{"id":222,"date":"2011-10-31T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:05:55","slug":"goodspeed-biography-of-thomas-n-l-cunnyngham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-thomas-n-l-cunnyngham\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodspeed Biography of Thomas N. L. Cunnyngham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas N. L. Cunnyngham<\/strong>, an eminent barrister of Dayton, is a native of Rhea County, Tenn., born six miles north of Dayton, August 30, 1840.\u00a0 His parents, Wiley H. and Elvina (Locke<\/strong>) Cunnyngham, were both of Scotch-Irish descent, and natives of Tennessee. \u00a0 The father was born in Monroe County, Tenn., about 1810 and died in Rhea County, September 22, 1862.\u00a0 The mother was born February 6, 1817, is still living, and is a resident of Rhea County.\u00a0 They were married in Rhea County, near Washington, about 1836, and since 1844 Rhea County has been their permanent home.\u00a0 The father was engaged in agricultural pursuits, was justice of the peace the greater part of his life, and was a tax collector of Rhea County several terms.\u00a0 He was an old line Whig, and a worthy member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.\u00a0 The mother came of a distinguished family in Rhea County.\u00a0 Her parents were John and Jane Locke.\u00a0 The father was one of the pioneers of Rhea County, and filled the office of circuit court clerk of Rhea County for a number of years. He died in 1840, his wife having died previous to this.\u00a0 Judge Locke, for many years an eminent lawyer and judge of Rhea County, was a brother to the mother of Thomas N. L.\u00a0 Our subject is one of nine children. \u00a0 He secured a liberal education and farming had been his chief occupation up to 1867, at which time he commenced the study of law under Capt. S. J. Frazier and Judge Frank Locke.\u00a0 He obtained his license to practice in the latter part of 1868, and since that date his name has been on the roll of Tennessee attorneys.\u00a0 Previous to this, September 29, 1859, he had married Miss Lorinda J. Smith<\/strong>, a native of Rhea County, Tenn., born April 25, 1842.\u00a0 She died February 26, 1883.\u00a0 October 11, 1883, Mr. Cunnyngham married Miss Kittie J. Coulter<\/strong>, daughter of Gen. T. J. Coulter.\u00a0 By the first union our subject became the father of seven children – four sons and three daughters – one son deceased.\u00a0 To the last marriage was born two daughters, one deceased.\u00a0 In 1884 he came to Dayton.\u00a0 Since the latter part of 1885 he has been a member of the United States Law Association.\u00a0 He has been quite successful in the practice of his profession, and is now associated in the practice of law with R. A. Smith. \u00a0 He is a decided Democrat, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, serving the church as ruling elder over fifteen years.\u00a0 His present wife is a member of the same church, as was also his first wife.\u00a0 Mr. Cunnyngham <\/strong>drew up the charter to incorporate the town of Dayton, in April, 1885, and served as mayor from April, 1885 to April, 1886.\u00a0 He then served one year as recorder and treasurer, and was also at the same time tax collector of said town.<\/p>\n

Published by The Goodspeed Publishing Co 1887<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas N. L. Cunnyngham, an eminent barrister of Dayton, is a native of Rhea County, Tenn., born six miles north of Dayton, August 30, 1840.\u00a0 His parents, Wiley H. and Elvina (Locke) Cunnyngham, were both of Scotch-Irish descent, and natives … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[54,52,24,53],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodspeed","tag-coulter","tag-cunnyngham","tag-locke","tag-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}