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ately improved. Some very good timber is on the land, and all is pretty well situated On June 12, 1878, he was united in marriage with Sarah A. Rader. daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ottinger) Rader. Unto the marriage bave been born seven children -- two sons and five daughters-one daughter is dead-viz. : Birtie Elizabeth, born December 12. 18,4: Charles Edgar, born June 3, 1876; Sarah Jane, born August 19, 1877; John Anderson, born March 19, 1879; Eliza Emaline, born March 2, 1881, and Lulie Susanna, born November 16, 1883.
James Luster, a wagon-maker and farmer in the Twenty-first District, was born April 18, 1826, in Greene County, where he has since resided. He began life for himself when about twenty-two years old, a poor man, and what he is now worth is the fruit of his own industry and economy. He learned the wagon-maker's trade, at that age, which he followed in connection with farming. He owns a fine farm of 300 acres where he resides. He enlisted in the spring of 1868 in Company A, Fourth Tennessee Infantry of the Federal Army, and was mustered out of service in 1865 at Nashville, Tenn. He was corporal of bis company. He was married in September, 1850, to Miss Dorinda C. Harmon, a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Bowman) Harmon, natives of Greene County. Mr. P. Hermou was a soldier under Capt. "Bob " Maloney in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon were of Dutch descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Luster cight children have been born: Elizabeth, Peter, Catherine, Elender (dead). Nancy, Mary J., William A. (dead) and Eliza A. Mrs. Luster is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Luster is a Democrat in politics. He has served as school commissioner and road overseer for some time. He was the second of nine children of William and Catherine ( Young) Luster, early settlers of East Tennessee. Mr. Luster had four children by his first wife. He followed teaming and blacksmithing.
J. B. R. Lyon, the subject of the following sketch, is a printer by vocation: was born at Cheraw, S. C., April 16, 1825, and is the son of Mason R. and Margaret Ann (King) Lyon. The father was born at Fair Haven, Vt., November 12, 1799; was a printer by vocation, and was the son of James and Phila (Risley) Lyon. James was born in Vermont, April 15, 1775, he was also a printer by vocation, and was the son of Col. Mathew Lyon, a native of Ireland. Col. Mathew Lyon was a member of Congress from Vermont when the alien law was passed, and later had occasion to speak in opposition to the President of the United States. This was a violation of the alien law, because the Colonel was a foreign born citizen, and he was imprisoned. but after- ward paid his fines and was released. In 1799, together with a colony of New Englanders from Vermont, he immigrated to Kentucky, and settled on the Cumberland River, about twenty-five miles above the mouth of the river, in what is now called the county of Lvon, which county he afterward represented in the Kentucky Legislature, and afterward was appointed agent to the Chickasaw Indians in Arkansas. The mother of our subject was born in North Carolina, March 24, 1803, and is of the King family, to which belongs Hon. William R. King, of Alabama. She is the mother of twelve children, of which our sub- ject is the eldest, but one. He was educated at Elizabeth, Carter Co., Tenn .. and hos devoted his life to printing, and at present is proprietor and editor of the Greeneville Republican. In 1851 he married Martha M. Britton, daughter of James Britton. atel to this marriage have been born David K., James B., Charles M., John M., George B., Samuel, Mollie, Maggie and Willie.
James B. Lyon, editor of the Greeneville Democrat, and one of the leading young citizens of Greeneville, was born in Greene County, Tenn .. March 10, 1856, and is the son of J. B. R. Lyon, a sketch of whom appears above. When but seven years of age, the subject of this sketch entered his father's office to learn the printer's trade, even before he had learned the alphabet, and strange as it may appear, the young printer was able to set up as much as a column of type before he knew one letter of the alphabet from another. After working in the printing office for nine years, he. at the age of six teen years, entered Tusculum College, in Greene County, and attended that institution for three years. He next removed to Knoxville, and for about nine months worked with daily papers of that city, and then located at Newport, Cocke County, and got
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out the first three issues of the Newport Sentinel. After being connected with the Whites- burg Times, he, on May 1, 1879, established the Greeneville Democrat, and has continued the publication of that paper with success up to the present, it having now over 1,900 subscribers weekly. When established the paper had only five columns. After eighteen months had elapsed the prosperity necessitated an enlargement, and an additional col- umn was attached, and thirteen months later another column was added, making it now seven columns, all home print. Our subject was married October 6, 1875, to Tennie Dobson, who was born in Greene County, Tenn., August 12, 1857, and is the daughter of Rev. J. B. Dobson, D. D., one of the oldest and most noted ministers of East Tennessee. To this union four boys have been born, the eldest of whom is deceased.
