For three generations at least the O’Guin family has been identified with the fortunes and affairs of Hickman County, Tennessee. Thomas O’Guin, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in the county, there grew to manhood, married, and became a prominent farmer. When the Civil War broke […]
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One of the representative professional men and highly esteemed citizens of Lewis County, Tennessee, is Dr. James Franklin Whitwell, who has been a medical practitioner in that county for thirty years and has also become well known there through considerable county official service. The family to which Dr. Whitwell belongs […]
Well established in the successful practice of his profession in the thriving town of Hohenwald, Dr. William Barnabas Tucker is numbered among the representative physicians of Lewis County and prior to his locating at Hohenwald in 1907, was one of the best known members of the medical profession in the […]
It is an interesting and gratifying fact, so much has the restless, nomadic spirit grown in America, that among the representative men of Tennessee there is a remarkable percentage of native sons, men who have found in the locality of their nativity ample opportunity for successful professional, industrial and business […]
Among the immigrants to Tennessee from the state of North Carolina was Vincent S. Dabbs, who was born in the latter state in 1815, and who came with his brothers and sisters to Tennessee at an early date. They settled in Perry, Wayne and Lewis counties. Vincent S. Dabbs was […]
A well-known and popular citizen of Hohenwald, Tennessee, was Raymond Crawford Hooper, who was twenty years in the service of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company and for the last twelve years had charge of that company’s interests at Hohenwald as station agent, during which time he so […]
It is noteworthy that many of the sturdy and useful citizens of the United States either came from Germany or are of German extraction. Moritz Schubert, the father of Fred L., was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1824, and about 1845 left the Fatherland to seek his fortune in America. […]
In political and mercantile circles, probably no man in Lewis County is more widely known than Joseph Goodwin Rice, the present genial and efficient county clerk. His grandfather, Jerry Rice, was a pioneer farmer of southern Illinois, where his children were born, but before they grew to maturity he removed […]
MATTHEW MCCLAIN, sheriff of Lewis County, Tennessee, and a resident of Hohenwald, is a native of that county, has been one of its representative agriculturists for a number of years and always has been worthily identified with its best citizenship. He first took up the duties of sheriff on October […]
City: Paris SHERRILL, Samuel W., superintendent of City Schools; born at Maryville, Tenn., Sept. 7, 1869; son of Dr. J. H. and Teckie (Wells) SHERRILL; Scotch-Irish descent; graduate of Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn., May 30, 1892; member of K. of P. and W. O. W.; author “Heroes in Gray” and […]
City: Napier VOORHIES, David Luther, merchant and farmer; born Wayne Co, Tenn., Aug. 25, 1855; English descent; son of Thomas and Eliza J. (Nichols) VOORHIES; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents, David and Alice (McBride) VOORHIES, maternal grandparents, David Porter and Emily E. (Rickets) NICHOLS; educated in the public schools […]
City: Napier POLLOCK, Alfred Buckner, farmer; born Lewis Co., Tenn., June 22, 1844; son of James Kirkman and Sarah (Janninges) POLLOCK; paternal grandfather Henry POLLOCK, paternal grandmother Mary (Hendrix) POLLOCK, maternal grandfather Richard JANNINGES, maternal grandmother Sarah (Wood) JANNINGS; Scotch-Irish, French and English descent; educated country school; early business occupation, […]
City: Napier HALE, Isaac Thomas, accountant; born in Lewis Co., Tenn., Aug. 31, 1879; English descent; son of John Wesley and Nancy C. (Tait) HALE; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather, Isaac A. HALE, maternal /sic/ grandmother was a Miss MORRISON prior to her marriage; maternal grandparents, Netherland and Fannie (Cooper) […]
City: Hohenwald WHITE, John A., educator; born in North Carolina; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William WHITE; was left an orphan at age of twelve; moved to Johnson City, Tenn., at age of sixteen and secured a position in brick yard at 50c a day, was encouraged to enter school and […]
City: Hohenwald TATUM, William Trousdale, lawyer, farmer; born in Maury Co., Tenn., March 4, 1849; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Jesse Burnet and Harriet Elizabeth (Reese) TATUM; father’s occupation, farmer and stock dealer; educated in the country schools of Tenn. and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., graduated from the latter in law […]
City: Hohenwald SMITH, Frank DeWitt, business man; born Yankton, South Dakota, Oct. 16, 1866; Scotch-Irish and English-German descent; son of Byron M. and Eliza S. SMITH; father was a Civil Engineer; President of Dakota Midland Railway, and maker of first map of what was known as Dakota Territory, taken mostly […]
City: Hohenwald SCHUBERT, Fred L., lawyer; born Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1873; German descent; son of Moritz and Bertha (Keifer) SCHUBERT; father’s occupation farmer; educated in the public schools; moved to Tenn. with his parents in 1879; began teaching school in 1899; studied law and was admited /sic/ to the […]
City: Hohenwald JOHNSON, William Edgar, manufacturer; born Beardstown, Tenn., June 23, 1878; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William B. and Mattie A. (Pipkin) JOHNSON; father’s occupation, merchant and lumberman; paternal grandparents Andrew J. and Midian (Cook) JOHNSON, maternal grandparents G. E. and Diana (Sargent) PIPKIN; educated Dickson (Tenn.) Normal College; in […]
City: Hohenwald HOOPER, Raymond Crawford, railroad agent; born in Cheatham Co., Tenn., Aug. 28, 1869; English descent; son of J. O. and M. C. (Cullum) HOOPER; father’s occupation, farmer and merchant; educated at Charlotte and Dickson, Tenn.; in early life worked on a farm; married Annie L. DOWNING Jan., 1903; […]
City: Hohenwald DOWNEY, William Henry, farmer; born in Lewis Co., Tenn., Dec. 16, 1854; Irish descent; son of Richard and Martha Ann (Gillham) DOWNEY; married Mary Edna BROWN Aug. 9, 1874; member of Church of Christ and Elder in same.