Ernest Franklin, farmer, was born in Sumner County in 1854, and is one of twelve children (two of whom are dead) born to Dr. John W. and Sarah Baber Franklin. The father was born in Sumner County in 1821 [1819] where he now lives. He is a farmer and a practicing physician of considerable note. He has practiced his profession for thirty-five or forty years with great success. The mother was born about 1840 or 1841 [1831] and is still living. Our subject received his education at Gallatin and Nashville. At the age of twenty-five he engaged in the dry goods business at Gallatin where he remained two years. In 1880 he married and moved on his wife's farm ten miles northeast of Gallatin where he has since resided. His wife, Georgia Brown, was born in Sumner County in 1862 and is the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Woodson) Brown. To our subject and wife were born two children: Betty Woodson and John Thomas. Mr. Franklin is an industrious, enterprising young man and in the past four years has done much to improve the farm. He is a stanch Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for S. J. Tilden. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and his wife a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

[Transcriber's Comments: The subject's father, Dr. John Franklin, had three children by his first wife, one of whom died, and nine children by his second wife, one of whom died, for a total of twelve, two of whom died.]