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Davidson-Lincoln-Rutherford County TN Archives Biographies.....Ransom, John Bostick 1861 - 1910
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Author: Will T. Hale
JOHN BOSTICK RANSOM, late of Nashville, was for many years one of the most
prominent and esteemed business men of the city, and his death, which occurred
January 5, 1910, was deeply deplored throughout the community. He was born,
March 14, 1861, in Fayetteville, Tennessee, a son of George and Elizabeth
(Bostick) Ransom, of whom further notice may be found elsewhere in this
biographical volume.
From the Nashville Banner of January 5, 1910, we quote the following brief
sketch of Mr. Ransom: "Mr. John Bostick Ransom died to-day at 6.50 o'clock. In
his death Nashville has lost one of her most progressive, charitable, and
likeable citizens. He was a captain of industry; a self-made man of the
strongest type to be found anywhere; and the entire community in which he has
been such a factor for good is impoverished and saddened by his death, in the
very prime of his manhood. He was the head of the John B. Ransom Lumber Company,
probably the largest hardwood lumber company in the South. He was the son of
George and Elizabeth (Bostick) Ransom, his mother being a member of one of the
most prominent families of Triune, Williamson county, and of Scotch lineage, and
his father of English ancestry. The Ransoms were among the first settlers of
middle Tennessee, moving there from South Carolina.
"Mr. Ransom received his education in the rural schools, and at the age of
seventeen went to Murfreesboro, where he later entered the lumber business. The
business expanded rapidly, and in 1889 the headquarters was removed to
Nashville. A few years later his brother, Arthur B. Ransom, was admitted as a
partner. From a modest beginning the firm of John B. Ransom & Company has grown
to enormous proportions. For the last year or two the company has handled
between fifty and sixty millions feet of hard wood timber per annum, a business
of something over $1,500,000, its operations extending from the Allegheny
mountains to midway of the Mississippi delta.
"Mr. Ransom was a man of large affairs, and splendid executive ability. In
addition to building up the largest hard wood lumber business in the South, he
devoted much time to other enterprises. He was president of the Nashville
Hardwood Flooring Company, of West Nashville, which is the largest and most
perfectly equipped plant of its kind in the southern states. He was president of
the Conasauga Lumber Company, at Conasauga, Tennessee, and of the Gayoso Lumber
Company, of Memphis. He was vice-president, and a large stockholder, of the W.
J. Cude Land and Lumber Company, which maintains branches at Kimmins, Tennessee,
and at Cude, Mississippi. He was a director in the American National Bank, and
in the Nashville Tie and Cedar Company. He was president of the Nashville
Transportation Company, which operates a line of barges and tow-boats on the
Cumberland river. He was president of the Tennessee Realty and Warehouse Company
of Chattanooga, which owns a number of warehouses in that city.
"Mr. Ransom was also largely interested in a large block of yellow pine
timber in the state of Durango, Mexico. He took an active interest in promoting
and placing on a high plane the lumber interests of the country, being a member
of several associations, and, in 1908, was president of the Hardwood
Manufacturers Association of the United States, the largest organization of
lumbermen in the hardwood trade in America.
"Mr. Ransom had ever conducted his affairs on the highest plane, which won
for him the confidence, respect, and admiration of those with whom he had
business dealings, and with whom he was associated. His far-reaching popularity
is more clearly realized when it is known that he was several times elected
president of the Hardwood Manufacturers Association, and for a number of years
had been president of the Nashville Lumbermen's Association. His splendid
ability obtained recognition in many fields other than that of commerce. He was
a member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust, and of the Book Committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was a member of the committee having in
charge the erection of the buildings of the Hermitage Hotel; the Young Men's
Christian Association; and the Young Women's Christian Association.
"Mr. Ransom's advice and judgment were eagerly sought on all occasions when
large interests were involved. He was a tremendous success, having from an
humble beginning accumulated a large fortune without having in any way changed
his nature. He was at all times generous and charitable, giving liberally to
every worthy cause within his notice. He is said to have had more friends than
any other business man in Nashville.
"While Mr. Ransom was a prominent figure in lumber circles, both of this
country and of Europe, he was a man of simple habits, loving home and friends,
and caring little for show. He had never sought honors, but accepted many, more
as a matter of duty than because he was ambitious. He was a man of broad
Christianity, exemplifying in his life the truest type of manhood the country
has ever known. He was a leading member of the "West End Methodist Episcopal
church, and was for several years chairman of its board of stewards, being a
member at the time of his death.
"Mr. Ransom was a man of deep affections, and his home life was beautiful. He
was to the immediate family the soul of generosity and tender consideration.
Democratic in his tastes, he disliked ostentation. He treated rich and poor, the
powerful and the humble, with equal consideration, and the hospitality he
extended in his home was wholesome and beautiful. Generous in the extreme,
though modest in his charity, to many of the poor people of this community and
others he was a kind friend and benefactor. The Old "Women's Home is one of the
numerous local benevolent organizations which will miss his wise counsel and
benevolence. Sometime ago he endowed a memorial room in the home, and at the
time of his death was chairman of the advisory board of the home, and as
chairman of the building committee he directed the erection of the beautiful new
home on West End avenue. He was likewise a director in the United Charities.
"Mr. Ransom married, in 1882, Miss Mary M. Perkins, daughter of Mr. D. P.
Perkins, of Murfreesboro. Mrs. Ransom and four children survive. They are Mrs.
Richard T. Wilson; John B. Ransom, Jr.; Mary; and Elizabeth."
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Davidson-Rutherford-Wilson County TN Archives Biographies.....Washington, William Hunter 1850 -
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WILLIAM HUNTER WASHINGTON. For many years a member of the Tennessee bar, Mr.
Washington is a lawyer who has conferred distinction upon his profession in this
state, and has a long record of practical achievement and public honors. He is a
native Tennesseean, descended from an historical family, and for many years has
been among the leaders of the Nashville bar.
William Hunter Washington, who was born on a farm in Rutherford county,
Tennessee, September 9, 1850, is directly descended from John Washington who was
the uncle of George Washington, and a grandson of the original John Washington,
who immigrated from the north of England in the year 1657 and settled at Bridges
Creek on the Potomac river, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia. That was
the beginning of the history of the noted Washington family in America. This
pioneer American, John Washington, married Anne Pope and left two sons, named
Lawrence and John, and one daughter, Anne. Lawrence Washington (2) married
Mildred Warner, and left two sons, John and Augustine, the latter becoming the
father of General Washington, the first president of the United States. John (3)
the first of these two sons, married Catherine Whiting, and their two sons were
Warner and Henry and their three daughters were named Mary, Elizabeth and
Catherine. Of these, Warner Washington (4) married a Miss Macon, by whom he had
one son, Warner Washington (5), who married a Miss Whiting, and they were the
parents of several sons and daughters, one of the sons being Francis Whiting
Washington (6), who was the paternal grandfather of William Hunter Washington,
the Nashville lawyer.
Francis Whiting Washington (6), the paternal grandfather, was born in Clarke
county, Virginia, in 1781. When he was less than thirty years old, early in the
nineteenth century, he immigrated over the Allegheny mountains into Tennessee,
and became one of the early settlers in Williamson county, this state. He later
married Eliza Mason Hall, of Nashville, Tennessee, and from Tennessee he moved
into Kentucky, locating in Logan county, which was his home for several years,
when he took up his residence in Nashville. In that city, he was engaged in the
drug business for a number of years, and had an active part in the affairs of
the city during that early period. During the latter years of his life he
removed to Augusta, Georgia, which was his home at the time of his death, in
1871, when he had attained the advanced age of ninety years. One of the five
sons of this first Tennessee settler in the family was also named Francis
Whiting Washington (7), who was the father of the Nashville attorney. He married
Sarah Catherine Crockett, and from Nashville moved to a farm near Murfreesboro,
Tennessee. He served with credit during the war as a Confederate soldier, and
lived a long and active life as a farmer, and substantial citizen. His wife was
a granddaughter of Col. Anthony Crockett, who was a cousin of the famous David
Crockett.
William Hunter Washington (8) is eighth in descent from the American founder
of the family. He was the oldest of the children of his parents, and his early
youth and childhood was spent in the troubled times of the Civil war. He was
educated in Washington College (Washington & Lee University), Virginia, which he
left with a certificate of distinguished undergraduate, and at Union University,
Tennessee, from which he graduated with the degree of A. B. In 1872 he became a
law student in Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee, where he took the
junior course. His preparation for his profession was also continued in the
University of Michigan, from which well known institution he was graduated with
the degree of LL. B. on March 27, 1873. On the tenth day of the following April
he began practice, in an office of his own at Murfreesboro. His first important
elevation in public life was in 1878, when he was elected attorney-general for
the Nashville district, which comprised Davidson and Rutherford counties. The
duties of this office he discharged with great efficiency and fidelity for eight
years, and on retiring from the office took up practice in Nashville, where he
has enjoyed continued and profitable success.
