Joseph A. Mabry Receipt
This collection contains a receipt to Joseph A. Mabry from Rolfe S. Saunders promising repayment of a loan. The receipt is dated August 22, 1870. The loan amounted to two thousand dollars and payment was to begin eighteen months for date on which the receipt was signed. Also on the receipt is a stamp featuring George Washington. It reads "1 dollar U. S. Inter. Revenue Life Insurance."
Dates
- 1870 August 22
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
This collection contains a receipt to Joseph A. Mabry from Rolfe S. Saunders promising repayment of a loan. The receipt is dated August 22, 1870.
Biographical/Historical Note
Joseph Alexander Mabry was born in Knox County, Tennessee, on January 26, 1825, to Joseph Alexander and Alice Hare Scott Mabry. Having made money through land and railroad speculation, he was a prominent businessman in Knoxville throughout his life and was influential in the city's development. In 1853, with his brother-in-law William G. Swann, he donated the initial land for Knoxville's Market Square. By the early 1860s, Mabry was one of the area's largest slaveholders and supported the state's secession leading up to the American Civil War, but would become more moderate as the war progressed.
In 1852, Mabry married Laura Evelyn Churchwell (1833-1906); in 1858, Mabry had a home built in East Knoxville (Mabry-Hazen House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places) where he lived for the remainder of his life. They had 14 children together. Following some lingering personal and business disputes, banker Thomas O'Conner shot and killed Mabry on the morning of October 19, 1882, on Gay Street in Knoxville. Mabry's son, Joseph Mabry (b. 1855), was present and shot O'Conner, who then fired one fatal shot back at the son before himself dying.
No biographical information is available on Rolfe S. Saunders.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Acquisition Note
This item was donated to Special Collections.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository