1884 History of Monroe County
Biographies

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.	William A. Bird		James H. Blincoe
Boulware & Sullivan	Robert B. Bristow		Benedict Buell
J. Porter Bush		Benedict Carrico		Harrison Cary
David G. Davenport	Durrant & Jackson		Judge James D. Evans
Thomas D. Freeman		Milton B. Garner		Gentry & Snider
Grimm & Losson		Hickman, Hawkins & Co.	Isaiah Jones
James L. Lyon		Hon. Patrick H. McLeod	William B.A. McNutt, M.D.
Robert K. Megown		S. Megown			Richard Miles
Dr. Adolphus Noland	John L. Nolen		John J. Norton, M.D.
Jacob A. Peirsol		John C. Peirsol		James M. Proctor
Thomas Proctor, M.D.	James S. Randol		John G. Rogers
A.K. Rutledge		William Schofield		Capt. William Styles
George W. Tompkins	Nathan S. Topping		Benjamin H.H. Tucker
George L. Turner, M.D.	Judge Alfred Warner	Westhoff Brothers
F.M. Wilson			Benjamin O. Wood		Thomas J. Yates

South Fork Township:

Thomas M. Bates		Washington C. Bates	Francis M. Brashears
James Bledsoe		Charles F. Browning	John F. Buckles
George W. Bybee		James Camplin		Benjamin E. Cowherd
Jacob Cox			Lockhart A. Creigh	Charles C. Davis
James B. Davis		John M. Davis		Benjamin C. Drake
John S. Drake, M.D.	Lewis Fleming		William H. Foree
William S. Forsyth	Dr. William M. Houston	Wilfred Hays
Joseph Heizer		John A. Hickman		Clay Webster Judy
George W.Kerr		Thomas F. Lipp		Charles P. McCarty
William Peak		Philip Quisenberry	George M. Ragsdale
Nathan P. Rodgers		James Smiley		James R. Smiley
William L. Smithey	John R. Snyder		Charles W. Tanner
John G. Tillitt		James W. Trimble		Benjamin F. Vaughn
James Williams		Milton B. Wilkerson	Peter D. Wilkins
Samuel Wooldridge		Robert H. Wright

Union Township:

Evan S. Anderson		John James Bassett, A.B.	Tennessee M. Bassett
Cyrus Collins Evans	Walker Turner Featherston	Thomas M. Giddings
William B. Giddings, Jr.James Ownby, Sr.			James C. Snell
Capt. Wm. Edward Williams	

Indian Creek Township:

Jerome J. Bick		John Dixon			James V. Dooley
Rev. Father P. MorrisseySamuel C. Fields		Christopher G. Hayden
George B. Lawrence	James E. McLeod		Charles W. Montgomery
Robert F. Parsons		Capt. John D. Pierceall	William J. Pike
Benedict J. Yager		

Washington Township:

Henry Bohrer		Samuel H. Cox		Jacob S. Crow
Alfred R. Gibbons		Clement A. Hamilton	William H. Hawkins
David R. Hume		Joseph H. Jett		James T. Martin
James W. Nesbit		Morgan O. Robertson	Samuel Shearer
David H. Stoddart		Caleb Wood			
			
Marion Township:

Thomas J. Barker		William P. Bradley, M.D.Samuel Cornelius
William A. Davis		Eld. Wm. M. Featherston	John W. Johnston
Judge Thos. W. McCormickRichard P. Moore		Littleberry B. Wade
John S. Austin		Hon. Marcus D. Blakey	John S. Crow
Henry Curtright		James Dye			Squire Wilson T. Fields
Jacob H. Ford		Tirey Ford			Aljournal Hanger
John R. Hanger		Isaac S. Heathman		Thomas B. Loyd, M.D.
Charles A. McKinnie	Judge Presley Moore	William Powell
David A. Sprinkle		Thomas E. Steele		Nathaniel M. Threlkeld
Samuel D. Wallace		George W. Webb

Woodlawn Township:

John W. Adams		Z.M. Atterbery		Capt. Franklin Burnham
Charles V. Clay		Rev. James Clark Davis	James Duncan
Solon H. Farrell		Milton Forsyth		John Hendricks
Thomas Hightower		James C. Jackson		William R. Legrand
Travis Million		Garland C. Mitchell	W.S. Overfelt
George Rauk			John H. Sanders		Sidney A Sanders
William G. Sanders	Walter S. Webb		Walker Wright, Jr.

