History of Fentress County, Tennessee, Albert R. Hogue. Originally 
published Nashville, Tenn, 1916. Reprinted by  Baltimore Regional 
Publishing Company, 1975. p. 80. [Monroe County]

LAWRENCE BREED CHISM.  L. B. Chism was born in Monroe County, Kentucky, 
1850, and attended school at Tompkinsville with Ex-Governor Benton 
McMillin.  Later he was a student at Valparaiso, Indiana.  He taught 
school six years in Kentucky, and came to Tennessee in 1884 and engaged 
in the mercantile business, and has followed this successfully ever 
since.  He now resides at Little Crab.
	He was elected and served eight years as County Judge of Fentress 
County.  He was postmaster at Little Crab during Cleveland's 
administration and deputy during Roosevelt's.
	He became a member of the Baptist Church in 1893, and was ordained 
a minister in 1905.
	He married Mary Wood in 1888, a daughter of Jerry Wood, who was 
for a long time a merchant and Postmaster at Boatland.  He is a brother 
of Dr. J. N. Chism, and received his name from his great grandmother 
Breed, and his great-grand-father Lawrence Gillock.  He is a Mason and a 
democrat.

Chism McMillin Cleveland Roosevelt Wood Breed Gillock
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