BUSINESS DIRECTORY. CONTAINING THE NAMES, BUSINESS, AND RESIDENCE OF ALL HEADS OF FOR The City of Nashville and Suburbs. VOL. II.-1855-6. COMPILED BY THE REV. JOHN P. CAMPBELL. Nashville, Tenn.: 1855. A Dir 771 HARVARD COLLEG APR 24 1913 LIBRAR E C. E. Perkins memorial (ᄑ) Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by JOHN P. CAMPBELL, in the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. PREFACСЕ. THE second volume of the Nashville Directory comes to its patrons in a style of neatness and completeness far superior to the first. The Publisher has taken the utmost pains to procure every name, and designate the business of every citizen. He has appended a brief history of Nashville from its earliest settlement to the present. A brief reference to the names and noble daring of the first pioneers of Tennessee their protracted conflicts with the Indians-cannot fail to interest their successors and descendants, many of whom still live in Nashville and its vicinity. For these valuable sketches of history, he is mostly indebted to Dr. Ramsey's late History of Tennessee-an able and excellent work of more than 700 pages, octavo, which ought to be in every family in the State. He is also indebted to John Hugh Smith, Esq., late Mayor of the city, for valuable information. He feels the utmost confidence that this volume will receive a liberal patronage, combining, as it does, statistical and historical knowledge, and convenience and facility in the commercial and business relations of the city. He expects to publish this work every two years until the city shall grow large enough to require it oftener, and will therefore give special attention to the collection of all (3) |