Dr. Benjamin Emerson Washington was Blount County’s first African-American physician. A graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, he practiced there his entire life – serving the Oldfield Community in Alcoa Hall. He was born in 1883 in Natchez, Mississippi and married wife Lula in 1918 in McMinnville, Warren
CATES, Charles T. Jr., lawyer; born Maryville, Tenn., March 6, 1863; son of Charles T. and Martha V. (Kidd) CATES; father’s occupation, lawyer; received his primary education at the New Providence academy, Maryville, Tenn. graduated from Maryville College 1881 with degree of B.A.; received degree of L.L.D. in 1909; taught school
George D. Roberts, county court clerk of Blount county, was born in this county, on the 3d of February, 1889, on a farm at Cades Cove. His parents were Samuel J. and M. J. Roberts. In the acquirement of his education George D. Roberts attended the common schools of Blount county,
Dr. James Edward George is actively engaged in the practice of medicine in Rockwood, where he also has a drug store. A native of Blount county, his birth occurred on the 21st of February, 1856, a son of Edward George and Mary Jane (Thompson) George. The paternal grandparents were Samuel
The book, History of Watauga County, North Carolina (pg. 318) by John Preston Arthur includes the following details of Nancy Hayes Dougherty who died in Blount County in 1913. She was the daughter of Ransom Hayes of Watauga County who died in 1868. Ransom was married to Sallie Green
J. Arthur Costner, county treasurer of Blount county, is one of Maryville’s representative citizens. A native of this county, he was born near Carpenter’s Camp Grounds, on the 10th of October, 1871, a son of H. M, and Margaret L. Costner. J. Arthur Costner received his education in the common schools
W.C. Chumlea, who was appointed Clerk & Master of the Chancery court the first of the week, was born in Knox County in 1845. He came to this county, July 1875. For three years after he came to Blount he clerked in the store of H.L. Bradley, which stood where
Charles T. Cates, Sr. One of the old members of the bar of east Tennessee, Colonel Cates lacks only two years of having completed a half century as a lawyer. He has had a varied and useful life, and has been a soldier, lawyer, legislator, and otherwise identified with the