The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-08-12
SKETCH OF PINS GARRETT.
Not Yet Thirty Years of Age. He
Won by Hard Work.

"NA W AAa40 W uAks
Dresden, Tenn, August g.
Eight years ago in the course 81
that marvellous campaign which
revealed to the country one of 1t.
most brilliant orators, VIM. j.
Bryan spoke to large crowd al
Mckenzie, Tenn. At The conclu.
ion of his speech slender young
han with compelling dark eyes
Pand perfect poise Of manner as
|cended the platform and addressed
the great throng of people. Al
though unknown to majority OF
his hearers he held their attention
from the beginning, and as be
proceeded the purity of his Ian
guage charmed, the power Of bis
lLgic convinced, and his earnest
ness impressed all who heard,
while his sledge- hammer sarcasm
and rapier like ridicule brought
shouts of laughter from the de-
lighted audience, and at the close
he received an ovation equal to
that of the distinguished candidate
for President. Then came forward
an eloquent speaker, a man who
had been honored many times with
high places of public trust and
paid the youth splendid tribute,
predicting for him a great future
and concluding with the words:
"My young friend, all | ask is
that you stay out of the Ninth
Congressional District. That
youth, only 20 years of age, was
FINS j. Garrett, schoolboy of
Mckenzie, and his euIogist was
Hon. Rice A. Pierce, Congressman
from the Ninth District of Ten.
nessee.
FINS j. Garrett was born in the
Sixth Civil District of Weakley
county on the 10th day of August,
1875, of parents in humble cir
His father and mother
are both living and reside on a
farm IN the southern portion of
county. Young Garrett attended
the public schools, and was one
session in Clinton College, Of Gin
ton, KY. On his eighteenth birth
day be entered the newspaper
business in Dresden, Tenn. TAX
ing editorial charge of the Weak
ley County Democrat. At later
late he edited the Mckenzie Her
aid. Being an ambitious youth
If restless nature, and feeling
The restrictions of his limited edu-
,ation, he determined to rise above
he conditions that surrounded |
lim, break the letters that bound |
lim, and educate himself at all
hazards. So he entered Bethel
College of Mckenzie and gradu-
tied from that institution in 1897, |
having worked his way through
he last three terms by working in
/ printing Office half the day. At
er graduation he taught school
me year in Como and a year in
he city schools of Milan. He
hen entered the law Office of Capt.
}. Nj. Ewing, of Dresden, reading
aw under his instruction until he
vas admitted to the Dresden bar
n August, 1899. He entered into
partnership with Capt. Ewing in
900, and after the death of Capt.
Giving in March of that year he
law alone until he was
ppointed Clerk and Master Of the
1hancery Court of Weakley coun-
Y by Chancellor John S. Cooper,
Who rendered him the Office with
'ut his being an applicant on Sep
ember II, 1900. He still holds
hat Office and practices law in
ther courts than his own. On
November 81, 1901, he married
diss Elizabeth Harris Burns, a
of Mr.. j. I. Burns, of
lcKenzie, Tenn. They have one
wing child-a daughter.
He has been student all of his
ife, and with a bright, retentive
nd active mind has never lost an
pportunity to add to his store of
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