City: Knoxville
MELLEN, George Frederick, educator, writer; born Pierce’s Springs, Miss., June 27, 1859; English descent; son of Seth Smith and Susan Huntingdon (Bush) MELLEN; father’s occupation, teacher, merchant; paternal grandparents, Jeremiah and Mary (Hastings) MELLEN, maternal grandparents, Levi and Ann (Ayres) BUSH; educated by father at Pierce’s Springs, Miss., and at Mt. Sterling, Ala., graduated from University of Ala., with M. A. degree 1879, and Leipzig University, Germany, Ph.D., 1890; in early life taught school at Gainesville, Livingston and Demopolis, Ala., later was Prof. of Greek, University of Tenn., 1891-1900; married Mary Briscoe BALDWIN, July 7, 1885; member of Irving Club, Knoxville, Tenn.; member of Tenn. Legislature, 1905-06; contributor to Methodist Review (Nashville), Methodist Review (N.Y.), New England Magazine, Sewanee Review; editorial writer and contributor, Knoxville Sentinel, and Chattanooga News; contributor to the South in the Building of the Nation, Vol. VII, chapters on New England’s contributions to The South’s Culture, The South’s Contributions to the Nation’s Wit and Humor, and Southern Editors; contribute to the Library of Southern Literature, Vol. I., Chapter on Joseph Glover BALDWIN with selections from The Flush Times of Ala. and Miss. contributor of Chapters II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII, in William Rule’s History of Knoxville, and to various periodicals; has farming and real estate interest in Ala. and Tenn.; stockholder in Holston National Bank, Knoxville; member M. E. Church, South.
