BEVERLY WALTER LANDSTREET. A man of good business capacity, great intelligence and enterprise, Beverly Walter LANDSTREET is actively identified with the mercantile and social affairs of Nashville, as manager of a large department store being well known throughout the city. A son of the late Rev. John LANDSTREET, he was born May 23, […]
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SUMNER ARCHIBALD CUNNINGHAM, editor and publisher of the Confederate Veteran at Nashville, is a lifelong resident of Tennessee, served the state in the great Civil war, and has spent many years in the quiet pursuits of business and as an editor. Of Scotch-Irish descent, a son of John Washington Campbell and Mary […]
CHARLES STUBBINS BRIGGS, A. M., M. D. Beginning when young to familiarize himself with the rudiments of medicine and surgery, Charles S. BRIGGS, A. M., M. D., has, through close study and earnest application, constantly added to his knowledge, and has gained an enviable reputation for superior professional skill and ability […]
TECUMSEH GORE SETTLE was born at Gainesboro, Tennessee, the son of T. G. and Mary (Young) SETTLE. He received his education in the public schools of Gainesboro and Nashville, and was engaged in 1893 and 1894 in the publication of a newspaper at Gainesboro. He was licensed to practice law at Gainesboro in […]
FRANK ALLEN BERRY, lawyer, and member of the bar of Nashville, Tennessee, was born on October 13, 1885, in Nashville, and is the son of William Wells and Alice (Allen) BERRY, both natives of the state of Tennessee, born respectively in Davidson and Sumner county. Concerning the early education of Mr. BERRY, […]
TALBOT FANNING BONNER. A prominent and prosperous citizen of Nashville, Talbot Fanning BONNER, head of the Bonner Furniture Manufacturing Company, has long been an important factor in the promotion and advancement of the industrial and business interests of this section of Davidson county; and his influence as a man or honor and […]
HON. BENTON McMILLIN, twice governor of his native state and for twenty consecutive years a member of congress, has long been prominent in the vital political activities of the state of Tennessee, and has played well his part in all the relations of life, giving the best that was in […]
HARRY H. CORSON. In no other field of enterprise has there been so marvelous development and progress within the past two decades as in that of applied electricity, and among those who have been prominently concerned with practical developments and contributed in no insignificant way to this advancement is MR. CORSON, […]
Professor ALONZO C. WEBB. Inheriting from his mother artistic tastes and talent, and from is father an ardent love of nature in all her varied forms, Professor Alonzo C. WEBB, supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Nashville, is widely and favorably known as an artist, an ornithologist, and as a lecturer on birds, their […]
JAMES STUART PILCHER is a name highly honored in Nashville, Tennessee, for it belongs to a man of the highest integrity and splendid attainments. As a lawyer Mr. Pilcher has won a reputation for exhaustive research and sound judgment on legal affairs, and his wide experience has made him one […]
William Bowen CAMPBELL, sixteenth governor of the state of Tennessee lived his active life in the days when there were more statemen and fewer politicians. Everyone in Tennessee, who pretends to know anything of the history of the state, knows that Governor CAMPBELL was a public man of the former […]