Mr. Washington is well known as a public spirited citizen and an influential
Democrat. In 1908 he served as presidential elector in Tennessee. He is
generally recognized as a man of exceptional legal attainment and has often been
honored with invitations to address public gatherings. In 1901 he delivered the
annual address before the Tennessee Society of Missouri at St. Louis, and at
that time was elected an honorary member of the society, whose membership is
made up of native Tennesseeans living in the state of Missouri.
Mr. Washington was first married to Miss Alberta Lamar, whose father was
Henry J. Lamar, a prominent banker at Macon, Georgia, and a member of the
distinguished Lamar family of that state. Her death occurred about a year after
her marriage, and she left one son, Henry J. Lamar Washington, who is now a
resident of New York City, and who married Miss Marguerite Osborne of New York
City. Mr. Washington's present wife bore the name of Miss Rowena Thompson, and
her father was the late Col. Robert Thompson of Nashville, who was one of the
founders of the cotton seed oil interests of the south and a prominent
manufacturer of Nashville. His death occurred in Nashville in 1886. Colonel
Thompson was a thirty-second degree Mason, and for many years a director of the
Fourth National Bank. In his death Nashville and the whole south lost one of
their best friends.
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by Will T. Hale
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913
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Davidson County TN Archives Biographies.....Farrar, Benjamin Joseph 1837 -
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BENJAMIN JOSEPH FARRAR. One of the most extensive and successful real estate
dealers of Nashville, Benjamin Joseph Farrar has here been engaged in this
business for nearly half a century, a much longer period than any other man, and
during the time has been prominently identified with the highest and best
interests of the city. A son of Garland Farrar, he was born February 17, 1837,
in Louisa county, Virginia, coming from Revolutionary stock. His paternal
grandfather, Matthew Farrar, who was a farmer, and a soldier in the
Revolutionary army, married a Miss Murrell, and both spent their entire lives in
Virginia.
Garland Farrar was born in Louisa county. Virginia. July 13, 1797, and died
in Fluvanna county, Virginia, March 18, 1882. He was well trained in
agricultural pursuits when young, and as a tiller of the soil displayed
excellent judgment and skill. Locating in Fluvanna county, Virginia, he
purchased a large farm, which he operated with slave labor, living there during
his remaining years. He married Mary Lily Shepherd, who was born, July 6, 1797,
in Fluvanna county, and there spent her entire life, passing away June 29, 1874.
Her father, David Shepherd, was born in Virginia, June 9, 1760, and was a
life-long resident of that state, and one of its substantial farmers. He married
Mary Baskette, or Polly Baskette, as she was called, and they reared several
children, among whom were four sons, namely: Benjamin A. Shepherd, who was for a
number of years engaged in mercantile business in Nashville, Tennessee, from
here going to Houston, in the republic of Texas, where as a banker he amassed a
fortune; Joseph Shepherd, who was likewise engaged in business in Nashville for
a time, but spent his last years in Memphis; James Shepherd, who settled first
in Granville, Tennessee, but later removed to Texas; and David Garland Shepherd,
who located permanently in Granville, Tennnessee. Garland and Mary Lilly
(Shepherd) Farrar reared nine children, as follows: David S., Jennetta C., Susan
G., John H., Matthew S., Sarah E., Benjamin Joseph, Thomas J., and George
Martin. The four younger sons served in the Confederate army, George M. losing
his life in the Seven-Days Battles around Richmond. The eldest son, David S.
Farrar, was graduated from the University of Richmond, and afterwards acquired
note as an educator, teaching successfully in Goochland, Virginia, and
subsequently establishing a military school at Palmyra, Virginia.
As a pupil of his elder brother, Benjamin Joseph Farrar attended school both
in Goochland and Palmyra, and later began his independent career as a teacher in
the public schools of Nelson county, Virginia. War between the states being
declared while he was thus employed, he enlisted in a company of cavalry
commanded by Captain Whitehead, an organization that became Company E, of
Radford's Rangers, being first commanded by Colonel Radford, and later by
Colonel Munford. Mr. Farrar was with his command in various engagements,
including the Seven-Days fight around Richmond. Immediately after that battle he
was captured by the Federal forces, and taken to the old Capital Prison, in
Washington, District of Columbia. Exchanged at the end of three months, Mr.
Farrar rejoined his command, and continued in active service for three years.
In 1865 Mr. Farrar came to Nashville, where his brother, John H., had
embarked in mercantile business prior to the war. Soon after taking up his
residence in this city, he established himself as a real estate dealer, in 1867
becoming associated with T. P. Weakley and W. J. Arrington under the firm name
of Arrington, Farrar & Weakley. Building up a large and lucrative patronage, Mr.
Farrar, with a change of partners, has continued in the business ever since, at
the present time, in 1912, carrying on business alone.
Mr. Farrar has been twice married. He married first, April 5, 1867, Miss
Sarah Megginson, daughter of Dr. Ben Cabell Megginson, of Nelson county,
Virginia. She died in 1869, leaving one daughter, Laura M. Farrar, who married
Rev. Cabell Martin, daughter of Dr. Martin, and both she and her husband are now
dead. Mr. Farrar married second, in 1872, Mrs. Pocahontas Virginia (Megginson)
Christian, a daughter of Mrs. A. M. Megginson, and sister of Thomas and Gen.
Willis Bocock. Mr. and Mrs. Farrar have one son, namely: Benjamin Joseph Farrar,
Jr., a prominent business man of Richmond, Virginia, who married Marian De Witt
Weisiger, of that city, and has two children, Nicholas De Witt and Pocahontas
Virginia. Religiously Mr. Farrar is a valued member of the Christian church,
while Mrs. Farrar is a communicant of the Presbyterian church.
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Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913
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Davidson-Rutherford-Bedford County TN Archives Biographies.....Ransom, Arthur Bowman 1872 -
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ARTHUR BOWMAN RANSOM. A wide-awake, brainy man, full of energy and
enthusiasm, Arthur Bowman Ransom holds a place of prominence and influence among
the leading citizens of Nashville, and as president of John B. Ransom and
Company is actively identified with one of the most prosperous manufacturing
interests of Davidson county. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, September
28, 1872, of pioneer stock, and Revolutionary ancestry, his grandfather, John
Ransom, having come to this state in early manhood, while his great-grandfather,
Capt. Richard Ransom, who spent his last years in Rutherford county, Tennessee,
served as an officer in the Revolutionary war. In a sketch of his father, George
Washington Ransom, which appears elsewhere in this volume, further parental and
ancestral history may be found.
John Ransom, familiarly known by his friends as "Captain Jack," was born in
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1792, and was there reared and educated.
In early manhood he migrated to Tennessee, hoping in the new and unbroken
country to find good fortune. He was without financial means, his sole capital
on coming to this state having been robust health, willing hands, and a
courageous heart. Industrious and economical, he labored hard, and in due course
of time had saved enough to purchase a small tract of wild land. Beginning his
career as an independent farmer on a modest scale, he met with unquestioned
success, from time to time buying additional land, and more slaves to operate
it, and at the time of his death, which occurred when he was in the prime of
life, in 1849, he was one of the wealthiest agriculturists in the county. The
maiden name of his faithful wife and helpmeet was Elizabeth Bowman. She was born
in Tennessee, and was of honored lineage, having been a direct descendant of
Patrick Roseborough, a native of Scotland, who, in 1662, fled to Ireland to
escape persecution. Among her later ancestors were William Roseborough and his
wife Margaret, who emigrated from Ireland to America in 1769, settling in South
Carolina, and she was also connected with the Gas-ton family, prominent people
of South Carolina. She survived her husband a number of years, and reared a
family of thirteen children, four daughters and nine stalwart sons.
George Washington Ransom was born July 29, 1838, in Rutherford county,
Tennessee, and was there reared on the home farm. When through school he settled
in Fayetteville, where he was engaged in the grocery business until the breaking
out of the war between the states. Enlisting then in General Forrest's company
of cavalry, he remained with his command until the cessation of hostilities,
taking an active part in numerous marches, campaigns and battles, being ever
faithful to the duties devolving upon him as a soldier. He was afterwards
engaged in the grocery business at Murfreesboro for a time, and still later
there embarked in the lumber business, at first handling red cedar lumber, only.
Subsequently extending his operations, he established a lumber yard at
Shelbyville, and was very successful in its management until 1910, when he was
succeeded by his son, W. S. Ransom, and his son-in-law, J. Burton Frierson. He
has since lived retired from active pursuits, devoting his attention entirely to
his private affairs.
