City: Lafayette CARTER, Hubert, traveling salesman; born Rome, Tenn., Oct. 31, 1860; son of Edward and Louvenia K. (Bains) CARTER; father’s occupation carpenter; paternal grandparents John S. and Mary (Harrison) CARTER; maternal grandparents Sara A. and Christina (Lasiter) BAINS; educated at home; in early life he was in the retail […]
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ROBERT W. CALDWELL, of Gallatin, has now served a decade as circuit clerk of Sumner County and has proved a most capable and efficient official, the length of his service being indicative of his standing in the public estimation of this county both as an official and as a citizen. […]
Death came to Mrs. Sarah Anne Reneau CLENDENNEN April 17, 1940 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert OGLE, Knoxville, Tennessee. She was the wife of the late Rev. George W. CLENDENNEN who for many years was a beloved and honored minister in the Methodist Church, having been admitted […]
CITY: Waverly COOLEY, James Tilford, physician; born Waverly, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1858; of German descent; son of E. M. and S. E. (Waggoner) COOLEY; father’s occupation, farming; paternal grandparents E. J. and Elizabeth (Funk) COOLEY, maternal grandparents, Daniel and Katie (Massey) WAGGONER; educated at Waverly, Tenn. Valparaiso,, Ind. and Vanderbilt […]
City: Winchester CLARK, Rufus Anthony, teacher; born Coffee County, Tenn., November 20, 1846; son of James A. and Amelia (Wilkinson) CLARK; Scotch-Irish descent; father’s occupation, farming; educated Beech Grove, Tenn.; married Ellen HENDERSON, June 26, 1879; worked on farm until twenty years of age; taught school five months at Wartrace, […]
City: Trenton CALDWELL, Waller Cochran, lawyer; born Obion Co., Tenn., May 14, 1849; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Isaac Willis and Sarah E. (Whipple) CALDWELL; father, farmer; educated at Union City and Lebanon, Tenn.; graduated at Lebanon Law School, LL.B. degree, 1872, and later received LL.D. degree; reared on a farm; […]
City: Tiptonville CATES, Willis J., planter, merchant; born Lake Co., Tenn., May 18, 1860; son of Anderson and Susan (Box) CATES; father’s occupation, farmer; educated in country schools; began career in Lake Co., Tenn., as a farmer; now interested in farming, mercantile business and cotton; married Mattie D. BLEDSOE, Nov. […]
City: Tiptonville CAMPBELL, Whit, retail merchant; born Glass, Tenn., Oct. 21, 1861; Scotch-Irish descent; son of David and Elizabeth (Johnson) CAMPBELL; father, farmer; educated at Glass, Tenn., High School; began career as clerk in store at Glass, Tenn.; entered drug business at Glass, Tenn., March, 1888, and after three or […]
Rev. Ivan L. Cox was born in Wise County, Virginia, April 22, 1878. He was married to Miss Nora Almeda Elliott, November 13, 1903. They were the parents of seven children, six of whom are still living, three sons and three daughters. Brother Cox grew up in the Christian faith […]
Simonides, an ancient Greek poet, said, “the city teaches the man.” How true. It is equally true that the times teach the man. No one will deny the effect upon character of the environment and time in which a man was born, the circumstances in which he was reared. Eugene […]
City: Pulaski CULP, Robert Lewis, mechanic and Justice of the Peace; born Giles County, Tenn., April 23, 1842; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William H. and Annie (King) CULP; began career as a mechanic; married Mary BOYD, December 1, 1864; was one time City Recorder of Pulaski, and is at present […]
City: Pulaski CROWELL, Ernest W., lawyer; born Bedford Co., Tenn., March 21, 1884; of German-Irish descent; son of Hiram B. and Margaret E. (Cook) CROWELL; father Methodist minister; paternal grandparents, Charles M. and Lavina (Foster) CROWELL; maternal grandparents, V. P. and Elizabeth (Lents) CROWELL; educated Bedford Co., Institute, and Cumberland […]
City: Pulaski CLARK, Gordentia Waite, educator, co-principal of Massey & Clark School; born Wartrace, Tenn., April 9, 1886; son of G. W. and Lydia (Little) CLARK; his father was a farmer; paternal grandparents R. S. and Sarah Patton (Waite) CLARK, maternal grandparents William and Lucy Caroline (Clary) LITTLE; educated Wartrace […]
The Reverend Charles Henry CLARK, whose church in Nashville, Tennessee is the hostess of the National Baptist Convention for 1913, is one of the really great and interesting characters of the National Baptist Convention. He was born October 15, 1855, in Christian County, Kentucky. His father was unknown to him, […]
City: Paris COMPTON, Robert Haywood, Sheriff of Henry Co.; born Orange Co., N. C., June 20, 1866; son of Ingram Henderson and Julia A. (Walker) COMPTON; English descent; educated institutions of learning of Henry Co., Tenn.; father’s occupation, farmer; married Mary BELL Dec. 25, 1890; member Masonic Lodge (Marshall Lodge […]
City: Paris CALDWELL, Samuel Houston, retired physician; born Henry County, Tenn., Dec. 10, 1836; Scotch-French descent; son of R. D. and Elizabeth (Dupree) CALDWELL; father farmer and tobacco manufacturer; graduated from Cumberland University B.A., June 1855; married Mary R. THOMPSON, Dec. 24, 1860; began the practice of medicine early in […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
City: Ooltewah CAMPBELL, James David, teacher; born James Co., Tenn., May 21, 1862; English-Irish and Dutch descent; son of James M. and Lucy E. (Lewis) CAMPBELL; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents John and Phebe (Booth) CAMPBELL; maternal grandparents David and Jane (Holder) LEWIS; educated at Mossy Creek, and Jefferson City, […]