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He was born on March 2, 1787 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father, Josiah Tannehill, had fought in the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783.
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Wilkins Tannehill
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University of Pittsburgh.
Career
He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1825 to 1827. He was a student at the Pittsburgh Academy, forerunner to the University of Pittsburgh. He had two sisters, Rachel and Nancy.
During the War of 1812, they sold saltpeter critical for the war efforts.
Later, he opened a grocery store in Nashville and Pulaski, Tennessee. He served as alderman of Nashville in 1813 and Director of the Nashville Bank in 1814.
He served on the Board of Trustees of Cumberland College, later known as the University of Nashville, from 1814 to 1821 and from 1825 to 1832. He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1825 to 1827.
In 1849, he founded the Merchants Library and Reading Room, a subscription library in downtown Nashville.
Hugh Henry Brackenridge called him "one of the most finished scholars of the West."
He was a freemason. He became a Knight Templar in 1813. In 1817, he served as Grand Secretary and later as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee.
In the 1840s and 1850s, he helped raise money from other lodges for the Montgomery Masonic College (now known as Rhodes College) in Clarksville, Tennessee, Jackson College in Columbia, Tennessee, and small colleges in Huntingdon, Tennessee, Macon, Tennessee and Bradley County, Tennessee.
Personal life
He turned blind by the end of his life. He died on June 2, 1858, and he is buried in the Nashville City Cemetery.
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Sketches of the History of Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Revival of Letters in the Fifteenth Century
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Sketches of the history of literature from the earliest period to the revival of letters in the fifteenth century
(This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)
- Sketches of the history of Roman literature: From the earliest period to the accession of Constantine the Great
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Sketches of the History of Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Revival of Letters in the Fifteenth Century
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