Davidson-Montgomery County TN Archives Biographies
WILLIAM BLAKEMORE MARR. Prominence in the fields of politics and of legislation, as well as in the legal profession in Nashville and vicinity, has characterized the career of William Blakemore Marr thus far. He is a son of the late George W. Marr, and was born on December 18, 1875, in Marion, Arkansas.
Concerning the parentage of the Nashville attorney, it may be said that George W. Marr was a native of Montgomery county, Tennessee, and came from a family of considerable prominence in the state. One of his uncles, George W. L. Marr by name, served in the Twentieth Congress and was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1834, —a signal honor. His father served as a soldier in the Confederate army, and when the war had closed, settled in Crittenden county, Arkansas, and carried on the occupation of a planter, there remaining until death claimed him in October, 1877, when he was in the fortieth year of his life. He married Ella Hall, a native daughter of Gibson county, Tennessee, who recently died in Riverside, California.
William B. Marr was one of the two children of these parents. After the return of the family to Nashville in 1880, he began his education, and received his early training in the private and public schools of the city. In later years he decided upon the legal profession for his life work, and entered the law school of the Vanderbilt University, where he carried on his law studies and was duly graduated with the class of 1899, receiving his B. L. degree at that time. In the same year, Mr. Marr began the practice of his profession in Nashville, and here he has since continued. His success has been of steady and pleasing growth, and he has long been regarded as one of the more successful and prosperous men to be identified with the legal fraternity in Nashville.
A leader in the ranks of the Democratic party, Mr. Marr gave three years to service in the United States Internal Revenue department, and in 1907 came his election to the state legislature. While there he gained no little distinction as the author of the present Pure Food and Drugs Law of Tennessee, the first law of its kind in the state, and the one that created the Pure Food and Drugs Department of Tennessee. Mr. Marr was further influential in the organization of the Independent Judiciary, a movement that resulted in 1912 in the election of the present judges of the supreme court of Tennessee, and was a member of the platform committee of the convention at the time. His service in the legislature was in many respects one most beneficial to the state, and there, as elsewhere, he proved the quality of his citizenship in no uncertain terms.
Mr. Marr's fraternal relations are represented by his membership in the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. He is a Methodist in his churehly affiliations. He was married on October 23, 1907, to Miss Martha Louise Dodson, the daughter of the late Newton J. Dodson and a member of one of the old and honored families of Nashville.
WILLIAM BLAKEMORE MARR. Prominence in the fields of politics and of legislation, as well as in the legal profession in Nashville and vicinity, has characterized the career of William Blakemore Marr thus far. He is a son of the late George W. Marr, and was born on December 18, 1875, in Marion, Arkansas.
Concerning the parentage of the Nashville attorney, it may be said that George W. Marr was a native of Montgomery county, Tennessee, and came from a family of considerable prominence in the state. One of his uncles, George W. L. Marr by name, served in the Twentieth Congress and was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1834, —a signal honor. His father served as a soldier in the Confederate army, and when the war had closed, settled in Crittenden county, Arkansas, and carried on the occupation of a planter, there remaining until death claimed him in October, 1877, when he was in the fortieth year of his life. He married Ella Hall, a native daughter of Gibson county, Tennessee, who recently died in Riverside, California.
William B. Marr was one of the two children of these parents. After the return of the family to Nashville in 1880, he began his education, and received his early training in the private and public schools of the city. In later years he decided upon the legal profession for his life work, and entered the law school of the Vanderbilt University, where he carried on his law studies and was duly graduated with the class of 1899, receiving his B. L. degree at that time. In the same year, Mr. Marr began the practice of his profession in Nashville, and here he has since continued. His success has been of steady and pleasing growth, and he has long been regarded as one of the more successful and prosperous men to be identified with the legal fraternity in Nashville.
A leader in the ranks of the Democratic party, Mr. Marr gave three years to service in the United States Internal Revenue department, and in 1907 came his election to the state legislature. While there he gained no little distinction as the author of the present Pure Food and Drugs Law of Tennessee, the first law of its kind in the state, and the one that created the Pure Food and Drugs Department of Tennessee. Mr. Marr was further influential in the organization of the Independent Judiciary, a movement that resulted in 1912 in the election of the present judges of the supreme court of Tennessee, and was a member of the platform committee of the convention at the time. His service in the legislature was in many respects one most beneficial to the state, and there, as elsewhere, he proved the quality of his citizenship in no uncertain terms.
Mr. Marr's fraternal relations are represented by his membership in the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. He is a Methodist in his churehly affiliations. He was married on October 23, 1907, to Miss Martha Louise Dodson, the daughter of the late Newton J. Dodson and a member of one of the old and honored families of Nashville.
