City: Trousdale McGEE, Jesse Clendenon, merchant; born Forest, Tenn., Nov. 8, 1859; Irish descent; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Jennings) McGEE; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents Clendenon and Martha (England) McGEE, maternal grandparents Jesse and Lucinda (Shell) JENNINGS; educated at Forest, Tenn.; early occupation, Sheriff of Rhea Co., Tenn., […]
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City: Tullahoma LUMLEY, W.E., Supt. City Schools; born Rootstown, O., March 29, 1858; son of John W. and Marie A. (Excell) LUMLEY; English descent; father’s occupation, veterinary surgeon and farmer; educated Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, and State Normal College, Troy, Ala.; graduate of both colleges Ph.B. and Ph.D., degrees, […]
City: Tullahoma LEIPER, James Armstrong, editor “Tullahoma Guardian;” born Murfreesboro, Tenn., Feb. 12, 1848; English and Irish descent; son of John and Elizabeth (Rucker) LEIPER; father, wholesale grain merchant; graduated from Washington & Lee University, B.S. and A. B., 1868; began career as a lawyer; married Alice KIMBRO, March 13, […]
City: Trezevant WALKER, John Russell, lawyer; born Friendship, Tenn., Dec. 3, 1855; son of William M. and Sarah F. (Davis) WALKER; Scotch-Irish-French descent; educated Academy at Friendship, Tenn.; married Elizabeth B. TAYLOR, Oct. 29, 1882; Republican; member of State Republican Committee many years; Mayor of Trenton 1881-1882; Vice President First […]
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: 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: Tracy City TIDMAN, George W., merchant; born Bedworth, Warwickshire, England, March 3, 1870; son of John and Susan (Hunt) TIDMAN; father’s occupation, merchant and hotel proprietor; educated at Tracy City and Winchester, Tenn.; in early life was clerk, bookkeeper and storekeeper; married Gertrude KELLEMS, June 15, 1892; Worshipful Master […]
City: Tracy City THOROGOOD, George M., secretary and treasurer Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. and Nunley Ridge Coal Co.; born Cowan, Tenn., July 2, 1879; son of William and Bettie (Hawkins) THOROGOOD; father’s occupation, bridge and stone contactor; paternal grandfather Moses THOROGOOD, maternal grandparents John and Mariah (Buckner) HAWKINS; graduated from […]
City: Tracy City STEPP, Francis Marion, proprietor Tidman House, and merchant; born near Irving College, Tenn., Nov. 19, 1867; son of William Carrol and Nancy (McGee) STEPP; educated at Beech Grove and Viola, Tenn.; in early life was a farmer; married Emma GIBBS, March 17, 1889; member Royal Arcanum and […]
In political and mercantile circles, probably no man in Lewis County is more widely known than Joseph Goodwin Rice, the present genial and efficient county clerk. His grandfather, Jerry Rice, was a pioneer farmer of southern Illinois, where his children were born, but before they grew to maturity he removed […]
The honored subject of this review is numbered among the progressive and representative agriculturists of Obion County, where he is the owner of a finely improved landed estate of five hundred acres, situated near the boundary line between Tennessee and Kentucky, Pierce Station being his post office address. He is […]
MATTHEW MCCLAIN, sheriff of Lewis County, Tennessee, and a resident of Hohenwald, is a native of that county, has been one of its representative agriculturists for a number of years and always has been worthily identified with its best citizenship. He first took up the duties of sheriff on October […]
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: Sevierville WILLIAMS, Samuel M., public official; born Jones Cove, Tenn., March 20, 1869; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Carroll and Annie (Large) WILLIAMS; father was a farmer; educated at Murphy College, graduated 1896; began his career as a school teacher; married Callie JONES, July 14, 1894; member I. O. O. […]
City: Sevierville SHIELDS, Robert H., farmer; born Sevier Co., Tenn., Feb. 13, 1857; Irish descent; son of Richard and (Adams) SHIELDS; father’s occupation, farming; educated in the public schools and University of Tenn.; was thrown on his resources in early life; began his career as a teacher; elected Tax Assessor […]
City: Sevierville RULE, Caleb, farmer; born Knox Co., Tenn., July 2, 1840; German descent; son of John and Nancy (Hood) RULE; father, farmer; received common school education; entered the ministry of the Baptist church in 1872 with a limited education, and has served as pastor of 12 churches; married Eliza […]
Among the old and honored pioneers who paved the way for the development of Obion County and the position that it occupies socially and financially at the present time, the name of Alexander W. Smith stands preeminent. He was a native of the Emerald Isle, but when a young man […]
City: Saltillo MITCHELL, Abraham Brownlow, lumberman; born Mt. Vernon, Ill., May 29, 1865; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James Columbus and Tennessee (Page) MITCHELL; father attorney at law; educated Saltillo Public schools and Savannah (Tenn.) High School; in early life was a school teacher and circuit clerk of Hardin Co. Tenn.; […]