Augustus H. Pettibone, one of the leading lawyers and citizens of Greeneville, Tenn., was born at Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, January 21, 1835, the son of Augustus N. and Nancy L. (Hathaway) Pettibone. The father was born in Vernon, N. Y., in 1802, and was the son of Elijah Pettibone, a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The father removed to Ohio early in life, and established the first woolen mills west of the Alleghany Mountains, at Newburg (now part of Cleveland), Ohio. He was a Whig, and a strong supporter of Henry Clay. He died in 1849. The mother was born near Burlington, Vt., about 1804, and was the daughter of Zepheniah Hathaway, a native of Taunton, Mass. She died in 1843. Our subject was educated at Hiram College, Ohio, and at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1859. He studied law with Hon. Jonathan E. Arnold, at Milwaukee, Wis., and entered in the practice at La Crosse, Wis. He entered the Federal Army as a private, in 1861, and was promoted to second lieutenant and captain of his company, and on December 7, 1862, was promoted to major of the Twentieth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. He served through the war, and then located at Greeneville, Tenn., and resumed his law practice. He entered politics, and was first elected attorney general of the First Judicial Circuit, of Tennessee, and was a Grant and Colfax presidential elector in 1868. He served for several years as assistant United States district attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and was the Hayes and Wheeler elector ~for the State at large in 1876. He was elected to the XLVII, XLVIII and XLIX Congresses as a Republican. He is now a member of the law firm of Pettibone, Worder & Sharp, of Chattanooga, but resides at Greeneville. He was married, July 16, 1868, to Mary C. Speck, of Rogersville, Tenn., daughter of George C. Speck, deceased.
