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Goodspeed’s Biography of William F. Hail

Goodspeed’s Biography of William F. Hail

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 William F. Hail is a native of the county in which he now resides, his birth taking place in 1828. His father was a Virginian and came to Tennessee with his parents when quite young. He was a farmer, and served under Jackson in the Indian wars. During one of the battles he obtained possession of an Indian boy, whom he afterward reared and educated. He…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of John Allen Hagan

Goodspeed’s Biography of John Allen Hagan

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John A. Hagan (deceased) was born in Kentucky December 1, 1811, son of John and Rebecca (Wilson) Hagan, and of Irish descent. He was a prominent citizen and business man of his county and succeeded in accumulating a comfortable competency for himself and family. He owned large iron works and cotton-mills, and also owned and controlled a large and paying plantation, besides being in the mercantile…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of James Monroe Gilmore

Goodspeed’s Biography of James Monroe Gilmore

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 James M. Gilmore, clerk of the Lawrence County Court, was born in Giles County, Tenn., February 17, 1843, son of John S. and Elizabeth (Simms) Gilmore, both natives of Tennessee. The parents died when James M. was a small lad, consequently he knows but little of his ancestral history. He worked as a farm hand, after his father’s death, in Giles County, and in 1861 enlisted…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of James W. Garrett

Goodspeed’s Biography of James W. Garrett

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 James W. Garrett, register of Lawrence County, is a native of Washington County, Ark., and born January 20, 1859, the son of Joseph and Millie E. (Rice) Garrett, natives of Tennessee. The parents moved from Hickman County, Tenn., to Arkansas, in 1858. When the late war broke out the father enlisted in the Confederate service as a lieutenant, and afterward became a wagon master. He contracted…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Daniel Mack Foster

Goodspeed’s Biography of Daniel Mack Foster

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Daniel M. Foster, merchant and native of Wayne Station, Lawrence Co., Tenn., was born May 12, 1840, son of George W. and Celia (McGrew) Foster, born respectively in Kentucky and Tennessee. The father was one of the pioneer settlers of Lawrence County, coming here in 1830. He was a successful farmer, and is yet living at the advanced age of seventy-six years. The mother died in…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of James William Fleeman

Goodspeed’s Biography of James William Fleeman

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 J. W. Fleeman is a Giles County, Tennessean, born in 1836, son of William and Nancy (Leath) Fleeman, who were Tennesseans by birth and among the early settlers of Giles County. Our subject was reared in his native county and received quite a limited early education. This, however, he greatly improved in later years. When about twenty-one he began farming for himself, and had followed that…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of William H. Dustin

Goodspeed’s Biography of William H. Dustin

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 William H. Dustin, a native of Louisville, Ky., was born July 1, 1848, and is the son of Eli and Ellen Dustin, natives of Kentucky. Our subject received a liberal education in Louisville, and in early life was engaged as clerk by James Ridgeford & Co., of that city, where he remained until 1862, after which he entered the army as clerk of a sutler, and…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Thomas Dunn

Goodspeed’s Biography of Thomas Dunn

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Thomas Dunn, a well known and prosperous business man of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was born in Louisville, Ky., January, 1841, and is a son of James and Maria (Sculy) Dunn, both natives of Ireland. Our subject was reared and educated in the city of Louisville. When but nineteen years of age he began the mercantile life as a clerk, and so continued until the war broke out….

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Alexander Thomas Dobbins

Goodspeed’s Biography of Alexander Thomas Dobbins

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Alexander T. Dobbins (deceased) was born in Limestone County, Ala., September 15, 1815, and was a prominent and successful planter. He was one of three children of David and Martha Dobbins, who were born in North Carolina, and after their marriage moved to Alabama, where they resided a few years. They then came to Tennessee, and here our subject acquired such education as could be obtained…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Jonas Crews

Goodspeed’s Biography of Jonas Crews

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Jonas Crews, who was born on the 22nd of September, 1821, in Person County, N.C., is a son of Arthur and Louvisa (Hicks) Crews, both of whom were born in the same State and county as our subject, in 1799 and 1801, respectively. The father immigrated to Lawrence County, Tenn., on Christmas Eve, 1831, and died in that county 1862, his wife dying March of 1882….

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