Background
Mountcastle, Robert Edward Lee was born on February 21, 1865 in Jefferson City, Tennessee, United States. Son of A. J. and Cornelia Frances (Williams) Mountcastle.
Mountcastle, Robert Edward Lee was born on February 21, 1865 in Jefferson City, Tennessee, United States. Son of A. J. and Cornelia Frances (Williams) Mountcastle.
Bachelor of Arts, Carson and Newman College, Tennessee, 1880. Bachelor of Arts, Washington and Lee University, Virginia, 1882.
Admitted to bar, 1885. Practiced at Lynchburg, Tennessee, 1885-1892, Morristown, Tennessee, 1892-1903, Knoxville, Tennessee, since 1903, in firm of Shields, Cates & Mountcastle.
Member Tennessee State Executive Committee, 1900-1904. Member Democratic National Committee, since 1904. Appointed adjutant general on staff of governor of Tennessee, January 1903.
Married Eliza Bird Salmon, March 20, 1889.