George Washington Ransom has been twice married. His first wife, whose maiden
name was Sarah Bostick, died in early life, leaving two children, John B. and
George. He married, second, Margaret Buchanan, who was born in Davidson county,
a daughter of John Buchanan. She died at the age of forty-nine years, leaving
eight children, namely: Samuel B.; Arthur Bowman, with whom this sketch is
chiefly concerned; Lizzie Mai, wife of John B. Frierson, of Shelbyville; Anna,
wife of William Gladstone Wardlaw, of Fort Worth, Texas; M. Marvin; James
MeEwen; William Street; and Margaret.
Educated in the public schools of Murfreesboro, and at Union University,
Arthur Bowman Ransom began work as a wage-earner at the age of sixteen years,
becoming a clerk in the office of his brother, John B. Ransom. Three years later
he embarked in the lumber and produce business in Murfreesboro, where he
continued until 1899. In that year he bought out the interest of his brother's
partner, Mr. John Love, and became associated with his brother in Nashville,
Tennessee, when his interests were transferred to Nashville. The firm of Jno. B.
Ransom & Co. was afterward incorporated under its present name, John B. Ransom
and Company. Mr. Ransom was made secretary and treasurer of the company at its
incorporation, and upon the death of his brother, John B. Ransom, succeeded to
the presidency, a position for which he is eminently qualified by natural
talents, training and practical experience. This company has large mills, fully
equipped with the latest approved modern machinery, and in addition to having an
extensive box factory has the largest hard wood flooring plant in the world. The
firm is known throughout the United States, and is doing an immense business,
both wholesale and retail.
Mr. Ransom married, Nov. 30, 1892, Eliza Guy McFerrin, who was born in
Bedford county, Tennessee, a daughter of Reverend Sumner and Annie (Temple)
McFerrin, natives of this state, the birth of her mother having occurred on the
homestead where she is now living. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom have one child, Margaret
Buchanan Ransom. The family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Ransom takes great interest in religious, educational and financial
affairs, and is officially connected with numerous organizations. He is one of
the trustees of Vanderbilt University; a member of the Joint Board of Finance of
the Tennessee Conference; a member of the Missionary Board of the Methodist
Episcopal church; a director of the Nashville Board of Trade; of the Industrial
Bureau; and of the Commercial Club. He is likewise a director of the American
National Bank; Bransford Realty Company; and of the Marathon Water Works. Mr.
Ransom is also a member of the "Hoo Hoos," an association composed of lumbermen.
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Davidson-Shelby County TN Archives Biographies.....Landstreet, Beverly Walter 1865 -
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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, 1865. in Londoun county, Virginia, where
his childhood days were spent.
His paternal grandfather, John Landstreet. the founder of the Landstreet
family in America, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, of French Huguenot lineage.
Bidding farewell to family and friends when young, he immigrated to America,
locating in Baltimore, Maryland, where he subsequently worked his way upward to
a place of prominence among men of affairs, in course of time establishing
himself as a wholesale grocer at the corner of Howard and German streets. There
he conducted a substantial business for many years, and after his retirement
from active pursuits continued a resident of that city until his death. He
married Ann Yelinda Orme, who was born in Trappe, Maryland, the descendant of an
old colonial family, and died in Baltimore. Children were born to them as
follows: William, Samuel, Aristides, Bevery, John, Ann, and Henrietta McEwen.
Rev. John Landstreet was born, reared, and educated in Baltimore. Converted
in his youth, he studied for the ministry, and as a preacher in the Methodist
Episcopal denomination belonged to the Baltimore Conference, which then embraced
a large part of northern Virginia, his home being in Loudoun county, Virginia,
for many years. At the breaking out of the Civil war he offered his services to
the Confederacy, and was made chaplain on the staff of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart,
commander of the First Virginia Regiment, whom he accompanied in numerous
campaigns and battles of note, being especially useful to him as he was so
thoroughly familiar with the country, General Stuart acknowledging Rev. Mr.
Landstreet's assistance in one of his reports to the War Department. After the
death of General Stuart, Rev. Mr. Landstreet continued as chaplain for the
General's successor, Colonel Morgan, with whom he remained till the close of the
conflict. It is not at all probable that any other man throughout the entire
conflict saw or endured more of the hardships and privations of war than did he,
for he was in the zone of activity from the start to the finish. On returning
from the army, he resumed preaching, continuing in the ministry several years
thereafter, and on retiring from his pastoral work settled in Matinsburg, West
Virginia, where he resided until his death, at the age of seventy-two years.
The maiden name of the wife of Rev. John Landstreet was Mary Francis Swink.
She was born at Spring Hill, Fairfax county, Virginia, a daughter of William and
Margaret (Lindsey) Swink, and died at the age of seventy-six years. She reared
seven children, as follows: John, Margaret L., William D., Ann, Fairfax, Beverly
Walter, and Mary G.
Receiving his elementary education in the public schools of Virginia and
Maryland, Beverly Walter Landstreet began his active career while yet in his
teens, beginning as an errand boy in the rubber goods house of Towner,
Landstreet & Company, in Baltimore, and being from time to time promoted to
higher positions, eventually becoming traveling salesman for that firm. Coming
from Baltimore to Nashville in 1884, he was first clerk in his brother John's
store, later being in the employ of Timothy Brothers. Resigning that position,
Mr. Landstreet removed to Memphis, Tennessee, where for nine years he was buyer
for, and manager of, the Lowenstein store. The ensuing eight years he was
traveling salesman for a well-known firm of New York City, that of Arnold &
Constable. Returning to Nashville in 1907, Mr. Landstreet became associated with
the prosperous firm of Cain, Sloan Company, with which he is still actively
identified as vice-president of its large department store, a position for which
he is amply qualified by reason of his energy, enterprise, and unquestioned
ability.
Mr. Landstreet married, October 20, 1898, Margaret Collins, who was born in
Nashville, a daughter of James H. and Manella (Burns) Collins. Four children
have blessed their union, namely: Francis, Collins, Addie Lee, and Beverly W.,
Jr. Fraternally Mr. Landstreet is a member of De Soto Lodge, No. 299, Ancient
Free and Accepted Order of Masons, and of the Royal Arcanum. He is also a member
of the Nashville Commercial Club; of the Nashville Board of Trade; and a member
of the Nashville Industrial Bureau, and one of its executive committee.
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Davidson-Bedford County TN Archives Biographies.....Cunningham, Sumner Archibald 1843 -
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SUMNER ARCHIBALD CUNNINGHAM, editor and publisher of the Confederate Veteran
at Nashville, is a lifelong resident of Tennessee, served the state in the great
Civil war, and has spent many years in the quiet pursuits of business and as an
editor.
Of Scotch-Irish descent, a son of John Washington Campbell and Mary A.
(Buchanan) Cunningham, he was born in Bedford county, this state, on July 21,
1843. He received a fair literary education in the schools before the war, and
was about eighteen years of age when the conflict between the states began. As a
soldier of the South he served with distinction in the Forty-first Tennessee
Infantry, beginning as a private and being promoted to sergeant and then
sergeant-major. After the war for a number of years he was engaged in
merchandising.
In 1893 Mr. Cunningham founded the Confederate Veteran, a monthly journal
devoted to the interests of the old soldiers of the South, and publishing well
edited articles of historical and current news. During the twenty years of his
proprietorship and editorial management he has made this journal a welcome
visitor to thousands of households whose memories and associations cherish the
old South of war-time. Through this medium also much practical benefit has been
done for the Confederate veterans, and its files contain much valuable history
that cannot be found elsewhere.
Mr. Cunningham is a member of the Hermitage Club of Nashville, and is one of
the active workers in the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He was married in 1866
to Miss Laura N. Davis, who is now deceased.
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CHARLES STUBBINS BRIGGS, A. M., M. D. Beginning when young to familiarize
himself with the rudiments of medicine and surgery, Charles S. Briggs, A. M., M.
D., has, through close study and earnest application, constantly added to his
knowledge, and has gained an enviable reputation for superior professional skill
and ability by sterling merit, his opinions being recognized as authority
throughout not only Nashville, his home city, but the entire country. A son of
William Thompson Briggs, M. D., he was born, March 29, 1851, in Bowling Green,
Kentucky, of distinguished ancestry.
His grandfather, Dr. John M. Briggs, was born April 9, 1798, in Nelson
county, Kentucky, the birthplace of his parents, who subsequently removed with
their family to Bowling Green. His tastes and inclinations leading him to choose
a professional career, he first studied medicine with Dr. Beauchamp, later being
graduated from the medical department of Transylvania University, in Lexington,
Kentucky. Beginning the practice of his profession at Bowling Green, he
continued there an active practitioner for sixty years, being-known far and wide
as a successful physician. He lived to a ripe old age, passing away in April,
1882. He married, at the age of twenty-four years, Harriet Morehead, a sister of
Gov. Charles S. Morehead. She died in 1881.
Dr. William Thompson Briggs was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, December 4,
1828, and in the public schools of that city laid a substantial foundation for
his future education. Entering the medical department of the Transylvania
University when young, he was there graduated in his twenty-first year, and
immediately began his professional practice with his father, in Bowling Green.
