1884 History of Monroe County
Biographies
…. (MaryLynne – I thought you may have a better intro from the book) As a means of
funding its publication, the 1884 History of Monroe County contained numerous
biographies paid for by local residents and business owners who wished their lives to be
captured in print. The information contained within is both informative and entertaining
but, as with any telling of history, may or may not be entirely accurate. The following
name index identifies those biographies as transcribed and sorted by township.
Monroe Township:
Richard Asbury, M.D.
Boulware & Sullivan
J. Porter Bush
David G. Davenport
Thomas D. Freeman
Grimm & Losson
James L. Lyon
Robert K. Megown
Dr. Adolphus Noland
Jacob A. Peirsol
Thomas Proctor, M.D.
A.K. Rutledge
George W. Tompkins
George L. Turner, M.D.
F.M. Wilson
William A. Bird
Robert B. Bristow
Benedict Carrico
Durrant & Jackson
Milton B. Garner
Hickman, Hawkins & Co.
Hon. Patrick H. McLeod
S. Megown
John L. Nolen
John C. Peirsol
James S. Randol
William Schofield
Nathan S. Topping
Judge Alfred Warner
Benjamin O. Wood
James H. Blincoe
Benedict Buell
Harrison Cary
Judge James D. Evans
Gentry & Snider
Isaiah Jones
William B.A. McNutt, M.D.
Richard Miles
John J. Norton, M.D.
James M. Proctor
John G. Rogers
Capt. William Styles
Benjamin H.H. Tucker
Westhoff Brothers
Thomas J. Yates
Washington C. Bates
Charles F. Browning
James Camplin
Lockhart A. Creigh
John M. Davis
Lewis Fleming
Dr. William M. Houston
John A. Hickman
Thomas F. Lipp
Philip Quisenberry
James Smiley
John R. Snyder
James W. Trimble
Milton B. Wilkerson
Robert H. Wright
Francis M. Brashears
John F. Buckles
Benjamin E. Cowherd
Charles C. Davis
Benjamin C. Drake
William H. Foree
Wilfred Hays
Clay Webster Judy
Charles P. McCarty
George M. Ragsdale
James R. Smiley
Charles W. Tanner
Benjamin F. Vaughn
Peter D. Wilkins
South Fork Township:
Thomas M. Bates
James Bledsoe
George W. Bybee
Jacob Cox
James B. Davis
John S. Drake, M.D.
William S. Forsyth
Joseph Heizer
George W.Kerr
William Peak
Nathan P. Rodgers
William L. Smithey
John G. Tillitt
James Williams
Samuel Wooldridge
Union Township:
Evan S. Anderson
John James Bassett, A.B.
Cyrus Collins Evans
Walker Turner Featherston
William B. Giddings, Jr.
James Ownby, Sr.
Capt. Wm. Edward Williams
Tennessee M. Bassett
Thomas M. Giddings
James C. Snell
Indian Creek Township:
Jerome J. Bick
Rev. Father P. Morrissey
George B. Lawrence
Robert F. Parsons
Benedict J. Yager
John Dixon
Samuel C. Fields
James E. McLeod
Capt. John D. Pierceall
James V. Dooley
Christopher G. Hayden
Charles W. Montgomery
William J. Pike
Samuel H. Cox
Clement A. Hamilton
Joseph H. Jett
Morgan O. Robertson
Caleb Wood
Jacob S. Crow
William H. Hawkins
James T. Martin
Samuel Shearer
William P. Bradley, M.D.
Eld. Wm. M. Featherston
Richard P. Moore
Hon. Marcus D. Blakey
James Dye
Tirey Ford
Isaac S. Heathman
Judge Presley Moore
Thomas E. Steele
George W. Webb
Samuel Cornelius
John W. Johnston
Littleberry B. Wade
John S. Crow
Squire Wilson T. Fields
Aljournal Hanger
Thomas B. Loyd, M.D.
