Albigence Waldo Putnam

American lawyer & historian (1799-1869)

Albigence Waldo Putnam
Born	March 11, 1799 Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
Died	January 20, 1869(1869-01-20) (aged 69) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	lawyer historian
Relatives	Israel Putnam (ancestor)^[1]

Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in Marietta, Ohio, 11 March 1799; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 20 January 1869) was a United States lawyer and historian.^[2]

Biography

He studied law, practised in Mississippi, and in 1836 settled in Nashville, Tennessee, and was president of the Tennessee Historical Society, to whose publications he was a contributor. In addition to articles in periodicals, he wrote:^[2]

History of Middle Tennessee (Nashville, 1859)
Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson (1859)
“Life of Gen. John Sevier,” in Wheeler's History of North Carolina

Notes

^ The Natchez Bulletin 1869.
^ ^a ^b Fiske 1900, p. 142.

References

"Col. A. W. Putnam". The Natchez Bulletin. Natchez, Mississippi. February 5, 1869. p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Fiske, John (1900). "Putnam, Israel" . In Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J. (eds.). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. p. 142.