It is an interesting and gratifying fact, so much has the restless, nomadic spirit grown in America, that among the representative men of Tennessee there is a remarkable percentage of native sons, men who have found in the locality of their nativity ample opportunity for successful professional, industrial and business […]
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BEVERLY WALTER LANDSTREET. A man of good business capacity, great intelligence and enterprise, Beverly Walter LANDSTREET is actively identified with the mercantile and social affairs of Nashville, as manager of a large department store being well known throughout the city. A son of the late Rev. John LANDSTREET, he was born May 23, […]
City: Memphis BURNS, William Britt, physician and surgeon; born Shangaloo, La., February 26, 1869; son T.F. and Mary A. (Thomas) BURNS; Scotch-Welsh descent; educated Prescott, Ark., Tom Allen High School, Kentucky School of Medicine; graduate Kentucky School of Medicine M.D. 1892; post-graduate Polyclinic New York 1898; married Georgia May VALLANDIGHAM, […]
City: McKenzie BURNS, James Thomas, retail merchant; born near McLemoresville, Tenn., May 5, 1849; son of John and Margaret (Patton) BURNS; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, Richard and ——- (Newbill) BURNS, maternal grandparents William and Mary (Wright) PATTON; educated at Bethel College, McLemoresville, Tenn., and University of Miss.; worked on […]
City: Dresden GARRETT, Finis J., born in Weakly Co., Tenn., Aug. 26, 1875; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Noah J. and Virginia (Baughman) GARRETT; fathers occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Noah and Elizabeth (Willbanks) GARRETT; maternal grandparents J. R. and Mary (Ore) BAUGHMAN; graduated from Bethel College with degree of B. A., […]