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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. 
 
 aJ 
 
 A 
 
 \n,li i h Mottley, M.D 
 
 uh Rhea 
 
 Willi) d T., D.D.S ... 
 
 Atkins, Hon. J. I). C 
 
 Ill 
 
 
 B 
 
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 . Prof. \. I', i L.D 
 
 \.M., D.D. 
 Bate, ' 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 
 
 14 
 
 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 
 
 rge 
 
 100 
 
 GalJa i 
 
 n. E I 
 
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 M.. 1 I D 
 
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 112 
 
 K 
 
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 loin Arthui 
 
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 l.iirki 
 
 J • 
 
 I [on. Hem . J 
 
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 M 
 
 Hon. Willi 
 [., M.D 
 
 MeD 
 
 Willi;!,. 1-28 
 
 irlnnd, Hoi 
 
 McMi I., M.D 
 
 \i, v 
 
 M,l- \ 
 
 . 175 
 ■ M , M.D 
 
 M i> 
 
 3 
 
 1 B., M. I 1 
 
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 II M 1> 
 
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 ell, K. W . M.D 
 
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 . I 
 . Hon. Willia, i; 
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 Muse, 11. 
 
 N 
 
 u. Rufns I 
 
! \ 1 > I-". X 
 
 mi 
 
 I, Williar 
 
 
 
 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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 J'Rod 
 
 n E..... 
 
 
 
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 ,rd, .Tames M.rrill, A..M . Ml'.. !' ! D .. 
 
 I ol. William 
 
 Saun i D., M.I' 
 
 
 
 'I' 
 
 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 
 
 . 
 
 Ili:i 
 
 
 
 ' ; 241 
 
 Thuri 
 
 Tinm > 
 
 505 
 
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 Turm 
 
 
 
 njamin W., M D 
 
 V 
 
 264 
 
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 Wats 
 
 
 
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 Wild hn'J 
 
 Willi 
 
 Williamson, H 
 
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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- 
 
PROMT NEN T T E N N ESS R A N S 
 
 3 
 
 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. I s '"' 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 
 

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I 'KM MINI-: NT TENNESSE VNS. 
 
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 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. I 1 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 ..| f r0 m 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 
 
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 ink of 
 
 I'KOMINKN r TKXNKSSK ^NS 
 
 An '• i>, compactly built, 
 
 pounds . has 
 lli> mol |uick. 
 
 eon versa 
 
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 the nio.-i promi- 
 
 TUOMAS 11. OOLDWELL. 
 
 
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 ,:il ot the S I Re| 'ter of the. 
 
 and in M i) the 
 
 serving 
 fen volumes of the 
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 w hili entered ;i 
 
 lie to the Supreme 
 
 out of the 
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 ritral 
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 nit of tin; 
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 firm i.' 
 
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 who 
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 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 
 
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 !, now pi i him tli., 
 
 of Col. I. Houl He will thus find, 
 
 !i in hi-: i '•or is 
 
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 but diffei 
 
 other of t !. 
 
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 tin. mi 
 
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 I ribu table 
 
 illl ;l know 
 His mot bod in law 
 
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 il rii Itor than 
 nil 
 
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 mrts, his 
 
 ill with my on the 
 
 i nt 
 
 tli ' Shiloh, but retired from th vith 
 
 orable dis i health, 
 
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 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 
 
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 ant 
 
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 > 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] "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 
 
 : 
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 l tho 
 :it ho 
 
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 - 
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 - 
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 .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 
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 ss and 
 - 
 
 Inn. 
 
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 kiu- 
 
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PltOMINENT TK.NM 
 
 V.t 
 
 Jt vv'al wit ■ 
 that li. 
 
 and, ' ' 
 
 coming 
 
 than the H<> 
 
 memory 
 
 l<y whom ln<: i 
 virtu 1 
 
 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 t 1 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 tin 1 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 was 1 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 
 

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 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 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 t he 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 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'-d 1 ' 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 
 
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 VIINEXT TEXXK 
 
 in til. 
 
 mi the 
 lid now li\ 
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 el' tli. ntury. 1 ill the 
 
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 nia. 
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 halt' i ~ lina, father 
 
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 William II. Hughes, :i Met] 
 
 'Id. 
 
 their Ion 
 
 
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 ternal aunt 
 
 ;ornal aunt ... 
 
 .... Aunt, still alive at ninety.. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 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 in 1 , 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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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS 
 
 
 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, l s 7ie 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. 
 
 i//./,/:. 
 
 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 I 1 . 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 
 
 ■ 
 of 1812, r of 
 
 1 
 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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 i in 
 
II \ \ 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
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 lie 
 
 

 
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 did fjualil 
 
 high* 
 
 iual, of 
 
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 WMMINKXT TENXKSSK VXS 
 
 lliam, 
 ration 
 iunty 
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 Otll- 
 
 iko up the 
 i never niakin 
 
 He 
 
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 dent Sas St. Louis 
 
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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- 
 • 
 
 • - i to. 
 
 hildren, viz. : S - innah 
 
 M : — Fanny 
 \ . 6. Bibb, who 
 
 N'as - 
 
 rland 
 ' 
 376 ; resides at 2 
 
 • hools 
 \ . \ - 
 
 HON. J. W. CLAPP. 
 
