ROSE HILL CEMETERY, COLUMBIA TENNESSEE

WHITTHORNE, Washington Curran 2nd, 18 Oct 1865 � 7 Jul 1948. (Son W.C. & Jane) Block "P"

THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN

Sunday Morning

March 2, 1930

Kiwanis Club Heard Address on Polk


Columbia, Tenn. March 1 -(Spl) Members of the local Kiwanis Club yesterday heard an address on the life of James Knox Polk, Maury countian who rose to the presidency, delivered by County Judge W. C. Whitthorne, who had long been a close student of Polk's life.

The speaker briefly traced the career of the President whose ancestral home here has just been restored as a national shrine, from the time of his birth in North Carolina through his boyhood harem and on into the office of chief executive of the nation.

Transcribed from original newspaper by Mary Bob McClain 2007, Sent in by Mary Bob McClain Richardson 7/16/07.