Education
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.
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:
History of Middle Tennessee: Or, Life and Times of General James Robertson (Nashville, 1859)
“Life of General John Sevier,” in Wheeler"s History of North Carolina.