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Dr. Woodson was married in 1890 to Miss Eva Brown, daughter of W. H. Brown, who for a number of years was one of Gallatin's mer- chants. They have two children: Catherine B., a graduate of Howard College at Gallatin; and Amelia A., aged five years. Mrs. Woodson is a member of the Presbyterian church, while the Doctor is a Methodist. He is affiliated with the lodge and chapter Masonry, with the Odd Fel- lows, Knights of Pythias, and the Loyal Order of Moose. He has been master of his Masonic lodge, is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, and is trustee and physician for the order of Moose.
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XAVIER B. HAYNIE, M. D. For thirty years a physician in Gallatin and forty years in the state, Doctor Haynie has given such services to his fellow men as only a good doctor can, and his record in profession and citizenship deserves all the honor which his associates and friends have bestowed. In a sense he inherited his profession, for his father was a medical practitioner in Smith county for more than half a century. The Haynie family is one of the oldest in Tennessee, and its members have always been citizens of more than ordinary ability and position in their respective spheres.
Xavier B. Haynie was born in Smith county, June 8, 1848. Taking up some of the history of his family, his great-grandfather, William Haynie, a native of North Carolina, was a soldier in the patriot army during the Revolution, and later crossed the mountains to the west and became one of the first settlers to locate in Smith county. His son, Elijah Haynie, the grandfather, was a soldier under Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, was a substantial farmer citizen of Smith county, where his death occurred.
Dr. Henry B. Haynie, the father, was born in Smith county in 1816 and died in 1881, having spent nearly all his life in that county. He continued the military record of the family by serving first in the Semi- nole war, and later was a captain in the Twenty-third Tennessee Regi- ment of the Confederate army. He was wounded at Shiloh, and was af- terwards transferred to Morgan's noted cavalry as surgeon of the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, and as such served until May, 1865. He was again wounded in one of Morgan's skirmishes in Ohio. In 1844 he had gradu- ated from the Louisville Medical College, and with the exception of the period in the army was identified with the medical profession of Smith county all his career. He was in active work as a physician for fifty- five years, and his was the largest practice accorded to any one physician in the county. In politics he was a Democrat and just before his death had completed his second term as a member of the state legislature. He married Sarah Bradley, who was born in Smith county in 1822 and died in 1891. Her father, John Bradley, a native of Virginia, came in an early day to Smith county, where he spent the rest of his life. Mrs. Sarah Haynie was for sixty years an active member of the Methodist church, and her husband was a member for twenty years. Their five chil- dren are all living, and Dr. Xavier is the oldest.
After leaving the common schools of Smith county, Dr. Haynie entered the University of Nashville as a student of medicine, and received his degree in 1873, being valedictorian of his class. The first ten years of his practice were in his native county, and in 1882 he located at Gallatin, where he has devoted himself unsparingly to the needs of his large clientage. He is a member of the Sumner County, the State and the Mississippi Valley Medical Societies.
Doctor Haynie married, in 1874, Miss Belle Bradley, who died in
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1877. In 1883 he was united in marriage with Miss Fannie Allen, daughter of Van H. Allen, who was a native of Smith county and a prosperous farmer there for many years. Of the four children born to the Doctor and his present wife, two are living, namely: Lucy V., the wife of Lieutenant-Commander Stafford Doyle of the United States Navy; and Xavia, the wife of William R. Sturtevant, of Texas. Mrs. Haynie is a member of the Presbyterian church. The Doctor affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Honor, and in politics is a Democrat.