 • 
 
 H- 
 ■ 
 
 s soon as 
 
 W C. 
 
 - 
 - 
 
 when he 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
TKNN'l 
 
 41 
 
 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 
 
 ■ 
 
 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 
 
 ■ 
 Mem| 
 
 married 
 Alice D. P 
 I 7 i. Leura L. CI ' ■ 
 

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 I culture. I lore ho 
 
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 ir, wlion ii li'll into the 
 
 n lire .iikI 
 
 : with :il including 
 
 mis 
 
 r valuable 
 
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 suspen 
 
 ill, i';ltlll. - than n 
 
 -\ 111 
 
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 it ions 
 
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PROMINENT TKNNK 
 
 l.'i 
 
 had lost, the details of which 
 
 uf tin in 1 "Tii 
 
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 file* of which were anion 
 
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 are in ■ ith bench and bar 
 
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 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 
 
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 mother of J udgi Fh mil .< andfather - 
 
 mentioned. By hi- second wife he bad 
 
 of whom . in which 
 
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 Tennessee ami 
 
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 proini i Wheeler with 
 
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 he would take 
 
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 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 
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 upon by i (ens. Kirhy Smith 
 
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 with him, and then returned to Houston. 
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 gave his parole, and received | 
 
 i 'ion, and returned to his father's ' 
 in Li : his "iitii e..ii- 
 
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 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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PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
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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 
 
PKOMINE N T T E X X ESS E A X S. 
 
 51 
 
 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- 
 
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 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. 
 
 /; /.■ ■ ■ v - ■ 
 
 r T^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 -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 
 
fltOMINEN'J TENNESSEANS. 
 
 53 
 
 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 
 
 i and 
 
 I rut Ii of ( 
 tianity. 
 
 Judge Livingston married, at Stanton I 1 « 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 
 1 
 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, 
 
 I 1 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 
 
 i l 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. r i, 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; V i 
 
 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 
 
PKOMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 63 
 
 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 f 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," In 1 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 ev er 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 
 
lil 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSE vNS 
 
 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 tin 1 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. 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE l\> 
 
 65 
 
 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 
 
I,,, 
 
 PROMINENT TEXXESSE VXS 
 
 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*. 
 
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 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 l v 7d. 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 
 
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 remarkable degree, the trust o 
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 He was a born lav 
 mtnd, patient of invi 
 
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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 
 
 ■ 1 ; and like Mart wall, too, his judicial 
 unadorned, void of slm \h 
 
 will ever seek his opinioi 
 
 Bui ho never failed to be ?; and 
 
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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. 
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 he war by the wreck 
 
 Vlfi I M Carter, 
 
 v i iss Puftield, who became 
 
 n and Elizabeth Carter. 
 
 ? inuel l\ Carter, 
 
 miral in the I'nited States navy; James I' T. 
 
 I, and 1!>'\ \Y. 1$, Carter ibeth- 
 
 nnty, Tennessee. Mrs. McDowell is also 
 
 known Taylor family of East 
 
 Uhea, is related to one of the 
 
 - in that region. 
 
 Blountville, be- 
 
 rian church. :uul is belo\ ed for her 
 
 Christian life. 
 
 - - this man" 
 
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 er in 
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 born December 13, 
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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; i f 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( \\ 
 
 x l - ) 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. 
 
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 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 
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 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 
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 work, of which a > 
 
 report of the i ch, in my 
 
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 do not to have r which 1 have 
 
 of tho 
 structure of this 
 
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 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 
 
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 niotu or merit, 
 
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 -I he remained commisj 
 
 thirty 
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 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- 
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 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 
 
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 bitiou o( tl d natural wealth of 
 
 •iieiit of i 1 the 
 
 lit upon i nt, intelligence and skill, 
 
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 children, four sons and two daughter 
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 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 ■ 
 
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 tical laborer, with keen jui private affaii 
 
 as mi tic and di ited workei public 
 
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 control of a strong will and of thi | ide of his 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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 
 
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 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- 
 
 ' after, 
 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 
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 ilways present difficult} of ving fb.ssilisra 
 
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 South lias contributed more. 
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PROMINENT TKNNE 
 
 -7 
 
 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. 
 
 39 
 
 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 
 

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 HON. MICHAEL BUI 
 
 II. I.E. 
 
 Tin - 
 ier by birth, bi 
 and has i 
 finer repul and imj 
 
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 ly a leathi 
 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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 aaddli 
 
 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 
 
 - 
 two diffen - filled b; 
 
 Froi tank of 
 
 * the 
 ' : ; In 187 
 
 ■ial Bank ville. 
 
 Third National 
 
 and American I for 
 
 ville I • 'ompany. 
 
 with T dr. Burii- 
 
 •y in 
 ■ "hairman 
 of the 
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 that il 
 
 'tizen 
 through lil 
 
I'UOMIXKN I' I'KXXKSSK \XS 
 
 •opor lion to (ill i ll 
 
 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 
 
 inton 
 int. 
 
