckecpcr." She i vorj f'nnd of litem
ture, music and society, and especially of good com
I .any a i her own home. Affectionate and kind, uoted
for charity, she is 1 » « ► 1 1 » a hum Id wife and mother, friend
and neighbor.
While Prof. Safford was yel a student al Yale Col
I. his instructor, the celebrated Prof. Sillii re
ceived a letter from Dr. Anderson, president of Cum-
berland University, at Lebanon, Te ssee, requesting
him to recommend some young man qualified to lill the
ohair of chemistry, natural history 1 geology, who
might be induced to come to Tennessee. In the mean
time Prof. Safford had received notice' of his election
to the chair oi mathematics in the Ohio University, at
Alliens. Prof. Silliman advised him to prefer the call
in Tennessee, and there pursue, ii iwer field, hi:
favorite geological studies. To this advice Tennessee
is indebted for the possession of one of the foremost
scientists of the country, and the interests of the State
have Keen benefited by his intelligent labors bey 1
calculation. I'rnm early hoyli I. ho was fond of hooks
.mil mechanical invent inns, I ml his studies of chemist ry
and ilogy in college gave the final turn to his mind,
I with the zeal of an enthusiast he lias devoted his
busy life to that which his eminent fitnes eem to have
foreordained him. A- a teacher oi logy, he found
the "■ ological maps in use in the State verj mi ager and
defective, and he sunn made a geological map of his own
of Middle Tennessee, and, at the urgent solicitation of
his friends, applied for and obtained the position of
State geologi i
Prof. Safford an of great energy and vital force;
is determined, and possessed of i - will powei and
perseverance, yet he is modest and retiring, love study,
but is not without ambition, Physically, he is of me
ilinni height, stoul build, weighs one hundred and sixty
pounds; has hazel eyes, silver graj hair I beard, and
is the picture of health. 1 1 is expression is a combiua
tion of gravity, -o\ eritj and content ment.
T GEORGE HARRIS, a gentleman who first dis-
tr . tinguished himself in Tennessee as the brilliant
political editor of the old Nashville Union, the organ,
while in his hands, of Gen. Andrew Jackson and Pres-
ident .lames K. Polk, and who is now living, a retired
pay director of the limed Slates navy, at the home of
In daughter, Mrs. Dr. Van S. Lindsley, at Nashville,
was born a i Groton, C lecticut, a town of Revolution
ary historic memories, which Mr. Harris was chiefly
instrumental in reviving by a centennial celebration,
in L881, of the battle of Groton Heights, fought Sep
temliei 6, 1771. in which no less than eleven of bis an
ce tors, of the \\rry family, were killed and as manj
wounded. Eight successive generations, moreover, of
the \\erys lie in the same graveyard, at Pequonnock,
a village in the town ol < '• roton.
Up to the time of his mother's death, February 2,
L881, at the great age of ninety two, Mr. Harris was in
the habit of spending pan of his time every year al his
smnmer home, al Groton, opposite New London, at the
n ili of the Thames. It was mi the occasion of his
summer visit there, in 1879 that he determined to get
up the centennial celebration of the traitor Arnold's
assault on the place. A committee was appointed, of
which he was made president, and after two years' id'
preparation — thegover ent contributing ten and the
State three thousand dollars succe crowned their ef
forts with the presence of one hundred thousand people,
including the attendance of a large fleet of United States
men ol war. of all the military of Connecticut, with the
J. GEORGE HARRIS.
UNITED STA TES NAVY.
governor and staff at the bead, of Gen, Sherman and
his stall' of the United States army, of the chief justice
of i be I inied State and numerous ot her dignitaries
During the celebration a sham fig] icurred, in imi-
lati f the massacre, which engaged all the militia
and volunteer corps from abroad. I an attack by the
ships from the rivi r gave eclat to the scene as i of
national importance. There were certain features of
the original battle that rendered it peculiarly local. It
lughl on Groton soil, and three fourths of its vic-
tims were well-known citizens of the town, h- forty
widows in this one town, and the weeping of o manj
families for the loss of fathers and sons, some falling
side bj side, made it ever memorable and sorrowful.
But the losses in New L Ion, and the desolate homes
in Other towns, made the calamitj more widespread.
