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James Woodall Rodgers, attorney, civic leader, and mayor of Dallas, was born in New Market, Alabama, on May 11, 1890. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt in 1912 and his LL.B. from the University of...
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Herman Edward Daly (July 21, 1938 – October 28, 2022) was an American ecological and Georgist economist and professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park in the Uni...
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Bradford Knapp (December 24, 1870 – June 11, 1938) was the President of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University from 1928 to 1933.
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Justin R. Ishbia (born 1976/1977) is an American billionaire and private equity investor, being a founding partner of Shore Capital Partners. He also joins his younger brother Mathew in being part of...
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Robert Harper Kirby, prohibitionist and philanthropist, was born on March 20, 1861, near Hempstead, Texas, the son of Jared Ellison and Helen Marr (Swearingen) Kirby. He was educated at Texas Military ...
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William Anthony King, physician and public-health leader, son of James A. and Mary (Albert) King, was born in Albertville, Alabama, on November 26, 1868. He moved in 1871 with his family to San Saba, T...
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comments==probable son of Orville Calhoun Omohundro and Margaret Tirzah Omohundro (and thus probable 1st cousin once removed of his wife)
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Mohammad Sajjad "Saj" Alam (Bengali: মহম্মদ সাজ্জাদ আলম, Urdu: محمد سجاد عالم; 5 January 1947 – 2022) was a Bengali Pakistani and a naturalized American particle physicist. His work focused on partic...
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John Cowper Granbery, Jr., a Methodist minister, sociology professor, and publisher of the Emancipator, son of John Cowper and Ella (Winston) Granbery, Sr., was born in Richmond, Virginia, on June 15, ...
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William James "Lipp" Livsey (June 8, 1931 – June 18, 2016) was a United States Army general who served as the Commander in Chief of United Nations Command/Commander in Chief, ROK/U.S. Combined Forces...
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Anthony Michael Volpe (born April 28, 2001) is an American professional baseball shortstop in the New York Yankees organization.
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Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944), known as E. Gordon Gee, is an American academic. As of 2020, he was serving his second term as President of West Virginia University; his first term was fro...
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Francis Sheldon Hackney (December 5, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was a prominent American educator. He was the Boies Professor of United States History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Robert H. Burney, state legislator and district judge, eldest son of Hance McCain and Mary A. (Tatum) Burney, was born in McNary County, Tennessee, on October 22, 1854. His family moved to Texas and se...
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Edgar Elliott Bramlette, teacher, foreign minister, and school administrator, the son of William and Adelia (Bates) Bramlette, was born in Paris, Texas, on November 19, 1860. He took his B.A. degree at...
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George D. Bond, radiologist, the son of Thomas B. and Ann (McLemore) Bond, was born at Spring Hill, Tennessee, in 1860. He completed his medical training at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1880, ...
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William Madison Anderson, clergyman, son of William M. and Sarah Knott (Latta) Anderson, was born on September 29, 1889, at Rock Hill, South Carolina. He attended Vanderbilt University from 1907 to 191...
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Joseph Alexander Altsheler, reporter and western writer, son of Joseph and Louise (Snoddy) Altsheler, was born at Three Springs, Kentucky, on April 29, 1862. He attended Liberty College in Glasgow, Ken...
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W. J. D. Alexander, physician, Confederate military officer, real estate agent, and notary public, was born on February 1, 1836, in Fayette County, Tennessee, to Silas and Mary (Kennedy) Alexander. Ale...
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Van Amberg Sullivan (December 18, 1857 – March 21, 1918) was a United States Representative and Senator from Mississippi.BiographyBorn near Winona, Mississippi, he attended the common schools in Panola...
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A poet, novelist, and teacher, James Tillotson Whitehead was born in Missouri and spent most of his life working in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas. He spent his formative ye...
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Elizabeth Spencer (July 19, 1921 – December 22, 2019) was an American writer. Spencer's first novel, Fire in the Morning, was published in 1948. She wrote a total of nine novels, seven coll...
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James Wesley Silver, a professor of history at the University of Mississippi from 1936 to 1964, emerged as one of the most critical voices of the state’s leadership in the aftermath of the riot surroun...
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Joshua Green
NOVEMBER 12, 1922 – AUGUST 11, 2019
A true southern gentleman, Joshua Green, Esquire, passed away on August 11, 2019. His family will greatly miss our wise, generous uncle, who as the r...
