William Rule Papers.
Scope and Contents
Papers of William Rule(1839-1928), a newspaper editor, mayor of Knoxville (1873, 1898), and postmaster (1873, 1877) in Knoxville, Tenn. Born in Knox County, Tenn. Married Lucy Anne Maxey in 1858. Worked with William G. Brownlow on Knoxville Whig. Served in Sixth Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, Union Army, 1862-1865. Published Republican newspaper, the Knoxville Chronicle. Founded the Knoxville Journal in 1885, which merged with the Tribune in 1888 to become the Journal and Tribune. Rule was editor from 1885 to 1928. He was a member of the Republican National Committee, 1876-1884; a trustee of the University of Tennessee; served on the board of Lawson McGhee Library; edited (Rule’s) Standard History of Knoxville; U.S. Pension Agent in 1906. Papers include: letters; drafts of newspaper articles and speeches by Rule; scrapbooks of clippings on Tennesseans; clippings on the Rule-Wicks dueling controversy; broadside and pamphlets, including the rare Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Southern Commercial Convention, August 10, 1857; Rule’s diaries written while in the Union Army, 1863-1865. For a list of selected correspondents, see A Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection by Linda Posey (1974).
Dates
- 1860-1927
Conditions Governing Access
Material is available for research. Prior arrangement MUST be made by contacting the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
Extent
6 boxes
General
Included in Linda Posey thesis of McClung Collection Manuscript holdings and the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.
- Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Diaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dueling Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Duels Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Journalism Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Knoxville Chronicle Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Knoxville Journal Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Knoxville Journal and Tribune Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Knoxville Whig Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lawson McGhee Library (Knoxville, Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lucy Anne Maxey Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayors Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Newspaper editors Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Newspapers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Southern Commercial Convention Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pensions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Politics and government Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postmasters Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Republican National Committee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rule and Wick duel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rule, William, 1839-1928 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Speeches Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Standard History of Knoxville Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Army. Sixth Tennessee Volunteer Regiment Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- William Rule Papers.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
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Repository Details
Part of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Repository
601 S Gay Street
3rd floor
Knoxville Tennessee 37902 United States
865.215.8814
mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
