Albigence Waldo Putnam
Albigence Waldo Putnam | |
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| Born | March 11, 1799 Marietta, Northwest Territory, U.S. |
| Died | January 20, 1869 (aged 69) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer historian |
| Relatives | Israel Putnam (ancestor)[1] |
Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in Marietta, Ohio, 11 March 1799; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 20 January 1869) was an American lawyer and historian.[2]
Biography
[edit]He studied law, practised in Mississippi, and in 1836 settled in Nashville, Tennessee, and was president of the Tennessee Historical Society, to whose publications he was a contributor. In addition to articles in periodicals, he wrote:[2]
- 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
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Natchez Bulletin 1869.
- ^ a b Fiske 1900, p. 142.
References
[edit]- "Col. A. W. Putnam". The Natchez Bulletin. Natchez, Mississippi. February 5, 1869. p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Fiske, John (1900). . In Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J. (eds.). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. p. 142.
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