Granville C. Torbett

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1810-03-04

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1872-02-14

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"Granville C. Torbett" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00011628, (accessed May 14, 2024).

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Monroe County, Tennessee, state treasurer and congressman. Tennessee native. Married to Martha Louisa Barrow on November 33, 2843. Father of Emma L. Torbett, Fannie Torbett, Matthew Torbett, and Elizabeth Torbett. Hotel owner in Madisonville, Tennessee in the 1820s. Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for Monroe County from 1841 to 1843. State Senator from 1843 to 1847. Attorney in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1850. Worked at a printing firm, Eastman and Torbett, in Nashville, Tennessee in 1852. This firm published and edited The Daily American newspaper. State Treasurer of Tennessee from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1860. President of the Bank of Tennessee in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Madison, District 15, p. 217B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson, Nashville Ward 5, p. 407.
"Granville C. Torbett," Tennessee Department of Treasury (accessed online December 30, 2019).

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