Albigence Waldo Putnam

Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in Marietta, Ohio, March 11, 1799; died in Nashville, Tennessee, January 20, 1869) was a United States lawyer and historian.

Biography

He studied law, practised in Mississippi, and in 1836 settled in Nashville, Tennessee, and was president of the Tennessee Historical Society, to whose publications he was a contributor. In addition to articles in periodicals, he wrote:

History of Middle Tennessee: Or, Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson (Nashville, 1859)^[1]
“Life of Gen. John Sevier,” in Wheeler's History of North Carolina

Notes

↑ Albigence Waldo Putnam (1859). History of Middle Tennessee: Or, Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson. author.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: John Fiske (1900). "Putnam, Israel". In Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John. Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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