William Powell
Nathaniel M. Threlkeld
Z.M. Atterbery
Rev. James Clark Davis
Milton Forsyth
James C. Jackson
Garland C. Mitchell
John H. Sanders
Capt. Franklin Burnham
James Duncan
John Hendricks
William R. Legrand
W.S. Overfelt
Sidney A Sanders
Washington Township:
Henry Bohrer
Alfred R. Gibbons
David R. Hume
James W. Nesbit
David H. Stoddart
Marion Township:
Thomas J. Barker
William A. Davis
Judge Thos. W. McCormick
John S. Austin
Henry Curtright
Jacob H. Ford
John R. Hanger
Charles A. McKinnie
David A. Sprinkle
Samuel D. Wallace
Woodlawn Township:
John W. Adams
Charles V. Clay
Solon H. Farrell
Thomas Hightower
Travis Million
George Rauk
William G. Sanders
Walter S. Webb
Walker Wright, Jr.
Martin J. Clark
John R. Croswhite, M.D.
Judge Henry Dooley
James Goodier, M.D.
J.G. Hickman
William H. Poage
Thomas M. Reavis
Robert Scobee, Sr.
John W. Vandeventer
Hiram Wommack
Thomas Cleaver
Robert Crump
Underwood Dooley
Robert G. Hanna
Philander W. Hickman
Marcus M. Powers
Joshua Richmond
Stephen H. Scobee
Capt. Benjamin F. White
Drury L. Woodson
Cicero Alexander
E. Ashcraft
John Biggs
Alfred G. Bodine
J. William Boyd
George C. Brown
Joseph Burnett
John S. Conyers
Edmond Covey
Judge James M. Crutcher
Mervin M. Dawson
John H. Edwards
William H. Forman
James Cephas Fox
Hon. French Glascock
Milton Grow
James P. Holdsworth
James A. Jackson
William F. Kennett
Henry P. Long
McCrary & Wills
David A. McKamey
W.F. Maxey
John T. Nesbit
Thomas W. Pitts
Temple B. Robinson
Louis Rose
James M. Seeley
Junius J. Armstrong
James E. Barker
Joseph M. Blades
Samuel M. Bounds
Judge Theodore Brace
Jackson H. Bryan
James W. Clark
David L. Cooper
Charles A. Creigh
James A. Curtright
John A. Delaney
John M. Edwards
Richard Fowkes
Robert Freeman
George Glenn
Zadok Harbit
Henry C. Howell
William H. Johnson
William Lewis
Prof J.C. McBride
Hugh McGee
Prof James Milton McMurry
Judge David H. Moss
Judge William K. Neugent
Milfred Powers
Hon Tyree T. Rodes
Thomas J. Rose
James P. Shrader
Jefferson Township:
Heaton J. Clapper
Jacob W. Conrad
Albert G. Dils
Benedict Garwood
Winfield S. Hawkins
Thomas W. Hurd
Theron B. Powers
Le Grande Rouse
Dennis Thompson
Wiley M. Wilkerson
Prof. Townsend Wright
Jackson Township:
Judge James R. Abernathy
Nimrod Ashcraft
Hon. Thomas P. Bashaw
Benjamin F. Blanton
G.M. Bower
Jefferson Bridgford
Robert M. Burgess
William Leslie Combs
Francis C. Cooper
Thomas Crutcher
Henry L. Curtright
Benjamin G. Dysart, M.D.
Henry H. Fields
Valentine Fowkes
Thomas B. Gannaway
David C. Gore, M.D.
Isaac Hayden
John H. Howell
William J. Jones
William H. Livesay
Robert D. McCann
J.J. McGee
Abraham G. Mason
Joel M. Moss
Frank L. Pitts
Charles M. Reed
Enoch W. Rogers
Frederick Sageser
Henry Thomas Shrader
William H. Snell
Uriah G. Speed
Reuben L. Tillitt
Jesse Vance
Robert H. West
Lemuel P. Willis
Walter Withers
James Woods
S.P. Wright
Jeremiah B.P. Smith
W.E. Spalding
Joseph E. Sproul
Larkin S. Towles
William A. Waller
Col Philip Williams
Abner Wilson
George R. Withers
James M. Worrel
Robert L. Yowell
James A. Smith, M.D.
Matthias W. Speed
French Strother
George W. Vanlandingham
Lewis S. Watts
William A. Williams
William C. Wilson
Judge Stephen M. Woodson
James L. Wright