Edward Washington Metcalf2
| Date of Birth | August 1828 |
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| Date of Death |
Biography
Edward W. Metcalf was born in Ohio in August of 1828. By 1855, he had moved to Indiana and established the Goshen Times newspaper. In the late 1850s, Metcalf served as a judge in Elkhart, Indiana.
Metcalf joined the 129th Indiana infantry regiment in 1861, at the age of , and fought at the Battle of Nashville in late 1864. He was eventually promoted to Captain
By the end of the war, Metcalf had returned to Tennessee, establishing (on paper, June 9, 1865) the Cumberland Mining and Petroleum Company with fellow Union veteran and later Rock City teammate, Julius C. Hart. Around 1866-67, Metcalf also served as the city editor for the Nashville Press and Times newspaper. In 1867, Metcalf became involved in politics as a radical Republican, initially serving as a Davidson County delegate for Congressional candidate John Lawrence, with John Trimble ultimately winning the Republican Party nomination. Having abandoned the Republican Party, Metcalf would later support DH Mason (former editor of the Press and Times) on the Radical ticket.
By 1880, Metcalf had had enough of Tennessee, and had moved to Saline, Nebraska, where he married and spent the rest of his life. Captain Metcalf died
Sources
United States Census, South Fork Precinct Western village, Saline, Nebraska, 1900. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M31M-V5D
"The Lawrence Convention." Nashville Union and Dispatch. 16 May, 1867: 3.http://www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038521/1867-05-16/ed-1/seq-3/
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1858. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1857. http://books.google.com/books?id=6K0TAAAAYAAJ
"The Radical Convention." Nashville Union and Dispatch. 9 June, 1867: 3. http://www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038521/1867-06-09/ed-1/seq-3/
Acts of the State of Tennessee. Nashville, 1865. P. 119. https://archive.org/stream/actsstatetennes21tenngoog#page/n149/mode/2up/
King's Nashville City Directory, 1867. http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/ArchiveIt/1867/HTML individual pages 1867/Page 216-217 1867.html
A standard history of Elkhart County, Indiana. Ed. Abraham Weaver, Chicago: American Historical Society, 1916. http://archive.org/stream/standardhistoryo01weav/standardhistoryo01weav_djvu.txt
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