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John Childress
John Childress was a pioneer resident of Nashville, Tennessee with ties to future U.S. President Andrew Jackson. Childress, who served as a United States Marshal for 16 years, was remembered as a man of "great wealth" known for his magnificent mansion, Rokeby, later acquired by the father of Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham. Biography Childress served as "entry taker" for Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1803 he and four others, Joel Lewis, George Ridley, Alexander Ewing, and William Luntz, were appointed to raise money and hire contractors for a Davidson County/Mero District Jail. Childress was appointed the United States Marshal for the U.S. District Court of Western Tennessee in 1803 and was reappointed, at four-year intervals, serving continuously until his death. In January 1805 he was a signatory to a petition protesting the court-martial of Thomas Butler, probably produced at the behest of Andrew Jackson and sent to Thomas Jefferson's government, recorded in offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before Presidency of Andrew Jackson, his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Jacksonian democracy, His political philosophy became the basis for the History of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. Jackson's legacy is controversial: he has been praised as an advocate for working Americans and Nullification crisis, preserving the union of states, and criticized for his racist policies, particularly towards Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans. Jackson was born in the colonial Carolinas before the American Revolutionary War. He became a American frontier, frontier lawyer and married Rachel Donelson Jackson, Rachel Donelson Robards. He briefly served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, representing Tennessee. After resigning, he served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Marshal
The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a Federal law enforcement in the United States, federal law enforcement agency in the United States. The Marshals Service serves as the enforcement and security arm of the United States federal judiciary, U.S. federal judiciary. It is an Government agency, agency of the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice and operates under the direction of the United States Attorney General, U.S. attorney general. U.S. Marshals are the original U.S. federal law enforcement officers, created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 during the presidency of George Washington as the "Office of the United States Marshal" under the United States district court, U.S. district courts. The USMS was established in 1969 to provide guidance and assistance to U.S. Marshals throughout the United States federal judicial district, federal judicial districts. The Marshals Service is primarily responsible for locating and arrest warrant, arresting Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelicia Acklen
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham (March 15, 1817 – May 4, 1887) was an American planter and slave trader. She became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a Planter class, plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin. As a successful Slave trade in the United States, slave trader, he had used his wealth to purchase numerous plantations, lands, and slaves in Tennessee and Louisiana. In 1880 Acklen sold four contiguous plantations in Louisiana as one property. These have formed the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as "Angola" after one of the plantations) since 1901. When married to her second husband, Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen, Adelicia Acklen built the Belmont Mansion (Tennessee), Belmont Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee. She sold the property in 1887; it was converted for use as a girls' school and later junior college campus. It is now operated as a museum at the center of what is now known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davidson County, Tennessee
Davidson County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located in the heart of Middle Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 715,884, making it the 2nd most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Nashville, the state capital and most populous city. Since 1963, the city of Nashville and Davidson County have had a consolidated government called the "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County", commonly referred to as "Metro Nashville" or "Metro". This is distinct from the larger metropolitan area. Davidson County has the largest population in the 13-county Nashville-Davidson– Murfreesboro– Franklin Metropolitan Statistical Area, the state's most populous metropolitan area. Nashville has always been one of the region's centers of commerce, industry, transportation, and culture, but it did not become the capital of Tennessee until 1827 and did not gain permanent capital status until 1843. History Davidson County is the old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Lewis (Tennessee Politician)
Joel W. Lewis was a prominent African-American businessman and abolitionist. He was among the best known and respected reformers in antebellum Boston. He was the son of Job Lewis (?–1797), a former slave who served in the Continental Army. He was a brother of author and entrepreneur Robert Benjamin Lewis.Price (2006), p. 68. After attending Hosea Easton's vocational school, he went on to become the owner of a large and successful blacksmith shop in Boston, which employed both black and white mechanics. The shop operated from the 1830s to at least 1870. In the years before the Civil War, he lived at 4 Southac Street in Boston's West End. In 1833 Lewis became the first vice-president of the Boston Mutual Lyceum, one of several educational and cultural organizations co-founded by William Cooper Nell (apparently separate from the Boston Lyceum, which was founded in 1829). In 1836 he was elected president of the Adelphic Union for the Promotion of Literature and Science, another g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court-martial
A court-martial (plural ''courts-martial'' or ''courts martial'', as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the armed forces subject to military law, and, if the defendant is found guilty, to decide upon punishment. In addition, courts-martial may be used to try prisoners of war for war crimes. The Geneva Conventions require that POWs who are on trial for war crimes be subject to the same procedures as would be the holding military's own forces. Finally, courts-martial can be convened for other purposes, such as dealing with violations of martial law, and can involve civilian defendants. Most navies have a standard court-martial which convenes whenever a ship is lost; this does not presume that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that the circumstances surrounding the loss of the ship be made part of the official record. Most military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Butler (soldier)
Thomas Butler (1748–1805) was a Continental Army officer from Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. He was commissioned in the United States Army after the Revolution and rose to the rank of colonel. Family He was the brother of Major General Richard Butler and Captain Edward Butler. All three brothers served in the American Revolution and in the Northwest Indian War against the Western Confederacy of Native American tribes in the Northwest Territories. Two other brothers, William and Percival, served in the Revolution but did not see later military service. American Revolutionary War Butler was commissioned a 1st lieutenant in the 2nd Pennsylvania Battalion on January 5, 1776, and was promoted to captain in the 3rd Pennsylvania on October 4 of the same year. He resigned from the Continental Army on January 17, 1781. In 1783 he became an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Later military service Butler was a major in the levies (i.e. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was the nation's first United States Secretary of State, U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president of the United States, vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and Natural law, natural rights, and he produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels. Jefferson was born into the Colony of Virginia's planter class, dependent on slavery in the colonial history of the United States, slave labor. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Second Continental Congress, which unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Overton (judge)
John Overton (April 9, 1766 – April 12, 1833) was an American planter and slave trader, a judge at the Tennessee Supreme Court, a banker, political leader, and an advisor of Andrew Jackson. He was described in 1889 as having been the "wealthiest man in the State." Early life and career Overton was born on April 9, 1766, in Louisa County, Virginia. His parents were James Overton and Mary Waller. In 1787, he began his law career and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1789, to practice law at the Davidson County court. He was elected to succeed his friend Andrew Jackson as a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1804, where he served as a judge until 1810. His elder brother Thomas Overton served as Jackson's second in his duel with Charles Dickinson. In 1819, he founded Memphis, Tennessee on land he owned with Andrew Jackson and James Winchester. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1820. Overton engaged in the slave trade and became one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elijah Robertson
Elijah ( ) or Elias was a prophet and miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab (9th century BC), according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. In 1 Kings 18, Elijah defended the worship of the Hebrew deity Yahweh over that of the Canaanite deity Baal. God also performed many miracles through Elijah, including resurrection, bringing fire down from the sky, and ascending to heaven alive. 2 Kings 2:11 He is also portrayed as leading a school of prophets known as "the sons of the prophets." Following Elijah's ascension, his disciple and devoted assistant Elisha took over as leader of this school. The Book of Malachi prophesies Elijah's return "before the coming of the great and terrible day of the ," making him a harbinger of the Messiah and of the eschaton in various faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible. References to Elijah appear in Sirach, the New Testament, the Mishnah and Talmud, the Quran, the Book of Mormon, and Bahà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
