The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . His grand-father, William Trammell, of Scotch-Irish descent,was a gallant revolutionary sol-dier, who fought in the battles ofCowpens and Savannah, and lostan arm at Kings Mountain
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . His grand-father, William Trammell, of Scotch-Irish descent,was a gallant revolutionary sol-dier, who fought in the battles ofCowpens and Savannah, and lostan arm at Kings Mountain. Hisfather, Jehu Trammell, was bomin Union District, S. C.; settledin Habersham county, Ga., in1818, and was twice state mother, Elizabeth Fain, wasFrench, and a grandniece of Ba-ron Fain of Bonapartes Fains came from France toPennsylvania, and moved to EastTennessee during the revolution,Leander went to country schools,and worked on the farm until nine-teen years of age, when he studiedfor fifteen months on Batt Creek,Tehn., at a boarding school, nowHiwassee college. After teachingschool, he attended the law school at Lebanon. Tenn.,and in October, 1857, settled at Ringgold, Ga. Hewas elected representative to the legislature in 1861and 1863; was a member of the reconstmction con-stitutional convention in 1867-68 ; declined a nomi-nation to the state senate in 1868; was president of.
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