History of Harpeth, (Williamson County) Tennessee United States of America

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Biographies:

Newton Cannon, governor of Tennessee, was born in Guilford county, N. C., about 1781. He was educated in the public schools and removed to Tennessee, where he served in the state legislature during 1811-12. He enlisted in the war of 1812 as colonel of the Tennessee mounted rifles?three-months men?and commanded the left column in the battle of Tallahatchee against the Creek Indians, November, 1813. He served as a representative in the 14th, 15th, 17th and 18th congresses. He was appointed by President Monroe one of a commission to treat with the Chickasaw Indians in 1819. He was elected governor of Tennessee in 1835, and served until 1839. He died at Harpeth, Tenn., Sept. 29, 1842.

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

Meredith Poindexter Gentry, representative, was born in Rockingham county, N.C., Sept. 15, 1809; son of a wealthy planter, who removed with his family to Harpeth, Williamson county, Tenn., in 1813. He was self educated, except a limited district school training before he was fourteen years of age. He became a planter, colonel in the state militia and a popular stump orator. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1835-39, and a Whig representative in the 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th, 31st and 32d congresses, after which he retired to his farm. He opposed the Mexican war and charged the administration with carrying it on for conquest. He joined the secession movement and was a representative in the 1st and 2d Confederate States congresses, 1862-65, but differed with the administration in the prosecution of the war and in many of its other measures. He died at Harpeth, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1866.

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