Albigence Waldo Putnam | |
Birth Date: | March 11, 1799 |
Birth Place: | Marietta, Northwest Territory, U.S. |
Death Place: | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Occupation: | lawyer historian |
Relatives: | Israel Putnam (ancestor) |
Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in Marietta, Ohio, 11 March 1799; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 20 January 1869) was an American lawyer and historian.
He studied law, practised in Mississippi, and in 1836 settled in Nashville, Tennessee, and was president of the Tennessee Historical Society, to whose publications he was a contributor. In addition to articles in periodicals, he wrote: