R.B.C. Howell family papers, 1838-1963, bulk 1912-1939.

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R.B.C. Howell family papers, 1838-1963, bulk 1912-1939.

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Predominantly business and personal papers of R.B.C. Howell (1878-1955), but also includes items pertaining to his father, Morton B. Howell (1834-1909) and grandfather, R.B.C. Howell (1801-1868). Correspondence, 1865-1957, primarily deals with business concerns in Nashville, Tennessee such as Boscobel College, Mount Olivet Cemetery Company, and Phillips and Buttorff Manufacturing Co.; genealogical data for the Howell and related families, including a memoir of Morton B. Howell; government agencies in which R.B.C. Howell served, such as the Nashville Selective Service Board (1917-1919) and the Nashville War Price and Rationing Board (1942-1945); Tennessee Historical Society activities; horse racing; judicial activities of the Nashville Chancery Court, Part I, the Tennessee Court of Appeals, and the Tennessee Bar Association; politics and government; and the publication of Howell's many articles and sketches. Prominent correspondents include Richard M. Atkinson, Gene Autry, Edward E. Barthell, George L. Berry, Joseph W. Byrns, Walter Chandler, Prentice Cooper, Walter W. Faw, S.L. Felts, Grafton Green, Tom Henderson, John J. Hooker, Cordell Hull, Kenneth McKellar, Sam D. McReynolds, George Morris, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Lucille Schilling, John K. Shields, Rutledge Smith, and A.T. Stewart.

4, 500 items.20 v.

Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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Tennessee Historical Society

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Autry, Gene, 1907-1998

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Byrns, Joseph Wellington, 1869-1936

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Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford, 1878-1955.

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Businessman, historian, jurist, and lawyer; Chancellor, Part I, 7th Chancery Division of Tennessee, 1928-1940; Judge, Middle Division, Tennessee Court of Appeals, 1940-1955. From the description of R.B.C. Howell family papers, 1838-1963, bulk 1912-1939. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 27089287 ...

Nashville (Tenn.). Selective Service Board.

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Berry, George Leonard, 1882-1948

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Berry served on whaling ships in the South Atlantic prior to the Civil War. He enlisted into the 5th Maine Infantry and participated in the Seven Days' Battle, 1862. From the description of Papers, 1857-1864. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 43641698 Senator from Tennessee. President of the International Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America from 1907 to 1948. From the guide to the George L. Berry letter to Abraham Mandelstam, 1938, (The New Yor...

Tennessee Bar Association

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Howell family.

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Schilling, Lucille.

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Chandler, Walter, 1887-1967

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Shields, John Knight, 1856-1934.

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Howell, Robert Boyte C. (Robert Boyte Crawford), 1801-1868

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Southern Baptist minister and Baptist newspaper editor. Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee and the Second Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia. Involved in Landmark controversy with J. R. Graves. From the description of Collection, 1838-1867. (Hudson Valley Community College). WorldCat record id: 60931164 1827-1834, pastor, Cumberland Street Church, Norfolk; 1834-1850, Nashville 1st Bapt.; 1850-1857, 2nd Bapt. Church, Richmond, Va. ; 1857-1868, Nashvi...

Cooper, Prentice, 1895-1969

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Faw, Walter Wagner, 1867-1956

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Tennessee State Representative, 1905-1907; Assistant State Attorney General, 1905-1913; Special Judge, Tennessee Supreme Court, 1914; Judge, Tennessee Court of Appeals, 1918-1940; Presiding Judge, Tennessee Court of Appeals, 1923-1940. From the description of Walter Wagner Faw family papers, 1819-1956, bulk 1889-1940. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 27670632 ...

Barthell, Edward E.

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Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943

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Mount Olivet Cemetery Co.

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Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955

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Hooker, John J.

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Green, Grafton, 1872-1947.

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Howell, Morton B. (Boyte), 1834-1909

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Morton Boyte Howell, born in 1834 in Norfolk, Va., was the son of Robert Boyte Crawford Howell and Mary Ann Morton Toy Howell. He was mayor of Nashville, Tenn., in 1874, and practiced law in Nashville 1875-1905. He died in Nashville in 1909. From the description of Morton Boyte Howell Papers, 1974. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 69993152 Lawyer in Nashville, Tenn. From the description of Ledger, 1858-1881, (bulk 1858-1865). (Duke University ...

Smith, Rutledge, 1871-1962.

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Felts, S. L.

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Atkinson, Richard Macintyre

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Stewart, Tom, 1892-1972

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Henderson, Thomas P. (Thomas Perkins), 1882-1966

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McKellar, Kenneth Douglas, 1869-1957

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Tennessee. Court of Appeals

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Boscobel College (Nashville, Tenn.)

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Phillips and Buttorff Manufacturing Company

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Tennessee. Chancery Court (7th Division)

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McReynolds, Samuel Davis, 1872-1939

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