ROBERT L. ADAMS, clerk and master of the Chancery Court of Marshall county, was born June 15, 1833, in that part of Bedford County now included in Marshall County.  He was reared on the farm but on account of physical disability did not engage in hard manual labor.  He received a good practical education in the country schools and at the age of nineteen commenced teaching in the schools of this county, where he continued for ten years. In 1862 he was elected county court clerk and held that office for a period of twelve years. In 1876 he was appointed clerk and master of the Chancery Court and is still holding that position. When the Bank of Lewisburg was re-established in 1885, Mr. Adams was elected as its president, besides he is one of the directors of the same institution.  Previous to this, in 1860, he wedded Jane E. Bell, and by her became the father of seven children, six of whom are living. Politically Mr. Adams is a firm supporter of Democratic principles. For fifty years he has been a citizen of Marshall County and for twenty-two years of that time he has held positions of trust and honor. This fact alone speaks louder for his ability and popularity than mere words. His parents were Alexander D. and Elizabeth (LaRue) Adams, both natives of Virginia and both members of the Presbyterian Church. The father was a stanch Democrat, although all his brothers were Whigs previous to the war. He died in 1866, and the mother passed away in 1875.

CLINTON A. ARMSTRONG, junior member of the firm of Smithson & Armstrong, is a son of George and Margaret (Orr) Armstrong, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Tennessee.  After marriage they settled in that part of this county, formerly included in Bedford County.  Their family consisted of ten children, nine of whom are living.  The father followed the occupation of a tiller of the soil and was also engaged in stock trading.  He did not aspire to public places, but rather chose to perform the duties of a quiet citizen.  the mother was a member of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church, and is still living on the old homestead at the ripe old age of seventy-six.  Our subject was born in Marshall County, was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools.  He subsequently attended Lewisburg Academy.  In 1868 he commenced reading law with Col. W. N. Cowden, and the following year was admitted to the bar.  In 1869 he led to alter Maggie Kercheval, by whom he had two children, one of whom is living.  For seven years he was partner of Col. Cowden, but afterward went into partnership with Smithson, which continues to the present.  Mrs. Armstrong was a member of the Presbyterian Church ; she died April 20, 1886.  Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat, and has been practicing his profession for seventeen years in Lewisburg, and has received his share of the business of the county.

REV. P. L. ATKISSON is a son of Pleasant and Sophronia (Holmes) Atkisson.  The father was born in Virginia, and when young came to Tennessee, where he married, and after a short residence in Giles County moved to Alabama, and few years later went to West Tennessee.  He was a shoe-maker by trade, and also farmer.  To him and wife were born two sons.  In 1835 the mother died, and later he wedded Emily Woods, who born him one son.  He was an 1812 soldier and Jacksonian Democrat.  Our subject was born in Mooresville, Ala., October 7, 1825, and was reared on a farm in West Tennessee.  He received an academic education, and after studying medicine for some time took a course of lectures at Memphis and practiced that profession a number of years.  At the age of twenty-five he commenced his ministerial work, in which he has been engaged ever since.  His marriage with Mary O. Ellison was solemnized in 1850, and to them were born eight children, seven of whom are living.  Mrs. Atkisson is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which her husband is a minister.  He is a Democrat, and in addition to his ministerial work runs a large farm of 500 acres.

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