Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-09-09
|. W. CRABTREE
Candidate For the Democratic
Nomination of Attorney.
General.

attorney general. Col. y. IL. 0irUob'
editor of The Herald, of Winchester,
who has known Mr.. Crabtree from
infancy, published with his announce
ment the following history of his life:
Isaac Wilson Crabtree, son of c.
q. and Elizabeth Hicks Crabtree,
was born March 16, 1876, in the Six
teenth District of Franklin county,
Tennessee the third child in fam
lily of five boys and two girls.
He attended the usual three
months-a-year public schools in the
mountain district until he was ID
years of age, when his father moved
on farm near Cowan, in the 10th
district of Franklin county, and for
a few months the Democratic nom.
nation for Attorney general attended
school in the village of Cowan.
The change from the rustic school
house, on top of Cumberland Noun
to the more pretentious Cowan
Academy, inspired young Crabtree
with new ambition and he soon
strayed to the county town of
Winchester, where the Normal
school is located. Here he made
arrangements to enter. though to
attend regularly he had to walk
three miles night and morning, to a
farm house in the country where be
engaged board.
In the meantime the elder
Crabtree arranged to move with his
family to Texas. The ambitious
young man, who had gotten in the
Normal college persuaded his father
to let him remain IN Tennessee fol
one term of school. When the
father had removed to the West anC
the young boy left entirely on hi
own responsibility, he found that i
would not be possible to continue il
school, and he secured clerkship il
Winchester and studied at night
AS a means of preparing himself t.
obtain legal education, he studied
stenography at odd times, and whel
he mastered it, began work as
courtreporter, working in Winchester
Manchester, Fayetteville, Shelbyvill
and other Middle Tennessee count,
sites, and during the Spanlsl
American war he reported cases TO
the Military Court at Chickamauga
During all these years of labo
young .Crabtree was studying Law
and little more than twelve year
ago he was admitted to the Bar a
Winchester, after an examination
which reflected great credit on tn
ambitious young attorney and elicite
the favorable comments of the Beuc
and Bar, and since his admission t
the Bar Mr.. Crsbtree has bee
active as a practitioner. He ha
been employed on one side or tn
other in all of the important civ
and criminal litigation in Frankli
county for the past ten years, and a
a lawyer he is the peer of any ma
of his age in the state.
| Mr.. Crsbtree is the architect {
his own fortune. Seventeen year
ago he was a poor boy on farm o
Cumberland Mountain. Now, b
his own efforts and through til
application of his own energy an
active use of his own mind, he is or
of the foremost lawyers in the Stat
Mr.. Crabtree is the friend of IL
laboring man, because he has been
laborer; he is friend of the DO,
because he himself has known Il
weight of poverty. Such a man
man who has climbed up by his ow
efforts, and who knows when an
how to protect the weak and hold
check the strong, is the kind of
man who should he be electe
attorney general of the Chattanooe
circuit, would fill the Office wit
great credit to himself and TO all Il
people of the entire Sixth judi ci
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