This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brownlow Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zNG.2ACIB/88 Message Board Post: I am not related, just collect old papers and post from them. Thursday Eve. May 3, 1877 The Conneticut Courant, Hartford. Obituary William G.Brownlow William G. Brownlow, better known, perhaps as "Parson Brownlow, died Sunday. He was born in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1805, and when still a boy was taught the trade of a carpenter. When twenty-one years of age he began work as a minister, and continued in that branch of duty exclusively until 1828, when he entered Tennessee politics as an advocate of the re-election of John Quincy Adams, IN of near the year 1837 he settled in Knoxville, Tenn., and began the publication of the "Whig" in the columns of which he gave such expression to his views that he soon became known as the "fighting parson." He held the view that slavery ought to be perpetuated, but opposed seccession so bitterly that he was arrested by the confederacy for treason, and finally put inside the Union lines where he made the most of his time by delivering speeches. IN 1865, having returned to his old home he was elected to the governorship of Tennessee, and four years later he was sent to the United State! s senate. "Parson Brownlaw was a man in a thousand, an iron will, a terse, sharp expression of strong views, and a way of mixing politics with religion, were among his leading characteristics.