William Bruce Bachman was born in Kingsport in 1852 and died at Long Shadows in 1922. He served in the Tennessee Legislature in 1882; was an elector when Benjamin Harrison made the second race for the Presidency of the United States of America; and was assistant secretary of the Philadelphia convention which nominated William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1877. His "exceptional oratorical powers" caused him thrice to be invited to address the University of Tennessee alumni. In 1881, he married his first wife, Sarah Drake Stover, granddaughter of President Andrew Johnson.
After the death of his first wife Sarah Drake Stover Bachman, In 1892 William B. Bachman married his second wife, Lula May Peterson who bore him four children, Robert Bruce, James Ewing, Charles W., and Mary Elizabeth Bachman. Their home was Stover Hall until the terrible fire destroyed it. The great mansion was days in the burning, but they managed to save everything belonging to the Johnsons and the Stovers, even President Johnson's tremendous walnut bookcase. Some of the larger silver pieces "ran a little," but Mrs. Richards, years later, had them restored by a silversmith. Most of these items remain in Long Shadows, but some have been sent to the National Shrine at Greeneville, Tennessee.
From "Scenes from the Bluffs "
After the death of his first wife Sarah Drake Stover Bachman, In 1892 William B. Bachman married his second wife, Lula May Peterson who bore him four children, Robert Bruce, James Ewing, Charles W., and Mary Elizabeth Bachman. Their home was Stover Hall until the terrible fire destroyed it. The great mansion was days in the burning, but they managed to save everything belonging to the Johnsons and the Stovers, even President Johnson's tremendous walnut bookcase. Some of the larger silver pieces "ran a little," but Mrs. Richards, years later, had them restored by a silversmith. Most of these items remain in Long Shadows, but some have been sent to the National Shrine at Greeneville, Tennessee.
From "Scenes from the Bluffs "
William Bruce Bachman was born in Kingsport in 1852 and died at Long Shadows in 1922. He served in the Tennessee Legislature in 1882; was an elector when Benjamin Harrison made the second race for the Presidency of the United States of America; and was assistant secretary of the Philadelphia convention which nominated William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1877. His "exceptional oratorical powers" caused him thrice to be invited to address the University of Tennessee alumni. In 1881, he married his first wife, Sarah Drake Stover, granddaughter of President Andrew Johnson.
After the death of his first wife Sarah Drake Stover Bachman, In 1892 William B. Bachman married his second wife, Lula May Peterson who bore him four children, Robert Bruce, James Ewing, Charles W., and Mary Elizabeth Bachman. Their home was Stover Hall until the terrible fire destroyed it. The great mansion was days in the burning, but they managed to save everything belonging to the Johnsons and the Stovers, even President Johnson's tremendous walnut bookcase. Some of the larger silver pieces "ran a little," but Mrs. Richards, years later, had them restored by a silversmith. Most of these items remain in Long Shadows, but some have been sent to the National Shrine at Greeneville, Tennessee.
From "Scenes from the Bluffs "
After the death of his first wife Sarah Drake Stover Bachman, In 1892 William B. Bachman married his second wife, Lula May Peterson who bore him four children, Robert Bruce, James Ewing, Charles W., and Mary Elizabeth Bachman. Their home was Stover Hall until the terrible fire destroyed it. The great mansion was days in the burning, but they managed to save everything belonging to the Johnsons and the Stovers, even President Johnson's tremendous walnut bookcase. Some of the larger silver pieces "ran a little," but Mrs. Richards, years later, had them restored by a silversmith. Most of these items remain in Long Shadows, but some have been sent to the National Shrine at Greeneville, Tennessee.
From "Scenes from the Bluffs "
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