City: Nashville
MADDIN, Percy Down, lawyer; born Waco, Tex., October 27, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Dr. John Wesley and Mahala Annie (Downs) MADDIN; father was a physician and surgeon; paternal grandparents Rev. Thomas and Sarah (Moore) MADDIN, maternal grandparents William Wood and Henrietta (Sparks) DOWNS; educated in the public schools of Nashville, Tenn.; graduated Nashville public schools 1878; Vanderbilt University, B.S. 1881, LL.B. 1882; began his career as lawyer; married Mary Belle KEITH, 1890; she was the daughter of Samuel J. and Elizabeth B. KEITH; attorney for the Fourth National Bank of Nashville and of Louisville & Nashville Railway Company for past fifteen years; Vice-President Tennessee State Bar Association 1909-10; President 1910-11; member American Bar Association; several years member of its council for Tennessee; Director Fourth National Bank for seventeen years; Director of Nashville & Decatur Railroad; Professor of Law in Vanderbilt University since 1900; member of K. of P., Masons, Hermitage Club and Nashville Golf and Country Club, Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa of Vanderbilt University; President McKendree M. E. Church, South, Corporation, and Chairman of its Board of Stewards; also President of Galloway Memorial Hospital.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