 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 
 ::a\ o lii^ aid in thai \ 
 
 army t lii-ni :i 
 
 shin, both 
 
 iif the until 
 iln- respect thai 
 
 tll:iii.i from .ill n 
 
 Tito 
 
 lohn 
 
 Si-tl, also has :lli illio: 
 
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 « in rniinii , 
 
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 atnal appi . il 
 
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 tied, lu-, hi 
 
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 . with tli< 
 
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 ItlOltS 
 
 I the 
 
 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 
 
 y 
 
 ■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 
 
 iy the 
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 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 
 
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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 
 
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 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 ! 
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 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 I 1 . 
 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 
 
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 witli which he lias held 
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 havii 
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 In 1S52 ('apt. Latta was m Mason in 
 
 Hess Lodge taken the 
 
 Chap 1 1 filled all is in both I 
 
 and Chapter. H in 1851, and 
 
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 lie 1 
 
 In 1S70 P.- was appointed a director in the Mississippi 
 l!i\ . 
 
 I 
 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 Mary r 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 ?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 
 
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 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 
 
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 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, 
 
 Robert Elder, died in infam 
 The children now i nder 
 
 lie Elder, born duly 16, 1847; graduated at 
 en ton ; and t" 
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 . a ; married, in 1876, Miss Mol 
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 1-7:! Dr. Thomas J. I 
 
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 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. 
 

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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- 
 
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 Columbia. Missouri. {V 
 
 Mrs. Lipscomb died Deceml 
 
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 and extra-. n evil. When he .ding 
 
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 evenii - While at Philadelphia 1 
 
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 ■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. BUR 1 - 
 
 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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 . 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 
 
 - wj-: 
 horn of Iri liddle 
 
 Tenm rjklin 
 
 lied in hi- one hundredi 
 
 Franklin i 
 
 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, I 1 ' 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 
 
 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 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 111 
 
 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 
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 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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 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. 
 
 
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 I ?17. youngest $ 
 
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 Mr Jordan's - Walker, daughter 
 
 family and a na- 
 mother was 
 
PR0MIXKN1 TK 
 
 m 
 
 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 
 ■ 
 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, 
 w as 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, l v 77. 
 (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 
 
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 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; tin 1 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 is 1 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 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 117 
 
 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 . 
 
US 
 
 I'KOMINKNT TI'WI-M VNS 
 
 i turn out in I 
 
 tnd mother »i"od 
 
 That ■ « hero. 
 
 By < iurs. 
 
 Ho »\ ill, 
 
 « ittlc child ■ 
 
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 He's 
 
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 - '.uvl: 
 -sed to my h< 
 
 ,-t night I 
 
 .ley, 
 Foi . you had di 
 
 My 
 
 - ar pure br ■ 
 
 - and tears. 
 
 Thes 
 
 Why • . : tell? 
 
 Did Hod, iu tru' 
 
 - 
 .'are. 
 
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 Ou: 
 
 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 
 
 .iiii . 
 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 
 
 But - u!t 
 
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 Vuderth. 
 
 the loud voices of the day proclaim 
 
 :ty. 
 
 \ 5 d less reveal to the reader the 
 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 \ 
 stead) - Wherever ht - 
 
 walked, honor aud strength were by his side — a 
 ineu priceless as the stars. "A ma u 
 tence iu the world when it is known 
 

 
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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, 
 N 
 
 \ ii Carotin; 
 out the year IS 
 
 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. 
 
 - ok. and 
 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 
 ti ru , \ 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 
 
 . 
 
 ■■ Inch ho w 
 - 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- 
 t l 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 
 - 
 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 
 
; cxj^rfl it ( (/ 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS 
 
 121 
 
 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. 
 
 18 
 
 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 
 
 - - •• i. but when 
 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 
 
 3 
 
 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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 ^ I * I J I i Hi James Holmes, well-known as a niis- 
 
 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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 mother was M rtha Crenshaw !> h Carolina 
 
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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 
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 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. 
 
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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 
 
 .1, 
 
 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 
 
 1 1 ■ « - 
 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 
 l u > 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, 
 

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 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 
 
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 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: 
 
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 Bradfo 
 
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 children, William and VXvi. 
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 In \\i. ii of the 'I 
 
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 inal men of all 
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 135 
 
 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 
 
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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 .'■ 
 
 relatii 
 
 if 1845 h< 
 Dr. -Ill Pi ton brother of I 
 had been el< eted to repn ! ■ 
 
 and Macon counties in the In 
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 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 
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 prisoner at the battle of Mill Springs, He was killed 
 
 in the battle .>f Murfi ; \. Wednesday, December 
 
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 W illiam Preston. 
 
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 daughter of Florence Pood, who is the daughter of 
 
 Jane Caroline Kakin and wife of James 11, Reed, a 
 
 hardware merchant at Murfreesborough. 
 
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 unty court o\' Davidson county, a man who mi> 
 
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 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. 
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 five, a model woman, of fine sense, of extensive 
 reading, a well-balanced mind and fascinating conver- 
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 but in her religious faith a staunch " Cainpbollito." She 
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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 - 
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 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 
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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. 
 
