VIEW FROM THE HILL RIVER CITY One Corker of a Going vegan in battle averted Chattanooga Find Public Notices Corker vs. Blackburn A meat lover’s Mission inside & online: could have been an epic Impossible turns into a www.HamiltonCountyHerald.com referendum on Trump. tasty day on the town. P3 P13 Volume 105 | No. 9 Single Copy 50¢ CHATTANOOGA, HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE March 2 – 8, 2018 What was going on in Chattanooga in 1968? Friday, March 1 Commissioner James Turner presented recom- mendations to the City Commission for what he termed minimum improve- ments needed to maintain the city’s Class III rating for fi re insurance. e program, to begin immedi- ately, would cost $590,300 in operating increases and $392,000 in capital expen- ditures. Reaction of other Commission members was not enthusiastic. e Chattanooga Hous- ing Authority board of commissioners approved Photo by Alex McMahan the proposed $20 million The Rev. Evelyn Harris of St. Luke United Methodist Curch, which she describes as a place where parishioners are “able to talk openly about social justice issues.” Orchard Knob urban re- newal project ursday. H. Doke Cage, admin- istrator of St. Barnabas Nursing Home since 1965, has been named adminis- trator of Hamilton County ‘It’s likewant to do it. I saw coming the sac- to catch you at some point.”home’aff ordable University of Ten- Nursing Home and Bork Harris happy she rifi ces that she made and the Known for her outspoken nessee at Chattanooga. Memorial Hospital. He suc- finally decided to challenges of being a clergy- comments on social justice “I had the realization that ceeds Mr. and Mrs. Allen woman, the sexism and gender and her over-the-top person- I could spend $30,000 on one Poe, who have retired after become part of the discrimination that she faced. ality – in lieu of a photo on her year of education or a quar- many years of supervising ‘family business’ And I thought, ‘Why would I LinkedIn page is an illustration ter of that at the time in state operations at Bork. ever want to do that?’” of a female Captain Marvel – tuition for all four years,” she By Nancy Henderson Frank Todd Meacham, en one day three female Harris grew up in Chattanooga, explains. Harris earned a B.S. election commission regis- friends – her pastor, a hospital helping her father, an Army in ornamental horticulture and rom the age of 16, trar-at-large, said ursday chaplain and an engineer who colonel, manage his retail shop. landscape design, with a minor Evelyn Harris knew that a large majority of the had ditched her career to go In her fi rst semester at Ran- in urban studies. she was called to be a 77 Democratic and Repub- to seminary – cornered Harris dolph-Macon, a private liberal “ ere was something about minister. Her mother, lic precinct chairmen who in a coff ee shop near Raleigh, arts college near Richmond, growing things that spoke to Laura Trent, was a See 50 YEARS, page 18 North Carolina, where she was Virginia, a soccer injury and me,” Harris adds. “I got to be Methodist pastor, and working as a horticulturist, and a bout with mononucleosis outside. I wasn’t stuck in a lab. Fso were members of the three collectively said, “Your call is forced her to miss so many I got to really be productive INSIDE previous generations. all over you. You are wearing classes that she had to aban- and have something that I had “It’s kind of the family busi- ■ FINANCIAL FOCUS P12■ it every day. You can either don her demanding chemistry accomplished. I like to achieve ness,” says Harris, 39, pastor answer God’s call or you can major. goals. REAL ESTATE P15 at St. Luke United Methodist keep running, but God’s going She transferred to the more Church in Hixson. “But I didn’t See REV. HARRIS, page 14 2 | March 2 – 8, 2018 Hamilton County Herald www.hamiltoncountyherald.com News and notes from the Chattanooga Bar Association Bar Association Elliott explores understudied Brown By David Laprad “His name is also on one of the as governor, he tried to resolve markers on Lookout Mountain economic conflicts that had be- s a civil litigation attorney for fighting there on Nov. 23, gun before the Civil War.” with Gearhiser, Peters, 1863.” ese chapters are filled with Elliot & Cannon, Sam Brown’s service in the Civil every interesting particular Elliott Elliott likes digging War ended when he was shot could dig up, including those into the finer points in the thigh during the Battle of related to Brown’s failed bid to of a case to un- Franklin. become a U.S. senator. e oppo- cover little known Elliott liked rolling up his nent who defeated him: former but important facts. In the same sleeves and shuffling through the U.S. President Andrew Johnson. way, he enjoys delving into the scattered pages of history to put Elliott also explores also a recesses of local Civil War histo- together a cohesive picture of few fine points Brown, if he Ary to shine a light on the Tennes- the life of his subject. He culled were alive today, might wish to seans who inhabit its unexplored many of the details that made up remain buried under the dust of passages. his chapters on Brown’s military the years - such as his possible Elliott’s interest in local history career from reports the major involvement with the Klu Klux and historical figures drew him general himself wrote during the Klan. Photograph provided to pen and publish a full-scale bi- war. (ese are available online.) “Although there isn’t any evi- Sam Elliott, attorney and author of a ography of John C. Brown, a little Elliott also pulled raw materials dence, he was probably involved book about the life of John C. Brown, known but important individual from newspapers at the Tennes- with the KKK,” Elliott says. in the American Civil War. A below, a little known but important see State Library and Archives figure in Tennessee history. “Pulaski is the birthplace of the native of Pulaski, Brown was a and the Library of Congress. organization, and five of the six Confederate general, Tennessee A true bloodhound of history, military career but also the fasci- men who started it served under politician, railroad executive and Elliott even followed the trail of nating latter years of his life. Brown during the Civil War.” lawyer who stood on some of the Brown’s life to the accounts of “After the war, Brown Better established, most studied stages of his era and the soldiers who served under returned to Pulaski to and less scandalous, region but until now had re- him. “It’s like gathering evidence practice law, then he be- is Brown’s role as ceived no biographical treatment. as a lawyer, which makes it came instrumental in a leader in the e latter criteria was of interesting to me,” Elliott says. “I the effort to restore the anti-Brownlow interest to Elliott, who’d already enjoy figuring out who has the voting rights of former movement, which written biographies of Confed- information I need.” Confederate soldiers,” sought to end erate General A.P. Stewart and Published by the University of Elliott says. “In 1869, he Radical Recon- Isham G. Harris, a governor of Tennessee Press, Elliott’s book was elected the president struction in Ten- Tennessee. “Brown hadn’t been also follows Brown through his of the constitution con- given any treatment, but he post-military career, when he vention, and a year later, See ELLIOTT, page 3 deserved it,” Elliott says. “He was resumed his work as an attorney, became governor and a significant person.” held political office and worked served two terms. Indeed, Brown was an indi- for various railroads. Because El- During his vidual of considerable attain- time CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION BAR CHATTANOOGA liott’s knowledge lies primarily in ment during the Civil War, as local Civil War history, he found Elliott details in the pages of his this span of time, which took book. Not only did he achieve place during the Reconstruction the rank of major general in period, to be the most challeng- the Confederate Army - a feat ing in terms of research. achieved by only seven other e ability to tap into the Tennesseans - he also served at knowledge of his fellow schol- the Battle of Chickamauga and ars, however, opened the doors Lookout Mountain, placing him to vital sources of information. in the thick of the fighting. Later, Like many academic presses, the Brown and his brigade fought at University of Tennessee Press the Battle of Resaca, which was employs a peer review process in part of the Atlanta Campaign. evaluating a manuscript. While “If you visit Chickamauga reviewing Elliott’s draft, these Battlefield, go to the Brother- outside readers made construc- ton House, hang a left and walk tive comments regarding addi- toward the woods, his brigade tional sources. e result: a book fought in that area,” Elliott says. which not only follows Brown’s Executive Committee Board of Governors Ex-Officio Member Lee Ann Adams Marc Harwell The Honorable J. B. PRESIDENT Sheri Fox Bennett Robin L. Miller George G. Hixson JUDICIAL REPRESENTATIVE TREASURER Steven M. Jacoway Thomas M. Horne PRESIDENT-ELECT William G. Colvin Jeffrey W. Maddux John C. Harrison PAST PRESIDENT Jimmy Rodgers SECRETARY Linda Minks Hood Drew H. 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