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Joseph Goodwin Rice was born at Kennett, Dunklin county, Mis- souri, September 24, 1862. He attended the public schools of his native county until the family removed to Tennessee, after which he finished his education in the public schools of that county and at Beach Grove Academy. His mother died in 1881, and about that time he began his business career as a clerk in a store at Pleasantville. Later he was similarly employed at Etna. In 1889 he was united in mar- riage with Miss Laura McClearen, daughter of A. C. McClearen, a prominent farmer of Pleasantville, Tennessee. After his marriage Mr. Rice removed to Hickman county, where for the next six years he fol- lowed farming, after which he was engaged in the mercantile business at Kimmins, Lewis county, for about ten years. He still retains an interest in this business, of which his son, Carl Rice, is manager. The establishment has been organized as a stock company, known as the Kimmins Mercantile Company, and has a large patronage among the people of the town and the farmers of the surrounding country.
Ever since he became a voter Mr. Rice has been a consistent sup- porter of the Democratic party and its principles. His activity in behalf of his party led to his nomination and election to the office of county clerk in 1908, and under his administration the affairs of the office were conducted with such skill and ability that he was honored with a reelection in 1910. This indorsement by his fellow-citizens speaks volumes for his efficiency and integrity, and is one of which any man might feel justly proud.
Mr. Rice is a member and one of the board of stewards of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. His fraternal relations are ex- pressed by membership in George DeSmith Lodge, No. 182, Knights
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of Pythias, of Hohenwald, and in both church and lodge he is an active and useful worker.
Mr. and Mrs. Rice are the parents of eight children-Carl, Her- man, Bernard, Irene, Aubrey, Fred, Edward and Willadene. As pre- viously stated, Carl is manager of the Kimmins Mercantile Company. The other children are at home with the parents, with the exception of Edward, who died in 1905 at the age of fifteen months.
As a matter of family history it is worthy of note that Mr. Rice's father was a lifelong Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also that he served in the Confederate army under Gen. Sterling Price. He was captured and held a prisoner for some time, being finally exchanged at Vicksburg.
FRED L. SCHUBERT. It is noteworthy that many of the sturdy and useful citizens of the United States either came from Germany or are of German extraction. Moritz Schubert, the father of Fred L., was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1824, and about 1845 left the Fatherland to seek his fortune in America. He located in Ohio, where he followed farm- ing until 1880, when he removed with his family to Tennessee. In 1860 he married Miss Bertha Kiefer, a native of Baden-Baden, Ger- many, where she was born in 1833 and came with her parents to Ohio when she was eleven years of age. Moritz Schubert passed to the life beyond in 1892. His widow is still living. He was a stanch Demo- crat in his political belief and during President Cleveland's second administration served for four years as postmaster of Hohenwald, where he located upon coming to the state in 1880, and near which town he owned a fine farm. He also served as justice of the peace for six years and in the latter years of his life was interested in mercan- tile pursuits, as well as other business enterprises. His religious be- lief was expressed by membership in the German Lutheran church.
Fred L. Schubert, the fifth in a family of seven children born to Moritz and Bertha (Kiefer) Schubert, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1873. His early education was acquired in the public schools of his native state and Tennessee. After completing the course in the public schools he prepared himself for the vocation of teacher and in 1889 began following that profession. While teaching he devoted his spare time to the study of law and in 1894 was admitted to the bar, shortly after he had reached the age of twenty-one years. Upon being admitted to practice he located in Hohenwald, where he has built up a satisfactory clientage and has won recognition as one of the able and successful attorneys of the county. He also owns a large farm in Lewis county, which he manages in connection with-or rather in addition to-his legal business. His agricultural instinct was doubt- less inherited from his father, and in the management of his farm he has shown a skill that challenges the admiration of the community.
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Mr. Schubert has also found time to devote to the public welfare as a member of the Tennessee legislature. In 1905 he was elected to represent the Twentieth senatorial district in the state senate, and after serving two years in that body was elected to the lower house from the Seventeenth district for a term of two years. He then declined further political honors to attend to his private affairs, though he still takes a keen interest in the fortunes of the Democratic party, with which he has been identified since he attained to his majority, and which so signally honored him by twice electing him to the general assembly.
