"Love's Young Dream": The Letters of Dr. Edward Noel Fran...
Martin, Terry L.
Edward came from a background of Sumner County planters, doctors, businessmen and horse breeders. His uncles, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield, gained historic infamy as America's biggest dealers in the domestic slave trade. Edward grew up in the Armfield household, returning in Armfield's last years to nurse him at Beersheba Springs resort, atop the Cumberland Plateau. Nannie was the educated daughter of industrialist Daniel Hillman, the Sout...