\sl 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSE \NS 
 
 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. 
 
 Tin 1 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. 
 
 his. 
 
 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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 153 
 
 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. 
 20 
 
 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- 
 
15 f 
 
 1'ltOMI X FAT TENNESSEA XS. 
 
 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 i 1 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 \\>. 
 
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 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 
 

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 him many personal enemies, 
 bring liim into general n bravo 
 
 iliink 
 u, ho 
 I ability anil in- 
 ln thi 
 
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 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 
 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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 :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. 
 

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 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 Summers, of tho Methodist church, 
 
 ilio first men of the 
 
 died ili-i . aeoted 
 
 mid theology, ami his 
 
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 MA-i. E. V. M N'EAl 
 
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 September 
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 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. 
 
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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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 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 l s 7f 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 
 
 i • 
 
 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. 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANF. 
 
 " 
 
 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 i 1 
 
 ■ 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. 
 
 Dr. i. 
 
 Til! 
 
 H 
 
 in all 
 ar. His 
 
 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 
 
 ille. Virgii His 
 :' that 
 ■ 
 At qu formed the intentioi 
 
 Med- 
 ical I 
 
 ailed " tl 
 if whom wa- William G 
 of the ui He era 
 
 in medicim md in the foil 
 
 "dem- 
 and 
 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 
 Jeptha Fowlk 
 
168 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSE \\S 
 
 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 tin 1 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. 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS 
 
 \m 
 
 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 I 1 . 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. 
 
 ■ 
 
 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 
 
 - 
 ! 
 
 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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 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, 
 
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 ilont. ami \\ roto Humorous 
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 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 
 
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 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 < 
 
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 he ren 
 
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 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. 
 
 ■ 
 
 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- 
 

 'ROMIXEXT TEXXESSE VXS 
 
 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 
 
 ; of Xnsll\ lie 1- I he t'al her of I leu J oh 11 
 
 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 tin 1 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. II 1 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 
 
 23 
 
 ished i . ire undei ivid- 
 
 r the appointment mmissiotu 
 
 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 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 
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 duty in whatever promoted her welfare and advanced 
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 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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 PROMINENT TENNESSEANS 
 
 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 lili 1 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. 
 
WNESSEANS. 181 
 
 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 In 1 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 
 
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 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. N l 
 
 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 
 
PROMIXE.V'I TENWE.SSEAX.S 
 
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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 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 
 
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 comber I 'J l s 77 , .'< 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 
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 both thos \ ash\ illo. 
 
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 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 
 
 W7 V 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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 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 
 
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 montl.v ai ( 'ha has ilili 
 
 tieed law llo is 
 
 president of tho Sodd.v < ami of the 
 
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 I 1 business him I osl air in 
 
 Chattanooga, ami i- i iliil men nt' thai 
 
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 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 
 
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 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 I 1 , 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 l vv .\ 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 l ss '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 
 
 26 
 
 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 k h 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 
 
 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 
 
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 <> 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 
 
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 onini 
 
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 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, 
 
 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 l v 7 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 
 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. 17 s 7. 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 
 
 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 
 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 N i \. * 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, u liff 01 - - ilu sky «■!' Ilermon. and around your 
 
 endearinents. 
 t 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 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 l v <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 Rogers 1 
 
 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 -•• 
 
210 
 
 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 r ni\ 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 iln 1 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 I 1 
 
 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 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE INS. 
 
 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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 guided no feet alot 
 
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 without a more specific notice ol 
 In hi- 'i of both the civil and criminal 
 
 law. In- bag shown n 
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 •ti-f'yetiun. And when appeal* have been | 
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PROMINEM •)). 
 
 
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 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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 ; 
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 ■r, 
 
 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 
 

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 He 1 I, but 
 
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 * business, as 
 
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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 
 
 I 
 
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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 
 
 - , ■ ' . : \ • M 
 
 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, x l .. 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. ■ ■■ 
 
 e d, \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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 war « ith inithiiiL', luil 
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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 
 
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 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 
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 built, 1 \ with ii r \ it, in three 
 
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 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 
 
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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 ' 
 
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 and divided his district into hiimli 
 
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236 
 
 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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 lived in it. II 
 
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 horn in Pickering. Yorkshire. 1 
 
 She was n tin 
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 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 
 
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 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 l v !' - 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 i v !" 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 
 
210 
 
 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 
 
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 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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 ins. 
 
