Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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Nathan Green, LLD. Dean of Law School Judge Nathan Green was born at Winchester, Tenn., February 9, 1827. He entered Cumberland University in 1843 and was g-raduated in 1847. In the same year he entered the law department and was graduated from there two years later. For quite a while he practiced law with eininent success, uniil 1856, when he was called to fill a chair in the law depart- ment of his alma mater. The degree of I L.D. was conferred upon him by Center College, Kentucky. He was elected to the Chancellorship of the University in 1873, and held that position until his resignation in 1899. Few people know how much Cumberland University and the church at large are indebted to this man. Just at the close of the war, when the whole South had been reduced to a desert waste, it became a problem to find a man who cou d direct successfully the fortunes of a great school like Cumberland. Judge Green was the man selected. He took an unendowed school which had lost its buildings during the war and made of it one of the greatest factors in the building up of the New South. During his half century of teaching many hundreds of lawyers have been instructed by him, the majority of whom have become eminently successful, some being senators, some supreme judges, and many being in the congressional halls. W. C. Caldwell, LL.B., Constitutional Law Walter C. Caldwell is a son of Tennessee. Cumberland University conferred upon him the degrees of A.B. in 1873 and LL.B. in 1874. Immediately after graduation he formed a partnership with Maj. Robert Caldwell, of Trenton, Tenn. Mr. Caldwell became one of the leading lawyers at the bar of West Tennessee, enjoying a lucrative practice. From almost the beginning of his career he was engaged hy large corporations, and is now the attorney for the largest land corpora- tion in the South. Since beginning his practice his success in chancery work has been remarkable. Early in the eighties he was appointed to a Tennessee judgeship, and was elected in 1886 to the Supreme bench of Tennessee. Judge Caldwell is a son-in-law of Chancellor Nathan Green, having profited much by his intimate connection with that man who has moulded so many famous lawyers. He was called to the Professorship of Constitutional Law in Cumberland University in the fall of 1902. His eminent qualifications as a jurist, together with his wide-spread reputation gained from his long services on the bench, make him a valuable accession to the Law School.

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Judge Nathan Gr Judge Walter C. Caldwell

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