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author of "California Sketches," two volumes; "Christian Growth" and "The Class Meeting." "The Sunday-school and its Methods" is a vol- . ume published at Nashville, 1883, by Rev. James A. Lyons, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. George W. Harris, author of "Sut Lovingood's Yarns," a humorous book, was born in Knoxville, Tenn. His book had a wide popularity, especially among young readers.
Legal writers are Hon. William F. Cooper, author of "Cooper's Chan- cery Reports," reported and edited by himself; Wesley J. Hicks, author of "Hicks' Manual;" William C. Kain, author of "Tennessee Justice and Legal Adviser," and Henry S. Foote, author of "Foote's Bench and Bar of the Southwest."
"A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin, or an Essay on Slavery," is the work of A. Woodward, M. D., published in Cincinnati in 1853. Dr. Woodward lived in Knoxville for many years where he practiced his profession, and has left a large family. His little book is very credit- able, and the views on Southern customs and the estimate of character are just and impartial. "Old Times in West Tennessee," published in Memphis, 1873, and copyrighted by Joseph S. Williams in the same year, is a book by "A Descendant of One of the First Settlers."
The most prominent of the female authors of Tennessee is Miss Mary N. Murfree, whose pseudonym is Charles Egbert Craddock. Miss Mur- free is a native of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Loss of property induced her father, who is a prominent lawyer, to live on the old Dickenson planta- tion. It was the isolated life there that led the young girl to reflection and introspection, and developed her keen observation of nature's mys- teries, which plumed her pen for its exquisite descriptions of scenery. Miss Murfree touches the very core of nature and reveals all her hidden . lore, presenting it to the reader in gorgeous coloring. Many visits to the mountains of East Tennessee made her familiar with the customs and dialect of the mountaineers. This practical knowledge, added to the wealth of imagination she possesses, formed the conjunction necessary to perfect the genius. All the prominent journals of the country accord the very highest praise to Miss Murfree. She is said to be the "most powerful and original of the 'southern school' of romanticists." Says the Boston Traveller: "Here is the positive, brilliant, glowing genius that has cut its own channel and made its own place." Her productions are "In the Tennessee Mountains," "Down the Ravine," "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains" and many other contributions to period- icals; also "Where the Battle was Fought." The publication of her first work entitled her, justly, to the front rank among novelists, and her merit
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is acknowledged by all lovers of the beautiful, who look on her produc- tions as a new voice of delight in the world of fiction.
Mrs. L. Virginia French was by birth a Virginian. At an early age she was sent by her father to her maternal grandmother in Washington, Penn., where she was educated. In 1848, having finished her education, she became a teacher in Memphis. Her maiden nom de plume was L' Inconnue. She published, in 1856, "Wind Whispers," a book of fugi- tive poems; "Legends of the South," in verse; "Iztalilxo, the Lady of Tala," a tragedy in five acts, the scene laid in Mexico; "My Roses," a novel of Southern life in 1872. In 1879, "Darlingtonia," a novel, ran as a serial in the Detroit Free Press. She occupied the position of ed- itor to many prominent literary journals of the South. She is best known as a poet. Her verse is full of tone and imagination, and her drama has been compared to "Ion" and "The Lady of Lyons." She led a life of excessive literary activity and usefulness. She died at Mc- Minnville, March 31, 1881. Since her death her sister, Mrs. Lide Meri- weather, also an authoress, has published a volume of poems entitled "One or Two," the joint work of these gifted sisters. Mrs. Meriweather re- sided in Memphis for many years, and at that time published two books, "Soundings" and "Souls for Sale." "Soundings," a prose work, was written with the noble endeavor to elevate and restore to honest effort those who, by one false step, are tossed by custom into the bitter gulf of. degradation, without one hope of repentance or of restoration to a more upright career, to which some might attain if the hand-grasp of pitying women was held out to them. Mrs. Meriweather is also a poet of ability. "October" is a handsome specimen of suggestive style.
Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum was born in Kentucky, and removed to Memphis after her marriage. While there, she became the editor of the Lotos, a literary magazine. In 1856 she brought out a novel, "Nelly Bracken" which was favorably received; "Rilla Motto," a romance writ- ten for the Lotos in 1860; "Lotos Flowers," a volume of miscellaneous poems. "Benny," a Christmas ballad which appeared in the Home Journal, attracted much attention. Besides literary ability and rare no- bility of nature, Mrs. Ketchum is gifted with beauty, fine conversational powers and a voice of great compass and sweetness. Her teacher, Prof. Wright Merrick, says: "In the classics, in the sciences, she is equally at home; in modern languages, music and drawing she excels as well. I have never known her peer." She has traveled in Europe recently, and is still actively, engaged in literary work.
Mrs. Adelia C. Graves, nee Spencer, wife of Z. C. Graves, president at that time of Kingsville Academy, and founder of Mary Sharpe Col-
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lege, Winchester, Tenn., is an authoress. She was for some time pro- fessor of Latin and belles-lettres and afterward matron and professor of rhetoric in the Winchester College. She has written many fugitive poems and two prose tales, "Ruined Lives," published in the South- ern Repository, Memphis, and a drama, "Jephtha's Daugliter." She had also a work on "Woman; her Education, Aims, Sphere, Influence and Destiny."
Mrs. Mary E. Pope, Memphis, for some time principal of a flourish- ing school for young ladies, is the authoress of fugitive poems ; one entitled "The Gift of Song." Martha W. Brown, who wrote under the pseudonym of Estelle, resided in Memphis. She contributed numerous poems to The Southern Literary Messenger; "Thou Art Growing Old, Mother." is said to be the very essence of the poetry of the heart.
Mrs. Amanda Bright was born in Alabama and removed early in life to Fayetteville, Tenn. Her eldest son was killed at the battle of Seven Pines. Soon thereafter her second and only remaining child died. In her great sorrow she wrote a book, hoping to realize a sufficient sum to erect a monument to her sons' memory. "The. Three Bernices, or Ansermo of the Crag" was the outcome of this design, published in 1869. Mrs. Bright has vivid imagination, richness and exuberance of style, and she paints nature with the rare and delicate touches of a true artist. She wrote other stories, "The Prince of Seir" among them.
Miss Annie E. Law, long a resident of Tennessee, is of English birth and now lives in California. She is a woman of great force of will, strong intellect and unflinching courage. She gave valuable aid in the war to the Confederates, to whose cause she was a devoted adherent. She was tried as a spy at Knoxville in the war. She is authoress of many poems, one of the best being "Memories." Miss Law is also a learned concholo- gist, and has made many valuable contributions to that science.
In 1867 Miss Zoda G. Smith published from the Southern Method- ist Publishing House at Nashville, under the nom de plume of "Elloie." a small volume of poems. Her verse is said to contain nothing morbid or insipid, but to elevate the heart, broken by earthly trials, into the purer atmosphere and brighter skies of heaven. Mrs. Bettie Meriwether, a great apostle of temperance, wrote a fine novel of much power, entitled "The Master of Redleaf," which was favorably received. She is a resi- dent of Memphis. "A Memoir of Hugh Lawson White." judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and United States Senator, with selections from his speeches and correspondence, was published in. 1856, by his granddaughter, Miss Nancy N. Scott. Mrs. Emma M. Blake, nee Rut- ledge, native of Nashville, and was educated there. She married Mr.
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Daniel Blake, an Englishman, a resident of Charleston, S. C. A vol- - ume of her poeins was printed by her friends after her death, as a memorial of her, entitled "Reliquia." Mrs. W. G. McAdoo is the author of two novels, "The Nereid" and "Eagle-Bend," the scenes laid in East Tennessee, and a number of serial stories. Mrs. Annie S. Gil- christ, of Nashville, is authoress of two novels of considerable merit, ""Rosehurst" and "Harcourt," both published in Nashville.
Mrs. Jane Tandy Chinn Cross was a native of Kentucky, but pub- lished her books in Nashville. She was twice married, and died in 1870. While on a European tour, she corresponded with The Nashville Christian Advocate. She began writing for publication in 1851. Wrote a book of four volumes for children, and "Duncan Adair, or Captured in Escap- ing" and "Azile, A Story," Nashville, 1868. "Azile" is a very interesting story, the scene of the first part laid in Dresden, and changing to the · Southern States at the outbreak of the war. Her style is. . polished, · sprightly and lucid. Her portraiture of life in the South is graphic, and there are some fine art touches on German customs and amusements. Mrs. Whitson, resident of Murfreesboro, has published general biograph- ical works. The most important is a book of sketches of the last Gen- eral Assembly, which contains very flattering accounts of its members.