 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 v 7'.'. \ 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 v l 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 
 
 m 
 
 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 l s ">'! 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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 liOMINKNT I'KNXKSSK \NS 
 
 n \| i iiIjiii Mexico Si i ISSIl ol' yellow seven children (1 ' ' born in 
 
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 William ivot i iek raisers in N l horn in l.omlou. July . '-'7, IS7I (-\) Smnuel 
 
 ,lose|ih N liodjjors still lives a farmer in lihea, lioni October S. .|S7:i (11 Mary Uoll, horn Oeto 
 I , < i . i; . \ imie I! Inn n .1 nne '''' IS1 
 
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 Mini i-. one .'I' ill.- i'.' soul 'i the I ii\ orsit.i "I' ( 'alifor 
 
 II,' s)ienl some i" 
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 Now York 
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 Illicit, who witsborn in ih.it county, Mi i i ISI.">, 
 
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 Tennessee II- 
 
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 ,', ent\ ministers in the h lies ol' I ll 
 
 ilj . iinioni! them Ke\ .1 nlm llaohtnan 
 
 ■I this v ultimo I, Ko Nntliii I : 
 
 mil Ilo Lynn H:n limnn. 
 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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 isle ami lius l,,ii" sinee won :i I "I hesiilos 
 
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 ,,| em ul a smile to men in i roulil 
 
 hi, n ;i |ni-li i,i help them 
 up \\ lion he I he was one ( hnusand do 
 
 in ilolit lie was nol horn ■ rent Inn Ii 
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 in the honors ol' hi-- prole linanoialh is in 
 
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 liiin In a|i|ily the pi in 
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 , hero ean In- in 
 I mii lev n so near nni\ ersally 
 
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 l i —. i I lie ileeisioi : I inakiii" eiiomios, Ii 
 
 ln—( families in i he Slate l'i, many .Indue 
 
 IVoslons, of Vii iia M rs. li usin, hi 
 
 ol' Hi,' linn ol' rowan, M, Vim X i l\ ■. \ ill,-, mar 
 Miss Hi t-r of the late -lam 
 
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 (lint oit\ M I - Ii"! ioi - un Miss 
 
 Vilaliuo Ihiilsoi , i ami mill - miler 
 
 rariner ami stm ; I 
 
 'riion Dirt, ami yol no 
 
 a Tin moral 
 
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 Ii Carolina, v fhis is in (ho hijrhosl si 
 
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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 
 
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 :- 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, 
 
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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 . I 1 ' 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< 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 
 
 i 
 
 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, r J 
 
 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. 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE \\s 
 
 249 
 
 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 
 
 32 
 
 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 l 1 -'-."- 
 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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PliOMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
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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] II 1 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 an d ,.,„„. 
 
 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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 I if ■ 'in habits, eschewing strong 
 
 \ i iimiiii nt Mi in phis 
 • nf liini : " lie is remarkable for his close 
 attont ss, his de\ 
 
 rj mail!- riuln-. 
 ih] power with which In 
 undertakes. II. mark- 
 
 lity in hanilliii '. matters. 1 lo 
 
 1 pos 
 uting his plans. When 
 ill 
 
 hesitancy, 
 i trait 
 hard, 
 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. 
 
 
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 I leaving with 
 
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 \ ille ; oin at 
 
 called 
 Niokaiack. N - i_dit ahout 
 
 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 
 
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 inpaiiioiiable gentleman: affable without 
 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 
 
 d mainly with the Democrats. He 
 
 has n an ortho >erat : has 
 
 for principles and not for party: I - ires in 
 
 to men. It was. therefore, a matter oi - 
 
 I •euioc- 
 when tin- ou Not ember 11. 
 
 land had appointed Dr. Mor- 
 dian commissioners, 
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 by Dr M iraaii. aud was 
 ivas to the spoilsmen 
 irial from the 
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 ever, the wis - " The appointment 
 
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 '.as a member of the I Indian comuiis- 
 
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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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PROMINENT TENNESSE W- 
 
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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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 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.' 
 
 (OL. JOSIAH PATTERSON. 
 
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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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 church t o years before 
 
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 it, until his death, in 
 seventy. Pol. Patterson's 
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 ir, and was wounded 
 at the I : . - s a tanner. 
 
 Miss Mai 
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 mty. Tennessee, and emigrated with her 
 - hi eounty, Alabama, 
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 family. Her elder 
 
 lie. was a s lion. 
 
 srhout his Indian wars Patterson's 
 
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 both sides, have been u - tu time im- 
 
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 u. Kentuek lis A. ami Judge Wm. S, McLe- 
 
 \ luation he opened an office at Lebanon, and 
 
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 bar hi - f such men as 
 
 - ': V- 11 Jordan Stokes. Hon. Charles 
 
 . lb>.,. Jo. P. Gu V\ liam I.. Martin. 
 
 Nathan (ireen. Be- 
 ginnii - fith only ten dollars, three dollars 
 
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PROMINENT TENNESSE \\s 
 
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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. 
 
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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 l v 7^ 
 
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 
 
PROMINENT TKXXFSSF VXS 
 
 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 
 
 v i •• \ 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 t 1 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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 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 
 
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 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 
 
 ' |„ ,., i n 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 S radu ' 
 
 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 
 
 ti U u 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, P al '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. 
 
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 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 
 
 and lucrative. 
 
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 281 
 
 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 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 tin 1 best scl I as 
 
 a private student under one of the oldest ami most 
 widely known professors in the United States, his ambi 
 
 36 
 
 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 
 
2S2 I ' 1 ; ( I \ I r X E N T T E N N ESS E A S P 
 
 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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 283 
 
 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 if e 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 \y i(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- 
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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 th e 
 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 
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 oeratic org-an. For some years his heart had been set 
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 shy with the degree of Bachelor of Law s. ' >n the 7th 
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 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- 
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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 
 
■2'M IM10MIXKXT rKXXKSSKAXS 
 
 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 
 
 the have no childrt 
 
 that line I! Mr. J erian faith, hut 
 
 tse he tiud.- none broad enough. 
 His decalogue is the Golden Rub D unto others 
 
PROMINENT TENNRRSE \\> 
 
 in 
 
 ns you would have others do to you." His creed is personal control, o he tin kepi oul of public corpora 
 
 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. 
 
