William Bowen CAMPBELL, sixteenth governor of the state of Tennessee lived his active life in the days when there were more statemen and fewer politicians. Everyone in Tennessee, who pretends to know anything of the history of the state, knows that Governor CAMPBELL was a public man of the former […]
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City: Nashville LAMBUTH, Walter Russell, clergyman; born Shanghai, China, November 10, 1854; English and Scotch descent; son of James W. and Mary Isabella (McClellan) LAMBUTH; father, missionary to China and Japan; paternal grandparents John R. and Nancy (Kirkpatrick) LAMBUTH; maternal grandparents William G. and Sarah Ann (Cleveland) McCLELLAN; married Daisy […]
Fifty-three years is a long term of service; yet Charles W. KELLEY at the time of this death, on November 1, 1939, had received his fifty-fourth appointment as minister in the Holston Conference. He was vigorously active until the end of his life. I do not know of any man […]
City: Martin BIGGS, Vincent Atkins, physician; born Weakley County, Tenn., Aug. 1, 1859; English descent; son of Thomas M. and Elizabeth (Brann) BIGGS; paternal grandfather James BIGGS; paternal grandmother Susan (Ross) BIGGS; maternal grandfather Thos. BRANN, who married a Miss KELLEY; received common school education; graduated Vanderbilt University, Medical Department, […]
City: Knoxville SAYLOR, James William, attorney at law; born Strawberry Plains, Knox Co., Tenn., Jan. 15, 1858; German descent; son of John and Martha (Moulden) SAYLOR; educated Emory & Henry College, Va.; in early life he was a teacher in the public schools of Knox. Co., Tenn.; thrice married, first, […]
City: Johnson City GARDNER, James Robert, lawyer; born Van Hill, Tenn., Aug. 2, 1879; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Henry and Sarah (Ball) GARDNER; father’s occupation, farmer and merchant; paternal grandparents, James and Annie (Myers) GARDNER; maternal grandparents John W. and Rebecca (Kelley) BALL; graduated Oakland Seminary in 1899; reared on […]
City: Henderson REID, Samuel Eli, farmer and stock raiser; born near Lexington, Tenn., April 22, 1856; English and Irish descent; son of James R. and Elizabeth T. (Webb) REID; father’s occupation, farmer and minister of the gospel; educated in the common schools of Tenn., and at home; began his business […]
City: Dayton KELLEY, William B., farmer; born Rhea Co., Tenn., Feb. 29, 1860; Irish descent; son of Jacob and Julia F. (Darwin) KELLEY; educated at Hiwassee College, Tenn.; married Ada MORRISON Nov. 28, 1883; member Dayton Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 2 and Dayton Lodge No. 156 of F. […]