Albigence Waldo Putnam

Albigence Waldo Putnam (March 11, 1799 in Marietta, Ohio – January 20, 1869 in Nashville, Tennessee) was a United States lawyer and historian.

Biography

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:

History of Middle Tennessee: Or, Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson (Nashville, 1859)^[1]
“Life of Gen. John Sevier,” in Wheeler's History of North Carolina

Notes

↑ Putnam, Albigence Waldo (1859). History of Middle Tennessee: Or, Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson. author.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Fiske, John (1900). "Putnam, Israel". In Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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