In fraternal circles Mr. Schubert is well known, being a member and past master of Hohenwald Lodge No. 607, Free and Accepted Masons, Waynesboro Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and George DeSmith Lodge No. 182, Knights of Pythias, of Hohenwald.
On October 18, 1900, Mr. Schubert married Miss Pearl DeHart, daughter of I. N. and Julia DeHart, of Nashville, Tennessee, and to this union has been born one daughter-Julia Bertha.
RAYMOND CRAWFORD HOOPER. A well-known and popular citizen of Hohenwald, Tennessee, was Raymond Crawford Hooper, who was twenty years in the service of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company and for the last twelve years had charge of that company's interests at Hohenwald as station agent, during which time he so ordered his course as to win the high esteem of his acquaintances and to be ac- counted one of the sterling men of his community. He came from one of Tennessee's pioneer families and was a son of one of this state's loyal defenders of the Southern cause during the Civil war. The originator of the family in Tennessee was John Hooper, the great-grandfather of Raymond C., who came from North Carolina and settled on Sam's creek in Cheatham county, where he continued his occupation as a farmer. He had married before leaving North Carolina. One of his sons was Jesse Hooper, the grandfather of our subject, who spent his entire life in Cheatham county, Tennessee, and was one of its most prominent men. The latter also was a farmer and was an extensive slave holder. His son, Jesse Owen Hooper, the father of Raymond C., was born in Cheatham county, August 10, 1834, and grew to manhood in that county, receiving there his schooling. As a youth imbued with the loyal ardor so marked among the sons of Tennessee he ran away from home to join the Confederate ranks for service in the Civil war and became a member of Capt. Charles May's company in the Fiftieth Ten- nessee regiment. He served until near the close of the war and most of the time was a fifer in the fife and drum corps. After the war he re- turned to Cheatham county, was married there and shortly afterward removed to Dickson county, where he took up a farm in district No. 6. near Charlotte. Later he was engaged in the mercantile business at Charlotte for a number of years and spent his closing years there re-
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tired. He was a staunch Democrat in political views, and fraternally was a Mason. He was a member of the Christian church, while his wife was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church, south. The latter, who was Miss Mary Catherine Cullem as a maiden, was born in Cheatham county in 1836 and departed life in 1882. To these parents were born eight' children, of whom our subject was second in birth and is the only one now living.
Raymond Crawford Hooper was born at Charlotte, Dickson county, Tennessee, August 20, 1869, and received his education in the public schools of that town and at the Dickson Normal school. He first took up responsible duties as a clerk at Dickson, Tennessee, but after two years of that employment he entered upon railroad work as a brakeman on the Centerville branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad. Some time later he took up telegraphy and after he had mastered it he was appointed agent at Kimmins, Tennessee. That was in 1899. After twenty-one months of service there he was transferred to Hohenwald, Tennessee, where he remained twelve years, the whole of his twenty years of railroad service having been for the same company. He was also interested in agriculture and owned a farm in Lewis county and also one in Wayne county, this state.
On January 15, 1903, Mr. Hooper was united in marriage to Miss Annie Laura Downing, daughter of S. W. Downing, who is engaged in farming and in the saw-mill business in Wayne county: To Mr. and Mrs. Hooper were born four children, Mary, Maggie, Jesse Owen and Raymond, the latter two of whom are deceased. Mr. Hooper was a loyal supporter of the Democratic party and an enthusiastic worker in its behalf. Fraternally he was a member of Dickson Lodge, No. 468, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Nashville Consistory No. 21 of Scot- tish Rite Masons, and was a charter member and past chancellor com- mander of George D. Smith Lodge No. 182, Knights of Pythias, at Hohenwald. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, as is also his wife, and in its faith he passed away January 4, 1913.
JOHN P. DABBS, M. D. Among the immigrants to Tennessee from the state of North Carolina was Vincent S. Dabbs, who was born in the latter state in 1815, and who came with his brothers and sisters to Tennesssee at an early date. They settled in Perry, Wayne and Lewis counties. Vincent S. Dabbs was a successful farmer and stock dealer. He was twice married. His first wife was a Miss Grinder, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, and after her death he married Ellen Elizabeth Lancaster, who bore him eight children, four of whom are still living, Dr. John P. Dabbs being the fourth in order of birth. Vincent S. Dabbs died in 1880, and his second wife, who was born in Missouri in 1835, passed away in 1911. He was a Whig until after that party was dis-
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banded, and from that time until his death he affiliated with the Demo- cratic party. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and his wife was a Primitive Baptist.
Dr. John P. Dabbs was born in Farmers' Valley, Perry county, Tennessee, April 21, 1856. He received his early educational training in the public schools of his native county, after which he took a course in the Bryant & Stratton Business College at Nashville. He then taught in the public schools of Perry county for two years, at the end of which time he began the study of medicine. After suitable preparation, he entered the medical department of the University of Nashville, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1878, and took another course of lectures in 1882. He began practice at Farmers' Valley, but in 1890 removed to Linden and was actively engaged in practice until he located at Hohenwald in 1909. He is a member of the Tennessee State Medical Society and the Perry County Medical Society, and although more than a third of a century has elapsed since he first received his degree, he has not permitted himself to fall behind in the march of medical prog- ress. In keeping up with the procession, however, he knows how to be conservative without being non-progressive, and is never in a hurry to abandon a remedy that has been tried for the realm of experiment or empiricism. In addition to his professional work, he has been also ex- tensively interested in farming in Perry county, and has dealt in real estate to some extent.
For many years Dr. Dabbs has been recognized as one of the leaders of the Democratic party in his county and district. In 1896 he was elected to the state senate from the Twentieth senatorial district, com- posed of Maury, Perry and Lewis counties, and served for two years. He served as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Perry county for some time, and is now the secretary of the executive com- mittee of Lewis county. In 1904 he was appointed by Judge Woods to fill out an unexpired term as clerk of the circuit court of Perry county, and in whatever official position he has been called to serve he has given a good account of his stewardship.
Fraternally Dr. Dabbs is a member of the camp of Woodmen of the World at Linden, the Masonic Lodge, No. 256, at Linden, and the Royal Arch chapter at Jackson, Tennessee. He and his wife are members of the Christian church.
On August 21, 1877, Dr. Dabbs was united in marriage with Miss Sarah L. Randel, daughter of Dr. A. P. Randel, of Oregon county, Missouri. To this union were born seven children, five of whom are still living, viz: Mollie May, Commodore Olna, Ethel, Cleveland R. and Sadie Matt. Mollie married Samuel Lomax of Linden, Tennessee; Ethel is the wife of Joseph Tucker, a well known resident of Perry county ; Sadie married C. H. Cude and lives in Texas; and the two sons are en- gaged in the conduct of a large mercantile concern at Hohenwald, under the firm name of J. P. Dabbs & Sons ..
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WILLIAM TAYLOR DANIEL. It is an interesting and gratifying fact, so much has the restless, nomadic spirit grown in America, that among the representative men of Tennessee there is a remarkable percentage of native sons, men who have found in the locality of their nativity ample opportunity for successful professional, industrial and business careers. One of these is William Taylor Daniel, of Hohenwald, who since 1904, has been a resident and business man of Lewis county and previous to that was a well known and prominent citizen of his native county of Perry. The Daniel family has been established on Tennessee soil for full a century and its members have ever held worthy and useful places in society. It originated here with John W. Daniel, the grandfather of William T., who came into Tennessee from North Carolina about the beginning of the last century and settled on Yellow Creek. He mar- ried Elizabeth Taylor. William Taylor Daniel, Sr., one of their seven children, was born in Dickson county, Tennessee, June 24, 1822, but was yet a youth when the family removed to Perry county, where he grew up and concluded a common school education. Taking up farming, he followed that occupation the most of his life, but in his later years he engaged in the mercantile business at Tom's Creek, Perry county and was one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of that county. In political sentiment he was a Democrat and was a magistrate of the fourth district in Perry county for forty years. In a fraternal way he was identified with the Masonic order, and in religious faith and church membership he was affiliated with the Christian denomination. He passed away in Perry county on July 18, 1910. There he was wedded in 1852 to Margaret Anne O'Guin, who was born in Perry county, August 23, 1833, and is let living. She is also a member of the Christian church.
Eleven children were born to this union and of this family William Taylor Daniel, Jr., our subject, was second in birth and is one of four children yet living. He was reared in Perry county, was edu- cated in its public schools, and when he came of responsible age he took up farming there, following it until 1904, though in the mean- time he was also engaged in the mercantile business at Tom's Creek fourteen years. He then removed to Lewis county and entered the lumber business at Hohenwald as a lumber buyer for the firm of Fair & Ketter at Pittsburg, Tennessee, continuing thus engaged four years. During the last four years he has been associated with Samuel H. Hinson in the lumber business at Hohenwald. While a resident of Perry county he served as county judge from 1894 to 1902 and previous to that he had served as county surveyor five years and had been a magistrate of the fourth district of that county six years. Politically he has always been aligned with the Democratic party. Fraternally he is affiliated as a member of Hohenwald Lodge No. 607, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, with George D. Smith Lodge No. 182, Knights of Pythias and with Camp No. 215 of the Woodmen of the World.
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On February 16, 1875, Mr. Daniel was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Dyer, a daughter of C. C. Dyer, a well known farmer citizen of Perry county. Eight children have blessed this union and all are living. In order of birth they are: Lillie May, now Mrs. J. E. Burns, of Perry county, Tennessee ; Nora L., now Mrs. R. T. Campbell, and Chester Arthur Daniel, both residents of Hohenwald; Ethel, who is the wife of J. R. Downey and resides at Etna, Tennessee; E. A. Daniel, Maude, now Mrs. W. J. Beasley, and Gertrude, the wife of T. C. Allison, all of whom reside in Hohenwald; and Samuel L. Daniel. Mr. Daniel and his family are all members of the Christian church.
WILLIAM BARNABAS TUCKER, M. D. Well established in the success- ful practice of his profession in the thriving town of Hohenwald, Dr. William Barnabas Tucker is numbered among the representative physi- cians of Lewis county and prior to his locating at Hohenwald in 1907, was one of the best known members of the medical profession in the ad- joining county of Perry, where he was a medical practitioner thirty-four years. He is a scion of one of the old pioneer families of this common- wealth, one that was established here very shortly after Tennessee was admitted to statehood and whose members in the interim of a century or more have always been identified with the most worthy order of cit- izenship in this state.
A native of Perry county, Tennessee, William Barnabas Tucker was born near Linden, December 13, 1852, a son of Robert P. Tucker. The latter also was a native of Perry county, where he was born in 1818. Joseph Tucker, father of Robert P., was the founder of the family in Tennessee and came to this state in 1799 from North Carolina, where he was born in 1769, and where he was subsequently married to a Miss Glass. On coming to Tennessee he located in Perry county, where he spent the remainder of his life in the vocation of a farmer, passing away there in 1873. He helped General Jackson demonstrate the order of American soldiery at the battle of New Orleans in 1815 and sustained a severe wound in that engagement with the British. Of the eight chil- dren of his family, Robert was the third in birth. After receiving a common school education, Robert also became a tiller of the soil and followed agricultural pursuits very successfully throughout his life. In political sentiment he was a staunch Democrat and in a fraternal way he was affiliated with the Masonic order. His death occurred in 1870. He was married in Perry county, Tennessee, to Mary A. Peach, who was born in Williamson county, this state, in 1826 and is yet living. Two children were born to these parents: Dr. Tucker, of this review and John R. Tucker, now living in Perry county.