 M 1/ \ \ 
 
 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 
 
!!)-! PROMINENT TENNESSEANS 
 
 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. 
 \ \ • -in. 
 
 Maj. Augustus II Pettibone, was horn at Bedford 
 Cuyahoga couuty, Ohio January 21, 1835 He attended 
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PROMINENT TENNESSE S.NS. 
 
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 HE Buist family uaine-is French, and was origi- 
 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 i r ork, 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. 
 
 38 
 
 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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 tion of all causes except Felonies and ejectments. ll< 
 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 
 
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 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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 .TAMES RODGEKS, M.I\ 
 
 
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 .".> 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- 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE VNS 
 
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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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 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. 
 
 
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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 
 shi P- '''"'• 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 
 
 '" thecit 3 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 ' h avel 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 " fc he 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, 
 
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 ■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 
 In 1 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- 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE VNS 
 
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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 style 1 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. 
 

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 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 
 
 1 1 ■. i : 
 
 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 
 
 in 1 " lor 1I 1 and went one nip 
 
 w iili the celebrated Hr. C 
 
 on bis v through Kast Tennessee, m order 
 
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 1 mm ol' his knowled 
 
 its minerals, lie left l>nt little prop 
 
 • n has humorously remarked, " lie bad 
 
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 \ ■ ! 1 \ form 
 
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 owes his first love of learning to Iter, though she lonnd 
 
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 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! 
 
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 March .' 
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 sted by the Confeder- 
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 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 
 
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 counties, and when thai 
 
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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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 tirand Commander of Knights Templar of Tonm - 
 
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 il tiran.l Chapter of tho I'nitod Stan- I 
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 tho jurisdiction id' Tennessee, and also 
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 Chapter, and tho tirand l.odgi ' fexas. and 
 member ^i' tho standing committee on Appeal- and 
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 MissClemmie Fisher. daught< x i '■ ^ 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. 
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 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. 
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 i at Memphis. 
 
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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 
 
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 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 
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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 
 
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 institution alto • II for 
 
 I -579 30 i En 
 
 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 
 
 ... founded il about I 
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 il to ' he P nod ol Na-lr. ille, The ci 
 
 med i h iioi of Prof. William M ~ > i ■ irt, who 
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 the iu-tii ution, ■_- 1 - ; j t uitously, a 
 
 f natural hiev- 
 
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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 
 at Memphis at 'ton and eonin. -- 
 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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 omy, and even the little children exhibit it in the 
 primary branches Ii depei - how a dish is 
 
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 ough] - studies and methods of this 
 
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 rieuluiu here is the saw colleges plus 
 
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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. 
 
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 pupils in directing tl 
 
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 of tin while not imitators of him. are equally 
 
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 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: 
 
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 ut Winchester, that if Graves cannot get an 
 Ise need to try it. for 
 _ ' on top and stamp it in. 
 
 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 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE VNS 
 
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 LL. D., bj tbe Union University of Murfreesborough, 
 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, 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 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- 
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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. 
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 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, tin 1 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 
 
PROMIN KM rKXNKSSK W- 
 
 in hi.- he ' Barbee of that county, a relative of Rev. Dr. Barl 
 
 , n ,,f tlir ! i - - ii Taylor, was a daugh- 
 
 \ i ounty. Mrs. 
 
 '' lotisand 
 
 '■: H-li. to which both 
 
 lady of strong intellect 
 
 r. plain and simple in her 
 
 ~ has 
 
 |,;„ ■!. culture and floriculture 
 
 dy all her life, and is exceedingly 
 
 1 upon all tin '- Being gifted 
 
 incident to the prii ■ f farm « ste in all iu the sphere of 
 
 I her house- 
 all about its inoniy with a view to her husband s happiness — • 
 
 parii " make her a help-meet indeed, and truly 
 
 ly in In-:' husbai 
 
 many public positions by Maj. I 
 
 i-ulture during >w in what high esteem he has always 
 
 Id by his - \ ■ of eigh- 
 
 pal. i I Lex State inili- 
 
 unty. and hcl iirs, 
 
 Ur !s i S44, In I - ' ■ ted Weakley 
 
 Mel ' law in l>i - ieral \-- the State, having 
 
 this time he was only 
 
 ing- 
 
 lu IS IS. he was pres 
 
 mty. i ■in. Lew i- ("ass bring 
 
 linn. at 1 the ticket. D • itive 
 
 \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- 
 
 \ ; ited and urged by the 
 
 _ success- si Miss 1'ix. of New York, was 
 
 ful Palmer, ' - earnestly 
 
 ith in committee and in the 
 
 \,la ho r. lie regards with a 
 
 2). J im • N in- ding that grand char- 
 
 : Wells. in • Hos| ital for the Insane. 
 
 o Lauderdale county, which was in 
 
 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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 343 
 
 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 
 
:;n 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSE \.\>. 
 