JOURNALISM .*
The first paper brought out in Tennessee was The Knoxville Gazette, which was published at Rogersville, November 5, 1791, by Mr. George Roulstone. The Gazette was a three-column paper of no great merit, and of little interest to the general reader; yet as the pioneer paper of the new region, it created quite an excitement among the rough settlers. It is supposed that Indian troubles prevented Mr. Roulstone from estab- lishing his paper at once in Knoxville. Although this town was laid out in 1792, many people regarded it as a myth, and the editor of The Gazette may have shared this belief. He, however, removed his paper after the issuance of a few numbers at Rogersville, and continued to publish it in Knoxville until his death, in 1804. Roulstone was printer to the Ter- ritorial and State Legislatures, and published Willie Blount's "Catachet- ical Exposition of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee." He was public printer at the time of his death, and his wife was elected two suc- cessive terms to fill his place. She was Miss Gilliam, of Nashville, and ·has left many descendants in Middle Tennessee.
Knoxville's second paper was The Knoxville Register, a weekly issue founded by G. Roulstone in 1798. The Register was in existence about
"Much of the fact contained in the above sketch on the subject of journalism was kindly furnished by Col. Moses White.
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two years when its editors G. Roulstone and John Rivington Parrington, published another paper called The Genius of Liberty, a small paper not so large as either of the former, and by no means so sprightly in tone. This made Knoxville the mistress of three weeklies, a fine exhibition for a little frontier town in its babyhood. In 1804 George Wilson edited a paper known as Wilson's Gazette, a much larger paper than its prede- cessors. It had five columns and ruled lines while the earlier issues had three columns and no lines. This paper continued until 1818 when Wil- son removed to Nashville and published The Nashville Gazette, a paper devoted to "Old Hickory's" service.
The Knoxville Register, "the one that became an institution of Knox- ville," was established by F. S. Heiskill and Hu. Brown in August, 1816. Maj. Heiskill came to Knoxville, in 1814, where he served "as journeyman printer on Wilson's Gazette, then the only paper published in East Tennessee." He was a man of limited opportunities but strong native capacities and managed the political department of The Register with much ability. Hu. Brown was an accomplished scholar and fluent writer, and he conducted the miscellaneous and literary parts of the paper with skill and success. In the bitter party strife which rent the country in the presidential campaign of Gen. Jackson and John Q. Adams The Register entered with vigor and enthusiasm, and bore a prominent part in that political storm. It also supported Judge Hugh L. White for President in 1836. Between 1836 and 1839 The Register changed owners and editors several times, as well as names. Its existence con- tinued, with many vicissitudes, until after 1863, when it succumbed to the exigencies of the war. Up to 1859 The Register had been a Whig paper. In that year it became a strong Democratic sheet.
Another paper, The Enquirer, began in Knoxville in 1823. Like other journals of this region it went through many changes of owners and editors. At one time Mr. Hiram Barry was its owner and publisher with J. J. Meredith as editor. Mr. Barry is a resident of Knoxville and the oldest printer in the State, he having come to that place in 1816. He is still an active citizen who can tell many interesting incidents of early affairs in Tennessee. As Knoxville grew other papers had their rise. The Hon. John R. Nelson, a distinguished lawyer, issued two papers, The Republican in 1831 and Uncle Sam in 1834. The Post was first brought out in Knoxville, in 1841, by Capt. James Williams. It was afterward removed to Athens and still continues there as The Athens Post, edited by Mr. Samuel P. Ivins. The Argus appeared in 1838. It was changed to Standard in 1844, and continued, with some changes, to 1855.
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The Plebeian began as a Democratic weekly in 1850, and in 1851 was known as The Daily Morning Plebeian. This was the first daily ever published in Knoxville. Other minor papers flourished from 1853 to 1857; and in 1858 Mr. John Mitchel, the Irish patriot, and Mr. W. G. Swan, of Knoxville, established an ultra pro-slavery paper called The Southern Citizen. Mr. Mitchel was a man of liberal education, polite address and keen wit, added to much boldness and independence of char- acter. Says a critic, "The Southern Citizen was conducted with ability, arrogance and intolerance seldom equaled."
The war journals of Knoxville were The East Tennesseean, published by the Hon. John Baxter, as principal, in February, 1862, and The Southern Chronicle. The East Tennesseean was devoted to the support of the Confederate States in their war for independence. It had but one issue. The Southern Chronicle fell in 1863, on Federal occupation. Rogersville, in 1816,had a newspaper called The Rogersville Gazette, and in 1850, The Rogersville Times was a lively and enterprising journal. Other towns in East Tennessee were not behind in publishing papers. Green- ville had, in 1822, an eight-paged paper entitled The American Economist and Weekly Political Recorder, followed by The Miscellany and The .Greeneville Spy, which continued until the war.
The first paper ever published southwest of Knoxville, was The Val- ley Farmer, in Washington, Rhea County. This was removed subse- quently to Athens, under the name of Athens Gazette. In 1833 J. W. M. Brazeale, the author of "Life as it is," edited The Tennessee Journal at this place. As early as 1838, New Market had a paper; and in 1832, Jonesboro issued a Whig paper, called The Washington Republican and . Farmers' Journal, edited by Judge Emerson, of the supreme court, and The Sentinel by Dr. Thomas Anderson, author of a medical work on diseases peculiar to East Tennessee. W. G. Brownlow edited his well known Whig at that time in Jonesboro, and between the two papers a political and personal feud raged with unabated fury for a long period.
Chattanooga, then known as Ross's Landing, had a paper called The Hamilton Gazette as early as 1838. The name was changed afterward to The Chattanooga Gazette. This paper passed through some vicissitudes until 1864, when it became a daily issue. Elizabethton Republican and Manufacturers' Advocate was the first paper published in Elizabethton. This was succeeded by Brownlou's Tennessee Whig, begun at this place in 1839. The Whig was bold, intense, incisive, and continued one year, when it was removed to Jonesboro, and subsequently to Knoxville. In 1849 Brownlow's Knoxville Whig sent out its first issue and continued until suspended October 16, 1861, and revived Nevember 11, 1863. In
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: 1869 Brownlow dissolved connection with this paper and resumed editor- ship in 1875, at which time the paper bore the new name of Daily Chron- cicle and Weekly Whig and Chronicle. The motto of the Whig, "Cry . aloud and spare not," gave full insight into the spirit of the paper. The : Whig bore, at one time, the title Independent Journal, and Brownlow's Knoxville Whig and Rebel Ventilator. No paper ever had a wider circu- lation. It is said to have had a circulation of 10,000 in 1855. The Knox- ville Chronicle was established in 1870, by Mr. William Rule, the pres- ent able editor of The Journal. Cleveland, Maryville, Madisonville, Kingston and Jasper had weekly papers from an early date. Besides : these there were two literary journals published in the University of . Tennessee, and a temperance organ existed for a short while in 1854, in Knoxville, published by Mr. Joe Lewis and J. A. Rayl.
Two papers deserve mention-The Railroad Advocate of Rogersville, .in 1831, devoted to collecting all available information about the re- sources of this favored region, so as to arouse the people to the need of an outlet for the immense agricultural and mineral wealth of the State. Since then the riches have been developed beyond all expectation. The other was a veritable abolition paper, called The Genius of Universal Emancipation. This was published at Greeneville- in 1821 by Benjamin Lundy, a native of New Jersey, of Quaker parentage, and showed that at the South existed the spark of what afterward proved to be one of the fiercest fires of fanaticism that ever swept over a nation. The paper advocated emancipation, and proposed several curious plans for effecting. the liberation of slaves. A few religious papers finish the list of papers. in East Tennessee.
: Journalism began in Nashville in 1797, when a paper was published : called The Tennessee Gazette and Mero District Advertiser, by a Ken- tucky printer named Henkle. In a year this paper was sold and the name changed to The Clarion. An issue of the date of 1801 is preserved by the State Historical Society. Its ragged condition shows its age. . " It is a folio sheet, with pages 10x14 inches, and four columns to the page, printed in pica type." The Clarion was enlarged under the name .of Clarion and Tennessee Gazette, and other changes of heading until : December, 1821, when it resumed the name of The Clarion. "The price of subscription varied from $2 to $3 in advance, or $3 to $4, paya- able after six months." In 1824 The Clarion was discontinued, and its owners, Abram P. Maury and Carey A. Harris, brought out The Nashi- · ville Republican. Bradford, the long-time printer of The Clarion, issued : from that office, in 1808, Bradford's Tennessee Almanac. The Impar- : tial Review and Cumberland Repository appeared in the latter part of
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1805. A number is in preservation bearing date February 1, 1806, in .. which is announced the death of Charles Dickenson, who fell in a duel fought with Gen. Jackson. The Museum, begun by Mr. G. Bradford, - was a literary monthly, published in 1809, and existed for six months. It contained much valuable political and historical information, and was . circulated at the low price of $2 per year.
