City: Clarksville
BARKSDALE, William Wallace, editor and publisher of Daily Leaf Chronicle, Clarksville (Tenn.); born Clarksville, Tenn., June 27, 1857; son of Wilton Calloway and Araminta Dorma (Martin) BARKSDALE; father’s occupation, contractor; paternal grandfather Hudson BARKSDALE, paternal grandmother Lucinda (Calloway) BARKSDALE, maternal grandfather Bailey MARTIN, maternal grandmother Arminta D. (Watts) MARTIN; educated Stewart College, now the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville (Tenn.); married Wilhemina SICKENBERGER Dec. 26, 1893; member Masons, Chapter and Commandery Past Eminent Commander of Clarksville (Tenn.) Commandery No. 8; I. O. O. F.; Knights of Pythias and B. P. O. E.; in 1881 became half owner of “The Tobacco Leaf”; later acquired the “Clarksville Chronicle,” the consolidated papers becoming the “Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle”; in 1892 bought out his partner and has ever since continued sole owner of the “Daily Leaf-Chronicle”; member of Baptist church.