In 1851 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the medical department of
the University of Nashville, and removed with his family to this city, where
very soon after he formed a partnership with Dr. John M. Watson, with whom he
was associated until .Dr. Watson's death, in 1866. In 1856 Dr. W. T. Briggs was
made adjunct professor of anatomy with Dr. Thomas R. Jennings, in the University
of Nashville. In 1865 he assumed the chair of surgical anatomy and physiology in
the same institution, succeeding the late Dr. Buchanan. In 1866 he succeeded his
partner, the late Dr. Watson, in the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women
and children. In 1868 Dr. Briggs, on the resignation of Dr. Paul T. Eve,
succeeded to the chair of professor of surgery in the same university.
A member, and the vice-president and president of the American Medical
Association, Dr. William Thompson Briggs, in 1881, was its delegate to the
International Medical Congress held in London, England. He was one of the
founders of the American Surgical Association, of which he was president in
1885. In September, 1885, he had the distinction of being chosen, president of
the section of general surgery in the International Medical Congress held in
Washington, D. C., in 1887, in the month of September. In his capacity of
surgeon, the Doctor performed some most remarkable operations, among the more
noteworthy of his eases having been the following named: In 1863 the removal of
the lower jaw for a gun shot wound; in the same year removal of the upper jaw
for the same kind of a wound; ligation of the internal carotid artery for
traumatic aneurism; and, in 1875, a hip joint amputation for elephantiasis, the
leg removed having weighed eighty pounds. He performed the operation of
lithotomy by the medio-bilateral method more than two hundred and fifty times,
with but fifteen deaths therefrom; and of trephining more than four score times,
with but five deaths. He removed more than one hundred ovarian tumors, and
ligated all the principal arteries of the body.
Among the more important of Dr. William T. Briggs' publications we may
mention the following: History of Surgery in Tennessee; Tetanus Treated by
Chloroform, published in the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery in 1851;
Enchondromatous Tumors of the Hand, Forearm and Arm, and Successful Amputation
of the Shoulder Joint, in 1871; in the same year an article on Traumatic
Aneurism of the Internal Carotid as the Result of a Stab Wound; Ligation of the
Common Carotid, and then of the Internal at the Seat of Injury, in 1871; Death
from Chloroform, in that year; Escape of the Catheter into the Bladder During
its Use for the Relief of Retention of the Urine; in October, 1871, a paper on
the Recovery from an Operation for Unilocular Ovarian Tumor; one on the Backward
Dislocation of the Radius and Ulna in a Patient but Two and One-half Years Old;
Multilocular Ovarian Tumor Tapped More than Fifty Times; in May, 1872, Extensive
Parietal and Vesical Adhesions on the Eemoval of a Tumor Weighing Eighty-five
pounds, the Incision Being Eight Inches Long; Trephining in Epilepsyr published
in 1869; in 1875 the one on Dugas' Pathognomonic Symptoms in Dislocation at the
Shoulder Joint; The Trephine and its Uses in Injuries of the Head, in 1876: The
Antiseptic Treatment of Wounds after Operations and Injuries, a paper read
before the Surgical Association in 1881; The Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy,
read before the American Surgical Association June 1, 1884, and, like the
previous paper, published in pamphlet form. One of the Doctor's published
addresses, delivered before the McDowell Medical Society of Kentucky, November
4. 1874, is a masterpiece of occasional oratory, rich with gems from almost
every field of science and literature, and showing a breadth of knowledge and
culture belonging to the finished scholar only.
At Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 25, 1850, Dr. William T. Briggs married Annie
E. Stubbins, daughter of Samuel and Esther (Garrison) Stubbins, and to them four
children were born, as follows: Charles Stubbins, Waldo, Virginia Lee, and Samuel
S.
Inheriting in a marked degree the scholarly tastes and ambitions of his
father and grandfather, Charles Stubbins Briggs entered the literary department
of the University of Nashville after leaving the public schools, and was there
graduated with the class of 1873, taking the degree of A. M. in course. He
subsequently began the study of medicine with his father, and in 1875 was
graduated from the medical department of the University of Nashville and
Vanderbilt. Immediately after receiving his diploma, Dr. Briggs went to
Philadelphia, where for six months he was attached to the clinical staff of
Prof. S. D. Gross, of that city, devoting himself to surgery, pathology,
microscopy, and hospital work. While in Philadelphia, he was elected
demonstrator o^ anatomy at his alma mater, and in the fall of 1875 returned to
Nashville to assume the duties of that position, in which he continued three
years. From 1878 until 1879 he served as adjunct professor of anatomy in that
institution, resigning in the latter year on account of impaired health. The
Doctor was subsequently tendered the adjunct professorship of surgery in the
university, where for three years he was lecturer on genito-urinary surgery. In
1883 he was elected professor of surgical anatomy and operative surgery in the
University of Nashville and Vanderbilt, and in that capacity rendered most
valuable service. On the death of his father in 1894, Dr. Briggs succeeded to
the chair of surgery, which he filled for three years.
In 1876 Dr. Briggs was associated with Dr. W. L. Nichol as editor of the
Nashvitte Journal, of Medicine and Surgery, a paper considered as an authority
on those subjects. This journal is still controlled and edited by Dr. Briggs. He
is an active member of the state, county and city medical societies, and of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Briggs married, April 26, 1876, in Louisville, Kentucky, Miss Carrie
Carter, who was born in that city, a daughter of John A. and. Binnie (Carson)
Carter. Three children have blessed the union of Dr. and Mrs. Briggs, namely:
Elsie; Binnie; and William T., who was graduated from the medical department of
Vanderbilt University, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession in
Nashville, being associated with his father and his uncle, Dr. Samuel S. Briggs.
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TECUMSEH GORE SETTLE was born at Gainesboro, Tennessee, the son of T. G. and
Mary (Young) Settle. He received his education in the public schools of
Gainesboro and Nashville, and was engaged in 1893 and 1894 in the publication of
a newspaper at Gainesboro. He was licensed to practice law at Gainesboro in
1894, and later attended the law department of Georgetown University at
Washington, D. G., and has degrees of LL. B. and LL. M., from that institution.
Mr. Settle was connected for some years with the Nashville American and The
Nashville Tennessean and American, and is now chief clerk in the Department of
Agriculture at Washington.
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FRANK ALLEN BERRY, lawyer, and member of the bar of Nashville, Tennessee, was
born on October 13, 1885, in Nashville, and is the son of William Wells and
Alice (Allen) Berry, both natives of the state of Tennessee, born respectively
in Davidson and Sumner county.
Concerning the early education of Mr. Berry, of this review, it may be said
that he attended Wallace's University School at Nashville, after which he
entered Vanderbilt University, where he remained for two years, and then entered
Princeton College, from which he was graduated in 1906, receiving the degree of
A. B. He then entered the Harvard Law School and concluded his collegiate work
in 1909 with the LL. B. degree, was admitted to the bar soon thereafter and took
up the active practice of his profession in Nashville.
On November 22, 1911, Mr. Berry married Miss Eleanor Redway of Boston,
Massachusetts.
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TALBOT FANNING BONNER. A prominent and prosperous citizen of Nashville,
Talbot Fanning Bonner, head of the Bonner Furniture Manufacturing Company, has
long been an important factor in the promotion and advancement of the industrial
and business interests of this section of Davidson county; and his influence as
a man or honor and integrity is felt throughout the city, for the welfare of
which he is ever laboring. A son of Bedding Bonner, Jr., he was born on a farm
in Warren county, Tennessee, of thrifty pioneer stock.
His paternal grandfather, Redding Bonner, Sr., a native of North Carolina,
was bred, educated, and married in that state. Subsequently, accompanied by his
wife and children, he migrated to Tennessee, making the overland journey with
teams, and bringing with him all of his worldly effects, including his household
goods, farm implements, slaves, and live stock, it taking several weeks to
accomplish the trip. Locating in Warren county, he bought a tract of wild land,
and in common with the other pioneers of that section of the state began the
clearing and improving of a homestead, in the meantime ably assisting in the
development of the resources of that county. At that time, and for many years
thereafter, there were no railroads in the state, and each year the farmers
roundabout had to make two trips to Nashville, seventy-five miles away, carrying
to' that market and depot for supplies all of their surplus produce, and taking
back on their return the needed household supplies, such as coffee, salt, sugar
and shoes. Clearing a good farm, Redding Bonner, Sr., was there a resident until
his death, when upwards of ninety years old. His wife also lived to a good old age.
