Nashville History talk:Community portal

Proposed category: 1964 “Greatest Nashvillians”
This list can serve as one starting point (of many) in identifying what bios might belong on Nashwiki. From finding aid in VU Special Collections:

“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.”

Adelicia Hayes Acklen, 1817-1889 Social leader, gracious hostess [Descriptions here are as given in the finding aid.]

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 Railroad

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 Lafland 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,	 1791?-1834	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, 1874-1937	Educator, Peabody president

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 ?-1884 	Pioneer in railroad building info

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 Teitlebaum, 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

Girard 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

The ones that got away
Some years ago I was involved in a project that included group feedback on a list of Nashville natives or one-time residents who went on to bigger things elsewhere. That list may be a starting point for bio entries. Here it is:

Hollywood/music/entertainment:

Tom Schulman info

Richard Speight Jr. info

Bettie Page info

Reese Witherspoon info

Claude Jarman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Jarman_Jr. info]

Delbert Mann info

Kay George Roberts info

Russell Fine info

Jimi Hendrix info

Sports:

Hunter Hillenmeyer info

Lee MacPhail info

Ron Mercer info

Larry Munson info

Bill Belichick info

Jenny Boucek info

Gideon Yu info

Media/arts/literature:

Oprah Winfrey info

David Vise info

Greg Williamson info

Madison Smartt Bell info

Wyatt Wells info

Red Grooms info

John M. Seigenthaler [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seigenthaler%2C_Jr. info]

Madison Jones info

John Medwedeff info

Morgan Entrekin info

Kevin Kruse info

Robert K. Massie info

Huell Howser info

Heather Anne Warren info

Greg Downs info

Merrimon Cuninggim info

Politics/government:

Mickey Kantor info

Julian Bond info

Joseph W. Prueher info

Thomas Hodges info

Business:

Bruce Henderson info

Eugene B. Shanks Jr. info

William J. Tyne Jr. info

Barry L. Stowe info

John Cain Carter info

Ned Davis info

Patricia Werthan Uhlmann info

Muhammad Yunus info

Medicine:

James B. D. Mark info

Historical:

Sam Houston info

Samuel Stritch info

Henry Kimbro info

Turkey Stearnes info

Stanford Moore info

Frank James [ info]

Jesse James [ info]

Julius Mark info