Knox County Tennessee Portraits and Biographical Album

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Knox County
,
TN
Portraits and Biographical Album
Full page portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County
Also Containing A History of the County
from Settlement Until the Present Time
Published under the Direction Secretary of War
1886
1,100+ pages, indexed and searchable
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Knox County was created on June 11, 1792 by Governor William Blount from parts of Greene and Hawkins
counties, and has the distinction of being one of only eight counties created during territorial administration.
It is one of nine United States counties named for Revolutionary War general and first United States Secretary
of War Henry Knox. Parts of Knox County later became Blount (1795), Anderson (1801), Roane (1801), and Union
(1850) counties.
In 1786 James White built a fort five miles below the junction of the French Broad and Holston Rivers on the
southernmost edge of frontier settlement in present-day East Tennessee. William Blount, governor of the
T
erritory of the United States South of the River Ohio, selected the site of James White's Fort as the territorial
capital in 1791. He gave it the name Knoxville in honor of his direct superior as territorial governor, Revolutionary
War hero General Henry Knox (1750-1806), who served as the first U.S. Secretary of War from 1785 to 1794.
Of Tennessee's four major cities, Knoxville is second oldest to Nashville which was founded in 1779. After
Tennessee's admission into the Union in 1796, Knoxville was the state's first capital, in which capacity it served
until 1819, when the capital was moved to Murfreesboro, prior to Nashville receiving the designation. The city
was named in honor of the first Secretary of War, Henry Knox.
One of Knoxville's nicknames is The Marble City. In the early 20th century, a number of quarries were active in
the city, supplying Tennessee pink marble (actually Ordovician limestone of the Holston Formation) to much of
the country. Notable buildings such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington are constructed of Knoxville marble.
The National Gallery's fountains were turned by Candoro Marble Company, which once ran the largest marble lathes
in the United States.
Knoxville was once also known as the Underwear Capital of the World. In the 1930s, no fewer than 20 textile and
clothing mills operated in Knoxville, and the industry was the city's largest employer. In the 1950s, the mills began
to close, causing an overall population loss of 10% by 1960.
Knoxville is also the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus. The university's sports teams, called the
"Volunteers" or "Vols", are extremely popular in the surrounding area. In recognition of this popularity, the
telephone area code for Knox County and eight adjacent counties is 865 (VOL). Knoxville is also the home of the
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, almost entirely thanks to the popularity of Pat Summitt and the University of
Tennessee women's basketball team.
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