Born near Raleigh, North Carolina, Redding Bonner, Jr., was about fifteen
years old when he accompanied his parents to Tennessee. He assisted his father
in the pioneer labor of clearing the land, and as soon as old enough served an
apprenticeship at the tanner's trade. When ready to begin life on his own
account, he bought land lying two miles from the parental homestead, and in
addition to tilling the soil operated a tannery, tanning hides for the
neighboring farmers at halves, receiving one hide for tanning another. During
the war between the states he tanned hides for the Confederate government, and
was thus exempt from military service. He died in 1899, aged fourscore and two
years. He married Elizabeth Rutledge, who was born in Warren county, a daughter
of John and Mary (Dotson) Rutledge, pioneers of that part of the state. She used
to card, spin and weave the homespun in which she clothed her family, living a
useful life of seventy years. Nine children were born to them, as follows:
Esther, Hiram Boone, Cicero, Alice, Andrew, Talbot Fanning, Norman, Julia, and
Dora.
The boyhood of Talbot Fanning Bonner was spent on the home farm, and his
rudimentary education was gleaned in the district schools, his first temple of
learning having been a small log house, furnished with plain wooden benches.
Well drilled in the elements of knowledge, he was subsequently graduated from
Eastman's Business College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, receiving his diploma in
1881. Locating then in Nashville, Mr. Bonner was for several years employed as a
bookkeeper. In 1900 he began his career as a manufacturer, being at first
general manager for the Standard Furniture Company, later serving as general
manager and treasurer of the concern. Severing his connection with that firm in.
1912, Mr. Bonner organized the Bonner Furniture Manufacturing Company, of which
he has since been president and treasurer, offices for which he is amply qualified.
Mr. Bonner is likewise officially connected with many other organizations of
note, being president of the Nashville Manufacturers' Association;
vice-president of the Tennessee Manufacturers' Association; a member of the
Nashville Board of Trade, which he has served as director; a member of the
executive committee of the Industrial Board. He is also a trustee of both the
Fanning Orphan School and of the Galloway Memorial Hospital. Fraternally he
belongs to the Royal Arcanum; and religiously he is a member of the Christian
church.
Mr. Bonner married, May 20, 1884, Miss Bessie Emma Moss, who was born in
Mercer county, Kentucky, a daughter of Ulysses F. and Katie (West) Moss. Mr. and
Mrs. Bonner have one child, Lillian Catherine Bonner, who was married September
7, 1911, to Mr. John L. Norton, a manufacturer's agent with headquarters in
Nashville.
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TALBOT FANNING BONNER. A prominent and prosperous citizen of Nashville,
Talbot Fanning Bonner, head of the Bonner Furniture Manufacturing Company, has
long been an important factor in the promotion and advancement of the industrial
and business interests of this section of Davidson county; and his influence as
a man or honor and integrity is felt throughout the city, for the welfare of
which he is ever laboring. A son of Bedding Bonner, Jr., he was born on a farm
in Warren county, Tennessee, of thrifty pioneer stock.
His paternal grandfather, Redding Bonner, Sr., a native of North Carolina,
was bred, educated, and married in that state. Subsequently, accompanied by his
wife and children, he migrated to Tennessee, making the overland journey with
teams, and bringing with him all of his worldly effects, including his household
goods, farm implements, slaves, and live stock, it taking several weeks to
accomplish the trip. Locating in Warren county, he bought a tract of wild land,
and in common with the other pioneers of that section of the state began the
clearing and improving of a homestead, in the meantime ably assisting in the
development of the resources of that county. At that time, and for many years
thereafter, there were no railroads in the state, and each year the farmers
roundabout had to make two trips to Nashville, seventy-five miles away, carrying
to' that market and depot for supplies all of their surplus produce, and taking
back on their return the needed household supplies, such as coffee, salt, sugar
and shoes. Clearing a good farm, Redding Bonner, Sr., was there a resident until
his death, when upwards of ninety years old. His wife also lived to a good old age.
Born near Raleigh, North Carolina, Redding Bonner, Jr., was about fifteen
years old when he accompanied his parents to Tennessee. He assisted his father
in the pioneer labor of clearing the land, and as soon as old enough served an
apprenticeship at the tanner's trade. When ready to begin life on his own
account, he bought land lying two miles from the parental homestead, and in
addition to tilling the soil operated a tannery, tanning hides for the
neighboring farmers at halves, receiving one hide for tanning another. During
the war between the states he tanned hides for the Confederate government, and
was thus exempt from military service. He died in 1899, aged fourscore and two
years. He married Elizabeth Rutledge, who was born in Warren county, a daughter
of John and Mary (Dotson) Rutledge, pioneers of that part of the state. She used
to card, spin and weave the homespun in which she clothed her family, living a
useful life of seventy years. Nine children were born to them, as follows:
Esther, Hiram Boone, Cicero, Alice, Andrew, Talbot Fanning, Norman, Julia, and
Dora.
The boyhood of Talbot Fanning Bonner was spent on the home farm, and his
rudimentary education was gleaned in the district schools, his first temple of
learning having been a small log house, furnished with plain wooden benches.
Well drilled in the elements of knowledge, he was subsequently graduated from
Eastman's Business College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, receiving his diploma in
1881. Locating then in Nashville, Mr. Bonner was for several years employed as a
bookkeeper. In 1900 he began his career as a manufacturer, being at first
general manager for the Standard Furniture Company, later serving as general
manager and treasurer of the concern. Severing his connection with that firm in.
1912, Mr. Bonner organized the Bonner Furniture Manufacturing Company, of which
he has since been president and treasurer, offices for which he is amply qualified.
Mr. Bonner is likewise officially connected with many other organizations of
note, being president of the Nashville Manufacturers' Association;
vice-president of the Tennessee Manufacturers' Association; a member of the
Nashville Board of Trade, which he has served as director; a member of the
executive committee of the Industrial Board. He is also a trustee of both the
Fanning Orphan School and of the Galloway Memorial Hospital. Fraternally he
belongs to the Royal Arcanum; and religiously he is a member of the Christian
church.
Mr. Bonner married, May 20, 1884, Miss Bessie Emma Moss, who was born in
Mercer county, Kentucky, a daughter of Ulysses F. and Katie (West) Moss. Mr. and
Mrs. Bonner have one child, Lillian Catherine Bonner, who was married September
7, 1911, to Mr. John L. Norton, a manufacturer's agent with headquarters in
Nashville.
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HON. BENTON McMILLIN, twice governor of his native state and for twenty
consecutive years a member of congress, has long been prominent in the vital
political activities of the state of Tennessee, and has played well his part in
all the relations of life, giving the best that was in him to every duty that he
recognized as such.
Born in Monroe county, Tennessee, on September 11, 1845, Mr. McMillin passed
his boyhood in those pursuits common to youth, and when his academic education
was completed in his native community he was matriculated at the University of
Kentucky. There he gave his attention to the study of law, and after his
graduation was admitted to the bar in 1871 and at Celina, Tennessee, began the
practice of his chosen profession. His ability soon found him launched on a
promising career as a lawyer and politician, and in 1874 he was elected to the
legislature on the Democratic ticket. This service marked the beginning of a
long and successful political career in the state of Tennessee.
In 1875 Governor Porter, in recognition of his ability, appointed him to
negotiate with the state of Kentucky for the purchase of a certain territory, a
commission which the young statesman carried out with the utmost fidelity, and
in a manner betraying unusual legal ability. In the following year Mr. MeMillin
took a prominent and active part in the presidential campaign and was a Tilden
and Hendricks elector in his district. In 1877 Governor Porter appointed him to
the post of special circuit judge, in which capacity he served with the most
exceptional ability and credit until he was elected, in 1878, a representative
in congress from the fourth Tennessee district. As a member of congress Mr.
McMillin won the confidence of his constituents to an unusual degree, and he was
reelected at each succeeding biennial election up to and including the year
1893, thus rounding out a period of service covering twenty consecutive years as
a member of congress. During these years he achieved a national reputation as an
able representative and party leader, and he served on many important committees
in congress.
The close of his tenth term as congressman was followed by his election in
1898 to the governorship of his state, and the character of his service and his
statewide popularity was evidenced by his second election to the office in 1900.
He thus served two terms in a manner highly creditable to himself and to his
state, and retired from that high office with a record for efficiency and
ability to which his fellow citizens point with pride. In 1912 he was again
nominated for the office, but failed of election.
Nashville has represented his home for many years, and has in many definite
ways felt the benignant influence which has ever characterized his life.
Mr. McMillin has been twice married. He was united in marriage with a
daughter of the late Gov. John C. Brown, of Tennessee. She died soon after their
marriage, and Mr. McMillin contracted a second marriage.
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HARRY H. CORSON. In no other field of enterprise has there been so marvelous
development and progress within the past two decades as in that of applied
electricity, and among those who have been prominently concerned with practical
developments and contributed in no insignificant way to this advancement is Mr.
Corson, who is now the valued and popular incumbent of the office of district
manager for the General Electric Company, with headquarters in the city of
Nashville, Tennessee, where he has maintained his home since 1894 and where he
has high standing in business circles and as a citizen of distinctive
progressiveness and public spirit.
He has been long identified with scientific and practical electrical work,
and that he is a specially able representative of this phase of business
enterprise needs no further voucher than that afforded in his tenure of his
present responsible position.
