Office files, 1790-1985.

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Tennessee Historical Society

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Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799

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Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and was for the most part educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, and assisting his father-in-law ...

York, Alvin Cullum, 1887-1964

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Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking at least one machine gun, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132. York's Medal of Honor action occurred during the United States-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was intended to breach the Hindenburg line a...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (Old Hickory, Tenn.)

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Arnell, Samuel Mayes, 1833-1903

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Goodloe, Hallum W., 1869-1956.

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Clerk of the Crockett County (Tenn.) Court, 1891-1901; Chief Clerk to Tennessee's Secretary of State, 1901-1907; Tennessee Secretary of State, 1909-1913; Private Secretary to Gov. Tom C. Rye, 1915-1918; Assistant to the Superintendent of Banks, 1918-1929; Chief Clerk to the State Treasurer, 1929-1931; and Deputy Superintendent of State Banks, 1931-1949. From the description of Hallum W. Goodloe family papers, 1863-1956, bulk 1901-1949. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldC...

Claybrook, Mary Perkins

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DeWitt, John H. (John Hibbett), 1872-1937

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Sumner, Jethro, 1730-1790.

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Quarles, William, fl. 1752-1814

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Browning, Gordon, 1889-1976

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Governor. From the description of Reminiscences of Gordon Browning : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309730905 ...

Grundy, Felix, 1777-1840

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Lawyer, judge, U.S. senator, 1829-1833 and 1839-1840, and U.S. attorney general, 1838-1839, from Nashville, Tenn. From the description of Felix Grundy papers, 1807-1889 (bulk 1824-1840) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24864404 Lawyer, Kentucky jurist, United States congressman and senator from Tennessee, and U.S. attorney general. From the description of Letter, 1826 Nov. 21. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49252871 Felix Grudy (1...

Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836

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Frontiersman, member of Congress from Tennessee. From the description of ALS : Washington, D.C., to Carey & Hart, 1835 Jan. 22. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86165809 From the description of ALS : Washington, D.C., to Carey & Hart, 1834 Dec. 21. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122690133 American frontiersman and politician. From the description of Letter : Washington City, to Henry R. Storrs, 1834 Jan...

Moore, John Trotwood, 1858-1929

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Poet. From the description of Letter of John Trotwood Moore, 1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453865 Editor, historian, and author, born in Marion, Ala.; published Trotwood's Monthly, later the Taylor-Trotwood Magazine; author of Songs and stories of Tennessee and The bishop of Cottontown; Tennessee State Librarian, 1919-1929. From the description of Family papers, 1849-1957. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 28407773 ...

Bate, William B. (William Brimage), 1826-1905

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William B. Bate and Braxton Bragg were Confederate generals. From the description of Letter : Dalton, Ga., to Braxton Bragg, 1864 Apr. 11. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22408404 U.S. senator from and governor of Tennessee, and Confederate army officer. From the description of William B. Bate correspondence, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450206 ...

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Blanton, W. C., 1817-1887.

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Provine, William Alexander, 1867-1935

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Porter, James D. (James Davis), 1828-1912

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James D. Porter (1828-1912) received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Nashville and earned a law degree from Cumberland University in 1884. He was a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund in 1883, President of the Tennessee Historical Society, and an author. From the description of James D. Porter Papers, 1902. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 262478713 ...

Roberts, Albert H., 1868-1946.

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Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

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William G. Brownlow was a minister, newspaper publisher, and governor, who attacked the Confederacy after Tennessee seceded from the Union. He was forced to cease publishing and was imprisoned, but he was enventually freed and was escorted to Union lines in March 1862. He toured the North, stirring up support for East Tennessee Unionists and publishing books and articles, including his gubernatorial policies, which helped Tennessee become the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to th...

Nelson, Anson, 1821-1892

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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...