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2 unusual facts about Oliver Perry Temple


Oliver Perry Temple

In 1897, he published The Covenanter, The Cavalier, and The Puritan, which discusses the origins and contributions of the Scotch-Irish (Temple uses the broader term "Covenanter") in American history.

Samuel P. Carter

Temple, Oliver P. Notable Men of Tennessee, New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1912, p.


East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway

In 1852, congressmen Horace Maynard, William Montgomery Churchwell, and John H. Crozier, along with attorney Oliver Perry Temple and minister Thomas William Humes, chartered the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad, which planned to build a line northward into Kentucky, where it would join existing lines to Cincinnati and Louisville.


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