It will be recalled that Nashville was the second city in the United States
to place in operation an electric street railway system, and Mr. Corson had the
distinction of equipping and placing in operation the first electric car run
over the streets of Nashville in April, 1889. He became deeply impressed with
the manifold attractions and advantages of Nashville, so that it is a matter of
much satisfaction to him to be able to call this city his home.
On the 14th of December, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Corson to
Miss Sadie Claire MceGuire, who was born and reared in Nashville, and who is a
daughter of the late Col. John P. McGuire, a distinguished citizen of this state.
Mr. and Mrs. Corson have but one child, Harry H., Jr.
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PROFESSOR ALONZO C. WEBB. Inheriting from his mother artistic tastes and
talent, and from his father an ardent love of nature in all her varied forms,
Professor Alonzo C. Webb, supervisor of drawing in the public schools of
Nashville, is widely and favorably known as an artist, an ornithologist, and as
a lecturer on birds, their habits and habitat. His keen powers of observation
have made him familiar with the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air,
and his lectures and writings have aroused an interest that has led to the
creation of state laws destined to protect the lives of birds and animals. A son
of Hannibal Webb, he was born in Chariton, Lucas county, Iowa, of pioneer stock.
His paternal grandfather, Acahel Webb, was born in North Carolina, but
further than that little is known of his early life. He must surely have had a
strong liking for frontier life, for when a young man, in the early part of the
nineteenth century, he migrated to Tennessee, settling in Warren county as a
pioneer. A few years later, accompanied by his family, he went on a flat boat
down the Cumberland and Ohio rivers to southern Illinois, which was then in its
primitive condition, with settlements few and far between. Again seized by the
wanderlust, he started westward with his wife and children, pushing his way
onward to Missouri, where he spent his remaining days, dying while yet a
comparatively young man. His wife, whose maiden name was Betsey Leaky, was born
near Huntsville, Alabama, where her father was a wealthy planter. Left a widow
with a large family to care for, and with exceedingly limited means, she proved
equal to the occasion, rearing her children to habits of industry, and keeping
them together until they were all grown, married, and had good homes of their
own. She spent her closing years with her children, passing away at a ripe old age.
Hannibal Webb, one of the older children of the parental household, was born
in McMinnville, Warren county, Tennessee, and was reared to agricultural
pursuits. Going while a young man to Iowa, which was then on the extreme western
frontier, he lived for awhile in Jefferson county, from there moving with ox
teams to Lucas county, in the southwestern part of the state. At that early day
there were no railroads west of the Mississippi, the nearest market places being
at points on the Missouri and Des Moines rivers. Nearly all of western Iowa was
then owned by the government, and deer and other kinds of game were plentiful,
roaming at will through the country. He bought a tract of wild land, and was
there employed in improving it until 1867, when he returned to Jefferson county,
bought a partly improved farm, on which he subsequently lived and labored until
his death, at the age of sixty-eight years. He married Mary Jane Hoopes, who was
born in western Ohio, a daughter of Elijah and Eliza (Armstrong) Hoopes. She
died at the age of fifty years, leaving six children, as follows: Alice, Alonzo
C., Lizzie C., Emma, Luella, and Lottie.
As a boy and youth Alonzo C. Webb received excellent educational advantages,
attending first the public schools, later continuing his studies at different
academical institutions, completing them at the Western Normal College, in
Bushnell, Illinois. Thus equipped for his future career, Professor Webb came to
Nashville and established an Art Institute, and has since remained in this city,
for the past twenty years having held the responsible position of supervisor of
drawing and penmanship in the public schools, a record of service that bespeaks
in no uncertain terms of his artistic and executive qualifications and ability.
Not only an artist, a naturalist, and an ornithologist, the Professor takes a
deep interest in everything pertaining to agriculture, and is known as a
scientific and progressive farmer, his estate of four hundred acres, situated
five miles out from the city, being carried on after the most approved modern
methods.
Professor Webb married, December, 1884, Ellen Hanor, who was born near
Bowling Green, Kentucky, a daughter of Henry and Susanna Hanor. Four children
have been born of the union of Professor and Mrs. Webb, namely: Alonzo C. and
Hanor A., twins; Susanna, and Ellenna. Fraternally Professor Webb is a member of
the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons; of the Knights of Pythias; and of
the Improved Order of Bed Men. He likewise belongs to the Nashville Board of
Trade. Religiously he is a communicant at the Methodist Episcopal church, and
Mrs. Webb and the children are members of the Baptist church.
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Davidson County TN Archives Biographies.....Pilcher, James Stewart
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Author: Will T. Hale
JAMES STUART PILCHER is a name highly honored in Nashville, Tennessee, for it
belongs to a man of the highest integrity and splendid attainments. As a lawyer
Mr. Pilcher has won a reputation for exhaustive research and sound judgment on
legal affairs, and his wide experience has made him one of the leading lawyers
of the state.
He fought in the Southern army to maintain the Confederacy, and when that
became a "lost cause," he turned his energies to his share of the labor to help
the South to her feet once more, and has never ceased to bend his energies
toward making her once more a happy and prosperous part of the Union.
Mr. Pilcher was born in Eutaw, Alabama. His father was Dixon Green Pileher,
and his mother Jane Hope (Carothers) Pilcher. His parents were born in South
Carolina, his father in York district, and his mother in Union. His father was a
descendant of one of the old English families that settled in Virginia early in
the history of the colony, and his mother was descended from that sturdy Scotch
stock that settled first in Pennsylvania, and following the Alleghany mountains
came down into the Carolinas and formed the backbone of the Continental army in
the days when Tarleton and Green were matched against each other. She also had
aristocratic Huguenot blood in her veins. Such an ancestry is a glorious heritage.
In his childhood Mr. Pilcher's parents removed to Mississippi, and settled
near the center of the state. Here he grew up and received a fair education. His
boyhood was spent amid the stormy days that preceded the outbreak of the war,
and he enlisted to help fight for the Southern cause. It was in the early part
of 1862 that he was enrolled as a soldier in the Vaiden Light Artillery, and he
served with this command until the close of the war. He was paroled by the
United States authorities on the 10th of May, 1865, having before that
determined to take up the law as a profession. He entered the law department of
Cumberland University, and made a brilliant record as a student, being graduated
from that institution as the "First Honor" man of his class.
For a few years Mr. Pilcher practiced his profession in Starkville,
Mississippi. He then removed to Austin, Texas, only remaining there a short time
before coming to make his permanent home in Nashville. This was in 1876, and he
has practiced law in Nashville ever since, with an ever increasing reputation as
a successful member of the bar.
Mr. Pilcher has never sought political honors, preferring to devote all of
his time to his profession, and to the demands that his profession made upon him.
In politics Mr. Pilcher has always been a stanch Democrat, believing most
firmly in the principles of that party, considered from the standpoint of a
Southern man.
In religious matters, he is of the Southern Presbyterian church, and is a
member of the First church, of Nashville.
Mr. Pilcher married Miss Margaret Hamilton Campbell, a worthy daughter of her
illustrious father, the late William B. Campbell, governor of Tennessee, and
colonel of the "Bloody First" Tennessee Regiment in the Mexican war. Their
children are Stuart Carothers, William Bowen Campbell and Frances Owen Pilcher,
all residing in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Wilson-Sumner-White County TN Archives Biographies.....Campbell, William Bowen 1807 - 1867
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Author: Will T. Hale
WILLIAM BOWEN CAMPBELL, sixteenth governor of the state of Tennessee lived
his active life in the days when there were more statesmen and fewer
politicians. Everyone in Tennessee, who pretends to know anything of the history
of his state, knows that Governor Campbell was a public man of the former
variety. A soldier, born and bred, inspired with a love of his country that made
him forget all minor matters in the one great, fact that it was his duty to
stand by his country in all difficulties, he was one of the few men who had the
courage to stand against secession when the whole South was inflamed by the
question. Many men at this time, who did not believe in secession, fought for it
nevertheless and made a pretense of believing in it because they were simply
afraid to do otherwise, but Governor Campbell was not that kind of a man. His
convictions were unalterable, and no man could frighten him from his stand. Such
a man could not fail to win the respect of everyone, even though they opposed him.
William Bowen Campbell was born on Manskers Creek in Sumner county,
Tennessee, on the 1st of February, 1807. His father was David Campbell. His
grandfather was Capt. David Campbell, who was a soldier in Gen. William
Campbell's regiment, during the Revolutionary war. Campbell Station in East
Tennessee was named for Captain Campbell. David Campbell's wife, whose maiden
name was Catherine Bowen, was a remarkable woman, of that type which we have all
learned to revere, a gentlewoman of the old school. A lover of books, a
worshipper of the truth, with a strong mind and great nobility of character she
instilled into her son all the beliefs that had made her the woman she was.
