Transcribed from Goodspeed’s History of  Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketches of from Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, etc., etc. (Chicago and Nashville:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887), pp. 962-987.  See footnote below for on-line access.

J. B. FILLAUER, proprietor of the Cleveland Tannery, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and came to America in 1870. He established his tannery in 1877, and through hard work and good management has met with success and prosperity.

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