History of Greeneville, (Greene County) Tennessee United States of America

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Biographies:

John Hamilton Brunner, educator, was born near Greeneville, Tenn., March 12, 1825. He was graduated at Greeneville and Tusculum college in 1847, and was elected to a professorship in Hiwassee college in 1853. In 1854 be became president of that institution, being succeeded in 1890 by J. T. Pritchett. He is the author of Sunday Evening Talks and The Union of the Churches; and was elected a member of the Society of Science, Letters and Art of London, as well as of numerous American literary organizations. Having experienced the difficulties attending a penniless boy in quest of an education, he has succored scores of young men, who have won their way from obscurity to positions of usefulness, and, in many cases, to distinction. He was a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and for some years served as assistant editor of a church paper, and as a contributor to the Quarterly Review.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Frederick Rector Conway, surveyor-general, was born near Greenville, Tenn., July 4, 1799; third son of Thomas and Ann (Rector) Conway. He removed to Columbia, Boone county, Mo., with his father's family in 1818. He was recorder of French and Spanish claims at St. Louis and a commissioner for adjudicating French and Spanish land claims in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. He was afterward U.S. surveyor-general of the district comprising Missouri and Illinois. He died in St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 16, 1874.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor