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. Capt. James 1. R. Boyd, was born near Gap Creek, Carter County, May 29, 1821, the son of John and Mary (Tipton) Boyd, the former born in North Carolina in 1783, the son of William Boyd, a native of North Carolina, and a captain of light horse soldiers in the Revolution. William Boyd married Rebecca Porter, and removed to that state between 1785 and 1790, settling at Gap Creek, as a pioncer. The first deed on record after Tennessee became a State and in Carter County, was made to him by William Sharp. Iu 1893 a powder-mill explosion killed him. John, the father, was a farmer and died August 19, 1873, and the mother was born in 1785, the daughter of Samuel Tipton, of Virginia, and a pioneer of Carter County. He was the son of John Tipton of the John Sevier difficulty fame; she died in Springfield, Ill., in 1856. Our subject grew up on the farm, and even when twenty years old could not read a verse in the Bible correctly after having attended a few schools in log cabin school houses. In 1843 he attended school four months at Holston College and then began teaching, alternating farming and teach- ing, until he adopted the latter. In 1851 he went to Springfield, Ill., and for two years was deputy sheriff. In 1857 he returned and began teaching at Buffalo (now Milligan) College, and in 1860 took charge of Duffield Academy at Elizabethton until August 11, 1861. He then joined the Federal Army and became a messenger between East Tennessee people and those intending to burn the railway bridges; he then became colonel aud organized a company of 1,000 men in Carter County, but they were disbanded and soon went to Kentucky. May 11, 1863, he was made captain of Company B, Fourth Ten- nessee Infantry, at Louisville, Ky., and resigned June 7, 1864, on account of ill health. He then went to Knoxville and in 1865 to Elizabethton. He had charge of Washington Hotel at Jonesboro, for a time, and in 1867 taught school at Elizabethton until he became a representative in 1969. He then returned and taught school until 1881, when he became assistant door-keeper of the National House of Representatives. under Hon W. P. Brownlow who was principal door-keeper of the XLVII Congress. Since 1852 he has been at home. During the above time he has practiced law more or less. Marths J., a daughter of Isaac Tipton, became his wife October 7. 1847, and was born in 1834 in this county. Two of their five children are living, Henry C., a lawyer, at Elizabetut is one. The wife and three children died in Springfield, Ill., in 1856 and 1857, and F.p. ruary 28, 1860, he married Rhoda Williams, born November 7, 1824, in this county. They have two children. She is a member of the Christian Church. Rhoda is a daughter of
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Edmund Williams, several times sheriff of Carter County. He is & son of Archibald Williams, and Archibald is a son of Edmund Williams, a pioneer, both of whom had served as sheriff, etc.
C. N. Brown, a farmer in the Ninth District, was born February 23, 1837, in Carter County. He received a good common-school education, was reared ou a farm, and has since followed farming. He was thrown upon his own resources when of age. He was married in 1862 to Miss Nancy Worley, a daughter of James B. and Emaline (Shell) Worley, natives of Washington County, Va., and Sullivan County, Tenn., respectively. Mr. Worley's mother was of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Worley were active workers in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a very successful and enterprising farmer, and accumulated property quite easily. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown seven children have been born, viz .: Lilly, Laura (now Mrs. Williams), Charles, Eugene, Lula (deceased), Lola and Mamie. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. in which Mr. Brown has been treasurer and deacon for several years. Mr. Brown is a Democrat in politics. He is a Master Mason. He was the eldest of six children of I. H. Brown, an old resident of Carter County, Tonn. Mrs. Emaline Worley was a daughter of Aaron and Catherine (Glover) Shell, natives of Sullivan County, Tenn. Mr. Shell was of English descent. He was a prominent minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episco- pal Church. I. II. Brown, the father of our subject, was born March 4. 1810, in Wash- ington County, Tenn., and when fifteen years old came to Carter County, Tenn .. and excepting six years he lived at Blountville, has since resided in Carter County. He is & carpenter and cabinet-maker by trade. Hewas married April 14, 1836. to Miss Ruth Nave, a daughter of John and Lizzie (Carrigor) Nave, natives of Pennsylvania, and among the earliest settlers of Carter County, Tenn. They were of Dutch descent. Six children blessed this union. Mr. Brown served Carter County two years as register, and two terins as trustee, being elected on a Democratic ticket in a county which usually went Whig by about 1,700. ITe was the youngest of six children of Jacob and Christina (Rammes) Biowa, natives of Germany and Rockham County, Va., respectively. Mr. Brown was brought to the United States by his parents when quite small. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. I. H. Brown died October 6, 1853. Mr. Brown was married December 2, 1855, to Mrs. Margaret M. Williams. Three children blessed the union. Mr. Brown began life a poor man, and what he is now worth is the fruit of his own practical business ability.