The celebration was distinguished bj a parade of j
Heel lelll K 1 1 1 u 1 1 1 - Templar, by .- | II I e 1 1 IV< .III l.rll.Sln r
man, Gen. Hawley, .1 . T. Wait, Kdward Everett II ale
I >r. Bacon, and i he presence of < 'ol, J . W. Barlow ,of 1 he
United Si ales army, as chief marshal. I'.ni to i ther
man there was i inn occasion so significant and grateful as
to Mr. 1 1 arris, whose ancestors, the \ verys, were among
il arliest settlers of the place There has I n pub
lished a large i| 'to volume on the battle of Groton
Heights, containing i ;c i of thi centennial cele
braiion; and of the speeches mad the occasi i
one surpasses the address of Welcome delivered by Mr.
Harris, as president of the com mil tee, as follows :
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which lie held until turned mil by ['resident Fillmore.
Samuel I* Jackson was a very decided man, a suc-
cessful business man, excitable and passionate in his
temperament, and much, in these respects, like the old
(ieneral, a quality which appears in a milder form in
the son, the subject of this sketch. (Jen. "Stonewall"
Jackson, of Virginia, was a descendant of the same
[rish stock. The men of the family are all tall. The
subject of this sketch stands six feet three inches in
his stocking feel, and is a fair representative of the
family.
Gen. Alfred E. Jackson has been more or less intimately
associated with the most distinguished men of Ten-
nessee that have lived his contemporaries, among whom
he mentions with some pride, Bailie Peyton, Ephraira
II. Foster, A. 0. P. NicJbokson, William'Cullom, Robert
I. Chester, Chief Justice Deaderick (whom he nursed
when a little buy). Neill S. Ib-own. Aaron V. Brown*
Gustavus A. Henry, .John Bell, Paul F. Eve, sr.,
Thomas Menees, Davy Crockett, .Meredith P.Gentry,
T. Nixon Van Dyke. Robert Nation and Daniel S.
Donelsoti.
( Jen. Jackson's mother, m < Klixa ( 'atharine Woodrow,
was of a. New Jersey Quaker family, but a native of
Philadelphia, and a highly educated woman. She wr.s
the bridesmaid of Mrs. President Madison, when she
first married (to Mr. Todd). She was a member of
the Presbyterian church, at Jonesborough and Salem,
under old Dr. Samuel Doak, founder of Washington
College, and at Jonesborough, under Rev. Charles
Coffin, founder of Greeneville College. Of her sis-
ters, Susan Woodrow married Dr. Binney, of Phila-
delphia, father of Horace Binney, a distinguished
lawyer, member of Congress, director in the old
United States Bank, and attorney tin- that bank,
under Nick Middle; Julia Woodrow married James
Duncan, id' Gettysburg, and another sister married Dr.
Spring, of Boston. Gen. Jackson's grandmother, Susan
Woodrow, net Finnan, was a woman ol great business
capacity. Benjamin Franklin and William Duncan, of
Philadelphia, were her business advisers. She had re-
markable economic business talent, and accumulated a
handsome property. The mother id' i len. Jackson was
a woman of brilliant intellect, had line conversational
powers, was notably intelligent on a wide range id' sub-
jei ts, and aid.' in prayer in church. She was also re-
markable for the beauty of her person, a handsome
woman, as were her daughters. She mixed in the best
society at Philadelphia, and was iii the habit of attend-
ing the levees of Presidents Washington and Adams,
given while that city was the eapilal <d' the United
States. She was born December 22, 17(11. and died.
January 8, 1844, at Jonesborough, in the house now
occupied by her son. She left six children living ol'
eleven born, ely: 1 lenry, Susan W, Kli/.a (who, when
grown, changed her name to Julia Adelaide). Caroline,
Harriet, ami Allied Eugene, the subject of this .sketch.
