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Leadership In Nashville Collection
1964

Biography/History

This was a special project chosen by a History of Nashville Class of Senior Citizens and the results of their topic on Nashville's Hundred Greatest Citizens. These people were selected on the basis of their contributions to city, state, or nation. By agreement, no one was included whose death occurred less than twenty years before the class.

The list is the product of the combined judgment of the class. The teacher, Alfred Leland Crabb, reserved the right of veto. In all, 154 men and women were nominated. The list was gradually reduced to a minimum of 116. Prolonged effort was made to lower the number to the 100 originally agreed upon, but it was futile.

In 1984, the class project was transferred from the Peabody Library to Special Collections.

Scope and Contents


This collection contains one manuscript item with 41 pages, titled Leadership in Nashville. It contains a listing of 116 of the most prominent citizens in Nashville leadership, with brief accompanying biographical sketches. The following people are listed:

Adelicia Hayes Acklen, 1817-1889 Social leader, gracious hostess
Adam Gillespie Adams, 1829-1895 Merchant and banker
Edward Emerson Barnard, 1857-1923 Astronomy
Washington Barrow, 1807-1866 Editor and Congressman
John Meredith Bass, 1804-1878 Lawyer, banker, planter, twice mayor
Jere Baxter, 1852-1904 Builder, Tennessee Central Railroads
John Bell, 1797-1869 Lawyer, statesman, orator, political leader
William T. Berry, 1813-1889 Publisher and bookseller
John Diell Blanton, 1859-1933 President of Ward Belmont College
William Kirkman Bowling, 1808-1885 Physician, medical editor, Dean
Richard Henry Boyd, 1843-1938 Negro banker, publisher, editor, preacher
William T. Briggs, 1829-1894 Surgeon
Michael Burns, 1813-1896 Businessman, railroader, banker
George Washington Campbell, 1769-1848 Lawyer, judge, Congressman, Senator
William Carroll, 1788-1844 Merchant, soldier, Governor of Tennessee
John Catron, 1786-1865 Justice of Supreme Court/United States
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, 1820-1886 Farmer, Confederate General
Joel Owsley Cheek, 1852-1935 Merchant, industrial pioneer
Ann Robertson Cockrill, 1788-1872 Pioneer, first school teacher in Mid-TN
Mark Robertson Cockrill, 1788-1872 Surveyor, agriculturalist
Edmund Whitefoord Cole, 1827-1900 Railroader, banker, Methodist layman
Washington Cooper, 1802-1899 Portrait artist
Thomas Brown Craighead, 1750-1825 Presbyterian preacher, teacher
Nathaniel Cross, 1802-1866 Educator, orator, classical scholar
John Hibbett DeWitt, 1872-1937 Lawyer, judge, historian
Jacob McGavock Dickinson, 1851-1928 Lawyer, Cabinet Member
John Donelson, 1725-1785 Surveyor, Brigadier General U.S. Army
Mary C. Dorris, 1850-1924 Hermitage preservation
Will Allen Dromgoole, 1860-1934 Journalist, poet
William Lofland Dudley, 1859-1914 Dean, chairman of Athletics at Vanderbilt
George Dury, 1817-1893 Artist
John Todd Edgar, 1792-1860 Presbyterian minister
Collins D. Elliott, 1810-1899 Educator, preacher, civil leader
Joseph T. Elliston Merchant, Methodist layman
Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, 1806-1877 Surgeon, teacher, editor
Andrew Ewing, 1813-1864 Lawyer, orator, statesman
Edwin Hickman Ewing, 1809-1902 Lawyer, Congressman, orator
Francis Brinley Fogg, 1795-1880 Attorney, public spirited citizen
Mary Middleton Rutledge Fogg, 1800-1872 Cultured and gracious lady, author
Ephraim Hubbard Foster, 1794-1854 Attorney, Whig politician, U.S. Senator
Landon Cabell Garland, 1810-1895 First Chancellor of Vanderbilt
Augustin Gattinger, 1825-1903 Physician, botanist
Alexander Little Page Green, 1806-1874 Methodist minister
Anne Rodgers Grundy, 1779-1847 Mother of 12, active in church/city
Felix Grundy, 1777-1840 Lawyer, statesman, orator
William Giles Harding, 1808-1886 Agriculturalist, stock-breeder
Adolphus Heiman, 1809-1862 Architect, soldier
