Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham (March 15, 1817 – May 4, 1887) was an American planter and slave trader. She became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin . As a successful slave trader , he had used his wealth to purchase numerous plantations, lands, and slaves in Tennessee and Louisiana.
17-447: Acklen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adelicia Acklen (1817–1887), American planter and socialite Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen (1816–1863), American lawyer, planter, and veteran Joseph H. Acklen (1850–1938), American sugar planter and politician See also [ edit ] Ackley (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
34-550: A Mr. Lockett. Joseph A. S. Acklen died in 1863. Later, Adelicia Acklen married Dr. William Archer Cheatham (1820–1900), a physician and head of the Tennessee State Insane Asylum. His father, Richard Cheatham (1799–1845), had served one term as United States Representative from Tennessee. But Acklen soon grew dissatisfied with this marriage and moved to Washington, D. C. . There she lived at 1776 Massachusetts Avenue. In 1887, Acklen Cheatham sold
51-649: A judge on the Federal district court of Louisiana and instead resumed the practice of law, in Franklin, Louisiana . He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress. He returned to Nashville, in 1885 and continued the practice of law. He served as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Davidson County, Tennessee from 1886 to 1894. He served as member of
68-708: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Adelicia Acklen In 1880 Acklen sold four contiguous plantations in Louisiana as one property. These have formed the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as "Angola" after one of the plantations) since 1901. When married to her second husband, Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen , Adelicia Acklen built the Belmont Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee . She sold
85-496: The Belmont Mansion outside Nashville for use as a summer estate, complete with gardens and a zoo. They had six children; two daughters died young, Laura (1852–1855) and Corinne (1852–1855). The others made careers and families: Joseph H. Acklen (1850–1938) became a politician and served as U.S. Representative from Louisiana; William Hayes Ackland (1855–1940) was an attorney, writer and art collector; Claude M. Acklen (1857–1920), and Pauline (1859–1931) married
102-807: The Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee ; 8,700 acres (35 km ) in four cotton plantations in Louisiana ; more than 50,000 acres (200 km ) of undeveloped land in Texas ; stocks and bonds, and 750 enslaved African Americans, who had high value in the South. The widow Franklin became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee. In 1849, the widow Franklin married a second time, to Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen (1816–1863). Together, they built
119-409: The surname Acklen . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Acklen&oldid=1057188764 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
136-730: The 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Her mother was Sarah Clements (Hightower) Hayes. They lived at Rokeby in Nashville, now the name of a neighborhood. In 1839, at age 22, Hayes married Isaac Franklin , a wealthy, prominent 50-year-old slave trader and planter. He started fully concentrating on his plantations by 1841, mostly in Louisiana. The couple had four children together: Victoria (1840–1846), Adelicia (1842–1846), Julius Caesar (1844–1844), and Emma Franklin (1844–1855), none of whom survived early childhood. In 1846, Franklin died, and Adelicia Franklin inherited
153-498: The Belmont Mansion in Nashville. It was later used as a girls academy and then for Ward–Belmont College (which eventually developed into Belmont University ). Acklen had leased and then sold the plantations in Louisiana in 1880. In 1901, the state bought four of them, including the one known as Angola. This became the nickname of the Louisiana State Penitentiary that was developed on these lands, where prisoners worked
170-644: The Nashville City Council from 1900 to 1904. He then served as president of the Tennessee State bar association in 1901 and 1902. He served as general insurance counsel of Tennessee from 1903 to 1907. He was State warden of the Tennessee department of game, fish, and forestry from 1903 to 1913. He served as general counsel of the National Association of Game and Fish Commissioners of the United States from 1905 to 1912, when he
187-553: The fields for commodity and sustenance crops. Acklen died on a shopping trip in New York City on May 4, 1887, at the age of seventy. She was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Joseph H. Acklen Joseph Hayes Acklen (May 20, 1850 – September 28, 1938) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1878 to 1881. Joseph Hayes Acklen
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#1732780532159204-578: The practice of law and moved to Louisiana to superintend the family's sugar plantations near Pattersonville (now Patterson ) in Saint Mary Parish . He served as colonel in the Louisiana Militia in 1876. In November of that year, claiming voting fraud , he and other Democrats objected to the reelection of Republican Chester Bidwell Darrall to represent Louisiana's 3rd congressional district ; after protracted settlement of
221-426: The property in 1887; it was converted for use as a girls' school and later junior college campus. It is now operated as a museum at the center of what is now known as Belmont University . Adelicia Hayes was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Her parents were Northerners: her father was Oliver Bliss Hayes, a lawyer and later Presbyterian minister from South Hadley, Massachusetts . He was related to Rutherford B. Hayes ,
238-733: The various controversies surrounding the 1876 presidential election , on February 20, 1878, Darrall left the seat and was replaced by Acklen, for the remaining half of the Forty-fifth Congress . Acklen was reelected, to the Forty-sixth Congress , and served from 20 February 1878 to 4 March 1881. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880, and Darrall regained the seat for one term (the Forty-seventh Congress ). On leaving Congress, he declined an appointment by President Rutherford B. Hayes to be
255-533: Was born in Nashville, Tennessee , to Adelicia and Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen , a wealthy couple whose summer home was located in Nashville, while he also grew up on plantations in Louisiana . He had a brother, William Hayes Ackland . During the American Civil War , his parents sided with the Confederacy , and the father fled to the family's Louisiana plantation, where he died in 1863. He
272-551: Was educated by private tutors. He attended Burlington Military College, near Burlington, New Jersey , in 1864 and 1865, and graduated from two foreign institutions (École de Neuilly, Paris, and Swiss University, Vevey ). He returned to the United States and graduated from Cumberland University 's law school in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1871. He began practicing law in Nashville and later practiced in Memphis, Tennessee , but abandoned
289-586: Was elected president of the Association. He was Middle Tennessee counsel for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad from 1907 to 1911. From 1913 to 1914, he served under Democrat U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as chief game warden of the United States. Acklen was author of numerous articles on ornithology , fish culture , forestry , and field sports . He served as chairman of the State central committee on
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