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   C. M. LOVELL, M. D. First mayor of Dickson and one of the founders of the

first bank established here, Dr. C. M. Lovell is a man, of local distinction.

The family which he represents was formerly of North Carolina, from where his

grandfather, John Monroe Lovell, came in about the year 1807, locating first in

Davidson county, where he became the owner of an extensive tract of land. There

was born William Harrison Lovell, in 1810. He became a farmer by vocation and

was married to Miss Laura House Lovell, a native of the same county and three

years his junior. They maintained their home in Davidson county and as years

passed seven children came to complete the interests of their home. W. H. Lovell

and his wife were members of the Southern Methodist church and the former was a

Democrat in politics.



   C. M. Lovell, the sixth child of the above-mentioned parents, was born on

January 7, 1850, in Davidson county. The public schools which his environment

provided gave him the educational opportunities of his childhood and earlier

youth. Looking to a professional career, he subsequently entered the Vanderbilt

University of Nashville, pursued the prescribed courses in the College of

Medicine which is one of the branches of that institution, and in 1876 received

his degree of Doctor of Medicine.



   In Bellevue, Davidson county, Dr. Lovell achieved his earliest professional

successes. His services were valued in that place and there he remained for

seven years. At the end of that time he came to Dickson, a rapidly developing

town, and when it was first formally established as a municipality with city

government, the doctor was honored by election to its highest office. He has

continued his practice, but as he has ever had at heart the best interests of

the town, he has been concerned in some of her most important improvements. The

first financial institution of Dickson—called the Dickson Trust and Savings

Bank—was organized in 1891 with his very active assistance and influence. He

served it at first as cashier and later was made its president. In 1905 it was

merged with the Citizens' Bank and became a national bank, with, a capital of

$50,000. Dr. Lovell has continued to be associated with the affairs of the

re-organized bank.



   In the meantime the professional services of the doctor have been called in

requisition for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad, for which he is

the official assistant surgeon. He has held this position for several years,

during which time he has been increasingly useful as a private practitioner as
well.



   It was two years after embarking upon his professional life that the doctor

established his domestic partnership with the estimable lady who was then known

as Miss Maggie Morton, a daughter of T. D. Morton of Davidson county. Dr. and

Mrs. Morton had one child, a daughter named Sarah, who on arriving at the years

of womanhood became the wife of C. H. Wishart.



   Busy though Dr. Lovell is with his outside interests as vice-president of the

Citizens' National Bank and as a director of the Diekson Planing Mill Company,

he nevertheless has ever remained keenly alive to the constant progressive

movements of medical science. He is a member of the American Medical Society;

the Tennessee Medical Association; the Tri-County and the Dickson County

organization of physicians. His fraternal affiliation is with the order of the

Knights of Pythias.





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