Hugh D. Maloney, farmer, was born where he now lives, .June 6, 1842, the son of William C. and Louisa (Cureton) Maloney, the former born in Greene County, on the homestead, July 13, 1813, the son of Hugh, who was born in Ireland in 1781, and became a pioneer farmer of Greene County, and from 1816 to 1836 a justice. He worked out the first road from Warrensburg to Greeneville, and died in 1849. The father was a farmer. and was county surveyor for several years. He was widely known, and died January 5, 1882. He was a half brother of Ambrose Hundley Sevier, the well-known Arkansas senator, and diplomat, also grandson of Henry Conway, who was an officer in the Revo- lutionary war, and who was stung to death by bees, and buried with honors of war upon the homestead, from which he had assisted in removing the cane. The mother was born at ('ureton's Ferry, Greene County. in 1820, a daughter of Richard Cureton, who was born at the above place. She was a Methodist, and died August 21, 1886. Our subject was educated at the Knoxville University, Greeneville College, and Tusculum College, gradu- ating from the latter in 1860. He then entered the law department of Cumberland Uni- versity, and in 1862 joined Company H, Fifth Tennessee Cavalry (Confederate). He served in various capacities through the war, until paroled at Charlotte, N. C., in May, 1865. While cut off from his command he fell in with Gen. John H. Morgan and staff, with whom he rode into Greeneville, the evening before Morgan was killed by the Federals. He was in the battle of Chickamauga, through the North Georgia campaign, and in the last skirmish in the streets of Columbia. when the city was evacuated by the Confeder- ates. He has since been successfully engaged on his farm. February 16, 1871, Annie, a daughter of W. C. Scruggs, became his wife. She was born in Grainger County, June S, 1853. They have four children.
Henry G. Marsh, a merchant at Home Depot, Greene Co., Tenn., was born at Papers- ville, Sullivan Co., Tenn., January 6, 1850, and is the son of Eli and Harriet J. (Burkhart) Marsh. The father was born near Home, Greene Co., Tenn., December 5. 1805, and is the son of Gravner and Elizabeth (Oliphant) Marsh. Gravner was a native of Pennsylvania, and a son of Gravner Marsh, Sr., who immigrated to East Tennessee during its early settlement. The mother of our subject was born in Sullivan County, Tenn .. April 1, 1813, and died in Greene County in 1862. She was the mother of nine children -- six sons and three daughters. Our subject is the youngest but one, and was reared on the farm, and educated at Bristol and Tusculum. At the age of sixteen years he went to merchandising at Rheatown, Greene County, and has been merchandising ever since. In 1881 he married Minnie Ramsay, a daughter of William Ramsay, of Greene County. One daughter, Nina, and one son, Halbert, have blessed the marriage. Our subject is a self- made man, and is practical and successful in business. He is well respected by all who know him.
Joseph W. MeDannel, trustee, was born in Greeneville. Greene County, January 10, 1855, the son of Blackstone and Louisa (Britton) Me Dannel, the former born in Knox - ville, January 15, 1811, the son of John MeDannel, of Pennsylvania, born in 1087. Marcus MeDannel was the next ancestor. John came to Tennessee in the early part of 1808. settled in Knox County, and on the 12th of July. 1899, married Sarah Whitson. He served in the Creek Indian war, in Capt. Rufus Morgan's company and Col. Brown's regiment, and returned to Knoxville in 1814. and died January 31. 1837. Blackstone. like his father, was a mechanic, reared in Knoxville, and resident of Greeneville, after 1829.
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He was first assistant of Maj. Samuel Milligan, a commissary in the Mexican war, and afterward engaged in the pension and claim agency of the wars of 1812 and 1846. President Lincoln appointed him United States marshal for East Tennessee, both terms, and he was re-appointed by President Johnson, but, on account of the health of his family, he resigned, and engaged in his old agency business at Greeneville. He had become intimately acquainted with Andrew Johnson when both were working at their trades. and they frequently engaged in public debate on the Indian and other questions, and this was the beginning of the latter's career. The mother was born near Greeneville Decem- ber 27, 1821, the daughter of James Britton, and granddaughter of Daniel Britton. She was married March 23, 1854, and died in Greeneville April 8, 1876. Our subject was educated at what is now Grant Memorial University, Athens, Tenn. In 1818 he became deputy register of Greene County, and then became deputy clerk and master, deputy trustee and deputy county court clerk, holding all the positions at the same time. Iu 1886 he was elected as a Republican to his present office. He is a Masou and an Odd Fellow, and is steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church. August 6, 1872, he married Emma C., a daughter of William G. Horton Sr., clerk and master of McMinn County. She was born August 22, 1855, in the latter county. Two of their five children are living.
