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Goodspeed’s Biography of George H. Mester

Goodspeed’s Biography of George H. Mester

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 George H. Mester, proprietor of the Lawrenceburg Hotel, is a son of Kasper and Mary (Nieman) Mester, natives of Prussia, where they lived and died. George was born in Munster, Westphalia, Prussia, September 19, 1837, and was reared and educated in his native country, learning the baker’s occupation of his father. At the age of seventeen years he came to the United States, locating at Cincinnati,…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Thomas Hamilton Meredith

Goodspeed’s Biography of Thomas Hamilton Meredith

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Thomas H. Meredith, livery man of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was born in Giles County, Tenn. May 23,1846, and is a son of Thomas H. and Jane J. (Hodge) Meredith, both natives of Giles County., Tenn., where the father followed farming successfully until his death, in 1860, and the mother died November 1882. Our subject was reared in Pulaski and educated in Giles College. In 1861 he enlisted…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Capt. Thomas Daniel Deavenport

Goodspeed’s Biography of Capt. Thomas Daniel Deavenport

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Capt. Thomas D. Deavenport was born in Lawrence County September 18, 1837, son of Thomas D. and Maria P. (Lucas) Deavenport. The father, when a boy, came from Virginia to Tennessee about 1810, his father being Matthew Deavenport. They settled in Giles County, where Matthew Deavenport was a prominent Baptist divine. About 1821 our subject’s father moved to Lawrence County, where he farmed, sold goods, manufactured…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of John Lilburn McLean

Goodspeed’s Biography of John Lilburn McLean

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John L. McLean, county trustee, was born in this county December 4, 1840, the son of Samuel D. and Elizabeth C. (Wasson) McLean, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and Indiana. Samuel D. when a boy came to this County, 1817, locating at McLean’s Spring, three miles east of Lawrenceburg. Here the grandfather, Samuel, raised a family of five sons and four daughter, and followed the occupation of…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Robert L. McLaren

Goodspeed’s Biography of Robert L. McLaren

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 R. L. McLaren was born in Lawrence County, Tenn., May 1, 1825. John McLaren, his father, was born in South Carolina, and when about twenty-three years of age married Mary McDougal, of Alabama, who bore him nine children, all residents of Texas, except our subject. The father was a farmer and an early resident of Tennessee; he died in 1863. R. L. McLaren began doing for…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of John C. McLaren

Goodspeed’s Biography of John C. McLaren

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John C. McLaren is a Bedford County, Tennessean, born in 1819. He resided on his parents’ farm until the father’s death, when he took charge of the home place, and afterward fell heir to a portion of it and purchased the remainder. It consists of 270 acres, and is in a good state of cultivation. The dwelling in which he lives was erected in 1833, and…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of James Henry McKey

Goodspeed’s Biography of James Henry McKey

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 James H. McKey was born in Alabama, 1838, son of Charles and Eveline (Fisher) McKey. Charles McKey was born in Palmetto State, and moved to Alabama with his parents about 1810, where he first married Eliza Cauthen. She died about seven months later, and he then married Miss Fisher, who bore him two children. The father was a farmer and served in the late war under…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. H. D. McClure

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. H. D. McClure

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 H.D. McClure, M.D., a prominent physician and citizen of Wayland Springs, Tenn., was born in Alabama in 1853, son of Harvey B. and Rebecca (Herbert) McClure, who were born in Tennessee and Alabama, respectively. The father was a farmer by occupation, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and a Democrat in politics. He died in Alabama in 1869. Our subject’s early days were spent…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Fred W. Cornell

Goodspeed’s Biography of Fred W. Cornell

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Fred W. Cornell was born in Michigan on the 27th of September, 1858, son of Robert and Margaret (DeLaney) Cornell, who were born in New York State. The father removed to Michigan about 1840, and there farmed until 1851, when he went to California via Chicago, Mississippi River and the Isthmus of Darien, and engaged in mining and gardening for two years at Placerville. He then…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Ephraim McClain

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Ephraim McClain

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Ephraim McClain, M.D., was born July 29, 1827, in Maury County, Tenn., one of twelve children born to John and Elizabeth (McMillen) McClain, who were born the year following the Declaration of Independence, and when a young man moved to Kentucky, where he married and came to Tennessee about the beginning of the present century. He was soldier of the war of 1812, and was with…

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