Wilkins F. Tannehill
Wilkins F. Tannehill was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States on March 2nd, 1787 and is the American Politician. At the age of 71, Wilkins F. Tannehill biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Tannehill moved to Nashville in 1808, where he managed a warehouse owned by his uncle. During the War of 1812, they sold saltpeter critical for the war efforts. Later, he opened a grocery store in Nashville and Pulaski, Tennessee.
Tannehill served as alderman of Nashville in 1813 and Director of the Nashville Bank in 1814. He served on the Board of Trustees of Cumberland College, later known as the University of Nashville, from 1814 to 1821 and from 1825 to 1832. He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1825 to 1827. He founded two newspaper, The Daily Orthopolitan in 1845, and Tannehill's Port Folio, a monthly journal of freemasonry and general literature, in 1847.
In 1849, Tannehill founded the Merchants Library and Reading Room, a subscription library in downtown Nashville. Hugh Henry Brackenridge called him "one of the most finished scholars of the West."