William Blount Carter was born where he now resides, in Elizabethton, September 11, 1820, the son of Alford MI. and Evaline (Perry) Carter, the former born neat Eliza- bethton in 1785, the son of Gen. Landon Carter, of Virginia, the son of Col. John Carter, a pioneer of Tennessee of 1769, and chairman of the Wautauga Association, from that date to 1777. Gen. Carter was in the Revolution, and a member of the Legislature, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1796; he died in 1800. The father was educated ut Washington College under Dr. Doak, and was devoted to farming and iron interests. He was a magistrate and the first circuit clerk of his county, and died in 1850. The mother was born at Staunton, Va., in 1797, the daughter of David Perry, a native of Virginia. and of the family to which Commodore Perry belonged. He settled in Greene County, and the mother died in 1877. They were married in 1818, and our subject, the second of three sons, was reared in Elizabethton, attended Washington College, and graduated fromi Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary. He was pastor of Rogersville Presbyterian Church until 1816, when his health compelled him to be a farmer at Elizabethton. 1843 he married Mary UL .. a daughter of Dr. Charles Fowler. of New York: she dielin 1846, and in 1850 he married Elizabeth J., a daughter of Col. William J. Brown. of Penn- sylvania. Their children are William E, born June 19, 1856, now a druggist; Mary B .. born in 1860, and Caroline E., born in 1987. The family are Presbyterians. The Way- tauga Association was represented by John Carter in two constitutional conventions in North Carolina before 1789, and one in Tennessee in 1796, was represented by Gen. Tren- don Carter, and the next constitutional convention by Gen. William B. Carter, who) was president of the same, and was a Congressman several terms. In 1870 our subject rebr ..
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sented Carter County in the constitutional convention. Samuel P., an elder brother of William B., was educated at Washington and Princeton Colleges, and became a middy in the United States Navy in 1840, and was a lieutenant-commander at the opening of the war, and theu in the army became brigadier-general, and afterward major-general. He then became captain of the navy, and was retired at the age of sixty-two, with the rank of fear-admiral, now residing at Washington. James P. T., a younger brother, was boru July 29, 1822, and educated at Washington College, and became a colonel of the Second Federal Tennessee Mounted Infantry. President Johnson appointed him secretary of Arizona Territory, but he was removed by Gen. Grant, and died in Mexico. It is a sin- gular coincidence that in each constitutional convention held between the years 1770 and 1870 the people of Wautauga were represented by a member of the same family; first by Col. John Carter, in 1796 by his son, Gen. Laudon Carter; in 1831 by his grandson. Gen. William B. Carter, and in 1870 by bis great-grandson, William B. Carter, Jr.
J. D. Carriger, fariner, was born March 8, 1821, in Carter County, where he has since resided, and when seventeen years old began for himself. He now owns about 2,906 acres, and was married June 17, 1866, to Edpa G., a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Potter) Dagger, natives of Carter County. Their children are Godfrey C., Samuel (deceased), Elizabeth, Ida H., Eliza and Lulan. She is a Baptist, and he is, in politics, a Republican. He has served ten years as justice, two years as trustee aud two years as United States storekeeper and guager, and he is a Master Mason. He is the eighth of ten children of Godfrey and Elizabeth (Lovelace) Carriger, natives of Carter Connty and North Carolina, respectively; the former a register, justice and mayor, and died about 1826. The mother died the year before. The grandfather, Godfrey, Sr., was a native of Germany, married there, and was among the first settlers on the Wautags River as a farmer, and operated the first mill in that section. The father was a soldier in the Revolution, in which his brother was killed.