Above all she was a true lover of her country and she transmitted this devotion
in an intensified form to her son.
Governor Campbell was reared on the farm, being the eldest of six children.
His mother was his earliest teacher, but as he grew older tutors were employed,
and under James Hamilton and Peter Hubbard he became a proficient student. When
he was seventeen years of age his father met with business reverses and the son
showed the stuff from which he was made by dropping his books and taking up the
maul and axe. The next two years were spent in clearing land, and then the boy
went to Abingdon, Virginia, where he entered the law office of his uncle, David
Campbell, who was subsequently governor of Virginia. He also attended a course
of lectures given by the Hon. St. George Tucker, of Winchester, Virginia. Under
such tutelage he made rapid progress, and in 1830 he returned to Tennessee and
engaged in the practice of law at Carthage.
His ability was pronounced and from the first he made a brilliant success. In
1831 he was elected attorney general and removed to Sparta, White county,
Tennessee. For four years he filled this office, and in 1835 he returned to
Carthage to take up his profession once more. He was elected to the legislature
from Smith county during this same year and served in that body until 1836 when
a call was issued for volunteers to be sent against the Creek and Seminole
Indians, who were committing depredations on the frontiers of Georgia, Florida
and Alabama. Governor Campbell resigned from the legislature immediately and was
the first to put his name on a list of volunteers. He was elected captain of the
company thus formed, which was part of the regiment commanded by Col. William
Trousdale. Governor Campbell led his company through a campaign of seven months,
taking part in a number of battles and skirmishes, among them being the battle
of Wahoo Swamp and the engagement that took place near the forks of the
Withlacochee river. After the Indians had been sufficiently punished the company
returned home, his first experience as a soldier having been a good preparation
for later ones.
He was a Whig in politics and shortly after his return home, in 1837, he
became a candidate for Congress, his opponent being Gen. William Trousdale, who
had been his regimental commander in the war in Florida, Governor Campbell was
elected by a handsome majority, and was twice reelected, serving six years in
all. He then retired to private life and once more took up his law practice.
It was shortly after this that he was elected major general of his military
district, for already mutterings of war were being heard along the Rio Grande.
When the war did break out in 1846, Tennessee was called upon to furnish
twenty-four hundred volunteers. The spirit of the state, and indeed of the whole
South, was shown by the fact that something like thirty thousand men answered
this call, but not one-tenth of them could be received. In May of that year the
First Tennessee Regiment of Volunteers was organized in Nashville, and William
B. Campbell was elected colonel. Shortly afterwards he was on his way at the
head of his command to Mexico. They traveled by boat down the Mississippi,
thence across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Rio Grande to Camargo where General
Taylor organized his army for the advance on Monterey. The battle that resulted
in the capture of Monterey is a fact well known to students of history, and it
was in this fierce attack that the First Tennessee Regiment won the sobriquet of
"The Bloody First."
In 1847 Colonel Campbell returned from Mexico and in 1848 he was unanimously
elected by the legislature as judge of the circuit court. He was now a well
known man throughout the state and a man of great personal popularity. In 1851
he was nominated for governor by the Whig party, his opponent being Gov. William
Trousdale. He was elected and served two years, refusing to again become a
candidate. Retiring from public life for a time he now became a member of a firm
of cotton merchants in New Orleans and later was president of the Bank of Middle
Tennessee, which was located at Lebanon, whither he moved in 1853. It was
impossible for him to keep out of public life, however, especially in the
stirring decade that preceded the outbreak of the Civil war. In the campaign of
1860, Governor Campbell supported Bell and Everett, and in 1861 he canvassed the
state speaking against secession. His influence was a powerful one, and his
eloquence as a speaker had a tremendous effect on the people to whom he spoke.
In 1862 he was unanimously elected to preside over a mass meeting of citizens
representing various counties of the state, which was held in Nashville. One can
not fully appreciate what this means unless one can realize the bitter feelings,
the tenseness of the situation, when the nerves of every man were strained to
the breaking point. To preside over any kind of a meeting in those days took a
man of the strongest character who commanded men simply by the power of his
personality. In August, 1865, he was elected to Congress and won an enviable
reputation in the Thirty-ninth congress, during the days which were really more
trying than those of the war, and when such a man as Governor Campbell was
invaluable.
In 1835 he married Frances A. Owen, a daughter of Dr. John Owen, of Carthage,
Tennessee, and his wife had seven children, as follows: Mary C., who married Dr.
D. C. Kelley; Margaret H., who married James S. Pilcher; Fanny A., who became
the wife of J. W. Bonner; William B., who died in youth; Joseph Allen Campbell;
J. Owen. Campbell; and Lemuel E. Campbell. Governor Campbell died in 1867, on
the 19th of August, at his home near Lebanon, Tennessee, and his wife died in 1864.
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Knox County TN Archives News.....SOUTHERN NEWS, ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH August 22, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise, August 22, 1889 August 22, 1889
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Extensive preparations are being made at Knoxville, Tenn., to celebrate
the 103rd anniversary of Davy Crocketts birthday on the farm where he was born
near Limestone. Among the guests will be R. P. Crockett, of Granbury, Texas,
the only living son of the frontiersman, and the only living grandson of
Colonel R. H. Crockett, of New Gaseny, Ark.
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Hamilton County TN Archives News.....SOUTHERN NEWS, ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. July 4, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise July 4, 1889
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
S. Lieberman, a barber, who went to Chattanooga, Tenn., about two months
ago from Cincinnati, suicided Tuesday morning at the Lookout Mountain Point
hotel, taking a deadly dose of morphine and chloroform, mixed. Lieberman made
all preparation for his rash act. He went over town and paid up all his
accounts: left his watch, money and several diamonds he wore with his wife,
telling her he was going on a brief visit and was afraid he would lose them. He
went to the Point hotel, where he registered for the night, and in the morning
was found dead in his bed. No cause is assigned for his act, except that his
business was not good. There are rumors afloat that his domestic relations were
not of the most pleasant nature. His wife is a beautiful woman, and they have
been boarding at Voigts Palace hotel.
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Franklin-Bedford-Lincoln County TN Archives Biographies.....Clark, James
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Author: Rev. J. F. Clark
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Ellen Howell redpep(a)msn.com
REV. J.F. CLARK'S FAMILY RECORD
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER
James Clark.
He [James Clark] had a brother John of whom nothing is known by me.
He [James Clark] had Sons and daughters as follows:
Born Ju. 3, 1799, Mary, who married William Houston. 4-5-1795.
Nancy, who married Joe Henson.
Elisabeth, who married George Woodward.
Martha , who married Elijah Ward.
Agnes, who married Richard Phillips.
Ranie, who married Dave Obsurne.
Joseph, who moved to Pontotock Co., Miss.
James, " " " " " " " " " "
Bolin, who died in Bedford or Lincoln Co., Tenn.
Cage, who died in Lynchburgh, Tenn.
Henry, This one is uncertain.
GREAT-GRANDFATHER
Bolin Clark, who married Miami -----, to whom were born, Houston L. John A. and
Thomas.
To H. L. were born Thomas William and John Henry.
Thomas died at twenty one or two.
To John Adkison were born 8 sons and daughters: James P., William T., Thomas J.,
and Houston
Henry; Caroline, Mollie, Nancy and Lucinda.
GRANDFATHER
John Adkison Clark
FATHER
James Polk Clark, to whom was born son and daughters as follows, Mattie Jane,
Geo. William, Fannie S., John Houston, James Franklin, Robert Thomas, Maggie
Lucinda, and Carter Allen.
To James Franklin Clark was born James Franklin Clark, Jr.
Next is the typed written note that James Franklin Clark, Sr. retyped:
Part of a letter from Miss Mattie Houston, Portersville, Ala., R.F.D. I, to Rev.
J. F. Clark, Iredell, Texas, concerning kinship, Jan. 6, 1916.
"Father can't remember all about where his mother's brothers and sisters moved
to from the old states.
He can remember most of them.
His aunt Nancy Clark (Joe Henson's wife) lived and died in North Georgia.
Elisabeth (Betsy), George Woodward's wife lived and died in Tenn.
Martha, Elijah Ward's wife moved to Miss.
Agnes, Richard (Dick) Phillip's wife went to Louisiana or Miss. He has forgotten
which one but thinks they went to Louisiana.
Rainie married in Tennessee but he has forgotten whom she married. She didn't
leave Tennessee. (Her father told me [Rev. J. F. Clark] personally that she
married Dave Osburne.)
His uncles Joseph and James Clark went to Pontotock Co. Miss. His uncle James
made a big fortune there.
His uncles Bolin and Cage Clark lived and died in Tenn. (These died in Bedford
and Lincoln Counties, Tenn.)"
