City: Shelbyville BEARDEN, Walter Scott, lawyer, Chancellor Fifth Chancery Division; born Petersburg, Lincoln County, Tenn., January 10, 1843; son of Benjamin Franklin and Susan Margaret (Blake) BEARDEN; father’s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents Benj. F. and (Wright) BEARDEN, maternal grandparents John W. and Mary (Morgan) BLAKE; Scotch, Irish, French and Huguenot […]
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City: Ripley BANKS, Roderick S., Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court; born Gibson Wells, Tenn.; son of James H. and Melissa (Hopkins) BANKS; father’s occupation, farming, educated Lebanon, Tenn.; graduate of law dept. Cumberland Univ. 1900; marriage Ella SINCLAIR July 30, 1905; member Masonic Order; member M. E. church, […]
Another prominent educator of the state of Tennessee is Superintendent Robert Lee Bynum, now of Jackson. He has given generous service to the public schools of the state, both in the capacity of a teacher and as a superintendent. Both in county and city educational offices, he has done high […]
City: Kyles Ford BOWEN, Enoch D., minister of the gospel; born Hancock county, Tenn., Jan. 30, 1856; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Jason Y. and Ruth A. (Lea) BOWEN; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Jesse and Sarah (Durham) BOWEN; maternal grandparents Archer and Lucinda (Henderson) LEA; educated in the common schools, […]
Mrs. Sallie STOUT BOGLE, daughter of Allan and Sallie WRIGHT LINK STOUT, one of a family of eleven children, was born at Limestone, Tennessee. Her father’s home was the home of the Methodist itinerant and his famiy [sic]. It was in this way that she knew so well of our […]
CITY: Waverly BOWMAN, J. Bethel, lawyer; born Snow’s Creek, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1879; son of Thomas F. and Cordelia Ann (Wright) BOWMAN; father was a lawyer; educated at Waverly and Lebanon Tenn.; graduated from Waverly High School and Cumberland University LL. B. May, 1900; in early life was in the […]
City: Savannah BARLOW, James Kendrick, physician and druggist; born Wayne Co., Tenn. Nov 9, 1851; son of William H. and Mary Clay (Kendrick) BARLOW; father’s occupation milling and farming; paternal grandfather William BARLOW; maternal grandfather Rev. William P. KENDRICK; graduated from the Medical department University of Louisville, Ky., March 1875; […]
City: Shelbyville BEARDEN, Edwin Whiteside, public official; born Shelbyville, Tenn., March 23, 1875; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Walter S. and Margaret C. (Whiteside) BEARDEN; father, Chancellor of 5th Division Tenn.; paternal grandparents Dr. F. R. and Susan (Blake) BEARDEN, maternal grandparents Thomas C. and Margaret (Robinson) WHITESIDE; educated S. W. […]
City: Trenton BIGGS, Zach, physician; born Gibson Co., Tenn., March 22, 1833; Scotch-English descent; son of Luke and Marina (Bennett) BIGGS; educated University of Nashville Medical College, graduated from same in 1856; in early life was a farmer; served as assistant surgeon of Co. F, 55th Tenn., Regiment, C. S. […]
City: Sewanee BROOKS, Preston Smith, merchant; born Fairfield, S. C., July 1, 1854; English and Irish descent; son of Preston Smith and Martha Caroline (Means) BROOKS; father’s occupation, lawyer and congressman; educated University of the South; entered mercantile business in early life, and has continued in same since; married Maria […]
City: Sewanee BISHOP, William Samuel, educator and clergyman; born Northhampton, Mass., Aug. 26, 1865; son of George Sayles and Hannah More (Williston) BISHOP; father’s occupation, clergyman, pastor emeritus First Reformed Church, East Orange, N. J.; paternal grandparents William Samuel and Mary (Sayles) BISHOP, maternal grandparents John Payson and Cecilia (Lyman) […]
City: Sewanee BARTON, Samuel Marx, educator; born near Winchester, Va., May 9, 1859; son of Joseph M. and Mary (Neill) BARTON; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents Richard Walker and Caroline (Marx) BARTON, maternal grandparents Lewis and Anne (Stribling) NEILL; paternal great-great-grandparents Rev. Thomas BARTON and Ethel (Rittenhouse) BARTON, sister […]
City: Tiptonville BURNETT, James T., attorney and banker; born Dixon Springs, Tenn., 1868; Scotch-Irish descent; son of J. H. and Mary Don (Fippen) BURNETT; father was a tobacco speculator; educated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated from same LLB., 1890; in early life was a farmer, and has been dependent […]
John Worth Browning was born in Statesville, N.C., on Jan. 24, 1857. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W.C. Huddleston, in Cleveland, Tenn. Nov., 21, 1939 at the age of 82 years 10 months. He was buried at Maryville, Tenn. He received his college training at Rutherford […]
Born in Slavery — Educated in the School of Adversity — Author — Founder of Baptist Publishing House — President of Penny Savings Bank — The Man of Action The Reverend Richard Henry BOYD, of Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the most interesting personalities on the American continent, if not […]
In the rapidly developing history of the modern era there is perhaps no one influence comparable to that of the press. Through his ubiquitous medium fleets each day’s momentous news and the psychology of nations is carried round the world. The great metropolitan press, with its complex network of intellectual […]
Among the merchants of Obion County probably none is more widely or more favorably known than the subject of this review, who has been engaged in business in the city of Troy for a period of forty years. His parents, Wm. H. and Temperance (Jackson) Bennett, were both natives of […]
City: Pulaski BASS, Jacob Miller, farmer; born Giles Co., Tenn., Sept. 28, 1825; his paternal grandmother Martha (Hix) BASS was a direct descendant of Pocahontas; son of Nathan and Martha (Beaty) BASS; father farmer; educated in the common schools which were taught in log cabins, never graduated but obtained a […]
City: Pulaski BALLENTINE, John Goff, retired lawyer-banker; born Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., May 20, 1825; son of Andrew Mitchell and Mary Tuttle (Goff) BALLENTINE; Scotch-Irish descent; graduated from Wurtemburg Academy, 1841; University of Nashville 1845, and Harvard 1848; married Mary Elizabeth LAIRD, November 14, 1854; member I. O. O. F.; […]
City: Rogersville BOWEN, Alfred Thomas, lawyer; born Hancock Co., Tenn., March 12, 1866; son of Jason Y. and Ruth A. (Lea) BOWEN; paternal grandfather Jesse BOWEN; maternal(sp) grandmother Sallie (Durham) BOWEN; maternal grandfather Archer LEA; maternal grandmother ____ (Hendrix) LEA; English descent; father’s occupation farmer; educated Sneedville, McKinney High School; […]