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REV. WILLIAM CRAWFORD CARDEN.
In his native city William Crawford Carden pursued his primary
education and later attended the
Georgia Military Institute, while subsequently he joined the
southern army as a cadet at the siege
of Atlanta. He served in the army as a private from 1862 until
1865 and underwent many of the
hardships incident to military experience. When the war was ended
he returned to school and
later took the conference course of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South. In 1872 he became
a deacon and was ordained an elder in October, 1874. His first
charge was that of circuit rider
at Sequatchie Valley and for a year he occupied pastoral connection
with the church at
Charleston. Tennessee. He spent a similar period at Athens. was
for one year at Knoxville, for
three years at Ducktown and also at Franklin, North Carolina.
He later occupied pastorates at
Waynesville, Jonesboro, Johnson City and Morristown and through
the succeeding four years he
served at Abingdon. Virginia, and Wytheville, Virginia. He was
presiding elder at Big Stone for
four years and pastor of the church at Bramwell, West Virginia,
for three years. Then, his health
failing, he was transferred to East Chattanooga, hoping that
a change of climate would prove
beneficial, and for three years he continued as pastor of the
church at that place. In 1908 he
retired from active service but is still keenly interested in
everything that tends to upbuild the
cause of Christianity and extend the influence of the denomination
with which he is identified.
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REV. WILLIAM CRAWFORD CARDEN.
In March, 1875, at Dunlap, Tennessee, William Crawford Carden
was married to Miss Martha
Stewart, a daughter of Judge A. M. Stewart, who was born in Sequatchie
county, Tennessee,
his people being pioneers of this state and his ancestors colonial
settlers of Virginia.
Representatives of the name served in the Revolutionary war.
For many years the father of Mrs.
Carden was county judge of his home county. Mr. and Mrs. Carden
have the following children:
Robert A., who is engaged in merchandising in Atlanta, Georgia;
Leonard A., a coal operator of
Hamilton county, Tennessee; Frank S., a lawyer and former city
attorney of Chattanooga,
mentioned elsewhere in this work; Mary, an instructor of music;
and Virginia. the wife of Milton
Griscom. There are also ten grandchildren.
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WILLIAM LEVI WILCOXON.
Mr. Carden votes with the democratic party and fraternally he
is a Mason who has attained the
Knights Templar degree in the commandery and has become a Mystic
Shriner. As a preacher
and gospel teacher he has won friends all over the south. Kindly,
sympathetic and earnest, he
has been a valuable minister and is a man of broad vision. There
is nothing of the rigid autocrat
found in his make-up. He believes the way to God can be better
shown through kindness than
by harshness and he has ever preached the love of his Maker toward
his fellowmen. He is a
valued member of the United Confederate Veterans and has served
as commander of the N. B.
Forrest Camp of Chattanooga. He has now passed the seventy-sixth
milestone on life's journey
and his entire record has been a constructive one. He has aided
in laying the foundation of
character for many individuals and in promoting the upbuilding
of a structure that has made for
honorable manhood and womanhood. Wide, indeed, is his influence
and truly beneficial the
result of his labors.
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FRANK S. CARDEN.
Frank S. Carden, who for eighteen years has been a member of the
Chattanooga bar, was born
in Franklin, North Carolina, February 6, 1882, and is a son of
the Rev. W. C. and Martha
(Stewart) Carden, both of whom are natives of Tennessee.
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FRANK S. CARDEN.
Frank S. Carden was educated at Emory and Henry College of Virginia,
also in Trinity College
of North Carolina and in Cumberland College at Lebanon, Tennessee,
where he was graduated
with the class of 1904. He is now associated in the practice
of law with T. Pope Shepherd and
E. D. Bass, under the firm style of Shepherd, Carden & Bass.
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ROBERT LEE CARDEN.
On the 25th of June, 1908, Mr. Carden was married to Miss Frances
Campbell, who was born
in Lebanon, Tennessee. They have four children. Mr. Carden has
membership with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Civitan Club.
In politics he is a democrat and
has filled a number of public positions. He represented Hamilton
county in the general assembly
from 1907 until 1909 and in 1915 he was elected city attorney,
to which position he was
reelected in 1919. He resigned in 1922.
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ROBERT LEE CARDEN.