W. L. Carriger, the subject of this sketch, is one of the leading citizens of Carter County, Tenn., and was born in the Ninth Civil District of said county, October 3, 1853, and is the son of John T. and Rebecca (Nave) Carriger. The father was a native of Carter County, Teon,, and was the son of Christley Carriger, an early settler of Carter County. The father was a farmer, and one of the most enterprising and prominent citizens of the county. The mother was also a native of Carter County, Tenn., and was the daughter of Abe Nave. She was the mother of six sons and five daughters. Our subject is the youngest but three, and was raised on the farm, and received a practical educa- tion at Morristown, Tenn. His father died when William was quite young, and left but a small estate to the heirs. but our subject, by energy and industry, secured an education at his own expense; and. when he reached his majority, he had no capital to begin the battle of life. and the pursuit for' wealth. His early labor was that of farming at home with his widowed mother, and with her he lived, until a short period after his marriage, which occurred when he was twenty-two years of age, and on the tenth day of May, 1876, he married Mollie L. Morrel, daughter of Caleb Morrel. Five sons, two of which are living, have blessed the marriage. The two living are George Allison and Charles. After our subject's marriage, he farmed for four years, in the Ninth Civil District of his county, since which he has been trading and merchandising; and is now selling goods and liverying at Elizabethton. He is one of the popular citizens of this county, and this fact was exemplified by his being elected in August. 1882, as county register for Carter County, and by his re-election in August, 1886. He is a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and is a man of enterprise and public spirit, and is one who encourages all laudable enterprises. He is a self-made man, having no capital to beglu life with, and has educated himself, and established a high character.
Nicholas Carriger, farmer and carpenter, was born in Carter County, Jannary 12. 1842, the son of Daniel S. and Margaret (Patterson) Carriger, the former born in Carter County in about 1815, the son of Christley, a farmer who removed to Missouri in 1846, and from there to California, serving as a soldier under Gen. Fremont, and died soon after his discharge. The mother, a daughter of Robert Patterson, was born in Carter County, and
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died in 1817 in Missouri. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Our subject. the third of four children, after his mother's death, came to Carter County, and lived with his uncle, working on the farm and at the carpenter's trade until January 14, 1863, when he enlisted in Company B, Fourth Tennessee Infantry, as a private. In August, 1868, be was captured at MeMinnville, and was paroled, joining his company at Lexington, Ky. He was inustered out September, 1865, at Nashville, and returned to Carter County. After spending the year 1871 in Missouri, he returned to Carter County, his present home. ITe has never desired office, and is an esteemed man. He was married January 1, 1873, to Catharine, a daughter of Elijah Simmerly, and has four children. Both are Presbyterians.
J, N. Carriger, a retired woolen mannfacturer, was born June 25, 1841, in Carter County. He is self educated, and in 1862 organized Company A, of the Thirteenth Ten- nessee Cavalry, and afterward became second lieutenant and first lieutenant, and refused the offer of captaincy. He was mustered out at Knoxville in 1865. He then clerked for Butler & Co. two years, and then went to Morristown, and clerked for M. Carriger & Co. a year, and then became partner, continuing under various firm names for twelve years. He was United States mail agent on the C. C. G. & C. Railway, February 16, 18 ?! , and afterward mail messenger between Morristown and Warm Springs, N. C. After four years he purchased a part of Mineral Hill Springs, assuming control of them, the firm being Brown, Carriger & Smith. A few months later he farmed in Carter County, and became successively a partner in the Doe River Woolen Manufacturing Company, and the Watauga Woolen Mills, with entire control of the business. In 188? these were consoli- dated under the first named company, and he became secretary and treasurer, and in 1853 was given entire control. He retired in 1885 on account of failing health, and was so successful that with a capital of $30,000, his company declared a seven and one-half per cent. dividend. In 1861 he married Mary C. Ferguson. Both are Baptists, in which church he has been a deacon for eight years. He is a Republican, and a member of the G. A. R. His parents, John T. and Rebecca (Nave) Carriger, were natives of Carter County, and died in 1862, aged fifty-five, and 1886, aged about seventy-six, respectively, the former a trustee for twelve years, and a justice. He was a Whig and an active Baptist. Our subject was city recorder of Morristown two years. The grandparents, Christian and Lavicy (Ward) Carriger, were pioneers of this county, the former a representative several terms, and both were natives of Philadelphia. The latter's grandmother was a cousin of Abraham Lincoln.
Albert Hughes is a farmer and stock raiser in the Fifth Civil District of Carter County, Tenn., and was born in Carter County April 8, 1833, and is the son of James and Susanor (Hines) Hughes. (See sketch of John Hughes for parents.) He was reared on the farm, and was educated in the county schools and Washington College, receiving a practical education. He has, for the greater part of his life, been merchandising, but for the last fifteen years he has devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. He has been successful in his undertakings. On February 4, 1869, he was united in marriage with Martha L., daughter of Thomas Hodges. She died, January 22, 1874, leaving no chil- dren. On June 10, 1877, he married for a second wife Laura C. C. Moody, a daughter of George W. Moody. She was born in Carter County, Tenn., April 7, 1859. Two children have blessed this marriage, viz .: David W., boin November 12, 1877, and James F. T .. born May 17, 1887.
John Hughes is one of the most prosperous farmers of Carter County, and was born and reared in said county. He was born February 14, 1820, and is the son of James and Susanor (Hines) Hughes. The father was a native of Sullivan County, Tenn., and was born May 15, 1700. He was the sou of David Hughes. The latter was born in Ire- land, immigrated to America, was among the early settlers of East Tennessee, and was one of the Revolutionary soldiers. He was a farmer by occupation. The father of our subject was a wagon-maker by trade, and followed farming and trading. He was a success. ful farmer and trader, and amassed considerable wealth. He had gone on a trading expe- dition South, and while in Alabama, a man by the name of Carter from the same county
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as himself, who had started out with him on the expedition, murdered him, it is supposed, on April 15, 1884. The mother was born near Blountville, Sullivan County, Tenn .. October 29, 1792; she was the daughter of George Hines, a native of Pennsylvania, and of German extraction. She died at our subject's home February 10, 1808. She was the mother of five sons, viz. : David, George, John, James and Albert. It may be noticed that our subject is the eldest, but two; at the present (1887) only three of the sous are living, viz .: John, James and Albert. Our subject was reared on the farm, and educated in the country schools, receiving a practical training. He has devoted his life princi- pally to agricultural pursuits, but in the meantime he has conducted tanning and distil- ling. Hle operated a very large tannery for several years prior to the war, and has done considerable distilling. He is practical in business, and has been successful in amassing considerable wealth, having a very limited capital to begin with. He has had much mois- fortune in his time, but has been successful against many embarrassments, and at present is one of the most successful and prosperous farmers in Carter County, Tenn. In 1879 he married Nancy Ellen Carral, daughter of William Carral. Two children, Albert and Mary Anna, blessed this marriage. The mother died in 1880, and in 1885 he married Martha J. Duncan. One daughter, Della Cleveland, has come to this marriage.
Dr. E. E. Hunter, of Elizabethton, was born in Washington County, Tenn., October 10, 1845, the son of Joseph and Maranda (Harris) Hunter. His father was a farmer by profession, and was born in 1808. and died in August, 1885. His mother was born in 1812. the daughter of Dr. John Harris, a most celebrated physician, and minister of the Meth- odist Church. The mother died in 1868. Our subject is the youngest son of eight children, four sons and four daughters. When seventeen he attended school at Jonesboro for three years and afterward at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After spend- ing some time in Illinois he returned to Jonesboro, and in 1869 began the study of medi- cine under the celebrated Dr. Sevier. In 1870-71 he attended the medical department of the University of Tennessee. In March, 18:1. he began the practice of medicine in Washington County, Tenn. He was married September 19, 1871, to Mies Mollie Jobe, a daughter of Dr. Jobe, of Elizabethton, Tenn., and their union has been blessed with seven children. He and his wife belong to the Methodist Church South. He removed to Elizabethton in March, 187;, and there resumed the practice of his profession. and in the same year purchased an interest in the Doe River Woolen Mills, the first establish- ment of the kind in East Tennessee. In 1885 he attended and graduated at the Ken- tucky School of Medicine. In August, 1885, he was appointed United States medical examiner, and was placed on the Johnson City board, of which he is president.
Dr. L. F. Hyder, was born in Carter County, February 11, 1844, the son of Rev. J. II. and Elizabeth Fletcher Hyder. The father was born October 20, 1812, on Powder Branch. Carter County, the son of Jonathan, who was born in the same house as the son of Michael T., a native of Virginia, and an early pioneer of Carter County, one of the first two settlers. The father was a self-made scholar, and when twenty-two entered school at Jonesboro, and then at Emory and Henry College, and finally at Maryville (Tenn. ) Bap- tist Theological Seminary. It is said that he converted about 10,000 persons, and was made moderator of the Watauga Association, in 1869, holding it until his death. When seventy- four years old he started to visit all the churches of this association, but exposure caused his death March 15, 1886. For thirty years he was a surveyor of Carter County, was a major of militia, and as a minister and man none stand higher. The mother was born in February, 1824, the daughter of John Fletcher, born in Carter County, the son of Mollie Kyle, a native of Ireland, The mother is living near Elizabethton on the old homestead, and has reared fourteen children. Our subject was educated at Duffield Academy, and when seventeen went to Kentucky, and in March, 1862, enlisted in Company B. Fourth Tennessee Infantry, and became sergeant. He was captured five different times but escaped, and in August, 1865, was mustered out and began medicine under Dr. Cameron, and since 1869 has practiced, up to within a few years. He owns a farm of It! acres in the Seventh District, and one of 196 acres in the Tenth District. In 1873 the Republicans elected him to the Legislature. Maggie, a daughter of Reuben Brook-
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became his wife in 1871, and was born April 23, 1817, on Stony Creek. They have four children. She died April 22, 1885, and January 28, 1886, he married Elizabeth Price a native of Washington County. Our subject's brothers and sisters are A. J. F., a minister on Powder Branch, in the old original Hyder House; Cordelia A., now Mrs. J. T. Banner: W. B. C., with the mother on the homestead; Daniel L., a graduate of Washington Col- lege, in 1885, also on the homestead, and Josie E., now Mrs. R. T. Johnson, of Elizabeth- ton. Daniel is the administrator.
