BENJAMIN JOSEPH FARRAR. One of the most extensive and successful real estate dealers of Nashville, Benjamin Joseph FARRAR has here been engaged in this business for nearly half a century, a much longer period than any other man, and during the time has been prominently identified with the highest and best interests […]
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Fifty-three years is a long term of service; yet Charles W. KELLEY at the time of this death, on November 1, 1939, had received his fifty-fourth appointment as minister in the Holston Conference. He was vigorously active until the end of his life. I do not know of any man […]
City: LaFollette CARR, Alvis J., merchant; born Pleasant, Tenn., Aug. 21, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Lafayette M. and Martha J. (Yoakum) CARR; father’s occupation merchant and farmer, received common school education; began business career as traveling salesman; married Maggie G. KINCAID, June 26, 1886; member Elks; former postmaster at […]
City: LaFollette CALDWELL, Winfield M., physician; born Union Co., Tenn., June 15, 1862; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of Hugh and Polly (Bayless) CALDWELL; father’s occupation, minister of the gospel and farmer; paternal grandfather Hugh CALDWELL, paternal grandmother was a Miss GAUTT prior to her marriage, maternal grandfather Isaac BAYLESS, […]
City: Dyersburg PARKER, John Neil, banker; born Dyer Co., Tenn., March 8, 1859; son of Daniel E. and Robena (Hart) PARKER; father being a farmer and financier; paternal grandparents Daniel E. and Martha (Smith) PARKER, maternal grandparents Gilbert and Mary (Moore) HART; educated in local schools of Dyer Co., Tenn.; […]
City: Knoxville OGDEN, Robert Morris, educator; born Binghampton, N. Y., July 6, 1877; English and Dutch descent; son of James Sherman and Beulah Maria (Carter) OGDEN; father’s occupation, manufacturer; paternal grandparents, William and Angeline (Abbott) OGDEN, maternal grandparents, John and Alida (Groesbeck) CARTER; educated in private and public Schools, Binghampton, […]
City: Coal Creek ADKINS, Almon Thompson, farmer and stock raiser; born Campbell Co., Tenn., Oct. 6, 1829; son of Randle and Sallie ADKINS; paternal grandfather Richard ADKINS, paternal grandmother Mary (Monroe) ADKINS, maternal grandfather Joshua ADKINS, maternal grandmother Rachael (McCoy) ADKINS; father’s occupation, farmer and stock raiser; educated only in […]