Background
Maddin, Percy Downs was born on October 27, 1860 in Waco, Texas, United States. Son of Doctor John Wesley and Annie (Downs) Maddin.
Maddin, Percy Downs was born on October 27, 1860 in Waco, Texas, United States. Son of Doctor John Wesley and Annie (Downs) Maddin.
Bachelor of Science, Vanderbilt University, 1881, Bachelor of Laws, 1882.
In practice at Nashville, since 1882. Now member of law firm Maddin & Maddin (son John K.). Nashville counsel for Fidelity & Deposit Company Maryland, since 1891, also for Zurich General Accident Liability Insurance Company (Chicago), Armour & Company (Chicago), Ford Motor Company (Detroit), John Deere Plow Company (Saint Louis), and L.&North. Railroad, 1895-1910.
Counsel and director 4th National Bank, Nashville, 1894-1912, Fourth & First National Bank.
Fourth & First Banks. Director North Carolina&Saint Louis Railway since 1917, and Nashville&Decatur Railroad Company Professor law, Vanderbilt University, 1900-1913.
President McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Corporation. Delegate Ecumenical Conference, Toronto, 1911, London, 1921.
Member Federal Council, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1914-1922.
Delegate General Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1914-1918. Member Committee on Unification of Methodism, 1914-1922. Chairman of the executive committee and counsel for Board of Missions Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since 1914.
Commissioner from Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to assemble with other representatives at Keijo (Seoul), of Korea, November 1930, to set up and establish the Korean Methodist Church.
Member Commision on Interdenominational Relations and Church Union of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to prepare plan for uniting Methodism in America, completed at Uniting Conference Kansas City, Missoury, 1939. Member American Bar Association (Vice-President for Tennessee, 1913. Mason, Knights of Pythias.
Clubs: Belle Meade Country, Nashville Automobile.
Married Mary Belle Keith, November 4, 1890. Children: Samuel Keith, Percy Downs, John Keith, Mary Belle Keith.