 ADAMS, ROBERT HUNTINGTON
Senate Years of Service: 1830-1830
Party: Jacksonian
ADAMS, Robert Huntington, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1792; apprenticed to the cooper's trade; graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) at Lexington, Va., in 1806; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Knoxville, Tenn.; moved to Natchez, Miss., in 1819; member of the State house of representatives in 1828; elected as a Jacksonian to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas B. Reed and served from January 6, 1830, until his death in Natchez, Miss., July 2, 1830; interment in Natchez City Cemetery.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771 - Present. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
ALEXANDER, ADAM RANKIN
Adam Rankin Alexander was born in Rockbridge Co VA on November 01 1781. He was a TN House of Representative in 1841 and 1843. He joined the TN Senate in 1817. During his l ife he worked as a surveyor and also as a register of the land office in Madison Co TN. In 1821 he was a member of the Madison Co TN Court. He was an Jacksonian Republican in Congress. In 1834 he represented Shelby Co TN in the TN State abolitionist convention. On his birthday, November 01 1848, he died in Jackson TN. He is buried in Prior Cemetery in Marshall Co MI.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771 - Present. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD
Alexander, Archibald, educator, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1772, in Rockbridge county, Va. he was a presbyterian clergyman; and was professor at Princeton theological seminary in 1812-51. he was the author of Scripture: Moral Science; Bible Dictionary; and other works. He died Oct. 22, 1851, in Princeton, N.J.
(Source: Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography, Vol. 1, Publ. 1909. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
ALLEN, ELIZABETH PRESTON
Elizabeth Preston Allan, wife of Colonel William Allan, was born at Lexington, December 22, 1848. She wrote stories for children, edited Sunday school literature for the Southern Presbyterian Church, and the Life and Letters of Margaret J. Preston, her stepmother. Colonel Allan wrote The Army of Northern Virginia, Jackson's Valley Campaign, etc.
(Source: History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, by Oren Frederic Morton. Publ. 1920.)
ALLEN, JOHN
John Allen was born on December 30 1771 in Rockbridge Co VA. He moved in 1779, with his father, to KY. He went to school in Bardstown, KY and studied law in Staunton, VA. He returned to KY to practice law in Shelbyville. In 1807 he was elected to the KY Senate. In the War of 1812, he served under General William Henry Harrison. He was killed in action on January 22 1813, while leading his men at the Battle of Frenchtown on the River Raisin in SE Michigan. In 1815 Allen Co KY was named for him. Allen Co IN and Allen Co OH are also both named after him.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771 - Present. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
Allen, John, pioneer, was born in Rockbridge county, Va., Dec. 30, 1772. When he was eight years of age his father moved to Kentucky, and his youth was spent among perilous scenes of Indian warfare which inured him to danger, and developed in him every manly quality. In 1791 he began the sudy of the law, and, being admitted to the bar in 1795, settled at Shelbyville, and soon took high rank in his profession. In 1812 he raised a regiment of riflemen and joined Gen. Harrison on the Canada frontier. He was engaged in the battle of Brownstown, Jan. 18, 1813, and commanded the left wing of the American army at the disastrous battle of the river Raisin, where he was killed while bravely rallying his troops, Jan. 22, 1814. Kentucky named a county in his memory.
(Source: National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 6, publ. 1896. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez)
Judge John J. Allen
Judge Allen for many years was one of the most distinguished lawyers and jurists of Western Virginia. He was born at Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia, September 25, 1797. His father, Judge James Allen, was also an able lawyer and jurist and was eminent in his day and generation. The subject of this brief sketch was educated at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He read law under the guidance of his father and was admitted to the practice in the courts of the Valley of Virginia. In 1819 he located at Clarksburg in the western part of the State and began the practice of his profession in Harrison and adjoining counties. Being thoroughly equipped he was not long in forging to the front and securing employment in important litigations of those early days. Indeed by ability and learning he very soon found employment on one side or the other in most big law suits in the three or four counties in which he practiced. Late in the twenties he formed a partnership with Gideon D. Camden, also a lawyer of prominence at Clarksburg, which continued for eight or ten years, until Mr. Allen in 1836 was appointed a Judge of the Circuit Court of Virginia, when he retired from the firm.