J. W. McDannald, of the firm of McDannald & Weems, at Mohawk Postoffice, was born in 1842, in Greene County, where he has since resided. He was captured in 1861. while crossing the mountains to Kentucky to join the Federal Army, put in prison on James Island, South Carolina, and kept two years, after which he went to New York. and from there to Kentucky, and from there to Indiana, where he worked as a hired hand on a farmi. He hired shortly afterward to the Government as a teamster, at which he con- tinued until the war closed. He then engaged in farming for himself, and in 1882 he built and equipped a flouring mill in partnership with Joseph Lane, style of firm name being McDannald & Lane. Mr. Lane retired from the firm in 1886. Mr. G. J. Weems was taken into the firm in 1984, the style of firm being McDannald, Lane & Weems, and upon Mr. Lane's retiring in 1866. the style of firm name became McDannald & Weems. The capacity of the mill is fifty barrels per day, and the mill is generally run day and night. so great is the demand for their flour. Mr. McDannald was married in 1861 to Miss Louisa Wisecarver, a daughter of Samuel Wisecarver, a native of Greene County, Tenn. Five children blessed their union: Corrie, James A., Samuel, Ernest and Emma. Mrs. McDan- nald is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and Mr. MeDannald is a Republican in politics, and he is an I. O. O. F. He is the third of six children of James and Leah (Coble) McDannald, natives of Jefferson and Greene Counties, respectively. Mr. McDannald died in 1855, aged forty-three years. Mrs. McDannald is still living, and she is seventy-two years old. Mr. McDannald was Scotch, and Mrs. McDannald was of Dutch descent. James McDan- nald was a son of Alexander and Hannah MeDannald, natives of Jefferson County, Toun. J. M. McDannald began life for himself a poor man, and most of what he is now worth is the result of his own good management. Besides his splendid mill property he owns 200 acres of fine bottom land.
D. W. Mercer, farmer, was born in 1836, in Blount County, but from infancy bas lived in Greene County. Since he began, in his twentieth year, he has acquired 162 acres at his home, besides eighty-one acres elsewhere. In 1863 he enlisted in Company A. Fourth Tennessee Federal Infantry, as sergeant, and was mustered out August 1, 1865. at Nashville, Tenn. In 1855 Priscilla, a daughter of John Hartman, became his wife. Their children were John F., Recina, Mary A., Robert (deceased) and Sarah (deceased). His wife died May 21, 1873, and September 30, 1883, he married Margaret, a daughter of Samuel Henry, of Greene County, Teun. She is a Presbyterian, while his first wife was a met- ber of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a Democrat. His parents, Elbert F. and Rachel (Thompson) Mercer, are natives of this county. The latter died December ?. 1938. The father then married Mary A. Norwood. a native of Blount County, Tenn .. and after her death. June 20, 1860, married Charlotte Hull, a native of Greene County. He died March 19, 1587. He was a deputy sheriff of Blount, and a trustee of Greene,
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County, several years. Mr. Mercer was of English-Irish origin, and followed carpentering and farming. He was a son of John Mercer.
William E. F. Milburn, lawyer, was born at Milburnton, Greene County. November 15, 1844, the son of Rev. William and Martha (Frame) Milburn. The former was born near Winchester, Va., September 16, 1797, the son of Jonathan and Nancy Milburn, natives of Virginia. The former was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and a pio- neer of Greene County about 1804. The father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for five years more than half a century. He was during the war of the Rebellion an avowed Union man, and was much persecuted, and imprisoned by the rebels for his Union sentiments. He was chaplain of the Eighth Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, Volun- teers, United States Army. The mother was born bear Harper's Ferry, Va., April 10, 1803, and died February 14. 1861. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject served as a soldier from November 20, 1862, to October 25, 1865, in Company B, Twelfth Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, Volunteers, United States Army, in the war of the Rebellion. He was engaged in the battles of Florence and Shoal Creek. and Sugar Creek, Ala .; Pulaski, Triune, Clifton, Spring Hill, Columbia, Campbellsville, Franklin and Nashville, Tenn .; and the fourteen days of continuous skirmishing with Gen. Hood's retreating forces, from Nashville to Eastport, Miss. After the war he entered school. and was graduated with the degree of A. B., and won the highest honors of the class of 1871 in the East Tennessee Wesleyan University. For the two successive years, 1872 and 1873, he was professor of mathematics in his then alma mater. In the year 1814 he was graduated, upon examination, from the University of Michigan, with the degree of Master of Arts. He was president of the Holston Seminary for one year, 1874-75, in the mean- time reading law, so as to be admitted to the bar in 1876 at Athens. Tenn., his license being signed by Judge Hayle and Chancellor Bradford. In 1879 he removed to Abilene. Kas., and early in 1880 he located at Greeneville, Tenn. From January, 1882. to July. 1885, he was special examiner of the United States