Nathaniel E. Hyder, a physician, was born in Carter County, in the Hyder settle- ment, the son of W. F. M. and Margaret (Edens) Hyder, the former a son of Jonathan II., Sr., a son of Michael E., who in turn was a son of Michael, one of the Watauga Associa- tion. The latter was of German stock and a farmer, and came to the Rappahannock River, in Virginia, where his son was born. They came to East Tennessee about 1766. Jona- than was a relative of Jonathan Hampton, of South Carolina, for whom he was named. He was a prominent farmer. The father was born in 1824, in Carter County, and mat- ried, in 1848, a daughter of N. T. and L. Hyder Edens. She was born in 1829, in this county, and our subject is the only child. The father, always a successful farmer, is au active member of the Christian Church, and was second lieutenant in the Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry. The mother is a member of the same church, and an esteemed lady. Our subject was educated at Franklin Academy, Washington County, and when twenty- five began medicine by self study, and has practiced for the last twelve years. He also farms 367 acres of land, and is county surveyor. April 20, 1871, he married Amanda J. Hyder, to whom Laura S. was born, and the mother died in 1878. In 1880 Eliza J. Treadway, became his wife. Their children are L. W. Bate and Romulus B.
S. W. Hyder is one of the leading citizens of Carter County, and is a very prosperous farmer, was born on Powder Branch, Carter Co., Tenn., August 21, 1817, and is the sou of Michael Hyder and Sarah Simmernon. The father was born in Virginia, and was of English descent. He was a farmer, and a practical and successful man, and was in most of the Indian wars of the early history of Tennessee. The mother of our subject was born in Virginia and was of Dutch lineage. She was the mother of four sons and one daughter. Our subject was raised on the farm and received a practical education in the country schools. He has followed agricultural pursuits all through life, together with which he has milled. He has been a success in his calling, and is a very well respected citizen. In early time he was captain of a company of State militia. In 1840 he mar- ried Louisa Edens, daughter of Nathaniel T. Edens. Eleven children blessed the mar- riage, and the wife died; her death occurring in 1866. In 1872 he married Sarah E. Fair for a second wife. Our subject is a member of the Lutheran Church, and is a useful citizen, always encouraging public and domestic enterprises.
Dr. A. Jobe was born near Elizabethton, Carter Co., Tenn., October 9, 1817, the son of Joshua and Ruth (Tipton) Jobe. The former was born in Washington County (before the State of Tennessee was formed) September 15, 1785. He was the son of David Jobe. who immigrated to this new country, about the year 1777, from Shenandoah County, Va. He owned and resided on the farm where Johnson City now stands, and died there, about the year 1799. Our subject's father was a farmer, and was once sheriff of Carter County. In the war of 1812, he volunteered and marched with Gen. Jackson's army to The Horse Shoe, Talledega, and other battle fields, and then on to Mobile, Ala. About 1521 he moved from Carter to Blount County, and after living there about ten years (the Gov- ernor permitting settlers to move into the Cherokee Nation), he moved in about ten miles of where Dalton now stands. While residing here our subject, then only fourteen or fifteen years old, attended the councils of the Indians for two or three years, and was present at the concluding of the treaty between the General Government and the head men of the Nation. The father died at Ringgold, Ga., May 8, 1868. The mother was the daughter of Thomas Tipton (son of Col. John Tipton, who helped achieve American Independence, at the battle of King's Mountain, and Indian battles. He also fought the memorable Franklin battle, against Gov. Sevier), was born in Carter County, August 27.
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