John W. DIVINE, M.D., was born in Monroe County, Tenn., April 17, 1836, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Avans) DIVINE, of Irish and Scotch-Irish stock, and natives of South Carolina. A few years after marriage they settled as farmers in Monroe County, Tenn. Our subject, the youngest of nine children, was educated at … Read more
John H. HOWARD was born in Monroe County, in 1849, and reared on the farm until twenty-four years of age. He then married Dicey, daughter of Boyd McMURRAY, and a native of Blount County. They have one son and four daughters. He located on his present farm of 1,200 acres in 1873, and devotes most … Read more
A. K. HARPER is the leading merchant of Blount County, and was reared on a farm in Knox County, where he was born in 1853. He remained at home until sixteen or seventeen years old, then accepted a clerkship with G. L. POWELL, of Knoxville, eight years; then came to Maryville, and conducted a general … Read more
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