Jefferson Township:

Heaton J. Clapper		Martin J. Clark		Thomas Cleaver
Jacob W. Conrad		John R. Croswhite, M.D.	Robert Crump
Albert G. Dils		Judge Henry Dooley	Underwood Dooley
Benedict Garwood		James Goodier, M.D.	Robert G. Hanna
Winfield S. Hawkins	J.G. Hickman		Philander W. Hickman
Thomas W. Hurd		William H. Poage		Marcus M. Powers
Theron B. Powers		Thomas M. Reavis		Joshua Richmond
Le Grande Rouse		Robert Scobee, Sr.	Stephen H. Scobee
Dennis Thompson		John W. Vandeventer	Capt. Benjamin F. White
Wiley M. Wilkerson	Hiram Wommack		Drury L. Woodson
Prof. Townsend Wright	

Jackson Township:

Judge James R. AbernathyCicero Alexander		Junius J. Armstrong
Nimrod Ashcraft		E. Ashcraft			James E. Barker
Hon. Thomas P. Bashaw	John Biggs			Joseph M. Blades
Benjamin F. Blanton	Alfred G. Bodine		Samuel M. Bounds
G.M. Bower			J. William Boyd		Judge Theodore Brace
Jefferson Bridgford	George C. Brown		Jackson H. Bryan
Robert M. Burgess		Joseph Burnett		James W. Clark
William Leslie Combs	John S. Conyers		David L. Cooper
Francis C. Cooper		Edmond Covey		Charles A. Creigh
Thomas Crutcher		Judge James M. Crutcher	James A. Curtright
Henry L. Curtright	Mervin M. Dawson		John A. Delaney
Benjamin G. Dysart, M.D.John H. Edwards		John M. Edwards
Henry H. Fields		William H. Forman		Richard Fowkes
Valentine Fowkes		James Cephas Fox		Robert Freeman
Thomas B. Gannaway	Hon. French Glascock	George Glenn
David C. Gore, M.D.	Milton Grow			Zadok Harbit
Isaac Hayden		James P. Holdsworth	Henry C. Howell
John H. Howell		James A. Jackson		William H. Johnson
William J. Jones		William F. Kennett	William Lewis
William H. Livesay	Henry P. Long		Prof J.C. McBride
Robert D. McCann		McCrary & Wills		Hugh McGee
J.J. McGee			David A. McKamey		Prof James Milton McMurry
Abraham G. Mason		W.F. Maxey			Judge David H. Moss
Joel M. Moss		John T. Nesbit		Judge William K. Neugent
Frank L. Pitts		Thomas W. Pitts		Milfred Powers
Charles M. Reed		Temple B. Robinson	Hon Tyree T. Rodes
Enoch W. Rogers		Louis Rose			Thomas J. Rose
Frederick Sageser		James M. Seeley		James P. Shrader
Henry Thomas Shrader	Jeremiah B.P. Smith	James A. Smith, M.D.
William H. Snell		W.E. Spalding		Matthias W. Speed
Uriah G. Speed		Joseph E. Sproul		French Strother
Reuben L. Tillitt		Larkin S. Towles		George W. Vanlandingham
Jesse Vance			William A. Waller		Lewis S. Watts
Robert H. West		Col Philip Williams	William A. Williams
Lemuel P. Willis		Abner Wilson		William C. Wilson
Walter Withers		George R. Withers		Judge Stephen M. Woodson
James Woods 		James M. Worrel		James L. Wright
S.P. Wright			Robert L. Yowell