Joseph Brown Heiskell

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Joseph Brown Heiskell

Joseph Brown Heiskell (born November 5, 1823 in Knoxville , Tennessee , † March 7, 1913 in Memphis , Tennessee) was an American lawyer and politician . He was a member of the Whig Party .

Career

Joseph Brown Heiskell, son of Eliza Brown († 1854) and the newspaper publisher Frederick Steidinger Heiskell (1786-1882), was born in Knox County about eight and a half years after the end of the British-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. In 1840 he graduated from East Tennessee College . He studied law and began after receiving his license to practice law in Madisonville ( Monroe County to practice). His student days were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years by the Mexican-American War . Around 1850 he moved to Rogersville ( Hawkins County ), where he continued working as a lawyer.

He served in the Tennessee Senate between 1857 and 1859 . He represented the following counties: Hancock County , Hawkins County and Jefferson County . After the Secession of Tennessee and the outbreak of the Civil War , he represented the first constituency of Tennessee in the first and second Confederate Congresses , where he served from February 18, 1862 until his resignation on February 7, 1864. Heiskell was captured and imprisoned by Union troops in 1864 . He spent the rest of the war in a prison camp, Camp Chase in Columbus ( Ohio ).

After the war ended, he moved to Memphis, Shelby County , where he opened a law firm, but was also involved in local politics. In 1870 he participated as a delegate to the Tennessee Constituent Assembly . Between 1870 and 1878 he held the post of Attorney General in Tennessee. Heiskell died about a year before the outbreak of World War I in Memphis and was then buried there in Elmwood Cemetery .

He was a nephew of William Heiskell (1788–1871), the speaker in the House of Representatives from Tennessee after the Civil War.

family

Heiskell was married twice. He married Sarah A. McKinney (1822–1890) first, daughter of Eliza Ayer and John McKinney, in 1846. The couple had seven children, five of whom reached adulthood, including Eliza (1848-1922) and Frederick Hugh (1851-1933). After the death of his first wife, he married Lucy Watkins.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Brown Heiskell on the TNGenWeb.org website
  2. ↑ McBride & Robinson, pp. 354f.
  3. ↑ a b Joseph Brown Heiskell on the ancestry.com website
  4. ↑ Camp CensusDiggins.com - Camp Chase Prison
  5. ^ Sarah A. McKinney Heiskell in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ Eliza Heiskell Weatherford in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ Frederick Hugh Heiskell in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 10, 2015.

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SURNAME Heiskell, Joseph Brown
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Knoxville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1913
Place of death Memphis , Tennessee