Hon.William L.HARBISON-was born in Polk County,Tenn.,Aug.28,1840, a son of G.W.Harbison who is a resident of Polk county and nearly eighty years of age. The grandfather,William Harbison was a native of South Carolina.He was killed in Cocke County,Tn.,when sixty-five years of age,by the falling of a tree. Hon.William in August 1863,married Miss S.M.,daughter of Col.J.W.BLEVINS. a prominent Government official who took active part in removing the Cherokee Indians.To Mr. and Mrs. Harbison,three children have been born, all living. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ James M.HENDERSON-a prominent citizen of Athens,and President of the First National Bank at that place, was born in Monroe County,Tenn.,Jan.8, 1825.He is a son of Andrew L. and Margaret (MCSPADDEN) HENDERSON. His father was of Scotch descent,born in Jefferson County,Tenn.,March 17,1795, and died in Athens July 8,1879. His wife was of Irish origin,also born in Jefferson County in 1795 and died in Monroe County 1851.They were married in their native county in 1817 and became the parents of six children. Our subject's great-grandfather,John Henderson came from Scotland,and settled in Virginia.His son ,also named John (grandfather of our subject) located and died in Jefferson county. James M. married Miss Lou J., daughter of William and Elizabeth (HOWELL) COOKE, who was born in Davidson County,near Nashville,Dec.15,1832. To this union six sons and five daughters were born,of whom two sons and one daughter are deceased.Our subject is a staunch Republican,and a consistent member of the Baptist Church,to which his wife and two daughters also belong. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr.Wallace N.HOGE- clerk of the circuit court of McMinn County,was born at Bellefontaine,Logan Co.,Ohio,March 17, 1841.He is the fifth of eleven children (all of whom lived to be twenty-five years of age) born to Solomon G. and Julia A. (Janney) HOGE.The father is of Scotch-Welsh descent,born in Loudon County,VA.,March 29,1812,and is now a resident of McMinn County.The mother was also a native of Loudon County,VA., born about 1817.They eloped and were married on the Potomac River,between Maryland and Virginia.They resided in the latter State some time and the went to Ohio,where they remained until 1868. They then immigrated to Tennessee, settling first in Bradley Co.,afterward in McMinn Co. where Mrs.Hoge died in 1884. Our subject received an excellent education in his native State,and worked on his father's farm.At the age of twenty he entered the United States Army, enlisting in Company H,Twenty-sixth Ohio Regiment,Volunteer Infantry,June 17,1861,and went out of service in 1864, at which time he was first lieutenant of Company K. He took part in the battles of Perryville,Shiloh,Chickamauga, Murfreesboro and Missionary Ridge. After the war he returned to Ohio.In the winter of 1865-66,he attended a six months course of medical lectures at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor. The following spring he located at Calhoun,Bradley Co.,Tenn., and begun the practice of medicine,which he was forced to abandon,ten years later,on account of wounds received during the warat Murfreesboro,Chickamauga and Kenesaw Mountain.In 1878 he came to Athens and in August of the same year was elected to the office which he now holds.He was elected by the Republican Party by a majority of 156 over his opponent,Cantrell. In 1862 he was re-elected recovering 602 more votes than Col.James M.Charles.In 1886 he was again re-elected defeating W.R. Carver by sixty-nine votes.in 1866 our subject married Miss Ellen I., daughter of William W.COWEN,who was one of the first and most prominent settlers of Bradley Co.Mrs Hoge was born in Bradley Co. and is the mother of four sons and two daughters. Our subject, his wife and two sons are esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++