ALBERT C. DOBBINS. One of the oldest officials of Sumner county, Tennessee, both in points of age and service, is Albert C. Dobbins, county registrar, who is a native of Robertson county and is a scion of a family that was established in this vicinity about a quarter of a century before Tennessee attained its statehood in 1796. He therefore represents one of the oldest connections of the state and is of the second generation native to its soil. The original progenitor of the family in this county was John Dobbins, the grandfather of our subject, who was a native of Ireland and came to America as a young man prior to the Revolution. Here he espoused the patriot cause and fought for American independ- ence. After his service in the Revolution he located in Sumner county, Tennessee, being one of this county's earliest settlers. Three of his sons, Alexander B., Carson and Robert, followed his example of patriotism and valor and served in the War of 1812. Alexander B. Dobbins, the father of Albert C., was born in Sumner county, Tennessee, in 1781, and spent his whole life in this state, passing away in 1844. He was a farmer and tobacco planter and was quite successful in a business way. In the second war for independence he fought with General Jackson in the battle at New Orleans and also in the engagements in Alabama. He wedded Lovina C. Brigance, who was born in Sumner county in 1803, a daughter of James Brigance. Mr. Brigance, a native of North Caro- lina and a wood worker by trade, came into Tennessee when a young man and married in 1799. He located in Sumner county and there spent the remainder of his life. Alexander B. and Lovina C. (Brigance) Dobbins were the parents of eight children, of whom Albert C. is now the only survivor. Both parents were members of the Baptist church.
Albert C. Dobbins was born in Robertson county, Tennessee, October 8, 1841. He grew up a farmer boy and attended the rural schools of his vicinity. With the martial spirit of his ancestors and with loyalty to the state of his birth he promptly entered the Confederate service at the open- ing of the Civil war and served from 1861 to 1865 as a member of Com- pany E, of the Thirtieth Tennessee Regiment of Infantry. He fought at Fort Donelson, where he was captured and then was held prisoner in Northern camps seven months. On his release he returned to the Confed- erate army and fought at Jackson and Raymond, Mississippi; and Chick-
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amauga, Tennessee; and at Dalton and Atlanta, Georgia, as well as in a number of engagements of lesser note. At Atlanta he was again captured and was held nine months, being a prisoner at the time the war closed. On his return home he learned the carpenter trade and followed it for a number of years. He also taught school for about fifteen years. In 1898 he was elected registrar of Sumner county and has been successively re-elected to that office to the present time, now having served nearly fifteen years. This is a very convincing testimony of his standing in Sumner county as an upright, reliable and honorable citizen. As an official he has been faithful, prompt and capable.
Mr. Dobbins has been twice married. In 1871 he married Miss Jinsie Love. She was a daughter of Solomon Love, who was born in Sumner county and was a farmer and blacksmith. She died in 1875, leaving a daughter, Lena L., now the widow of Robert Maddox. On December 25, 1897, Mr. Dobbins took as his second wife, Miss Susie Armstrong, daughter of Josiah Armstrong, who was born in Sumner county and was a wagon maker and wheelwright. Mr. and Mrs. Dobbins are members of the Christian church. He is a member of the Masonic order and has been secretary of his local lodge for a number of years. Politically his faith is founded upon the tenets of the Democratic party and he has long been an active participant in the local affairs of his party.
JAMES D. G. MORTON. One of the most influential Tennesseeans in Democratic politics is James D. G. Morton, of Gallatin, chairman of the state Democratic committee. Mr. Morton has a keen and almost natural ability as a political organizer. During his fifteen years' residence in Sumner county he has been very active in public affairs. He is a prac- ticing lawyer at Gallatin, and for some years has been clerk and master of the chancery court.
At Washington, Indiana, Mr. Morton was born September 15, 1874, a son of J. H. and Josephine (Neal) Morton, mention of whose families appears in later paragraphs. Early in his career he learned the print- ing trade, and by that vocation supported himself through the period of his advanced education, which was obtained in Bethel College at Rus- sellville, Kentucky.
Admitted to the bar in 1894, he began practice in Granada, Missis- sippi, where he remained until the spring of 1897, at which date he came to Tennessee, and a few months later located at Gallatin, where he. has since been one of the enterprising members of the bar. In 1906 came his appointment as clerk and master of the chancery court.
Mr. Morton, in 1896 at Holly Springs, Mississippi, was secretary of the congressional committee, before age permitted him the privilege of voting. He was manager of Judge B. D. Bell's campaign against Judge Landon, Richardson and Henderson, for the supreme bench of Tennes- see, and secured the triumph of his candidate. In 1910 he was a member Vol. V-5
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and secretary of the state Democratie committee, and was chosen chair- man of the committee for 1912. Mr. Morton has come into a position of influence through his own energies and ability, and has been a hard worker all his life. His church is the Presbyterian, and his affiliations are with the Knights of Pythias and the Sigma Nu College fraternity.
