Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in

Marietta, Ohio Marietta is a city in Washington County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is located in Appalachian Ohio, southeastern Ohio at the confluence of the Muskingum River, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, northeast of Parkersburg, West Virginia ...

, 11 March 1799; died in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

, 20 January 1869) was an American lawyer and historian.

Biography

He studied law, practised in

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, and in 1836 settled in Nashville, Tennessee, and was president of the

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, to whose publications he was a contributor. In addition to articles in periodicals, he wrote: * ''History of Middle Tennessee'' (Nashville, 1859) * ''Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson'' (1859) * “Life of Gen. John Sevier,” in Wheeler's ''History of North Carolina''

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* * 1799 births 1869 deaths American lawyers American historians People from Nashville, Tennessee Albigence Waldo {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub