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WILLIAM BURR SMITHSON.
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William Burr Smithson, who has been actively engaged in law practice at Pulaski
for the past forty-three years, enjoys an
enviable reputation as one of the prominent and successful attorneys of Giles
county and has also been a factor in the public life of the community, having
represented his district in the state senate. His birth occurred at Lexington,
Lauderdale county, Alabama, on the 29th of April, 1857, [p.397] his parents
being John Greene and Ann Vaughn (Ladd) Smithson, the former a minister of
the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and an extensive agriculturist. Both
parents were people of strong character and intellect. Their family numbered
fifteen children, six daughters and nine sons, all of whom lived to be more
than twenty-one years of age and were perfect both physically and mentally.
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WILLIAM BARTLETT LADD.
Kingston numbers among her representative citizens
William Bartlett Ladd, clerk and master in chancery. He was born in
Roane county, on the 7th of October, 1888, a son of John Bartlett and Susan
C. (Isham) Ladd. The paternal grandparents were John F. and Sarah
J. Ladd, natives of Tennessee. He was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
wars. The maternal grandparents were W. F. and Mary Isham, natives of this
state, the former also a veteran of the Civil war. John Bartlett Ladd
was born in 1863 and was register of Roane county for ten years and also
served as sheriff many years and held the office of city marshal. He has
achieved great success as a farmer and fruit grower and is held in high
confidence and esteem by all who know him. He is a prominent member of the
Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. Mrs.
Ladd was born in 1866. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church
and a zealous worker in its behalf.
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WILLIAM BARTLETT LADD.
William Bartlett Ladd attended the public schools of Roane county and after
graduating from high school engaged in teaching school for two years. For
the following ten years he was a rural mail carrier and in that connection
made many friends. In 1920 he was appointed to his present office, as clerk
and master in chancery and is filling this office with distinction. He believes
that every public office is a public trust and therefore is conscientious
in the discharge of the duties of his office. He is also interested in farming.
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WILLIAM BARTLETT LADD.
In Roane county, on the 7th of August, 1912, was celebrated the marriage
of Mr. Ladd and Miss Amanda J. Ingram, a daughter of T. F. and Mildred Ingram
of Tennessee. To their union two children have been born: Hugh E., whose
birth occurred in 1913; and Mildred J., born in 1917.
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MISS DORA C. BLYE.
Miss Blye was born March 7, 1901, a daughter of James Albert and Sarah A. (Ladd) Blye. Her father was born in 1879 and for many years he was a minister in the Baptist church, being pastor at Kingston for three years and a beloved and highly esteemed citizen. He was elected registrar of Roane county in 1910 and was holding that office at the time of his demise in 1915. Mrs. Blye was born in 1882, a daughter of Frank andê™
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Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of
the Revolution
Fifteenth Virginia
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Ladd, Ezekiel (Vt). Captain of Bedel's Regiment, Vermont Militia,
1778–1779. (Died 1818.)
Fifteenth Virginia
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Ladd, James (Vt). Private in Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment in 1775;
Lieutenant of same, January to June, 1776;
Lieutenant of Bedel's Vermont Regiment, 1st April, 1778 to 1st April, 1779.
Fifteenth Virginia
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Ladd, Samuel (N. H.). 1st Lieutenant New Hampshire Militia in 1776.
Fifteenth Virginia
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Ladd, William (R. I.). Captain-Lieutenant of Church's Rhode Island
Regiment, 3d May to December, 1775.
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Biographical Directory of the American Congress,
1774-1949
Biographies
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LADD, Edwin Freemont, a Senator from North Dakota;
born in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, December 13, 1859; attended the public
schools, Somerset Academy, Athens, Maine, and was graduated from the University
of Maine at Orono in 1884; chemist of the New York State Experiment Station,
Geneva, N.Y., 1884-1890; dean of the school of chemistry and pharmacy and
professor of chemistry at the North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, N.
Dak.; chief chemist of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station
1890-1916; editor of the North Dakota Farmer at Lisbon 1899-1904; president
of the North Dakota Agricultural College 1916-1921; food commissioner of
North Dakota 1902-1921; elected as a Nonpartisan Republican to the United
States Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921,
until his death in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., June 22, 1925;
interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington,D.C.
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LADD, George Washington, a Representative from
Maine; born in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, September 28, 1818; attended
the common schools and Kents Hill Seminary; engaged in the drug business
in Bangor, Maine; later engaged in the lumber, commission, and wholesale
grocery business in Bangor; also interested in railroad development; delegate
to numerous national conventions; elected on the Democratic and Greenback
ticket to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March
3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882; died in Bangor,
Maine, January 30, 1892; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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MOORE, Horace Ladd, a Representative from Kansas;
born in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, February 25, 1837; attended the common
schools and the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram, Ohio; moved to
Lawrence, Douglas County, Kans., in 1858; studied law and one month after
his admission to the bar enlisted in the Union Army in the Second Regiment,
Kansas Volunteer Infantry, on May 14, 1861, and served continuously until
June 30, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service as lieutenant colonel
of the Fourth Regiment, Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry; as major of the Eighteenth
and colonel of the Nineteenth Regiments of Kansas Cavalry served against
the Indians on the Plains in 1867 and 1868; again engaged in the practice
of law and later, from 1886 to 1892, engaged in the wholesale grocery business
in
Trinidad, Colo.; treasurer of Douglas County, Kans., in 1886 and 1887;
successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Edward H. Funston to
the Fifty-third Congress and served from August 2, 1894, until March 3, 1895;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress;
vice president of a national bank in Lawrence, Kans., until his death on
May 1, 1914; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. submitted by:
Misty Flannigan
COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America
COLLIER FAMILY
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COLLIER HARRISON MINGE, (8--3), of Mobile, Ala., b. Nov.
17, 1799, at "Weynoke," Charles City Co., Va.; removed to Alabama in
1836, and soon became one of the prominent, influential citizens of that
state, as his forefathers had been in the Old Dominion. He m. 1827
in Charles City Co., Va., Anna Maria Ladd, of "Montpelier," Charles
City Co., Va., and had issue:submitted by:
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