In 1827 Judge Allen was elected to the State Senate, and while a member of that body he introduced a bill, which afterwards became a law, for the settlement of land titles, in trans-Allegheny, Virginia. In 1834 he was elected Commonwealth's Attorney for the counties of Harrison, Lewis and Preston. At the same time he was a member of the 23d Congress, serving from 1833 to 1835. In all of the public positions he held he was faithful, honorable and able. He married in 1824. Although he was extremely reserved while in public life, he was gentle, affectionate and communicative in his social relations with his family and friends, and was firm and sincere in his religious convictions. He was appointed a Circuit Judge in 1836, and removed his residence to Botetourt County, and was promoted to the Supreme Court of Appeals in December, 1840. He died at Fincastle in 1871. He was an ardent secessionist at the beginning of the war, and retired from active life in 1865. He was a member of the Supreme Court for a quarter of a century, and his opinions show him to be a man of vast erudition. He was, beyond question, an able and just Judge, and his private and public life were above reproach.
[Bench and Bar of West Virginia by George Wesley Atkinson, 1919 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
ROBERT M. ANDERSON, 1836.
Born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, 1793. Removed to Tennessee. Lawyer. Senator from Knox and Anderson counties, 1831-1833. Appointed Trustee of East Tennessee College, 1836. Judge of Second Circuit, 1837-1854. Died in Jefferson county, October 20, 1855. (Caldwell’s Bench and Bar.)
[Explanatory Note. The date set opposite the name of each Trustee indicates the year of his first connection with the University as Trustee; either by election by the Board of Trustees pending confirmation by the Legislature, or by direct Legislative appointment without previous election by the Board.
When the name of the State is not given the present State of Tennessee is to be understood. The terms Southwestern Territory or Territorial Government refer to the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio.
The name of place given in italics at the end of the sketch of each living Trustee indicates his present address; the books cited in italics in parentheses refer to other sketches of the same person.]
[University of Tennessee record, Volume 1 By University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1898- Transcribed by AFOFG]
ANDERSON, WILLIAM A.
William A. Anderson, son of Francis T., Sr., was born May 11, 1842, and is the senior member of the Rockbridge bar. He has been Attorney General for his state and has twice represented his county in the Assembly. Major Anderson, who was made a cripple for life at First Manassas, is a Virginia gentleman of the old school and his courtesy is unfailing. He has been twice married; first to Ellen G., daughter of General Joseph R. Anderson, and second, to Mary L. Blair. His children are Ruth F., Anna A., William D. A., Judith N., and Ellen G. Besides being active in his chosen profession, Major Anderson has been a leader in the industrial development of Rockbridge.
(Source: The History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, By Olen Morton, Publ. 1920. Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack)
WILLIAM E. ANDERSON, 1821.
Born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, date not known. Brother of Robert M. Anderson, supra. Removed to Tennessee. Lawyer, Attorney and Solicitor General, Fourth District, 1818-1824. Appointed Trustee of East Tennessee College, 1821. Jackson Elector, Third District, 1824. Chancellor, Western Division of Tennessee, 1827-1830. Candidate for United States Senate against Felix Grundy, 1829. Representative from Davidson county, 1833-1835. White Elector, Eighth District, 1836. Senator from Davidson county, 1837-1839. Shortly afterward removed to Mississippi and there died about 1841. {Caldwell's Bench and Bar. Doak's Biographical Dictionary. The Goodspeed Publishing Company; History of Tennessee. IV. W. Clayton: History of Davidson County, Tennessee.)
[Explanatory Note. The date set opposite the name of each Trustee indicates the year of his first connection with the University as Trustee; either by election by the Board of Trustees pending confirmation by the Legislature, or by direct Legislative appointment without previous election by the Board.
When the name of the State is not given the present State of Tennessee is to be understood. The terms Southwestern Territory or Territorial Government refer to the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio.
The name of place given in italics at the end of the sketch of each living Trustee indicates his present address; the books cited in italics in parentheses refer to other sketches of the same person.]
[University of Tennessee record, Volume 1 By University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1898- Transcribed by AFOFG] |
