Samuel Van Dyke Stout
Samuel Van Dyke Stout (1786–1850) was an American Whig politician.[1][2] He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1841 to 1842.[1][2][3]
Biography
Early life
He was born on April 18, 1786, in Redstone Fort, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.[1][3] His father was Abraham Stout and his mother, Jane (Pettit) Stout.[1][3] He grew up in Kentucky and moved to Nashville in 1811.[1]
Career
He served on the Nashville Board of Aldermen from 1824 to 1825, 1830 to 1832, 1835 to 1837, 1838 to 1839, in 1844, and from 1846 to 1850.[3] He served as Mayor of Nashville from 1841 to 1842.[1][3] He was a freemason.[3]
Personal life
He married Catherine Tannehill in Nashville on October 12, 1813 at the home of Catherine's brother, Wilkins F. Tannehill, who would later himself serve as the city mayor.[1][3][4][5] They had three sons, Josiah W., Charles C., Samuel H., and three daughters, Margaret Jane, Ira Abraham, and Catherine.[1][3] He attended the First Presbyerian Church.[3] He died of apoplexy in 1850, and he is buried in the Nashville City Cemetery.[1][3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
- 1 2 Nashville Library
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Nashville City Cemetery
- ↑ Margery Frances Day Hanson, Richard Ewing Hanson, Day Unto Day: A Study of the Day Family in America, M. F. D. Hanson, 1978, p. 274
- ↑ http://www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org/280087_stout.htm
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| Preceded by Charles Clay Trabue |
Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee 1841-1842 |
Succeeded by Thomas B. Coleman |