Wallace DIXON, farmer and owner of the celebrated Oakland Spring farm, was born December 22, 1838, at Cedar Creek Furnace and educated at Masonic College, Clarksville, Tenn. At the ago of twenty he became manager of the iron works known as the Antonio Iron Works, of Montgomery County. Five years later he came to Decatur … Read more
D.E. MEAD, merchant of Hillsboro, was born September 7, 1839, at Greenville, N.Y. His father, W.R. MEAD, was born about 1798 and died in 1879, in Vermont. His grandfather, Adolphus, was in the Revolution. Liddie (Colwell) MEAD, his mother, was born about 1800 in Virginia, and died in 1882 in New York. Living on his … Read more
REV. A. G. DINWIDDLE, D. D., was born July 13, 1840 in Montgomery County, Tenn. His father, William Dinwiddle, was born October 15, 1810 in Kentucky. He was by profession a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and was also a farmer. He died April 4, 1872. The mother, nee Mary Cole Alexander, … Read more
W. T. PARHAM, proprietor of the Maryville Woolen-Mills, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., in February. 1833. Since September, 1865, he has been in Maryville, first in the mercantile trade; but after his purchase of the grist and woolen-mills, in 1876, he has, since April, 1877, been sole manager of the same. They have three looms, … Read more
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