Letter, 1842 May 1, Nashville, Tennessee [to] John Houston Bills, Bolivar, Tennessee.

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Letter, 1842 May 1, Nashville, Tennessee [to] John Houston Bills, Bolivar, Tennessee.

Consists of a letter written by Daniel Graham, Nashville, Tenn., to John Houston Bills, Bolivar, Tenn. In the letter, Graham describes dinner at the Hermitage with Andrew Jackson.

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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...

Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.)

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The Hermitage was the home of President Andrew Jackson....

Bills, John Houston, 1800-1871

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John Houston Bills (1800-1871), Tennessee planter, merchant, and friend of president James Knox Polk (1795-1849), was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, and migrated to Tennessee in 1818. He was active in the Democratic Party, the Freemasons, the temperance movement, and the religious life of his community. From the guide to the John Houston Bills Papers, 1843-1871, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) John Houston Bill...

Graham, Daniel, 1789-1869

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