{"id":17,"date":"2015-01-24T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2015-09-27T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T03:44:57","slug":"more-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/more-information\/","title":{"rendered":"More Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Goodspeed brothers originally published their <em><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/books\/reader?printsec=frontcover&amp;output=reader&amp;id=nh9EAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=GBS.PA909\" target=\"_blank\">A History of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties in Tenenssee<\/a><\/em>\u00a0, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historyoftenness01good\" target=\"_blank\">Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford, &amp; Marshall counties<\/a> (1886)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., of Southern Historical Press reprinted the Goodspeed History of Tennessee &#8230; , 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Facsimile reproductions (small print):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Woodward and Stinson, Columbia TN. 1970s<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Randy Elder, Bookseller, Nashville, TN 1970s &gt; current (?) Mountain Press, Signal Mountain TN (individual counties) current.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC, 1970s &gt; current.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Reset type: Serviceberry Press. (Only four West TN county histories are available.) Current.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Byron Sistler and Associates, Inc., Nashville.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>How Goodspeed Divided the Counties<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present &#8230; [state history]: Southern Historical Press, 1978.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, and White Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Carroll, Henry and Benton Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1978.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Chester, McNairy, Decatur, and Hardin Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1978.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>City of Jackson and the County of Madison<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>County of Knox and the city of Knoxville<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1982.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fayette and Hardeman Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1979. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historyoftenness00good\" target=\"_blank\"><i>free online<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Hamilton, Knox and Shelby Counties<\/strong>: Elder Booksellers (Nashville), 1974<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood and Crockett Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1978.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman and Lewis Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford and Marshall<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham, and Houston Counties:<\/strong> Southern Historical Press, 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties<\/strong>: Southern Historical Press, 1979.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The History Thirty East Tennessee Counties<\/span>: Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, and Washington: Southern Historical Press. 1980-1991 <em>[Only one Bledsoe County Biography appears in the Book. 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