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Author: Will T. Hale

   MAJOR A. L. LANDIS, who lent his native state of Tennessee distinguished

services as a Confederate soldier and as a state senator and was also a forceful

business man, was a native of Bedford county, Tennessee, born in 1823 to John

and Mary (Lowe) Landis. He was reared on the farm and at the age of nineteen

began teaching school. After continuing in that profession five years he entered

upon a business career by becoming a merchant at Shelbyville, Tennessee, where

he subsequently also engaged in the pork packing business several years as a

member of the firm of Barrett & Landis. He was also the proprietor of the Sylvan

Cotton Mills and owned and managed a farm. At the opening the war between the

states in 1861 he espoused the cause of the South and entered its service as a

member of the Seventeenth Tennessee Regiment of the Confederate Army. For some

time he was a quartermaster with the rank of major and concluded his service,

one of distinction, with the latter rank. With his regiment he participated in.

many of the hardest fought engagements of the war, including the battles of

Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and numerous other of

the middle Tennessee and Atlanta campaigns. During the last three years of the

war he was in charge of and responsible for the eastern division of the

quartermasters department of the Confederacy and was credited with most

effective service under most trying conditions, and when to secure provisions

and supplies was an almost impossible task. On his return to civil life Major

Landis resumed his business activity and also became prominently identified with

the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company. About 1850 Major Landis,

Col. A. S. Colyar, Mr. Mike Bervus, and other public spirited citizens living

between Nashville and Chattanooga, secured subscriptions and furnished money

which made possible the construction of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railway,

due largely to the active interest of the first two, and he greatly aided in the

building and extension of its lines before and after the war. He was one of the

directors of that company from its inception and served as general manager of

the northwestern division of the road. In 1886 he removed to Nashville, where he

established the Landis Banking Company and was thereafter engaged in the banking

business until his death on June 5, 1896. Major Landis was also interested in

establishing the ante-bellum state banking system in Tennessee, being a director

of the Branch Bank at Shelbyville. In polities he was a stanch Democrat, and in

1880 he was elected state senator from the district composed of Bedford and

Rutherford counties. He wedded Nancy Carter, who was a. daughter of William and

Keziah (Tannehill) Carter and who was a descendant of the old and highly

respected Carter connection of Virginia. Major and Mrs. Landis were the parents

of eleven children, one of whom is Abb Lowe Landis, who is given individual

mention in this work.

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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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