Jonathan W. Elliott was born in Stewart County, Tenn., November 24, 1826. His father was born in Virginia in 1790 and died in 1866. The mother was born in North Carolina in 1805 and died in 1876. Our subject began farming at … Continue reading →
Stephen G. Eleazer is the son of Stephen G. and Elizabeth (Bibb) Eleazer and was born at Turnbull Forge in Dickson County, Tenn., September 25, 1833. His father was a native of South Carolina and died of cholera in 1835. His mother was born in … Continue reading →
William Easley was born in Hickman County, Tenn., January 27, 1828. His father was born in South Carolina in 1798, and came to Tennessee in 1812, and died in 1854. The mother was born in North Carolina in 1803 and died in … Continue reading →
J. A. Dodson, clerk of the Circuit Court of Dickson County, was born in Halifax County, Va., August 11, 1827. He was the third of a family of seven children born to the marriage of William and Catharine (Davis) Dodson, both natives of Virginia. … Continue reading →
Jesse Daniel was born in Dickson County, Tenn., June 24, 1822. His parents were James and Elizabeth (Ragan) Daniel. The father was born in North Carolina January 4, 1796, and died January 28, 1871. The mother was born July 7, 1802, and died in … Continue reading →
Thomas S. Curtis was born at the old Cumberland Rolling-Mills, Stewart County, Tenn., July 26, 1855. His father was born at Spring Hill, Maury County, and at the age of fifteen began the manufacture of pig-iron. When eighteen years of age he was … Continue reading →
James N. Cunningham was born in Dickson County, Tenn., February 24, 1864, being the son of Eliz and Harriet (Tally) Cunningham. The parents were natives of North Carolina. The father was a physician, having graduated at the medical college in Philadelphia in the year … Continue reading →
Joe Cox was born in Dickson County, Tenn., October 7, 1832, and is the eldest of five children born to William and Amelia (Brown) Cox. The father was born in this county and State in 1810, and the mother in Uniontown, Penn., in 1802. … Continue reading →
William C. Collier, a prominent merchant of Charlotte, was the eldest of eight children born to the marriage of John C. Collier and Mary Clemments. John C. Collier was a English descent and was born in Virginia. When young he came to Tennessee, where he … Continue reading →
Winfield S. Coleman, a prominent young business man of Dickson County, came to Dickson at the age of twenty-two in the fall of 1880, and formed a partnership with J. T. Henslee in the drug and general merchandise trade, in which he … Continue reading →