Pension Bureau in the State of Ken- tucky, with headquarters at Bowling Green, after which he resumed the practice of law at Greeneville. In November, 1886, he was elected, as a Republican, to represent the county of Greene, and served with ability and distinction in the Legislature of 18ST. He was a member of the executive committee of the State Temperance Alliance, and took an active part in the canvass to adopt the constitutional Prohibition amendment in 155 ;. October 1, 1878, Florence Ella, daughter of Mr. John H. Williams, of Golden. Col., became his wife. She was born at Ducktown, Tenn., March 19, 1859. To this union have been born three children, namely: Lulu Belle, Frank Emily and Blaine. Mrs. Mil- burn is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Rev. Jere Moore, A. M., was born at Tusculum. Greene Co., Tenn., November 6. 1845, the son of Anthony and Nancy P. (Holt) Moore. The next ancestors were Anthony. born June 26, 1803, in Greene County, and died July 20, 1885; David, born May 14. 1760, in Pennsylvania, and Anthony, Sr., born in 1732, in Pennsylvania, coming to East Teu- nessee with his family in 1978. The latter, detained a year to raise a company to go through what was then called "The Wilderness," liked the country so well that he remained here, one of the earliest settlers of East Tennessee. The mother was born in Greene County, March 26, 1807, and died April 18, 1879. She was the daughter of David Holt, of Rockbridge County, Va. Our subject, the next youngest of eight children, was educated at Greeneville and Tusculum College, and graduated in 1821; then in 1874 grad- uated from the Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. In September. 1574. he was ordained by the Holston Presbytery at Kingsport, and for a year was a Presbyterian missionary. He has since preached at Mount Bethel. Oakland, and other churches. He was a member of the General Assembly at Pittsburgh in 1818, and at Saratoga in 1883. He was giving his life to the ministry, when. in 1883. he was called to the presidency of the Greene- ville and Tusculum College, which he accepted in June. 1883. . On December 10, 1-24. he married Belle R., a daughter of E. E. Mathes, of Washington County, where she was born September 4, 1850. Their children are Myrtie L., born February 8. 1876: David E., boru October 7, 1877; A. Holt, born Angust 19, 1879; Melvin M., born February 6, 1882: Maggie B., born September 21, 18:3, and one boy unnamed, born April 23, 1887.
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J. S. Neilson, a farmer, was born April 16, 1881, in Greene County, always his home. When he was eighteen he began independently by managing his father's farm, and in 1861 he began farming for himself. In 1858 he married MI. E. Baker, a daughter of Allen Baker, a native of Greene County. Their children are James T. and Jesse B. She is a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics he is a Democrat, first voting for Scott. He is the fifth of seven children of W. D. and Eliza (Evans) Neilson, natives of Greene and Claiborne Counties, respectively. The father commanded a company in the war of 1812, and was afterward commissioned colonel. He followed farming most of his life. and the latter part was engaged in general merchandising. The grandfather, Hugh, was a native of Scotland, and one of the pioneers of Greene County, Tenn. The mother was of English stock. The farm of our subject consists of 375 acres of fine, mostly bottom, land, showing the hand of a successful agriculturist.
Augustus H. Pettibone, one of the leading lawyers and citizens of Greeneville, Tenn., was born at Bedford. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Jannary 21, 1835, the son of Augustus N. and Nancy L. (Hathaway) Pettibone. The father was born in Vernon, N. Y., in 1802, and was the son of Elijah Pettibone, a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The father removed to Ohio early in life, and established the first woolen mills west of the Alleghany Mountains, at Newburg (now part of Cleveland), Ohio. He was a Whig, and a strong supporter of Henry Clay. He died in 1849. The mother was born near Burlington. Vt., about 1804, and was the daughter of Zepheniah Hathaway, a native of Taunton, Mass. She died in 1843. Our subject was educated at Iliram College, Ohio, and at the Univer- sity of Michigan, graduating in 1859. He studied law with Hon. Jonathan E. Arnold, at Milwaukee, Wis., and entered in the practice at La Crosse. Wis. He entered the Federal Army as a private, in 1861, and was promoted to second lieutenant and captain of his company, and on December 7, 1862, was promoted to major of the Twentieth Regiment. Wisconsin Volunteers. He served through the war, and then located at Greeneville. Tenn., and resumed his law practice. He entered politics, and was first elected attorney general of the First Judicial Circuit, of Tennessee, and was a Grant and Colfax presi- dential elector in 1868. Hle served for several years as assistant United States district attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and was the Hayes and Wheeler elector for the State at large in 1876. He was elected to the XLVII, XLVIII and XLIX Con- gresses as a Republican. Ile is now a member of the law firm of Pettibone, Worder & Sharp, of Chattanooga, but resides at Greeneville. He was married, July 16. 1868, to Mary C. Speck, of Rogersville, Tenn., daughter of George C. Speck, deceased.