One of the estimable citizens of Knoxville is Robert Lee Carden,
president of the Knoxville
board of education and active in the conduct of an insurance
business. A native of this state, he
was born at Pioneer, Campbell county, on the 29th of January,
1882. His father, Dr. James M.
Carden, was born in Anderson county, Tennessee, in 1852. He received
his medical training at
the University of Tennessee and was engaged in the practice of
his chosen profession until his
demise in 1906. He was a skilled surgeon, standing high in the
ranks of the foremost members of
his profession, and he was retained as surgeon for many railroad
companies throughout
Tennessee. Aside from his profession Dr. Carden was active in
public life, was a stanch
republican, and was state senator from Knox and Anderson counties,
1886-1888. His father,
the grandfather of Robert Lee, was Goldman Carden, who came to
Tennessee from North
Carolina when a young unmarried man. In 1870 occurred the marriage
of Dr. Carden to Miss
Elizabeth Carnes, whose demise occurred in 1903. She was born
in Anderson county, a
daughter of Captain William C. Carnes, who commanded Company
C, Third Tennessee
Regiment, Union army in the Civil war. He was wounded at Mill
Springs, Kentucky, and the
close of the war found him a prisoner in Andersonville prison.
Shortly after his release he died,
his wounds and imprisonment having left him in a weakened condition,
from which he was unable
to recover. Prior to the outbreak of the war he was one of the
prominent farmers of Anderson
county. Among the many family keepsakes the Cardens had a small
pocket testament which was
owned by General Zollicoffer, who met death in the battle of
Mill Springs. The Bible was
marked by the fatal bullet hole and was treasured by the family
until it was destroyed in a fire
which burned the Carden home.
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ROBERT LEE CARDEN.
page 172
Robert Lee Carden received his early education in the public
schools of Andersonville and was
graduated from the Big Valley Academy at Andersonville, in 1897.
He [p.172] then enrolled in
the University of Tennessee, completing his course of instruction
in that institution in the required
time. For six or eight years after putting his textbooks aside
he was a traveling salesman out of
Chattanooga, for patent medicines, and he then went to Lafollette,
where he established an
insurance agency. He left Lafollette in 1913, having been appointed
deputy insurance
commissioner of Tennessee and in 1914 he came to Knoxville, where
he resumed the insurance
business. He was active in this connection until January of the
year 1921, when he was made
insurance commissioner of Tennessee, receiving his appointment
through Governor Taylor. He
resigned that office in July of the same year and he has since
been well known in insurance
circles. He is general agent for East Tennessee of the Southern
Surety Company and district
manager of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is
one of the most prominent and
dependable insurance men in the state and enjoys an extensive
business. Aside from the
insurance business he is a director in the Inter-State Loan &
Finance Corporation of Knoxville.
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ROBERT LEE CARDEN.
On the 26th of February, 1903, was celebrated the marriage of
Mr. Carden to Miss Maude
Brooks of Coal Creek, a daughter of Abner Brooks, a native of
Anderson county, who was
store manager for the Coal Creek Coal Company for a period covering
some thirty years. To
the union of Mr. and Mrs. Carden two daughters have been born:
Bobby Brooks and Barbara
Lou. The eldest child is a student in the high school, while
the youngest is attending the grade
schools.
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MORGAN LLEWELLYN.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Carden has given his political
endorsement to the republican
party and the principles for which it stands and he has always
been active in party councils,
although he has never sought nor desired public preferment. He
is a stanch advocate of
education, realizing that a good education is the basis of business
success, and in 1921 he was
elected president of the local school board, his term to expire
in 1922. His religious faith is that
of the Presbyterian church and he and his family attend the Fourth
Presbyterian church of
Knoxville. Fraternally he is a Mason, holding membership in Lafollette
Lodge, No. 659; Coal
Creek Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Cypress Commandery, Knights
Templars. He is
active in every movement for the development and improvement
of Knoxville as a member of the
Board of Commerce and he is likewise identified with the Business
Men's Club. Socially he
holds membership in the Cumberland Club and the Whittle Springs
Golf and Country Club. For
some time he has been a leader in the affairs of the Kiwanis
Club and was its secretary in 1920.
Mr. Carden finds recreation in the great outdoors and he is especially
fond of fishing and golfing,
and is greatly interested in football, rarely missing a game
during the season. Upon the entrance
of the United States into the World war Mr. Carden was quick
to put personal interests aside
and he gave generously of his time and money in the furtherance
of the government's interests.
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WILLIAM DEXTER PADGET, M. D.
Carden, F. S. 171
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PROFESSOR W. H. MILLER.
On the 17th of October, 1905, was celebrated the marriage of Professor
Miller and Miss Carrie
Carden, a native of Tennessee. To their union six children have
been born: Willie Maud, Walter
Claxton, Robert Allen, W. H., Jr., Mary Grace and Carroll Reece.