Rev. David Lowry published the first Cumberland Presbyterian organ in the United States. It bore the name of The Religious and Literary Intelligencer. It was a weekly brought out in 1830 and existed nearly two years. Following this was The Nashville Herald, in 1831, owned by Mr. W. Tannehill. This paper was of brief continuance. Next came a : weekly literary paper in 1833 of quarto form, named The Kaleidoscope. : Its tone was lofty and its influence elevating, but unfortunately its dura- tion was short. The Commercial Transcript, a small commercial sheet, . came out in 1835; and after two years it became The Banner and Whig. An "Association of Gentlemen " published in the years 1835-36 a Presbyterian paper named The American Presbyterian, which was not sustained. The Cumberland Magazine, a quarterly, was edited by the Rev. James Smith. This man was a Scotch Presbyterian, and wrote a history in defense of that church; a very able work. The Revivalist, a weekly, began in 1837, and changed to The Cumberland Presbyterian, but only a few numbers were issued. Tennessee Baptist of the First Baptist Church in Nashville, a monthly, existed from 1835 to 1837, when it changed owners and became a semi-monthly. The Old Baptist Ban- ner, 1838, was published by the Rev. Washington Lowe. It was a monthly paper. The Christian Review, a monthly magazine, was the Campbellite organ, published between the years 1844-46. In 1840 The Tennessee State Agriculturist began and continued to 1846. A valuable law journal, called The Southwestern Law Journal and Reporter, was published in 1844 and edited by William Cameron and John T. S. Fall. E. Z. C. Judson and A. H. Kidd edited, in 1844, The Southwest- ern Literary Journal and Monthly Review. The Baptist, second paper of that name, a weekly, was published by C. K. Winston, J. H. Shep- . herd and J. H. Marshall January, 1844-47. The Daily Orthopolitan was edited by Mr. Wilkins Tannehill. This was a daily which began in 1845 and continued one year. The Christian Record, under the dominion of the Presbyterian Synod, began in 1846 and continued under changes until 1850, when it was removed to Kentucky.
A monthly, called The Naturalist, was issued in 1846 for one year, and was devoted to education and literature. The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church South began in 1846, in Louisville,.
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Ky. In 1851 it was removed to Richmond, Va., and to Nashville in 1858. Dr. T. O. Summers was the able editor of this periodical. The Tennessee Farmer and Horticulturist, a monthly, was edited by Charles Foster, in 1846. A temperance paper, The Tennessee Organ, was estab- lished in 1847, by Rev. John P. Campbell. After passing through sev- eral hands it was disposed of to Dr. R. Thompson, and Gen. William G. Brien, an eloquent speaker and scholar of much ability, who conducted it until it was discontinued in 1854. The Southern Ladies' Companion, a Methodist monthly, was successfully managed, and had a large circula- tion. It was edited by Mr. Heukle and Dr. J. B. McFerrin. The Ten- nessee Baptist, edited by Rev. Dr. Howell, and The Portfolio, a Free- mason monthly, edited by Mr. W. Tannehill in 1847, were ably conducted. The Christian Magazine, edited in 1848 by Rev. Jesse B. Ferguson and J. K. Howard, and The Western Boatman, by Anson Nelson, The Even- ing Reporter in 1849-50, and The Nashville Times in 1849, were other publications of that period. The Naturalist, The Southern Agricultur- ist, The Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery and The Southwest- ern Monthly, went through brief life in Nashville in 1849-52. The Ladies' Pearl, a monthly, was edited between 1852-56 by Rev. W. S. Lang- don and J. C. Provine, and afterward by Mrs. Langdon. The Nashville Evening News existed in 1851-53. The Southern Medical Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences, a bi-monthly was published 1853-57. The Banner of Peace, a Cumberland Presbyterian paper, continued from 1840 to the recent war. The Parlor Visitor, in 1854, a Baptist organ, edited by Dr. W. P. Jones; The Gospel Advocate, a weekly in the same year, edited by Elder Tolbert Fanning and Prof. William Lipscomb, and The Southern Baptist Review in 1855, were well conducted papers. The Home Circle, Rev. L. D. Houston, editor, and The Sunday-School Visitor, with Dr. T. O. Summers, editor, were other religious issues of 1855. Two agricultural papers, The Farmer's Banner and The Agri- culturist and Commercial Journal appeared in 1855 and lasted a short time. The Fountain was a sprightly temperance paper in 1855, and The Tennessee Farmer and Mechanic lasted about one year.
The Nashville Daily News began in 1857, and discontinued in 1860. The Baptist Family Visitor, and Harper's Theatrical Bulletin issued a few numbers in 1857. The Legislative Union and American was said to be an important State organ between 1857 and 1859. The Daily Chris- tian Advocate, a Methodist paper, and The Christian Unionist, another religious paper, existed a short while. Other papers, many of them re- ligious, were The Southern Magazine of Temperance, Young's Spirit of the South and Central. American, The Nashville. Monthly Record of
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