The father of the state chairman of the Democratic committee is the Rev. J. H. Morton, a retired minister of the Presbyterian faith, and now a resident at Gallatin. He was born in Logan county, Kentucky, Novem- ber 17, 1833, a son of Joseph and Louisa (Davidson) Morton. His pa- ternal grandparents were William and Martha (Pryor) Morton, both natives of Virginia, and in an early day came over the mountains into Kentucky, where they spent the rest of their lives. Joseph Morton was born in Virginia in 1790 and died in 1846. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and sometime after that war came into Kentucky and set- tled on a farm in Logan county, where he spent the rest of his active career as a farmer. His wife, Louisa (Davidson) Morton, was born in Virginia in 1803 and died in 1898, coming to Kentucky when a young girl. Her parents were James H. and Harriet (Smith) Davidson, and the latter's father, Jonathan Smith, was in the Revolutionary army, serving as a fifer.
Of the ten children in the Morton family six are still living. J. H. Morton, the fifth of the children, attended the common schools of Logan county, Kentucky, where he was subsequently for eight years superin- tendent of the county schools. At the beginning of the war he was a student in Cumberland University, preparing himself for the ministry of the Presbyterian church. For eighteen months he was also a pupil in the private school of Professor William Mariner.
His first charge in the ministry was at Union Grove, Kentucky, and he was located at many places in that state, also for a time at Washing- ton, Indiana, was pastor of a church near Memphis two years, preached three years at Oakland, Mississippi, and for one year in Marshall county, Tennessee. His active ministry continued from 1864 to 1902, a period of nearly forty years, at the end of which he retired and has since resided chiefly in Gallatin, where he found employment for his energies in the deputy clerkship under his son.
Fraternally he is a chapter Mason, and in politics is a Democrat. On May 1, 1865, he was married to Miss Mary Dean Gleaves, a daughter of William and Mary Gleaves, of Davidson county, Tennessee. She lived only about a year after their marriage. On May 15, 1867, was solem- nized his second marriage, when Josephine Neal became his wife. Her parents were Rev. William and Sarah (Green) Neal, her father having been a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian faith. The four chil- dren born of this second union are: Minor, a resident of New York state; J. D. G., of Gallatin; Mary Dean, the wife of A. C. Bigger, of
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Dallas, Texas; and Fannie, who married H. P. Crume and resides in Hamilton, Ohio.
HENRY S. COLLIER. After more than a century of statehood and a much longer period of settlement the population of Tennessee is one that is largely native born. The family of which this successful Gallatin law- yer is a member is one that has been identified with Tennessee nearly a century and has been well represented in the legal profession of this state, his father and grandfather both having devoted the active years of their lives to the practice of law. Henry S. Collier is a lawyer of ability and strength and has well upheld the prestige of the family name for professional attainment.
Born near Gallatin, Sumner county, Tennessee, September 4, 1877, he is a son of Henry C. Collier. The latter was a native of Dickson county and spent almost the whole of his professional career in his native county as a practitioner at Charlotte, the county seat of that county, having served during that time as a clerk of the court and for a number of years as a master in chancery. He was deceased in 1881 and was a member of the Presbyterian church. Miss Nannie Woodard, who became his wife, was born in Sumner county, Tennessee, in 1859. Two children came to their union and of these only Henry S. Collier sur- vives. John C. Collier, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Dickson county, this state, and gave the whole of his active career to the practice of law at Charlotte. Felix G. Woodard, the ma- ternal grandfather, was born in Davidson county but moved to Sumner county when a young man and there spent the remainder of his life as a successful farmer.