Dr. Tucker was educated in the Perry county public schools and in the medical department of the University of Nashville and of the Uni- versity of Tennessee, attending the former institution two terms and the
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latter one term. He took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in each, in the University of Nashville in 1872, and in 1886, he took additional work in the University of Tennessee, receiving again the degree the M. D. In fact, throughout his whole medical career, Dr. Tucker has kept abreast with every advance made in the science and practice of medicine and while no longer representing the younger generation of the profession, he retains the keenest interest in the discoveries and progress of this science and has besides the invaluable knowledge gained from his own long experience. He began the practice of medicine at Linden, Perry county in 1873 and continued there thirty-four years, or until 1907, when he changed his location to Hohenwald, Lewis county. He is a general practitioner and while located in Perry county was a member of the Perry County Medical Society. He has always been more or less interested in agriculture and still owns a farm. Politically he is an adherent of the Democratic party.
In 1876, Dr. Tucker was married to Miss Louisa Jane Beasley, daugh- ter of Beverly Beasley, of Perry county. To Dr. and Mrs. Tucker have been born four children, namely: James Thompson Tucker, now of Chicago, Illinois; Maude, who became the wife of O. J. Baars and resides in Perry county, Tennessee; Eve, who is at the home of her parents; and William Homer, now a resident of Fort Dodge, Iowa.
DR. JAMES FRANKLIN WHITWELL. One of the representative pro- fessional men and highly esteemed citizens of Lewis county, Tennessee, is Dr. James Franklin Whitwell, who has been a medical practitioner in that county for thirty years and has also become well known there through considerable county official service. The family to which Dr. Whitwell belongs is one of the old connections of Tennessee, as it was established here considerably more than a century ago, and he is of the third generation native to the soil of this state. Different of its members have held prominent places in the public life of this section and the father of Dr. Whitwell gave up his life at the battle of Franklin as a loyal defender of his state and the Confederacy during the Civil war. The family originated in America with Robert Whitwell, the great- grandfather of Dr. Whitwell, who emigrated from England and located in Tennessee, settling in Hickman county, where he reared a large fam- ily. Rev. Pleasant Whitwell, one of his sons, was born in Hickman county in 1803, but after he reached man's estate he removed to Perry county, this state, where afterward remained his home and where in an industrial way he followed farming. Entering the ministry of the Primi- tive Baptist church, he attained considerable note in this connection and in his day was one of the strongest believers and exhorters of that faith in this country. He was a Democrat in political belief and served as clerk of the Perry county court eight years. A son of his, Thomas Whitwell, was judge of Perry county sixteen years. Rev. Pleasant
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Whitwell married Margaret Anderson, who bore him five children, one of whom was Elijah H. Whitwell, the father of Dr. Whitwell. Elijah H. Whitwell was born in Perry county, Tennessee, in 1832 and grew to manhood there, receiving a public school education. He followed farming until the opening of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Hulmes' company, formed at Linden, Perry county, and assigned to the Forty- eighth Tennessee regiment, with which he served until he gave up his life on the bloody battlefield of Franklin on November 30, 1864. In 1851 he was married to Angeline Randall, who was born in Perry county January 10, 1834, and died April 13, 1913. To this union were born five children, of whom Dr. Whitwell was second in birth and is the eldest of four that reached maturity and are yet living. The mother was mar- ried later to Joseph Dabbs, a farmer of Perry county.
James Franklin Whitwell was born near Linden, Perry county, Tennessee, May 9, 1854, and was but a lad of eight years when the father's sacrifice to the cause of the Southland deprived him of the provident care of that parent. He grew up in the vicinity of his birth and attended the public schools of the locality, later becoming a teacher. After being engaged in that manner in Perry and Lewis counties for some years he began to prepare for the profession he had determined should be his permanent line of endeavor and to that purpose began the study of medicine under Dr. T. S. Evans in the medical department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, concluding his training in the medical department of the University of Tennessee. Beginning the active practice of medicine at Riverside, Tennessee, in 1882, he con- tinued there until 1896, when he came to his present location at Hohen- wald, where he is now well established in practice. Politically he is a staunch Democrat and served as registrar of Lewis county twelve years, or from 1898 to 1910; was secretary of the executive committee of the county for several years and has also served as its health officer for a number of years. He is much interested in truck gardening and horti- culture and keeps in touch with and applies the most advanced ideas in regard to each of these lines of cultivation.
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