 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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 PROMINENT TKNN ESSI W-. 
 
 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. 
 - that the offici 
 
 in the family ever si. - ll t the brief interval 
 
 before mentioned. 
 
 The Gallaway family is I s 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 sad 7 
 
 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 tin 1 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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 friendships and his enmities 1 1 
 tends Is with tin I hat lie ai 
 
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 ,i Kentucky editor in with- 
 
 i irony, and crushing ridicule, than 
 
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 Mrs. Hallawa; ai Huntsville. Alabama. 
 
 ami « school when Col. (iallaway married 
 
 She is a lady of extraordinary character, of s 
 
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 consulted, not only by her husband, but by frit-n- ; - 
 j\ ice in in matti rs Shi is n stroii 
 
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 rather than elevate 1 
 
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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. 
 
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 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- 
 
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 we-t and grow up with the country. In February. 
 ISiSS lii i . '1 to Memphis, Tennessee, and et 
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 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, 
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 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. 
 
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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 
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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 
 
 15 
 
 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 
 
354 
 
 PROMINENT TENNJ — S'S 
 
 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 
 
PLoMINKNT TENNE8SK WS 
 
 355 
 
 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" 
 
 ITWI-'SSK \NS 
 
 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 I s -! 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 
 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 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE VNS. 
 
 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 . r ei 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 ' in 1 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 
 

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 an honorable dis from the service, signed by 
 
 ] I llowevi ■• ■ l 1 . . 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 
 
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 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). 
 
 7 A I 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 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- 
 ■ 
 
 - 
 
 lie in- 
 MeFerrin. 
 why his 
 
 In 
 N - thai he and Rev Dr A. L. P. 
 
 • 
 
 both. 
 - 
 he ehureh. and und 
 S," 
 - 
 
 his friends - sition. 
 
 - 
 
 \ is Dr. Mc-F M 
 
 - 
 
 . . - 
 
 
 
 - 
 - make th< 
 - 
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 d man. 
 Dr MeFi rriu has ' - mar- 
 
 - v .. 
 
 \ • 
 
 I 5 
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 \ - 
 
 He i - x 
 
 \ . sent Mrs. M 
 
 - 
 
 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 \ ■ ■ ■ N l 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 
 \ - 
 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 - 
 \ 
 >l 
 
 MeFerrin, 
 ried. Juni 
 .' .11 \ - 
 
 Dr. MeF MeFerrin, 
 
 m Ireland 
 uuty. 
 Pem - - i 
 
 I volu- 
 
C_Cc 
 
 hi « /!' ?/*-« t 77\ 
 
PROMINENT TKNNESSE VNS. 
 
 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 
 
 - 
 
 war he 1 Manel i si r until ' ~77 
 
 - - 
 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 
 
 - - 
 F K ... 
 
 \ . 
 
 ... . . 
 
 s bridge was des 
 - 
 
 ; - 
 
 Marti 
 Whei ■ 
 
 • but with - savins 
 
 - '. ■ " We mus 
 
 - 
 
 I nominati - 
 
 -. 
 
 \ 
 
 - 
 
 ... 
 - 
 
 I 
 
 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- 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE \XS 
 
 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 I 1 
 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- 
 
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 lures, Inii 
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 The 
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 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" 
 
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 l-I.Y he had three children (1 William (.'Hi 
 sketch, horn in Columbia, Teiin 
 iher I. I' nil. 1. 1. ili.il tl 
 
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 months old I h - 
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 with his in \\ ial, ijualil 
 
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 life, w I'.' 
 
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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 
 
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 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 
 
 ■ ile business o|h I dental I. I ] •r.-~i.l«i i ■ 
 
 ami i. .ii which he has filled > H< 
 
 ilk contributed t.> the lit. 
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 a leader. The impression he 
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 hurry. 
 
 Dr. William 11. Morgan, wl >wu him iuti- 
 
 - --iuiate 
 , ' man : 
 
 a man wh - traits. - ssentially a 
 
 man. The n -- mil and - 
 
 which 1: - ttaiued i- largely due t" 
 
 ^ -ity of purpose. Th 
 his s -- ;1 character is 
 
 mvie- 
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 WILLIAM -L McMURRAY, M. D. 
 
 y.lSIl'- 
 
 T EI IS s 
 
 entith - itivi T 
 
 ru in the Sixteenth i illiaui- 
 
 inty. T ■ -- __ 1542. and _ 
 
 rm. Wh 
 old, he entered : ■ . j n the 
 
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 Guards." which was mustered int - . May 17. 
 
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 at Mu 
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 i minnie ball, and I 
 .field, in the dead of winter. 
 irt and a Bible which he 
 from this wound he 
 months. 
 At th< battle of Chiekamauga. he was wounded by a 
 i the right groiu, and was again li 
 
 this wound he was 
 
 He i third wound at _'a. in 
 
 - . a minnie ball striking him in the li 
 - 
 He 1 mish in front of Atlanta, 
 
 ... 
 
 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 
 - iitthern ti - . is a fine - 
 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 
 
 \ ' irolina, an , 
 
 , part in the battles of Laurel Bridge. October, 1S61 ; 
 
PBOMINFNT TENNESSE W'S 
 
 373 
 
 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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 PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 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 Miss 1 of Thomas Cow- 
 
 N - ille, who, in early life, 
 \\ ■ llington al W aterl 
 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 
 
 ifederate Si ......._ 
 
 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 
 

 PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 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 
 

 PROMINENT TENNESSE \\< 
 
 . ■ I fearing men. I< berty, ' 
 
 and ni iiiprehension of the po\\ - 
 
 rnnient. and that it irs to inak< 
 
 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 
 
 1 le In- 
 
 stitute, in r Smith, when - 1 with 
 
 a diploma that sis scholarship which -he has al- 
 
 -; and fail 
 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, 
 i s 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- 
 
 i the latter. One of the name. Dr. J. M. Keating. 
 
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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. 
 
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 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". I 1 !', 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- 
 

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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, 
 
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 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 < 
 
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 Carolina. She died when her onlj child, Benjamin VV. 
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 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- 
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 Dr. Menee mother, nee Mi Elizabeth Harri on 
 was the daughter of Thoma Harrison, ;i successful 
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 Orville Harrison of Panola county. Mississippi. She 
 broad brained, intellectual woman, highly edu 
 
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 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 
 
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 Dr. Oeorgi tt VI brother of the ubjei I of this 
 
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 1846. From thai date hi> profi i wa- satis 
 
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 I'lloMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 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. 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 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.' " 
 
106 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 HON. NOBLE SMITHSON. 
 
 
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 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 
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 Methodist Episcopal ehureh. South, 
 
 Dauville, !' 
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 1812. ai rift" of Pittsylvania 
 
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 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. 
 S T ovi ■>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 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSE WS 
 
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 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' s 7<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 tin 1 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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 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 
 
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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. 
 
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 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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 PROMINENT TENNESSE \NS. 
 
 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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 R. WOODFORD MITCHELI VERTREES, 
 
 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 Kent ucky, 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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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 
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 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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 - ph E. .Johnston and Hood. He took pan 
 
 in th - Perryville, Muri 
 
 :-h: iu Hardee's tight ii July 22 - 
 
 and in the numi 
 
 unded 
 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. 
 
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 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 
 
 06 
 
 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, l x 77. 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 
 I 1 , 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. 
 
 1 13 
 
 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 
 
lit 
 
 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 -- 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, 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 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 
 
146 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSEANS. 
 
 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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 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 ami 1 
 
 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; - - 
 
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 ..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 
 
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 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 
 tin 1 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) N l 
 
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 lii- helpmeet, through all the vicissitudes of life 
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 b) iln ties of kuighth I. an. I I rhim 
 
 tin- \ enerablc 1'relute of our I '..nun u 
 al-.. tin- tlir pnrit) ..I' lii- lit.- and eli I >i W liite 
 
 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 
 ,1.1.- and dignified, make an impression upon all 
 blest wiili tli.' hallowing influence of hi." "I his 
 
 minisl i M md lull of 
 
 usefulm -- Vs a I profound 
 
 an. I ripe scholar, lii- nam.' ranks among the foremost in 
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 ind » hen tnt< d, in ■■• lingly 
 
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 • .1 Im in to rend i he 
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 Inn tii — t asked thnl he m lii- own son. In a 
 
 few moments hi was requested to eonducl tli 
 
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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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 475 
 
 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 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSE \NS. 
 
 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. \ T o 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 
 
PROMINENT TENNESSBANS. 
 
 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 ''"II 1 
 
 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 
 
 cue 1 , :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. 
 
ISO 
 
 PROMINENT TENNESSE VNS 
 
 Ci )|. TRI »ISI> \ I.K was bor.n in Robertson county, 
 . Februar} 12. l v l!.'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 
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 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- 
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 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 
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 While Prof. Safford was yel a student al Yale Col 
 
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 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. 
 
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 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. 
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 in Other towns, made the calamitj more widespread. 
 
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 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 
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 United Si ales army, as chief marshal. I'.ni to i ther 
 
 man there was i inn occasion so significant and grateful as 
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 il arliest settlers of the place There has I n pub 
 
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 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. 
 
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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. 
 
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 quartermaster on Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer's staff. As 
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 and fill for many years, and 
 a member of the Presbyteriau church. He was a man 
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 luring the war. In politics he was a Whii 
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 the ;■ irs. 
 
 mother, whose maiden name was 
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 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- 
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 'fie rn at N T e« 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. 
 
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 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 
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 off ill an i i on the skirmish line. 
 
 Iu 1865, : ted from Jeff mty to the 
 
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 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 
 
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 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 ; 
 
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 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 
 
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 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- 
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 1 in 1862 At the first election his opponet I 
 I [mi. James VV. I >ead e of Ten- 
 
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 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 : 
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 the assassination of President 
 President Johnson wanted his daughter, Mrs. Pati 
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