Robert Brownlee Currey

http://www.tnportraits.org/30115-currey.htm

Asst. Postmaster of Nashville, 1805. Postmaster, 1811-26. Gave speech honoring the Marquis de Lafayette on his visit to Nashville, 1825.

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Coming to Nashville, Tennessee, when young, Robert Brownlee Currey became

prominent in early life in public affairs, serving not only as postmaster, but

for twenty years filling the mayor's chair and had the honor of receiving

General LaFayette when he was the guest of this city in 1825. A successful

business man, he acquired considerable city as well as farming property. He died

at his home on Meridian Hill at the age of seventy-five years, his body being

laid to rest in the old City cemetery. He married Jane Grey Owen, who was a

lineal descendant of Goronwey Owen, the Welsh prince and poet. She too lived to

the age of seventy-five years.