Background
Killebrew, Joseph Buckner was born on May 29, 1831 in Montgomery Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Bryan Whitfield and Elizabeth Smith (Ligon) Killebrew.
Killebrew, Joseph Buckner was born on May 29, 1831 in Montgomery Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Bryan Whitfield and Elizabeth Smith (Ligon) Killebrew.
Graduate University of North Carolina (A.M., Doctor of Philosophy). Special law and scientific studies.
Commissioner agriculture and mines, Tennessee, 1871-1881. Agent Peabody Fund, Tennessee, 1871-1873. Acting superintendent public instruction, 1871-1873.
Editor “Rural Sun”; special expert for 10th Census, 1880, on tobacco for United States. One of editors of Standard Dictionary. President Industrial League and promoter of several large industrial establishments.
Author: Tobacco Leaf, 1898. Special agent bureau of Road Inquiries, Department of Agriculture. Home: Nashville, Tenn.
Married Mary Catherine Wimberly, December 3, 1857.