Garrett, Abraham E
soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born March 6, 1830, in Overton. He was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1865, and to the state senate in 1867. He was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
GARRETT, ALEXANDER CHARLES, bishop of Dallas, Texas, was born Nov. 4, 1832, in Ireland. He organized his missionary jurisdiction as the diocese of Dallas, and was elected the first bishop of Dallas in 1895. The bishop's writings include: Historical Continuity, a series of sketches on the church; The Eternal Sacrifice, and Other Sermons; and The Philosophy of the Incarnation.