Mr. Collier was reared in Sumner county and after obtaining a public school education he entered Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennes- see, where he was graduated from the law course in 1898. He began the practice of his profession at Gallatin and continued alone until 1905, when he formed a partnership with J. T. Baskerville, which associa- tion has continued to the present. Mr. Collier has attained distinction as an able, hardworking and far-seeing practitioner, is admitted to prac- tice in all the courts of the state, and is recognized as one of the fore- most members of the Sumner county bar. The bar has long seemed a stepping stone to political preferment under our American system. In 1912 Mr. Collier, who has always given unswerving allegiance to the principles of the Democratic party, was nominated and elected a Demo- cratic representative from Sumner county to the Tennessee state legis- lature.
In religious faith and church membership he is a Presbyterian, and fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, in which connec- tion he has served as chancellor commander of Rowena Lodge No. 21 at Gallatin. Mr. Collier has largely made his own way in life and is.
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numbered among the forceful, progressive and worthy citizens of Gallatin.
HARRY SWANEY. For ten years postmaster of Gallatin, Mr. Swaney was head of the Sumner county Republican organization for a number of years, and is one of the most popular men in the public life of this county. His career has been one of self-advancement, and by efficient service and ability to get things done has risen to a place among the men of mark in this section of the state.
Harry Swaney was born in the county of his present residence on the 31st of March, 1872, a son of Bailey P. and Susan (Belote) Swaney. Both parents were natives of Sumner county, and the family has long been identified with this section of Tennessee. His mother passed away in 1872, while the father, who has long been a substantial farmer and was a soldier during the Civil war, now lives on his home farm in this county. There was only one child in the family of the parents. The mother was a member of the Methodist church. In politics the father was an independent Democrat.
During his boyhood Mr. Swaney attended the rural academy where he was graduated and also had a special course of instruction under Capt. J. H. Bate. His practical career began on a farm, and he has always been more or less actively identified with farming. At the pres- ent time he owns a farm of three hundred acres in this county, and has improved it and made it an excellent evidence of his business prosperity. Some years ago he moved his residence into Gallatin, where he became connected with the federal service in the capacity of assistant postmaster, and from that position was appointed to the office of postmaster April 1, 1902. His appointment has been reconfirmed under the successive administrations so that he has now served for more than eleven years. During that time many notable changes have been made in the service, and he will be particularly remembered in the history of the local post office as having been the incumbent during the development of the rural free delivery service and also at the installation of the new parcel post and city delivery.
Mr. Swaney in early life became connected with the local organiza- tion of the Republican party, and for a number of years was chairman of the county committee. From this position of influence in the local organization he was promoted to the present office as postmaster.
Mr. Swaney was married to Miss Alfa W. Angle, daughter of Wil- liam Angle, who was a farmer and mechanic, who spent many years in Sumner county, where he was known as a solid and substantial man of business and a public-spirited citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Swaney are the parents of three children : Rufus, who is now in school, and Harry and Miller W. Mrs. Swaney is an active member of the Christian church.
yours truly W. H. Roberts
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WM. F. ROBERTS, M. D. Perhaps the old adage, "There is always room at the top," applies with more force to the medical profession than to any other calling, though it is measurably true of all occupa- tions, and the more obstacles encountered in the climb the more room will be found when the top is reached. The man who is satisfied with mediocrity rarely ever rises above that state, while the man of true merit, inherent strength of character and laudable ambition pushes on toward a higher ideal. Years may elapse before his real worth and sterling qualifications become generally known, but when once seen are sure to be appreciated.
The Roberts family, which is of English origin, is one of the old families of Tennessee. The great-grandparents of Doctor Roberts were natives of North Carolina and were among those who came from that state and settled in Tennessee at an early date. Their son, William D. Roberts, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of the prominent and influential citizens in his day, a large land and slave owner, and was for some years prior to the Civil war engaged in the tobacco and cotton business. When the trouble between the North and South came on, he remained loyal to the Union, and this attitude drew forth the hatred and enmity of his neighbors who sympathized with the Confederacy. Consequently he lost the greater part of his property and was reduced to rather straightened circumstances finan- cially, but he never sacrificed his principles and remained true to the government established by our forefathers. He married Martha Brown, a native of South Carolina, and they became the parents of eight chil- dren. Alonzo L. Roberts, the doctor's father, was a prosperous and successful farmer of Henry county, Tennessee, and was a man of strong intellectual ability. He married Miss Emma Wimberly, daughter of Lewis and Matheny (Western) Wimberly, and a member of a well known Tennessee family. To this union were born two children.
