Joseph Buckner Killebrew family papers, 1797-1906.

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Joseph Buckner Killebrew family papers, 1797-1906.

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Papers primarily relating to the life and career of Joseph Buckner Killebrew. Includes his autobiography, containing much Tennessee history, especially on the Civil War period; his writings, published and unpublished, on subjects such as agriculture, education, immigration, mineral resources, the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, tobacco, the Episcopal Church, and railroads; the memoir of his wife, Mary Katherine Wimberley Killebrew, which includes genealogical data on the Trigg, Killebrew, Wimberley, Bourne, Digg, Whitfield, and Hampton families and information on social life and customs in post-Civil War Tennessee; a small volume on the construction of waterwheels by William Trigg, an ancestor of Mrs. Killebrew, written in 1797; scrapbooks on Killebrew's work and activities and some of his newspaper articles; business and personal correspondence; and collected writings of others on subjects of interest to Mr. Killebrew.

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Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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SNAC Resource ID: 7258075

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Killebrew, Mary Katherine Wimberley, 1838-1906.

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Hampton family.

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Killebrew, J. B. (Joseph Buckner), 1831-1906

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Native of Montgomery County, Tenn.; agriculture editor of the Nashville Union and American; Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction for Tennessee; state agent for the Peabody Fund; Secretary of the Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture, Statistics, Mines and Immigration; immigration agent and industrial agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway; editor of Southern Farm magazine. From the description of Joseph Buckner Killebrew family papers, 1797-1906. (Tennessee ...

Bourne family.

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Killebrew family.

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Whitfield family.

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Digg family.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway

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Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition (1897 : Nashville, Tenn.)

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Wimberly family.

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Trigg family.

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Trigg, William, fl. 1797.

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