William Ridley Wills was a founder of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in Nashville in 1902. Born in west Tennessee, Wills came to Nashville in 1893 to serve as Tennessee's deputy comm
William Ridley Wills in 1925
Tennessee Governor's Mansion in 2013
Brownsville, Tennessee
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Brownsville is a city in and the county seat of Haywood County, Tennessee, United States. Its population as of the 2020 census was 9,788. The city is named after General Jacob Jennings Brown, an Ameri
William Ridley Wills (insurance executive)
…identically named) was poet and novelist William Ridley Wills, and his grandson is author and historian William Ridley Wills II. He was born in 1871 in Brownsville, a town in western Tennessee in the coastal plain between Memphis and Jackson. His parents were Haywood County pioneers. His father was a surgeon, Dr…
Brownsville business district
Brownsville welcome sign
The Mindfield, by Brownsville artist Billy Tripp