Of these, Henry died at Lynchburg, Virginia, after
holding office twenty-four years; Susan W. died the
widow of Dr. Thomas C Watkins, of Jefferson county,
Tennessee: Eliza (<i/tax Julia Adelaide), married David
A. Deaderick, oldest brother of Chief Justice Deaderick,
and died in December, 1817, al Cheek's Cross-roads in
Jefferson county; Caroline married John A. Aiken, a
brilliant criminal lawyer, ol Jonesborough, both of
whom died in Rome, Georgia Harriet married Oliver
B. Ross, of Baltimore, and settled at Jonesborough.
Cen. Jackson married in Carter county, Tennessee,
June S. 182(5, Miss Seraphina C. Taylor, horn June 23,
youngest daughter of (len. Nathaniel Taylor, a
brigadier-general in the war of 1812; sister of James I'.
Taylor, a distinguished lawyer, and for a time attorney-
general of the Eastern judicial district of Tennessee;
sister also ,d' Alfred W.Taylor, father of II. II. Taylor,
of Knoxviile, and of Col. N. M. Taylor, of Bristol.
whose sketches appear elsewhere in this volume. Her
eldest sister, Anna, married Thomas D. Love, id North
Carolina, a lawyer, in Carter county. Her second sis-
ter. Lorena, married Cen. Jacob Tipton-, removed to
Covington. West Tennessee, and there a county was
named lor him. Her sister Mary married Dr. William
I!. Dulaney, of Sullivan county. .Mrs. Jackson died
October 27, 1882. She was a very modest, retiring
woman, a member of the Presbyterian church, ami was
the mother of fourti en children, namely : (1). Samuel
Dorsey Jackson, a farmer, at Taylorsville, Tennessee;
married Alzinia Wagner, daughter of Matthias M.
Wagner, id' Johnson county, and has eight living chil-
dren, Mary. Olive, Sallie, Charles If. Ida. Matthias,
Mattie and Lillie. (2). Nathaniel Taylor Jackson, born
May 5, 1829; married Lizzie, the only child of Maj. John
F. Henry, of Blount county. Tennessee; fell a major
(quartermaster) under Zollicoffer, in the Confederate
service, leaving one child, Alfred N. Jackson, a lawyer,
at Knoxviile. (3). Eliza Catherine Jackson, born Jan-
uary 31, 1831; married James Iv Murphy, id North
Carolina, a lawyer, and has one child. Eugenia. (4).
Mary Caroline Jackson, born September 'Jli. 1832; mar-
ried Cen. James T. < 'after, son of Cm. William B. Car-
ter, ol' Carter county, and has five children, Bettie,
Alice. Seraphina (wile of Dr. Burdett, of Nashville),
Adelaide (died wife of Edward Kovkendoll. of Knox-
viile) and James 'I'. !.">>. Henry W Iron Jackson.
born June 29, 1834; died at an earlj age. 'd'. Susan
Evalina Jackson, born March 3, 1836; married Judge
William V. Deaderick, nephew of Chief Justice Dead-
erick; died, leaving eight children, Alfred Eugene,
Cora. John Franklin. Laura (who married John J.
of Sullivan county, and died in 1885, leaving one
child, a son). Henry (.'., Edward, Claude Taylor and
Charley Fuller, t wins, (7). James Fatten Taylor Jack-
son, horn November (i. is: IT ; named for his uncle, James
I'. Taylor, a gallant soldier in i he ( lonfederate service,
from the beginning to the end of the war. was wounded
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at Shiloh, and died in Mississippi in 1881, unmarried.
(8). William Woodrow Jackson, born September 16,
1839; died in infancy. (9). Julia Adelaide Jackson,
born April 22, 1841; married Charles L. Fuller, of
Nashville, and has four children, Lillie, William. Nellie
and Alfred Eugene. (10). Alfred Eugene Jackson,
born May 29, 1843; died al Millborough, Tennessee,
adjutant of the Twenty-ninth Tennessee regiment, soon
after the battle of INI ill Spring (Fishing creek). (11).
Seraphina Cordelia Jackson, born February 25, 1845;
died September 18, 1858. (12). Henry Clay Jackson,
born February 2. 1847, is a farmer, in Washington
county; for four years was in mercantile business with
Hugh DouglasA Co., and three years with Evans, Kite,
Porter & Co., of Nashville. ( 13). Lorena < Hivene Jack-
son, born September 21. 1849; died March 27. 1853.
(14). Olivia Lillie Jackson, born May.';. 1852; married
Rev. -lames W. Elogan, now living at Savannah, Georgia,
pastor of the First Presbyterian church, (ien. Jack-
son has about thirty six grandchildren and ten great
grandchildren.
Gen. Jackson's Hie lias been a very eventful one and
full of adventure. He was educated at Washington and
Greeneville Colleges, under Rev. Samuel Doak, D.D.,
who founded the first institution id' learning in Ten-
nessee, and Charles ( loffin, president oft Ireeneville Col-
lege. He maried in his twentieth year, and went to
farming on Chucky river, confining his life to farming
till 1830, when he commenced boating to North \la
bama, which he followed for twenty three consecutive
years, making considerable money by dealing in pro-
duce, iron, etc. In 1834, he commenced merchandising,
in connection with boating to the south and running
wagons to South Carolina, North Carolina ami Georgi i
He merchandised eighteen years, owning mills and
blacksmith shops. In LS48, he moved to Jonesbor-
ough, still carrying on the store at his farm. In 1846,
he made a contract with Elijah Embree, who had built
a rolling-mill and nailery, to take everything he made
at a stipulated price, the contract terminating upon the
death nl' Embree, in 1S47. By this contract he made
a good deal oi money. Previous to 1846, he commenced
merchandising at Taylorsville, Johnson county, lie
conducted this business fourteen years, meantime run-
ning two stores in North Carolina, one in Watauga
county, and one at Burnsville, Yancey county. In 1847,
he bought up all the com in East Tennessee, along the
Tennessee river, from the mouth of Clinch to Chat-
tanooga, with a view id' supplying the demand in Ire-
land, during the famine there. He took it to New
Orleans in flat boats and sold it to an English purchaser
fur the Dublin market, and on this venture made one
thousand five hundred dollars. <>n that enterprise he
was six months and sixteen days "one. on duty all the
time, often workingall night mi the river himself, steel-
ing his boats, which were lashed together. About 1850,
he contracted with Bishop Ives, of North Carolina, to
put up a chapel, seminary, boarding bouse and store-
house al Valle Crucis, in Watauga county, North Caro-
lina, lie continued merchandising at Taylorsville,
Watauga and Burnsville up to 1861, all at the same
time, carrying en. besides, a tannery, a shoe shop and a
saddlery simp at Taylorsville.
Not only has his life been very active, but one of
much exposure and laboriousness. lie has ridden all
nver East Tennessee and over large portions of Ala-
bama and South Carolina after night, in prosecuting
bis business — always making personal enjoyment sub-
servient to business duty. He rode from Greeenville,
Smith Carolina, to his home, a distance of one hundred
and twenty miles without stopping to rest or to sleep,
and twice only to teed his horse. Night after night he
has ridden all night in pursuit of business. He once
weni three hundred miles in a canoe, from Battle Creek
to Decatur, Alabama, poling and paddling night ami
day. sleeping a- the canoe floated, rather than be balked
in the sale of some West Tennessee lands: then rode
tintx six miles at night from Decatur to Tuseumbia,
to catch the stage, and got to his destination in time
to prevent the loss of his lien and to buy the lands
in. In 1840, he walked sixty-three miles in one day,
in the month of June, from Asheville, North Carolina,
to his farm mi Chucky river, to procure a team to
lighten a load of five thousand six hundred weight of
goods bought in Charleston, and which was being drawn
by a team too weak to pull it. A man of wonderful
physical endurance, in Alabama he was called "the
iron man,' partly from his great strength, and partly
because of his dealing so extensively in iron, in which
he made the bulk of his fortune.
An important part of his life, from 1848 to 1S58, was
in connection with the origin, organization and con-
struction of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad
from Bristol to Knoxville. He became a director of
the road in 1850, was the financial agent from 1850 to
1858, ami disposed of three hundred thousand dollars
of the bonds issued for building the bridges and ma-
sonry, besides other contracts, amounting to one hun-
dred and forty thousand dollars. He was author id' the
bill passed by the Legislature, February 20, 1852, pro-
viding for the building of the bridges and masonry, and
labored zealously with that body until they passed it.
