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Author: Will T. Hale

   CHARLES D. RUNYON. Since 1888 one of the most extensive tobacco dealers at

Clarksville has been Charles D. Runyon. He is one of the big men in the

Tennessee tobacco district as well as a citizen of prominence at Clarksville,

and has rendered much substantial civic service to his home community.



   A Kentuckian by birth and representing an old family of that state, Mr.

Runyon was born at Trenton, Kentucky, on September 16, 1858, a son of Freeman

and Sue (Ware) Runyon. The family was established in Kentucky by the paternal

grandfather, Absalom Runyon, a native of New Jersey who came to Kentucky early

in life. The maternal grandfather, Edwin Ware, was a lifelong resident of

Kentucky. Sue (Ware) Runyon was born at Trenton, Kentucky, in 1832 and died in
1879.



   Dr. Freeman Runyon, who was born at Richmond, Kentucky, in 1805 and died at

Trenton in 1865, was one of the prominent physicians of his generation. Educated

at Lexington, after his graduation in medicine he spent two years in practice at

Elkton, Kentucky, and then moved to Trenton, where he was active in his

profession until his death. In polities he was a Democrat, and he and his wife

were members of the Baptist church. One of their sons, Freeman F., went to the

war as a Union soldier and was killed in the battle of Shiloh.



   During his youth Charles D. Runyon enjoyed the advantages of a good home and

liberal schooling. He was educated in his native town of Trenton and in the

Bethel College at Russellville, and began his practical career as a farmer, a

vocation which he followed steadily for thirteen years. In 1888 he moved to

Clarksville and entered the tobacco business, at which he has made a comfortable

fortune. His trade in some years has run as high asinine thousand hogsheads, and

he now handles about four thousand.



   In 1879 he married Miss Louie Barnes, a daughter of Charles K. Barnes, who

was a native and one of the successful farmers about Trenton, Kentucky. Mr. and

Mrs. Runyon have four children: Nellie is the wife of T. D. Mabry, of

Clarksville, and they have two children, Tommie and Nellie. Hazel married Arch

Howell, cashier of the Clarksville National Bank, and they have a daughter named

Hazel. Frank Runyon is in the insurance business, and Richard is still at home.

The family are members of the Baptist church.



   Mr. Runyon is a loyal Democrat, but his political activity has been confined

to his home city. He has served two years as alderman, and for the past twenty

years has been secretary and treasurer of the city school board, now holding

these offices for both the high school and the joint high school boards.



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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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