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Mildred Doyle was born on her family's large farm in South Knoxville, Tennessee, [1] the daughter of Charter Elbert Doyle and Illia Burnett Doyle. [2] Her father was a county judge. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] As a young woman, Doyle played baseball, softball, tennis, and basketball on school teams at Young High School and Maryville College . [ 5 ]
The Founding of Knoxville. (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1941.) History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together With an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of From Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee. (The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville, 1887.) Hooper, Ed. Images of America: Knoxville.
James Alexander Fowler (1863–1955), U.S. Assistant Attorney General and Knoxville mayor; Lizzie Crozier French (1851–1926), women's suffragist; Lucius F. C. Garvin (1841–1922), former governor of Rhode Island; Sion Harris (1811–1854), member of the Liberian legislature; Bill Haslam (b. 1958), Governor of Tennessee, former mayor of Knoxville
The Knoxville Gazette was the first newspaper published in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the third published west of the Appalachian Mountains. [2] Established by George Roulstone (1767–1804) at the urging of Southwest Territory governor William Blount, the paper's first edition appeared on November 5, 1791. [3]
While the retrial was conducted in Knoxville, the jury for the retrial was selected from Jackson, Tennessee, more than 300 miles west of Knoxville. [ 72 ] Coleman's lawyers argued that she should receive a 20-year sentence, while prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence of nearly 50 years.
The History of Knoxville, Tennessee, began with the establishment of James White's Fort on the Trans-Appalachian frontier in 1786. [1] The fort was chosen as the capital of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and the city, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, was platted the following year. [1]
By 1974, the Butcher brothers owned or controlled eight banks, and Jake Butcher's United American Bank controlled 39% of the banking reserves in Knoxville, Tennessee. By 1982, UAB was responsible for over 50% of Knoxville's business loans, and Butcher's personal net worth was declared to be about $34 million. [ 1 ]
In 1986, the News-Sentinel became a morning paper, with the other paper in Knoxville, the Knoxville Journal, becoming an evening paper. The Journal ceased publication as a daily in 1991, when the joint operating agreement between the two papers expired. In 2002, the paper dropped the hyphen from its name to become the Knoxville News Sentinel.