Always a manipulator of men and a marshaler of affairs,
during these ten years hi' neglected his own private
business in the interest of the railroad and for the
progress of Past Tennessee, indirectly thereby enhanc-
ing the value of his real estate, some twelve thousand
acres, lie bought the first locomotives ami the first
passenger cars on the road, and gave his individual note
for one bundled and forty thousand dollars for the iron
fir thirty miles ot' the road.
In 1861, he went into the Confederate service as
quartermaster on Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer's staff. As
brigade quartermaster he continued up to the death of
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the age of ninety odd years. The father, Ai Thorn-
county ; was a merchant
and fill for many years, and
a member of the Presbyteriau church. He was a man
ofhigl | r; had the repu-
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luring the war. In politics he was a Whii
after the war becaun a U publican, lie died at about
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mother, whose maiden name was
Man Late-down, cai Una. an orphan
child Christian, and lember
of the Metliodi- pal church half a cen-
tury. She raised all her children riling
labor as honorable and eh ither than
and self-re-
liant. She died at the age of eighty eight yi
'fie rn at NTe« M
'feme ruary Id. 1832, and there grew up and
illS when he moved to Knoxville,
when nil .vers-; :d in mercantile pur-
suits. His edueatiou was limited to the comi
of the country as they were in his early boyhood. He
nor a. ,.,1 or gambled.
I) full of : ,,,1 youthful S|
His n was that of a farmer until the war
n. when herefugeed to the Federal lines in Ken-
aud, with Col. Pickens, raised the Third
dry. and commanded tin- regiment in -
uimanded the fourth brigade of the
Cumberland, lie continued in service until the latter
part of 1864, li n Tennessee. Kentucky,
Alabama and Mississippi, and was in the battles .if
irough >. and numerous smaller
N .ar ( 'orinth, he had his shoulder-straps
off ill an i i on the skirmish line.
Iu 1865, : ted from Jeff mty to the
rved in th 7 -
He was chairman of the committee on elections and
of the committee on claims. The newspapers ofNash-
'•i"c' » ak of him as the " Thad
fthe Legislature, so radical and uncompro-
a Republican member. He was
afterward special claims commissioner of tl
ument al ket.
He married in Nashville, June 26, 1866, Miss Ubany
Rien Samuel. Her grandmother, Belinda Scott,
of Virginia, was a Winfield -
Mrs. Thornbui Ward's seminary,
Nashville Sle tuber of the Methodist church,
is lively in her disposition and diffusi
I her husband says ol her,
a whole team in the kitchen, a whole team in the
garden, a whole team in the parlor, a whole team when
ii literature -and is DOti
her charity and readiness to help the poor and distl
By his marriage with Miss Samuel Col. Thornburgh
has six children : Charlie. Mary Florei i Dela
Rien. Callie Lavinia (died two years old), Blanchieand
Frank Perm 1
In politics ho was first a Whig and i> now a Republican
— never having east a Democratic vot< . Ho was at one
time a dele-ate to the national Republican com eiitioti at
He was made a Mason in 1852, in New Market I.
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Chapter al Knosvill if the charter ni
de Lion Commandery, N 9 Inights Templar,
at Knoxville. He served as Worshipful Mas'
Market Lodge foi three years. He is the senior mem-
the mercantile firm of Thornburgh & Daniel,
. ille.
Thornburgh was raised to hard work on a farm.
His father never laid a nickel in his hand and said,
spend it as you pleas.. What lie has he made h\ hard
lieks. He says of himself : "I never had any pleasure
trips." He made some money on the farm, and by
trading in stoek ; traded in real estate after the war. and
made some profit by his speculations. When a boy
working for his fathi r, he used to raise potatoes in the
missing corn hills, and would buy pigs and calvi
fatten them fin- market, and instead of drinking whisky
and living extravagantly, took care of the- money he
thus made. His rule lias been never to take the
advantage of a man iu a trade or in any other way. but
to aet honestly and honorably in all his dealings. He
irity. never sued a man. and was never
sued: never had a note to go to protest: always kept
his business so that he could put it together in twenty-
four hours, if it should become necessary. He never
went in debt unless he knew he could pay out of it at
the appointed time. Above all things he desires to live
an honest man. and to leave a record his posterity will
have no cause to be ashamed of.
