City: Brownsville
WILLS, Mann, attorney-at-law; born Brownsville, Tenn., May 1, 1870; Scotch-Irish and Welsh descent; son of W. T. and Eliza Cousins (Mann) WILLS; father’s occupation physician; educated private and public schools Haywood Co. and graduated in Law Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., June 1892; married Della WOMACK May 17, 1893; member Knights of Pythias and A. T. O.; in early life clerked in dry goods store and worked on a farm; assistant clerk house of Representatives 1891-3; clerk of the Senate Tennessee General Assembly 1893-5 and was clerk of the governor’s contest committee in Evans-Turney contest 1895; member of the law firm of Kinney & Wills, Brownsville, Tenn., since 1900; member of the Presbyterian church.
