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John
Frizzell, son of Nathan and Mary Jones Frizzell, was born September 8,
1829 in Bedford (now Coffee) County, Tennessee. In 1841 he moved with
his parents to Winchester. In 1854 he was licensed to practice law and
was in partnership with Arthur S. Colyar and Albert S. Marks. He served
as a trustee of the Robert Donnell Female Institute and Mayor of Winchester
in 1856. During the war he volunteered as a private in Colonel Peter Turney’s
regiment but was commissioned as captain and placed in charge of transportation
and the auditing of railroad accounts until the end of the war. For about
two years after the war, he was associated in practice with Colonel Turney.
In 1868 Frizzell moved to Nashville and was appointed judge referee for
East Tennessee by the State Supreme Court. Judge Frizzell was married
to Mary Sharp College graduate Matilda Winford in 1854. They were the
parents of five children. He died in Nashville in 1894. |
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Mayor
John Frizzell |
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1856 |