Tennessee Records Repository

The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Nashville TN, 1886-87

Goodspeed Histories, Tennessee

       The Goodspeed brothers originally published their A History of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of ... , they would usually combine the general state history with group of county histories including the associated vanity biographies into a single volume. The general history would take up the first 796 pages, with the county pages following. Example: Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, and White counties would complete a volume, with the counties pages running 797 to 992.
       When Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., of Southern Historical Press reprinted the Goodspeed History of Tennessee ... , Rev. Lucas printed the main state history as a separate volume but retained the county groupings as found in the originals and printed them apart from the general history.

Facsimile reproductions (small print):
       Woodward and Stinson, Columbia TN. 1970s
       Randy Elder, Bookseller, Nashville, TN 1970s > current (?)
       Mountain Press, Signal Mountain TN (individual counties) current.
       Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC, 1970s > current.
Reset type:
       Serviceberry Press. (Only four West TN county histories are available.) Current.

Source:
       Byron Sistler and Associates, Inc., Nashville.

How Goodspeed Divided the Counties
History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present ... [state history]: Southern Historical Press, 1978.

Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, and White Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.

Carroll, Henry and Benton Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.

Chester, McNairy, Decatur, and Hardin Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.

City of Jackson and the County of Madison: Southern Historical Press, 1979.

County of Knox and the city of Knoxville: Southern Historical Press, 1982.

Fayette and Hardeman Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.

Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.

Hamilton, Knox and Shelby Counties: Elder Booksellers (Nashville), 1974

Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood and Crockett Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.

Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman and Lewis Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.

Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford and Marshall: Southern Historical Press.

Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham, and Houston Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.

Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.

The History Thirty East Tennessee Counties:
Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Clairborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicol, Union, and Washington: Southern Historical Press. 1980-1991
[Only one Bledsoe County Biography appears in the Book. The entire Bledsoe County section was omitted by Goodspeed.]
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