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J. Bilzerian (born 1983) is an American poker player and writer.Early lifeBilzerian is the son of American corporate takeover specialist Paul Bilzerian and Terri, grew up in Florida. He has a brother, ...
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Richard Aubrey McLemore was a historian who taught and served as president at two Mississippi institutions, directed the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and wrote and edited several imp...
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Neshoba Democrat February 24, 1950DR. WM. H. MARS MEMBER PROMINENT FAMILY, PASSESDr. William Henry Mars, one of Neshoba county's most prominent citizens and philantropists, passed away at the family ho...
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From of William Erwin and Sarah Catherine Fewell Sanders, wife of Cyrus Bassett Dawsey."I was born near the little town of Belmont, NC, June 9, 1889. I was the ninth child in a family of ten children -...
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George Worley Boswell was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1919, when the South was already well into an economic decline that would virtually cripple the United States a decade later. Boswell maintain...
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Moore (1903 – 1957) was an American psychiatrist and poet. Born and educated in Tennessee, he was a member of the Fugitives. He taught neurology at the Harvard Medical School and published research abo...
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Sara Elizabeth Mason (1911-1993) was an author of detective fiction whose main period of productivity was in a five-year span in the 1940s. Her profession and her fiction were rooted in her Alabama her...
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Bernard Gaston, a son of David Finis Gaston II and the former Miss Martha Elizabeth Bailey, was born in the bounds of Gastonburg in Wilcox County, Alabama. His grandfather, David Finis Gaston, Sr. had ...
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Inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist C. Harry Knowles (1928-2020) held more than 400 U.S. patents relating to transistors, lasers, and bar code scanning technology, making him one of the more pro...
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Caroline Lawson Ivey (1912-1972), a lifelong resident of Smiths Station, Lee County, combined observation and imagination to comment on a subject she knew well: reactions of southerners encountering en...
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Oscar Richard Hundley was an attorney who served three terms as a judge for the Northern District of Alabama. He was also an Alabama state senator. In 1897 he married Bossie O'Brien a leader in Alabama...
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Andrew East MP
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Andrew East is an American football long snapper who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Vanderbilt, and has also had multiple stints with various NFL teams, most recently the Wash...
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Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jul 8 2018, 21:00:48 UTC * Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jul 8 2018, 21:01:25 UTC
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Author William Sledge "Bill" Cobb (1937-2020) authored numerous novels and short-story collections, as well as several plays, over his more than 50-year career. His best-known work is perhaps A Walk Th...
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Jelks "Bill" Cabaniss Jr. (born July 11, 1938) is an American politician and diplomat who served as a member of both chamber of the Alabama Legislature and U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic in the ...
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Ralph McGill, as editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, was a leading voice for racial and ethnic tolerance in the South from the 1940s through the 1960s. As an influential daily columnist, ...
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Larry Connatser, an accomplished pianist and painter, grew up in Atlanta and lived on and off in Georgia throughout his life. A self-taught artist, Connatser developed an expressionistic and brilliantl...
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W. Moore is an American attorney and retired Executive Chairman of Union Planters Bank and Regions Financial Corporation.Early lifeJackson W. Moore was born in Birmingham, Alabama on November 2, 1948. ...
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Cole Williams (January 15, 1864 – December 14, 1947) was a noted 19th and 20th century Tennessee jurist, historian, educator, and businessman.Early lifeSamuel C. Williams was born January 15, 1864 near...
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’s first state historian, Dr. Robert H. White was born in Crockett County in 1883. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1910 and completed his graduate work at George Peabody College and the Univ...
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E. Washington, congressman, state legislator, tobacco planter, and a founder of the Tobacco Protective Association, was born November 10, 1851, at Wessyngton in Robertson County, the son of George Augu...
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Elizabeth Taylor, historian, was the first scholar to study woman suffrage in the South. Born on June 10, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, she received a B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1938 and an M...
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Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979), known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate from 1943 to 1944.Bibliography
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and editor Randall Stewart was born in Fayetteville in 1896. In 1898 his family moved to Nashville, where he grew up and was educated through his undergraduate years at Vanderbilt, from which he was gr...
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James G. Stahlman was publisher of the Nashville Banner from 1930 until 1972, when he sold the newspaper to the Gannett Corporation. He inherited part of the newspaper from his grandfather, Major Edwar...
