William Rule
Male, Deceased Person
1839 – 1928
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Who was William Rule?
William Rule was an American newspaper editor and politician, best known as the founder of the Knoxville Journal, which was published in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1870 until 1991. A protégé of vitriolic newspaper editor William G. "Parson" Brownlow, Rule established the Journal as a successor to Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. Rule twice served as mayor of Knoxville, and published the city's first comprehensive history, Standard History of Knoxville, in 1900.
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- Born
- May 10, 1839
Knox County - Religion
- Methodism
- Died
- Jul 26, 1928
Knoxville - Resting place
- Old Gray Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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