Dr. W. F. Roberts, the elder son, was born in Henry county, July 11, 1869. He matriculated in the University of Tennessee, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1894, and then took a post- graduate course in Chicago Polyclinic in 1901. The same year he located at Troy, Obion county, where he has since practiced his pro- fession and has won the reputation of being one of the leading physicians in that section of the state. Commencement day at his Alma Mater was really a commencement with him, for he has never ceased to be a student-both of books and men-and he has kept fully abreast of the new discoveries pertaining to his chosen field of effort. Being a firm believer in the effectiveness of organization and association with his brother practitioners, he is a member of the American and the Tennessee State Medical Associations, the Tri-State and the West Ten- nessee Medical Associations, and of the Obion County Medical Society. Through the interchange of ideas among the members of these organiza-
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tions, he has gained many useful and practical hints concerning the treatment of diseases, and he has ever been willing to impart informa- tion gained through his own large and constantly growing practice. This course has marked him as a skillful and progressive physician- one who alike commands the respect and confidence of the members of the profession and the general public. Doctor Roberts is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Christian church, in which he holds the office of elder. In both lodge and church work he takes a lively interest and is deservedly popular because of his genial disposi- tion, his open-handed charity and his general good fellowship. He believes in good government and the election of honest and capable men to office, but has never taken an active part in political affairs, preferring to devote his time and talents to the work of his profession and in behalf of his patients. On November 25, 1897, Doctor Roberts married Miss Sallie J. Redditt, a native of Louisiana and daughter of LaFayette and Sallie J. (Dunagan) Redditt, both natives of Tennessee, farming people. The former served in the Confederate army.
OLIVER DUVAL MOORE, clerk of the court in Sumner county, Tennes- see, was one of that county's successful business men prior to taking up his official duties as clerk, and in both relations he has proved his capability and efficiency. He is a representative of some of the oldest and most prominent family connections of Sumner county and in his own career has followed their example for useful, honorable and worthy citizenship.
He is a son of Dr. William P. Moore, who was born in Sumner county in 1829 and passed away in 1901 in the vicinity where he has spent over forty years in the sacrificing labor of a physician. Doctor Moore. was reared in Sumner county, received his earlier schooling here, and for some time he followed the profession of teaching. His preparation for the medical profession was made in the Vanderbilt College of Medi- cine, Nashville, Tennessee, and the Louisville Medical College, Louis- ville, Kentucky. Locating at Portland, Tennessee, he there began the labors of a medical practitioner and continued them for over forty years, one of the best beloved and honored of his profession in Sumner county. He was not only an able physician and one of long experience, but he possessed the personal qualities of gentleness, sympathy and painstak- ing care. While he was very successful in his practice and accumulated a fair estate, no mercenary motive was allowed to influence his services. His aim was to do all that could be done for his patient, whether that patient lived in a palatial residence or in a cabin, and to satisfy the dictates of his own kind and unselfish heart. He also did noble service among the Southern soldiery during the Civil war. Doctor Moore was twice married. His first wife was Amanda Dickey and to this union were born: W. P. Moore, Jr., now a physician at Portland, Tennessee; R. D.
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Moore, cashier of the Portland Bank; and G. S. Moore, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee. His second wife was Mary Duval, a daughter of Dr. O. H. P. Duval, a very able and skilled physician and cultured gentleman who was one of the early members of his profession in Sumner county. To this second union were born three children, two of whom are living : O. D. Moore and H. M. Moore, twins, the former of whom is our subject and the latter of whom is a merchant at Portland, Tennes- see. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Moore was Richard D. Moore, a Virginian by birth, who migrated to Sumner county, Tennessee, in an early day and taught school here for a number of years. He served as one of the early registrars of Sumner county.
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