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Albigence Waldo Putnam
BornMarch 11, 1799
Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
DiedJanuary 20, 1869
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
RelativesIsrael Putnam (ancestor)[1]

Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in Marietta, Ohio, 11 March 1799; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 20 January 1869) was a United States lawyer and historian.[2]

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:[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

  1. ^ The Natchez Bulletin 1869.
  2. ^ a b Fiske 1900, p. 142.

References

  • "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). "Putnam, Israel" . In Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J. (eds.). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. p. 142.


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