Chumlea – First Rate Pension Attorney

Excerpt from the March 8, 1896 issue of the Tennessee Daily Journal
Mr. W.C. Chumlea, our hustling pension attorney, has recently succeeded in securing pensions for the following persons:

Dr. P.M. Barrett – for services rendered as Chaplain in the first regiment of New York Battles, during the late war
Mrs. Louisa Henderson
Mrs.  Araminta Cooper – widow of [...]

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W.C. Chumlea – Clerk of Circuit Court

Maryville Times – 26 Dec 1896
    
W.C. Chumlea, who was appointed Clerk & Master of the Chancery court the first of the week, was born in Knox County in 1845.  He came to this county, July 1875.  For three years after he came to Blount he clerked in the store of H.L. Bradley, which stood [...]

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Caswell Chumlea’s Accident

Maryville Times – 6 Jan 1892
Caswell Chumlea, the nine year-old son of W.C. Chumlea, met with a very painful accident last Saturday evening.  While riding a horse of Dr. J.H. Martin’s he fell from the horse, falling on his left arm dislocating it at the elbow joint and fracturing the bone.   Drs.  Blakenship and [...]

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