City: Tiptonville CAMPBELL, Whit, retail merchant; born Glass, Tenn., Oct. 21, 1861; Scotch-Irish descent; son of David and Elizabeth (Johnson) CAMPBELL; father, farmer; educated at Glass, Tenn., High School; began career as clerk in store at Glass, Tenn.; entered drug business at Glass, Tenn., March, 1888, and after three or […]
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Among the well-known and substantial business men of Troy, Obion County, Benjamin H. Settle occupies a prominent position as a dealer in dressed lumber and building materials of all kinds. He was born in North Carolina, August 11, 1849, and is a son of Benjamin and Sarah (Campbell) Settle, both […]
JAMES STUART PILCHER is a name highly honored in Nashville, Tennessee, for it belongs to a man of the highest integrity and splendid attainments. As a lawyer Mr. Pilcher has won a reputation for exhaustive research and sound judgment on legal affairs, and his wide experience has made him one […]
City: Nashville PILCHER, Stuart Caruthers, insurance; born Nashville, Tenn., May 15, 1879; son James Stuart and Margaret H. (Campbell) PILCHER; Scotch-Irish descent; educated in Nashville and New York; graduated Vanderbilt University (academic) 1896-1900, Columbia University (law), New York City, 1900-03, LL.B.; practiced law in Nashville four years; married Martha DOUGLASS […]
City: Nashville PILCHER, James Stuart, attorney-at-law; born Eutaw, Ala.; son Dickson Green and Jane Hope (Carothers) PILCHER; English-Scotch descent; educated Houston, Miss.; graduated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., Jan. 1869, L.B.; married Margaret Hamilton CAMPBELL; member of Vaiden (Miss.) Light Artillery 1861-65; member Presbyterian church; paternal grandfather, John PILCHER; paternal grandmother, […]
William Bowen CAMPBELL, sixteenth governor of the state of Tennessee lived his active life in the days when there were more statemen and fewer politicians. Everyone in Tennessee, who pretends to know anything of the history of the state, knows that Governor CAMPBELL was a public man of the former […]
City: Nashville PILCHER, William Bowen Campbell, attorney at law; born Nashville, Tenn., December 5, 1880; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James Stewart and Margaret Hamilton (Campbell) PILCHER; educated Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; graduated from Vanderbilt University, A.B. degree, 1901; Harvard University, LL.B. degree 1904; began his […]
City: Ooltewah CAMPBELL, James David, teacher; born James Co., Tenn., May 21, 1862; English-Irish and Dutch descent; son of James M. and Lucy E. (Lewis) CAMPBELL; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents John and Phebe (Booth) CAMPBELL; maternal grandparents David and Jane (Holder) LEWIS; educated at Mossy Creek, and Jefferson City, […]
City: Memphis NEELY, Hugh McDowell, retired merchant; born Madison Co., Tenn., Nov. 7, 1833; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Moses and Jane Parks (McDOWELL) NEELY; father was a planter; paternal grandparents Moses and Jane (CAMPBELL) NEELY, maternal grandparents Hugh and ____ (IRVING) McDOWELL; received academic education; was a planter in early […]
City: Straw Plains CAMPBELL, Henry Little, physician and manager for the Campbell and Deane Co.; born Watauga, Tenn., Sept. 11, 1857; Dutch and Scotch descent; son of William R. and Margaret (Little) CAMPBELL; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents Eli and Josie (Dugger) CAMPBELL; maternal grandparents Henry and Matilda (Mottern) […]
City: Nashville DEWITT, John H., attorney at law; born in Summer /sic/ Co., Tenn., September 21, 1872; son Rev. Marcus B. and Mary Hibbett DEWITT; Holland Dutch and Scotch-Irish descent; paternal grandfather, Dr. W. J. DEWITT; paternal grandmother, Mary (Beardin) DEWITT; maternal grandfather, John J. HIBBETT; maternal grandmother, Nancy (Parker) HIBBETT; […]
City: Morristown CONVERSE, James Booth, clergyman; born Philadelphia, Pa., April 8, 1844; son of A. and Flavia (Booth) CONVERSE; father’s occupation, minister of the Gospel; paternal grandparents Joel and Elizabeth (Bixby) CONVERSE, maternal grandparents David and Margaret (Cotton) BOOTH; graduated from Princeton, N.J., A.B., 1865, A.M., 1868, Union Theological Seminary, […]
City: Memphis SMITH, James Hammond, banker; born Shelbyville, Ky., July 6, 1835; German descent; son of Abram and Margaret (Campbell) SMITH; his father was a member of Capt. Ford’s company under Gen. Andrew Jackson, and was in the battle of New Orleans during war of 1812; his paternal grandparents were […]
City: Memphis SMITH, Horace Neely, banker; born Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 10, 1881; son of James Hammond and Emily (Wright) SMITH; father’s occupation, president People’s Savings Bank & Trust Co.; paternal grandparents Abraham and Margaret (Campbell) SMITH of Kentucky, maternal grandparents Tom T. and Eliza (Lowry) WRIGHT; educated Memphis Military Institute […]
City: Memphis FLOYD, Archibald C., journalist; born Granville County, N. C.,1857; son of John W. and Margaret (Campbell) FLOYD; Scotch-Irish descent; educated University North Carolina, Chapel Hill; graduated University North Carolina, in law, 1884; married Florence IRVINE, November 8, 1894; Democrat; City Judge of Memphis, Tenn., from April, 1905, to […]
City: Memphis CAMPBELL, Willis C., physician; born Jackson, Miss., Dec. 18, 1880; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Charles C. and ———— (Cohoon) CAMPBELL; father’s occupation, clerical; paternal grandparents J.A.P. and Eugenia (Nash) CAMPBELL, maternal grandparents Willis E. and Cornelia (Smith) COHOON; educated University of Va. and Hampden-Sidney College; graduated from University […]
City: Knoxville CALHOUN, Joseph Painter, clergyman; born Gohenville, Pa., Feb. 15, 1852; son of Capt. Samuel Neal and Hannah (Sheridan) CALHOUN; paternal grandparents Hon. John and Elizabeth (Anthony) CALHOUN, maternal grandfather John SHERIDAN, his maternal grandmother was a Miss CAMPBELL prior to her marriage; student in Glen Run Academy, Armstrong […]
City: Humboldt CAMPBELL, John E., builder and contractor; born at Clinch Mountain, near Rutledge, Tenn., April 6, 1851; German-Scotch-Irish descent; son of Capt. Levi and Lucinda (Hufmeister) CAMPBELL; his father built the stages from Abington, Va., to Knoxville, Tenn., in the ‘40s and ‘50s; paternal grandparents Elbert and Nancy B. […]
City: Knoxville HELM, GEORGE ECKEL, merchant and manufacturer; born Jefferson Co., Tenn., Sept. 2, 1875; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of Henry C. and Sarah A. (Eckel) HELM; father’s occupation steamship owner; paternal grandparents Dr. Wm. M.F. and Mary Elizabeth (Campbell) HELM; maternal grandparents George Swingle and Jane (Harrison) ECKEL; […]
City: Franklin McCORKLE, David Eusebius, lawyer; born in Dyer Co., Tenn., Aug. 19, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Samuel Smith and Margaret (Wharey) McCORKLE; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Johiel M. and Elizabeth (Smith) McCORKLE, maternal grandparents, Jonathan and Jane (Walkup) WHAREY; educated in Southern Union Normal School, Newbern, Tenn.; […]