Leadership In Nashville Collection
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. These citizens include Adelicia Hayes Acklen, 1817-1889; Adam Gillespie Adams, 1829-1895; Edward Emerson Barnard, 1857-1923; Washington Barrow, 1807-1866; John Meredith Bass, 1804-1878; Jere Baxter, 1852-1904; John Bell, 1797-1869; William T. Berry, 1813-1889; John Diell Blanton, 1859-1933; William, Kirkman Bowling, 1808-1885; Richard Henry Boyd, 1843-1938; William T. Briggs, 1829-1894; Michael Burns, 1813-1896; George Washington Campbell, 1769-1848; William Carroll, 1788-1844; John Catron, 1786-1865; Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, 1820-1886; Joel Owsley Cheek, 1852-1935; Ann Robertson Cockrill, 1788-1872; Mark Robertson Cockrill, 1788-1872; Edmund Whitefoord Cole, 1827-1900; Washington Cooper, 1802-1899; Thomas Brown Craighead, 1750-1825; Nathaniel Cross, 1802-1866; John Hibbett DeWitt, 1872-1937; Jacob McGavock Dickinson, 1851-1928; John Donelson, 1725-1785; Mary C. Dorris, 1850-1924; Will Allen Dromgoole, 1860-1934; William Lafland Dudley, 1859-1914; George Dury, 1817-1893; John Todd Edgar, 1792-1860; Collins D. Elliott, 1810-1899; Joseph T. Elliston; Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, 1806-1877; Andrew Ewing, 1813-1864; Edwin Hickman Ewing, 1809-1902; Francis Brinley Fogg, 1795-1880; Mary Middleton Rutledge Fogg, 1800-1872; Ephraim Hubbard Foster, 1794-1854; Landon Cabell Garland, 1810-1895; Augustin Gattinger, 1825-1903; Alexander Little Page Green, 1806-1874; Anne Rodgers Grundy, 1779-1847; Felix Grundy, 1777-1840; William Giles Harding, 1808-1886; Adolphus Heiman, 1809-1862; Edward Dickson Hicks, 1831-1894; John Melchior Hull, 1797-1870; Robert Boyte Crawford Howell, 1801-1868; Alfred Hume, 1808-1854; William Hume, 1770-1833; Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845; Howell Edmunds Jackson, 1832-1895; Rachel Donelson Jackson, 1766-1828; James Franklin Jarman, 1867-1937; James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938; Joseph Buckner Killebrew, 1831-1906; James Hampton Kirkland, 1859-1939; John McCormick Lea, 1818-1903; Rabbi Isadore Lewinthal, 1849-1923; Eugene Castner Lewis, 1845-1917; John Berrien Lindsley, 1822-1897; Philip Lindsley, 1786-1855; David Lipscomb, 1832-1918; Lee Fefferson Loventhal, 1875-1940; John Berry McFerrin, 1807-1887; Randall William McGavock, 1826-1863; William McKendree, 1757-1835; Boyd McNairy, 1785-1856; Holland Nimmons McTyeire, 1824-1889; Thomas Lafayette Maddin, 1826-1908; Return Jonathan Meigs, 1801-1891; Richard Pius Miles, 1791-1860; William Nichol, 1800-1878; John Overton, 1766-1833; Bruce Ryburn Payne; William Harold Payne, 1836-1907; James Dace Plunkett, 1839-1919; James Knox Polk, 1795-1849; Sara Childress Polk, 1803-1891; George Washington Price, 1830-1892; James Priestly, 1740-1821; Charles Todd Quintard, 1824-1898; Charlotte Reeves Robertson, 1751-1843; Duncan Robertson, 1770-1833; Felix Robertson, 1781-1865; James Robertson, 1742-1814; Henry Middleton Rutledge, 1775-1844; Samuel Seay, 1784-1864; John Shelby, 1786-1859; Baxter Smith, 1832-; Edward Bushrod Stahlman, 1843-1936; Vernon K. Stevenson; William Stockell, 1815-1888; William Strickland, 1787-1854; Wilkins Tannehill, 1787-1858; Henry Teitlebaun, 1871-1940; Gates Phillips Thurston, 1835-1914; Herbert Cushing Tolman, 1865-1937; John Trimbel, 1812-1884; Girard Troost, 1776-1850; James Isaac Vance, 1862-1939; William E. Ward, 1829-1887; James Carthwright Warner, 1829-1887; Samuel Watkins, 1794-1882; Robert Weakley, 1764-1845; James Whitsitt, 1771-1849; Dempsey Weaver, 1815-1880; George Leonard White, 1838-1895; Charles K. Winston; John Wesley Work Sr., 1871-1925; and Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, 1812-1862.
Dates
- Creation: 1964
Conditions Governing Access
The physical materials from this collection may be viewed only in the reading room of Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives. Materials should be requested two to three days in advance to facilitate easier access. Contact specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu to schedule an appointment.
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.
Full Extent
.02 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
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.
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Leadership In Nashville Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
Special Collections Library
1101 19th Ave. S.
Nashville TN 37212 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
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