Arthur St. Clair Colyar

Arthur St. Clair Colyar (June 23, 1818 – December 13, 1907) was an American lawyer, Confederate politician, and newspaper editor.

Arthur St. Clair Colyar
BornJune 23, 1818
Washington County, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedDecember 13, 1907(1907-12-13) (aged 89)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting placeMount Olivet Cemetery
OccupationPolitician
ParentAlexander Colyar

Early life

Colyar was born on June 23, 1818, in Washington County, Tennessee.[1] His father was Alexander Colyar.[2] He moved to Franklin County, Tennessee, with his parents when he was 12.[2]

Colyar studied the law with Micah Taul.[2]

Career

Colyar was admitted to the bar in 1846.[2] He practised the law in Winchester, Tennessee, until 1861.[2] During the American Civil War, Colyar represented the state in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.[1]

After the war, Colyar resumed his legal practise in Winchester, but he moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1867.[2] He was a creditor and later president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, which used mainly African-American leased convict labor to produce steel.[2][3] He served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in the 1870s,[2] and unsuccessfully ran for Governor three times.[4]

Allen & Ginter American Editors trading card series depiction of Colyar

Colyar became the editor of the Nashville American (later known as The Tennessean) in 1880.[2] He subsequently served as the editor of The News, another newspaper based in Nashville, until he became the owner and editor of the American newspaper.[2]

Personal life and death

Colyar was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.[2] He died on December 13, 1907, in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] He was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery.[1]

His niece was editor Viola Roseboro'.[5]

Further reading
  • McCanless Howell, Sarah (Fall 1968). "The Editorials of Arthur S. Colyar, Nashville Prophet or the New South". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 27 (3): 262–276. JSTOR 42623026.

References
  1. "Collins-doerrer to Combest". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  2. Allison, John (1905). Notable Men of Tennessee: Personal and Genealogical, with portraits. Atlanta, Georgia: Southern historical Association. pp. 64–65. OCLC 2561350 – via Internet Archive.
  3. "Ghosts of Lone Rock". Sewanee: The University of the South. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  4. Arthur St. Clair Colyar, by James B. Jones, Jr; published March 1, 2018, by the Tennessee Historical Society
  5. Viola Roseboro': A Prototype for Cather's "My Mortal Enemy", by Merrill M. Skaggs, in Mississippi Quarterly; Winter 2000-2001, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 5-21


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