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A biography of Tennessee senator and Speaker of the Senate Colonel Edward Ward is presented. It examines his relationship with U.S. president Andrew Jackson, his involvement in negotiations over the Tennessee-Kentucky border, and his role in developing education. The author considers Ward's death following a gun fight with brothers Lafayette Jones, Chamberlayne Jones, Caesar Augustus Jones, and Achilles Jones.

A biography of trader and judge Benjamin Fooy is presented. It examines his relations with the Chickasaw or Choctaw Indians, his marriage to Chickasaw Indian Sarah Fooy, and his knowledge of French. The author also comments on Fooy's move to the fourth Chickasaw Bluffs, or Memphis, Tennessee, and his mansion and slave plantation at the location called Fooy's Point. Governor of Spanish Louisiana Manuel Gayoso and Chickasaw chief Ugulayacabé are also discussed.

A biography is presented for Memphis, Tennessee African American lawyer and community development organizer James F. Estes. He was born in 1919 in Jackson, Tennessee and attended segregated schools, served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as an officer during World War II, got his law degree at Marquette University School of Law, and in 1959 represented African American defendant Burton Dodson on charges of murder. He died in 1967. The article also discusses the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.