He -land- six feet two inches high: Weighs two hun-
dred pounds; has an unpretentious air. and looks as
much like a well-to-do farmer as a city merchant.
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS
HON. DAVID T. PATTERSON.
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WHEN Judge Patterson began his career
lawyer, he a marked att>
of ill I young men al ;
In- mind was tested by th< multitude
of eases entrusted to him and the reraai I liarity
which he exhibited in courts with the minuti
of them all. His reliance upon his own jud
throi ual remark of his to
riter aud Mr. A. I!. Wilson April 6, IS
Whin I was
mind from t he facts, and never list
ument ■ of i he lawyers unl point
was presented. TheD I madi is a rule, as t hi
i answer him in my own mind; if 1
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ment. But his greatest hc.ior is his family; a wife
universally admired most promising
business young men in the country, and a daughter,
who is in nil her qualities, a splendor.
ill T. Patter on was born in Greeue county, Ten-
miles smith of < rreene\ ille, February 28,
1819 and there lived until he was fifteen yeat
when his father moved to Greeneville district, South
J34, The son, however, after spi
in the old < S-reenevilh eturned to
Greeneville, Tennessee, January, 1838, foT the pu
of reading law, which he 'liil in the office of Hun. Rob-
ert J. McKinney, late the State.
After reading with him and also witho ceptor
about two years, he was admitted to the bar in
1841. his ' Samuel Powell
and II. hi. Robert M. Anderson, the former of the First
circuit, the latter of the Twelfth judicial circuit. He
commenced practice in 1841, at t. including
tli" First judicial circuit, and practiced law thet
May. 18! i the First judi-
cial circuit, a position which he tilled till ig re
1 in 1862 At the first election his opponet I
I [mi. James VV. I >ead e of Ten-
nessi
In 1863, Gen, Burnside came into East Tenni
with the F 1 furnished rudge Patterson
for the purpose of getting thi
the lines tn Nashville, Pi i Johnson thru being
military governor of Tennessee, and Jud I rson's
of President Johnson :
anxiui her lather. Judge" Patterson took his
family, consisting of his wife and two children, Andrew
lie, to M irriving there in No-
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ille, Kent ucky, thetn Louis' ill
Nashville railroad. He I at Nashville until
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the assassination of President
President Johnson wanted his daughter, Mrs. Pati
in take charge of the white-house, which her mother,
:m invalid, was unable i
.1 udge I ' i I lemoci it h is b irn a Democrat,
but se t he Democratic part'
hi was pre with
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Democracy. I \< never held ,
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sonal contest rather ■ In the -
if the committee on com nd of
1 ommittee for the ' Columbia. He
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which nominated Pi
term, hut did not attend, bein Point
Military \ a member of the board of vis
Tn earlier lif< for members of the
South Carolina Legislatui le to the
Martin Van Buren, and voted the Democratic ticket
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he did nut vote for Buchanan
nor did he vote in 1872 for Mr. G ise he
thought his nomination a blun
Dui stood unwaveringly
by the Union. He was arrested in November, L8(
of Gen. Zollicoffer, under eh aving had
something to do with the burning of the bridg
Tennessee, when the truth h is he did all he could to
burnt, believing ii would in
the Union men of East Tennessee in trouble, which it
did. After arrest, he was ordered to Tuscaloosa
was finallj released ig three times to the I
to start for 'I'll.-' r from Richm
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that he had no hand in the bridge bn
On March 4,1869, President Johnson's pn
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COL. NATHANIEL M. fAYLOR.
ONE of the best known and ablest attorin
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Nathaniel M I Bristol U >rn in ( 'm-
intj 'I'iiii - [itcnibcr _' ew up
there on his father'* farm II i- I on he
W ishingtoii ( '..II. II idu ited in the
law shool hi Lebanon, under J ad \[ ini Carutbers.
II i- pan hi- were in e I uircumt
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luation, he began 1 1
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r In n he went into the < 'onfi
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mill i- now attornej for th
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daughters Vniui, who mm
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sketch il-.wli. -tv in this volume); Elizabeth, who int.
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in i Ten ii up I died April 18 1881
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.i physician, who died « hen man
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