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August 27, 1906, and raised in Wartrace, Tennessee, Fred McFerrin Russell was known to thousands of readers for his “Sidelines” column in the Nashville Banner. Russell first entered Tennessee sports pa...
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Cecil Morrison, a daughter of Dr. William J. and Martha Morrison, was a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Class of 1924. She was a member of Delta Sigma Upsilon.Miss Mary Morrison was married to Judge...
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Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As...
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Ragsdale Ragland, reformer in political, health, and women’s issues, was born near Russellville, Kentucky. She wanted to attend law school and later run for Congress, but the Great Depression put law s...
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Percy Priest (April 1, 1900 – October 12, 1956) was an American teacher, journalist and politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 until his death.Back...
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W. Preston (27 August 1928 — 13 June 2012) was an American music executive. She was the Chief executive officer of Broadcast Music, Inc. from 1986 to 2004. Preston was inducted into the Country Music H...
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Dewitt Patterson II was a prominent Crafton, California orange grower, and long-time leader in water affairs. He died by drowning in the Crafton ditch and reservoir, near his home. Deputy Coroner Edwar...
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University professor. Born– June 13, 1928, Nashville, Tenn. Parents– Frank L. and Hariett (Chappell) Owsley. Married– 1952. Children– Two. Education– Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1949; M.A., 1951; Univ...
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Foster Neal (September 7, 1928 – October 21, 2010) was an American trial lawyer who prosecuted labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, as well as top officials of the Nixon Administration in the Watergate scandal.Ea...
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E. Myer was a leading figure in the early twentieth-century transformation of Tennessee archaeology from a casual hobby to a professional science and in the development of both overland and river trans...
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Nelson Lytle (December 26, 1902 – December 12, 1995) was an American novelist, dramatist, essayist and professor of literature.Works
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Louise Lea Tidwell died November 30, 2014.Burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery.Born in 1923, she was a lifelong resident of Nashville. Mrs. Tidwell was the widow of the late Dr. Cromwell Tidwell, Jr., a pro...
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LeQuire (born 1955) is an American sculptor from Nashville, Tennessee. Many of his sculptures are installed in the city.Early lifeAlan LeQuire was born in 1955. His father, Virgil, was a physician and ...
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important twentieth-century architect, Edwin A. Keeble was born in Monteagle Assembly, the fourth of six children of John Bell and Emmie Frazer Keeble. His father was a Nashville attorney and later the...
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Percy Jones was a novelist born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1925. He published almost a dozen novels, and was considered "one of the major figures of contemporary southern letters".BiographyMadison Jon...
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Hill McAlister (July 15, 1875 – October 30, 1959) was an American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1933 to 1937. He also served as Nashville's city attorney in the early 1900s, and a...
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insurance and real estate; born Memphis, (Shelby Co) Tenn., December 16, 1867; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Howell Edmunds and Sophia (Molloy) Jackson; father lawyer, United States Senator, Federal Jud...
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B. Ingram (a.k.a. Fritz Ingram) was an American-born Irish heir and businessman. Born to the Ingram dynasty of Nashville, Tennessee, he was charged with bribing government officials over a sewage contr...
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and first president of Meharry Medical College, George W. Hubbard was born on August 11, 1841, in North Charlestown on the Connecticut River in New Hampshire. His paternal grandfather, David Hubbard, h...
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of stories of mountain life, Mildred E. Haun was born in Hamblen County, on January 6, 1911, to James Enzor and Margaret Ellen Haun, but was raised in Haun Hollow in the Hoot Owl District of Cocke Coun...
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and respected Tennessee Supreme Court justice William J. Harbison was born in Columbia, the son of William Joshua Harbison and Eunice Elizabeth Kinzer Harbison. Harbison (B.A, magna cum laude, Vanderbi...
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and portraitist Avery Handly was born in Nashville and graduated from Wallace University School and Vanderbilt University, where he majored in English and was influenced by the Fugitives. His first art...
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was born in Chattanooga in 1887, the son of Josephus Conn Guild, Sr. (1862–1907) and Mary Orr. Guild's grandfather, George Guild, served as mayor of Nashville in the early 1890s, and his namesake great...
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V. Goodpasture, writer, editor, and Tennessee historian, was born on November 19, 1855, in Overton County. He attended school in Cookeville and New Middleton, and received his B.A. from East Tennessee ...
