As mentioned in the previous post about James and Fannie’s marriage and divorce, the custody court case for Camille took three weeks, 176 witnesses, and 4 days of arguments. It is a sensational story that would fit right in with today’s sensational news coverage. This story had “legs” as the old newspapermen used to say. […]
The Marriage and Divorce of James and Fannie
James McCall Patrick (3) seems to have had the bad luck in the family. His quarry businesses never did well. His mines, except for the Colonel Sellers, never made much money, and even the Colonel Sellers had problems (see Bowman vs Patrick). His marriage was unhappy and ended when his wife died young. His only […]
Educating Anne Brownlow
Annie was the only one of her sisters to attend a Female Seminary which I describe in this post. Her obituaries all mention how educated she was and Leadville newspapers listed her among the attendees of the many intellectual gatherings in town during 1881-1892. I have discovered that her education was not only from the […]
African-American Press and W. G. Brownlow
I just subscribed to a new (to me) newspaper service, Accessible Archives which has a fairly large collection of African-American newspapers. I was very surprised that the first article to come up when I put in “Brownlow” was a very favorable obituary of W.G.B.! It was printed in the Christian Record, published by the A. […]
Knoxville Marble Company
I have always wanted to know how Annie and Will met. How does a young woman from Knoxville, who went to school in Philadelphia, meet a young man from St. Louis? What if they met in Washington, D.C. in 1874 when Will was there to interview for a position on the Newton-Jenney Expedition and Annie […]
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