Davidson-Montgomery County TN Archives Biographies
WILLIAM BLAKEMORE MARR. Prominence in the fields of politics and of legislation, as well as in the legal profession in Nashville and vicinity, has characterized the career of William Blakemore Marr thus far. He is a son of the late George W. Marr, and was born on December 18, 1875, in Marion, Arkansas.
Concerning the parentage of the Nashville attorney, it may be said that George W. Marr was a native of Montgomery county, Tennessee, and came from a family of considerable prominence in the state. One of his uncles, George W. L. Marr by name, served in the Twentieth Congress and was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1834, —a signal honor. His father served as a soldier in the Confederate army, and when the war had closed, settled in Crittenden county, Arkansas, and carried on the occupation of a planter, there remaining until death claimed him in October, 1877, when he was in the fortieth year of his life. He married Ella Hall, a native daughter of Gibson county, Tennessee, who recently died in Riverside, California.
William B. Marr was one of the two children of these parents. After the return of the family to Nashville in 1880, he began his education, and received his early training in the private and public schools of the city. In later years he decided upon the legal profession for his life work, and entered the law school of the Vanderbilt University, where he carried on his law studies and was duly graduated with the class of 1899, receiving his B. L. degree at that time. In the same year, Mr. Marr began the practice of his profession in Nashville, and here he has since continued. His success has been of steady and pleasing growth, and he has long been regarded as one of the more successful and prosperous men to be identified with the legal fraternity in Nashville.
A leader in the ranks of the Democratic party, Mr. Marr gave three years to service in the United States Internal Revenue department, and in 1907 came his election to the state legislature. While there he gained no little distinction as the author of the present Pure Food and Drugs Law of Tennessee, the first law of its kind in the state, and the one that created the Pure Food and Drugs Department of Tennessee. Mr. Marr was further influential in the organization of the Independent Judiciary, a movement that resulted in 1912 in the election of the present judges of the supreme court of Tennessee, and was a member of the platform committee of the convention at the time. His service in the legislature was in many respects one most beneficial to the state, and there, as elsewhere, he proved the quality of his citizenship in no uncertain terms.
Mr. Marr's fraternal relations are represented by his membership in the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. He is a Methodist in his churehly affiliations. He was married on October 23, 1907, to Miss Martha Louise Dodson, the daughter of the late Newton J. Dodson and a member of one of the old and honored families of Nashville.
WILLIAM BLAKEMORE MARR. Prominence in the fields of politics and of legislation, as well as in the legal profession in Nashville and vicinity, has characterized the career of William Blakemore Marr thus far. He is a son of the late George W. Marr, and was born on December 18, 1875, in Marion, Arkansas.
Concerning the parentage of the Nashville attorney, it may be said that George W. Marr was a native of Montgomery county, Tennessee, and came from a family of considerable prominence in the state. One of his uncles, George W. L. Marr by name, served in the Twentieth Congress and was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1834, —a signal honor. His father served as a soldier in the Confederate army, and when the war had closed, settled in Crittenden county, Arkansas, and carried on the occupation of a planter, there remaining until death claimed him in October, 1877, when he was in the fortieth year of his life. He married Ella Hall, a native daughter of Gibson county, Tennessee, who recently died in Riverside, California.
William B. Marr was one of the two children of these parents. After the return of the family to Nashville in 1880, he began his education, and received his early training in the private and public schools of the city. In later years he decided upon the legal profession for his life work, and entered the law school of the Vanderbilt University, where he carried on his law studies and was duly graduated with the class of 1899, receiving his B. L. degree at that time. In the same year, Mr. Marr began the practice of his profession in Nashville, and here he has since continued. His success has been of steady and pleasing growth, and he has long been regarded as one of the more successful and prosperous men to be identified with the legal fraternity in Nashville.
A leader in the ranks of the Democratic party, Mr. Marr gave three years to service in the United States Internal Revenue department, and in 1907 came his election to the state legislature. While there he gained no little distinction as the author of the present Pure Food and Drugs Law of Tennessee, the first law of its kind in the state, and the one that created the Pure Food and Drugs Department of Tennessee. Mr. Marr was further influential in the organization of the Independent Judiciary, a movement that resulted in 1912 in the election of the present judges of the supreme court of Tennessee, and was a member of the platform committee of the convention at the time. His service in the legislature was in many respects one most beneficial to the state, and there, as elsewhere, he proved the quality of his citizenship in no uncertain terms.
Mr. Marr's fraternal relations are represented by his membership in the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. He is a Methodist in his churehly affiliations. He was married on October 23, 1907, to Miss Martha Louise Dodson, the daughter of the late Newton J. Dodson and a member of one of the old and honored families of Nashville.
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