City: Selmer WHITEHURST, Theodore Benton, lawyer and public official; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Feb. 28, 1867; English and Irish descent; son of Alfred Franklin and Ann Elizabeth (Nethery) WHITEHURST; father, school teacher; paternal grandparents Ben and Martha (Wilkerson) WHITEHURST, maternal grandparents James and Lucy (Cooper) NETHERY; educated in common and […]
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City: Big Sandy DOWDY, James Franklin, merchant and farmer; born near Big Sandy Oct. 13, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James Wiley and Henrietta (Bachus) DOWDY; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents John and Mary (Upton) DOWDY; maternal grandparents John and Jane (Vaughn) BACHUS; received common school education; began his business […]
City: Napier HALE, Isaac Thomas, accountant; born in Lewis Co., Tenn., Aug. 31, 1879; English descent; son of John Wesley and Nancy C. (Tait) HALE; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandfather, Isaac A. HALE, maternal /sic/ grandmother was a Miss MORRISON prior to her marriage; maternal grandparents, Netherland and Fannie (Cooper) […]
City: Mayland COOPER, William, merchant, real estate and lumber dealer; born Scranton, Pa., March 2, 1843; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of William and Margaret (MOAT) COOPER; educated in Belfast, Ireland; returned to American in 1853; enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Tennessee Regiment, May, 1861, and served until surrender of Lee, […]
City: Memphis CRENSHAW, Thos. B., public official; born Shelby Co., Tenn., Sept. 12, 1848; English descent; son of Thos. B. and Grace (Booker) CRENSHAW; educated in Shelby Co. publish schools and Obion Co., Tenn.; graduated Nelson’s Business College, Memphis, Tenn., 1867; in early life was a farmer; married twice, first […]
City: Memphis COOPER, Samuel H., public official; born Lexington, Ky., Sept. 25, 1854; German-Irish descent; son of John H. and Margaret S. (Haggin) COOPER; father’s occupation, farmer; maternal grandparents, Samuel and Jane (Patterson) HAGGIN; graduated from Georgetown (Ky.) College B. S. 1875; in early life was a farmer; married Emma […]
City: Knoxville SANSOM, Richard Henry, lawyer; born Round Rock, Texas, Sept. 4, 1854; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Richard and Mary Agnes (Cooper) SANSON; father’s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandparents D. N. and Mary E. (Brown) SANSOM, maternal grandparents Matthew D. and Mary (Frierson) COOPER; educated Georgetown, Texas, and Montgomery Bell Academy, […]
City: Knoxville COOPER, HENRY T., lawyer; born Jacksboro, Tenn., Jan. 28, 1852; son Gen. Joseph A. and Mary J. (Hutson) COOPER; educated Carson and Newman college, Jefferson City, Tenn.; early business career farming; married Tinnie R. STEWART Dec. 26, 1876; commissioner of election for Knox Co.; entered the law office […]
City: Hartranft SWAB, Daniel Cooper, lawyer, dealer in coal and iron; born Williamstown, Penn., Nov. 15, 1874; German descent; son of Philip C. and Catherine (Koppenheffer) SWAB; father’s occupation, coal operator and politician; paternal grandparents, Eli and Nellie (Cooper) SWAB, maternal grandparents Daniel and Fannie (Bordner) KOPPENHEFFER; educated in common […]
City: Harriman WINSLOW, Henry M., lawyer; born in Carrollton, Ky., Aug. 3, 1850; descended on his father’s side from the Winslows and Beverleys of New Kent Co., Va., and on his mother’s side from Count Du Puy, a Huguenot refugee who fled his castle at time of the revocation of […]
City: Greenfield RAY, James Nathan, business man and dealer in live stock; born near Greenfield Tenn., in 1851; Irish descent; son of Bennett and Cyrena (Harral) RAY; father’s occupation farmer also County Judge; paternal grandparents’ Nathan and Emily (Brown) RAY; maternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (Gilliam) HARRAL; received common school […]
City: Greeneville FOWLER, William F., dentist; born Parrottsville, Tenn., Oct. 6, 1839; Irish and English descent; son of Francis T. and Jane (Maloney) FOWLER; father’s occupation physician; paternal grandparents, Thomas and Mary (Baldridge) FOWLER, maternal grandparents, Robert and Catherine (Cooper) MALONEY; educated at Greeneville, Tenn.; graduated from Greeneville, A. M., […]
City: Crossville COOPER, James William, lawyer; born near Quebec, White Co., Tenn., April 19, 1878; Irish descent; son of William and Amanda (Sparksman) COOPER; paternal grandparents William and Margaret (Moat) COOPER, maternal grandparents Hardy and Mira (Coffee) SPARKSMAN; educated at Doyle College and graduated Law Department University of Tenn., L.L. […]
City: Covington LANIER, Powless William, lawyer; born Fulton, Tipton Co., Tenn., March 7, 1885; son of S. H. and Ellen (Cooper) LANIER; paternal grandfather Samuel B. LANIER, paternal grandmother Hettie VAN LIER, maternal grandfather B. COOPER, maternal grandmother Fannie NORRIS; Huguenot (French) and Dutch descent; educated Tipton Co. schools and […]
City: Chattanooga DOTY, H. Walter, lawyer; born Findlay, Ohio, August 15, 1860; son John and Margaret (Walters) DOTY; English descent; educated National Institution, Lebanon, Ohio; graduate of same B. S. 1882; married Ida L. COOPER of Ohio, September 12, 1883; member K. of P. (Past Chancellor); served during three terms […]
Town: Centerville WALKER, James Buchanan, banker; born Whitfield, Tenn., June 25, 1857; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James and Emeline (Cooper) WALKER; father’s occupation farmer; received common school education; began life on a farm and earned first $100 on own account as teacher in the public schools; began mercantile business at […]
City: Camden COOPER, W. D., County Court Clerk, Benton Co., Tenn.; born Big Sandy, Tenn., Dec. 3, 1869; Scotch, Irish and English descent; son of T. D. and L. J. (DeBruce) COOPER; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather John COOPER, paternal grandmother Mary (Fain) COOPER, maternal grandfather Robert DEBRUCE, maternal grandmother […]