| Albigence Waldo Putnam | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 11, 1799 Marietta, Northwest Territory, U.S. |
| Died | January 20, 1869(1869-01-20) (aged 69) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer historian |
| Relatives | Israel Putnam (ancestor) |
Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in Marietta, Ohio, 11 March 1799; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 20 January 1869) was an American 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 (Nashville, 1859)
- Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson (1859)
- “Life of Gen. John Sevier,” in Wheeler's History of North Carolina
Notes
- The Natchez Bulletin 1869.
- ^ Fiske 1900, p. 142.
References
- "Col. A. W. Putnam". The Natchez Bulletin. Natchez, Mississippi. February 5, 1869. p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Fiske, John (1900). "Putnam, Israel" . In Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J. (eds.). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. p. 142.
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