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MCGUFFEY, Charles Drake

City: Chattanooga

MCGUFFEY, Charles Drake, lawyer and teacher; born Cincinnati, O., June 12, 1842; son Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Mansfield (Drake) MCGUFFEY; Scotch-English descent; graduate Kenyon College, Ohio, and Cincinnati College Law School, A. B., A. M. 1863-65; member Masons, Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon; former special judge and Attorney-general pro tem; also former county superintendent public instruction of Anderson Co., Tenn., and member of school board of Knoxville, Tenn.; state service of Ohio in Civil War, volunteered as Master’s Mate in U. S. gunboat service in Civil War, but rejected on physical examination by U. S. surgeon at Cairo, Ill.; admitted to bar in Ohio in 1865, and moved to Tennessee in 1866, and to Chattanooga from Knoxville in 1875; instructor in Spanish in University of Chattanooga in 1907-08; instructor in Law School of University of Chattanooga and in Chattanooga College of Law after separation of Law School and University, 1909-11; instructor in Spanish in Central High School of Hamilton Co. since 1907; representative for Tennessee of trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Ry. since 1875; president Chattanooga Historical Society; member First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga.

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