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Hill Ford (December 28, 1928 – June 1, 1996) was an American writer of Southern literature, best known for his critical and commercial success in short fiction as well as the novels Mountains of Gilead...
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L. Evins was the “Dean” of Tennessee's congressional delegation during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1910 in DeKalb County to James Edgar Evins and Myrtie Goodson Evins, Joe L. Evins attended Vanderbilt...
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Emmett Edgerton (October 2, 1879 – August 4, 1938) was an industrialist who gained prominence as the president of the National Association of Manufacturers from 1921 to 1931. Edgerton was also an All-S...
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Stroud Merritt Jr. (born January 17, 1936) is an American lawyer and jurist. He currently is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.Early lifeM...
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Lawrence Merritt is a descendant of two of Nashville's founding families. A direct descendant of John Donelson and a descendant of John Rains who accompanied James Robertson on the overland founding ex...
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Littleton Davis, historian and journalist, was born in Paris, Tennessee, one of five children of LaRue Lucetta Littleton, a musician, and Grover C. Davis, a career U.S. Army officer. Davis's scholarly ...
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Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893 – April 25, 1968) was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. An English professor at Vanderbilt University from 1920 to 1965, he was a founding me...
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A. Daniel Jr., a pioneer in cardiac and thoracic surgery, was born June 14, 1908, in Georgia. Shortly thereafter, his parents moved to the Nashville area, and he grew up in Middle Tennessee. Daniel gra...
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Selph Henry Jr. (May 18, 1926 – March 5, 2017) was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He was the longest-serving member of the Tennessee legislature. He was a member of the Tennessee Senat...
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Henry "Pete" Robinson was the son of Emma Hagerty and Walter McLaren Robinson, Sr. Brother Walter McLaren Robinson, Jr. (1923-2004). Charles married Susanne Wilson on October 16, 1954. To this union th...
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Ann Craig was the daughter of Edwin Wilson and Elizabeth Wade Craig. Margaret Ann married Walter McLaren Robinson, Jr. on October 4, 1949. They were married for fifty-five years. To this union four chi...
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Abernathy "Neil" Craig II, Businessman, philanthropist, and sportsman. Neil attended Parmer School, Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and a 1951 graduate of Vanderbilt University.Neil had ...
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Wilson Craig was a giant in the American insurance industry, President, Chairman, and honorary Chairman of National Life and Accident Insurance Company and a pioneer in commercial radio.Mr. Craig was k...
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Craig (September 10, 1900 – November 19, 1966) was an American songwriter, honky tonk piano player, and leader of a Nashville dance band. His works included "Dynamite" and "Near You", the latter being ...
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Edmund William Cole (July 19, 1827 – May 25, 1899) was an American Confederate veteran and businessman. He was the president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, and the founder of the ...
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Russell Cole (January 14, 1874 – November 17, 1934) was an American businessman. He was the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1926 to 1934, and a director of many companies. Durin...
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L. Clark, nationally known anatomist, scientist, and medical educator, was born in Nashville on October 5, 1898, a son of Martin and Margaret Ransom Lillard Clark. His grandfather, Dr. William Martin C...
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Wellington "Jo" Byrns, Sr. (July 20, 1869 – June 4, 1936) was a U.S. politician. He served as a 14-term Democratic Congressman from Tennessee.BiographyByrns was born in Cedar Hill, Robertson County, Te...
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Edward Burch, Jr. (January 25, 1912–March 10, 1996) was an American attorney based in Memphis, Tennessee, who is best known for his contributions in the areas of conservation and civil rights and has b...
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Beverly Briley (January 11, 1914 – September 14, 1980) was an American attorney and politician, the first mayor of the newly consolidated metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County in Ten...
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the Vanderbilt University Quarterly, quoting the Franklin Review-Appeal of 27 Aug 1903:William House of Franklin, Tenn., died at his home on August 19, 1903, of typhoid fever. Mr. House left Vanderbilt...
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E. Barnard, astronomer and astronomical photographer, was born in Nashville. To help support his fatherless family, Barnard worked in the photographic gallery of Van Stavoren, where he assisted in the ...
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and editor William T. Alderson was born and raised in Schenectady, New York. After service in the navy during World War II, he graduated from Colgate University in 1947. He then entered the graduate pr...
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