W. H. Piper, county clerk, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., April 26, 1854, the son of Albert M. and Martha O. (Allen) Piper, the former born in Virginia, August 20, 1820, the son of Joseph, a native of Pennsylvania, and of German parents. The father became a Rogersville merchant about 1838. From 1846 he was in Knoxville as clerk, and from 1851 as partner, in the Coffin Brothers firm, with whom he had removed. In 1857 he became a partner of S. B. Boyd, until 1859. He was mayor of Knoxville for a time. In 1559 he bought a farm, and up to 1867 was a Greene County merchant. In 1871 he became United States deputy revenue collector. He was in the Indian wars. He died June 11, 1873, the first victim of the cholera epidemic of that year. The mother was born December 9, 1824, in Greene County, the daughter of James Allen, of Irish descent. She died May 14, 1869. Our subject was educated at Clear Springs Academy. Greene Co., Tenn. He taught school and studied law with Maj. Pettibone, until 1882, and in May. 1881, was admitted. In August, 1882, he was elected to his present position, the first Republican to hold the office. January 17, 1883, Carrie Brannan became his wife. Their children were Bessie, Blaine (deceased) and Gracie. He is a member of the United Breth- ren Church, while his wife is a Presbyterian. During the war of the Rebellion the father, Albert M., and all the members of his family, were uncompromising Unionists.
C. G. Rankin was born at Rheatown, Tenn., March 5, 1837, being the son of John and Louisa (Gray) Rankin, the former a tanner and merchant, who died at Johnson City. Tenn., in 1879, aged sixty-four, and a native of Greene County. The mother, a native of this county also, was the daughter of Benjamin Gray, and died in 1843. Our subjeet au I
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two sisters were the only children. He left school at thirteen years of age, and clerked for his father until he was twenty-one. Since then he has farmed on an extensive scale. In 1858 he married Louisa, a daughter of Frederick De Vault, of Leesburg, Tenn. Three daughters and the mother are deceased. The sons are John A. and Charles R. In 1822 be, Hon. D. T. Patterson and W. B. Rush organized the Home Woolen Company, and located their mill a half mile north of Home Depot. At present our subject is the sole proprietor and manager, and employs about twenty-five persons constantly, the capacity of the mill being 30,000 pounds of wool per year. Blankets, yarns, cassimeres, jeans, flannels, etc., are sold directly to the consumer. He is a Master Mason, and a Knight of Honor. Ile has merchandised since 1867, first at home and later at his mills, where the old stone dam, the first in this region, gave its name to the historical camping grounds and a Methodist Church built there.
D. W. Remine, a farmer in the Fifteenth District, was born in 1887 in Virginia, and came to this locality in 1847, where he has since resided. He received his education at Limestone Academy and Tusculum College. When eleven years of age he was thrown upon his own resources, a poor boy, and has followed farming ever since. He was married in 1858 to Miss Phoebe Keizel, daughter of Enos Keizel, a native of Rockingham County, Va., who came to Washington County in 1856. To this union has been born fourteen children: Fannie I., Rebecca, Calvin K., Edward E. (deceased), Mollie E., Schuyler Colfax, Minnie B .. Horace Maynard, Lummie Lynn, Carrie Bays, Frederick Fuller, Bell Carter, Annie Lee and Kate. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Remine is a Republican in politics and a prohibitionist in principle, a Good Templar, and a Son of Temperance. Ile is the third of seven children born to Hiram and Nancy (Bays) Remive, natives of Virginia. He was a soldier in the late war, and was captured and detained in Castle Thunder, Libby, Abingdon, Jonesboro, Greeneville and Knoxville prisons on account of his views on Abolitionism, he being a pronounced Abolitionist, and very bold in declaring his views. Three of his sous were soldiers in the United States Army. He is a son of William H. Remine, a native of Tazewell County. Va., and was a stock dealer and distiller. He was justice of the peace for many years. Mrs. Nancy Remine was a daugh- ter of James and Ruth Bays, either natives of or very early settlers in Russell County, Va. Mr. Bays was a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bays Mountain took its name from this family, they being noted as great hunters. They have furnished a great number of very excellent and able ministers.
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