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James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and School of Music

James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and School of Music

Compiled and contributed by Reita Jones Burress Founder of Southern Gospel Music In 1902 James D. Vaughan moved his family to Lawrenceburg, Tn. from Giles County Co., Tn. where he was a teacher. A short while later he opened his publishing house on the Public Square in Lawrenceburg to furnish a complete gospel music service. The Vaughan Music Company published his first song book, Gospel Chimes, in 1900. Business grew steadily, and in 1909 he sold 30,000 songbooks. James D….

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. Augustus Jones White

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Augustus J. White, M. D., is a son of George O. and Mary A. (Cole) White, who were born in Massachusetts and New York October 23, 1817, and February 27, 1820, respectively. The father came to Tennessee in 1837 and started the Sycamore Cotton Mills and built the Sycamore Powder mills. After living alternately in Massachusetts and Tennessee until 1854, he took up a permanent residence…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Goodspeed’s Biography of George King Welch

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 George K. Welch, merchant, is a Tennessean, born in 1843 [see sketch of J. W. Welch for parent’s biography], and resided with his father on a farm until eighteen years of age, at which time he enlisted in the Confederate service and was in some of the hardest fought battles of the war, Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Murfreesboro being the principal ones. He served through the entire…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of William H. Sykes

Goodspeed’s Biography of William H. Sykes

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 William H. Sykes, of Athen, Ala., formerly a resident of Lawrence County, was born in Dayton , Ohio, August 10, 1842, son of James and Elizabeth (Mulholland) Sykes, natives respectively of England and Pennsylvania. The father came to Lawrence County in 1843, and engaged in cotton manufacture northeast of Lawrenceburg at Oak Factory. He was a useful citizen and died in 1865. William H. was reared…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Col. James Lawrence Stribling

Goodspeed’s Biography of Col. James Lawrence Stribling

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Col. James L. Stribling, a prominent and well known citizen of Lawrence County, Tenn., was born in Giles County, March 9, 1829, son of Obadiah T. and Mary (Smithson) Stribling, natives respectively of South and North Carolina. The father came to Tennessee in 1818 and practiced medicine there in Athens, Ala., until 1829, when he came to Lawrenceburg, where he resided at the time of his…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of John Schade, Jr.

Goodspeed’s Biography of John Schade, Jr.

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John Schade, Jr., editor and one of the proprietors of the Lawrence Union, of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., is a son of John Schade, Sr., a merchant of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., who was born in Germany, kingdom of Bavaria, October 24, 1838, and a grandson of George and Margaret (Rubbert) Schade, both natives of the same country. The father of our subject came to the United States in 1831…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Alfred Hicks Rose

Goodspeed’s Biography of Alfred Hicks Rose

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Alfred H. Rose, merchant of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was born in Brunswick County, Va., November 23, 1808, and is a brother of Judge R. H. Rose, of Lawrenceburg, whose sketch appears elsewhere in these pages. Our subject’s parents, William and Elizabeth (Meredith) Rose, were natives of the “Old Dominion.” The father emigrated westward and located in Giles County, Tenn., with his family, in 1814. Here our subject…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. James Buchanan Powell

Goodspeed’s Biography of Dr. James Buchanan Powell

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 J. B. Powell, M. D., was born June 12, 1857, in Lawrence County, Tenn. His parents, Andrew and Malinda (Welch) Powell were born in Marshall and Lawrence Counties, Tenn., in 1830 and 1836, respectively. Both are living and are residents of Lawrence County. Dr. Powell was reared in his native county, and received good early education advantages. He attended Jackson Academy at Lawrenceburg about two years,…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of Aaron A. Pierce

Goodspeed’s Biography of Aaron A. Pierce

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 Pierce, Aaron A. Pierce, merchant of Wayland Springs, Tenn., and native of the State, was born in 1850, son of Samuel and Jemima (Carter) Pierce. The father was a farmer and a Democrat, and a participant in the late war. He belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and died in March 1883. His wife died in 1880. The subject of our sketch spent his juvenile days…

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Goodspeed’s Biography of William Alexander Pierce

Goodspeed’s Biography of William Alexander Pierce

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 William A. Pierce, citizen of Wayland Springs ,Tenn., and a native of the State, was born in 1843, son of George W. and Araminta (Mitchell) Pierce. The father was tailor and for many years was a citizen of Lawrenceburg. After residing a short time in Alabama, he returned to Lawrenceburg, where he died in 1855. His wife died in 1845. The grandfather, Spencer Pierce, was a…

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