Author: John Trotwood Moore

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-06

Total Pages: 958

ISBN-13: 9781391640518

Excerpt from Tennessee, the Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 4 Austin Peay, chief executive of Tennessee at this writing was born in Christian county, Kentucky, June 1, 1876. He bears his father's name, a prosperous farmer of Christian count-y, and one of the most highly esteemed citizens who ever lived in Christian county. A brave, patriotic Confederate soldier, the elder Peay was a man whose word was literally his bond and known as a sterling man of unaffected simplicity and kindness, but of unflinching courage and devotion to duty. He married Miss Cornelia Leavell, the mother, among other children, of the thirty-eighth governor of Tennessee. Governor Peay inherited these strong qualities of his family, and whether at the bar or in the highest executive office of the state, simplicity, kindness, integrity, straightforwardness, devotion to duty and unsurpassed courage have made him one of the outstanding governors of Tennessee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.