Edward Dickson Hicks, 1831-1894 Businessman, farmer, civil leader
John Melchior Hull, 1797-1870 Merchant, businessman
Robert Boyte Crawford Howell, 1801-1868 Baptist minister, author, editor
Alfred Hume, 1808-1854 Educator, first superintendent schools
William Hume, 1770-1833 Clergyman, educator
Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845 Seventh President of United States
Howell Edmunds Jackson, 1832-1895 Lawyer, Assoc. Justice of Supreme Court
Rachel Donelson Jackson, 1766-1828 Wife of Andrew Jackson
James Franklin Jarman, 1867-1937 Businessman, philanthropist, General Shoe
James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 Negro writer of plays and operas
Joseph Buckner Killebrew, 1831-1906 Scientist, author, editor, agriculturalist
James Hampton Kirkland, 1859-1939 Second Chancellor of Vanderbilt
John McCormick Lea, 1818-1903 Lawyer, jurist, scholar
Rabbi Isadore Lewinthal, 1849-1923 Rabbi, community leader
Eugene Castner Lewis, 1845-1917 Engineer, architect, railroad executive
John Berrien Lindsley, 1822-1897 Educator, physician, clergyman
Philip Lindsley, 1786-1855 Educator, clergyman, scholar
David Lipscomb, 1832-1918 Farmer, teacher, preacher, editor
Lee Fefferson Loventhal, 1875-1940 Businessman, philanthropist
John Berry McFerrin, 1807-1887 Methodist preacher, editor
Randall William McGavock, 1826-1863 Politician, diarist, author, soldier
William McKendree, 1757-1835 Methodist Circuit Rider, Bishop
Boyd McNairy, 1785-1856 Physician, prominent citizen
Holland Nimmons McTyeire, 1824-1889 Methodist Bishop, Vanderbilt Founder
Thomas Lafayette Maddin, 1826-1908 Physician, surgeon, professor
Return Jonathan Meigs, 1801-1891 Lawyer, jurist, scholar, author
Richard Pius Miles, 1791-1860 Priest/Bishop Roman Catholic Church
William Nichol, 1800-1878 Businessman, banker, broker
John Overton, 1766-1833 Pioneer, legal authority, jurist
Bruce Ryburn Payne Educator
William Harold Payne, 1836-1907 Scholar, administrator, education
James Dace Plunkett, 1839-1919 Physician, public health, sanitation
James Knox Polk, 1795-1849 Eleventh President of United States
Sara Childress Polk, 1803-1891 Wife of James Knox Polk
George Washington Price, 1830-1892 Minister, educator
James Priestly, 1740-1821 Classical scholar, educator
Charles Todd Quintard, 1824-1898 Physician, Episcopal Bishop
Charlotte Reeves Robertson, 1751-1843 Wife of James Robertson
Duncan Robertson, 1770-1833 Businessman, philanthropist
Felix Robertson, 1781-1865 Physician, community leader
James Robertson, 1742-1814 Nashville founder, frontiersman
Henry Middleton Rutledge, 1775-1844 Lawyer, planter
Samuel Seay, 1784-1864 Merchant, Presbyterian elder
John Shelby, 1786-1859 Physician
Baxter Smith, 1832- Attorney
Edward Bushrod Stahlman, 1843-1936 Newspaper publisher, railroad executive
Vernon K. Stevenson Pioneer in railroad building
William Stockell, 1815-1888 Merchant, originator of Nashville Fire Dept.
William Strickland, 1787-1854 Architect, engineer, painter
Wilkins Tannehill, 1787-1858 Businessman, scholar, historian
Henry Teitlebaun, 1871-1940 Merchant, community servant
Gates Phillips Thurston, 1835-1914 Soldier, lawyer, banker, author
Herbert Cushing Tolman, 1865-1937 Classical scholar, archeologist, author
John Trimbel, 1812-1884 Lawyer, scholar
Gerard Troost, 1776-1850 Scientist
James Isaac Vance, 1862-1939 Presbyterian minister
William E. Ward, 1829-1887 Minister, Founder of Ward's Seminary
James Carthwright Warner, 1829-1887 Businessman, manufacturer, philanthropist
Samuel Watkins, 1794-1882 Contractor, manufacturer, philanthropist
Robert Weakley, 1764-1845 Farmer, surveyor, land owner
James Whitsitt, 1771-1849 Missionary
Dempsey Weaver, 1815-1880 Financier, philanthropist
George Leonard White, 1838-1895 Educator, creator of Fisk Jubilee Singers
Charles K. Winston Physician, professor
John Wesley Work Sr., 1871-1925 Composer, educator
Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, 1812-1862 Editor, Congressman, soldier

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