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Hon. William T. Nixon, clerk and master of the chancery court of Lawrence County, Tenn., and a native of that county, was born November 19, 1846, eldest son of Chancellor George H. Nixon. He received a preparatory education at Jackson Academy, of Lawrenceburg, and later attended the literary department of the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., from which institution he graduated in 1875. He had in the meantime been studying law, and was admitted to the Lawrence County bar in 1870. After graduating he entered regularly into the practice of his profession, until 1869, when he was elected to the State Legislature, and served in the session of 1869 and 1870. In 1871 he was appointed to his present position by his father, upon the universal recommendation of the Lawrence County bar, and has continued in the discharge of the duties of that office up to the present time. November 19, 1868, Mr. Nixon married Elizabeth G. Parkes, a native of Staffordshire, England. To this union were born three children. He is a Democrat in politics, a Mason, and himself and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which he has been ordained a minister. His brother, Henry Nixon, a prominent lawyer of Lawrenceburg and a native of Lawrence County, was born August 18, 1852. He grew to manhood on the farm, and finished his education at Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, where he also studied law, graduating from that department in 1875. He then returned to Lawrenceburg, and was admitted to the Lawrence County bar, and has since practiced in its courts. In 1877 he married Laura Parkes, of this county, and four children blessed this union. Mr. Nixon is a Democrat in politics, and a Master Mason. He was chief engineer in the first survey of the Nashville & Florence Railroad, and was secretary, treasurer and superintendent of the road the first three years.