BROOKINS CAMPBELL
Campbell, Brookins, state senator, congressman, was born in 1808 in Washington
County, Tenn. He was for many years a member of the Tennessee state legislature; and in 1845 was elected speaker.
He was an officer in the quartermaster's department in the war with Mexico. He was elected a representative from
Tennessee to the thirty-third congress. He died Dec. 25, 1853, in Washington, D.C.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five
Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw,
1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
ARTHUR S. COLYAR
Arthur S. Colyar, one of the prominent attorneys of Nashville, Tenn.,
was born in Washington county, of that state in 1818, and is the son of Alexander Colyar. He was educated in the
schools of the time, meager at best, outside of the principal universities. When about twelve years old, his parents
removed to Franklin county, where he continued school for a time, and then taught for several years. He then took
up the study of law with Col. Micah Taul, who had been a distinguished congressmen from Kentucky in an early day,
and who at that time was a resident of Winchester, Tenn. Mr. Colyar was admitted to the bar in 1846, and practiced
law in Winchester until the war broke out, when he was elected to the Confederate Congress and continued a member
of that body during its existence. After the war he resumed his practice at Winchester, but having been retained
in several very important cases in Nashville, this fact led to his removal to that city in 1867. Since becoming
a member of the Nashville bar, Mr. Colyar has been one of the leaders in the legal circles of the city. At the
time of his removal he was president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. He served in the Tennessee legislature
one session in the seventies, but has devoted most of his attention to the law, though he has taken considerable
interest, now and then, in the field of journalism. About 1880 he became editor of the Nashville American, and
for four or five years successfully occupied that position, then established the News, which he edited for two
years, after which he sold the paper and bought the American, which he conducted for some time thereafter as editor.
He is a prominent member of the "Round Table" of Nashville, and of the Methodist Episcopal church.
[Notable Men of Tennessee, Vol. I, Publ. 1905. Transcribed
by Richard Ramos]
MRS. AMELIA (SLACK) COPENHAVER
Daughter of an East Tennessee publisher; born at Johnson City, Tenn.,
June 4, 1904; English, Scotch-Irish, German descent; her father Embree Munsey Slack; mother Maxie Cox; married
to Nathaniel Hawkins Copenhaver Oct. 16, 1926; paternal grandparents John and Julia Penelope (Holston) Slack; maternal
grandparents James Bowles and Amelia (Richmond) Cox; attended the public schools of Johnson City; later, East Tenn.
State Normal; Barnard College, N.Y.C.; studied abroad for 2 years. Democrat; member of the M. E. Church So., D.A.R.,
U.D.C., American Legion Auxiliary, Business and Professional Women's Club, Tenn. Fed. of Women's Clubs, Bristol
Garden Club, Bristol Bk. Club, Tenn. Press and Author's club, and T.B. Assoc. Appointed Postmaster at Bristol,
Tenn. on Aug. 26, 1935 by Pres. F. D. Roosevelt, sponsored by Sen. McKellar and Sen. Bachman, serving as an acting
postmaster for several months before this appointment. Before assuming her present duties, was editor of the Women's
Page of the Bristol News Bulletin,
a position which she held for 8 years. She is the only lady postmaster of a first-class office in the state; is
Sec. Treas. of the Tenn. Chapter of the Nat'l Ass'n of Postmasters; is a member of the Steering Committee for the
organization of Young Dem. Clubs of Am.; three times elected member of the State Dem. Executive Committee from
the first Congr. Dist.; is honorary Nat'l Committeewoman of the Young Dem. Clubs of Tenn. Mother of three children:
- Mary Amelia, Shirley Ellen, and Nat, Jr.
Source: Prominent Tennesseans, 1796 - 1938; transcribed by Amanda Jowers
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