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Albigence Waldo Putnam

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Name
  
Albigence Putnam


Died
  
January 20, 1869

Books
  
History of Middle Tennessee: Or, Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson

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)
  • “Life of Gen. John Sevier,” in Wheeler's History of North Carolina

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