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Franklin-Marion County TN Archives Obituaries.....Turney, Peter October 19, 1903
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The Franklin County Truth and News Journal, Winchester, Tennessee - Thursday, October 22, 1903
Governor Peter Turney's obituary in Thursday, October 22, 1903, The Franklin
County Truth and News Journal, Winchester, Tennessee:
EX-GOV. TURNEY DEAD
Passes Away at 3:30 Monday Afternoon
Surrounded by the Members of His Family.
Governor Peter Turney passed away to the great beyond at 3:30 Monday
afternoon, after suffering for several weeks from a gouty kidney and prostatic
disturbance. It was known that the distinguished patient had but a remote
chance for recovery and the members of his family were all present at his
bedside when the death summons came.
The death of Governor Turney nevertheless came with a shock to his friends in
Winchester and the State. There are many of his old comrade in arms living who
fought side by side with him during the war, and to these his death will be a
personal bereavement.
Winchester itself will mourn him deeply and sincerely as one of the sons who
have reflected honor upon her by his splendid courage upon the battle field and
his notable achievements in civil life.
The following from the Nashville Daily News covers the important incidents of
Gov. Turney's career:
"One of Tennessee's biggest men answered the final call when Hon. Peter Turney
passed into the life beyond and closed his eyes in the last long sleep before
the coming of eternal life. Few men were so well known in Tennessee and none had
brighter records of honorable service to their State than ex-Gov. Turney. All
his long life he was a Tennessean, and the State had ever the call on his
services in time of need. Whether in war or peace his services were freely
given and were greatly felt. A biographer says of him: 'He was a man of the
highest order of intellectual and legal ability, lofty courage, and unspotted
integrity.' The quotation is a simple expression of the man's character.
"Peter Turney was born in Jasper, Marion county, Tenn., Sept. 22, 1827. He
was the son of Hon. Hopkins L. Turney, a noted antebellum lawyer and statesman.
The future Governor and Chief Justice of the State spent his earlier years in
Winchester, where his father moved in 1828. He was educated at the Winchester
schools, and had become a surveyor at the age of 17 years. He followed this
profession for six months and then took up the study of law in his father's
office. The elder Turney was elected to the United States Senate the same year,
and the boy went into the office of William E. Venable to complete his legal
studies. He was admitted to the Winchester bar Sept. 22, 1848, his 21st
birthday. He practiced law with his father for nine years, when the latter
died. Peter and his brother, Miller F. Turney, then went in together and
practiced at Winchester until the outbreak of the Civil War.
"Peter Turney was a strong advocate of 'secession' and stood ready to fight
for his principles. Early in 1861, and before Tennessee had seceded, Franklin
county virtually seceded from the State in favor of the Southern cause, and
Peter Turney raised a regiment in Franklin county and marched it to Virginia.
It was Turney's First Tennessee, afterwards famous throughout the country for
its bravery and the utterly reckless manner in which it fought. Col. Turney had
his men encamped at Harper's Ferry and drilled into some semblance of militarism
before his home State joined the ranks of the Confederacy.
"When the State did secede and send out troops another First Tennessee was
raised, but Turney's never lost the name, and there were two First Tennessee's
in the Confederate Army.
"The young lawyer-soldier proved himself a valorous man in the four years'
bloody struggle that formed the Civil War. In every action he was conspicuous
for his gallantry, and was finally desperately wounded at Fredericksburg. He,
with his command, took part in the battles of Seven Pines, Second Manassas,
Cedar Run, Harper's Ferry, Antietam, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and many others.
At Fredericksburg a bullet struck him in the mouth, carrying away all his upper
teeth, two of his lower and a section of his tongue, and lodging in the back of
the neck. It is related of him that he was so desperately wounded that the
surgeons would not probe for the ball or extract it, and that his wife
courageously took a pocket knife, made an incision in the back of his neck, and
extracted the bullet. After that the gallant soldier rapidly recovered, and was
soon at the front again.
"His bravery in battle won him many enconiums [sic] from his superiors, and he
was recommended for promotion by Gens. Robert E. Lee, A.P. Hill and James J.
Archer. The official recognition of his services never came, however, and it
was rumored strongly that the fact that he was not on the best of terms with
high state dignitaries of the Confederacy was responsible for it.
"In August, 1863, Col. Turney was sent to Florida for service, and was later
appointed to command the eastern district of the State. He commanded the
Confederate troops at the battle of Three Mile Creek.
"After the surrender at Appomattox Col. Turney returned to his home at
Winchester. He was without means, and his property consisted of a house and lot
in his home town.
"Through the trials and the aggravated annoyances of reconstruction days he
struggled with the adversity that threatened him with other Southerners, and
showed his bravery no less in the meeting of the new conditions than in the
battles of the war just ended. He practiced law and by constant application and
unceasing labor won no little success. His name soon became well known through
the State and he was considered an authority in all matters pertaining to his
profession. It was quite in the natural order of things that he should be
elected to the Supreme Court Bench in September, 1870, and his record on the
bench more than justified the choice of the people. He served on the Supreme
Court Bench from 1870 until 1892, when he resigned the Chief Justiceship to make
the race for Governor. In doing this he answered the call of the State
Democracy and led their forces to victory. After his first term he again made
the race and won out in one of the most exciting elections the State has ever
known. The Republicans nominated H. Clay Evans to make the race and put forth
their best efforts to land the plum. They went to the length of contesting the
election, but lost out in the end."
The Funeral.
The funeral arrangements for Governor Turney were changed somewhat for several
reasons. It was impossible for Bishop Gailor to conduct the services on account
of his absence in Washington. Chaplain Wm. Guerry, of Sewanee, officiated,
assisted by the Revs. Mr. Killheffer, of Winchester and Fayetteville, and Dr.
Rodriguez, of Tullahoma.
It was also decided best not to have services at Trinity Church on account of
the serious illness of Gov. Turney's daughter, Miss Dixie, but simply to hold
services at Wolf's Crag at the appointed time, Thursday afternoon at one o'clock.
The house and grounds were thronged with old soldiers, relatives and friends,
come thither to pay the last tribute of respect to a noble Christian gentleman.
The services began by a choir singing "Nearer my God to Thee," and then the
impressive burial service of the Episcopal Church was read. At its conclusion
the choir sang "God be with you till we meet again." Chaplain Guerry then
reviewed the life of Gov. Turney in an earnest and eloquent address, eulogizing
him for the record he had made for himself in the history of Tennessee.
The casket was then removed from the house, the members of Cheatham and Turney
Bivouacs standing with bared heads on each side of the walk as the remains of
their old comrade were carried to the hearse. The funeral cortege was over a
mile long, headed by about seventy-five Confederate veterans on foot. One
carriage was filled with magnificent floral emblems. Services at the grave were
under the direction of the U.C.V.'s. Upon the conclusion of the Episcopal
burial service Capt. M.B. Pilcher, of Nashville, read the bivouac service. An
impressive and touching ceremony then followed. Each veteran deposited a sprig
of evergreen in the grave and a bugler sounded "taps."
The pall bearers were:
ACTIVE PALL BEARERS.
Judge Fite. Col. Smith.
Mark Cockrell. H.B. Talley.
E.B. Craig. J.J. Vertrees.
Smith Alexander. A.J. Skidmore.
HONORARY.
Judge John F. Wilkes. Senator E.W. Carmack.
Judge John K. Shields. Gov. J.B. Frazier.
Judge Snodgrass. Ex-Gov. McMillan.
Col. Tomlinson Fort. Ex-Gov. Buchannan. [sic]
Judge John W. Childress. Judge R.M. Barton.
Judge H.H. Lurton. Judge S.F. Wilson.
Senator W.B. Bate. Judge John Taylor.
Every public and private vehicle in Winchester was secured to be in line, and
from 2 o'clock until after the services were concluded, every business house in
Winchester was closed. It was one of the largest funerals ever known in
Winchester and demonstrated the esteem in which the deceased was held.
Among the prominent out-of-town visitors were:
Gov. James B. Frazier.
Ex-Gov. John P. Buchannan. [sic]
Ex-Gov. Benton McMillan.
Senator Wm. B. Bate.
Senator E.W. Carmack.
Capt. John W. Morton, Secretary of State.
Reau Folk, State Treasurer.
Capt. Mynders, Superintendent Public Instruction.
Judge H.H. Lurton, U.S. Court of Appeals.
Judges John M. Taylor, R.M. Barton, S.F. Wilson, of Chancery Court of
Appeals.
Judges John F. Wilkes, of Pulaski, and John K. Shields, of Knoxville,
Supreme Court of Tennessee.
Judge Snodgrass, of Chattanooga.
Judge Fite, of Lebanon.
Capt. Shipp, E.B. Craig, Col. Tomlinson Fort, Dr. Parmer, Chattanooga.
Col. A.M. Shook, R.J. Riddle, John P. Hickman, W.S. Morgan, Judge John W.
Childress, Nashville.
Capt. A.T. McNeil, Law Department of the University of the South.
[Governor Turney was buried in Winchester City Cemetery.]
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